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One corporation is claiming losses from another corporation for services not rendered as expected. What's the outrage for?
My degree is in accounting. But now I'm a developer. I made a career switch 5 year ago and never looked back. Here's the key - build something A to Z.
If someone says 'don't call me', can't the salesperson then just delete their phone number?
Since the specifics of each client's deal are presumably different, you wouldn't have a very many bits of anonymity even if you included no other data with your "leak."
The other day I had this exact situation. I didn't wan't to futz around with writing my own script to generate code, and the values I needed had to be hard coded into defines anyway, so I just created a empty line below my defines, then did:

:r !$SHELL_COMMAND_TO_PRINT_SOME_VALS

to get the values in the buffer below where I had already done the series of

#define NAME1
...
#define NAMEN

so I just needed to move the values I read into the buffer up to the defines. (using the block select method).

Anyway, now that you know about it, you may find yourself using this trick more :) (I usually use it in context of config files and

:r !ls

than programming, but the above was my most recent. )
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This is an argument over semantics. What you seem to claiming is basically that a currency is defined by both its inherent features and its supporting ecosystem.

So in BTC's case, inherent features = protocol, client, and miners. Supporting ecosystem = buyers, sellers, savers, merchants, exchanges, investors, speculators, banks, escrow, etc.

Further, you seem to assert, failure of parts of the supporting ecosystem causes BTC to lose value (true), and that losing value means the currency is failing (not necessarily, stochastic variables fluctuate, hard to tell the signal from the noise).

The value of a currency is fundametally a function of its demand relative to its supply (as with pretty much everything in this world). Demand for currencies increase with their utility.

For example, is it the only currency in the world you can buy oil with? If yes, utility increases -> demand increases -> value increases (ceteris paribus, no increase in supply).

In that regard, Bitcoin appears to have a strong baseline of utility in that its core technologies are relatively sound. Truthfully it's probably too soon to make that call, given potential problems with mining pool consolidation, pseudo-anonymity, etc.

But Bitcoin's core technology is so far sound enough to provide a consistent utility/demand/value/price baseline relative to the shaky, hobbyist/amateur supporting ecosystem that has sprung up around it.

So that when even its biggest exchange MtGox.com is hacked, or one of its most high-profile financial companies Bitcoinica.com is hacked and bankrupted, the BTC price in dollars continues to revert to a mean of around $5-$6, aka the BTC Baseline.

So, asserting that failures of BTC's peripheral components represent failure of the currency itself, or that BTC is not a currency because its supporting ecosystem (which the BTC devs have almost no control over) is weak, is a bit of hyperbole, and the reason for all the pushback.

Also, keep in mind that Rome wasn't built in a day. Building a new currency of any sort is difficult (ask Europe), and building one that's made of electricity and algorithms instead of gold or sovereign debt is probably one of the most difficult things in the world, and BTC is the first viable one humanity has ever seen.

Getting the core technologies right is crucial, and the BTC team has done a great job for their first try, but have another few decades of continuous improvement before it will be considered truly sound.

Asserting at this point that it has failed or succeeded is probably a bit premature. The jury will be out for a while yet. Speculate at your own risk.
Well, I just listed some of the features that many people who like Bitcoin like about it. That other people may not care about those features is kind of irrelevant.
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I'm reading bitcoinica.com:

> Bitcoinica has been victim to the poor security practices of an irresponsible hosting provider

How naive do you have to be to trust ANY hosting provider except yourself with something like this? You're just going to trust random Rackspace engineers with close to $100,000 in BTC just SITTING THERE? COME ON! REALLY!

IMHO you don't have a prayer unless you have:

0) Your own servers

1) An isolated network for development work and storage of sensitive information, that is, a network FROM which you can initiate regular SSH connections but TO which it is impossible to connect (exception: VPN)

2) A plan for what to do if and when (plan for WHEN not for IF) everything outside of (1) gets compromised together with estimates for 2.a) how much $$$ you will lose 2.b) how long it will take to restore service. You also need some way to figure out what went wrong to prevent the same exploit in the future
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What is it that you want to do exactly? It seems like a lot of people lump "coding" and "programming" into being a Software Engineer or a Software Developer. I am a Front End Web Dev and I can guarantee having a CS degree would be beyond overkill.
I hope the urge to fix this was still as strong in your as it is whenever someone reports a bug in something I'm responsible for.
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Jeez, I sure hope Uncle Sam comes to protect us all from these big, mean hackers and these over-confident programmers.

