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mircea_popescu: may be a bridge too far, too thin, too short and too fallen in the water too long ago.
mircea_popescu: i suspect what they mean is, "someone with experience with crapple software that doesn't suck"
mircea_popescu: so, it may vary but it won't vary as drastically as you propose. prolly more in line with coffee/caffeine.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, people who sell very weak stuff prolly lose their custom
mircea_popescu: well ok, getting 2 grams of nicotine would put you out
mircea_popescu: wasn't it the case caffeine tolerance actually builds to degrees of magnitude ?
mircea_popescu: not "our brothel really fucking sucks, who ever heard of this"
mircea_popescu: and incompetent pinoy brothel owner decides "gringos are assholes"
mircea_popescu: but my proposition is that perhaps he found this because it's what he wanted to find.
mircea_popescu: this is then mis-represented as "there's something wrong wit hthe patrons"
mircea_popescu: ascii_field to round up what i mean, class A are perhaps "the shooters in the dark". which means, they have an idea what they want, and programming [as taught] fails to satisfy [which is the fault of the teachers].
mircea_popescu: fluffypony haha. nothing of the stealth plane yet huh.
mircea_popescu: now, which would you say is likely to contain the largest proportion of intelligent people ?
mircea_popescu: necessarily. the latter propose to select from the set given, the former have a preformed set they compare to.
mircea_popescu: which of the two do you propose are more likely to spend money ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_field incidentally, i suspect the dataset there has a major flaw. to model it : two classes of brothel patrons. class A comes to reception, asks "do the girls here to X ?" ; class B comes to reception, asks "what can girls here do for me ?"
mircea_popescu: he said it, and directed it at me, which is why my name is in there.
mircea_popescu: apparently recent research actually settles this point
mircea_popescu: in other news, "the proportion of female faces that are more feminine than the most feminine male faces is much greater than the proportion of male faces that are more masculine than the most masculine female faces."
mircea_popescu: other than "this adult exhibits intellectual neoteny".
mircea_popescu: ascii_field that's nothing but the infancy/adulthood divide. it's not a personal descriptor
mircea_popescu: and the relationships a good two layers deeper/more complex.
mircea_popescu: the advantage is that c++ grease doesn't irritate the skin. the disadvantage is that well... this thing has i would estimate about 10 to 100x more moving parts than a car,
mircea_popescu: hazirafel_ it's really a lot like racing. to be into racing more than someone cheering in the stands / swimsuit model crowding the finish line, you gotta take an engine apart. grease and all.
mircea_popescu: "how do i get the girl i love ?" "get some sluts first"
mircea_popescu: and you'll notice i never tell 'em that. it's a stupid thing to say.
mircea_popescu: which, and i say from bitter experience, is just as large a task as making an os, and so... the largest class there is.
mircea_popescu: most kids get into programming because they want to make a mmorpg.
mircea_popescu: if the line is breached, the officers decimate THEIR infantry, not the enemy's
mircea_popescu: "your job is to defend, me first of all. you failed. go try your hand at garbage moving."
mircea_popescu: let the unfortunate nato schmucks grown on facebook complain of "brain circuitry"
mircea_popescu: didn't you grow up like sane people, in a sovblok urban development with 1k kids your age / acre and no tv to speak of ?
mircea_popescu: it was built, by people, through the process of taking risks.
mircea_popescu: which i suspect is actually the result of just how broken school is these days.
mircea_popescu: and, "sufficient proficiency in both c++ and bitcoin so as to be able to follow all the discussion here, and only say something stupid 50% of the time and less, and understand why it's stupid once explained 90% of the time or more"
mircea_popescu: well yeah, but i don't know you, and so i have nfi what reference points to use, and so...
mircea_popescu: questions are welcome, a reasonably intelligent & cultured person (which means 1% of ivy league) should be able to complete this in a year.
mircea_popescu: a) not in any sense funny and b) very dangerous, ion that it offers you the illusion of having understood (through recognition mostly) but no actual understanding. which is how people end up writing insecure applications
mircea_popescu: the problem with reading the developer guide is the same problem with reading mark twain, the cliff notes.
mircea_popescu: the alternative, if you are a business person, is to have a programmer "read it to you", but this is expensive and rare a tradecraft, so. expect to spend the next year laying groundowkr, mostly in terms oif reading the codebase and wondering at the wonders of c++
mircea_popescu: hazirafel_ listen, there is no practical way to understand anything relevant re bitcoin without actually reading the code. and the code is c++. you will have to do this as a first step.