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We already had, in essence, a 'proof of work' system with gold. Gold supply increases by only a percent or two per year, and it is highly resource / energy intensive. And note that many central banks, including US, China, Russia, have and /or are even adding to their gold reserves. (Ben Bernanke says it's for 'tradition' - cough, cough, eye roll, cough)

But as JP Morgan said, "gold is money. everything else is credit." Banks don't care about the underlying reserve money as long as they control the credit, which gets used as if it were money.

>but it would certainly be different.

I don't see how. And even if it were, the powers that be like things just the way they are.
I prefer Zite over Flipboard. That whole flipping UI thing just never sat right with me.
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I had a similar idea a year or so ago that I never worked on. It was more focused on helping micro roasters sell their roasted beans in a subscription service than helping micro roasters get beans to roast, though. I never really validated the idea with micro-roasters so maybe what you're trying to do is better.
I'd agree with you if I actually saw anything being fixed.

Find me one banker or one politician who has been held accountable for anything of sizable matter.
I see a potential market for a mechanical device that automatically covers up the license plate when the car is parked & turned off.

Pull into parking space in the mall. Cover up your license plate. Or, better yet, put an image of random numbers.

Ta da!
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Yeah, I seem to remember that Zynga targeted bored, middle-aged housewives from the midwest more than anybody else.

18-25 year olds have probably moved on from Candy Crush. Once they hit the wall, they probably just throw it away for something new.
It would be really cool if they could make it work.
Because that's about twenty more fucks than anyone cares to give. The problem is "what is our occupancy in the parking lot"--the solution is as simple as just buying a few sat images.

Cameras imply installation, monitoring, data storage, analysis...it's just a colossal pain in the ass compared to buying some imagery and being done with it.
What's worse is seeing documentation for npm modules where all the code examples are in CoffeeScript...please make it stop.
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It's not an efficiency concern, it's a security concern.
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when you follow through onto an actual bag it lists the price with the weight. Each bag is currently weighed at 22 pounds (10 kilos)
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Currency is a commodity, just like any other commodity. Why have certain commodities, such as gold, often become currencies over the past millennia? Because certain commodities like gold are durable, divisible, portable, uniform etc. and thus make good currencies. The US dollar was just a note exchangable for equivalent gold at the Federal Reserve until 1971.

States have tried to issue currencies without backing for thousands of years. Have any of those currencies lasted long? The answer is no. There's nothing about the US dollar which makes me think it will be any different than such schemes hatched in Ancient Mesopotamia or Greece. In fact the worth of three dollars today is about equivalent to one 1980 dollar. The dollar will not retain its value over time, while an ounce of gold from 4000 years ago has a somewhat equivalent value to an ounce of gold today. Inevitably there will be a crisis of confidence, and the dollar, euro, yen etc. will either become worthless, or will be backed by gold, or silver or the like. It's not as if governments today have some magic which makes their dollars and euros valuable in a way that governments 2000 years ago could not.

I can pay taxes with dollars, I can go to USPS and buy stuff, I can go to an Army PX and buy stuff - but this only goes so far. The day will come, maybe decades from now, maybe a century or two from now, when a crisis of confidence happens and the dollar either becomes worthless or backed by gold from Fort Knox.

If the dollar has a real underlying value - WHY does the government still stockpile gold in Fort Knox?

Again I want to stress I'm talking historically and what must happen in a century or two. I am not claiming the dollar's value will collapse in the next year. But if it is not backed by a real commodity once a real crisis of confidence occurs, then it will inevitably lose its value.

Scarcity has nothing to do with it. The dollar until 1971 backed by the commodity gold, is the historical norm. The past 40-something years is the historic abnormality. Which will inevitably transform back to the old way.
Direct link to their trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN2QUhaKN2Q

This is beyond ridiculous and I love it.
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The difference is that we don't actually hold any product. We allows importers to list their beans and warehouses on the sit e and provide a standard view for them. Though I agree that there is too little discussion about the beans, this is also a very targeted specialty market (B2B) where our customers already know what kind of product they are looking for.
Why is hash power required to have 'savings in bitcoin'? I can see mining fees.

Regardless, you haven't refuted the 'no technical security' assertion. It's just a question of incentives, dealing, and collusion, which comes down to human nature. Not very appealing - I'll stick with hard assets, thanks.
I have no idea what he means, but there's an interesting crypto called Devcoin that allocates 90% of the mined coins to selected open source developers. It's sort of a charity coin, in a sense. Opens up other possibilities, certainly.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Devcoin
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>Both offer non-trivial gains in terms readability of the written code.

