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by diego 13y ago
That relies on the assumption that they will not suffer a tremendous loss due to a rogue employee, a software bug or a malicious hack. If they found themselves in a situation in which they are certain to go out of business as soon as people
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by diego 13y ago
The law doesn't prevent you from committing crimes. It certainly did not prevent Mt. Gox from making bitcoins disappear. If that happens and you need to go to court, good luck proving that an exchange stole your coins. We haven't
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by diego 13y ago
Nothing, so most people should use Coinbase the same way they use a grocery store: buy what they need and take it somewhere else. Unfortunately most people do not know enough to do that. I wrote a blog post about it if you're interest
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by diego 13y ago
Cash is decentralized. That doesn't mean you can obtain it out of thin air. You need to exchange something of value (your work, assets, whatever) for cash. Mt. Gox and other exchanges fulfill that role. No idea what you mean by a &quot
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by diego 13y ago
Are you keeping a significant amount of BTC in an exchange? If so, why? I would expect a HN reader to know how to manage his/her bitcoins.
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by diego 13y ago
The title of this article seems to have been generated by an Upworthy-style bot targeted at Hacker News.
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by diego 13y ago
CPU Miner: http://sourceforge.net/projects/cpuminer/files/ Sensible or not, that depends on what you expect. It's definitely not profitable if you're paying for electricity or hardware.
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Clearing up misinformation about our [Dogecoin's] inflation rate.(reddit.com)
2 points by diego 13y ago|0 comments
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by diego 13y ago
Those were the original rules. The title is misleading, people are disappointed because they expected the devs to eliminate the perpetual generation of coins in the original software. The decision was simply to do nothing.
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Bad Advice(blog.eladgil.com)
45 points by diego 13y ago|6 comments
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by diego 13y ago
Useful tip: "By default Clojure operates with natural numbers as instances of Java's long primitive type. When a primitive integer operation results in a value that too large to be contained in a primitive value, a java.lang.Arith
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by diego 13y ago
People in the software industry keep rediscovering this all the time. Managing software teams without having read Peopleware is like coming back from Paris without having seen the Eiffel tower. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?Pe
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by diego 13y ago
You missed the [the title of this post is tongue in cheek] part.
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Black Perl(en.wikipedia.org)
330 points by diego 13y ago|67 comments
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by diego 13y ago
"It is difficult to understand how these companies can feel justified in demanding the importation of cheap labor with a straight face at a time when tens of millions of Americans are unemployed," writes the Center for Immigratio
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by diego 13y ago
This is cool. However, I wonder why the author didn't switch to a Lucene-based server such as Elasticsearch or Solr, for which you can find decent Go clients (or use the REST api directly). The NGram tokenizer lets you do infix search
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by diego 13y ago
No, you have no idea what your scale problems are going to be (if you ever have them). That is because if you get lucky and your application scales, it (and the world) will change significantly from what it is today. Let me tell you a story
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by diego 13y ago
That's not the exact opposite. Because most people are familiar with SQL databases, that's usually what they use. That's the case with the grandparent post. "Use what you know, and works for your case" is better for
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by diego 13y ago
The long tail of startups will rarely need something other than a relational database because they won't get to a scale anywhere near Reddit's. It's not that others don't "feel" the same way; there's a rea
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by diego 13y ago
Not for "the team", but for individual persons like the OP. The post in fact makes that distinction.
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by diego 13y ago
How do you know she didn't? By the way, I've seen countless Janets get laid off as well.
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by diego 13y ago
You are unusual. Most people actually don't want extra steps like going to a calculator site to perform calculations. Those things are especially annoying when on mobile. It's true however that most people do not want the search e
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by diego 13y ago
Scala: (1L to 1000000000L).sum
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by diego 13y ago
8-9 companies would turn it into a highly speculative fund, given the expected distribution of returns for typical startups. I would expect a 39M fund to invest in "seed stage" companies, in chunks of 100k to 1M tops. I'd exp
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by diego 13y ago
You might as well refer the OP. We both used the word exactly once, nitpicker :) I agree with that one, having taken a class on the topic at CMU in the 90s (which was mostly a waste of time). The same can be applied to most other bullshit s
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by diego 13y ago
There is some good stuff in there, but also a number of tautologies and platitudes, e.g. "Make something people want." This is a great sound bite, but it's not really actionable advice. Same as "don't die" or "get lucky." If you start a com
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by diego 13y ago
You may want to consider these facts: - I'm 43 years old, and I've been in Silicon Valley for 15 years. - I've been intimately involved with a number of startups, in different capacities. - My latest company was a 7-year ride before we sold
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by diego 13y ago
You obviously did not read my blog while I was CEO of IndexTank, a funded startup acquired by LinkedIn. I found plenty to blog about, and many of my posts were on the front page of this site. All the petty things that you mentioned happen t
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by diego 13y ago
If you and Marissa Mayer want the last burger in the world, how much is it worth? What if you're Mark Zuckerberg, and it's really important to her that you don't get a taste of that burger? Maybe she doesn't even like burgers. Factors like
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by diego 13y ago
The problem is that when you are a startup founder, most of the things you deal with on a daily basis are confidential. You're doing it wrong. Either you're too paranoid, or you're focusing too much on confidential stuff. It's not like yo

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