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Isn't donating money to someone wanted by the state a crime? He might be hiding out in Russia, but I'm not...

Considering the CFTC didn't regulate Bitcoin until today I wouldn't think so. Their application would have been received with a polite "save yourself some time and money, we don't …

This is an interesting development. Typically commodities futures and options contracts can only be traded on a DCM (designated contract market) like ICE or CME. After leaving once…

Generative Art, a Practical Guide Using Processing by Matt Pearson, and Learning Three.js, The JavaScript 3D Library for WebGL by Jos Dirksen

The document includes a 1x preference, anti-dilution, board seat, etc. Aren't those fundamentally the things that make their shares different than common? Can you disentangle the n…

That is code for "wow, this is way more work than I thought it was going to be."

> A Car Guy's right hand man An article, 4 nouns and an adjective. This isn't parseable without 3 or 4 passes. The idea is spot on, it's short and simple, but improve the English t…

Educational and entertaining as always Evan, I would love to see a similar writeup on Elixir. Maybe a Chicago Boss port is in order ;)

I started about 1.5 years ago and it has been great. Strength training + cardio, planned by someone else, on a schedule, guided by a coach, with peers that encourage and motivate y…

We're a marketplace that uses Balanced's ACH + escrow for moving money between buyers and sellers. I am glad to hear you will be supporting this on Stripe, but since I only have 90…

Yes. Of course I wouldn't characterize it as blindly following so much as being able to rationally step back with some perspective and identify some trends as positive. Lisps are a…

> You know the term REPL, right? Yes, and notice how it doesn't stand for Rrepl-Evl-Princ Loop. > There is a good rationale behind those names. No, there is a good rationale for ha…

So in 2020 people will have forgotten the etymology of print or format, rendering them nearly meaningless while princ, car and cdr endure? That's rhetorical, you don't need to repl…

No one is arguing that CL sucks, but that if you are going to re-skin the whole thing with learnings from modern languages, with features like string interpolation, then you might …

I do. There is a reason for the success of Ruby and Python, and why Elixir is dragging Erlang in to the present. It turns out you don't just have to write your language in the shap…

Mercaris, data and trading for Organic agriculture, based out of 1871, founders are grads of Excelerate (now Techstars Chicago), recently closed a Series A, hiring/growing.

How are all writes immediately consistent? What if two clients make simultaneous writes to each shard? Or more extreme, what if there is a net split and writes continue on both sha…

As I mentioned the code that writes the event to the db notifies the client about it, so it knows about the client. This isn't really an issue. In the case of an exchange I never s…

So obviously that would be application specific. In the case of an exchange when a client connects they get a snapshot of the whole market and then begin receiving streaming update…

Looking at the docs it doesn't appear this is meant to stream to the client, but to the server. From there you would still need to manage queues and sockets, etc.. I've had to writ…

"This means that somewhere, this instance needs to be connected to a proxy server, which assigns a 10.x.x.x address to the “Windows” machine, and then forwards the connections thro…

It's not power, it's credibility. If someone who has never done anything says they are going to accomplish something large people are skeptical. If someone who already created a su…

I am trying to hire Rails programmers and everyone I talk to from other founders to recruiters to lead devs all report the same problem: too many Rails jobs way too few available p…

There are a lot of non-Apple products. I recall seeing things like printers buried in the old design, but I assume drones are new? I am curious how people will feel about the perce…

Does this imply we are headed towards a future where there isn't a 10x difference between the best programmers and the worst? Where someone comes up with repeatable training that c…