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by johnyzee 12y ago
Bitcoin enthusiast wet dream: Google gets behind bitcoin, integrates bitcoin NFC payments directly in Android, a la Apple Pay.
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by johnyzee 12y ago
I once went to see Maersk's largest vessel in the Copenhagen harbor. After driving up and down the docks for some time without being able to find the ship, I realized I was driving next to it.
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by johnyzee 12y ago
Very cool. It's like turning reddit into a bit of a communal property.
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by johnyzee 12y ago
This makes bitcoin very accessible. Sign up, buy bitcoins with a credit card instantly. Exactly what everybody has been asking for.
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by johnyzee 12y ago
I love it when CEO's own up like this, it's probably one of the most appealing traits in a leader I personally can think of. As long as they don't become too insecure to actually lead, introspection and self-criticism are str
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by johnyzee 12y ago
Coinbase business development is kicking ass and taking names.
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by johnyzee 12y ago
Cool to see Fog Creek succeed like this. I've been following Joel for almost fifteen years (the now defunct Fog Creek message boards were some of the best on the internet for a couple of years). From the beginning Joel made a simple as
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by johnyzee 12y ago
Why wouldn't they want to promote the currency? Bitcoin is win-win for the merchants, with no fees and no chargebacks.
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by johnyzee 12y ago
It's not true that most deploys are a protocol change - only changes that would also change Java serialization's serial UID will cause GWT-RPC clients to become incompatible. I routinely deploy a new version while hundreds of user
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by johnyzee 12y ago
Have to agree, JSF is the worst kind of J2EE committee-designed, overengineered nonsense. It is the EJB of web frameworks. The component-based philosophy behind it is sound, but is much better executed by frameworks like Tapestry and Wicket
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by johnyzee 12y ago
> The GWT programming model means that the web page is viewed from an object oriented point of view [...] this [...] ends up not being that helpful and often gets in the way of the developer more than anything else. Maybe true in terms o
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by johnyzee 12y ago
This means parking meters, vending machines, laundromats, etc. can receive bitcoin payments without an internet connection. That is actually really cool.
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by johnyzee 12y ago
The problem is, nobody wants to be the evil guy that rips another guy's dream to shreds. That's why, when asked directly, people will always say that your thing is a cool idea, looks great, etc. It is said that entrepreneurs need
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by johnyzee 12y ago
Or you could use GWT and have an extremely mature server-side language/ORM/everything-else, and a rich web client, all written in the same language and sharing the same class model.
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by johnyzee 12y ago
The killer application for bitcoin, IMHO, is microtransactions. For global, universal microtransactions to take off, we need exactly something like bitcoin; purely digital, both a protocol and a service and not owned by anyone. Once microtr
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by johnyzee 12y ago
Sometimes a web app is preferable, for the usual reasons, no installation, platform independence etc. In terms of security it should be no different since you would run this over https.
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by johnyzee 12y ago
Preferably you would run this inside your own/company network, and whitelist any domains that will be accessing the web frontend from the outside.
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TeamPostgreSQL 1.07 – PostgreSQL web interface(teampostgresql.com)
7 points by johnyzee 12y ago|5 comments
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by johnyzee 13y ago
He didn't get anything wrong. Many people prefer form over function (look at all the 'designer' kitchen utensils) and this was also Steve Jobs' design philosophy.
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by johnyzee 13y ago
That guy must have been getting several people every week asking if he is the Satoshi Nakamoto, and/or trying to blackmail him for his stash. These people are out there: http://www.gwern.net/Blackmail
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by johnyzee 13y ago
> if I ever “make it”, I’ll look back on these days with fondness as the best time I ever had Even if you fail you will look back at these days as some of the best times you ever had.
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Why and how I write Java(stevewedig.com)
47 points by johnyzee 13y ago|63 comments
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by johnyzee 13y ago
I've been praying for something like Ejecta and CocoonJS that is both cross-platform and open source. I always imagined that the canvas API should translate rather easily to native graphics mode, but it is probably not that simple.
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by johnyzee 13y ago
It is based on AppMobi that Intel bought some months ago. AppMobi was an alternative to PhoneGap, but it attempted to streamline the whole process of wrapping an HTML5 app into a native app, with an "IDE" (more of a GUI for the bu
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by johnyzee 13y ago
I loved the multiplayer team tactics of this game, possibly my favorite multiplayer game experience ever. It was limited to a few good maps, and, as far as I remember, only a few different weapon types, but worked very well. I never even bo
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by johnyzee 13y ago
https://www.ludei.com/ Converts an HTML5 canvas-based app to use native graphics routines. I haven't used it but been following it for over a year since the approach seems promising. BTW, a similar thing exists for the
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by johnyzee 13y ago
Here's what interviewing will be like: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/04/06
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by johnyzee 13y ago
It is larger than more than half of the world's currencies: http://coinometrics.com/bitcoin/bmix
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As Bitcoin nears $700, Coinbase out of coins to sell
52 points by johnyzee 13y ago|68 comments
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by johnyzee 13y ago
All buyers, no sellers, price will continue up. There is a steady stream of new people hearing about Bitcoin, believing in the idea, and wanting a piece of it for when it becomes a dominant world currency. Everybody is holding, nobody'

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