jorgem

>> the less single individuals can influence or manipulate the price

972 people control half of all bitcoins, right now.

What makes you think things will get better?

source: http://www.businessinsider.com/927-people-own-half-of-the-bi...

>> Wealth tests

Apparently, you can lie: http://www.quora.com/How-do-you-become-an-accredited-investo...

I could not find XBTFUND symbol (or any other search with the term "bitcoin") when I went to Fidelity.com

Anyone know the symbol?

>> Value created !== programming complexity

I don't see why that's so funny. Isn't that the hallmark of all successful software businesses?

Your looking for:

   valueCreated > programmingComplexity

I suppose if you manage to break into Fort Knox, you might have some nukes, too. Seems like not-the-simplest-plan.

Silly... seems like forums would be easier to snoop than phone calls.

Interesting... source?

This is an interesting tale. When I read these, and all the we should have an "entrepreneur visa" stories, I can't help but feel sorry for all the others who aren't as well educated and will never be able to hack our system.

My first day at my first job after college I recieved a manual labeled: TLA's & FLA's.

Big companies are just that way.

How do you threaten to destroy gold?

Similar in some ways to api that is in streak.com

Yeah, my bucketlist is going to need to be modified slightly to account for this. I think it has always been: "Drive to Argentina from Los Angeles". I think it's ok to put the car on a boat for part of the trip. :)

I didn't understand how they got the "age" of users for different email hosts.

I think I get your point now: As an example, if I could somehow distribute a million USB sticks to a million different people and get them to mine for me (using their electricity and PC at no cost), I could more efficiently mine bitcoins because my lower costs would exceed the gains in processing efficiency that the largescale miners achieve?

Hmmm. Regarding the "relative profit" of small scale mining: There must be some gain in efficiency to moving to these largescale mining systems. Or everyone would just make lots of the small scale systems, right?

incredible.

I worked in an office similar to that "1937 office" for a few months in the early 90's -- in Japan.

The desk layout on the "engineering floor" of the building seated senior engineers behind the junior engineers. All the way back to the VP of engineering in the back.

As a foreign visiting engineer from a California startup, I was seated in the back near the VP. I think they were trying to be respectful to me. Engineers then came back to my desk to ask me questions, although I was actually very junior to them. Hilarity ensued, when they actually took my advice.

EDIT: Clarified

Maybe, but 30 other apps did better in search for mispelling of instagram -- and they were all related to instagram.

Anyway, it soon jumped to #2 like for everyone else.

One of the reasons my WP is a POS is that when I search for "instragram" in the App Marketplace, the actual intstagram beta app is like the 20th thing.

How can a single word search for an app with basically one word in the name have such bad search results???

I propose a scarlet letter "P" (for plaintext).

Yeah, but at least at Microsoft, no one is eating whales.

My point, is you can find something to hate about every company or group of people.

Why so much hate?

Also, "intellisense" for the "using" statement doesnt work.

Example:

   using System.

I don't get any choices...

Je

It seems to me that the creators would have investigated this before building hardware?

You're doing better than me. I still don't understand why FB is worth anything.

Good article. I think it might have been helped to introduce the "real" terminology, like "Monads", at some point. To help the reader refer to terminology they'll see in other articles.

Good thing I never remove the battery when flying on an airplane.

Perhaps. Here's a quiz: Name a big Philanthropist from 300 years ago. From 150 years ago. From 50 years ago...

Maybe it's safe to say that quality of life has generally improved for the human race over the last 100k years.

Pretty cool stuff. How big is the team working on these Go projects?