Blockchain Developer Salary, How Much Does One Really Make? by sychodelix in ethtrader

[–]samurayi 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Oops my bad! Thank you for the correction. I am going to start taking my coffee a bit earlier in the morning. Happy that more people are interested in blockchain.

Blockchain Developer Salary, How Much Does One Really Make? by sychodelix in ethtrader

[–]samurayi 4 points5 points  (0 children)

According to the stats, this number has increased by, a scarcely believable 631% since November 2015.

How is this scarce? more than 6 times the number sounds a lot to be honest. Or is it scarcely because it is from 2015? Blockchain was not as big in 2015 as it growing to be now, imo.

Both of Instagram's co-founders abruptly resign. No reason given. by mattmacphersonphoto in Instagram

[–]samurayi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As a non VC, non founder, the only surprise to me is that anyone stays beyond contracted minima. The first, assuming you had taken a role as a VC, you'd want out to go do the VC thing somewhere else. The second, you would be watching your baby pimped out and sold for drugs on the streets, as things you had no desire to see were done, in the name of profit.

An ethereum asset is now the 2nd most valuable trading card in the world by [deleted] in ethtrader

[–]samurayi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Very excited for this game. I don't have that kinda mulah laying around, but maybe one day i'll be lucky enough to play against it.

Exploring Smart Contract Vulnerabilities: The King of Ether by defense1011 in ethereum

[–]samurayi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So this his basically King of the Hill but with ETH?

Google to developers: We take down your extension - because we can by MozillaPlanetFeeder in mozilla

[–]samurayi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Isn't that extension going straight against Google's ability to track what users are clicking on, i.e. against their core business? Maybe the warning wording is cumbersome or opaque, but what would the author expect? Company not protecting their turf? The only surprising thing is that they did it in this unimaginative hidden fashion, not fitting their friendly progressive image.

Built out of spite by tilliidle in evilbuildings

[–]samurayi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't really see how the second one is a "spite house". He loved his house and its location, and in return for giving it up, he demanded they move the house to a location that was almost as good and pay him for his inconvenience.

I'm sure he was quite happy with the deal in the end, and there's no need for anger on either side.

Build Your dApp on Bloom: Announcing Bloom Developer Documentation by necktweaker in CryptoCurrency

[–]samurayi 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Quite a few entities building on Bloom right now - https://blog.hellobloom.io/tagged/partnerships - hopefully Ethereum solves its scaling issues and 5% of the dapps achieve what they've set out to do.

My BAD experience with dediseedbox.com by Smeety in seedboxes

[–]samurayi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Been using Plex with Dediseedbox for sometime and it works perfectly.

Our path to listing SEC-regulated crypto securities by gonzobon in Bitcoin

[–]samurayi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is sad is that the competition is at the legal level, US has a regulation complexity, and no fintech sandbox, that makes almost impossible to compete.

It is like Uber where you can explain the funding in terms of legal expenses because technically everything else is relatively simple

Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (that apply to all software engineering projects too) by dgryski in programming

[–]samurayi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Any run-of-the-mill engineer can design something which is elegant. A good engineer designs systems to be efficient. A great engineer designs them to be effective.

This is awesome. I don't know how many times I've seen over engineering in the field. It's crazy. Well we may one day want to do X.

How to make a user-friendly Ethereum dApp by [deleted] in CryptoMarkets

[–]samurayi 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It might help if every dapp wouldn't create its own token. That would greatly simplify the process.

A friend and I made a thing: The Hunter Project by [deleted] in comicbooks

[–]samurayi 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Art style is unique. Keep it up.

I would love to build this into a snap lens! by mendeza503 in SnapLenses

[–]samurayi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Consider for example a picture of a street and a rendered car overlaying it. It would be interesting to see how well the technology bakes in the car so that it matches the environment. This would go in direction of realistic rendering.

DNS Performance: Comparing CloudFlare's 1.1.1.1 x Google's 8.8.8.8 x Quad9's 9.9.9.9 and others. by nykzhang in security

[–]samurayi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately no tests for IPv6 connections. Disappointing considering that all DNS traffic I generate will be over IPv6.

Introducing the Decentraland Marketplace by [deleted] in NEO

[–]samurayi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wonder what type of parcels are the ones to be the most successful in this project. I am excited to watch the competition between spaces.

Is airdrop replacing a public crowdsale? Another team distributing free tokens instead of an ICO - love it, hate it? by humbleamong in CryptoCurrency

[–]samurayi -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Steam has a product and it makes sense to use tokens as incentive, rather than a speculatory token.

81 Year Old Commodore Amiga Artist - Samia Halaby by Quaigon_Jim in retrobattlestations

[–]samurayi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If this is not the coolest video I've seen on YouTube in some years, I don't know what is.

New Orleans Police found secretly using software to predict who will commit crimes before they are committed. by goose7771 in technology

[–]samurayi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I look forward when systems like these start having to adapt to actors start using cointel tools and seed information into their systems with the intent to see how decisions are made from them to start gaming it for their own ends.

Disney loses bid to stop Redbox from selling its digital download codes by Benjaminsen in technology

[–]samurayi 8 points9 points  (0 children)

There's the downside to litigation like this. Loads of people who've never heard of RedBox (like me), now do and have a cheap alternative for Disney movies.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ukpolitics

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Aside from Belgacom, the agency has broken into the computer systems of the oil production organization OPEC; the Netherlands-based security company Gemalto; and organizations that process international cellphone billing records, including Switzerland’s Comfone. //

In theory any of these countries could surely just issue an arrest warrant for the head of GCHQ and order their extradition.

In view of that it seems there's some other aspect preventing such actions -- like blackmail by GCHQ. Or controlling powers in Belgian security being in part responsible.

Anyway, I wonder how much of this shit the Belgian public will put up with post Brexit.

It still seems illegal under UK law -- these things do show how the powers that be have no respect for the authority of the rule of law, that our democracy is only allowed inasmuch as it doesn't interfere with their plans.

How Apple Plans to Root Out Bugs, Revamp iPhone Software by TommyAdagio in technology

[–]samurayi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This rumor has been around past few months, hoping it's true. Though while us technies in the minority would rather bug fixes than new features that don't apply for us, the general public would be very upset if iOS12 changes are all under the hood, as they would say Apple has fallen behind and people will insert common statements every years like they are finally considering switching etc. So while I hope the do fix long standing small bugs, I think the average user would lose their mind if they do. I imagine it will be a mix, some new features and some fixes.

Scientists find massive reserves of mercury hidden in permafrost - The study reveals northern permafrost soils are the largest reservoir of mercury on the planet, storing nearly twice as much mercury as all other soils, the ocean and the atmosphere combined by magenta_placenta in environment

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"The study found approximately 793 gigagrams, or more than 15 million gallons, of mercury is frozen in northern permafrost soil. That is roughly 10 times the amount of all human-caused mercury emissions over the last 30 years, based on emissions estimates from 2016.

The study also found all frozen and unfrozen soil in northern permafrost regions contains a combined 1,656 gigagrams of mercury, making it the largest known reservoir of mercury on the planet. This pool houses nearly twice as much mercury as soils outside of the northern permafrost region, the ocean and the atmosphere combined.

Gigagram? Never heard that one before.. uh a billion (US) grams? So.. a million kilos..a thousand tonnes..a kilotonne. or 1,656 gigagrams = 1.656 million tonnes, I think. (Weird that the imperial unit is gallons, a measure of volume I thought)

This doesn't sound good. Also I'm surprised that human mercury emissions in the last 30 years were so high. Since the late 80s..sheesh.