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Was kind of surprised to find that this company had no Wikipedia article. Just started one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axact How in the world do you fit a scam this big so far u…

For a lot of web development work, three is the perfect number. Terminal, IDE, browser.

Hey, I just wanted to share this library I put together, because Chain looks really promising as a way to quickly put together a Bitcoin app. I'm particularly excited about it beca…

A short list: - Trying to making small payments is terrible; the only way to tell whether a transaction requires fees is to try it, see it fail, and parse the error message to figu…

> The hi-tech road is supposed to be installed once for several decades, where paved roads are re-paved every few years. We're comparing the cost of solar panels to the cost of pou…

Yes! (Both.) You'll end up spending an amount of BTC that is equivalent to 90% of the cost of your coffee. So, an example: If you choose the $10 option, and $10 is worth 10mBTC (ex…

Someone in Vietnam released software to the world, therefore this is a story about American culture. That's just how Americans think. It's also necessarily about modern American cu…

This headline is sickening. Comal County criminal prosecutors ruined this man's life.

PS1="$(hr -) $PS1" Beautiful. Now I need a way to make this happen in SBT too.

How about a photosynthetic process that makes graphite from atmospheric carbon dioxide?

"write a program that copies standard input to standard output": org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils.copyLarge(System.in, System.out); I despise the Java language as much as the next dev…

The Wikimedia Foundation isn't a government agency, if that's what you're asking.

> Simply snail-mail a 128 bit one-time key pad to every voter. Cool. Who do you think would pay me the most for my pad?

So... we've determined that you violated the law, but we're choosing not to enforce the law. This what the kids call a bad code smell, right?

The code that the functional programmer produces is a more direct expression of the programmer's thoughts. The author thinks "I want to map this list using this transformation" (al…

I don't think recursion itself is difficult for most people to learn. The hard part is translating recursive functions into procedures. The imperative coding is what makes it confu…

> Personally, I think imperative code is more intuitive. It matches how people think of operational behaviors. The masses agree with you, apparently. That's why they sit in their c…

What is complex about Scala's pattern matching? x matches the value x, x:A matches instances of A, A(x) matches if A.unapply(x) evaluates to a Some, and _ matches anything. Erasure…