nemild

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   by nemild 10y ago

   And as context, Professor Dan Boneh teaches the main introductory crypto class at Stanford (CS255) - it's a great intro for someone with some good CS fundamentals. The course syllabus is here: http://crypto.stanford.edu&#x2F
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   by nemild 10y ago

   Is your argument that Bangladesh would have been safe if they were using a blockchain? Given their revealed security practices, I'd be surprised if they had the ability to secure any private keys from being revealed - and they would ha
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   by nemild 10y ago

   I'm sorry to hear about this. How do lawyer's think about this situation (up front vs potential earnings) for something that seems like it could be a sure thing? Are there any legal financing options available to manage the fact t
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   by nemild 10y ago

   I don't know the history of why design decisions were made in JSON, but one might be the allowance for spaces in keys and mirroring the usage within arrays (where commas and spaces may be used in a string, but shouldn't be confuse
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   by nemild 10y ago

   Two quick observations: - Getting standards passed is hard (especially for popularly used standards), but can be supported by latent usage in the community. You can create a plugin for a few languages that automatically allows the timestamp
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   by nemild 10y ago

   I have to echo everything said by @jerf. One additional suggestion is to write a blog post highlighting ways to improve the workflow for go developers and help them to understand why certain things are better than others, as your work here
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   by nemild 10y ago

   Forgot to add to my original request: For yourself, what makes something "good documentation"? What makes bad documentation? Are there things you wish people did more of or less of?
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   by nemild 10y ago

   I'm going to be putting one resource together in the next week- will ping you with a draft when it's done. Is there an easy way to reach out to you? It'd also be helpful to better understand what is missing in the resources y
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   Ask HN: What are good examples of technical docs you've seen? Bad examples?

   12 points by nemild 10y ago|13 comments
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    by nemild 10y ago

    Real world financial transfer systems are often used for net settlements. And writing the entire history of the world's transactions on a single append-only ledger that has low throughput and costly storage may not be ideal, while appr
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    by nemild 10y ago

    I assume you have evidence backing up this correlation for large, mature tech companies, rather than startups?
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    by nemild 10y ago

    I liked Github's new feature that prefills in the New Issue with the instructions. Maybe that cuts down on poorly specified issues? Separately, was there ever demand for charging for non-standard support, a la Red Hat? I don't mea
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    by nemild 10y ago

    Spotify is one counter-example. Grow in a smaller market where you can do things that can't be done in larger markets (e.g., license streaming cheaply) - and then scale when you've proven the model.
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    by nemild 10y ago

    And some of which will be rapidly deprecated.
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    by nemild 10y ago

    I loved that old joke: Only one person has ever created a Makefile from scratch, and everyone else just copies and modifies it.
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    by nemild 10y ago

    I think they don't know better - as any relatively new web-ish dev has grown up in a server-side javascript ecosystem that's maturing rapidly in the last 6-7 years, and so has led to a lot of churn (frontend frameworks, js build s
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    by nemild 10y ago

    Relatedly, business schools teach exploration vs exploitation in the context of companies, with a view that a company that does one finds it very hard to do the other.
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    by nemild 10y ago

    Decentralized Autonomous Organization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized_autonomous_organ...
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    by nemild 10y ago

    Slock.it, a startup interested in IOT and cryptocurrencies, authored the contract. See the gitblame of the main code here: https://github.com/slockit/DAO/blame/develop/DAO.sol (there are a few other libr
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    by nemild 10y ago

    See my other comment, there are gradients of trust not simply trusted or trustless. A simple example why is that 10 MM parties across the world want to coordinate together for a custom contract - this might be challenging depending solely o
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    by nemild 10y ago

    A few quick answers: - Ethereum is a contracting language combined with a crypto currency; to run the contracting language requires miners to not only determine the solution to a puzzle (as in Bitcoin), but also to run code written by contr
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    by nemild 10y ago

    I agree broadly - and the current DAO was a terrible idea on many fronts, but I'll discuss one quibble in case it starts a broader discussion. > You can't possibly create a smart contract to purchase a house, because at the end
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    by nemild 10y ago

    It's a bit of a chicken and egg, where you don't know how much to request from the DAO, if it isn't funded. It's hard to have people softly commit (unless it is a guaranteed commitment), as they could always renege on th
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    by nemild 10y ago

    This is a really sloppy article - and I and many others disagree with your premise. You don't have to put this much money at risk to innovate, and failures like this have the potential to set the space back years (regulation may increa
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    by nemild 10y ago

    I think it's likely that over time many changes will happen (first a blog post like this noting the issue, then a linter, then libraries that are safer, and then potentially language changes to reduce the risk of the most egregious mis
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    by nemild 10y ago

    You're absolutely right - I should have called that out more. Ethereum can be used to represent the ownership of any item (property title, ticket, claim for fiat currency). Some will inject a third-party you need to trust (a custodian
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    by nemild 10y ago

    See my other comment for your question why you might want a programming language in your currency. An example of a real world "programming" language in your currency is a legal contract (e.g., insurance contract, escrow contract,
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    by nemild 10y ago

    See my two comments, and feel free to reach out if you want to learn more
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    by nemild 10y ago

    Here are some general thoughts for those interested more in this topic: - Ethereum and Bitcoin both let you lock up the cryptocurrency and provide a series of rules that are required before the money can be unlocked; this has a lot of power
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    by nemild 10y ago

    For anyone interested in getting started with Solidity in 20-30 mins, one of the languages that Ethereum contracts can be coded in (some analogize this language to JS, the other language is Serpent which is compared to Python), you can see