haolez

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1. 931.▲
   by haolez 6y ago

   I was away from the crypto space for a while and I decided to try shorting some currencies yesterday using a DEX based on Ethereum. I wanted to create a position with 1000 dollars. The estimated fee for my transaction was 490 dollars. Somet
2. 932.▲
   by haolez 6y ago

   Looks nice. I've been recently looking for an expressive language to make an experiment combining two approaches to "cloud native" programming: something like Ballerina[0] combined with something like Dapr[1]. For example: wh
3. 933.▲
   by haolez 6y ago

   It was one of those old DOS games where the gameplay sucked, but it kind of contributed to the difficulty and ambience of the game somehow. Fun times.
4. 934.▲
   by haolez 6y ago

   In the same vein, if you kill (later in the game) the "omnipresent guard", next time you stole something you would be attacked by him regardless, but now his sprite/skin was that of a zombie :) cool easter egg (or bug!).
5. 935.▲
   by haolez 6y ago

   I think the biggest success story of a shifting play style is GTA. The first ones were 2.5D games with a very different feel.
6. 936.▲
   by haolez 6y ago

   Me and my brother, we loved Ultima VI and Ultima VIII. I guess we were an exception :)
7. 937.▲
   by haolez 6y ago

   I think aidungeon would be very similar to a game if it remembered the past sentences that the player and the AI have input so far. So far, it seems to create a new context from scratch for each and every sentence from the player.
8. 938.▲
   by haolez 6y ago

   Sounds similar to CouchDB's approach, but I've never used that either.
9. 939.▲
   by haolez 6y ago

   But what's the endgame of this approach regarding scaling? If I ever need horizontal scaling, am I screwed? Genuinely curious :)
10. 940.▲
    by haolez 6y ago

    Yes and I've lost the window to edit my comment. Thanks for the correction :)
11. 941.▲
    by haolez 6y ago

    I was just wondering... is there any hope to have minimalist Rust compilers? Something like TinyCC for C[0]? [0] https://tiny.cc/
12. 942.▲
    by haolez 6y ago

    It might be a good open source desktop environment option for the future. Something like what Haiku tries to be.
13. 943.▲
    by haolez 6y ago

    Add to that recent games like FIFA or NBA that have casino-like mechanics with real money.
14. 944.▲
    by haolez 6y ago

    I was thinking about Microsoft 365 when I mentioned Microsoft, since its an offering similar to that of Google regarding businesses. And I thought that my assumptions would make it clear that this is not a realistic scenario. Do you disagre
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    by haolez 6y ago

    I thought my assumptions would make it very clear that this is not a realistic scenario. I'm just evaluating the idea proposed in the article, not its practicality.
16. 946.▲
    by haolez 6y ago

    This could be a smart move. Facebook could position themselves as the go-to platform for privacy aware users. They might capture users fleeing Google, Microsoft and Apple because of privacy. I'm assuming that "The Big Shift"
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    by haolez 6y ago

    It uses a neural network for sentiment analysis, so it can be classified as "using AI".
18. 948.▲
    by haolez 6y ago

    Entrepreneurship is not about putting a price tag on everything and making closed proprietary stuff. It's about making a profitable business using the tools at your disposal, which might even be open source (like in the "open core
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    by haolez 6y ago

    Kind of off topic, but I would love to have NixOps ( https://github.com/NixOS/nixops ) as an abstraction layer for every type of cloud service, and not just virtual machines (e.g. queues, object storages, etc). There is
20. 950.▲
    by haolez 6y ago

    Didn't know about Threema. Looks incredible!
21. 951.▲
    by haolez 6y ago

    Sounds similar to smart contracts running on a blockchain :)
22. 952.▲
    by haolez 6y ago

    Let's inject quadrillions, then!
23. 953.▲
    by haolez 6y ago

    I use modules to import serverless deployments as "data" blocks.
24. 954.▲
    by haolez 6y ago

    Can't this attack be made impractical with some heuristic? For example, only accept 0-conf transactions if a given number of nodes have this transaction in their mempool. (I'm thinking of both BTC and BCH)
25. 955.▲
    by haolez 6y ago

    Thanks for the thoughtful response. According to it, 0-conf transactions are possible in BTC as well. Why isn't more people using this? It seems safe enough, since attacking such a transaction is probably more expensive than the gains
26. 956.▲
    by haolez 6y ago

    This looks like a very mature option. Will probably use this one.
27. 957.▲
    by haolez 6y ago

    It's not only that. There is also the "replace by fee" stuff that allows BCH to make instant payments with 0 confirmations for small values. This was hinted by Satoshi as well, but was made impossible by the current BTC.
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    Ask HN: Can someone recommend a game for a programming competition?

    6 points by haolez 6y ago|13 comments
29. 959.▲
    by haolez 6y ago

    Why? I would like to learn more.
30. 960.▲
    by haolez 6y ago

    I think it's not about austerity. It's probably about money printing and the quality of a currency.