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by pixie_ 14y ago
Coding definitely made me feel like I was getting dumber the first few years. idk if anyone else experienced the feeling from holding so much logic in your head and then going back to reality would give me an exhausted feeling mentally. Any
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by pixie_ 14y ago
A bank to me is a trusted institution that facilitates financial transactions. Having your private key would not be a requirement for a bitcoin bank.
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by pixie_ 14y ago
I'm wondering how old the poster is because the future is of communication is probably going to be a lot more similar to how teenagers communicate today. The rest of us old people will continue to feel more alienated and overwhelmed. He ver
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by pixie_ 14y ago
The blockchain servers are what I'd call future banks. Hopefully in the future they would create 'unused output trees' periodically that clients would download and verify the validity by asking multiple independent banks.
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by pixie_ 14y ago
Bitcoin still has some technical problems to figure out. Currently the blockchain is over 2gb and will get larger, faster as more people use it. Also the transaction speed is really low - usually like 10 minutes to really confirm payment an
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by pixie_ 14y ago
Bitcoins are like gold, but better in a many ways. It's much faster to send bitcoins around the world than gold. It's also easier to verify payment in bitcoins as opposed to weighing and verifying the gold you received is actually gold and
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by pixie_ 14y ago
I still can't get past how bad package management is in linux. Yesterday I installed the latest version of Ubuntu and for example I wanted to put on MonoDevelop. Looks like only 2.8 is available for Ubuntu while 3.5 is the latest. On the Mo
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by pixie_ 14y ago
Mining gold also benefits the 'first ones.' Over the next 5 years the number of bitcoins mined is going to double, and those coins will be very evenly distributed.
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by pixie_ 14y ago
Good. Less management, more engineers. Facebook is profitable, and Zuckerberg has 56% voting stake in the company, so screw everyone else. I say let Mark do whatever he and his engineering team want to do, and don't bow down to people who w
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by pixie_ 14y ago
... This is my last year participating in the contest as a one man team. The same big teams always win and the little guys stand no real chance. Here are my suggestions for future contests: 1. Create team divisions so that big teams with do
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by pixie_ 14y ago
Very awesome, it's cool how each color is a different country and you can see where countries integrate with other countries and where they clump together on their own.
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by pixie_ 14y ago
Nice.
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by pixie_ 14y ago
Man.. Metro/Windows 8 is like watching a train wreck in very slow motion. Everyone knows the hybrid desktop/tablet UI is a disaster and Microsoft out of a middle-management positive reinforcement loop of putting their heads in the sand keep
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by pixie_ 14y ago
'the owner of the repo to distribute as they see fit.' - that type of system will piss people off no matter how much you rationalize it. 'If you contribute code to an OS project, and then someone makes money from that OS project, do you fee
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by pixie_ 14y ago
Even without OOP you're carrying state information one way or another. This is a confusing article because his OOP examples are procedural, and his procedural examples carry state in a global object.
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by pixie_ 14y ago
The developer audience is small and targeted. Kickstarter woos the masses. I doubt GitHub would make much money off this idea. The bigger problem is who gets the money from backers. Projects can have multiple contributors, projects can also
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by pixie_ 14y ago
"There’s a lot more money being spent on understanding and modeling the market than on any of the research.” - what the shit
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by pixie_ 14y ago
To be fair I've played a lot of indie games on xbox live and a lot of them feel like their based off of a bad programming tutorial. It's fun to play them and go WTF why, definitely not something they should promote to a larger audience. It
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by pixie_ 14y ago
I just implemented Stripe and Paypal into my site. God PayPal's entire API and documentation are beyond terrible. It's hard to put into words how bad the experience was with PayPal. It's like they hate developers or something.
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by pixie_ 14y ago
ibm is also on the list.
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by pixie_ 14y ago
At the moment SecondLife is miles of empty houses, casinos, and furries, it's pretty sad, but salvageable. First there needs to be zones with something like property taxes based on foot traffic over an area. This would incentivize change,
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by pixie_ 14y ago
airlines, shipping companies, disney, ILOG
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by pixie_ 14y ago
Immigration and quick assimilation are both very american. America is a settler nation, we define ourselves by where we came from, and are proud about it. The second generation of immigrants growing up in america will have little to relate
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by pixie_ 14y ago
There is a very, very strong culture in america you probably don't realize how apart of it you are until you leave america. There are so many factors that bind us from our shared media, history, education, values, expectations, how we loo
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by pixie_ 14y ago
I agree. I've also spent a few a years living outside the US and while I had a great time it made me realize a lot about all the simple things about living in the US that we don't even realize we have and take for granted. The political st
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by pixie_ 14y ago
this is the tried and true model.
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by pixie_ 14y ago
It's funny how he couldn't do any of these things before while using social media. This is BS. I knew even before clicking the link exactly what it would say. Incredibly cliche. Someone should write an article - Moderation. How does it work
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by pixie_ 14y ago
I like it. The hard menu button is unintuitive. Pressing it is always a last ditch effort to find something.
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by pixie_ 14y ago
I guess the 'dont be evil' phase of google is long past huh.
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by pixie_ 14y ago
Wow, this could be a troll.. don't know.. clever.

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