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by bachback 12y ago
Leining is a very useful tool. Starting up Clojure indeed is noticeable. I wonder how much of the performance is due to Maven, and if gradle would do better. Gradle is a newer project with a custom DSL based on Groovy.
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by bachback 12y ago
interesting - how does this work?
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by bachback 12y ago
Mike's great 2012 talk [1]. Unfortunately 2 years later, we're not much further in those developments. Bitcoin has severe limitations, also because it has now a legacy to support. New projects can start with a fresh design. So far
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by bachback 12y ago
The paper this refers to [1]. Not waiting for confirmation has nothing to do with double spend. Its a probabilistic measure - the original paper show the poisson distribution, based on number of confirms. Beware of noobs with algebra. &quot
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by bachback 12y ago
Exactly the opposite. Soft money through breaches of trust are the problems that Bitcoin solve. That is why Ripple/Stellar is particularly absurd, because we have now solved the problem and these systems don't integrate that knowl
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by bachback 12y ago
Bitcoin does not require "identity management". That is why it works. Ripple/Stellar requires explicit trust - money gets created through obligations. That is also how the fiat money system works. In Bitcoin there is no centr
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by bachback 12y ago
Stellar is not decentralized. If problems like this occur, there is the Stellar organization /corporation, to enforce consenus. Whenever there is a legal entity behind it, it's not de-central. Bitcoin has solved all these problems
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by bachback 12y ago
The Ripple / Stellar protocol is bad, so this is not a surprise. Ripple was invented before Bitcoin. Ripple/Stellar requires explicit trust, where Bitcoin does not. Also the distribution was widely known to be gameable (I know man
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by bachback 12y ago
Yes, quite. Look at this chart[1] and animation [2]. You will find that there are almost no IPO's below 1B$ in the 2010's. What used to be the default option, became: stay private as long as you can. If Stripe is worth 3B$ now, wh
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by bachback 12y ago
IPO certainly not - it's extremely unattractive in the current regulatory regime (death of the IPO [1]). I wonder what their long-term strategy looks like given their margins can't be very high as a front-end for credit card compa
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by bachback 12y ago
"Putting creativity on a pedestal can also be an excuse for laziness. There is a lot of cultural belief that creativity comes from inspiration, and can't be rushed. Not true. Inspiration is just your subconscious putting things to
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by bachback 12y ago
see also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculating_Space http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/digitalphysics.html
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by bachback 12y ago
Time to correct the record: the World's first electronic, programmable computer was build by a German by the name of Konrad Zuse in May 1941 [1] called Z3 [2]. He designed a language for it called Plankalkül [3]. Eniac was announced in
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by bachback 12y ago
Good news! I'm going to switch from Emacs some of the time, and hopefully 100% eventually. The thing that bugged me was how uneven the way editor would react in some cases. For me it didn't have the reliability I need. I was inter
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by bachback 12y ago
HN is just mean and boring for downvoting this. Gotta leave this place.
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by bachback 12y ago
Examples can be found here http://zeromq.org/docs:labs AFAIK Twitter storm uses ZMQ under the hood.
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by bachback 12y ago
Better yet: ZeroMQ is not even a language. What ZMQ does it lets your write extremely performant and reliable distributed systems in any language. It is a layer over sockets. Any complex system will have to interact with other complex syste
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by bachback 12y ago
Tell that people who are trying to build scalable network applications. Saltstack uses ZeroMQ under the hood and the biggest cloud computing operations in the world use it. That article reads like from a past age, where you didn't have
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by bachback 12y ago
ZeroMQ gives you the same but better: messaging in any language. That means you can interface to any component you want written in any language you want. Also hiding native sockets, which means networking is not 1:1 but based on scalability
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by bachback 12y ago
true - Facebook scales linearly. If you're interested in really hard problems in distributed systems & blockchains let me know. Facebook should not own social data. the future will be end-to-end encrypted and de-centralised.
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by bachback 12y ago
DNS is a mess - it's like politicians and marketing guys designing the web.
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by bachback 12y ago
proof of stake was first proposed in 2011 on bitcointalk, the go-to reference for everything bitcoin/altcoin. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Proof_of_Stake http://wiki.nxtcrypto.org/ http:/&#x2F
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by bachback 12y ago
that part of the problem is partially solved. not every node has to "mine" all blocks. in fact in PoS there's no mining at all. the big problem is that you create all coins at genesis. there are a bunch of proposals and work
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Youtube censors Bitcoin speech(twitter.com)
6 points by bachback 12y ago|0 comments
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by bachback 12y ago
how sad that this doesn't even the front page of HN. he's the inventor of hypertext. I recently wrote to Mr. Nelson and he is still working on his grand dream.
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by bachback 12y ago
hmm, interesting, fascinating and sad. the article mentions Mark Miller. He has done very interesting work (works at google). http://research.google.com/pubs/author35958.html
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by bachback 12y ago
this is a Ted Nelon tribute event. so the title should name him first! some lectures of his here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdnGPQaICjk
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by bachback 12y ago
TODO: * write an AI which writes the todo list * follow AI's todo list
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by bachback 12y ago
welcome to Ted Nelson's original idea of hypertext. further information here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_hypertext
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by bachback 12y ago
thanks. but why has crypto to be equivalent to "heart surgery"? if I would describe the state of the art of Internet security I wouldn't apply that term.

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