That is the only way we will ever be safe. I would put a </sarcasm> but I can't turn it off that quickly.
Phew, good thing I haven't been investing in bitcoins..
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Imagine yourself saying this 100 years ago. Replace "space exploration" with "air travel" and "spacecraft" with "airplane". Seems rather silly, doesn't it?
Following up on what the reporting employees are doing, is the duty of any manager. However, telling them (if they are experts) how to do their jobs, might not be. A manager should:

1. Discuss what needs to be done and then maybe plan out a time frame/ chalk out a route.

2. Get the hell out of the employees' way and let them do their job.

3. Remotely monitor what they are doing. Should not interfere even if the output is not the "best", but should certainly do so in case some disastrous output, as mentioned in the article, is imminent.

4. When the task is done, should congratulate employees and then provide any negative feedback, if required.

This article shouldn't be taken as a lesson by the managers to start "micro-managing". This, as greenyoda, rightly said is not micro managing.
What is the difference between bitconica and the most reputable bitcoin selling site? And what do you mean online wallet site like bitconica?
Yes. Please just stop.
If the legal system works like it should, the officer behind the drone will be required to maintain a cooler head since they are under no direct personal threat to their safety.

If the legal system works like it should.
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Bad example. Assemblers rarely fuck up.

It's more like "If you're not checking that a creaky hand-rolled code-generator actually produces sane output, you'r not programming".
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Adam Smith actually wrote about just such a system, which later came to be called Real Bills.

http://www.safehaven.com/article/17603/real-bills-revisited

TLDR: When a merchant buys, say, a dress, from a producer, the merchant pays the producer with a note that gives the note's recipient the right to x% of the eventual sale price of the dress.

The producer can then use notes like that as a form of collateral for their own notes, which they can use like cash to pay upstream suppliers with it (fabric, thread, dye, sewing machines, etc).

Items tend to sell, or clear, within 91 days, so that is the term of the note. Eg, the note is 'self-clearing' within 91 days.

Eventually the dress will sell, and the cash/gold proceeds will remit up the chain, from merchant -> producer -> upstream suppliers, until all the notes and their derivatives are redeemed.

It's basically an alternative to bank credit that's backed by sales of real goods.
It does have something with Bitcoin. Bitcoin is a fully digital currency which isn't guaranteed by any bank or company. It requires its users to be way, way safer with their computers than almost anyone is.
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I was thrilled when Flash had sound api quite a long time ago.

I'm now much more thrilled to see this. A lot of nerdy people will publish free open source synthesizer over the next few years.

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It seems fit to point out that this is the sort of cheese-paring reframed optimization that is only undertaken by people who don't have access to as a great enough level of happiness, money, or span of life as they would like ... and well know it.

To think in terms of "well, at least it was quality time" is to admit that we in fact suffer from a poverty of time. In a world where we had enough time to satiate demand, we genuinely would not care whether we spent it well.

Ditto for happiness. This may not be the forum for a consideration of the Hedonistic Imperative, but you might give a few moments of thought for the serious vision aimed at optimizing some measure of happiness and pleasure, rather than some measure of wealth or a count of seconds.

http://www.hedweb.com/hedab.htm

"This manifesto outlines a strategy to eradicate suffering in all sentient life. The abolitionist project is ambitious, implausible, but technically feasible. It is defended here on ethical utilitarian grounds. Genetic engineering and nanotechnology allow Homo sapiens to discard the legacy-wetware of our evolutionary past. Our post-human successors will rewrite the vertebrate genome, redesign the global ecosystem, and abolish suffering throughout the living world."

