lectrick

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841.
by lectrick 13y ago
So when will you be integrating with the Bitcoin network? /obligatory
842.
by lectrick 13y ago
I've done plenty of unit tests and I've read up on QuickCheck. QuickCheck is NO SUBSTITUTE for real unit testing. All it does is automatically let you randomize inputs since it can know the input type. Unit tests shouldn't even have randomi
843.
by lectrick 13y ago
It can't be TOO human-friendly, or it will be guessable because of having a low Kolmogorov (descriptive) complexity, and then you defeat the whole point...
844.
by lectrick 13y ago
And yet somehow you think that the existing currency/banking network (which is still a network, and still travels over either telephone lines or the Internet, mind you) would somehow be immune to the apocalypse. Dream on. Your best bet th
845.
by lectrick 13y ago
No offense, but you sound like someone who doesn't really understand the technology. A TX record is signed, which proves that only I wrote it. It does not immediately have to become part of the "consensus ledger" i.e. blockchain. All I ha
846.
by lectrick 13y ago
“Oh, absolutely,” Lander said, laughing. “Good for them! Clever guys.” This alone is reason enough to respect these guys. Blizzard would have confiscated anything you won by being clever, which is a much more asstarded strategy in my opinio
847.
by lectrick 13y ago
Wait... Pirate Bay is blocked (out of the box) in the UK? That's rather draconian for a first-world nation...
848.
by lectrick 13y ago
So the "grave error" is a lack of simple understanding of what a margin is? Seriously?
849.
by lectrick 14y ago
I work for Desk.com, owned by a company that also owns Work.com and a few other one-syllable domains. That company is Salesforce.com. They paid quite a bit for those domains. :O
850.
by lectrick 14y ago
Not open source (at least, not yet, for the server-side). The client side is on Github, but has absolutely no tests. Literally, the stub files for the tests are there, but that's it. Node.JS dev community really needs to get religion with t
851.
by lectrick 14y ago
Well, that's coming. Give it a few months. There seem to be a number of projects in this space, but I guess it won't be legit for some people until an LMAX Disruptor is written to do BTC FOREX trading.
852.
by lectrick 14y ago
Couldn't someone implement a Ruby CLANG dynamic runtime recompiler?
853.
by lectrick 14y ago
> I worked on the MobileMe team Oh crap, she's already biased. That product was a shit-show from the get-go. It doesn't matter how devoted the employees were, the reliability and apparent technical excellence of the product was lacking
854.
by lectrick 14y ago
A little bit of "you had to be there" (I saw his performance at a RailsConf, for example- it was weird, wonderful, nerdy, and funny all at once) A lot of his Ruby code was fuckin' genius, too.
855.
by lectrick 14y ago
Google "Sarbanes-Oxley" and weep.
856.
by lectrick 14y ago
Burying your head in the sand was always an excellent survival strategy.
857.
by lectrick 14y ago
With my only credentials being that I once had a single email exchange with Bill Joy, I'd have to disagree and say that the future needs us more than ever. Machines are not taking over humans. They are taking over boring tasks, leaving the
858.
by lectrick 14y ago
Going into debt for a wedding, in the USA, is very common. So is divorce. I did the math, and it came up wanting.
859.
by lectrick 14y ago
dhh really doesn't allow too many other good opinions, eh? If I was dhh, I'd let the other smart folks have their good says without getting all defensive. You only have to get defensive if you somehow think you are better than others. I har
860.
by lectrick 14y ago
One of the first RailsConfs (perhaps even the first one) had male/female drama... There was a chatroom somewhere that people were on while the presentations were going on and some folks said some questionable things and a woman blogged abou
861.
by lectrick 14y ago
What if I bought a nominal ring and instead threw the rest of the money (and then some) at a REALLY awesome vacation for us?
862.
by lectrick 14y ago
It's unfortunate that there are few women who would appreciate my progressive view of these, even if I would gladly pay double for a really nice vacation and a nominal ring instead (and let's face it, it's the actual decision that matters t
863.
by lectrick 14y ago
There is a small delay, so they don't use the Amazon technique.
864.
by lectrick 14y ago
> Bitcoin fluctuates wildly in value. It's been just growing steadily lately, but a seller can always convert to their local currency on the spot using a BTC payment processor. > Bitcoin takes quite a while for a transaction to happ
865.
by lectrick 14y ago
1) BTC is a perfect fit for porn websites 2) Porn websites, for some reason, have not gone BTC yet 3) Pornographers are a tight knit community. When a couple go, I think they will all go to stay competitive 4) Google how big the porn indust
866.
by lectrick 14y ago
Have you been living under a rock? Just about all the online gambling sites have BTC projects either in the works or already out there.
867.
by lectrick 14y ago
There is so much misunderstanding around cryptography. Steps To Hack Blockchain.info 1) Discover a zero-day exploit in the operating system that Blockchain.info runs on 2) Hack it 3) Compromise the javascript that it delivers to the client
868.
by lectrick 14y ago
Blockchain.info gets you a free wallet. Signed client-side so they can't mess with it. You don't need to run the "client" (which is really a "node") at all. The fact that this is not communicated well is a communication problem more than a
869.
by lectrick 14y ago
Maybe he's off work? Maybe he's "decompressing" from a hard problem at his job? Maybe you should STFU and enjoy the free information you are getting?
870.
by lectrick 14y ago
At least you can back it up... unlike a real cash wallet.

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