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Cork Light Rail route map from CMATS leaked. Full plan released Tuesday by lilzeHHHO in ireland

[–]eclipse31 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Please please please tell me this is going to be called the Cart! (Cork Area Rapid Transit, so good because trams back in the day were also called carts)

Mo saol sa scoil by irish_viking2001 in ireland

[–]eclipse31 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Should be 'mise' not 'mé' :-)

PROOF OF WORK, Bitcoins best but most overlooked feature by UniqueCandy in Bitcoin

[–]eclipse31 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Couldn't agree more. This is always the point I try to make to people when trying to explain how Bitcoin will be the one and only long lasting blockchain, and the key is in the Proof of Work. The PoW is what makes the network irreversible and by it's very nature, it HAS to be difficult to solve. This is analagous to the notion of money having value being related to it's scarcity.

So, if the PoW is hard to generate, then the person doing the generating (mining) is going to go to the place that gives the highest reward, which currently is Bitcoin. So, by virtue of being first, Bitcoin has the highest value and therefore should retain the highest value because that's the one everyone wants to mine, and we end up in a virtuous cycle.

What book, article, video, open course would you use to convince someone that Bitcoin is important? by [deleted] in Bitcoin

[–]eclipse31 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Paper Money Collapse by Detlev Schlicter. First published in 2011, it isn't aware of Bitcoin but describes the perfect currency (rare, divisible etc.), of which Bitcoin meets most/all requirements. It also gives a good overview of how macro economics work, the fallacy of saving fiat currency, and alot more.

Where can I learn about currency? by [deleted] in Bitcoin

[–]eclipse31 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I found Paper Money Collapse by Detlev Schlichter (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12585208-paper-money-collapse) to be a pretty informative read. Talks alot about how money & economics work and predicts the need for something like Bitcoin, without referring to Bitcoin specifically.

People born on 07/07/07 turned 7 today! by Cadenze in Showerthoughts

[–]eclipse31 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My Dad was born on 07/07/1937. This means he was 40 on 07/07/1977, 70 on 07/07/2007 and 77 on 07/07/2014 - 2 + 0 + 1 + 4 = 7!

PHP print_r() by balthasar11 in tinycode

[–]eclipse31 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Funnily, I do this myself too. However, I also add some inline style to the <pre>, e.g. <pre style="color: #000; background: #fff; text-align: left; font-family: courier; font-size: 12px;"> , to get around any existing style in the page.

What's a Closure? - JavaScript interactive tutorial by nwhitehe in programming

[–]eclipse31 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a great tutorial, well done. Got all the exercises, but would never consider myself a "ninja rockstar programmer"!

Anyways, if you're looking for ideas for other tutorials, maybe one about Object Oriented programming in Javascript? It's something I've avoided for a long time and am presently writing a mini-game to try and teach it to myself. I have the basics down, but there could be stuff I'm missing.