-----

Though it has to be said that I'm firmly in the count of seconds camp - until you get a decent supply of those queued and flowing in a pipeline, you're burning your candle at both ends. Crazy to be playing the game like it's ten to midnight on Doomsday when you could instead be helping to fund ways to turn back the clock though biotechnology:

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2008/02/what-is-wealth.ph...

In short, debating the value of time spent is the mark of humans who are gnawed inside by the knowledge of their own lack of time. Those humans should give more of their money to the SENS Foundation - that would be the unbendingly rational thing to do.

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2010/10/the-rational-use-...
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or

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or a goto or maybe even disgusting abuse of try/catch

Depending on how far I wanted to tweak the interviewer's nose. :D
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I agree. It's funny how people hear what they want to hear.
Well, the main thing is the FB company got a great price on the IPO. The employees etc can be benefited in the long run from the great cash position the company is at.
There is this saying from Zhuangzi 2000 years ago: don't let things "thing" you. If we let our kids use iPads without telling then these things are hackable they will become their slave. We are already too much the slaves of our gadgets. I fear that and will show to my kids how to open a washing machine, a computer, how these things work. I will also tell them ho to cooka chicken, how to fix a leaky faucet, etc.
millions of honest people around the world that have lost their savings when a fiat currency changed its valuation for political reasons. you do not need to be a zealot to appreciate any attempt to create a free currency; you simply need to have a small sense of history and the world around you.
Actually, why not... My bank knows me. I'm a good customer. 10+ years of banking with them, not one credit card issue. Thousands of dollars on my bank account. When i use this bogus credit card number for $20 to track a spammer, I think my bank could trust me that I'm not just trying to buy something for free.
How do you lose information with exceptions? You can handle an exception in the code immediately surrounding whatever detects the problem and your code semantics are no different than Go. The Go mechanism doesn't give the option of handling it several stack frames higher without having to implement handling in every single intermediary function.

The arguments I keep seeing for Go's semantics seem to the same as the ones about manual memory allocation - you must be in control every step of the way.

It looks like panic only takes a string so it isn't a good equivalent to exceptions. Whatever gets flung around should generally have enough information to make decisions and to generate meaningful error messages.
For (1) you don't need fixed supply, just lack of central bank interference.

You can design bitcoin with a slowly increasing bounty each year, as long as the protocol is there, no central institution can control it.

(as a matter a fact, if the 50 BTC bounty were to continue indefinitely, the rate of money expansion would decrease over time)
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I'm still astonished at the sites that want contact information before they will tell you how their product works. HelpScout seemed useful for my startup, and I end up at a page where they will show me a video providing I supply a plethora of information. I waited for several minutes waiting for the email to arrive at mailinator before giving up.
(1) is only a selling point to people well outside the mainstream.

Yes, the handful of people who understand how our banking and currency system works but aren't in a position to suckle at its teat.

(2) meanwhile I can buy things with one click using dollars.

But try transferring dollars electronically, or even just from one of your own accounts to another in a different bank.

(3) tax evasion, drug dealing and money laundering are not things that society generally wants to facilitate

Neither does society generally want to facilitate government's abuse and debasement of its currency in attempt to cover up its willful blindness to widespread financial fraud and malfeasance. Pick your poison.
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Why do you think HN is a low value target?
you have to be careful with downvoting of new accounts, if they make a useless first comment and get heavily downvoted, the account will end up hellbanned, which is extremely frustrating for a new user.
FWIW, I really deeply regret getting into it, and I've deleted some subsequent posts I made that (fortunately) did not have responses.
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It's actually easier than using PayPal, in my experience. Just open your client, copy-paste the recipient's address, hit Send, and voila, done.

You don't have to create an account, add credit/debit cards and bank accounts, get verified, etc.

Definitely no recourse if things go wrong, but also no way for black hats to game direct P2P BTC payments either, like they can with PayPal's resolution and chargeback system.
Not only is being able to get to the raw data not micromanaging, it's good management.

Richard Feynman spoke about how he stopped trusting values simply because they came from some authoritative source after getting burned once. After that he calculated things himself.

