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my public key: https://keybase.io/gubatron; my proof: https://keybase.io/gubatron/sigs/aRzvMg9gBw0JBF6Vm-xBgr5rG7T_cs_HZlYa3GBiViY
I believe that OpenBazaar's initial motive was to distance itself from DarkMarkets as the opportunity to directly link people worldwide for trade without intermediaries, or barriers of entry to the market outweight the needs of those looking to trade anonymously.
I foresee market forces killing off the sellers that prefer to remain anonymous and misterious unless they're selling special items.
In practice I believe people will be less scared to transact with someone who has an identity, who can be accountable. Honor and trust are necessary for all kinds of commerce.
If it were up to me, I'd build OpenBazaar to work flawlessly on the OpenInternet, if anybody needs to use the technology in a different way the code is open and I'm sure they'll find a way to try to hide themselves, but I think it's a fool's errand, no amount of Tor will hide you from the authorities if they want to get you.
I think the size of illegal markets as big as they can be are minuscule compared to the new era of trade I envision, never in our history we have been able to directly trade with anybody else out there. Centralized ecommerce outfits like ebay and amazon have only given us a glimpse of what's possible, but as good as they are, they can't scale to 100% of the planet, I believe a great p2p solution can do this and the consequences of this will be of historic importance.
This slide stack will give you the bigger picture OpenBazaar should be going after http://www.slideshare.net/yiibu/the-emerging-global-web
Worrying ourselves with pleasing users that want to be on Tor, at this point in time, I believe is a waste of time that draws the wrong kind of attention to the project. There's a much bigger opportunity to be seized, a truly world changing one.
no problem, just smoke Kush which seems to be very popular nowadays.
Microsoft trying to shove the tablet experience on the desktop is going to hurt them big time. Now they kill MSN messenger, all latin america will be very sad, they still use that software down there.
Microsoft is on a roll of dementia.
The level of the coders doing HFT is beyond the comprehension of this guy, added to the team of Mathematicians, Physicists and computer scientists at your average HFT firm, they probably laugh when they read this.
Good try though, it was awesome that eventually he tuned it to profitability, but there's no way in hell they'd buy that amateur software/algorithm.
Kudos though for taking on the task of learning how to code and making money with ML.
I think the big news here is that someone is creating a distributed electric plant with social benefits to attract customers to buy their cars, pretty brilliant and world changing ideas. Why not join the fun?
Even if there's not enough Tesla or other electric vehicles coming to your station you'll at least be making your money back on solar energy generation and selling coffee, internet, etc. to customers that come in.
Tesla doesn't have to be the sole provider for the free charges.
However, why even do this if you can do exactly the same on the youtube website or inside google+
Doesn't really add any value that youtube already gives you.
Search for non music and the illusion dies.
Cool UI though.
fail. I hope you can code in something else than javascript. We have to DEAL with Javascript on the browser because browser vendors haven't bothered supporting other more superior languages, wouldn't it be nice to have type="text/python", type="text/ruby" as options, have threads, native datatypes, real OO, logical variable scoping, better numeric precision and all the things that javascript was not meant for?
I hope more big time CEOs come out and say that not everything is meant to be written with HTML5. It's like we're raising a generation of moronic programmers with all this HTML5 hype.
- Javascript
- Javascript
- Javascript
- Fragmentation like no other
- Lack of APIs
- Sandboxed environment
- A bunch of morons writing "frameworks" without a clue of computer science (same thing as many popular Wordpress PHP plugins written by people who have no clue of even how memory allocation is supposed to work)
- A bunch of other morons copying and pasting the work of other morons.
- No real memory management
- No real anything or poor support at anything (no sockets, no primitive types, no threads, cross domain BS)
- Internet Explorer
- Javascript
- Internet Explorer
- Javascript
...
It's just not what the foundation was meant for.
It only took Steve Jobs talking about how bad flash was and closing the endless array of development options that we have outside Objective-C and HTML5 to make the world try to reinvent the wheel in javascript, all the while ignoring the fact we have more powerful desktop computers than ever, all the while putting more money in the pockets of those that run cloud infrastructure.
I hope more guys like Zuck come out on the record and let the world know this is ludacris, that all these decades working on out of this world compiler optimizations and technology that's light years away from the browser can't be forgotten.
Yes, we need to be in the browser, but give me a break, Javascript?
It's just sad seeing the turn of events of our industry going in this direction, I'm glad of this whole "App" revolution and Zuckerberg saying this at his first appearance after the IPO, I hope it sobers up a bunch of decision makers.
It's china, the land of counterfeit.
Only then you will have total developer freedom, and no censorhip possible.
If you've also been thinking about this for the last 2 weeks, drop a line.
Think of IRC evolved (message horizon based on #tags not rooms, just like Twitter), syndicated, P2P Server Network, served over HTTP to the end user so that it has all of what Twitter has to offer (maybe a few more characters)
would love to think together with people who like tough challenges about a new HTTP on top of P2P architecture to solve this and other problems to leave a new arm of the internet for our kids.
How do you avoid Marketers disguised as developers?
You will still get the ads no matter what one way or another.
So far we only have this one: http://www.drawspace.com/
If you know of any other links please leave a comment
can't wait for a world free of PHP and JS, and you go and create a VM in JS of... PHP.