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it was an artifact of the build system at the time that i think was inherited from VC++

this reminds me of the time at Microsoft with Visual Studio 6 where the version comparison was a string compare, but build numbers were julian dates, with 4 digits - 9365 was december 31st, 1999.

so we couldn't go from 9365 to 0001. So we just went to 9366 and so we had 999-366 days to sort out a better version numbering system.

It's the ability to move between USD that allows us to discover the true value of a bitcoin.

Quick example - in Argentina currently, the government is desperate to keep foreign currency reserves in USD, so they've banned most means of converting ARS to USD. This has created a dual exchange rate where the official value is 5:1 USD, but the "alternative" rate is 8:1 USD. The difficulty of conversion is causing the value of pesos to fall by nearly 40%. The "true" value of the peso is probably somewhere between those two numbers but the market's ability to discover its true price is being distorted.

If a currency as "big" as a member of the G20 ($450 billion GDB) can get massive distortions from closing just some of the easy conversion points, it could destroy bitcoin if the US Government made it difficult to convert into and out of USD.

Further, it seems to indicate that BTC would need to be incredibly liquid before converting to USD wouldn't matter that much.

the more spanish i speak the more i want to drop english words, and the more confortable i am moving the subject of the adjective to the end of the sentence.

great comment. update - they have resumed deposits.

any tips you could give?

passenger

highly recommend runit + monit. The beauty of runit is the ./run script is easy to run by hand to test. The beauty of monit is it can watch things like http urls and ports, and if something goes wrong, monit executes sv down myservice; sv up myservice. (sv is the actual launcher-thingy of runit)

If you use monit without runit, you end up in this weird world where monit starts and stops things in a very odd environment and it's flakier, environment variables are missing, etc. Also monit takes a long time to notice things are down, and doesn't start things right away on boot.

Finally if you don't boot your services with monit, you booted them with something else meaning that when a restart occurs, you're starting a service in a different environment than you booted in. weird.

so, let monit check health of things, let runit start and stop things.

Is the yuan backed by precious metals?

it's the same with stock price. say there's a giant correction. the value disappears. it wasn't stolen from anyone. the same way the global economy has grown over thousands of years, and people are much wealthier - that isn't because they stole from anyone but the total value of the entire economy grew and "everyone" became wealthier.

HipChad is better than campfire in a number of ways. push and email notifications, mobile clients. Easier to have group rooms and to send group messages. lots of plugins.

Mobile clients are not great but are good enough.

Ironically, people said he should have handled the commit differently, and perhaps he should have.

But here we are talking about him 1 year later. I think he probably shouldn't have done it, but on which side of the pg/YC line of creative subversion did his stunt actually fall?

This is so true. The fact of the matter is that Rap Genius has obviously had to have someone spend a ton of time diagnosing problems with Heroku - and is objectively cheaper just to host some servers compared to Heroku dynos

This is why I always tell people that Heroku is actually NOT a good solution if you truly need scale. They're good for staging, launch, and an early traffic emergency or two. After that, ONCE YOU NEED TO SCALE, it's cheaper just to run your own servers, because the problem that Heroku is solving for you becomes a smaller and smaller percentage of your overall oeprations budget.

SEEKING WORK: Android or iOS - chad@inaka.net - have built a number of android and iOS apps.

There's also a YC tablet spreadsheet startup out there - GRID.

That's EXACTLY what i was looking for, thanks!

But don't you think that if it were common for people with serious illnesses to come to the US, we'd see much more made of it than we do from those with a large vested interest in noting the influx?

As I said to your sibling comment, it's helpful to hear of your experience.

sorry to hear about that. Your comment is very helpful as most, in fact, all Canadians I know are from big cities, and so I now have a richer set of anecdotes... ;)

Well, I can't find any canadians who don't want their system. I can't find any (non-partisan) news sources complaining of a even a small number of people who would opt out of the Canadian system. Tommy Douglas, the founder of the system, is repeatedly voted the most popular Canadian in history... And...anecdotally every Canadian friend of mine loves to likes the system. I'd love to see some, any, hard evidence that the Canadian system is such a disaster that they're fleeing to the US to escape its tyranny.

It's just not true that large numbers of Canadians go to the US for healthcare. You need to supply evidence of this. The numbers are vanishingly small.

Can someone who has been explain the value of attending?

whey protein is really just the leftovers from cheese production ... it's not that unusual of a substance.

this is where i got my data - http://examine.com/faq/how-much-protein-do-i-need-every-day.... - and you're right. I aim for 200g/day which for me is 2g/kg and probably a bit more than i need. I've noticed if i work out and eat much less than that i don't recover as well.

as an american living in argentina, i say, pass the morcilla : )

the recommendation if you're lifting to gain strength from a number of sources is 1g to 1.5g of protein per lb of body weight. for me that's 190 to 260g/day. it's A LOT...

basically, protein/fat/carbs. see this -http://www.kentmccannfitness.com/2013/02/12/what-are-macronu...

One of the things I've enjoyed the most in the past 4 months has been diving into reddit.com/r/fitness. If you spend a few hours reading the FAQ on that site, plus examine.com's nutrition articles, and reddit.com/r/leangains FAQs, you will come out with a much better understanding of your diet.

There are also calculators listed in the FAQs that will help you determine what you need to eat to maintain your bodyweight, lose fat, gain muscle, etc, over a user-selected window of time.

First thing I realized - that the difference between tracking your "macros" and not is like programming with Word or with vi/emacs/slickedit/etc - the difference is AMAZING.

The next thing I realized - is that to get enough protein if you're even moderately active, you have to eat A LOT - eggs, milk, meat, tuna, and even then I still have to supplement with protein supplements.

Now, combine the diet knowledge with a beginner weight training program like Starting Strength and the effect is amazing. I've gained 10 pounds of muscle and lost 10 lbs of fat. I've doubled all my lift numbers (which are still admittedly quite low) in four months. I have far more energy and other activities - I occasionally play tennis - I play better and feel stronger.

Edited to add - and most importantly, use something like myfitnesspal.com - which is free, has a great app, and has millions of food items, and track everything for just a few weeks. it will teach you what protein/fat/carbs common foods you eat have.

interesting. that would reduce it to probably 3 though... still a shocking stat but more likely.

I highly doubt the 1k/50k stat - I have personally written 6 apps with more than that - so i've written slightly more than 1/2 of 1% of all apps in the app store with more than 50k users? unlikely...