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Precious metals are not easy: either you store it somewhere where people ask questions and can block your access to it, or you store it in your pocket and cannot easily spend portion of it when you need.
Seeing people reason about this subject in the main article and the subsequent comments brings me back to my college "literary theory" courses. Instead of tossing up pithy declarative statements like "The best X is no X", or "The best Y is as little Y as possible", and then commenting on how these statements strike our intuition, we can bypass the literary methods in favor of scientific ones.

There's an entire body of research on visual design (a great introduction to which is Colin Ware's "Information Visualization") that gets right down to the nitty gritty details of human perception, like eye tracking speed, visual channel capacity, move and scan loops, visual working memory, the relationship between luminance channels, motion and shape as opposed to color channels, and on and on and on.

It turns out that "good" design principles can be quantified, communicated, taught, and learned, are based on our common biology, and that they needn't come at the expense of aesthetics or sound reasoning.
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https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade#Material_.2F_Physical_Produ...
k and REBOL do this, actually.
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Smaller shops and corporations will naturally adopt first. There's many cafeterias and restaurants that accept bitcoins these days, but adoption will naturally start from internet-related services.
I think he meant getting scammed in bitcoinland, rather than thinking bitcoin itself is a scam.
"Marketing" is not just ads. It's important things like talking to doctors and patients about the shortcomings of current drugs and their perception of the relative benefits of potential new drugs. It's analyzing your competitors' pipelines to avoid spending hundreds of millions developing a drug that will be obsolete before it is launched. It's understanding the regulatory environment in dozens of markets and adapting a product and sales strategy for each. And yes, it's communicating to doctors and patients the benefits of your new products.

If these companies could produce more drugs that would help patients and ensure that doctors, hospitals, patients and insurers knew enough about those drugs to spend more money to acquire them by spending less money on marketing, of course they would. So would Toyota, or IBM or any other company with something to sell.
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> Technically correct, but highly misleading.

Who exactly would be mislead by this? It's April 1st, but was anyone really tricked into thinking a full packet sniffer was written in 10 lines?
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While I'd like to believe you, a link to the "Cyprus lie" would be nice. :-)

I don't think "core bitcoin" users are scamming anyone. But at this point, the speed at which BTC has grown has triggered my "manipulation trigger". A decentralized currency is prone to manipulation... its not like there is an FCC out there to stop people from manipulating BTC.
While this gesture may not be intuitive, I have to give credit to the initial stage double tap and then the zoom calibration with the vertical slide gesture.

There's another app that has a very similar gesture, Readmill. They allow brightness adjustment with a vertical slide. The downside is the lack of initial gesture to toggle its activation. So, while reading, trying to vertically scroll the page has caused the gesture to activate brightness adjustment. It becomes frustrating.
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My pleasure. I figured this was a bit more manageable than doing d3.js at the moment ;).
Graph of BitCoin market price (USD)
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Fiat you can spend is more useful than fiat you can't.

> I myself and many of people I know are not going to sell a single Bitcoin unless any sort of personal or global disaster.

In the case of global disaster, who's going to be buying a fringe currency?
Did you just make up that number? I think there are a lot more than 100 million Windows users. Windows has 90% market share. I'd guess that there are 1 billion Windows PCs, so you'd be off by an order of magnitude.
I worked at a IBM Mainframe shop in the early 90s. It wasn't so alien because back then there was a semi-infinite smooth graduation from completely internal to completely outsourced and that demarc line seemed in continuous flux with seemingly every customer. Also moving from different levels of inside/outside was pretty smooth and basically user transparent.

We owned our own hardware (some was leased) and more or less supported ourselves but also had an onsite IBM CE more or less full time. We also outsourced our disaster recovery to two different far away places. So it wasn't utterly alien at all, we just kinda smoothly took over or gave away responsibilities. Also decisions were made by tech people with tech people, more or less, rather than businessmen. So there was not much of a knowledge disparity. The businessmen set a budget and a goal, but the techies decided the "right place" to store bits.

