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by killerstorm 9y ago
Symbian programming platform was a nightmare: C++ with no exceptions, no STL and no RAII. You couldn't use any normal C++ programming idioms, you had to use Symbian-specific memory management primitives. A quote from TheRegister articl
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by killerstorm 9y ago
What's funny is that crypto issues are actually not the biggest problem with IOTA. The biggest problem is that it just makes no sense. It's not going to be decentralized & secure at the same time. It's LESS efficient than
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by killerstorm 9y ago
It actually worked. People who are clueless about cryptography (i.e. like 99% of crypto investors) are totally on IOTA side here. Invancheglo is a grade A troll.
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by killerstorm 9y ago
In Ukraine we have a taxi app where user selects price he's willing to pay and waits for drivers. He can increase the price if no drivers take an offer.
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by killerstorm 9y ago
There are many ICOs and tokens on other platforms, including Bitcoin. E.g. [see here]( https://coinmarketcap.com/tokens/ ). #3 and #4 are on Omni, which is Bitcoin-based. Ethereum is actually technically inferior as a pl
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by killerstorm 9y ago
Ethereum itself is just a building block. It only appeared few years ago, and applications using it are being built right now. You can see applications built on it -- decentralized exchanges, prediction markets, derivates/derivative ma
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by killerstorm 9y ago
On a low level it consists of multiple key-value stores (one store per contract). Keys and values are 256-bit integers (or 32-byte byte strings). You never work with it directly, instead, you deploy a contract, which is sort of a collection
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by killerstorm 9y ago
I might be somewhat biased on this, but I strongly prefer database metaphor over computing metaphor. Every blockchain is essentially a shared database. E.g. Bitcoin is a database which keeps track of address balances (as a first approximati
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by killerstorm 10y ago
The problem with ME is that enables a number of additional attacks, even if it's not backdoored.
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by killerstorm 10y ago
Autonomous means that it is able to act on its own. E.g. suppose that at some point organization members decide that it should pay do monthly payments to some address to pay for certain work. A DAO noted this decision and started to execute
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by killerstorm 10y ago
DAO means "Decentralized Autonomous Organization". You can read more about it here: https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/05/06/daos-dacs-das-and-more-... The page was designed for people who already know
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by killerstorm 10y ago
A concept of a 'smart contract' isn't well-defined, thus it's hard to tell if something is a 'smart contract'. But programs which run on Ethereum blockchain are officially called contracts.
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by killerstorm 11y ago
It was a soft fork.
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by killerstorm 12y ago
> The X-Prize is intended precisely for this type of industry stagnation No. Take a look Ansari X-Prize, the first of this kind. The theoretic foundations for spaceflight were laid out about a century ago, the first flight took place in
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Ask HN: Are there immediate practical uses of “Bitcoin 2.0”?
3 points by killerstorm 12y ago|0 comments
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Colored coins paint sophisticated future for Bitcoin(coindesk.com)
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by killerstorm 14y ago
Well, it's an alternative payment method, i.e. one people should use if they don't want to pay via PayPal/Google Checkout. E.g. it's for people from outside of USA. I'll give you an example. I live in Ukraine. When my father wanted to buy s
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by killerstorm 16y ago
Thanks, that's a great idea!
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by killerstorm 16y ago
> People with smaller/medium businesses don't typically put a lot of emphasis on websites. Indeed they don't, but perhaps they could consider a web site as a source of additional customers, or as a way to offload phone scheduling, or ma
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by killerstorm 16y ago
Clickable link: http://doreserve.com/about/demo
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Please review: DoReserve.com, an appointment booking system
5 points by killerstorm 16y ago|7 comments
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by killerstorm 19y ago
i'm pretty sure that people who vote on reddit can have opinion, and they intersect in some way with people who comment. there might be more negative comments, but that's actually a natural phenomenon -- comments of agreement looking like "
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by killerstorm 19y ago
let's check numbers: "You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss" got 652 up, 248 down, 72% up. Atwood's "Paul Graham's Participatory Narcissism": 438 up, 322 down, 57% up. "The Cliffs Notes": 255 up, 201 down. 56% up. i do not see any signigicant bi
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by killerstorm 19y ago
have you ever tried to use Windows API and COM stuff? often even simple task requires several pages of complex and cryptic code. there is fine documentation for each function, but barely anyone can write meaningful programs using only this
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by killerstorm 20y ago
there's also AllegroGraph product implementing triple store (kinda RDF), that can be accessed via Prolog. i like that kind of data store very much -- it is as convenient as using plain objects, but supports complex queries, and do not have