I've never seen non-trivial gains by either, either in readablity or expressibility. A few less lines != more readable.
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So we are collaborating with both warehouses and importers to allow the warehouse employees to package orders that need beans from multiple importers.

The reason it hasn't been done before is because there didn't exist a single platform that pulled all the different orders from importers and told the warehouse exactly what needs to be combined.
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> Neither are particularly hard to learn, assuming you understand HTML and Javascript reasonably well to begin with

I disagree. this might be the case for Rails devs and people familiar with the Rails stack. But I have worked on a large enough team with enough people coming and going with different backgrounds to see more people having difficulties picking up and using haml && coffeescript than just erb/good 'ol javascript.

Sure they'll figure it out eventually, but the learning time adds up, and I haven't seen any actual gains from eventually knowing both of them well enough.

> Both offer non-trivial gains in terms readability of the written code.

Please elaborate on this, because I've seen the opposite. Everybody working on the web knows html and javascript. Usually
having to layer haml and coffeescript on top of that knowledge slows them down unless they've been doing it for long enough
When I was a kid I would make something similar out of a (partially) unfolded paperclip. Seeing it on youtube makes it seem much less amusing than I remember.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKaR8cxS4Y4
I cannot bring myself to like GoDaddy. It's really hard to forgive/forget their SOPA support.
What? If you write a put option, and it is executed, then you have to buy the stock for its strike price, which will be above its market price (that's why the put was executed in the first place). You end up buying the stock at a premium, not at a discount.

Here's a concrete example. A stock is trading at $100 and you write a put on it struck at $90, earning a premium of (say) $5. Then the stock falls to $80 and the put is executed, so you buy the stock for $90.

You now have something worth $80 and a $5 premium, but you paid $90, so you are $5 out of pocket.

Now you write a covered call on the stock struck at $100, earning a $3 premium (because it's further out of the money the the put you wrote earlier). The stock goes to $110, so you sell it to the call owner for $100. That's nice, you've earned the $3 premium and you sold the stock for $10 more than you bought it for (a total of $13 up). But if you hadn't written the call, you could have sold the stock for $110, and been $20 up instead.

If you also buy a protective put (say for $1) then that's an additional loss you bear in this scenario, since you can't execute the put.

If you're writing options, you're basically betting against market volatility. You'll do alright in the short term, but you'll get absolutely creamed if there's a stock market crash or other crisis.
As an in house database developer I asked naively a month or two back what was so bad about Go-Daddy, assuming name registrars were all pretty much the same. Now I see how short sighted I was.
excellent, I've seen the opposite. Looks like our completely anecdotal observations cancel out :)
If only there was some sort of device that could automate the conversion process, perhaps to the extent that humans never have to worry about any friction on their level at all.
So far we've gotten a lot of positive responses from importers in the north east (Seattle, Portland). We've also talked to micro roasteries both physically and on the phone, and a lot of would be interested in a system to make their purchasing simpler.
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Things have value because they have demand. Things have demand because they provide utility. Relative utility determines relative value. And actual price is the ratio of demand:supply. So ask yourself, do any of these altcoins provide some utility bitcoin doesn't? To the extent any do, they will have value to the extent of their marginal utility over bitoin and other altcoins.

Every altcoin is trying to provide some marginal technical improvement over Bitcoin, and hence some marginal value. But Bitcoin's first mover advantage, resulting network effects, and stable/reliable core dev team and non-profit foundation all provide significantly more utility - namely trust - than the marginal technical improvements of most altcoins, hence why most will never approach Bitcoin in value.

Litecoin is one exception, as the first widely trusted altcoin with a few technical improvements over Bitcoin. Ethereum could also be a possible exception to this, if they can make it work. Very ambitious, will probably have growing pains for a few years at least.
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It's sugar, why wouldn't they enjoy it? The thing, as with Coke, is if it's good for them.
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I just hope flipboard does not mean to shutdown zite. Zite is part of my life now, while I haven't open flipboard more than once or twice a week.

After watched the movie "her", I had thought about zite would be the Samantha in my news consumption world, "who" has tuned up and evolved very much to my taste over years. I could careless about flipboard's fancy layout.

This is the worst news after greader shutdown, wtf. Unfortunately trap.it doesn't quite work out, seriously limited my choice.
Its what economists have been trying to tell the BTC community for years. Some people get it, some people don't. Think about the money supply.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_supply

There is not only the MB money supply (total number of paper dollars that exist), there is also the M1 money supply (MB + number of Traveler's Checks, and other highly liquid bank inventions), and M2 (which includes deposits).

