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mircea_popescu: now, if the manager says something stupid now, like "why the fuck are you going for xpath you hipster, just do the transforms by hand" THEN poerhaps you got problems.
mircea_popescu: ce Oracle when it's ready, so long as the database sends some decent form of XML. Once I get this data subsystem done, I can finish the business logic, which attaches to the nonfunctional demo you love so much.
mircea_popescu: vendor to fix it but they said 6 to 8 weeks for a patch, and our project deadline is sooner than that. I need to interface with the legacy system because even though the DBAs have ported things over to Oracle, they're still sorting things out and it's not reliable enough for me to make any meaningful progress. Fortunately, I've thought this through and abstracted the data subsystem well enough that I can drop-in repla
mircea_popescu: "I'm compiling a new version of libxml, so I can get the Python parser working. I need to do that because LXML, the Python binding, would crash under heavy load when I used the system default version of libxml. I am using LXML because BeautifulSoup doesn't have support for XPath. I need to do XPath transforms against the input because the legacy system we interact with doesn't send well-formed XML. We tried to get the
mircea_popescu: "i am 12 and what is every option that i have explored ???"
mircea_popescu: fuck you, if you don't recall why you're here you're red fucking riding hood here to meet the wolf, not a coder writing code.
mircea_popescu: benkay << i can't believe the guy actually proposed an inability to remember wtf he's doing and why as a sort of intellectual manliness.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: somebody who is poor knows which truck has the money. i guess you take that guy out back after he drives the truck where it is going. << you fundamentally misunderstand revolutions.
mircea_popescu: shitty middleeastern banks prolly keep usd/eur bills too
mircea_popescu: these are precious metals, bearer bonds, various certs and other valuable paper
mircea_popescu: ro central bank has about a billion in shit in its central vault for instance.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: who understands this: "ISIL stole $400 million in a raid on Mosul's central bank". what, it was stacked in the corner in bills? << yes.
mircea_popescu: benkay: but !logsearch "foo" is going to be rad, mthreat, kakobrekla << defo, point of entire exercize.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: hm, can you connect to 0mq socket? << kako doesn't get enough sex so he's socketed all the things.
mircea_popescu: mthreat: if things go smoothly we'll have a #bitcoin-assets log search engine in a few hours << o hey!
mircea_popescu: mike_c: how is betting no on everything random? << how isn't it ?
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: short the world. << "the little bettor that said no"
mircea_popescu: what is it with you bunch of ex brtish convicts over there!!1
mircea_popescu: benkay: the label on this beer can is misaligned by a whole damn .125 << maybe it's so it reads right when you're drunk
mircea_popescu: who the hell is still on origin time after a month in a different timezone i wish to know ?!
mircea_popescu: similarly to <kakobrekla> i remember from childhood, sets of cards that were naked women
mircea_popescu: actually a pretty good pic of her huh, she's like the mother of disdain
mircea_popescu: fluffypony i didn't have the time to log into rift even past two weeks
mircea_popescu: i r just saying so it's said. not intending to persuade.
mircea_popescu: that doesn't make them less of a waste of, presumably, valuable brain gasoline.
mircea_popescu: no *coin or wallet* will ever solve the ussr-ness of the usa
mircea_popescu: many many MANY genius minds wasted most of their time in pursuit of similar nonsense.
mircea_popescu: there is no such thing as bitcoin taint. attempts to solve this inexistent problem, just like all the other attempts to solve inexistent problems in the history of human engineering
mircea_popescu: since we're doing affidavits, prosecutor is welcome to an affidavit as to how he himself bought.
mircea_popescu: if they ask you who you sold them to, you give them the name of the prosecutor in charge.
mircea_popescu: it's deposited to mpex, and a sum withdranw to pay for same. so... what ?
mircea_popescu: sothe 10btc is... moved to my wallet, from which a diff sum is spent on whatever, baby squirrel tears. so what now ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't see any evidence whatsoever is th problem
mircea_popescu: so you have a guy's affidavit that he sent me 10 btc to addy x in tx y.
mircea_popescu: it's sad how many promising young minds are ruined by the predilection of young minds for bad associations
mircea_popescu: he's definitely misreading what bitcoin does, for that matter.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: conveniently occurring just as the price topped << anything having taaki involkved and not being a scam ?
mircea_popescu: myeah. giving the site ot mr evil doesn't hurt anything on a plaintext site.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: ugh. shame on your family. << bitcoin-otc isn't really intended for
https anyway is it. or am i missing your point ?
mircea_popescu: so basically, for as long as other people cook, crowdfounding can continue to make the tomato roses.
mircea_popescu: is there any actual anything done via crowdfunding so far ?
mircea_popescu: remarkable how similar the start and end of civilisation are. sorta like the start and end of man's life.
mircea_popescu: inexplicable why it's so easy for scammers on that forum.
mircea_popescu: the reason for that'd be that sheep never make good wolves in the first place.
mircea_popescu: for the record, had occasion to punish girly to cat food only diet for a week or so.
mircea_popescu: other over our situations, when she in her grandmotherly fashion tried to convince me that I would be “healthier” eating cat food (like her) rather than trying to get all my substance from peanut butter and bread. I couldn’t quite go there, but the impression was made.
mircea_popescu: In retrospect, the situation was laughable because here I was living on peanut butter and bread (or Ritz crackers when I could afford to splurge) for months at a time. When I got to know this poor figure and heard her story I felt worse for her plight than for my own (I, after all, I thought I had everything to in front of me). I was genuinely appalled at one point, as we exchanged stories and commiserated with each