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jurov: they are deallocated. but malloc won't give it back
to
teh system
shinohai: Also asciilifeform
ty for Programmable Version Strings patch
jurov: well.
the nastiest smell i felt was from std::map, so i suggest
to approach
that one next.
mircea_popescu: this is not a sprint. it's not even a marathon.
the most important
thing, by a large margin, is plox don't kill yourselves fighting with it. if anyone goes "i'll
tend
to my ulcer once i sorted out
THIS
thing",
that someone's going
to be remembered as naggum 2.
mircea_popescu: i am firmly convinced
that you can lose an entire
team of engineers in
there, permanently.
mircea_popescu: 98.x% of my contribution as far as fucking up my own
tech dept goes
to date has been variations of "STOP WITH
THE DAMNED CODE" and such.
ben_vulpes: i've almost forgotten how painful it is. i can
tell because i'm itching
to muntz further.
mircea_popescu: there's a reason nobody really
touched
the spaghetti monster in five years jurov and
this'd be
that reason.
jurov: (note i'm not employed.
these were full days. and still far from result)
mircea_popescu: somehow
this gargle
thing works do. it does something. it drives
the kids loco.
mircea_popescu: ace from our friends at OneLogin, our burnrate wasn’t yet gone
through
the roof. But close.."
mircea_popescu: "From
the comfort of
the backyard cabin we moved
to big city San Francisco and faced
the
totally hopeless situation of finding a place
to live. We survived
the first
two weeks by renting office space at
Tradeshift and sleeping on
their couches at night. Not sure if
they ever found
that out. Finally we managed
to get a 9 m2/97 sqft room
through our Y-Combinator network. Rent $1,250. Dang! But since we had free office sp
jurov: shinohai: first read it.
there are atrocities like CBlockIndex[400000] buried
there.
mircea_popescu: but hey... "online advertising is an industree. because google "makes revenue" from it, which is
to say some people recycle bezzle funds
through
there and everyone outside actually believes someone somewhere paid 5bn for ppc.
mircea_popescu: ming
through PPC were converted at a lower rate
than
those originating
through SEO. Even as we sharpened our
targeting, experimented with messaging, and sought advice and consulting from more experienced parties, we found
that paid channels just weren’t good enough
to merit real focus."
mircea_popescu: In our first year,
that conviction drove our experiments with a series of other channels: PPC, partnerships, deals, guerilla
type
tactics,
targeted mailings, craigslist posting
tools, etc. Each experiment produced results inferior
to
those from SEO.
The acquisition costs
through
those channels were significantly higher
than what was allowable based on our revenue per customers. We also found
that potential customers co
mircea_popescu: That worked brilliantly for us. We acquired users for practically nothing by using
the content and site structure generated as a byproduct of our
tutor acquisition. However,
that success was also a
trap. It convinced us
that
there had
to be another channel
that would perform for us at
the level of SEO.
mircea_popescu: in other news, "Tutorspree didn’t scale because we were single channel dependent and
that channel shifted on us radically and suddenly. SEO was baked into our model from
the start, and it became increasingly important
to
the business as we grew and evolved. In our early days, and during Y Combinator, we didn’t have money
to spend on acquisition. SEO was free so we focused on it and got good at it.
mircea_popescu: they don't want
that part of bitcoin anymore. it's "blockchain
technologies" now as far as reddit is concered, with spv mining, 0tx fees and hopefully increasing block subsidies in
the future.
BingoBoingo: I'm surprised no one on
the Luke-Jr derpity herp herp reddit
thread pointed out you are supposed
to wait for 6 confirmations
BingoBoingo: classmate in college held "fundraiser" in college after game show
tricked her into
taking pink and green SUV instead of money
TomServo: I'm unable
to get a matching sha256sum on 0.5.4-TEST2 [x86-64] [Latest] at
thebitcoin.foundation - could anyone confirm?
ben_vulpes: just
to be sure i'm on
the same page,
this 'hang' eventually ends when
the node completely processes
the block?
ben_vulpes: well i'm yes? ing about
the black hole.
