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by earlz 9y ago
So how hard is it to DIY development? It seems like every couple of years I read an article like this one that gets me curious, because if I'm going to use physical rolls of film, I'd might as well develop it myself without waitin
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by earlz 9y ago
Qtum ( https://qtum.org ) | Global | Remote | Full-time | Software Engineer Qtum is a smart contract platform built on a blockchain model similar to Bitcoin. We aim to drive the entire smart contract space forward with this projec
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by earlz 9y ago
I agree, there are much better consensus methods than Proof of Work. It's just that PoW is by far the most simple to implement. If you just take a peak at the ecosystem, especially around 2013-2015, it seems like every "altcoin&qu
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by earlz 9y ago
Heh, you don't need to tell me about it. If you like reading rants, I wrote one a while back over why the Ethereum Virtual Machine's core design is flawed to the very core http://earlz.net/view/2017/08&#x
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by earlz 9y ago
Did it though? Sure, the base protocol (TCP/IP) has mostly been unchanged up until IPv6, but the early implementations had plenty of bugs and limitations. And the goals solved were less clear back then as well, especially when BBS etc
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by earlz 9y ago
I'm involved, in this space and agree. Though to play devil's advocate, smart contracts (especially since Ethereum is soon adding zk-snarks) also allow for more sophisticated ways to commit crimes. But yes, I definitely think that
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by earlz 9y ago
I think that the cryptocurrency/blockchain space is the next big thing in the world on-par with the internet. But it still has a long way to go. In the late 90s you could say "X on the internet" and get tons of investment. No
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by earlz 9y ago
protip: Ethereum can be used by criminals too, not just Bitcoin. Though, I'm curious (not trolling), why is Ethereum's model a better way forward? Are you talking about smart contracts or what?
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by earlz 9y ago
Just for an other-side perspective, people that enjoy this might enjoy my technical deep dive into PoSv3: http://earlz.net/view/2017/07/27/1904/the-missing-explanatio... It is a much older implement
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The Faults and Shortcomings of the Ethereum Virtual Machine(earlz.net)
5 points by earlz 9y ago|0 comments
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A Brief History of JavaScript(auth0.com)
7 points by earlz 9y ago|1 comments
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by earlz 9y ago
In the rationale document they explain that arbitrary length integers were too difficult to determine a reasonable gas cost around for math etc.
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by earlz 9y ago
My favorite critique of Solidity is this guy on hacker news from a few days back https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14691212
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by earlz 9y ago
Here's the root error I believe: https://github.com/paritytech/parity/blob/master/js/src/cont... The initWallet function should have been marked internal, but was instead not marked. Unmar
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by earlz 10y ago
I'm a noob builder (constructed my first pedal a week ago, woo) but I can kinda understand this. Most effects tend to overdrive their components. This by definition means that they operate beyond what a datasheet and the manufacturer s
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by earlz 10y ago
LOL not for more than the first 30 minutes of trading at least
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by earlz 10y ago
If I recall correctly, it's not 10% of the entire supply, but rather 10% of the first 2 years worth of supply. After that, the 10% cut from miners is stopped and their 10% of the supply will slowly decrease as the overall supply increa
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by earlz 10y ago
Given how complicated the technology is that they will be working with (as someone who has attempted to read the zcash whitepaper), I find this extremely unlikely. Sure there will be clones, but no altcoin "developer" will be able
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by earlz 10y ago
When I first heard of this I was really messing around with different tunings and such for writing music on guitar/bass. I didn't buy the whole new science schtick, but I did give it a try and I believe recorded and "produced
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Didn't pay $1000 and our channel got terminated by copyright strikes [video](youtube.com)
8 points by earlz 10y ago|0 comments
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by earlz 10y ago
I have a CS friend who just recently got hired for walmart (not sure on terminology, but he does some analytics stuff). Your account sounds pretty accurate to what he described, but add in a dollop of basically every technology that's
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by earlz 10y ago
I actually just accepted a job offer working remotely for a cryptocurrency related startup. I'm in the US and they're based out of Shanghai. So far it's been pretty nice, but since I'm going to be working remote (though
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by earlz 10y ago
You can! Go to youtube, then History, and there should be an option in there to have it stop tracking your history. I'm sure they still track it, but at least they don't give me recommendations anymore. This was especially annoyin
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by earlz 10y ago
Just for context, that's about $1.50/min in 2016 dollars
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by earlz 10y ago
Yep, grew up and have friends/family in Oklahoma. Disability and unemployment benefits come on prepaid cards, as well as tax refunds. Most ATMs charge a fee to check balance, and a separate fee to withdraw money as cash. These cards do
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by earlz 10y ago
Yea, I'm not taking that risk.. much less the inconvenience of installing a different browser and getting Java enabled
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by earlz 10y ago
Except for Mar's climate change happens on the course of hundreds of thousands of years, and yet here on Earth the biggest climate change has happened in the past 100-200 years, and just so happens to perfectly coincide with humans dis
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by earlz 10y ago
I had one of these are a kid, around 10 or 11 years old. I did a few of the experiments, soaked up all the knowledge I could get out of the limited documentation, and then didn't touch it for a long time. When I got into electronics ag
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by earlz 10y ago
Even without all of the financial aspects everyone else has mentioned, if you own the home you can do whatever (well, with approval from the local homeowner committee if applicable). Don't like a wall separating the kitchen and living
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by earlz 10y ago
I actually saw that when I was first researching making this project, but I like Ruby a lot more than Javascript so I went with Ruby

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