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Minor nit re: Rails legacy. IMO a major reason it was so popular was because of Ruby. It's certainly not the right hammer for every nail but the syntax is one of the best to work w…

earth and the rest of the inner solar system will be strip-mined for materials to build solar collectors and autonomous robots

we're information

these cars are going to be like beta max. quantum entanglement will make everyone who wasted time on them feel like an idiot. careers will be ruined.

greedo shot first

imagine spending 40k/year on your kid to go to school and write papers on "huh"

r u mad?

slightly over the top but awesome.

A somewhat more thorough asking of the same good question: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/36e8by/21dotco_a_bi... I'd like to see this answered in some forum. It's very ha…

Travis sounds exactly like a Disney villain. I bet somehow dead puppies are also involved.

I'm intimately familiar with cases where you actually would prefer to use UDP. My point is most of the time these cases aren't what you're dealing with. In addition to reliability,…

Yes. You can show me a relative corner case. But in most cases you want TCP.

Yes. You can show me a relative corner case. But in most cases you want TCP.

Disagree. In most cases you want TCP. Rarely do applications gracefully deal with loss.

Pursue a career in medicine. That way you can be absolutely sure you're working hard for a reason.

Would you have advised people to use the network during the split?

Currently we're saving every block we see. And if we find an orphan's parent which is on the main chain we try to connect them both. We aren't doing anything to explicitly avoid th…

The only instances of it we having running are the ones listed in the blog post (and just perhaps a Litecoin version that we're trying to get to sync.) They are in no way currently…

That's completely fair. Consensus systems are very difficult to (re-)implement correctly but I would argue there is value in doing so. There is also great risk and we appreciate th…

Been working on this with Adrian for the last 3.5 months. Happy to answer any questions if I can.