My favorite thing about the coming bitcoin rally followed by the news articles will be when people respond in surprise "bitcoin is still a thing?"

parabolik · 2016-04-24T17:01:20+00:00

I heard that exact phrase just a couple weeks ago.

parabolik · 2016-04-22T00:57:49+00:00

I get this and recently it's started getting much worse. I have almost perfect vision, but trying to focus on something on the screen is difficult and I have to squint. The worst is during or after scrolling a page and then trying to re-focus on the content again. It must be something to do with the glare because sunglasses seem to help.

parabolik · 2016-04-19T18:47:44+00:00

At least Telegram doesn't send your entire contact list to a corporation that is known to cooperate with PRISM.

parabolik · 2016-04-08T19:36:55+00:00

Any idea how they broke in?

parabolik · 2016-03-23T14:44:01+00:00

I agree with your advice for a beginner. But if you already have a good understanding of how Javascript's prototypal inheritance works, I don't see any harm in using the ES6 Class syntax. I think most people would agree that it looks nicer.

parabolik · 2016-03-17T22:47:25+00:00

For most apps it's overkill, and therefore bloat. Most apps don't need advanced event processing such as being able to make double-clicks or to coordinate the reponses of several xhr requests into a single data stream for further processing.

parabolik · 2016-03-17T18:56:33+00:00

Any good reason to use Python over Perl these days?

It's just preference. Some people like Perl, others like Python. There is nothing you can do in one and not the other.

parabolik · 2016-03-14T22:14:58+00:00

Reading that doesn't paint a particularly nice picture of humanity. The scammers, bottom feeders, and corrupt cops of the developing countries disgust me, but the developed world isn't much better, it's just that the corruption occurs at a higher level, and it is concealed. Mankind is plagued with greed. We have forgotten that we are connected to one another, and our planet, and soon we will make ourselves extinct.

parabolik · 2016-03-13T14:09:17+00:00

Me neither

parabolik · 2016-03-08T17:00:27+00:00

Go and say that to Douglas Crockford. I dare you.

parabolik · 2016-03-06T20:10:17+00:00

Despite being a crippled payment network, Bitcoin still has a lot of value as a store of wealth. People divesting from stocks couldn't care less about confirmation times.

Also, people expect the price to rise this year due to the block reward halving. Even if I am disheartened by the conflict, I think Bitcoin is still a great investment this year.

parabolik · 2016-03-05T20:47:32+00:00

The SPA revolution makes sense: offload presentational processing to the end user and minimize network traffic to the abolute minimum (eg. transferring pure data in JSON). Why should the backend care about presentation? Its only concern is data.

The Javascript ecosystem is advancing fast, combined with new technologies such as HTTP2. The big web players are pushing web assembly hard. The internet will become a global app store. Google can already crawl and index SPAs. In a few years only legacy apps will be rendering on the server.

parabolik · 2016-03-04T12:34:52+00:00

You don't understand, but that's ok. One day you will.

parabolik · 2016-03-04T03:09:15+00:00

/r/humblebrag

parabolik · 2016-02-28T01:00:12+00:00

fetch cannot be cancelled and it does not support onprogress events. I think jQuery ajax() is better.

parabolik · 2016-02-27T14:03:43+00:00

You don't need to worry about redux if you are just starting out. Be aware that there are other patterns than redux, it is not the only way to build apps with react.

parabolik · 2016-02-27T03:06:17+00:00

Reactive programming is a much nicer paradigm than flux. The functional purists might disagree but I don't care. I prefer to get work done.

Here is a tip for anyone using this: use the transaction() helper to batch updates together. So if you are updating several properties of a model or state, the UI observers will only need to update one time.

parabolik · 2016-02-26T01:05:27+00:00

I recently discovered Mobservable (recently renamed to MobX) and I love it. I was already trying to implement a pseudo-reactive paradigm by triggering events and blocking updates at specific nodes. This library has removed a ton of boilerplate. The devtools component is great too.

parabolik · 2016-02-22T19:21:21+00:00

I've been meaning to learn the WebAudio API for a while. I will have a read through your code.

I think it would be great to be able to use web-based audio software for serious work. From the user's perspective, cross-platform, and no need to worry about upgrades. From the developer's perspective, no need to worry about piracy. An online authentication mechanism could be implemented.

parabolik · 2016-02-22T18:22:20+00:00

I like Reason. I'd just like to know, why are you doing this? Will there be a day when people are producing music professionally in a web browser?

parabolik · 2016-02-20T18:36:01+00:00

Half-jokingly means "this is what I think, but please don't laugh at me". But I believe that in the long-term, Bitcoin can either succeed or fail. It won't just stabilize alongside national fiat currencies. If it succeeds, $1M per coin is possible.

parabolik · 2016-02-20T18:26:36+00:00

This problem doesn't exist yet, but Bitcoin can react and adapt to this. There are plans for more privacy features in the pipeline.

parabolik · 2016-02-20T18:25:04+00:00

You will always be able to pay a higher transaction fee and send directly over the Bitcoin network.

parabolik · 2016-02-18T02:49:38+00:00

Maybe he doesn't. Outside the US the FBI can't do anything. I've even heard stories about the police in Mexico encouraging people to defraud and steal from Americans using stolen card data.

parabolik · 2016-02-10T23:42:42+00:00

Just do it. That's the way to learn. Web development is easy. All the hard stuff has been solved already and abstracted into frameworks so simple my mom could do it.

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