The true size of the monetary base can artificially grow and shrink in ways completely uncontrollable by the central-authority. This is true with both the USD and Bitcoins.

The ultimate reminder is... the US implementation of fractional reserve banking forces banks to do no worse than 10%. In unregulated markets, the "banks" (ie: MT. Gox) will tend to lie and cheat, and will have ratios at far far worse rates.
Yes, I do, but I don't find them relevant here. Suing you for breaching my privacy is completely independent from the fact that if you caught me lying to you by peeking through the curtains, I'd only have myself to blame.
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Is there a nomenclature around the patterns used? Anyone got a good site?
It's a few years old at this point, but this book has a lot of good advice:

http://www.amazon.com/Start-Small-Stay-Developers-Launching-...

Between people like patio11 and Rob Walling, I'm pretty convinced that that sort of business is where it's at for people who don't want to do the whole VC style startup.
Common, this is a vague and unconvincing article, I suspect people up voted for it for its opinion rather than reasoning

> First, compiler languages require some learning.

Every new technology require some learning. This shouldn't be the number 1 reason not to use one.

> Second, both languages make debugging a harder process.

Haml harder to debug than html? How so? Coffeescript harder to debug javascript? Maybe there is an extra step, but how do you weigh in the better readability in CoffeeScript when it comes to debugging complex code?

> Lastly, there are just too many dependencies.

"Every time I touch code, I am forced to touch two levels of abstraction." I seldom if ever need to touch the javascript file compiled from the coffeescript. And I really don't see how come more coffeescript files is more complex to handle than a couple of coffeescript? I can assume that you don't manually compile them one by one right?
I don't really bother with these things, for the reasons listed here. I don't like how these concerns are brushed off, as if skepticism about these things means you're afraid of change or new tools or whatever.

When these things work they may make your development experience slightly nicer, but when they don't, you'll be sad about it. Just learn Javascript.
Great, now popsicle sticks will get you in trouble at TSA checkpoints.
Happy to read this. My own gripe is open source projects that are CoffeeScript-first. CoffeeScript is a tool. Some people like it, some people hate it, and some people just don't get a big enough win from it to care. JavaScript is the native language, and to expect someone to read documentation or source code in something that might not be familiar to them is a frightening direction or tendency.

If you are writing docs, you should be writing JavaScript.
To a point, but if you've blazed once you're not experiencing much new each time you do it. (At least I don't :P)

My problem is that anything, no matter how cool, rapidly becomes boring and uninteresting to me. Whether that be a game or a programming language or a project. Probably the single greatest stumbling block to advancing my career, knowledge, and overall life.
> We already had, in essence, a 'proof of work' system with gold. Gold supply increases by only a percent or two per year, and it is highly resource / energy intensive.

But the people doing a lot of the hardest dangerous work get very very lite for doing so. Money is made by pushing buttens at the right time to move numbers around a network.
There are more than you think, I assure you. Consider the people who write elementary curricula, who implement it in large cities, who teach middle school and high school mathematics but might prefer to teach just mathematics at an elementary level. Consider NCTM[1], TERC[2], EDC[3], and UChicago[4], and their programs and work. Consider the math coaches, who instruct their peer elementary teachers on teaching mathematics.

Until these positions exist, are respected, and are not first on the chopping block the next time budget cuts roll around, these people will continue to exist under the radar. (I'd gladly transfer into a Elementary Math Specialist position, if I was sure it wouldn't threaten my family's livelihood.)

[1]: http://www.nctm.org/resources/elementary.aspx

[2]: https://www.terc.edu/display/About/Mission+and+Vision

[3]: http://ltd.edc.org/mathematics

[4]: http://everydaymath.uchicago.edu
Common subexpression elimination isn't normally considered a security technique, so I guess I don't understand your point.

Maybe you're saying it's a "code smell" kind of thing and that being sloppy here indicates more subtle problems elsewhere? Which then hits the argument about whether this is really "sloppy" or just intentionally simple.

Shrug. My point was just that this needs better evidence. There is no demonstrated bug in the linked code, and the assertion that it is "gross" (OP) or "insecure" (you) seems poorly justified.
I've watched these precompilers come and (perhaps) go. Granted, I'm a big fan of the likes of SASS, LESS, and tools built on those platforms such as Autoprefixer, as those give me new tools (mixins, variables, modularization, automatic vendor prefixes) I don't have in the "native" language they compile into.

