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We've been using PyO3 and Maturin at Spring for a while now, and happily. The smooth Python interop means we can call out to Rust without much pain for performance-critical codepat…

Thanks for the thoughtful feedback--I think these are very fair comments. When we first designed Jasper, it was just for us to hack around with, so regex matching, the priority sys…

It's not necessarily 'irrational'. A 51% miner could profit from Bitcoin's downfall, or by threatening others, or even by bluffing an attack. See, e.g., the Goldfinger Attack in ht…

I took the course this semester (and loved it--hope the materials can be helpful to all). We had one assignment that focused on achieving consensus in the face of adversarial nodes…

Can't speak highly enough of the Khan Academy internship experience--I interned with Kasra last summer and it was a pretty incredible few months. From the team to the mission to th…

True, but there's a decent case to be made that (1) transaction fees will have to increase (in general) as the block reward decreases, and (2) transaction fees will have to increas…

I'm a little confused--the article mentions that letters of recommendation must be turned over, but I believe that's only the case if the writer explicitly waived confidentiality (…

"I think the technology used to implement the Bitcoin payment system is fascinating - public ledgers and crypto and block chains will all be game changers. Bitcoins themselves? Mor…

What I worry about is the effect that market price can have on the security of the network (via global hash rate). The system will reach equilibrium when the revenue generated by m…

This is awesome. I've played around with React's server-side rendering [1] and was really impressed once I'd hooked it all up. To see React hook up the event handlers and render no…

I can testify that there are plenty of remote folk at Khan Academy--can think of six full-time remote devs off the top of my head (in a sub-40 person dev team). It's a very remote-…

Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow. It should be considered required reading these days--couldn't be more timely.

Great suggestions. I've been meaning to take a deeper dive into Wit.ai for a while now. It seems like their intents-entities architecture would actually fit in pretty cleanly with …

Agreed. Even with small tasks, I've found Atom to be noticeably slower. Just as an anecdotal data point, it takes roughly a second to open a file or folder in Atom (i.e., after ope…

The divisive effect that Upworth (and BuzzFeed) have had on Facebook users has been interesting to observe. Personally, the influx of links from these relatively content-less sites…

As a Princeton student, it's been pretty frustrating to watch this devolve into (drawing from comments on this page) a "sham study by Princeton", with this response being a critici…

Seconded--canvas support would be great. I too had to mix D3 with some canvas drawing. The specific use case was that I had a number of diagrams, most of which were handled by D3, …