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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.
mircea_popescu: instead, they're preoccupied with the liberty problems of trans-idiots.
mircea_popescu: and only agreed to hire a replacewment once the replacement swore he is firing every single lieutenant in the department ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it'd be nice if the reference client provided this, however, what with thew "accounts" bullshit and etc in there, i doubt it'll be this decade.
mircea_popescu: sooner or later everyone ends up with a full bitcoin data manipulator built in their favourite language, python or not.
mircea_popescu: they keep pretending like oh, the miners bla bla. nobody, ever, actually used the shit raw. because you can't, because obvious reasons.
mircea_popescu: seriously, anyone gives a shit abvout what you release ? as anything other than toilet reading material ? when did that happen ?
mircea_popescu: kind-of why the blind insistence / pretense put forth by the power rangers is so amusing to me
mircea_popescu: nobody serious to my knowledge has used this software as-is.
mircea_popescu: yes, this is why 0.7 was right off when we discussed the branch
mircea_popescu: if it ever makes you rich, donate to teh bitcoin foundation
mircea_popescu: menahem so is that "130 people checked it out 0 bought" ?
mircea_popescu: fuck it, make one planet time and whoever doesn't fly enough can eat a bag of dicks.
mircea_popescu: i'd rather people had to get used to the fact they a) live in shitlandia so sunrise is at 4pm and b) they're shitlords that live in the dirt and so their interests areen't being catered to
mircea_popescu: it's only controversial in that most of the "participants" have nfi.
mircea_popescu: moreover, there is a list of idiocies that may not be not smitten
mircea_popescu: the obvious "because our esteemed leader says so" (which already carried, exactly once, when the versions prior to 2 were forked off) doesn't carry, as the closest to such a thing extant in bitcoin is against it.
mircea_popescu: irrespective of any flailings of random idiots (gavin & all), there can not be a hardfork until such a time as we have an answer to that question.
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> at what level of 'hardness' does it even make sense to retain the original blockchain, as opposed to full-bore altcoin slugfest ? << the fact that this question has not a good answer as of yet is perhaps the principal roadblock in the way of considering a hardfork at all.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo it's unlikely it'll roll over without complaint. for one thing what's 0xFFFF - 0x0000 ? is it < 10 ?
mircea_popescu: diametric apparently you're getting ~14gbps worth of random packets. it's going to come back up in the coming hours as it's being mitigated.