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Re: Ethereum

#11
Spend 30 seconds on the site. Didn't get it. Move on.

If this is important, it will appear again on (HN|Reddit|etc) for me to take a closer look.

Oh, and 30 seconds is a looooong time to spend on a site. I would guess people spend no more than 5 to 10 seconds on a site before they decide to investigate further or move on.

Re: Ethereum

#12
post #6

I follow Ethereum for a while now, it's really impressive the vision of the founders. Especially Vitalik Buterin. He have the technical abilities, the media power (he is a co-founder of the Bitcoin Magazine), and the vision (he anticipate long-term effect). The team is growing rapidly, with impressive new members. The community as well.

This thing is going to be huge. I'll be following too, with lots of interest. Hard to wrap my head around it, though..

Re: Ethereum

#13
post #7

"a revolutionary new platform for applications" That didn't tell me anything.

Same here. Even scrolling down I don't get what this does/enable very easily. The code examples are also hard to understand (naming is not obvious) for someone who doesn't know what Ethereum is.

Re: Ethereum

#15
post #11

Spend 30 seconds on the site. Didn't get it. Move on. If this is important, it will appear again on (HN|Reddit|etc) for me to take a closer look. Oh, and 30 seconds is a looooong time to spend on a site. I would guess people spend no more than 5 to 10 seconds on a site before they decide to investigate further or move on.

You couldn't take a minute to actually read it over?

It's not hard to understand. If you don't want to give new ideas the time of day, don't click on it; and especially don't waste your precious time on commenting about it.

Re: Ethereum

#16
post #11

Spend 30 seconds on the site. Didn't get it. Move on. If this is important, it will appear again on (HN|Reddit|etc) for me to take a closer look. Oh, and 30 seconds is a looooong time to spend on a site. I would guess people spend no more than 5 to 10 seconds on a site before they decide to investigate further or move on.

FYI, this is at least the second time Ethereum has been posted to HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7041628).

Also, I thought the same thing about Bitcoin the first few times I saw headlines posted on HN in 2009 and 2010. Kind of wish I payed attention sooner...

Re: Ethereum

#17
post #3
post #2

Unfortunately the first thing I notice is the fancy animation at the top of the page stutters when loading, and causes my browser to use far more CPU than this type of page should.

Why is that unfortunate if you know it has nothing to do with what they're building?

Because if they can't develop a simple web site properly how can I trust them to host my application?

Re: Ethereum

#18
post #11

Spend 30 seconds on the site. Didn't get it. Move on. If this is important, it will appear again on (HN|Reddit|etc) for me to take a closer look. Oh, and 30 seconds is a looooong time to spend on a site. I would guess people spend no more than 5 to 10 seconds on a site before they decide to investigate further or move on.

It's such a common paradox with technically gifted people: They spend so much time and energy on a product, but almost none thinking about how to present it clearly and succinctly to a complete outsider.

Re: Ethereum

#19
What lost me were the code examples for things like "name registration." Take this line for example:

contract.storage[tx.data[0]] = tx.data[1]

They could have at least used a named local variable for "tx.data[0]" to give some context. What the hell is this doing?

Re: Ethereum

#20
post #11

Spend 30 seconds on the site. Didn't get it. Move on. If this is important, it will appear again on (HN|Reddit|etc) for me to take a closer look. Oh, and 30 seconds is a looooong time to spend on a site. I would guess people spend no more than 5 to 10 seconds on a site before they decide to investigate further or move on.

You couldn't take a minute to actually read it over? It's not hard to understand. If you don't want to give new ideas the time of day, don't click on it; and especially don't waste your precious time on commenting about it.

I read what, why, and how and still have no idea what it is and no concrete example of an application. Everything is explained with jargon and abstractions.

Btw, I actually have a vague sense this could be something cool and interesting and would like to understand....

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