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by eterpstra 5y ago
Believers in the Dollar Milkshake Theory are lacing up their shoes for some victory laps.
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by eterpstra 5y ago
GitHub! It's all open source. EIPs are Ethereum Improvement Proposals. You can view them all here: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues Ethereum Foundation blog is a good read on technical detail with no
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by eterpstra 5y ago
I don't know why this is #1 on HN right now, but i just came here to say I was a sophomore at ISU in 2000. Go Cyclones.
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by eterpstra 5y ago
Ha! Same :)
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by eterpstra 5y ago
Big +1 for this. Or maybe some sort of integration with RescueTime (not sure how, but why not)
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by eterpstra 5y ago
Wow. As irony would have it, during a procrastinatory fit today, I wandered onto HN for the first time in weeks. Saw this, and it seems like it's exactly what I've been looking for lately! I've been intensely struggling with
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by eterpstra 8y ago
It may have 0 environmental impact, but at least it's a step in the right direction for reversing our 'disposable society'. Really, though, if you're that concerned about the environment and you JUST HAVE TO HAVE STARBU
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by eterpstra 8y ago
I would argue that double-entry accounting is a technology that obviates the need for trust between humans (by delegating it to books and arithmetic), and therefore erodes civilization.
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by eterpstra 10y ago
I've been having a good experience with duolingo so far. The lessons are short enough to not impose, and the difficulty curve is very low, so I don't dread getting everything wrong. I've been at it for two months, and have n
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by eterpstra 10y ago
Vagrant is for development, not production, silly goose!
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by eterpstra 10y ago
Didn't Yahoo do this more than 10 years ago? I remember playing a lot of checkers as a lab monitor in college.
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by eterpstra 10y ago
Meteor is still pretty great. It's an all-in-one (including database) framework that uses JavaScript for both back and front ends. It's build tool also saves you from having to configure things like Babel, Webpack, SASS, etc...
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by eterpstra 10y ago
Unfortunately mainstream consumers still love credit cards, and think "Bitcoin" is some sort of criminal activity.
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by eterpstra 10y ago
If all you are doing is coding, torrenting, and watching movies, what about a 'osx like' linux desktop? https://elementary.io/ comes to mind. I think there are others, as well. The amount of fiddling and maintena
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by eterpstra 10y ago
This was my experience exactly. Seemed like a great idea at the time, but always required some sort of maintenance at various times that required researching solutions, posting on message boards, and trial-and-error. Basically, it's
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by eterpstra 10y ago
This does occur in some states. Some students get loans repaid if they contract to work in rural areas for 5 years. I think this is still a symptom of too few graduates. The acceptance rate of US medical schools fluctuates around 20%, so
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by eterpstra 10y ago
This may be partially true, but my anecdotal evidence points elsewhere. I live in a very poor city in the US, and most of the private hospitals here run a surplus. The problem (like in tech) is finding adequate talent. Doctors and nurse
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by eterpstra 10y ago
Side note... The tech/startup world has realized relatively quickly that 100 hour workweeks are detrimental to productivity, retention, and overall success. Seems like articles such as this come out on a weekly basis, along with other
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by eterpstra 10y ago
yes, risk is risk. Anyone in the cryptocurrency space is well aware of the fact that tomorrow we could all wake up with a 0 balance. As for the legal aspect, the creators and curators have been assailed on all sides by critics and naysayer
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by eterpstra 10y ago
I can't speak for the individual creators, but the 'tyranny of the majority' has been discussed at length and is the basis for the 51% attack mitigation. DAO and Ethereum enthusiasts also seem to enjoy discussing 'deleg
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by eterpstra 10y ago
Discussion around the issues outlined in the report have already begun (before the report was published) in the DAO forums. It's not unexpected that there will be problems. This has never been done before. But the fact that this repo
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by eterpstra 11y ago
Tokens created on Ethereum can have very niche use cases. Digix has tokens that are pegged to a gram of gold sitting in a warehouse. Augur uses tokens to track user reputation. Free My Vunk uses tokens as currency to buy and sell items in v
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by eterpstra 11y ago
There's this: https://blog.ethereum.org/2015/12/03/how-to-build-your-own-c...
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by eterpstra 11y ago
Yes. I'm replacing a legacy PHP app with Meteor right now. However, instead of building a huge, monolithic app, I'm replacing sections of it piecemeal with small Meteor apps that use npm modules (or meteor packages) for shared fu
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by eterpstra 11y ago
Database access from the browser is not baked in. This is a misunderstanding. Meteor has a browser cache that mimics a subset of Mongo commands, and auto-syncs with the back-end based on security rules you define.
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by eterpstra 11y ago
Then Meteor does not meet your use case. Some people actually like opinionated, monolithic frameworks because it reduces decision fatigue and boilerplate coding. For small teams with outsized requirements, it's a perfect fit. I&#x27
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by eterpstra 11y ago
Cash and debit cards are pretty funny, too. Anyone who grabs your cash, or gets away with a purchase on your debit card is laughing pretty hard at your expense. Maybe, if you're lucky, your bank will get around to reversing the fraudu
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by eterpstra 11y ago
Librarian
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by eterpstra 11y ago
Well, Hotz did state that, “The truth is that work as we know it in its modern form has not been around that long, and I kind of want to use AI to abolish it. I want to take everyone’s jobs. Most people would be happy with that, especially
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by eterpstra 11y ago
Which hot new JS framework, and what part?

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