Devilboy

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by Devilboy 13y ago
It has explicit error handling (via multiple return values) which the authors argue is superior (even if more verbose) because they know from experience that programmers tend to make mistakes forgetting to check for errors in their code. If
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by Devilboy 13y ago
They sell for $10 million. Is that what you mean?
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by Devilboy 13y ago
Sure but that's not the point here. The important thing is that this quantum computer actually WORKS. In 2 years classical computers will be maybe 5 times faster. But this quantum computer will be 1000s of times faster (at these specific pr
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by Devilboy 13y ago
Bitcoin addresses are hashes, not the public keys themselves. Thus they are safe against a quantum factoring algorithm. If you spend money from a bitcoin address though, the public key does get written to the block chain but to combat this
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by Devilboy 13y ago
D-Wave does have a factoring algorithm. See the comments from D-Wave here: http://dwave.wordpress.com/2011/05/11/learning-to-program-th... "We do have a factoring algorithm that I’m going to do a series of blog posts on"
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by Devilboy 13y ago
If the contract is tight, let em sue. Big companies get sued all the time. Who cares.
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by Devilboy 13y ago
$10k per hour, $20k if they want anal.
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by Devilboy 13y ago
Gotta get paid half up-front man!
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by Devilboy 13y ago
Client: Please record yourself doing the job Me: OK no problem, that will cost an extra $X Client: Ah actually don't worry about the recording
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by Devilboy 13y ago
If the client is 'not worth it' you're just not charging enough. Just work out what your price is and send them a new quote. Don't ever fire a client, that's just silly. Make the client say no.
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by Devilboy 13y ago
Every 10 minutes some coins are dropped in a big dark pool and everyone interested in catching them play hungry hungry hippos until some lucky person gets it.
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by Devilboy 13y ago
Pics?
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by Devilboy 13y ago
Bitcoin miners running on iPhones / iPads won't make any money, you need a decent GPU these days.
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by Devilboy 13y ago
Go on any Bitcoin forum and the newbie section will be filled with people wanting to buy Bitcoin with credit cards, usually via Paypal. Some of those will be scammers but not all of them.
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by Devilboy 13y ago
Backwards cap? No sunglasses?
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by Devilboy 13y ago
Only to other Bitcoin transactions.
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by Devilboy 13y ago
This has worked for me.
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by Devilboy 13y ago
Someone on Reddit has already recognized the two men, they stayed at a motel where the Redditor works
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by Devilboy 13y ago
I don't think it's realistic to expect that to happen any time soon.
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by Devilboy 13y ago
Trillions? I think you're being just a little over optimistic about the future of bitcoin here.
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by Devilboy 13y ago
Can you detail some of the criticism please? I understand what he's doing and it makes sense to me - and I too believe those blocks identified probably belongs to Satoshi or someone very close to them.
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by Devilboy 13y ago
Dexamphetamine
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by Devilboy 13y ago
Maybe you could try making backups next time?
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by Devilboy 13y ago
The cynic in me thinks the current system is acceptable. Everything is copyrighted forever and everything is freely available on The Pirate Bay anyway.
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by Devilboy 13y ago
https://dwave.wordpress.com/2011/05/11/learning-to-program-t...
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by Devilboy 13y ago
This is not correct anymore, according to D-Wave they do have a factoring algorithm now.
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by Devilboy 13y ago
That's no different to any other currency. Speculators have free range to do whatever they want on forex trading systems.
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by Devilboy 13y ago
So?
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by Devilboy 13y ago
And two days later you regretted not hoarding the bitcoin instead.
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by Devilboy 13y ago
Almost nobody is buying anything with bitcoin. At least 99% of the bitcoin price is due to speculation.

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