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mircea_popescu: But around July I just couldn’t take it anymore. I wanted
a product.
A real one. Not just
a mockup. So what did I do? Instead of fully focusing on finding
a CTO, or looking for other ways to get somebody creating the product, I decided to learn how to code and do it myself. Coding was on my bucket list anyhow, so I figured, this is the best opportunity to make it happen. So I took
a 2 week crash course in Rails, and
mircea_popescu: "As
a consequence of #2, we didn’t have
a CTO who dedicated enough time to our product. For some months, we got away with
a slideware, then with mockups and paper prototypes. For
a while it was even fun. It felt like we are doing the proper thing, follwing the Lean Startup way of quickly building something (that is crappy), learning from it (unfortunately, many times not the proper thing) and adjusting (after
a while
mircea_popescu: "Today. Eventually, we ended up leaving hardware and IoT as
a sector and decided to work in the content sector (which we understand better)."
mircea_popescu: and i feel it's
a peety you folks manage to find 2k calories' worth of roadkill each day.
mircea_popescu: "Let me back-track
a few months to give you some background. In July, we started building smart internet connected switches that learn from user behavior and automate all the electronic appliances in
a home. We felt that it’s
a pity that our search results and news feed are personalized to us but our homes, where we spend most of our time, are not."
mircea_popescu: ican theoretical biologist Stuart Kauffman, the community as
a whole would actually converge upon
a globally optimal mix of popular patterns, and hence, come full circle, the average user wouldn’t have to spend time wondering if their personal creation was something they’d actually wear. Based on the seemingly automatically generated feedback from their community, they’d just know."
mircea_popescu: Perhaps if someone customized the clothing for them? Like
a designer? But that’s actually what UDesign™ would have been all about. By employing
a naturally occurring genetic algorithm, spurned by the social interactions of users actively generating the plethora of patterns (some bad, some good, and some ugly) available on the edge of our very own little creative “adjacent possible,” to borrow the term from Amer
mircea_popescu: "Look, it wasn’t that women didn’t want custom clothing. Designer clothing by nature is custom, in
a sense. The real problem was that while on average our users spent up to 7 minutes per session (insanely impressive I might add), they weren’t sure if they wanted to purchase the clothes that they spent all that time personalizing. We knew because we asked. We (creepily?) added almost all of our initial customers t
mircea_popescu: cue nubbins for
a dose of "the reason advertising doesn't work is not that advertising doesn't work, is that you're not doing it right", because hey, everyone's gotta have
a church and "always pay more for advertising" is as good as any other church.
mircea_popescu: "It turns out we underestimated the complexity of the project, and overestimated our ability to complete it on
a limited budget should, closer to launch, any complications arise. We thought we could wing it with our existing coding experience (2–3 non-formal years of Java, Objective-C, and XML between the two of us)."
mircea_popescu: "
A search warrant to have that child taken to the hospital for injection with an erection inducing drug followed by photography was approved by
a judge in that case."
mircea_popescu: e of the largest armies ever to visit europe, led by sinan pasha,
a guy who lost his last teeth in the encounter. then got liberated by the russians. if we're not counting the occasional german, austrian, hungarian or polish commonwealth / cussack invasion, that's only "all the empires outside of china".
mircea_popescu: "Han or Haan[1] is
a concept in Korean culture attributed as
a unique Korean cultural trait which has resulted from Korea's frequent exposure to invasions by overwhelming foreign powers. " <<< unique my foot. burebista & decebalus fought the fucking romans for three centuries, eventually ended up pacified by three legions. then the principalities fought the turks for five-ish centuries, including the lulzy defeat of on
mircea_popescu: in other news, chick on okcupid : "porque no me escribis en castellano, soy argentina" mp on okcupid : "It's not your fault you're Argentine. It is however your fault you're
a dumbass. That's what I wanted to see, if you're just Argentine because your parents were dumb, or whether you are actually dumb yourself. Having established that point,
a bon entendeur, salut."
assbot: Logged on 17-12-2015 04:45:29; asciilifeform: because it's
a motherfucking ETHNOSTATE
assbot: Logged on 17-12-2015 04:42:33; asciilifeform: nk was
a successful exporter of heavy machinery prior to usg proclaiming it excommunicated and anyone trading with it likewise excommunicated from the mother church
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-12-2015#1345340 << and i also don't buy into this narrative. soviet russia was also
a middling successful economy up until... what, hruschev decided to bury you ? i guess. the fact of the matter is that there's
a shelf life for all delusion, printed right on the box. seoul adapted, pyongyang did not adapt. yes, it's true that neither had the resoureces to force the adaptation of t
☝︎ mircea_popescu: this is an incredible depth of rot in these heads by now, i am persuaded that what they PERCEIVE as the problem is that it's... get
a hold of youself... it's NOT META ENOUGH. that's the fucking thing, these dickless, otaku imbeciles feel deeply threatened by the fact that
a guy learning to do what his country generally sucks at is TOO REAL.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> starve.' << how does this differ from mircea_popescu's classical prescription 'go shoot
a policeman' ? <<< this question is indistinguishable from where i sit from asking "how does saying 'you see
a girl you like ? go fuck her.' differ from saying 'you see
a girl you like ? go raise her children by another man!". while i grant that there could in point of fact truthfully exist nooks and crannies in the
nubbins`: had
a friend who visited "for real". seoul->beijing->pyongyang
BingoBoingo: "Interestingly, according to
a recent Quora post by Code.org CEO Hadi Partovi, plans to have President Obama 'learn to code'
a year earlier were torpedoed by the Healthcare.gov debacle. "We launched the first Hour of Code campaign, in 2013," explains Partovi. "We launched the first Hour of Code on the home page of Google, in every Apple Store, and we had convinced the President to issue
a speech about computer science. But it was
assbot: Be Cool, or the multilayered cake of things I don't give
a shit about. on Trilema -
A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1P8iBmv )
punkman: asciilifeform: actually i'd love to know what that fella's job is << I do contract webwork, dataplumbing, (G)UIs, etc as it comes but it's
a hassle dealing with derpclients. I also dabble in selling physical/digital products and maybe with some renewed effort and
a few good people I'll make some shit stick. I don't really aspire to having
a job.
