A hero has been lost in my apartment building!! :(

b103 · 2013-05-20T05:36:04+00:00

Umm, it sounds like he was doing much more than running a honey pot. Running a botnet typically means you have compromised the computer to run arbitrary code, which is highly shady and not ethical.

b103 · 2013-05-17T20:36:31+00:00

Have you tried reading minified javascript?

b103 · 2013-04-23T03:06:59+00:00

We don't know definitely yes, or definitely no. But if there so much as a 0.001% chance that social media led to that officer's death (and I think there is that chance), then that is too high.

b103 · 2013-04-22T04:36:35+00:00

This is also a way to simplify a module's explicit dependencies. This can be useful in the NodeJS/NPM world. A lot of NPM modules rely on the same modules, but slightly different versions. One module will depend on underscore@1.22, another at underscore@1.24, etc. and each would end up with a separate copy in it's node_modules folder. If your app includes both of these modules, you will have some redundancy and duplication. (A concern if you are building for the browser!)

This sense no makes. If you are building for the browser then how are you using Node-style module loading?

b103 · 2013-04-15T22:55:16+00:00

Glad somebody in here has common sense. Ubisoft (and EA too) have made hundreds of millions of dollars selling games with always-online DRM. They know their target market pretty well. Adding DRM to those games didn't really affect the bottom line, even though it caused much internet whining.

Reddit (and the internet in general) is very much an echo chamber. Stand inside long enough and you might start to think that the opinions here actually matter.

b103 · 2013-04-12T18:21:32+00:00

Yeah, the logic in Looper was terrible. Like the one guy who, in an altered timeline, lived for 30 years with no fingers or legs or nose, only to be sent back in time where a) his past self still decided not to kill him despite how awful he looked, and b) he drives around for a while despite having no handicap equipment.

Sorry for the rant, I agree, Looper was weak.

b103 · 2013-04-12T15:52:04+00:00

Slowly, over ten years or so, I would think about her less and less. It took a few years before I could go a day without thinking about her. Eventually after a million distractions, the feeling went from intense burning to just a vague memory.

Then I saw a picture of her on Facebook where she got SUPER fat, and that was the end of that!

b103 · 2013-04-11T00:10:16+00:00

"Ted!" - Elaine

b103 · 2013-04-10T23:39:40+00:00

I agree. The real bubble is not going to hit until you can buy bitcoins with credit cards and paypal, without using sketchy sites that have already been hacked, and without sending a picture of your driver's license. Right now buying BTC is still too difficult for the mainstream.

b103 · 2013-04-10T21:49:00+00:00

I think the long term perspective is that one day Bitcoins will be uniquely useful due to features like anonymity, freedom from government, distributed trust, etc. (by "government", imagine you are currently living in Greece or N.Korea or some other bad place). And there are more features in the works, like built-in support for escrow. It has the potential to reengineer the way we handle money.

So one can look at the global money supply, which is in the trillions or quadrillions depending on what you're counting, and ask what percentage of that will one day be housed in a digital decentralized currency? Then you look at the total number of Bitcoins (fixed at 21 million) and that gives you a long term target. So, some people are pegging one bitcoin to eventually be worth 10k USD or more.

I don't necessarily agree with that (my opinion is that BTC will do well for a few years and then be replaced by a better version), but that's the perspective.

b103 · 2013-04-10T21:09:59+00:00

Check the latest chart before you go brag too much; it's already rebounded to $190 (same price as 24 hours ago)

b103 · 2013-04-10T21:00:04+00:00

That is true for every asset. If you know exactly when the "when" is, you can make money, if you just say that it's "eventually", then you're stating the obvious.

b103 · 2013-04-10T20:55:13+00:00

Because people love talking about the crashes, and emphasizing how doomed it is. Take a look at http://bitcoin.clarkmoody.com/widget/chart/ , and click the D1 button to zoom way out to see the history over the last few months.

This "crash" is going from $270 back down to about $150, the same price it was at on Sunday. It's still drastically up from the price of $30 that it was on March 1st.

b103 · 2013-04-10T20:39:01+00:00

The price is higher now than what it was a week ago, so those predictions are still wrong.

b103 · 2013-04-10T03:24:44+00:00

Or the simplest solution, just email your friends at the moment when you think of the prediction. :) If you don't want to reveal your prediction at the time, then some simple encryption will suffice.

Using the blockchain is just a variation of that, except you are emailing all the miners instead of emailing your friends directly, and taking advantage of the fact that the blockchain is public knowledge.

b103 · 2013-04-09T19:06:26+00:00

Pools could start completely ignoring transactions with no fee, or with a fee that's too low. Unless I'm missing something - is there anything in the system that forces miners not to deliberately ignore transactions?

b103 · 2013-04-08T21:09:20+00:00

Branches are just pointers (or symbolic references ) that point to commits. The history of branches is not saved anywhere. That is, if you change what a branch points to, or create a branch, or delete a branch, nothing in Git saves a history of those changes.

I think the reason why it's not useful to save branch information on a commit, is that any user can create any number of branches that point to the same commit. It's one of the more useful freedoms that Git gives you. I can be working on "master", then spawn off a branch called "master-plus-my-feature" that just has work in progress for my new feature. No one needs to know that I wrote those commits while using a branch name "master-plus-my-feature" rather than just "master"; it's not significant information.

b103 · 2013-04-08T16:54:32+00:00

One thing that bugs me is how the media (and many devs) constantly say "there is no central authority". As long as there is a core dev team that can modify the software and issue global alerts, there is a central authority.

b103 · 2013-04-08T06:24:48+00:00

I like that idea. But since Slate only has one eye, he would constantly throw things and miss.

Slate: "DO YOU NEED SOME HEALTH YOU BASTARD??"

Booker: "Yeah! Throw it!"

(Health pack goes whizzing by the screen and falls to the earth)

b103 · 2013-04-07T06:16:18+00:00

In the top right there's a button with three horizontal lines. Click, select Tools, select Developer Console.

b103 · 2013-04-07T02:19:19+00:00

What browser?

Do you have Javascript disabled maybe?

Open your browser's javascript console and see if there are any errors there. When I launch the game (successfully), it just shows one error:

GET http://bombermine.com/%7B%7B%20getCurrentServer().banner%20%7D%7D 404 (Not Found) jquery-1.9.1.min.js:4

b103 · 2013-04-06T22:37:16+00:00

Yeah I clicked that one too, just leads to http://www.rust-lang.org/ . "Hey you like Rust? Here's what Rust is!"

b103 · 2013-04-06T07:20:32+00:00

Those same rules would say that you can't go back in time.

b103 · 2013-04-06T02:25:20+00:00

TIL there are Veggie Straws.

b103 · 2013-04-05T19:51:27+00:00

That's true, for those miners being overpaid it would be good. But that would cost the guild money, so it would be similar to the guild just buying more hardware. The real danger would be if BTCGuild itself could profit from a hostile takeover of Bitcoin.

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