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by NateDad 13y ago
I'm curious as to what toolchain he thinks he needs? I write Go all day. I don't have a "toolchain" unless you count version control and go build/go get.
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by NateDad 13y ago
I can't imagine not having comments on my blog. With no comments it's basically just a diary. You can track pageviews, but you never know if anyone actually read or learned anything from your post. You have no idea if anyone ca
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by NateDad 13y ago
You should study up on algorithms and data structures. You should get some coding interview books and do the problems in them. It will make you more confident, and it'll let people see the skills you have. Unfortunately, traditional
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by NateDad 13y ago
Oh, and every "economist" (intentionally in quotes) that calls bitcoin a Ponzi scheme should have his credentials revoked... just like a geek who says his iPhone ran out of memory due to all the pictures he took.
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by NateDad 13y ago
Why do economists think we care that bitcoin isn't a currency or store of value or unit of account or whatever other economics 101 term? We call it a currency because there's no other good name for it. How about instead of telling
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by NateDad 13y ago
To expound: Why not be inclusive rather than exclusive? Isn't awesome so many more people can write now that the traditional barriers to entry have been lowered?
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by NateDad 13y ago
Man, what a dick.
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by NateDad 13y ago
Who cares if it's not a currency or store of value or whatever other economics 101 term? Could it be gone in 10-20 years? Sure. But I doubt it. And if it is, it's because something similar but somehow vastly better comes along
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by NateDad 13y ago
By definition, anything you're selling is something you value less than the money you're getting paid for it. Otherwise you wouldn't sell it, right? Also, things like land and real estate tend to be bought at steep discounts
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by NateDad 13y ago
This is a terrible idea. The rules are the rules, and that's what makes bitcoin bitcoin and not some bank to be bailed out when things get screwed up. This would do far more to hurt bitcoin in the long run, because now no one could tr
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by NateDad 13y ago
I was pretty sure that's what the W.V. after his name meant.
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by NateDad 13y ago
stealing / losing ... exactly which is a little unclear at this point. Honestly, probably a little (a lot?) of both.
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by NateDad 13y ago
It has some very niche uses, but they're incredibly limited and would not put gold's value at even 0.1% of its current value. The bitcoin protocol has quite a lot of potential uses (see master coin and colored coins), even if actu
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by NateDad 13y ago
Folly and misery go hand in hand, would you not agree? I don't see why you appear to think they are mutually exclusive. I'd respond with more venom about your tone, but I hate feeding trolls.
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by NateDad 13y ago
This means nothing. No one with half a brain puts confidential company information in an HTML comment.
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by NateDad 13y ago
By the same token, what value does gold mining have beyond "creating" gold?
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by NateDad 13y ago
"Oh you silly engineers and your bit of coins, let me econ'splain how dumb you were." Madam, there is nothing in your article that any of the engineers who were (and are) so excited by bitcoin didn't already know long be
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by NateDad 13y ago
Well, for most people it's a straw man. I've worked with some greybeards, and they are smart enough to know that they can resize the terminal on their modern laptop :)
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by NateDad 13y ago
This is almost always a bad idea. I've extracted many a python line into 2-4 lines to make it a hell of a lot more clear. Packing logic into a line is not a good thing. It may be fun and a challenge, but it makes for fragile code th
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by NateDad 13y ago
My guess is, half the people voted it up for pure schadenfreude, and the other half voted it up so they could talk smack back to her :)
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by NateDad 13y ago
Mt Gox was like the #3 exchange, not number 1 for some time, and definitely not 70%. They'd been having problems for a long long time, which is why a lost of people didn't want to go there anymore. They had name recognition, but
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by NateDad 13y ago
That is a straw man. No one actually thinks 80 character displays are the reason to use 80 characters. I think 80-100 is fine. More than 100 and you probably need to refactor the line some, because you probably have too much logic on a si
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by NateDad 13y ago
The argument about no one editing in a 80 character terminal anymore is a straw man. That's not the real reason 80 characters is good. The article even says why - we're just not good at reading long lines for whatever reason. The
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by NateDad 13y ago
Wow, I do the exact same thing. Nice to see someone else doing the same.
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by NateDad 13y ago
Upon thinking about it... I think it's actually what I said to start - neither good nor terrible. Defining good and terrible code is easier than defining mediocre code, so we can do it by process of elimination. Mediocre code isn&#x2
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by NateDad 13y ago
Monitors are almost always wider than they are tall... using horizontal space makes a ton more sense. If such a small thing turns off a user, they're not seriously considering a different OS anyway.
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by NateDad 13y ago
I didn't say shit never happens. Of course, take time off, work shifted hours, do what you need to do. But don't check in shit code and then make excuses. Crappy code is worse than no code at all.
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by NateDad 13y ago
I did - mediocre. Neither excellent nor terrible.
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by NateDad 13y ago
Good code is more than how it looks. Is it fault tolerant? Does it handle edge cases? Does it scale? Does it lend itself to being tested? Does it lend itself to being extended? Is it legible by other coders for when they inevitably ne
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by NateDad 13y ago
Note that I rather specifically said "acceptable" code. That means "not good, but not terrible". Acceptable can be mediocre. But it shouldn't ever be bad .

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