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by lectrick 12y ago
Based on my limited googling, at least Bex.io http://bex.io/faqs An industry tends to congeal around a single technology for implementation (for example, Python in bioinformatics), so if bitcoin exchanges will start using E
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by lectrick 12y ago
Why not? New things tend to use new tools, so it's understandable. We're not talking about MtGox here, which incidentally, was written in ::cue disdaining programmer voice:: PHP ::end cue::
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by lectrick 13y ago
Maybe startups should abandon the stock market process entirely and issue a new cryptocurrency instead. The founders can pre-mine whatever percentage they wish and then pay employees in part in that currency, which would be traded on an exc
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by lectrick 13y ago
If you like this sort of thing, and are on a Mac, you have Quartz Composer available, which I find fun to play with and which is actually pretty powerful. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz_Composer Among other things
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by lectrick 13y ago
Programming these days seems to be more of an exercise in managing unexpected complexity between various components or pieces of code. Here's a few tips: 1) Unit test. 95% of your test suite should be unit tests. Objects under test sho
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by lectrick 13y ago
Maybe someone should start a "certified green accounting" initiative that certifies that the books of the company have taken into account those externalized costs as "costs".
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by lectrick 13y ago
Go exception handling (or lack thereof) sucks. Things can just blow up silently at runtime unless you check the error code return of practically every statement.
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by lectrick 13y ago
A new form of money that nobody controls, which has its ledger stored in a public decentralized database, with cryptographically-secured transactions, with a limited total number of units, whose unit value is decided by the market, and wher
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by lectrick 13y ago
Why don't we just fucking let capitalism run where it may, instead of having all these stupid complicated controls which end up being exploited for profit anyway?
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by lectrick 13y ago
I tried to move the exit inside the walls. I was unable to edit any of the code. I thought that was the point?
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by lectrick 13y ago
Randomizing inputs is not "unit testing". Unit testing is deterministic . Similarly, type checking does not eliminate the need for unit testing. What worries me is that between type checking and thinking QuickCheck is some kind o
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by lectrick 13y ago
> Most consumers would be better off paying with a card: same cost (none) Correction here: There IS a credit card cost, but it is billed to the merchant and passed along to the consumer by being built into product prices . The fact that
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by lectrick 13y ago
> The question is, given that PHP is the current language, with all its faults, will it it cost more (including all definitions of cost) to make the switch? How long will it take? Does it get the job done? How bad is the damage? An excel
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by lectrick 13y ago
Fair enough. And to be honest, there was a single night not too many years ago where I wrote up an auction site that had most of the functionality of eBay, in a single night, in PHP (someone else had already done the frontend work, fortunat
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by lectrick 13y ago
I didn't know the story. From http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/03/19/3416013/github-j... : "The sight of her male coworkers leering at a group of women in the office was the last stra
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by lectrick 13y ago
I'm not prone to violence but if I met someone who I was certain DDOS'd Github I'd certainly immediately punch them hard in the face. Github is a noble company with noble end-goals, and collaborative open-source is a revoluti
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by lectrick 13y ago
Given a programming task, it will be written faster, easier, and in a more maintainable and less bug-prone fashion if it is not PHP. The opposite opinion is basically indefensible. Sure, you can still dig a trench with a spoon (and if you
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by lectrick 13y ago
For what it's worth, it's a well-made desk, although I too was a little miffed that I had to drill directly into the pressboard wood during assembly. You could always put your own desktop on the frame. (It's a very good frame
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by lectrick 13y ago
I disagree with many things in this article. For example, he says that you should throw away tests that haven't failed in a year. I say simply disable them and put them in a separate test suite, maybe called a validation suite. If
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by lectrick 13y ago
Sedentary jobs have sedentary risks: http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/wellness/even-with-e... I own a GeekDesk and swear by it. Standing sometimes while coding makes a difference!
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by lectrick 13y ago
There's nothing stopping someone from insuring Bitcoins. http://www.businessinsider.com/as-bitcoin-grows-in-popularit... I have personally never understood the criticisms of new things of the form "<new thing&g
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by lectrick 13y ago
Decentralized systems see regulation as "damage" and route around it.
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by lectrick 13y ago
Instead of killing fish, here is my favorite nut mix (BY FAR!), which also happens to be chock full of Omega-3: http://smile.amazon.com/Planters-Nutrition-Omega-3-Ounce-Can... Cannot recommend enough. A handful for a snack
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by lectrick 13y ago
This is actually a fascinating paper. Keep reading until you see the connection between inflammation, exercise and depression... Wow!
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by lectrick 13y ago
The way I code (and I'm surprised I seem to be the first person to state this here), is that I can run my class file in Sublime and it automatically runs its unit test within like a second. Instantly, I can know whether I broke anythin
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by lectrick 13y ago
I'm sorry but the vast majority of PHP programmers are not equipped to handle running a goddamn main exchange.
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by lectrick 13y ago
Equating MtGox with Bitcoin is like equating NASDAQ with the US Dollar.
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by lectrick 13y ago
I guess that's why Elixir exists, which is sort of like Erlang with Ruby semantics. http://elixir-lang.org/
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by lectrick 13y ago
True, but what if 10 people wanted to co-own a real physical house? I believe there are laws against that
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by lectrick 13y ago
A better solution is gcc's which forces you (if you enable the restriction) to put an extra pair of parens around inline assignments.

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