assbot: Logged on 17-12-2015 02:03:42; mircea_popescu: asciilifeform tell you what, one time i separated 863 teenaged females into 10 groups of 5 tons each within
a 1% tolerance. the process consisted of me walking through the group and pointing. to my advantgage, they were lightly dressed. to my disadvantage it was night time.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform tell you what, one time i separated 863 teenaged females into 10 groups of 5 tons each within
a 1% tolerance. the process consisted of me walking through the group and pointing. to my advantgage, they were lightly dressed. to my disadvantage it was night time.
☟︎ assbot: You rated user punkman on 27-Nov-2014, with
a rating of 1, and supplied these additional notes: Hangs around in #b-
a.
mircea_popescu: that may be, but i dun think it's
a philosophy matter.
punkman: clients should not auto-post when you paste, gives you
a chance to abort
mircea_popescu: if they take off currency controls, it's going to go to
a 10 or something and that's that.
ben_vulpes: Should you demonstrate speed of self-education, willingness to reach out for support if you need it, and the ability and willingness to cultivate your own beautiful little commit-trees, we'll offer you
a contracting position paying $30/hr. This rate affords us the luxury of budgeting training and study time for you. Our hope is that as you build familiarity with the ecosystems and projects, that you'll demonstrate productivity, mesh
ben_vulpes: We're looking for
a really nice commit and merging history, so feel free to trash your working copies aggressively in pursuit of
a nice finished product.
ben_vulpes:
A huge part of the work that we do while building software is cultivating beautiful little trees of commits with Git. To that end, we want to resolve
a concern on our end about getting you up to speed on our favorite version-controlatron (Git), and so we cooked up two exercises for you to work through over the next few weeks (see attached).
ben_vulpes: Thank you for stopping by and meeting the team—we had
a blast and hope you did as well.
punkman: now it would only contain
a signature."
punkman: It's ANYONECANSPEND. In
a soft-fork, we can add
a new rule that restricts what's valid. We can add
a rule like, whenever we see, we could say it's
a new type of script that is able to instead of updating its inputs from the signature field, it takes it from the witness instead. The witness becomes
a third part of the transaction in addition to the inputs and outputs of
a transaction. For
punkman: actual output that requires
a signature. Instead, the outputs do not push these scripts that we required to be satisfied, they would be encapsulated, it would be pushed as
a piece of data. This allows us to, this effectively to every node, and every node not using this system, it's an ANYONECANSPEND. It's just an output that pushes data on the stack, the output doesn't do anything else.
punkman: "This seemed like
a hard problem. I personally dismissed this as
a solution for
a long time as something non-viable, until Luke-Jr discovered that it's possible to do this as
a soft-fork. What we're going to do is inputs, we just deprecate the signature field inside of inputs. It's going to be an empty string from now on. Obviously, an empty signature is not going to be able to spend an
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: "soft" literally in the sense old nodes verify blocks and absolutely not
a thing else.
punkman: someone figured out it can be
a "softfork", just don't send witness part to old nodez!
punkman: I'll have to write
a userscript to render with js disabled
BingoBoingo: cause you body is shaped like
a stack of tires."
BingoBoingo: Still more related: "I had the exact same problem with medium leggings - I'm 5'10" and 138lbs. 34-25-38 and should be
a medium. When I got the leggings there was no tag indication front or back so I tried them on both ways.
A large baggy pocket ballooned out in the front either way.
A FUPA pouch? I cant wear them because they wont stay up, even with my bootie. :( Fat people privilege is being able to wear clothing front or back be
pete_dushenski: what could be
a more convincing opposition than
a death warrant, one wonders.
pete_dushenski: "Hard forking changes require that ultimately every participant in the system adopts the new rules. I find it immoral and dangerous to merge such
a change without extremely widespread agreement. I am personally fine with
a short-term small block size bump to kick the can down the road if that is what the ecosystem desires, but I can only agree with merging it in Core if I'm convinced that there is no strong oppositio
punkman: "I played cat-and-mouse with the fraudsters for
a bit, adding various checks such as e-mail confirmation, IP bans etc. but it only took hours for the criminals to adapt to these. Eventually I just ragequit and switched off credit cards, going back to PayPal-only."
assbot: Lejitz comments on "In
a $6.6B economy, it is criminal to let the Service undergo an ECE without warning users loudly, months in advance" - Jeff Garzik ... (
http://bit.ly/1T2q2fV )
ascii_field: esp. after anglos (brit first, then modern usg) had the brilliant idea of nurturing
a counter-ru bantustan there
mircea_popescu: well yes, but the maneuvers were
a joint thing with the ukrainiansa
mircea_popescu: but colorful enough to support the notion of
a bona fide ukr nation ?
ascii_field: ( i can't go and buy
a pv panel with obama paying so much as
a cent )
assbot: Logged on 16-12-2015 22:15:11; jurov: well, throw in
a better number
ascii_field: (plumbing was
a retrofit! gurgling shitpipes right in the rooms)