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can speak from personal experience that it's the same culturally in colombia

Dang, this look awesome, excited to try it out!

Interesting product, I use moralis quite a bit for this type of service. I'm curious how you differentiate yourselves from them.

Yes, you are correct that the computational of running the smart contracts is very small in relation to the proof of work.

But actually, the main cost is not computation, but storage. Storage (any variable that is holding data inside the contracts) is extremely expensive because there is very little of it, and has to be persisted on the blockchain forever.

In fact, view functions that don't change the state of the blockchain can be executed for free at any time.

Seems really promising, but how does it work with browser extensions? For instance, I'm looking for something like this that will help me test my crypto app that uses metamask at various points through the app.

Also, no public pricing page is a bit of a turn off, especially when I created an account and still couldn't find any pricing info.

Yes I would also be curious to hear more about your experiences

This is exactly how I feel too...

Wow, really well said. I think that's the clearest way I've heard this idea expressed on the US v China competition

Hahha I noticed that too....

The FAQs are amazing haha

Can someone explain to me how this differs from Apollo? Is it that it has a tighter integration with the DB layer?

This seems very similar to geojson.io . I'm curious, are you leveraging their source somehow?

If someone could pull this idea off--or a similar idea around physical cash it could be a huge boon in countries like Venezuela that are primarily cash based still but the local currency is very weak.

Wrote one of my semester projects in Ogre. Had a really good experience with it. First time working in a 3D environment for me.

The most concerning quote: "About 80 percent of Chinese students who get degrees abroad now go back — up from about 33 percent in 2007, according to China’s Ministry of Education. Some 15 percent take jobs in China’s booming tech sector."

Attracting top global talent has always been a competitive advance for America, and it's not a good sign for our economy if we can't retain people that we are educating here.

This is so true! I was the exact same when I started with abelton.

Someone told me you have to make 100 crap songs before your first good one. Best way to get better is to just start trying to make stuff and stop comparing your work to what you listen to on spotify. You'll improve faster than you think.

I agree with all of this, which I why I generally play more guitar than piano. I find it more expressive and I "feel" the music more.

That being said, I think a midi keyboard is the best interface for controlling software synths. Sadly, using guitar as a midi instrument doesn't really work that well and this is an area where the keyboard really shines. Would be curious to hear your thoughts though.

You might want to check out the roli seaboard, I have one and it's great for playing synths. A bit pricey but I enjoy it a lot. I got it because I was tired of making music through a UI and wanted to 'feel' it more like I do on the guitar.

I would also say any MIDI compatible keyboard is a good fit too, try to get something that has a pitch wheel though. The wheel will let you "bend" your sound and add some expressivity that just hitting the keys won't. I still think a midi keyboard is the best first interface for people that want to step into synth music.

Finishing in music is one of the hardest things to do. My approach is to try to write something small every day (I call these daily loops), and then flesh my favorite one of those out into a full song every 1-2 weeks. I find that without some sort of system like that I also go down the noodling rabbit whole and never put anything out.

One technique I use is to noodle in some scale, then whatever note I land on try to play that note's chord by ear. You'll hit a lot of wrong chords at first but over time your ear will get better.

This has worked well for me and is what converted me to being a crypto-vangelist. Anyone who's tried to pay a team in india in USD and had it often take well over a week will appreciate when you can get it done in under 45 min using crypto.

We use cryptocurrencies, works super well. Typically ETH and BTC.

I own a Seaboard Rise and it's awesome!

That being said, there's still something about it that feels "artificial". When I play the guitar, the strings still gives a level of stretch and feedback that it's quite captured with the seaboard's bends.

One challenge I have with TS is that when writing interfaces for untyped libs it's easy to make a mistake. I've had issues where VScode was telling me something was the incorrect type because someone else on the team had written an incorrect type in. Instead of debugging it like I would in normal JS I banged my head against the wall because I was convinced that is TypeScript was telling me something was a certain type, it HAD to be true.

This is exactly my experience. If your project doesn't have a nice build pipeline for TS then it can become quite awkward and take more work, especially if you have isomorphic code that isn't all in TS already. Also, a lot of the interface syntax can get pretty weird when you are trying to type untyped libraries, which definitely slows me down. I love types in languages like java where it feels like the types have first class support--but TS by definition often involves calling out to libs that aren't written in TS which feels awkward and loses a lot of the advantages.

As an artist I totally loved this! Especially you talking about just wanting to make songs when you get home in the evening, not hustle on every single front. $400 a month is admirable for music creation!

Ehhhh, I really haven't had these issues with any of the meteor apps I've made. Even getting swiping and full page animation transitions has been relatively simple. My experience is anecdotal, but I actually left being android developer to do mobile web and I've found the experience to be far easier.

I'm pretty sure he uses his own software that he wrote in python to do it all.

So, I went to highschool with the guy that makes these videos. Not only is he brilliant, he is particularly good at making advanced topics more accessible to people without a heavy math background.

As a meteorjs dev, I feel like web dev is the easiest it's ever been.