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This guy nails it. Bitcoin payment processing is slow, expensive, and inferior to the digital form of the U.S. Dollar in nearly every way.

Just say no to irrational exuberance.

"Even for a survivor of the dot-com bust, bitcoin is breathtaking"

Angel by Jason Calacanis

Traction by Gabriel Weinberg & Justin Mares

How things really work: Non-technical founder tells potential technical co-founder his great idea. Technical "co-founder" goes and creates Facebook/SnapChat on their own ;)

That's too bad.

The "Adwords for Outdoor and Transit Advertising" is a good idea. I once looked into how much it would cost to buy some billboard space, and it looked like it would be a pain in the ass (talking to sales people and whatnot).

I was talking about server-side JavaScript.

I did a little web scraping project a few years ago using:

* cURL

* regex

BASIC is dope. Maybe hipsters will start using it to build WebApps in a few years, and it will dethrone JavaScript as the hipster language de jour.

What-a-shit-show. The obvious answer is to move and let Silicon Valley implode.

While I don't drink anymore, the truth is that the lagers all taste the same and you should just buy whatever's the cheapest.

Yeah, you can't even open a Subway for $60,000. Opening a restaurant is generally a bad idea, but he obviously underestimated the cost of opening a restaurant.

Exactly, we're in the golden age of vlogging.

The web is better today. And personal home pages or web pages are still around in the form of blogs, the only problem is that most people don't blog.

That's badass. I didn't know you could do a full linux install on a chromebook. I used to run Ubuntu using crouton but I had to press all these crazy button combinations to boot up in developer mode and then enter some more shell commands to finally bring up Ubuntu.

I bought a Chromebook two years ago thinking I could wipe out Chrome OS completely and install Ubuntu to use as my primary machine. But I actually was only able to "sort of" install linux using crouton. It was cool but kind of annoying, you had to press all these crazy button combinations to boot up in developer mode and then enter shell commands to bring up Ubuntu. Pretty neat, but I was left with so little storage space I wasn't able to install Android studio so I couldn't use it as my primary laptop. Sadly, I don't think chromebooks make for very good primary machines. However, I wrote this comment using a chromebook, so I obviously dig them even if they have a ways to go.

Yeah she was terrible. Their homepage still sucks, freezes up my browser all the time.

He 'identifies as casual.' It's not a choice, he was born that way ;)

I believe Google's search engine was originally written in Java if you're looking for an inspiring Java webapp. App engine obviously didn't exist yet though.

Google

Just my opinion, but developing for the web is much easier than building native mobile applications. This is a good thing from my point of view. Native development has some catching up to do in this respect.

Maybe if the community can fix the Bitcoin mining fee problem it will work. But if they can't get the mining fee down to like 30 cents per transaction like with square or stripe, the overwhelming majority of people aren't going to want to use it.

And to be specific, I used Coinbase to purchase my Bitcoin and then transferred it to an Electrum wallet and then to another wallet.

People have told me that you don't have to pay the $5 mining fee, but I did not see an option anywhere with those two wallets to avoid or substantially reduce the mining fee.

I bought some Bitcoin for a family member as a gag gift recently thinking we could have some fun paying each other with Bitcoin for little things like household chores and whatnot. This was my first time using Bitcoin, and I was shocked to learn that it costs roughly $5 worth of Bitcoin to make a single transaction using Bitcoin! The fee is known as a "Bitcoin mining fee." I'm an open minded person and honestly believe d that Bitcoin might work prior to actually using it. However, after discovering the actual cost of using Bitcoin, it is clearly inferior to US Dollars in every way. Bitcoin is a scam, block chain is all hype, and everyone involved with Cryptomania is going to look silly when the music stops and someone has to eat the soggy biscuit.

Yeah, why would HTC agree to something like this? Sounds like Google got a hell of a deal getting to pick which engineers and IP they want without having to buy the whole company.

I use a $478 Xiaomi Mi Notebook Air 12.5 running Ubuntu. It's essentially a MacBook Air clone for half the price.

It looks like the guys at WPEngine have written an eBook about scaling WordPress if you want to check it out: https://wpengine.com/resources/scaling-wordpress-high-traffi...

I don't think MySpace had a micro-blogging feature back in the day, so I think that'd be the first thing that I would add -- a micro-blogging feature for posting text, pics, and videos. Toss in some inspiration from SnapChat and make the posts disappear after a short period of time. Ditch the facebook model of 'friending' and use twitter's 'follow' model instead.

That's a fun question to think about what one would do with MySpace, but I think the whole 'social' space gets too much attention. It's like Peter Thiel says, the next Bill Gates isn't going to create an operating system, and the next Mark Zuckerberg isn't going to create a social network (even though this isn't totally true, just look at Evan Spiegal & Kevin Systrom).

This article made me giggle. The truth is the real degrees are just as worthless.

Wingsuit pilot & programmer here. The reason Wingsuit BASE Jumpers keep dying is that you shouldn't jump your wingsuit off a @#$%ing mountain. Please stick to the planes and the helicopters that you're used to.