adrianmacneil

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by adrianmacneil 10y ago
I think this pretty much sums it up... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU1QPtOZQZU
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Make your engineering team fun(medium.com)
3 points by adrianmacneil 10y ago|0 comments
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by adrianmacneil 10y ago
General consensus so far seems to be that GraphicsMagick is unaffected by this vulnerability. If security is really important to you though, you should move image processing to separate isolated servers anyway, and verify magic bytes as des
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by adrianmacneil 10y ago
Source? Last time I used it you could encrypt both hops (although you obviously need to tell CF to ignore the cert mismatch for backend server).
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by adrianmacneil 11y ago
You seem to have pretty reasonable and moderate opinions, which I respect. And yes, for the record I do currently own a decent number of Ether (because I believe in the project), and I still own a decent (but lesser amount) of Bitcoin (I ce
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by adrianmacneil 11y ago
> Ethereum offers nothing more than Bitcion It offers a more powerful scripting language to define contracts. > Ethereum could quickly outdate itself by defining a fixed language. If offers a "bytecode" type language which c
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by adrianmacneil 11y ago
Vitalik explained it pretty well at a recent talk he did at Coinbase: Ethereum is a world computer. As in, it acts like a single public computer that can perform computations for anyone who is willing to pay for them, but instead of this co
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by adrianmacneil 11y ago
I think the whole team was used to build out the Google Plus (now Google Photos) product (which has pretty awesome/fun editing features so far). So, honestly I'm impressed that they have kept supporting Nik Collection this long al
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by adrianmacneil 11y ago
Awesome! I really like their HDR tool, although it was pretty much the only one I used. For anyone interested in the history, this product was the result of an acquisition by Google (I think they wanted the team for their Google+ Photos pro
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by adrianmacneil 11y ago
How much did you guys pay for that domain? :)
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by adrianmacneil 11y ago
> a physical credit card that I can use in the real-world that has a new number on each swipe We have that already (chip cards, which are currently being rolled out in the US and already standard in the rest of the world, generate a new
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Ethereum Blockchain Project Launches First Production Release(coindesk.com)
18 points by adrianmacneil 11y ago|1 comments
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by adrianmacneil 11y ago
I think you're missing the point that Bitcoin is an interesting payment network, despite the fact that as a consumer currency it's not particularly useful. Regardless of whether you or anyone wants an anonymous digital currency, o
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What is Ethereum?(coincenter.org)
3 points by adrianmacneil 11y ago|0 comments
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by adrianmacneil 11y ago
Because it's a consensus rule (enforced by every fully validating node), it would require a backwards incompatible change (hard fork) to be implemented by every single miner, exchange, wallet and merchant. Only soft forks (which are ba
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by adrianmacneil 11y ago
It's a market with an artificial, centrally planned cap on supply. So pretty much the opposite of a free market.
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by adrianmacneil 11y ago
It's a market with an artificial, centrally planned cap on supply. So yes, it means that fees have to be higher, but it also means that some people/transactions will necessarily be priced out (or move to alternative, cheaper block
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by adrianmacneil 11y ago
Right. And that would be a disaster. Imagine if io.js forked node.js, but the fork was effectively unusable until 75% of projects started using it. And as soon as that threshold was reached, everyone still using and developing node.js was s
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by adrianmacneil 11y ago
I feel like that's giving the Bitcoin Core developers a bit too much credit. > When asked "can you scale this?" They said, "we'll do the best we can." That wasn't good enough for many, especially those
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by adrianmacneil 11y ago
Pretty much sums it up. The majority of Bitcoin developers have always had the mindset that alternative consensus implementations will never be able to match, bug-for-bug, the reference implementation (and there is no official spec other th
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Facebook's Relay isn't for me, yet(medium.com)
1 points by adrianmacneil 11y ago|0 comments
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by adrianmacneil 11y ago
Would people recommend a team moving directly to Kanban, or is it useful to learn/use Scrum first? What books/resources would people recommend to learn Kanban effectively?
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by adrianmacneil 11y ago
Mostly just applying for patents for existing technology/novel uses for Bitcoin, so that someone else doesn't beat them to it in case the technology turns out useful. Filing patents is a pretty cheap way of ensuring you don't
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by adrianmacneil 11y ago
Why are you still daydreaming about it? You've obviously done a bunch of research, the next step is to just go do it.
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by adrianmacneil 11y ago
Right. But economically speaking, if exchanges started allowing you to trade both coins against each other, then supply has doubled while total Bitcoin demand remained constant. So the price would tank to at least 50% of its previous level
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by adrianmacneil 11y ago
Not how it works. If there was a fork, then coins on each side would become independent (you could not mix them together). Since the current price represents the total demand, the market cap must equal the sum of the parts, so coins on each
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by adrianmacneil 11y ago
Unsure about NZ, but at least in the US, "structuring" your payments in a way that would avoid AML checks is a crime by itself, regardless of whether you obtained the money legally.
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by adrianmacneil 11y ago
This seems like a really odd feature to add to FB messenger - anyone have any idea what their goals with this are?
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Transportation on Facebook Messenger(newsroom.fb.com)
1 points by adrianmacneil 11y ago|2 comments
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by adrianmacneil 11y ago
GP comment said they were learning to code (the same as you suggested). Reply was "you will be utterly useless". My point was that we should avoid such negativity, and instead be supportive of people who are learning to code so th

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