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   by bdr 14y ago

   This would be nice if not for the pagination. It's slow, unpredictable, and unnecessary. For another approach to annotation, check out fixjam.com. I never took this past the 1-day hack stage, but I'd like to revisit it at some point. You ca
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   by bdr 14y ago

   Yes, there is a byte limit to the size of a block. If blocks become infrequent enough due to decreased mining power, it's conceivable that a backlog of transactions would build up. At the next difficulty adjustment, though, speed would pick
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   by bdr 14y ago

   Don't forget to look at the bid/ask instead of just the last traded price. Big spreads lately might make it look like there's an arbitrage opportunity when there really isn't.
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   by bdr 14y ago

   You are empirically wrong. Please, quantify your idea and go backtest it on the stock market. The efficient-market hypothesis does not have an asterisk excluding cryptocurrencies.
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   by bdr 14y ago

   > paranoia MtGox has said they were subject to DDoS attacks: https://twitter.com/MagicalTux/status/317423311174909954 > If you looked at the log plot[2], it still looked exponential! Trying to divine future price movement from
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   by bdr 14y ago

   Actually, you can set a price floor on Bitcoin. It's the dollar value of the transaction float at The Silk Road.
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   by bdr 14y ago

   Yes, there is manipulation of the price via DDoS. MtGox has said so. But the exchange rate would still be highly volatile and momentum-based without that manipulation. Almost all of the current exchange rate is speculation, not intrinsic va
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   by bdr 14y ago

   Your point is true, but fyi the M:tG aspect was long gone by the time gox was sold to Tibanne. It just happened to be a domain the original founder had around.
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   by bdr 14y ago

   Just because an asset perpetually appreciates does not mean it has a present value of infinity. I hope to write a deeper rebuttal soon in the form of a blog post.
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    by bdr 14y ago

    This is so cool. It makes me want to switch to Android just to use it. Any thoughts on a desktop client?
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    CivilWarLand in Bad Decline: Preface(theparisreview.org)

    3 points by bdr 14y ago|0 comments
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    by bdr 14y ago

    E-reader? Psh, just buy two copies. ;) Have you read any of Brian Boyd's work? I think you'd really like this: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0691089574/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...
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    by bdr 14y ago

    Great point! if you like puzzles, it might be better not to spoil the fun by reading the wikipedia article Yes please. It's absolutely better that way — the most fun book I've ever read. Just pick it up and start reading.
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    by bdr 14y ago

    Thank you! It's basically jQueryUI + lots of thinking about what different user actions should mean. I hadn't seen paperi.st, but the basic effect isn't hard: just create a new auto-focused input where the user clicks.
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    by bdr 14y ago

    Email me
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    by bdr 14y ago

    Thank you! Yes, it does. The way this currently works is that you can add people as members to your page, from the settings pane. What's your use case for a locally hosted version?
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    by bdr 14y ago

    Django, Heroku, Postgres, Backbone, CoffeeScript, Pusher, Redis
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    by bdr 14y ago

    Ok, I tweaked it a little, see what you think.
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    by bdr 14y ago

    Thank you, Walter. I'll take a look. edit: the link should be more obvious now
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    by bdr 14y ago

    Thanks for your feedback! There are three categories of usage for an app like this. The first is document creation, where you're trying to produce some content to use somewhere else. Google Drawings is better at this one than Jotleaf. And i
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    Show HN: Jotleaf is a free-form, collaborative canvas for web content(jotleaf.com)

    68 points by bdr 14y ago|21 comments
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    by bdr 14y ago

    1. Or – third possibility — many people have recently raised their expectation of the future value of the Bitcoin economy. If you're familiar with stock trading, this is analogous to having a high P/E ratio. There is a lot of uncertainty he
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    by bdr 14y ago

    Malcolm was brilliant, and sweet. When I submitted my first patch to Django, it was his encouragement that gave me the confidence and motivation to keep contributing. At Disqus, we brought him in for a few weeks of contract work, and watchi
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    by bdr 14y ago

    That's a fair point, but it's a different point than the one btilly is making. (I'm not trying to be rude, I just think btilly's theory is interesting enough to merit some defense.) Consider the formal grammar that might be used to implemen
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    by bdr 14y ago

    Evidence to the contrary: * Heterogeneity of object abstractions: in order of complexity, you use namedtuples, classes, and metaclasses. In Lisp you'd use the same kind of abstraction across complexity levels. * Similarly, there are lambdas
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    by bdr 14y ago

    Awesome. Is there somewhere they've documented the wisdom they've gained in more detail? I'd love to hear more about the issues encountered with JavaScript, ctypes, and LLVM, and lessons learned in general.
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    The art outside the box: The story of Roger Dean(polygon.com)

    2 points by bdr 14y ago|0 comments
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    by bdr 14y ago

    Heh. Here's some previous data: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=486317
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    Just-in-time compilers for number crunching in Python(phi-node.com)

    5 points by bdr 14y ago|0 comments
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    by bdr 14y ago

    Here's what I use: # Adapted from http://autotelicum.github.com/Smooth-CoffeeScript/literate/partial.html F.partial = (func, a...) -> (b...) -> func (for arg in a then arg ?= b.shift())..., b... For example, do `parseIn