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It seems that the correct title should have been "all your keys are belong to us".

I see the next PR headline: "We found so many bugs in all the vendors' programs. In google, there are no 0 days. Why not switch to our platform ?"

Security is a big issue for all these corporates to the bare minimum degree that would make most people feel secure enough.

I don't buy it anymore.

AFAIK, In economics there's pretty much a consensus of journal ranks amongst researchers.

If you want to be a tenured professor, you'd usually be expected to have at least a certain number of publications in the top journals.

Also, I remember an interesting comparison amongst the Top 10 Econ departments, that compared grad students and the amount of top-journal publications they had 5 years after graduation.

The bottom line was that the Top 5 students in MIT\Harvard really have much more publications than any other grad student. But, the median Harvard\MIT one doesn't perform better than any grad from tier 1 school

I have no experience neither with JS nor with functional programming, but know Lambda calculus and currying from Discrete math courses.

As Currying and functional programming a popular thing now, I was thinking what my current codebase would look like in C# if I were writing code in a more functional way.

So, obviously C# isn't a functional languageat all but using Func<T>, and maybe some delegates would enable this easily.

I'm not sure this would turn my code to more elegant or readable.

What would I benefit from ?

I still can't get why is this a good idea.

As a finance tech worker, I know that All Import/Export companies are so afraid of the forex risk that they are willing to pay someone to take care of the risk. Usually they either buy options or forwards to fix the exchange rate ahead of time.

So unless your base currency is BTC all the way, I still can't understand why anyone would do it.

I see. Than I still don't understand what you\ your employers benefit from paying in Bitcoin ?

Unless your USD-->Bitcoin (and the other way round) transaction costs are lower than the average joe's, why would I prefer being paid that why ? Even if you cover the transaction costs I'd still prefer to be paid in USD and that you'd pay me the additional transaction costs instead of converting USD to bitcoin on my behalf.

Unless it's a finance backdoor in terms of tax, etc, I can't see the reason in doing it.

In finance, being subject to holding a currency you don't want to hold and prefer to change, is called Foreign Exchange Risk [1].

Why would a reasonable person want that ? Even If I believe in Bitcoin, I'd prefer getting paid in USD and choose to invest in Bitcoin.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_exchange_risk

I don't think this perspective is correct regarding to the current different business models these companies have.

Apple: We sell an experience of software and hardware. Google: We sell ads, based on data we gather from our users. Amazon: We sell commodities\services as close as possible to the marginal utility, so we're very competitive.

Altough each of these tech giants are competing, each has quite a different strategy.

As for the Fire phone, I think that Amazon realized that they could deliver an excellent shopping experience from the mobile phone. This would enable massive future growth: Think about going home in the train and buying groceries instead of driving to your nearest Wallmart.

Well, We're living in a time where money is cheap and there's a new SnapChat every couple of weeks.

Nobody who has money to invest wants to miss the train.

I had the same experience and hold the same view.

As software developers, We've been taught that a good solution to a problem is a "generic" one, a "one fits all" solution.

for example, in this case, a solution that would fit "all" people interested in "any" topic.

The thing is, for all non-tech problems, the best solution is usually the specific one, the custom made one.

Most of the time when you try a generic solution, competitors specializing in a specific solution would beat you.

Jeff Atwood wrote about a similar idea and called it rule of the 3 [1]. I vaguely remember that he also wrote that they used this rule when starting StackOverflow.

[1] http://blog.codinghorror.com/rule-of-three/

My best friend was recently diagnosed with ADHD, at the age of 26. He was really surprised to find it out. I, On the other hand was not surprised.

We discussed how is it possible that he was only diagnosed now. His response was striking and ming opening: "I had never experienced not having ADHD. How could I know that my experience is not normal ?".

I completely agree with your response. We must talk about mental health and raise awareness to mental health problems.

I'm so glad sombody finally did it. I've been dreaming about something like this a while ago.

Improvments would be to create a kind of a control dashboard of what you want to see. maybe remove only pictures and videos ? subscribe to a specific list of friends, etc..

I think that even if the other developers are not familiar with SQL specifically, you can show them the query you plan on running.

I׳ve found that the fact that you need to explain something to someone makes you double check everything, and reduces the chances of screwing up. Even if they׳re not familiar with SQL, they can still easily understand the logic behind the query.

1. It׳s not front-running as nobody can actually see the order book before a transaction happened. what you describe is a sort of arbitrage based on different latencies. It may be morally wrong, but it׳s totally different from front-running.

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[0] http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2014/04/mat... [1] http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2014/03/new...