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Right, this is a very nice project, but obviously not ready for a 1.0 release. I am frustrated by the lack of technical documentation. For this kind of decentralized projects, full transparency is required.

It took some time before I understood the foundation blocks of the Ring network, using [0] and [1], and yet I'm quite unhappy:

* Many items are very lightly documented, or even "to be disclosed" ;

* The main website does not provide any insight about Ring's internals ;

* Especially, the name registration service is quite obscure and currently not decentralized according to the doc [0].

Thanks for the project though, and good luck!

[0]: https://tuleap.ring.cx/plugins/mediawiki/wiki/ring/index.php...

[1]: https://tuleap.ring.cx/plugins/mediawiki/wiki/ring/index.php...

lesterpigon Show HN: I built a database of tech conferences to know what to attend to next

Nice work! There is still room for improvements, but this website will certainly provide a lot of value to developers.

As an additional feature, considering the target audience, I would suggest to add some API with filter option, using CalDav format for example [0]. Everyone would be able to fetch latest data from conferencelist in their local calendars ;)

[0]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4791

lesterpigon NIST Random Beacon

This might be used as a public and neutral source for games based on random I guess (lotteries, etc.).

Everyone would be able to verify one game's result by checking the public entropy source at toss time.

lesterpigon OCaml Resources (2006)

I understand your point of view. Thank you for the link, I've already checked it and it's really interesting.

Do you have some examples of well-known applications built with OCaml? I'll have to check that too.

lesterpigon OCaml Resources (2006)

Well, I pretty love javascript, is it an imperative language? ;)

Please don't be so sharp, I really don't understand why this link is in HN, and I'm just exposing my point of view, after practising OCaml a lot. So what, I'm a student so my opinion is worthless?

lesterpigon OCaml Resources (2006)

I'm studying this language right now at a french school, with INRIA researcher.

And, well... I'm not really satisfied with it. OCaml produces a small amount of code, but is really slow and hard to understand. Sometimes, it looks like obfuscated code!

Documentation and libraries are not polished, and I would recommend Haskell instead of OCaml. Good for research and some algorithms, bad for applications.

And... God... "This page was last updated on 17 June 2006."