HAML and Coffeescript only change the syntax.

To me, this adds little value. If Javascript appears scary, spend more time with Javascript so groking it becomes easier for your brain. Making a tangental change to a completely different syntax seems like a wasted investment. When debugging in the browser, you're still going to require knowledge of JS, even with source mapping. Delving into other libraries will still require knowledge of JS. The entire JS community is not hardened in Coffeescript, so the pivot you make to learning Coffeescript is time not spent learning JS, setting you behind when groking other source.

HAML seems to add even less. HTML is just markup, it can only ever get so scary, and if you're in control of the source, you should strive to not make it scary. HAML seems like the worse case scenario for hand-holding.

That is to say, I'm not against precompilers that actually add something useful. I'm in the middle of evaluating TypeScript, and depending on its 1.0 release and its community support, I may very well choose to fully adopt it. But for me to start using your precompilation tool, you better be adding more than just syntactical changes. If you're worried about needing tools to help you remember to close an HTML tag, your problem isn't with the language, you just need to become a better programmer.
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Thanks for that link. Very interesting.
I've found the opposite with Coffeescript as far as returning to old code. It's clean, nicely indented, easy to follow. I don't use all of the shortcuts, though. For example, I'd never write a plain object without including the curly braces.

With javascript, there is SO MUCH there that it can be hard to read through.
exactly. I came here expecting to see a $200k/mo bill tbh
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There seems to be a large team of Google Maps based in Bangalore. Probably one of the reasons why India went first, for the Indoor Maps.
More precisely; reject the first offer but note the price, accept any offer that beats the first one, or accept the final offer if none beat the first.
As far as I know, Haml will not ruin their tooth enamel or wreak havoc on their kidneys. ;)
My sister does this, using 'biofeedback'. She has some health issues, and when she's hooked up to the monitors, she'll play a game of controlling her different monitors. She also uses biofeedback to manage pain and some other health issues when meds don't work.
I stumbled across

> Logging in directly as root user is a bad idea — even in examples

further down..

> ~/ssh_cert_authority/user_ca $ scp -rp user_ca.pub root@example.host.net:/etc/ssh
We've come to the same conclusion with coffeescript but for a different reason. We're starting to move away from it to simplify our build process.

We have tons of little modules that are all in coffeescript that need to be compiled to js before we run component-build. Just not having to deal with that step would simplify everything. We're starting to value simplicity over fancy things at scale.

Kind of made me appreciate the thesis of Go a bit more now. I was initially unimpressed with the lack of language features in Go. Once you get to a larger sized codebase you start caring less about fancy features and more about agility and build times funny enough.
Okay, yes, automated decisions are prohibited in EU when based on unverified, unconsented data - that still doesn't prohibit from automatically gathering that data without consent, storing it forever, distributing it to third parties, and having then some human be interested or prejudiced to you based on that info.
Java obviously, there are no security issues with java...

No wait! Ruby, that should be perfect, can't cause buffer overflow there....

Ermm.. wait I got , well use python!
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No, this does not follow.

Also, "you have nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide" is only partially not true, and I think it deserves pointing out.

If you have nothing to hide, then you only have to fear evil people (who may want to harm you, and the more they know about you the easier it gets) and morons (who jump to conclusions).
Didn't hurt? Perhaps, but it didn't do much good to them either. Just look at Nokia who had a touch only phone in 2004 (7710) and a tablet in 2005 (770). Those techs only succeeded years later with iPhone (2007) and iPad (2010).
I would agree. If you have a hard time learning HAML, something is wrong.

I learned it very early in my career, and it was once of the first things that really accelerated my work. I'm not, and have never been, a rails dev.

Coffee is a bit different (IMO) because it changes the way the language works, instead of being a 1-1 conversion like HAML. I personally don't like it, it just seems like a big bag of syntax sugar tricks thrown together. If I'm going to learn a js preprocessor language, it will be something with a cohesive design as a language (like Clojure or Wisp https://github.com/Gozala/wisp) instead of Coffee's grab bag of gee whiz.
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not true , fiat currency is debt thereby the exhange of it is credit, there was no effort expended in order to gain it, thereby it in itself is a promise to make good on itself at some point. Bitcoin is different there was effort involved in attaining it (albeit only computer cycles) , thereby exchange of bit coin is effort for effort. there is no credit created. When bitcoin is exchanged its effort for effort and doesnt leave nasty fiat dangling credit
This, but from the villian's perspective, is the key plot premise of the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D tv show, actually.
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