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Same in The Netherlands, and also works for regular transit busses so they can maintain their planned schedule.

Thought i got a deja-vu reading the title. Thanks for confirming my memory still sort of works :)

I've seen this more often, i think its because girls can be acting like adults/grown ups. And boys… well that sounds (and generally is correct) like they are immature, not grown up.

Just my penny.

Ah well as long as you receive equal pay, it's all good. And at least you eat good :)

That is true. I did assume :)

But the same applies to that. These 'other data formats' from other sources too, could also be replicated from the software handling them, assuming again! :o)

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Speaking from a perspective where i have seen many parties that went wrong with their '3rd party backup application', i tend to try to replicate most from the application themselves to other (safe) locations, then to rely on a 3rd party app which got setup in 2005, but in the meantime received little attention. Hence i prefer to look at the application generating/receiving/handling the data.

Interesting overview, some have to look into. But nobody/nothing mentions the option of the application handling the data you want to backup, to perform the backups.

Imho it's ideal to have the application handling the data also create the backups. And then transport them to remote locations via any means viable or any of the in the article mentioned backup systems again. Though having the application back things up vs backup software, i tend to think there is less tuning required, less chance on external locks etc etc.

yes yes sure it is.. NO.. its very relevant in a thread where editors are compared.

What is seen as a feature from mickeysofts point of view, is still a proper product from dropbox point of view.

And when will users complaint? When their storage, data is gone/lost etc, so why would mickeysoft even bother to provide storage. Let dropbox take the blame if data goes missing, M$ part worked flawless, it is dropbox that lost your data.

Being allergic to nuts, in particular peanuts, i wonder if this could or would raise the number of allergic (children/people) there. When perhaps else they would have not eaten peanuts.

Peanuts are weird.

email addresses aren't public in HN profiles.

*Programming language skills - really language…

Everything is overhyped; including this very website.

The editor imho, should not be that big of a choice. The more important thing is, you choose one and you stick with it so that you will master it and enjoy all the advantages there are for that editor.

I strongly doubt that there is much different (perhaps some limitations of the app itself which are described below in other comments), that a person that worked with atom editor for a long time and mastered it vs a sublime text user that mastered the editor will work at a different speed.

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And i stick with sublime :)

Negative memories are simply stronger. You want to avoid that in the future.

Another interesting read on it: https://www2.bc.edu/elizabeth-kensinger/Kensinger_CD07.pdf

While reading others' first thoughts,

My first thought was hey is this an add-on for gitlab? Does look a lot like it. So my initial quest was to look where i could download the community edition of this, but there is not?

"I won't fight over a stupid dictionary definition"

http://foldingcoin.net

lol you need more then a dictionary, glasses for starters.

You read things that are not written. :D :D amazing.

If you think stock trading and bitcoin mining is the same, then i'm not the one that is stubborn.

Not sure which bookstore accepts bitcoins, but you might want to invest in a dictionary. :o) Or amazon coins, dogecoins, aurora coin, blackcoin, coinye's, dark coins, etc etc.

Consensus, from the old latin, consentīre, to feel together, agree.

Something everybody in 'a party' can agree with.

"An attacker that controls more than 50% of the network's computing power can, for the time that he is in control, exclude and modify the ordering of transactions."

-- https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Weaknesses

That's 50% plus one, and that's certainly not a consensus, that's majority ruling. Perhaps you don't know as much about bitcoins as you think you did/do. And if you read the link you'll notice some more issues.

And those are mainly technical issues, not even the unfair investment in power, hardware. Simple example, electricity in my country is so expensive, if you'd find a bitcoin, it would hardly cover the costs of the electricity that i spend on it.

Consensus and majority ruling are not the same. We, you and me, probably won't come to a consensus about this. But if one of us was significantly stronger then the other, you could do a majority (in muscle power) ruling and claim your way is the only way to go, and everybody should stick to that (and yes there will be very unhappy people in that situation, the other half).

The quoting of the opinion of the dogecoin author, merely is to indicate there are more people that think like me. Even authors of crypto currencies with funny dog logos. So no it doesn't make him an authority; though i think its safe to assume he is somewhat more knowledgeable about crypto currency than the average greedy miner that just buys a few GPU's and starts mining in hope of (highly speculative, e.g. previously referred to, paintings.) fortune.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cryptocurrencies

Why do you think there are so many different crypto currencies. They all are greedy and want to harvest as much in the early stages of their mining, maximum returns on investments. Or sit in that place where banks are at in our current position. (what the Winklevoss brothers now want to be).

