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by apeace 14y ago
I disagree that joining with traditional banks and government regulators is the only way for Bitcoin to go mainstream. The government regulators are the ones who cause fees, delays, or spying on international transfers. Bitcoin has solved t
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by apeace 14y ago
My comment was not to ask anyone to stop forcing a service on me, or to point out that it's harming me. As I said: > This isn't to say one organization going mainstream PSP will hurt Bitcoin. I simply don't see the point, that's all.
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by apeace 14y ago
This is a huge step backwards. I don't understand why anyone wants this to be done. Banks are already great for things that banks do, like insuring deposits and putting your account within reach of authorities. Presenting an ID to get a Bit
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by apeace 14y ago
Totally. Sorry, when I said assumed something about you I meant the OP, I wrote that wrong
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by apeace 14y ago
An inconvenient truth of HN seems to be that 95% of voter ring detections are legit, while the other 5% are not. This is understandable. As jQueryIsAwesome said, it's a tricky problem. Another inconvenient truth is, the demigods of HN often
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by apeace 14y ago
Having programmed in many languages, but most recently Node.js for the last two years, I don't think "callback hell" is as big a problem as the OP makes it out to be. Debugging huge, complicated, and even poorly written Node applications do
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by apeace 14y ago
Just a suggestion, he should compare MongoDB and Riak on Hacker News. For laughs
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by apeace 14y ago
Totally agree. And make another blog post to state that PayPal has 6 months to shape up or you're done for good
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by apeace 14y ago
Java has lambdas now?
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by apeace 14y ago
I can't say I've had a similar experience on Github, or heard anything of that sort from the many developers I know who write pull requests (or even just submit issues) on Github. I think there should be an expectation that getting a pull a
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by apeace 14y ago
I am one of those guys who has been programming since he was 12 (I call it 11 actually). I'm now 23. Before I went to college, I thought my programming skill was high enough to get me a good job. I was just going for that piece of paper, th
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by apeace 14y ago
While the author's stance is idealistic, I don't think this response addresses the author's basic point. To address this statement: "First of all, nobody keeps all of their assets in fiat currency" 1) Bitcoin is not a fiat currency, which i
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by apeace 14y ago
First I would point out I'm not seeing testing frameworks being mentioned as part of these platforms ;) I like Node.js + Mocha * Development in Node is super fast * Mocha makes TDD or its variants really fun * Node feels natural for webapps