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mircea_popescu: ;;later tell BlueMeanie4 so what about that nxt/devwork story ?
mircea_popescu: i thought that guy was in here but apparently gribble never saw it
mircea_popescu: well, luckily you're not a codger, so who knows what the future brings.
mircea_popescu: irl, ruby got raped with an insecurity stick almost as big as my schlong, and perl still reigns
mircea_popescu: "Perl will be gone soon, too. That's because a new language called Ruby has finally been translated into English."
mircea_popescu: turns out that C/C++ are sorta like me. keep being "in the process of" being superseeded periodically, then the would-be revolutionizer dies.
mircea_popescu: se Microsoft was able to stall it before it became ubiquitous on the desktop. But for server-side applications, C++ is basically on its way out."
mircea_popescu: "Every 15 years or so, languages are replaced with better ones. C was replaced by C++, at least for large-scale application development by people who needed performance but desperately wanted data types too. C++ is being replaced by Java, and Java will doubtless be replaced with something better in seven years — well, seven years after it finishes replacing C++, which evidently hasn't fully happened yet, mostly becau
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'd rather sit in a hazmat suit and read good prose than live in a meadow of paper.
mircea_popescu: "these are my children" ? "this is my house". most property owners don't own their own torens title bureaus
mircea_popescu: "To soften my comment, I would not want to replace Gavin with some loony that thinks the USG is competent enough to undermine bitcoin in any organized way. All this talk about Mike and Gavin being stooges is absurd, and undermines my respect for much of the other (very insightful) stuff you guys write on the Internet. They can be wrong, without being corrupt."
mircea_popescu: (there's an extra bit in there, where people with a lot of exposure, financial, intellectual, emotional, w/e also run full nodes - but generally they also won't be following patently insane notions a la "let's make the blocks infinite")
mircea_popescu: this is the ad-hoc, market driven fix to the problem of node disenfranchisement as ordained by his satoshiness.
mircea_popescu: "It doesn’t matter what the minors feel like “honoring.” The miners will follow the full nodes; they won’t waste energy mining the fork when its coins aren’t worth the time it takes to send them to an exchange." danielpbarron << all the miners run (multiple) full nodes.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski wouldja consider adding a recent comments list ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform did anyone write a full analysis of it, or just mention it in passing ?
mircea_popescu: fucking hell romania is going to end up accidentally famous by mistake.
mircea_popescu: "Perl has the best marketing in the world. You could write a book about how brilliant their marketing is. Sun has marketed Java with money, and Perl is almost keeping up, popularity-wise, purely on the on sheer marketing brilliance of Larry Wall and his buddies. Folks at Harvard Business School should study Perl's marketing. It's astonishing."
mircea_popescu: after they're done with congress. "all laws fit in 500 pages. you want new ones ? delete old ones."
mircea_popescu: the only conceivable purpose i can see for government would be to allocate limits. you want to write a facebook ? register with govt, get a 10k line/250kb limit. if you overrun it you get shot.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: at least. fifty idiots get to go around telling young women about their imminent promotion to higher-middle manager because of it
mircea_popescu: mod6 no, it's "an economy". imagine, that's the bread of what, 500 derps ?
mircea_popescu: in other words, back to the topic : i think the people arguing that c is just the way to talk to the c-machine, aka von neumann machine have it wrong - c is just the way average people abstract. fortunately that fit into an already existing machine, but if it hadn't it'd have been forcibly fit anyway.
mircea_popescu: admire the pile of crap that the whole software involved is.
mircea_popescu: ah but this is only half the story. you also saved it there, and saved the "notes" string somewhere etc.
mircea_popescu: no. i mean the fact that you have a string stored, and an apparatus to retrieve and use it in place.
mircea_popescu: now is this kinda like c or kinda like lisp, you'd say ?
mircea_popescu: seriously, 50mn lines of code ? there's no need to write 50 mn lines of code. for anything.
mircea_popescu: We have 50 million lines of C++ code. No, it's more than that now. I don't know what it is anymore. It was 50 million last Christmas, nine months ago, and was expanding at 8 million lines a quarter. The expansion rate was increasing as well. Ouch."
mircea_popescu: like the plant in Little Shop of Horrors. Feeeeeed meeeeeee...
mircea_popescu: "The biggest thing you can write in C++ is... also an operating system. Well, maybe a little bigger. Let's say three times bigger. Or even ten times. But operating system kernels are at most, what, maybe a million lines of code? So I'd argue the biggest system you can reasonably write in C++ is maybe 10 million lines, and then it starts to break down and become this emergent thing that you have no hope of controlling,
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller nope. it was inteded as open mic here, if the guy were interested.
mircea_popescu: an interesting alternative entry point into the theory of teh bezzle
mircea_popescu: okies, logs done, discussions had, havoc caused, work reviewed (btw the eulora art is looking wunderbar) and so i guess ima bbl.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: Bam, news'd it up. <<< gotta love this guy
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves: usg is just alarmed hacker haz more dataz than them, so jelly <<< AAAANNDD they don't even quote trilema. not like it's been a secret over here, for the past half year or so.
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves: i could get more into it, but mostly people dont give a shit << actually i think most serious animalagans eat freeranged.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: i just got used to being poor again what is this <<< ikr? me too!