Conceptually now you can move from local mail servers to gmail and back as you please, but its not nearly as end-user transparent or as easy and fast as SAAS was back in the day. Maybe someday your email server will be a vmware or whatever image and you'll decide to run it locally on your own hardware or upload it to a private server or a cloud and it'll just transparently "work" but we've got a long way to go before we (in general) reach the level of what mainframes did decades ago.

Another good model for how SAAS worked in the old days was telecom after ma bell broke up and before everything re-merged back into a couple big players. Not unusual for a private line ckt to flow thru 4 or 5 companies all with different demarc points and responsibilities. Things were a little more standardized in the mainframe world 20 years ago than in general now.
It took me about 5 seconds. One of the few April fool's day web-jokes that's both plausible + hilarious. :)

(Also, maybe I'm insane, but I think I do find the square brackets a bit easier to read...)
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If this is really such a large problem for the companies, they should switch to setting rates based on real-time availability rather than traditional peak hours.
developers that solely want to work on the front-end (e.g. backbone)

I had to read this sentence about 5 times before I realized that "backbone" was probably the name of a UI library.
"The problem is that the value of a currency is supposed to also be somehow related to its utility in acquiring goods and services."

Well, it is. As more people hold some BTC "for the future", they are more than willing to accept them as payment for their services. Imagine you are surrounded by people who have "hoarded" some BTC. Suddenly they can just trade in BTC without going to a bank (unless they have some spare cash which they haven't allocated to other purchases yet).
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Note the date.
Actually for me bitcoin proves just how few people can ACTUALLY spot a pyramid scheme or a pump and dump - instead resorting to calling everything that seems too good to be true a scam. It may work 99.9% of the time, but BTC is the false positive IMO.
I totally agree that the Cyprus thing is totally bogus though, journalists are uninformed and lazy as usual. The real reason is that it seems more and more likely that bitcoin will be the currency of the Internet in the future. And nothing else.
...thus the world enters a new Dark Age.
This doesn't work for me but maybe I'm not using the correct steamID...I've noticed that my "login" name is different than what appears in the top right corner of my steam client. Also, your service may be overloaded without it saying so.

In any case, I looked at my list of games and play time on the Steam Client (on Mac) for the first time. It doesn't appear to be sorting correctly at all...for example, when sorting by "Playtime", the top listed game has "48.4 hrs on record" and then the next game is listed as "0.7"...and then the next game is "69.9" hours...It's kind of astounding to me how Steam is such a wonky, buggy platform given Valve's expertise.

Also, I really doubt that I've played Portal 2 for 70 hours. I guess it counts the time that I've left it minimized on the desktop. Though I admit, I am stuck on one of the latter puzzles and haven't gotten back to it...
Great Resume vs. High College Grades
I'm in my first year of studying Computer Science at a technical university in Europe, also working part-time as a freelancer and as a marketing assistant at a company.

I have many job/project opportunities and I'm not sure which of the above two would be valued more for a future career in IT & Communications - spending more time studying university subjects vs. freelancing, getting involved in projects, gaining more work experience.

Also, if in the future I will want to study in a graduate IT program at universities like Stanford, Reed, which will be more important for admission?

Thanks.
So it's a full-sentence auto-completer? Interesting; would be nice if it would wait for a whole word (or at least a second without typing) before completing though
I think part of the reason for the optimism of those speculating bullishly on BTC is that the inherent properties of a decentralized finite online currency will result in their utility will only increase with time.
I can't believe XP is still being used as primary gaming OS by 8.35% of Steam users.

Are so many gamers still using ancient hardware incapable of running Windows 7 or 8? Or are they unwilling or afraid to upgrade?

At least, XP usage has dropped by 0.62 percentage points since the month before. Since this rate will likely decrease, XP will not be gone in less than 14 months.
So what exactly does that mean?
Fair enough, maybe it would work for someone. I find that reading and especially writing code of certain style shapes my style accordingly, similar to how our environment influences us, so I'd rather learn by working with good code—but it's just me.
Yep, sorry. That was a typo; fixed.
Rob, are you OK with remote at this point?
That is my sentiment exactly. There is much talk of growing bitcoin adoption, but I've yet to see anything beyond a few web-based services(which, beyond their time, are almost free for the operators to begin with).
It'd also be interesting to look at the effects of deflation in the fledgling bitcoin economy, although the actual exchange of currency for goods and services is a bit small to judge this effectively.

