buttershakes

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by buttershakes 9y ago
It's not true for all languages, but I actually like Erlang's boilerplate. Almost every OTP project has the same structure, and a very close set of primitives that drive the setup and structure of the application. It can be annoyi
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by buttershakes 9y ago
Yeah I gave it a look. It is really light on details. I think you have to be clear why this is better than Ethereum, the fact that web browsers are nodes and are mining isn't really a feature. Having every node mine isn't very use
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by buttershakes 9y ago
This is a neat. However, there is nothing explaining fundamental operation I can find except the source code itself, and it seems to me that it suffers from pretty serious scale limitations. I.e its ability to deliver on the value propositi
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by buttershakes 9y ago
I've been using Solidity for a bit. I wouldn't say it is my favorite language, it's a bit too javascripty for my personal preference, and its genuinely hard not to introduce subtle security flaws into the code. As a smart con
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by buttershakes 10y ago
I love this, its simple and makes sense. Would love to talk about it also and what you plan on doing with it next.
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by buttershakes 10y ago
Workers are really bad. Its anecdotal but I've written several projects and more often then not there is a weird browser quirk, a memory leak, or some other nastiness hidden in the worker implementation. I think my next project I'
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by buttershakes 10y ago
I built a gmail plugin several years ago that let you send arbitrarily large attachments w/ web download so you didn't have to use google drive, but had a terrible time marketing and promoting it. Now it seems like there are a lot
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by buttershakes 10y ago
This is great, the PICO-8 is very neat, and I love seeing these kind of explanations. It's really impressive what some people have managed to do despite the constrained environment.
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by buttershakes 10y ago
I believe Openvr does work on Linux, with some modifications. Valve is actively developing it.
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by buttershakes 10y ago
I didn't log in for a while and my account was deleted circa 1999, I was pissed, since I'd had it since about 93, although there was little I could do about it. What a great mud though. :)
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by buttershakes 10y ago
I'll give this a shot. 1. Bitcoin runs on proof of work, nodes agree on solved blocks by an increasing number of zeros on a sha256 hash of the block header. This is a mechanism to keep the supply roughly constant despite increases or d
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by buttershakes 10y ago
These are expensive, but the power 8 systems are really fantastic. I used to work extensively with power servers when they first started offering Linux support, and they just have fantastic performance characteristics under heavy load.
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by buttershakes 10y ago
I thought that symbolics was still running in a limited capacity and pulling in money from government contracts. At least that was the case five or six years ago. I know licenses for Genera were being sold as late as 2010 for around 5k. I w
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by buttershakes 10y ago
I had almost exactly this same engineering test when google interviewed me in 2006. It was terrible, and left a bad taste in my mouth. Given the complexity of the work I was doing at the time, the entire thing seemed ridiculous.
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by buttershakes 10y ago
I am really interested in Pony. There are some exciting things about it. I'm hoping that bit syntax support from Erlang is implemented, possibly with support for recurring structures. Although, I wouldn't say that is strictly nece
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by buttershakes 10y ago
I couldn't be more opposed to this decision. It's a terrible precedent to set, and I think fundamentally undermines the ideals behind the Ethereum network. The DAO should live or die by its own code. A hard fork should only be don
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by buttershakes 10y ago
This is such an incredibly obvious invention, an order manager that does execution in the future across exchanges. So what? Its definitely not novel, and firms have absolutely implemented it. Anyone who has done electronic trading has come
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by buttershakes 10y ago
If Bitcoin were simply a ledger without the currency the carefully balanced incentives to run the network wouldn't be there. Similarly, if there was no stored value to steal then we wouldn't have digital money, but a tokenization
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by buttershakes 10y ago
I've been fairly successful at it. Most companies are willing to put up with some negotiation. I've gotten a lawyer to go over the options agreements on more than one occasion, usually money well spent if you don't understand
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by buttershakes 10y ago
I have started multiple startups, and joined others at various times. I've also professionally traded options. I have a huge appetite for risk, but the risk/reward isn't there for most early employees who are getting paid les
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by buttershakes 10y ago
This is very interesting. Options are really an unappealing mechanism to incentivize employees. I feel like they prey on people who really don't know any better, and don't understand the tax implications or the possibilities aroun
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by buttershakes 10y ago
Because marketing.
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by buttershakes 10y ago
I couldn't agree more with this sentiment. I haven't spent too much time on Ethereum contracts but this is such a ridiculous language/platform design issue.
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by buttershakes 10y ago
It is mostly complete BS. They can't even begin to stop the numerous ways that HFT and sophisticated traders can play with the market, and are putting substantial road blocks that will actually decrease liquidity and increase complexit
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by buttershakes 10y ago
Most people really don't understand the difficulties involved. It's an incredibly hard thing to get right.
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by buttershakes 10y ago
Rolling back the blockchain would have some pretty serious ramifications, as the possibility of that becomes greater it makes sense to sell as quickly as possible into another chain to retain value.
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by buttershakes 10y ago
Or, they could just plow that currency into BTC at diminishing value as fast as possible. That's presumably what I would do if I discovered a bug like this and wanted to make bank.
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by buttershakes 10y ago
This pretty directly contradicts a lot of the hype around Ethereum. Yes, bad contract code is bad, but a lot of money is about to evaporate. If it isn't easy to write secure contracts then there is a serious deployment problem.
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by buttershakes 10y ago
The QRead application window is maximized taking up the whole screenshot. On the upper left there are the main menus, Document, Navigation, Speech, Window, and Help. Directly below that are three tabs each containing a document. Pattern-Ori
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by buttershakes 10y ago
I'm constantly getting lowballed by recruiters in NY. The truth is these places aren't paying enough to get the talent. I.e trying to pay good local rates, when software development is increasingly remote and world wide.

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