lechuga

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by lechuga 11y ago
Minor nit re: Rails legacy. IMO a major reason it was so popular was because of Ruby. It's certainly not the right hammer for every nail but the syntax is one of the best to work with ever. Whenever I can find a project where writing a
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by lechuga 11y ago
earth and the rest of the inner solar system will be strip-mined for materials to build solar collectors and autonomous robots
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by lechuga 11y ago
we're information
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by lechuga 11y ago
greedo shot first
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by lechuga 11y ago
slightly over the top but awesome.
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by lechuga 11y ago
A somewhat more thorough asking of the same good question: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/36e8by/21dotco_a_bi... I'd like to see this answered in some forum. It's very hard to get a m
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by lechuga 11y ago
Travis sounds exactly like a Disney villain. I bet somehow dead puppies are also involved.
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by lechuga 11y ago
I'm intimately familiar with cases where you actually would prefer to use UDP. My point is most of the time these cases aren't what you're dealing with. In addition to reliability, TCP provides congestion control which provid
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by lechuga 11y ago
Yes. You can show me a relative corner case. But in most cases you want TCP.
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by lechuga 11y ago
Disagree. In most cases you want TCP. Rarely do applications gracefully deal with loss.
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by lechuga 11y ago
Pursue a career in medicine. That way you can be absolutely sure you're working hard for a reason.
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by lechuga 11y ago
Would you have advised people to use the network during the split?
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by lechuga 12y ago
Currently we're saving every block we see. And if we find an orphan's parent which is on the main chain we try to connect them both. We aren't doing anything to explicitly avoid them. If you're referring to side chain bl
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by lechuga 12y ago
The only instances of it we having running are the ones listed in the blog post (and just perhaps a Litecoin version that we're trying to get to sync.) They are in no way currently integrated with the web site.
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by lechuga 12y ago
That's completely fair. Consensus systems are very difficult to (re-)implement correctly but I would argue there is value in doing so. There is also great risk and we appreciate that. This time we took a slightly different approach. Wh
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by lechuga 12y ago
Been working on this with Adrian for the last 3.5 months. Happy to answer any questions if I can.