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by lostctown 8y ago
I agree and disagree. We should devote more total resources to the issue, but maybe not through media? I believe the government has 2 primary responsibilities: applying cost to externalities, and keeping it's constituents healthy. Ever
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by lostctown 8y ago
This hits home. Every time I've ever had to make the decision I've chosen yaml, for exactly this reason. Funny how the seemingly small things can be absolute show stoppers when it comes to making decisions in production.
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by lostctown 8y ago
It is useful for those things. I implemented a fairly involved scripting system that we now use inside all of our server instances. Each script in the system is an entry file mapping to an alias command and the entry file is invoked from th
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by lostctown 8y ago
I believe this has to do with the level of fuck you money made by early devs of these systems and the nature of liquidity in crypto. I'm sitting here working on my non-blockchain product, exhausted after a long weekend of work and ment
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The Beauty of Erlang Syntax(erlang.org)
3 points by lostctown 8y ago|2 comments
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by lostctown 8y ago
Easy wasn't the right word. Straightforward would have been better. I understand there is a great deal of effort that goes in to it.
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by lostctown 8y ago
I'm a bit cynical because I know good marketers maintain rep on many accounts on several key social network/forum sites. It's easy to do. Just queue up some actually interesting informative posts and the do a little automatio
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by lostctown 8y ago
The nodes on our existing social graphs are too large. I'll define a node in this case as a user's potential social graph over time. A naive social network that mitigates this is nextdoor. I say naive because the concept of a &quo
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by lostctown 8y ago
I've had my mind on this exact point for a while. But I'm slowly realizing that I tend towards new shiny things, like many people. And sometimes that project I've been grinding on for a couple years starts to look less appeal
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by lostctown 8y ago
An interesting aspect of this crypto boom over the last year has been the stress test on public internet infrastructure. Just the other day myetherwallet was hit with a nasty hack.
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by lostctown 9y ago
I'd say you owe that friend a round or two.
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by lostctown 9y ago
Sorry. Took off after I wrote this. Here's a good discussion that reveals the the debate/thinking going on around scalability. https://ethresear.ch/t/future-compatibility-for-sharding/386
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by lostctown 9y ago
This is all true at the moment. Heavy research is going into making blockchains more scalable and energy efficient within the Ethereum ecosystem. If fruitful, these improvements will address the concern you have about efficiency.
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Ethereum Proof of Stake: Alpha Testnet Implementation(hackmd.io)
3 points by lostctown 9y ago|0 comments
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Proof of Stake Pools for Ethereum(github.com)
33 points by lostctown 9y ago|2 comments
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by lostctown 9y ago
If you still use facebook on a daily basis, you are in part responsible for what is happening to the free web. Sorry. I said it. I'm getting bummed at the frequency I hear the excuse, "But I don't have a choice, network effec
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Show HN: Inferno-Storm – a simpler way to do web apps(github.com)
5 points by lostctown 9y ago|0 comments
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Ethereum's Lightning Network(raiden-network.readthedocs.io)
1 points by lostctown 9y ago|0 comments