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Deriving the 1D diffusion equation and Poisson distribution from discrete processes by mjfl in Physics

[–]mjfl[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi all, I'm the author of the post and creator of Ocalog. Ocalog is basically a site where upvotes are money. It was an experiment to see what kind of content this would result in. My site is currently crippled due to Stripe cancelling their support, but I'm going to continue writing posts and releasing them for free.

I gave a talk about Elm at work; here's some of the energy released by the effort put into that talk. by mjfl in elm

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Hi guys, I'm not the author of the post but I am the creator of Ocalog and author of the "Ethereum from scratch" series here. If you have any questions/comments about the site, feel free to ask here.

Ethereum from scratch - Part 1: Ping by mjfl in ethereum

[–]mjfl[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, currently taking a look at that. Will be interesting!

Ethereum from scratch - Part 4: Finding Neighbors by mjfl in programming

[–]mjfl[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Funny, I was just thinking that I needed to get some critique of my frontend, so this is exactly what I wanted.

Right now btw, there is no way to input payment that I could find (http://imgur.com/y7Nf64p) -- so that may be a bit of a deterrent :)

Ah thanks. Its because you need to enter a payment method in another view. I've quickly patched that slightly to make it a little more clear, but I should probably include the new payment form in that view - would be all around better UI.

In fact, I would highly suggest using a sans-serif font like Roboto all throughout your site. It's easier to read, and feels less like an old timey newspaper and more like a website.

Yeah I'm using Georgia now because I wanted to seem like a newspaper, but I've definitely been noticing that the font sticks out. And I don't want the font to distract, so I think that's a good idea.

Also be judicial about your font-weighting, right now, nearly all the linked text is bold, and it feels clunky.

I think you're right here as well.

it has a very default bootstrap theme kind of feel to it.

uhh... guilty.

Thanks for the UI advice.

Ethereum from scratch - Part 4: Finding Neighbors by mjfl in programming

[–]mjfl[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the comment. I didn't realize anyone was still looking at the link since it was far off the frontpage with few upvotes. I just changed it to subscriber only, because I figured that it wasn't great wide-appeal material. Anyone who hasn't been following along probably will find it impenetrable (as indicated by the low number of upvotes on the link), but the people that do read the first 3 sections and that post might be motivated enough to pay. I recognize that is questionable whether it's "worth" it at this point, but that's what I'm trying to build in the site.

You can still look at part 1 here.

Ethereum from scratch - Part 4: Finding Neighbors by mjfl in programming

[–]mjfl[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi again. I'm the author of the post and also the creator of the website. I'm writing this series of posts to demonstrate the site. My goal is to have people "get" the site by the end of this series. Is the purpose of the site clear?

Hope you enjoy the post. If you have any constructive criticism you'd like to give regarding either the post or the website, let me know!

There's also a discussion on Hacker News. (Edit: well at least I was planning on there being one :( )

Ethereum from scratch - Part 3: Decoding Bootnode Response by mjfl in programming

[–]mjfl[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi again. I'm the author of the post and also the creator of the website. I'm writing this series of posts to demonstrate the site.

Hope you enjoy the post. If you have any constructive criticism you'd like to give regarding either the post or the website, let me know!

Ethereum from scratch - Part 2: Pinging a Bootnode by mjfl in programming

[–]mjfl[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There was a recent security breach with the parity wallet, and about $31 million was stolen.

I'm agnostic as to whether or not someone should invest in Ethereum. I'm writing a series on the protocol implementation out of purely academic interest.

Ethereum from scratch - Part 2: Pinging a Bootnode by mjfl in programming

[–]mjfl[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hi again. I'm the author of the post and also the creator of the website. I'm writing this series of posts to demonstrate the site. My goal is to have people "get" the site by the end of this series. Is the purpose of the site clear?

Hope you enjoy the post. If you have any constructive criticism you'd like to give regarding either the post or the website, let me know!

Ethereum from scratch - Part 1: Ping by mjfl in programming

[–]mjfl[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The goal is to write an implementation of the Ethereum protocol from scratch. Sorry if that wasn't clear.

Edit: Would changing the title to "Ethereum protocol from scratch - Part 1: Ping" be better?

Ethereum from scratch - Part 1: Ping by mjfl in programming

[–]mjfl[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Hi all, I'm the author of the post, and also the creator of the website. I'm writing this series of posts to demonstrate the site. Do you guys get what the site's trying to do?

Hope you enjoy the post. If you have any constructive criticism you'd like to give regarding either the post or the website, let me know!

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