ben_vulpes: other
than listening for new blocks in steady state in my experience.
ben_vulpes: a
trb node doing much of anything at all is pretty slow
to respond
to local api requests.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform dude, seriously,
the only
time i rented in
that part of
the world, place came with complete everything. boxsprings.
pete_dushenski: american flats don't come with mattresses omfg << even if
they did, no one would use
them.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform insurance co does not give you new matressess because kid pissed it ; nor new shoes because dog chewed
them.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski most of your "repairs" expenses when you have kids are sadly not of
this kind.
assbot: Logged on 07-12-2015 23:34:54; mircea_popescu: and if you want actual numbers, i just got a coupla girlies an apt.
the sale value would have been i guess 160-170k or so.
the monthly rent is 750.
the first month,
the washing machine went, and
the owner replaced it.
the next month, ac went (brother was
that an incredible pos job wow), owner replaced it. so far owner's been making 0 from his property.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not so simple as all
that, not really. what, you leave water running each week, landlord fixes ?
pete_dushenski: there's also nothing stopping
tenants and landlords
to signing 5-year leases
pete_dushenski: nt of capital), are retained regardless of
the presence or absence of children
pete_dushenski:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-12-2015#1347412 <<
to
the extent
that
the disadvantage of having kids is inflexibility and increased desire for a fixed locality, and
that
the advantage of renting is
the ability
to bounce from place
to place with relatively low friction,
then yes. but
the other advantages of renting, namely financial (repair costs, downside of housing market, unproductive use of large amou
☝︎ pete_dushenski: the level of graphicness of
that depiction makes me
think it wasn't even in engligh
assbot: Logged on 19-12-2015 17:35:45; asciilifeform: and can anybody recall where i got
the notion
that ottomans had headless races? (two prisoners run past swordsmen, heads chopped, hot iron 'thumb
tacks' inserted in stumps, bodies keep running)
mircea_popescu: i was under
the impression something else's discussed
there.
mircea_popescu: nobody said
the life on
the farm ain't easier, prikoke.
mircea_popescu: "We could have and should have used
the proceeds of
the convertible note
to get out from under Facebook’s
thumb rather
to invest further in
the Facebook Platform."
mircea_popescu: "oh...
there's no difference between
that velociraptor
that ate my arm, and
that other velociraptor
that ate my arm. wanna come play with my velociraptor ? no ? what do you mean no!"
pete_dushenski:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-12-2015#1347332 << not quite
the same. for weed, sellers just have
to be 'licensed' ; whereas with drivers ed, sounds like dutch are putting
the
teacher in control and letting him separate
the lemma from
the palea so
that he's not forced
to bang mayo-gendered just because girl can't pay any other way
☝︎ mircea_popescu: "We exposed ourselves
to a huge single point of failure called Facebook. I’ve ranted for years about how bad an idea it is for startups
to be mobile-carrier dependent. In retrospect,
there is no difference between Verizon Wireless and Facebook in
this context."
assbot: Logged on 19-12-2015 17:11:24; liquidassets: Pete, you're like a hero
to me, please don't make me call you a punk again.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nice paste, for it includes
the fee schedule huh.,
mircea_popescu: what was
that group of idiots
that died of hunger/ate each other in nevada ?
mircea_popescu: the fate of such folk, especially when unparented, is fundamentally speaking
the
mircea_popescu: "I can even get it up
to 2 or 3 block confirmation before
the real network overtakes it with a longer chain.
This is a risk accepted as a
tradeoff by SPV clients, but not acceptable for full node clients which are expected
to be secure on
their own."
assbot: luke-jr comments on Could a cartel of pool operators collude
to 51%-attack
the blockchain and/or change
the protocol? ... (
http://bit.ly/1NDI98l )
mircea_popescu: anyway, lulzy read for me. "what do you mean coming up with
this complex
theoretico-fantastico-nonsensical echaufadage did EXACTLY NOTHING ?!?!?!?!? but i
thought
thoughts alter reality! we rose
the awareness
to lilac levels!"