That lesson relates to the "global telecommunications giant" in the story, whose "critical network software upgrade" was turning into a disaster. In fact, I recently went through a similar situation myself at a job; well before I got there, technical leadership had planned out an overly-ambitious, complex and time-consuming whole-scale rewrite of a critical service, and when I arrived, they were chest-deep in shit creek. As the team sunk lower and lower, I felt compelled to reach out to higher-ups. That's how I lost my head. I hear their collective hair is still on fire.

Is the lesson there that I should have kept more quiet? I'm still not sure. But what is clear to me is that non-technical leadership need to be able to properly assess the risks of technical decisions. As the story mentions, one of the best ways to do that is to get someone from outside the team to analyze the process and the progress. Because even someone half-competent will be able to tell you when some major upgrade creates a major risk, and the best way to mitigate that risk is to divide-and-conquer the major task into minor ones.

Another key smell is how "the program managers' key performance indicator dashboards showed nothing alarmingly unusual". I would dare say that those dashboards are then fundamentally broken. One fix: edw519 has written about the need for task progress to either be 100% or 0%, as a way to flush issues out of the woodwork.

Fred Brooks is right: we're still stuck in the tar-pits. Maybe we'll find our way out in the next 45 years...
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I don't think this deserves a response, but I do apologize for saying "Fuck off," just because it's not worth behaving that way even if you feel like someone deserves it.
Henry Winkler would be embarrassed to jump a shark as blatantly as this author. Facebook IPO'd. Everyone has an account. It's time to stop writing stories about it.

Normal people have normal and inexpensive weddings ever day.

The Chan-Zuckerberg wedding disrupted nothing. In fact, the couple went out of their way to disrupt nothing.
I worked with a company once who sold their product to one customer for $25k and another for $2m. The difference was the value the customers would get out of the exact same software.

There are some rules for US government pricing. Effectively you have to give the government the lowest pricing you give anyone else. The usual workaround is to create two differing versions of your product with one for government only use and one not.

In general when pricing is not disclosed it means it will be negotiated which means a person on their end is involved which means it won't be cheap.
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To me personally, the point is the fixed supply, and the lack of central bank interference is just part of the means to that. I would like to be able to park money somewhere without having it lose value, and possibly even gain in value.

Anyway, as you said, someone certainly could fork bitcoin to make a system where the money supply is expanded indefinitely. I don't think it would catch on, though... at least unless bitcoin has already become "accepted."
If you look at other articles at CodingHorror, I don't think Jeff Atwood associates coding with things like "algorithmic thinking" (which is not necessarily bad, he just has a different focus), but do courses of "learning to code" teach it all that much? For beginners learning to code is more about just learning to "make the computer do" simple things via learning all the terminology, syntax, the deciphering of compiler error messages etc. It takes plenty more effort to learn some theory along the way and this is most likely to happen in an academic setting and the popular courses are really more about craftsmanship.

Robert Sedgewick has a nice "Introduction to programming" course followed by an "Introduction to CS":

http://introcs.cs.princeton.edu/java/cs/

It sure could be useful to a wide audience, especially for people in science. For people in general? I think not more than hundreds of other skills. People in every discipline tend to think what they do is the pinnacle of all understanding, this is especially visible in academia and in schools, but in the end you cannot know every thing that potentially could be useful. Of course this shouldn't stop people _interested_ in programming from learning it.
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You should store your wallet offline and only transfer bitcoins to an exchange at the instant you need to exchange them, and then empty the account. For purposes of this discussion, there are no "reputable" sites.
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If your implication is correct, and someone is paying black hats to debase bitcoin, and nobody has any idea who is behind it so that those efforts will likely continue, then how does it follow that now is a good time to get in on the action and put all your money into BTC?
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Leave the man alone ! Are we really still arguing about this ? This discussion has become so convoluted it ceases to be relevant .
It's sad that the trade off is between dirty coal and natural gas. Energy policy (and the corrupt subsidies) are so short-sighted. In 5-10 years, Europe will have moved a small but significant chunk of their powergrids to renewable energy sources. The best the US can hope for is a decrease in coal power as it is replaced by fracked natural gas. Hardly any forecasts expect an increase in the adoption rates for renewables.

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