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mircea_popescu: why does it know to make "default_illegal_callback_fn" in "static void default_illegal_callback_fn(const char* str, void* data) {" lioght blue
mircea_popescu: why would you want to have this stupid website and not any sort of x-referencing, line counting, nothing ?
mircea_popescu: Intended to be portable to any system with a C89 compiler and uint64_t support. << a large part of why it'd be large.
mircea_popescu: it has good reasons to exist, which are exactly what we're discussing here.
mircea_popescu: now look : you can't dismiss that thing just because it exists.
mircea_popescu: PeterL more often than not, a different flavour of stupid.
mircea_popescu: anyway, jp had same problem - excised it. for as long as kept it out... survived.
mircea_popescu: nope. that's the problem. at the end you just get the burgeois desert.
mircea_popescu: once it starts liquidating privilege, it can't practically be stopped. network effects.
mircea_popescu: similarly, the 9th earl of dumbass couldn't readily say "so what if the marquis of idiot has six horses pulling his cart ?"
mircea_popescu: "listen you dumb cunt, who the fuck told you must deserve a roof over your head, can't just wash stuff by hand in the river ?"
mircea_popescu: EXACTLY the same mechanism. nobody is about to ask his dearly beloved wife
mircea_popescu: the beauty of it is that it does more indirectly than directly.
mircea_popescu: it was, historically, the principal instrument used by the burgeoisie to lynch the aristocracy
mircea_popescu: mortgage has actually a very respectable history of unhinging idiots from their own money.
mircea_popescu: you know alf, they're the only people that agree everything sucks.
mircea_popescu: the only strange thing is this guy HASNT already joined the mujahedeen
mircea_popescu: just making the point that he's got a single appendage, still sticks it into strange.
mircea_popescu: ;;google m-ai facut din om neom, cind ma pis ma tin de pom.
mircea_popescu: what would it take for you to plug your only penis in the folds of a new hussy ?
mircea_popescu: it wouldn'\t do any work, just... you know, supervize.
mircea_popescu: but yes it would, in typical manner of the shitgnomerism that it is, exist solely as a leech-wrapper on something else.
mircea_popescu: jurov introducing various crashes along the way and a whole pile of complex strange.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform slowly. just like the contradiction between "don't hurt the woman" and "she bleeds" is resolved in practice3.
mircea_popescu: heh. how do you tell google to look inside source of code packages ?
mircea_popescu: in a thoroughly tangential tangent : CRYPTO_malloc is likely as porous as thin gauze.
mircea_popescu: ie, a perfectly solid solution to the problem of tx price.
mircea_popescu: std::vector<char, zero_after_free_allocator<char> >::operator=(std::vector<char, zero_after_free_allocator<char> > const&) [55]
mircea_popescu: bitchslapping the redditards "we need free shit because that's what we're worth" is one thing. actually making txn cost what they cost is a whole other can of whipass.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is an infelicity of puberty. we can't do anything about that yet.
mircea_popescu: jurov honestly i think the original design intent was that.
mircea_popescu: but you surely recall the original discussions of "bitcoin-as-filesystem" as a precursor to bitcoin-os
mircea_popescu: and odds are std::map is not even correctly implemented, and we don't even know exactly where.
mircea_popescu: so work hygienically. diligence is good, hygiene is non-negotiable.
mircea_popescu: this is not a sprint. it's not even a marathon. the most important thing, by a large margin, is plox don't kill yourselves fighting with it. if anyone goes "i'll tend to my ulcer once i sorted out THIS thing", that someone's going to be remembered as naggum 2.
mircea_popescu: gotta very carefully do raids and incursisions with a clear retreat plan.
mircea_popescu: i am firmly convinced that you can lose an entire team of engineers in there, permanently.
mircea_popescu: 98.x% of my contribution as far as fucking up my own tech dept goes to date has been variations of "STOP WITH THE DAMNED CODE" and such.
mircea_popescu: there's a reason nobody really touched the spaghetti monster in five years jurov and this'd be that reason.
mircea_popescu: somehow this gargle thing works do. it does something. it drives the kids loco.
mircea_popescu: ace from our friends at OneLogin, our burnrate wasn’t yet gone through the roof. But close.."
mircea_popescu: "From the comfort of the backyard cabin we moved to big city San Francisco and faced the totally hopeless situation of finding a place to live. We survived the first two weeks by renting office space at Tradeshift and sleeping on their couches at night. Not sure if they ever found that out. Finally we managed to get a 9 m2/97 sqft room through our Y-Combinator network. Rent $1,250. Dang! But since we had free office sp
mircea_popescu: but hey... "online advertising is an industree. because google "makes revenue" from it, which is to say some people recycle bezzle funds through there and everyone outside actually believes someone somewhere paid 5bn for ppc.
mircea_popescu: ming through PPC were converted at a lower rate than those originating through SEO. Even as we sharpened our targeting, experimented with messaging, and sought advice and consulting from more experienced parties, we found that paid channels just weren’t good enough to merit real focus."
mircea_popescu: In our first year, that conviction drove our experiments with a series of other channels: PPC, partnerships, deals, guerilla type tactics, targeted mailings, craigslist posting tools, etc. Each experiment produced results inferior to those from SEO. The acquisition costs through those channels were significantly higher than what was allowable based on our revenue per customers. We also found that potential customers co
mircea_popescu: That worked brilliantly for us. We acquired users for practically nothing by using the content and site structure generated as a byproduct of our tutor acquisition. However, that success was also a trap. It convinced us that there had to be another channel that would perform for us at the level of SEO.
mircea_popescu: in other news, "Tutorspree didn’t scale because we were single channel dependent and that channel shifted on us radically and suddenly. SEO was baked into our model from the start, and it became increasingly important to the business as we grew and evolved. In our early days, and during Y Combinator, we didn’t have money to spend on acquisition. SEO was free so we focused on it and got good at it.
mircea_popescu: they don't want that part of bitcoin anymore. it's "blockchain technologies" now as far as reddit is concered, with spv mining, 0tx fees and hopefully increasing block subsidies in the future.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> and while you're hanging, everybody who was connected ~to you~ has a hanging socket << yeah it propagates holes.
mircea_popescu: maybe i should dig out / give you comp details or something ?!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform dude, seriously, the only time i rented in that part of the world, place came with complete everything. boxsprings.