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by fat0wl 13y ago
if you are watching, modersky, please appreciate that a big reason these articles get upvoted is because people want to discuss Scala. many of the comments are positive :D i for one see value in Scala, for many of the reasons outlined here,
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by fat0wl 13y ago
yea but then the malware has to already be present on both machines, eh?...
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by fat0wl 13y ago
hmmmmm i know "i told you so"s are annoying but i wouldnt register a domain name with a service other than a full-on registrar. then you could always change hosting or even scrap the blog entirely but still keep your address (and
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by fat0wl 13y ago
i see what you're saying but if they have profit margins they could opt to keep some BTC. i think the issue at this point is that if one decides to hold onto BTC they are put more in the position of an "investor" rather than
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by fat0wl 13y ago
i suspected this may be more the case, thank you for confirming. and this has made me nervous, since i don't find sinatra to be all that powerful. buuuut as retrogradeorbit points out.... the clojure macro system is powerful, so maybe
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by fat0wl 13y ago
thanks for your input. I see what you're saying about the Closure namespaces and function system making more sense. That's what has been attracting me toward it, along with some general fondness for the elegance of Clojure. I feel
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by fat0wl 13y ago
Honestly I haven't used Ring/Compojure/Enlive beyond tutorials so at this point I'm very intrigued but don't have much to say yet. My belief though is that there is some peace of mind that comes from the idea of wha
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by fat0wl 13y ago
I think it may be but I came to the Java ecosystem to escape RoR.... it seems we should be able to do better than emulating Rails minus the existing gem community, no? I have much more faith in the JVM but would like to see it provide a ste
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by fat0wl 13y ago
I've been using Scala just to learn Play framework (I know I could use Java but I thought I'd be adventurous). I think in truth, though, if there were a web framework in Clojure as well received as Play I would be bounding down th
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by fat0wl 13y ago
man it's because when the price is not crashing its all brainwashy hype. For the record, i talk crap about Bitcoin even when it's on the upswing but you just get downvoted a ton by people who are all siked on investing. btw, did a
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by fat0wl 13y ago
Same. I've tried to warn them about this whole mess (even if the value is appreciating I think it's at best a risky investment and at worst partaking in an immoral scheme). This article reiterates 2 of my favorites points -- 1. th
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by fat0wl 13y ago
i don't think network effect applies here the way many have been claiming. twitter & the like 1) were not open source 2) kept a significant user base early on while bitcoin does have a big user base, currency is a more personal thi
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by fat0wl 13y ago
heh here is where i need to apologize for not paying attention to .NET :( i had a bad experience with it in my early days of webdev. moreso my fault than microsoft, but by the time it was over i was firmly lodged in the open source world. N
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by fat0wl 13y ago
heh just start it & post a link back to this one as an homage. it's a commitment though, i know
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by fat0wl 13y ago
yeah i agree it may not be ultra-streamlined for rapid application development yet, but i don't have any critical work i need to do with it. to me it's really just an excuse to learn Akka. When I read about Netflix's async Ja
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by fat0wl 13y ago
Mmmmm basically I think it's because Scala itself is in a really captivating position, so seeing these utilities emerge makes it that much more promising. I've switched from RoR to Scala on Play framework and at this point it&#x27
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by fat0wl 13y ago
heh go sit in at a corporation then. i believe the core concept is that they have so much money that they'll generally hire a lot of people onto projects "just in case it helps the project move faster", basically overstaffing
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by fat0wl 13y ago
yes especially from what i've seen at big corporations where i've worked, the same amount of work could be done with like 1/3rd or 1/5th of the staff if the managers paid more attention to efficiency. The recession aspec
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by fat0wl 13y ago
agreed on the detail work aspect. I know a lot of brilliant people who are floundering because they're trying to re-draw the lines/boundaries/parameters of work in order to maintain their mental vibrance, where as many many l
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by fat0wl 13y ago
heh now there's a plan. even then i hope you're doin it for fun not investment. until it stabilizes its just kindof a crapshoot. i have long decided that id try it if its stable and succeeding as a currency but not as an investmen
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by fat0wl 13y ago
resist, my son. i've made a pledge to myself that everytime i'm tempted to click on some BTC-related stuff i will instead study a new code library. i haven't totally wriggled free yet (obviously) but i'm close. as with a
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by fat0wl 13y ago
it costs only your mind
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by fat0wl 13y ago
hah yah i can very easily imagine them in a museum one day in the "History's Greatest Pranks" exhibit I think another factor to consider is that for the companies to use the ASICs themselves -- even if they felt they could ek
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by fat0wl 13y ago
eh you lost me, man. he still has the option to only take USD or use a 3rd party payment processor. At the moment, it seems that this approach is not costing any businesses in sales, since Bitcoin is still used infrequently as currency. The
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by fat0wl 13y ago
So do they get a transaction fee every time even though all they're doing is changing the id of the owner in their database?
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by fat0wl 13y ago
yea that article was a waste of everyone's time. i think it's ok for people to have their opinions though. There are certainly many "pro Bitcoin" articles written that highlight its keys to success and conveniently forge
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by fat0wl 13y ago
so the currency with "no transaction fees" avoids the free-market implications of arbitrage that would prevent price-fixing..... through the serendipity of two-way transaction fees?
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by fat0wl 13y ago
My intuition says that the storeowner has no reason to accept. I think what a lot of the merchants are doing is using 3rd party processors, basically just saying "Fine yeah I'll take it" as long as a Bitcoin buyer is already
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by fat0wl 13y ago
Yes, that I can live with. If the tech were implemented within a more sane economic system I would be very intrigued indeed, but I think it would bore the open-source world. I'm slowly beginning to believe that this is part of a moveme
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by fat0wl 13y ago
i don't think many people expect to use plastic money forever -- they are already comfortable buying things by scanning an iPhone. And I don't think the lack of government endorsement is so much the issue with Bitcoin either, thou

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