Zaskoda

Indeed we are.

I recently tried sharing an article I wrote for CryptoSlate about general stuff happening around gaming and it was flagged. I have no idea why. It wasn't spam. I wasn't selling anything. Honestly, a post on how to game HackerNews seems way way way more spammy than what I had flagged. I just wanted to share content that I had created. I don't expect I'll ever get 30,000 of you to look at one of my links.

Do you consider yourself the rule or the exception?

The CS program taught me the history and context for Computer Science. It taught me the fundamental physics that make a gate work and how to put those gates together to make a logic circuit. It then built on this one step at a time, walking us through each layer from how machine code manipulates bits to how to properly evaluate the run time of a complex algorithm. CS told me the comprehensive story.

Earning my BS and then my MS did not increase the amount of money people were willing to pay me to build things. However, I can generally tell when I'm working with someone who is entirely self taught and I assume others with degrees can tell also.

> Offensive to whom?

This is exactly the comment I clicked through to add. Without someone to be offended, nothing is offensive. When a service provider crosses the line and polices a piece of media, they are now responsible for defining that line moving forward. That's an insanely hard task.

Most people who want "offensive" content taken down do not understand the complexity of what they are asking for.

Math is not a crime.

My MS has certainly proven to be much more of a waste of resources than I ever expected it might be.

I used several Pi Zeros with EnviroPhat sensor hats to monitor temperatures and light levels in my Bitcoin mine. I have a Pi 3 setup as a game emulator in the basement. And I used to chop up rc toys from the thrift store to make RPI robots to chase my cats:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Set6z566-s

Hah, of course.

I believe you are saying "blockchain" here when what you are meaning is "cryptocurrency" such as Bitcoin.

I've recently been thinking about a blockchain use case that I have not seen mentioned: security.

It seems like log obfuscation is a common tactic used to cover tracks after a break in. Thus it seems like a blockchain could be used in a logging system so that a falsified log would trigger an alert.

Increasingly I have noticed that people who can see the future have given up on engaging those that can not.

Seems that accusing people of sea lioning is also a good way to dodge addressing a serious question. Someone will have to make another animal based metaphor for that some time.

What "problem" do you feel like the Internet itself "solved" ?

The mentality that you need to have a problem to solve in order to justify your company has some real value to it. However, somehow this has expanded into the notion that every piece of tech that doesn't solve an explicit problem has no value. The existence of the gaming industry shows that this is not the case.

I'm not a Tron fan, I listed it because 1) it was something that happened last year and 2) a few of the most played dapp games are running on Tron right now (and EOS)

Now I'm wondering, what else happened last year? I was sleepy.

I think ICOs were something of a killer app and they served to move things forward considerably. I don't think people have fully realized the breadth and depth of impact ICOs have had yet.

For some relativity:

  - 1969: ARPANET
  - 1971: Email
  - 1973: TCP/IP
  - 1980: Usenet
  - 1989: Commercial ISP
  - 1994: Netscape 
  - 1999: AJAX / Live Journal
  - 2001: Dot com bubble.
  - 2004: Gmail/Facebook
  - 2006: Twitter
  - 2009: Bitcoin
  - 2011: Twitch
  - 2013: First ICO
  - 2014: Alexa
  - 2015: Ethereum
  - 2017: Cryptokitties, EOS
  - 2018: Tron
  - 2019: Profit?

I think the next wave of killer apps will include a lot of creative new games. I think gaming will be a big force in blockchain adoption in general.

> Honestly, cryptocurrencies are useless.

Cryptocurrencies are essential. I don't see this mentioned often enough: We've had distributed systems for a long while before Bitcoin showed up. One of the most significant problems with any distributed system is incentivizing people to run nodes. Cryptocurrency solved this by providing a way to give value back to people who support the network.

As a Linux user, MS Code is one of my favorite MS products.

(as per my other post) crowd sourced investigative journalism... money gets pooled and goes directly to the journalist doing the research...

plus a reputation system

that's it, that's all we need to change right now... seriously, it will work

I have this idea I share over and over again because I'm not in a position to pursue it. Usually it gets ignored and every once in a while someone says it's brilliant so here's hoping.

Crowd source investigative reporting. Focus on supporting the reporter instead of the news network. Build a system that creates a reputation for the reporter and a mechanism to crowd source news that the general public is interested in.

I could go on, but then there would be more text for you to read. I guess I could add that cryptocurrencies and blockchain would be useful technologies in a tool like this. (reputation tracking and crowdsourcing)

That is exactly what I want.

Handy, I recently gave up on trying to find a truffle box with vue already setup so I used the most basic box to start. I found the the existing ones seem to get out of date quickly. Is there anything in this package above and beyond Truffle with Vue?

My family built our home starting in about 1990 when I was in high school. We built the entire thing ourselves. The only parts we didn't fabricate were the cabinets that my uncle built. We built a 3 bedroom 2 bath home with a study. I really cannot remember how big it was.

We built a 'pier and beam' foundation that created a cawl space under the house. We did our own plumbing, electrical, and hvac. We built in the country where the required inspections were minimal.

Even after having gone through the experience, I'm not sure what pointers I would give you here other than be prepared to do a lot of hard work and, if you finish, you'll probably be really glad you did it!

Most wealthy people did not start off with zero money and connections. Most wealthy people are born into privilege. They can afford to fail and try again. They have family and friends that can help them access resources and connections that the rest of us don't even know exist much less know how to get ahold of.

Despite the notion of the "American Dream", in our country, if you are born poor you will most likely stay poor.

DNA computing is going to be huge. Nobody is talking about it but a handful of people are slowly pushing it forward.

Paint Shop Pro 6 was far better than the version of Photoshop at the time IF you were a Web dev. While Photoshop did a better job of handling really big photos for print, PSP had the best tools for generating web-ready images.

I was offered a dev job at SparkFun. I really liked the work they offered but the pay was a little low and I got a much better offer from a well-funded project. That well-funded project went bankrupt and SparkFun continued to grow. Sometimes I think maybe I made the wrong decision. There may have been more money to be earned in the short term, but SparkFun is one of those really snazzy companies and I feel like I may have missed out on a great experience.

I only came to the comments to upvote whoever mentioned OpenStreetMaps. It needs our love.

I live in Seattle. There's a famous story about how we ended up with half of our streets running along one grid that was N,S,E,W and another grid that was aligned with the water front. As they built the city, these two patterns merged to create a total fuster cluck.

I am extremely confident that the graph for Seattle is incorrect.

Hooray Litecoin...