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mircea_popescu: May 09 14:23:57 <assbot>[MPEX] [S.MPOE] [PAID] 99.77743063 BTC
to 500`000`000 shares, 19 satoshi per share
jurov: mircea_popescu: really, you
tolerate almost 5% reporting error?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: just in
the loop somewhat << prolly
time
to start grepping clients from hell for recognisable specifics.
mike_c: why not a 7 at
the end?
mircea_popescu: what happens when
the fatherland and
the motherland get in bed ?
Naphex: mircea_popescu: probably, because before ranting about it here
they couldn't find my paiments :))
pankkake: the French might use Patrie, which is like
the motherland but with a penis
Naphex: mircea_popescu: yeah i'll get some
time
to document it and make some examples.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: well, nation << he's right davout_ mike_c.
the us uses "nation" like "our great nation" "defending
the nation" etc.
jurov: and _no_ other rounding is done, so
the dividend is not a whole number of satoshi
jurov: where
the 500000000 is a "float" sometimes obscure even for MP himself
jurov: but anyway,
the correct formula
to compute your divs is
mircea_popescu: Naphex: whats wrong with DNS <<
that you didn't document your
thing.
mike_c: jurov: 18 digits. you know way
too much about mpex.
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic: for me it's beyond doubt coinbase is scaming with
their high risk
tx bullshit << he also has a point.
jurov: and
the rest goes where?
mircea_popescu: the 30%
that normally goes
to mpex shareholders goes
towards
the credit
mike_c: 30% goes
to mistake, 70% should go
to divs, yes?
mircea_popescu: mike_c "Because MPEx shareholders were paid 3.68215306 BTC instead of
the 1.10464591 BTC
they were actually due for February, 30% of profits going forward will be allocated
to covering
that credit, in lieu of MPEx dividends.
This sum comes
to 0.99104946 BTC
this current period, leaving
the credit
to be covered in following months at 1.22827111 BTC."
jurov: just rouded
to satoshi at
the last possible moment
jurov: mike_c mpex dividends are really paid
to 18 digits of accuracy
ozbot: BitBet, March 2014 Statement pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mike_c: of course,
that's 9 digits after
the decimal, so
they can't really be
trusted.
mike_c: hm. btcalpha accountants
think
that no div was paid last month, and 0.250730601 BTC should've been paid
to shares on mpex.
jurov: no ozbot? "In
Toronto with
the world’s feminist pornographers"
ThickAsThieves: deviladvocate.biz new-user count is up 50% in 5 days. Almost ready
to IPVO!
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: Read it,
the more opinions
the better
mircea_popescu: fluffypony so should i bother
to read
this
thing or just wait for 2038 ?
ThickAsThieves: other
than hacking apart html and css
to make websites look different sometimes
benkay: y'all are in
the fortunate position of having offices.
mircea_popescu: benkay i didn't fuck a woman last night,
tho she was giving me
the fuck me eyes. she had
the best ears in
the world.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: so it's in
that context << you have
to include your context in your blogposts.
that's why mine end up ungodly long soimetimes, you want a reader falling on it
ten years later
to still get a whole meal.
benkay: y'all apple haters miss
the part where
they make
the best laptop chassis in
the world.
mike_c: oh yes, no argument
there.
mircea_popescu: 04:50:57 mircea_popescu:your blog got 0 comments
the past month. << just because your blog doesn't get comments doesn't mean it sucks. << no, but it also doesn't mean you can "get my name out
there"
mircea_popescu: bounce: kinda interesting.
though I probably wouldn't go
through
the
trouble even if I had access
to (or need for)
those
things << exactly. it's sort-of like putting your
time into being
the best earthworm kinetotherapist. why bother.
mircea_popescu: in changing a functional workstation for a severely crippled, difficult
to use one.
mircea_popescu: and re "executive"'s move
to apple :
the point of sad fact is
that actual executive power moved from
the us
to china in
this interval.
the ever swelling headcount of ever more powerless and pointless us based pseudo-executives have chosen
to
temporarily drown
the realisation of
their loss
mircea_popescu: Naphex: sorry i meant a severly limited computer which you can use
too buy more apple shit << exactly. in point of fact nobody actually wants an apple anything.
mircea_popescu: apple do know how
to be cool and hip and
things, or at least jobs managed
to hit
the nail on
the head an ungodly long
tim <<
that's it. apple is now reduced
to
the position of rich old guy
trying
to buy
the company of
the hip young
things in
the hopes it'll attract
the
teenage pussy it's after.
