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by mbrock 9y ago
I wonder if there is any kind of authoritative definition of these words that would apply to Java, C#, C++, and other languages. I suspect not. Compared to C++, Java object variables behave more like pointers.
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by mbrock 9y ago
You might think that the value of foo is that which is compared when evaluating foo == bar, which is a pointer!
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by mbrock 9y ago
Mostly I would just recommend getting the book in the Kindle store or whereever! It's a very good read—people who've read it all seem to end up referencing it.
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by mbrock 9y ago
> "Try to get your status just a little above or below your partner's," I said, and I insisted that the gap should be minimal. The actors seemed to know exactly what I meant and the work was transformed. The scenes became
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by mbrock 9y ago
The more money you have, the more ASICs you can buy.
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by mbrock 9y ago
GNU Emacs for more than 15 years now!
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by mbrock 9y ago
There is kind of a consensus model: the fork with the most good work on it is the real one. If you come across a forest of different forks of Ruby On Rails, you can identify the project's main master by looking for the longest sequence
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by mbrock 9y ago
You seem to be comparing a high-level functional language to a low-level bytecode. I don't think it's easier to specify a series of conditions in a functional language than in an imperative language, generally speaking.
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by mbrock 9y ago
You're extrapolating from one incident to "anytime something happens."
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by mbrock 9y ago
Smart contracts are state transition systems. Whether you write them in a "functional" or "procedural" style is more or less a superficial syntactic question. There's a lot of hot air being blown about pure function
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by mbrock 9y ago
What do you mean?
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by mbrock 9y ago
It seems like most people in this thread don't understand that this is just a proposal made by the firm that lost funds and there is very little indication that it will be supported either by the Ethereum Foundation or by the community
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by mbrock 9y ago
Don't mind at all!
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by mbrock 9y ago
If I had time and energy to participate, one fun idea I have would be to make an Emacs Lisp game that's some kind of mystery sci-fi thriller based on coding: like, an Emacs environment that simulates the workstation of an engineer on a
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by mbrock 9y ago
You know, Emacs isn't restricted to 80*25 characters. You can run it on double 4K monitors with tiling. What's the problem?
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by mbrock 9y ago
Isn't it really hard to know what you would or wouldn't do in such a situation? What if he's just kinda tired, you know?
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by mbrock 9y ago
When I think about most people I know, they could switch to GNU/Linux very easily, and many do, because what they need from a computer is: Google Docs, LibreOffice, YouTube, and—especially—Facebook. Switching their operating system is
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by mbrock 9y ago
Every comment I see like this makes me less interested in looking into "Raiblocks" because it sounds exactly like vested interest shilling. Low content promotion of semi-obscure altcoins repeated in every single cryptocurrency dis
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by mbrock 9y ago
NixOS, because it's the cutting edge of configuration management and package definition. It even reinvigorated my love for computers and free software just by being so elegant, sound, and practical.
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by mbrock 9y ago
That does seem like the intuition you would like to capture by talking about integers as a group , maybe? Kind of like how if you talk about points as elements of a vector space, it's useful to think of them as translations from the o
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by mbrock 9y ago
I'm brainwashed already so it's hard for me to see it from the perspective of a new user. Here are some main points from the website: NixOS has a completely declarative approach to configuration management: you write a specificat
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by mbrock 9y ago
My early teens around when I first got a copy of GNU/Linux. Someone in a local IRC channel sold me a CD with Slackware 6 for a couple of bucks. That launched me into an intensive period of learning. In these youthful days, when I didn&
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by mbrock 9y ago
NixOS on both my laptop and all the servers I set up. Declarative configuration, atomic upgrades, system rollbacks, a functional configuration language, excellent Haskell support, etc. I used Debian and Ubuntu for many years, but now I woul
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by mbrock 9y ago
That is indeed a more conventionally appealing way to encourage circulation—a gradual inflation in prices rather than sudden account confiscation!
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by mbrock 9y ago
That's a good point, I didn't think about that. It does add some extra complexity though—like, if I do want to make a real transaction, I have to re-make the subsequent "keep-alive" transactions.
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by mbrock 9y ago
When I'm programming, a lot of the time it's in order to make easier something that's definitely more boring than programming. Most programming might not directly give joy to people, but most people who work in accounting a
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by mbrock 9y ago
Yeah, exactly. BIP39 is a common protocol for mnemonic keys also supporting subkeys. Hardware wallets like the Ledger Nano S have support for Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Ethereum, and they let you sign transactions without ever exposing your pri
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by mbrock 9y ago
It seems that in any real world blockchain, the space growth from actual transactions will be much larger than the space wasted on inactive wallets. And the notion of a secure financial system where if you don't move your money for a y
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by mbrock 9y ago
Is this "subjective perception" part of the "objective reality" or somehow outside of it?
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by mbrock 9y ago
The MakerDAO system (which I contribute to) issues a token called dai against Ethereum token collateral. The dai token is meant to have low volatility measured against fiat money. There's roughly 9 million USD worth of outstanding dai

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