And if i don't seem to understand, in your eyes, what proof of work is, then please elaborate. Tell please try to enlighten me about the actual work that is getting done with bitcoins (or other crypto currencies)? What is this work exactly, because as far as i have understood over the years, it's a useless hash. Art like; Art that gets created on resources, we ruin our planet for.

Only thing they managed so far in my opinion is to create a somewhat, (its not,) anonymous payment system that allows the selling and buying of things that are generally illegal. (if those things should be illegal is a different discussion).

So to get back to evolution theory, there certainly isn't a consensus on this around the world. Else why are there still people that frantically fight that idea, and claim there is a creator? People are killing each other every day over this? Trying to do a majority ruling.

Have a good and happy mining weekend :)

consensus means all members of a party agree upon something. Not just 50%+1, majority rule.

This has to do with bitcoins, exchanges (the 3% fee people mentioned before). And people that are about to stuff their money into a futile idea. And don't pretend your comment is contributing in any way.

People doing bitcoins now, people starting the exchanges, online wallets etc, take the exact same positions as bankers have/had now. Pretending they know it all so well and right. And soon they too will take from you just as bankers. This exchange is not going to bring any change to bitcoins, it's just the winklevoss brothers trying to make the news again, and hope they finally have a product own besides a shitload of lawsuit money.

“I'm quite openly against [proof of work] mining as the future of digital currencies based on the amount of energy it wastes, and damage it does to the environment – without giving anything back apart from making the fiat rich richer.”

-- Jackson Palmer, author of Dogecoin.

And i share this point of view.

It's about bitcoin, exchange of value, etc. Seems quite related to me. Thanks for the link though.

And just because something has been discussed more often, doesn't mean it should not be mentioned at all?

Consensus of what? That early miners could mine a bit coin everyday and now you have to mine for 3 months to find one?

Hell yes :)

Bitcoin is similar to a pyramid scheme. Started mining early? You are rich! Started mining yesterday? you are screwed. And the more people get interest, the more fopping rich (i still think bitcoins have zero value), increasing value their mined coins will have.

Don't be so naive please.

Is there already a company that tied the 'donated' cpu power to a real product with revenue/profit to a crypto currency?

I mean all these hashes are nice and all, but the little magic math hash.. is about as valuable as a painting. Whatever the idiot gives for it.

Imho, if there is a real product developed with the donated cpu power in exchange for crypto coins which stand for a money value in relation to the developed product/medicine etc.

Like combining distributed computing, crypto currency and a product (e.g. medicine) which we could all benefit from. And those miners aren't simply wasting electricity.

Yes i consider bitcoin, and sort in current form, mining a waste of electricity.

Nice read Jacques :-)

Though typical story of any company/person that assumes a framework are great for their problem, product, not realising what and what not happens in the background. One has to perfectly understand which cogs, axis and wheels turn when an operation is done. Know which wheels always do the exact same thing (apply caches) etcetc.

But more important, best wishes for 2015 from nearby your office,

RB

Plus! you don't need to spend money on drinks :P

I can't imagine that either.

What i can imagine is that time spend on cleaning a single barf spot probably exceeds the costs of paper bags. Then again, who says everybody managed to put everything neatly in the bags and no cleaning afterwards is required.

Need some proper stats to calculate this i guess.

Getting a few errors, you probably are aware of due to HN traffic. But the error makes me wonder,

thirstyaffiliates-stats/thirstyaffiliates-stats.php

who are these thirsty affiliates you try to include?

"North Korea’s alleged ability to hack into Sony Pictures Entertainment is extending Kim Jong Un’s reach far beyond the range of his missiles."

:-) those rockets did not really get far so .. exceeding that is quite easy i'd say

In my opinion, it's misleading to advertise your application/products as 'security guaranteed' because it's open source and _can_ be reviewed.

The fact that something is possible to review, doesn't imply it will actually happen. See recent example issues of software like OpenSSL, Bash etc.

Though personally i don't see any motivation that would make me believe the open or closed choice is the better. They both have risks and costs, which you need to weight and make your choice upon. And most important accept the risks of your choice (, which you can of course try to minimise and should).

Itypo do cheer for any software you can choose to run/host yourself on your own network/hardware. And not be relying on another party to run and/or host it for you. (Which brings the additional security issues you can't control, physical access etc).