ThickAsThieves: but now Moodle is way out of date and missing features
they really want
benkay: but client didn't care
to pay for a new stack - would rather
throw 4x as much at
the old stack.
benkay: cost...too much. probably more
than writing a cms/ecom platform ourselves woulda.
benkay: ebay staff didn't
think it was even POSSIBLE. but we did it.
benkay: i worked at a shop once
that charged an ungodly amount of money
to migrate another large ecom hustler from magento community
to magento pro
benkay: Magento's a really good example of
this. you start a business selling shit online, you're all "hey magento! it's awesome and does everything i need!"
then you want
to hire someone
to do work on your magento install and lolololololol either you hire kids who are learning php on
the fly and
they do god knows what
to your install or you hire actual magento devs at 400+/hr
benkay: not being able
to qualify
tech
teams
benkay: yeah
that's
the really rough part of
the problem
ThickAsThieves: nor quite
the ability
to confidently discern between
them
benkay: man
this story is so familiar. non
technical stakeholder dictates
that a particular already-built
thinger be used despite knowing nothing about its architecture or code quality or
the ability of development
teams
to work against
the existing codebase.
thinger is either a mess or
takes 6 months for an individual
to come up
to speed on
the nuances/idiocies of, but project already has
thinger built in.
ThickAsThieves: well we have yet
to encounter a
team
that can assist, finding one is not easy when you have no reliable connections into better breeds of programminig
teams
benkay: sounds like you'd want
to preserve your ability
to deliver features fast and on budget at all costs.
ThickAsThieves: orgs get really particular about grading systems and features
they need
ThickAsThieves: there's more need
than you might initially realize for a customizable education software
bounce: that sort of
thing goes best when
the code is a particular kind of stupid: lots of repetition, lots of hooks
to revamp.
bounce spent a few weeks refactoring a fantastically bad code base. was sort-of fun, if you like a lot of mindless drudgery. lots of condensing copy/pasted code, but also coming up with interfaces
to safely re-do (in less code) what's already
there giving
the same result with less spaghetti. and
then slowly "factor up".
benkay: pankkake: url-encode everything and
throw away
the method.
benkay: then
there is
the 'shoehorn existing software into my problemspace'
thing going on as well it sounds
pankkake: benkay: depends on how dirty you want it
to be :D
ThickAsThieves: i dont
think moodle licence would allow for
the master plan
though
benkay: unless it was designed
to do
that from
the get-go, but from
the sounds of it it's kind of a mess in
the first place.
benkay: it's kinda hard
to move
the custom designd
thigner into a multitenant deploy generally,
ThickAsThieves
ozbot: Moodle - Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia
ThickAsThieves: the idea is for any person or company
to be able
to use it
to build
training
ThickAsThieves: the idea was
to make
this software, polish it and add features for 6mos in use for grade school education,
then further develop it by making it more robust for other
types of
training (i have/had clients in areas like haxardous material
transportation certs, etc),
then once it seems ready, make it a DIY SaaS monthly fee website
thing
bounce: amazingly, still so many project managers
that haven't read _The Mythical Man-Month_
pankkake: bounce: lol, yeah. we wanted
to start over on our own code for a project, but it was still manageable, albeit painful
bounce: sometimes you do need
to start over.
though not as often (and often not when) dev
teams want
to start over
Naphex: the code,
the platform was just
too shitty
to waste any good programmers
time on it