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by pixie_ 13y ago
You went from the 'bitcoin has no intrinsic value fallacy' right to the 'bitcoin is not a currency fallacy' - seriously read the Bitcoin FAQ or something. All your points have been discussed to death for the last 4 year
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by pixie_ 13y ago
You think it's a ponzi scheme because you think early adopters have all the bitcoins. I would argue Bitcoins are much more spread out than you realize. Mining pools started in 2010 - that's when a large number of people work toget
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by pixie_ 13y ago
I would argue Bitcoin has more intrinsic value than gold - it is easier to move, faster to move, more secure in its transit, harder to counterfit, and impossible to create more (than is already planned.) It's intrinsic value comes from
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by pixie_ 13y ago
I agree flash/flex is a great platform to develop on. From the language, to the IDE, to the API. It's like a strongly typed javascript with XAML done right. You can create a great looking app that shares the same code base between
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by pixie_ 13y ago
I think she just wants to take a break (maybe even subconsciously) and this is the excuse she can use to do it.
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by pixie_ 13y ago
I've been there.. you work your ass off on a project and even if it's successful you just want to move onto something fresh.. In retrospect you wish you spent more time developing your original project.
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by pixie_ 13y ago
Not one picture of a cricket anywhere. Good idea.
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by pixie_ 13y ago
I believe Musk is perfectly capable - just as Dean Kamen is a capable, successful inventor.
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by pixie_ 13y ago
Interesting thanks. Of course then I was wondering what this recover() stuff was and I found an explanation here - http://blog.golang.org/defer-panic-and-recover cool stuff.
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by pixie_ 13y ago
Is there any way to 'catch' a divide by zero panic in go?
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by pixie_ 13y ago
Random question - but what happens when you divide by zero in go?
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by pixie_ 13y ago
I feel like a lot of good technology was lost with the cancellation of the X-33/VentureStar. They were very close, and a few test failures caused the entire program to be shut down. It's really a shame.
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by pixie_ 13y ago
Can someone please create a sewing machine / 3d printer hybrid?
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by pixie_ 13y ago
No prototype - nothing even remotely close to a prototype. At least rockets and electric cars had some basis in reality before Elon started working on them.
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by pixie_ 13y ago
This is Elon's Segway - unproven, hyped up technology. This always happens with successful people/companies - they feel like they can do anything and can't fail - throwing rationality into the wind. I love Elon, but this is n
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by pixie_ 13y ago
Maybe like a new 'physical internet' where it really is a series of tubes.
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by pixie_ 13y ago
Uhg, the point is these are all multi-billion dollar businesses that use open source in one way or another. The problem is the open source (hacker news) community pretty much auto-ignores/dislikes anything connected with Microsoft. It&
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by pixie_ 13y ago
Mono is pretty much ostracized from the open source community along with many open source C# projects. Remember the whole ordeal about including Mono in Ubuntu?
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by pixie_ 13y ago
I got the feeling my server was offended when I didn't order wine or a dessert last friday when I went out to a nice restaurant. F- tipping, it makes both sides of the table into jerks.
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by pixie_ 13y ago
And you swallow it down because they do it all under the banner of 'open source.'
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by pixie_ 13y ago
I don't purposefully release software with bugs. Bugs are inevitable no matter how good of a programmer you are. Like I said, would you rather your browser crash on every javascript bug? Because that's how a lot of client side sof
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by pixie_ 13y ago
This is just another technology connected with Microsoft that we should lament - right along with C#, Mono, Knockout, and TypeScript. Microsoft earned the ire of geeks everywhere in the 90s and it's a grudge many can't let go. Mea
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by pixie_ 13y ago
Wordpress kind of makes me realize how incredible PHP is. It's a 'program of pages.' Which can basically hot swap update itself as it runs. You can download plug-ins in the control panel and extend the functionality of your s
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by pixie_ 13y ago
Why is it programmers love crashing their users for the most trival things? What if every javascript bug crashed the website you were browsing?
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by pixie_ 13y ago
Does that make it like Objective-C because I love how accessing a null object doesn't blow up the application. So many trivial bugs in my iOS app that would have caused the entire application to crash are totally avoided. Unless you&#x
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by pixie_ 13y ago
If I click and drag the switch without taking my mouse off it gets stuck. I feel like if my mouse goes up the switch should go on or off, not stay in an inconsistent state.
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by pixie_ 13y ago
Turn on pitch as well for mouse aim, I find that the optimal translation of 2d mouse look/aim with the ability to still use your head to look around what you're aiming at - just like a 2d monitor, but now it's 3d - woah.
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by pixie_ 13y ago
Omni is smell-o-vision. Neat, but a bit too gimmicky.
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by pixie_ 13y ago
Each neuron is growing, making decisions about it's environment, reacting to a multitude of neurotransmitters with a mulititude of complex reactions. Deciding where are when to make a new connection. If each node is a little computer
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by pixie_ 13y ago
Personally it feels like spaghetti code. Tornado for instance is a web server written in Python and there are classes that have many parents and kwargs is used everywhere to pass named arguments up to each parent class in the constructor. T

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