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mircea_popescu: seeing how most everything that actually works is actually c
mircea_popescu: Jere_Jones the kids don't seem to, which means you'll probably have your work cut out for you until you fall over
mircea_popescu: or just try to live with the idiocy of nonsensical xml horror.
mircea_popescu: i'm still waffly whether the entire thing should be torn out and re-written (which you know, 16th standard problem as well as joel's netscape objections)
mircea_popescu: there are some ad-hoc scripting things we're fighting with atm
mircea_popescu: ppl spent half a day debugging bizarre eulora errors only to discover the name of a variable happened to be a language construct and those you have to quote a CERTAIN way
mircea_popescu: Using a variable as a function name, or variable name, or class name. (silent)
mircea_popescu: well i guess why would anyone ever want function scope
mircea_popescu: so php does not actually have scope for anything but variables ?
mircea_popescu: Including a file dumps its variables into the current function’s scope (and gives the file access to your variables), but dumps functions and classes into global scope.
mircea_popescu: another court said stfu and pay or else we take your computors
mircea_popescu: the agency was not built with a lawyer budget, so it couldn't pay
mircea_popescu: the station sued the agency. the court ordered the agency stfu and pay the stations' lawyers
mircea_popescu: a state agency created to herpderp about us crapola fined a popular tv station for saying nigger or some such shit.
mircea_popescu: i don't think any government in the world gets so badly raped in the courts as the romanian one.
mircea_popescu: davout romanian courts are like something from 1400 HRE.
mircea_popescu: (really, it doesn't want rich foreigners coming in scooping their shit country for cheap)
mircea_popescu: the people who told them to fuck off got to get away with it.
mircea_popescu: the next year the tax code was altered mid exercise, and to be applied from the beginning of the exercise.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i can do you one better : romania passed an organic law saying that the tax code can not be altered mid exercise
mircea_popescu: nondeterministic; it depends on the order in which the sort algorithm happens to compare elements.
mircea_popescu: to defray his $10 a year "investment" in "internet" "business"
mircea_popescu: jurov here's the funny math on the topic : he could identify davout in his logs.
mircea_popescu: people with very flat profiles pushing very determinedly.
mircea_popescu: i suppose this is what is meant by the beetleman metaphore.
mircea_popescu: i may be in my slow mode, but i dont follow teh implicashionz.
mircea_popescu: there you go person : someone resurected the kraken harnett & co shat all over in 2012.
mircea_popescu: who was arguing for the good idea=ness of using dead brands ?
mircea_popescu: basically it's a site to meet federal agents posing as people who are trying to buy bitcoins to pay for stolen cards, rite ?
mircea_popescu: wait, that's still in business ? didn't it turn scam a while back ?
mircea_popescu: so basically i can just put the price anywhere by reporting trades on localbitcoins
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves you know that's pretty serious an issue.
mircea_popescu: seems to be exactly counter to what im trying to do tho
mircea_popescu: peterl i could. and then my own bitcoin and my own planet
mircea_popescu: theres' ANX.HK Justcoin and a bunch of other crap with < 10 btc volume
mircea_popescu: there's officially no bitcoin average price signal out there.
mircea_popescu: 23293.31 from bitstamp, 17237.53 from btc-e, basically this is a joke.
mircea_popescu: herpderp we've taken out mtgox, but we count bitfinex.
mircea_popescu: how the fuck is one to trust an avg which includes > 25% pure unadulterated crud.
mircea_popescu: so TIL that bitcoinaverage uses a ton of fictitious volume from crap like bitfines.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, absent any effort for deep understanding of meaning and grammar, no actual language learning takes place.
mircea_popescu: learning more languages never heart anyone, be they computer or natural.