The GDP stats for bitcoin is not systematically collected. The blockchain data only gives us a approximate picture.

So most people just rely on their guts and vague feeling about the size of the bitcoin economy. Bitcoin detractors tend to underestimate the size of bitcoin economy because they can't recall selling or buying goods or services. Bitcoin users tend to be more optimistic because they keep up with news of merchants opening up.

I think it would be very useful if somebody built a stats site dedicated to systematically report on economic activities occuring in bitcoinland.
Oohoohoho cmon give us the upper class cultural cues cheat sheet!
The main problem with that which needs to be addressed is when you don't know whether it has already switched to the new time zone, or if it's still about to switch. As a result, you don't know the time.
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This was never really verified. I'm sure after the 486s were fabbed for a while, intel's defect rate got low enough that they started turning good ones into SX's.

By the time the P5 came along, they stopped playing these games all together and started rating by clock speed alone.
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We are open to H1B and can also help cover relocation costs.

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"And many of them are going to spend their BTC over time to avoid interaction with banking system as much as possible."

What is the purpose of avoiding the banking system?
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^^ This is good advice. Maybe they should question their choice of platform - there are other options, some of which seem to have had a bit more forethought in their architecture and engineering.

Remember: Ruby/Rails to pose, Python for pros.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UKC7iaBKvs#t=768s

A pretty brilliant scam if you ask me
I'm not a bitcoin fanboy - but I see this sentiment around a lot and I'm not sure I agree with it. The claim is that the value of a currency is supposed to also be somehow related to its utility in acquiring goods and services. And if this isn't the case - then people will go off it.

When was the last time someone acquired a good or service with an ounce of gold? Perhaps we shouldn't consider gold a currency? Well I'm fine with that. Bitcoin probably isn't a proper currency yet either (in the sense that people aren't exchanging much with it yet). But not being directly relatable to utility in exchange certainly hasn't hurt gold in recent history. So I don't see why necessarily it will be a problem for bitcoins.
That looks like a great way to increase performance, and it still manages to keep all the reliability and accuracy of the standard storage engines :O
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But that is only one side of the coin. If people are hoarding BTC, then they aren't spending them on goods / services.

IE: Deflationary Spiral. It becomes hard to be a merchant who accepts bitcoins, because everyone expects BTC to keep rising in prices.

People who bought a domain name for 1 BTC a few weeks ago from Namecheap lost a lot of money. They should have instead "saved" that BTC. Therefore, people are discouraged from using BTC as a transaction vehicle.

Currently, hoarders are the ones benefiting from BTC, but no one else is. No merchant knows how to value their services in BTC, not when there is this much volatility around.
I've always found () to be easier to type on a qwerty keyboard. I can reach straight up with my middle and ring fingers, without moving my hands.

For [], I have to move my hand to the right, away from home position.
Good idea. I think waiting for a second would give a little more control to the typist.
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What's really worth celebrating is that IE10 is around 4%.

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-daily-20130302...

Now get everyone on Windows 7 to upgrade to IE10 then we've practically got an "HTML5" ready web.
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This crash is becoming really worrisome. Will it ever stop? http://i.imgur.com/c2ZpwrS.png.
Do we actually need multitouch? For zooming webpages I always double tap to zoom in and have the Android browser rewrap the page. I figured that I actually don't need multitouch, except for maps. And with this, I could get rid of it and back to resistive sensors for example
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Job Description:

Python developer with a verve for adventure sought for an already developed OLPC-project in cooperation with Dom Bosco Angola. We estimate between 2 and 3 months for the project, starting in August 2013. Due to the charitable cause, we can only provide costs for flights, basic accommodation and a fairly allowance. Your job will be to help the schools faculty members establish extensive training activities for their XO computers as well as teaching the administration staff how to amend the activities' contents.

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Pfft, why don't you give up and map your keyboard to Colemak for programming (and everything else), like.. well.. the few people like me.. ;-)
If no one, then it's a total disaster. If it's recoverable, some will buy it.