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by dgregd 13y ago
> Time to go all-in if you haven't already... I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men Sir Isaac Newton
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by dgregd 13y ago
These all Bitcoin PR actions are quite similar to situation on gold market few years ago. And we know what happened with gold prices. US is exporting "green paper" and importing physical goods. Do you really believe that the US go
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by dgregd 13y ago
So in China Bitcoin status is equal to World of Warcraft goods (swords, shields, etc)? I mean WoW goods one can buy on eBay.
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by dgregd 13y ago
I known that it is possible to lower prices denominated in Bitcoins. However this is the deflation problem I am taking about.
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by dgregd 13y ago
The total number of Bitcoins is capped at 21 million. So how it can handle GDP growth? The amount of currency should reflect GDP size. Otherwise there will be deflation. Gold worked well as currency. Its yearly production increased total am
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by dgregd 13y ago
> It solves 2% credit card fee. Are you sure? There were a lot of Bitcoin wallet servers compromised lately. I guess that for a really well secured wallet server you have to pay something. In case of thefts, people will want some kind of
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by dgregd 13y ago
> It should be called a bubble, not a ponzi scheme. This is a first bubble which is popular mainly among tech geeks :) What is strange, nobody is asking what problem Bitcoin really solves. As far I know it failed as a protection for silk
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by dgregd 13y ago
It is another case where they make fundamentally bad decision. In case of WebSQL, 40 years of legacy is not important. Millions business apps developers needs are not important. Clean and nice spec is more important for Mozilla guys. Howeve
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by dgregd 13y ago
> I see plenty of reason to keep betting on evolution So why Mozilla helped to kill WebSQL? Because NoSQL (IndexedDB) is so much better than SQLite? Mozilla is too much focused on Brendan Eich baby. They should really move forward becaus
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by dgregd 13y ago
> It's kind of hard to redesign an airplane in flight It is true that IE6 was 5 years in flight. However that has changed. Google replaces Chrome plane each 6 weeks. JavaScript it is new IE6. I really would like to see Dart in Chrom
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by dgregd 13y ago
Is it possible to add optional typing to Ruby? Something similar to what Dart has. Optional typing would be very useful for big Ruby apps.
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by dgregd 13y ago
When it will be "production ready"? It seems that the schedule in "GETTING TO DOCKER 1.0" post is outdated.
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by dgregd 13y ago
> They are slower and uglier than native Windows/Mac/Linux apps. What's the point? Eat your own dog food. Google developers test new HTML5 APIs.
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by dgregd 13y ago
> Chrome is becoming the new IE6 Web developers hated IE6 not for new features it had. It was hated for lack of bug fixes and no new releases. IE7 was released 5 years after IE6. Chrome is updated every 6 weeks.
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by dgregd 13y ago
JavaScript was also build as proprietary enhancement :)
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by dgregd 13y ago
> "here's 3bn, please give us your users" 3 bn is not cool anymore. You known what's cool? 10 bn!
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by dgregd 13y ago
> I can't see Apple or Microsoft implementing a DartVM ... That's the whole point of Dart. Apple and Microsoft are protecting their closed platforms. They are not interested in open platforms like Web. Microsoft improved IE JS
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by dgregd 13y ago
Single page apps or more traditional approach with HTML generated on a server?
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by dgregd 13y ago
I hope that Mozilla guys will also learn that lesson. They helped Microsoft to kill WebSQL. So instead of SQLite, we have terrible IndexDB inside browsers.
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by dgregd 13y ago
Great visualization. It actually shows how messy is git command line interface. Just looking at a cmd syntax it is hard to guess if the cmd refers to workspace, index or local repository.
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by dgregd 13y ago
Because they have a problem with the simplest thing, choosing good brand name. Among Android companies, Samsung was the first one with consistent brand strategy: Galaxy S1, S2, ... updated each year. It doesn't require IQ 160 to grasp
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by dgregd 13y ago
Exactly, we have to wait for something like Rails on Dart to have better performance.
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by dgregd 13y ago
> it can't ever compete with a properly designed and executed product in the real world Apple isn't going to create a GPS tracking module for a truck. The goal of Ara is to provide small factor computer platform for new applica
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by dgregd 13y ago
It seems that FED is clueless why inflation is low even after QE3. The real question is how FED is going to stop inflation increase after they reach the goal of 2-3%.
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by dgregd 13y ago
Does this mean that iPad Air will have 264 ppi screen for a next couple of years? Or the Air is going to get 528 ppi screen?
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by dgregd 13y ago
Microsoft thinks that mobile is their main enemy. Sure, tablets will replace PCs in many places. However that war they cannot win. In meantime core PC users are switching to Linux. They can do this because so many great apps live inside bro
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by dgregd 13y ago
> Snowden is different I'll change the topic a bit. For one good Snowden there are ten bad types like Gordon Gekko or Francis Underwood. I just wonder what bad types do with the data NSA has.
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by dgregd 13y ago
Google Dart looks very promising.
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by dgregd 13y ago
Is this really the end of freedom in the US? Does your constitution means nothing nowadays? Almost everybody here talks to move email elsewhere, etc. There are no positive comments. Does this mean that the US government has won and can do a
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by dgregd 13y ago
> It's amazingly popular in the SF Bay Area That shows how many early adopters live in the SF Bay Area.

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