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Re: Bitcoin's Latest Scaling Twist: Support is Building for a UASF

komone — Tue, 11 Apr 2017 19:17:16 -0000

I do believe that UASF has nothing to do with the thing that is Bitcoin, apart, of course, from exposure marketing.

Re: Fire the Miners? Radical Ideas Emerge as Bitcoin Fork Talk Escalates

komone — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 19:40:35 -0000

Ludicrous headline. Ludicrous article. Sorry folks, you just don't "get" Bitcoin.

Re: Sell and Short: Bitcoin Traders Are Preparing for a Possible Fork

komone — Tue, 21 Mar 2017 17:41:21 -0000

Here's a question: Will Bitcoin fork at all for more than a few hours? I suspect not.

Re: What Bitcoin Traders Should Know About Technical Analysis

komone — Sun, 26 Feb 2017 16:54:34 -0000

I see a lot of negative responses in the comments - but I do think you gave a fair and balanced analysis, and included clear and sensible cautions about how to use this technique when making judgements about future market trends. Personally, I think this is a very good and well-written article.

Re: Greg Maxwell Breaks Down Blockchain: The 'Uncontrollable Noun'

komone — Wed, 01 Feb 2017 19:39:24 -0000

An alarming lack of vision indeed.

Re: Construct 2017: Life After SegWit? Bitcoin's Tech Gridlock Takes the Spotlight

komone — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 20:40:28 -0000

This is tiresome. Are you asserting that segwit txns are compatible with existing wallet implementations? If so, you are incorrect.

My last response to you.

Re: Construct 2017: Life After SegWit? Bitcoin's Tech Gridlock Takes the Spotlight

komone — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:38:33 -0000

This is my last reply to you. You appear to conflate the solution to bigger block size with segwit. This is a logical mistake.

Re: Construct 2017: Life After SegWit? Bitcoin's Tech Gridlock Takes the Spotlight

komone — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:18:38 -0000

It's trivially obvious that it's required, and I too am tired of discussion about it.

Re: Construct 2017: Life After SegWit? Bitcoin's Tech Gridlock Takes the Spotlight

komone — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:16:35 -0000

I took the "bigger blocksize" requirement as obvious. I absolutely do believe this requirement is urgently required as a key to usability. My nodes are all BU.

Re: Construct 2017: Life After SegWit? Bitcoin's Tech Gridlock Takes the Spotlight

komone — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 18:14:17 -0000

Lightning doesn't need segwit to work. It needs certain tx malleability fixes, but there's various approaches. For Lightning to be practical, it also needs a routing solution.

Please let us not deny the practicalities, or we just spin around alternative facts.

Re: Java Without If - Ashton Kemerling

komone — Fri, 27 Jan 2017 19:43:22 -0000

Welcome. You discovered FP.

BTW Erlang, Rust

Re: Hash Functions all the way down

komone — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 17:55:21 -0000

sha256

Re: Why Startup Technical Diligence is a Waste of Time

komone — Wed, 13 Jul 2016 19:21:52 -0000

I agree with most of your comments. What is missing is that the value proposition must be technically *possible*. Doesn't matter how, and likely doesn't matter who - if it's well designed. What can guarantee ultimate failure is a VP that isn't technically possible to achieve (i.e. is illogical). Technical due diligence is therefore not about capability of the enterprise but about logical consistency.

Re: System Under Test: GNU Make

komone — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 18:54:35 -0000

True QA people should write tests not just execute them and watch for boolean flags of failure.

Re: a simple mind hack that helps beat procrastination

komone — Sat, 18 Jun 2016 19:59:33 -0000

...until you face the issue that definition of the first step requires a full understanding of the task ahead. This is a conundrum in software applications since if the software existed you would not be writing it. If the aim is not worthwhile, the steps are likely very obvious. If the aim is to "innovate" (which it usually is) then you have to understand the whole thing in order to define the correct first step. My 2c.

Re: How To Retain User Engagement After Website Redesign

komone — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 06:34:16 -0000

I await your wisdom and insights

Re: How To Retain User Engagement After Website Redesign

komone — Wed, 08 Jun 2016 19:03:11 -0000

Your posting was a great read, I appreciated the candour and intent. So often I skip (tldr) many similar but your post has real lessons. Good luck as you move forward!

Re: How To Retain User Engagement After Website Redesign

komone — Wed, 08 Jun 2016 18:07:01 -0000

My thoughts (FWIW):
1) Three clicks is too many.
2) Users are smart - they like clarity but not to be treated like a dumbass
3) Graphical whizzery must itself have a meaning or function
4) "Coolness" fades real fast - like at the second visit

Re: My time with Rails is up

komone — Sun, 22 May 2016 21:14:36 -0000

And yet you didn't consider Erlang?

Re: Bitcoin Price Ends Turbulent Week as Bull Run Fades

komone — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 18:29:09 -0000

Then, almost as soon as you say it, it embarassingly racks back up to 455+. Prediction is hard business :)

Re: Have Software Developers Given Up?

komone — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 19:13:11 -0000

I see you and some others read through the word "usually". BTW I'd add Postgres to the "cream of the crop".

Re: Have Software Developers Given Up?

komone — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 19:14:49 -0000

Free stuff is usually... well... not as good as stuff you pay for and/or have an SLA for... maybe that's the reason here?

Re: Functors, Applicatives, and Monads in Plain English

komone — Fri, 22 Apr 2016 22:39:48 -0000

What a great post!

Re: The Secret Shame of Middle-Class Americans

komone — Tue, 19 Apr 2016 19:41:22 -0000

Perhaps the most real piece of writing I have seen for quite some time. Bravo!

Re: Deconstructing Typography Best Practices – Why Vertical Rhythm? | Zell Liew's blog about web design and development

komone — Fri, 04 Mar 2016 18:42:41 -0000

Yes I totally agree with your point about rhythm. It's a fascinating and thought provoking article. Thank you.