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I like the idea, but:

$2,345 / (40 * 3) = $19.5416666667/hr

I guess if you're just starting, that's decent money, but I don't think I could run with the same idea myself. I'd probably need to add a 1 to the front of your number.

> So what should I do to multiply these keystrokes given that there is a finite number of those keystrokes left in my hands? I write a blog post and I mail him the link. Then after I'm dead, my keystrokes multiple—every time I get a page view that's 5,000 keystrokes that I did not have to type.

I don't see how I can apply this to my daily life.

I've managed to whittle down most email to a few short sentences, but I can think of plenty of examples where I've written up intricate math notes and made them into blog posts that never got any page views because they were so hyper-specific.

Have you considered cryonics at all? This woman was diagnosed with a brain tumor, and funded her procedure with donations:

http://www.themarysue.com/woman-cryogenic-sleep/

No one has found a bug in the protocol that breaks bitcoin itself. What is under attack are the layers on top of bitcoin, in this case the exchanges. We will see more exchanges who make an effort to prove they are solvent, likely via technical methods.

Put another way, some businesses running on bitcoin are still operating like ordinary fiat businesses (e.g. fractional reserve of bitcoin). They will be replaced by those that can leverage the blockchain, for it's security, and therefore maintain a higher level of trust.

Having money makes you a target. Period.

> I think you're playing yourself down here. You can build websites, so you have the perfect skill set to solve (almost) any problems.

The unsolved problem space that is solved by building a website is shrinking year over year. It would seem obvious that you need a larger skill set to solve problems no one has attempted yet.

Is the cost to society (in lives lost) worth the cost to individual enjoyment?

Micropayments is one obvious example. Credit card fees make micropayments very difficult. I'm sure there are workarounds, but that's only one possible use-case for Bitcoin. There are more that have yet to be invented.

> But there is a awful lot of hard biology to master here

I honestly think most of it can be skipped. The age-old adgage that "a ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" is totally obsolete with respect to longevity science. Once you've gone past your DNA's "expiration date", it's easier to repair damage than prevent it.

> The rate of new drug approvals is decreasing (and costs are rising); we are appallingly bad at turning biochemical knowledge into medical technology.

Why should we measure medical technology at the rate of new drugs developed? What about the speed of DNA sequencing advancing faster than Moore's law? What about Organovo's recent claims on 3D printing organs, with vascular system in place, by next year? What about advanced prothesis that can provide touch senses to the user? Or even visual or audio prothesis, made possible with advancements in brain-computer interfaces?

Your argument basically boils down to saying that the rate of CPU clock speeds developed in recent history is indicative of an overall slowdown in computer science. Clearly there are other paradigms that need to be explored before we can say that Moore's law is no longer relevant, let alone all of computing.

Yes, the average of all medical tech is going to always lag behind computing for ethical reasons. And that of course, there are ways we can improve medical testing using stem cell research. But to say that we're at risk of moving backwards because one or two particular areas are in serious need of optimization is a bit far-fetched.

Do projects like this ever get included into the mainstream? Would this be an appropriate candidate for inclusion into PHP's standard library?

MongoDB commits are asynchronous and fail silently by default. This is in opposition to ordinary SQL databases, which are synchronous and fail noisely by default.

You can enable that behavior for MongoDB, but then you're just getting ordinary SQL-style behavior, so why were you using MongoDB in the first place?

Using MongoDB to process payments is a double facepalm fail.

Bitcoin will be stable as soon as everyone considers it too boring to write about.

Part of the issue with posts like these is that they don't mention specific numbers or events, just make general statements like:

> Since then, I’ve been hired for dream projects at my own price.

I find it hard to believe that it's suggested people remember passwords. I would suspect that anyone who knows anything about security would be using something like LastPass to generate and store passwords.

All your positions are in SF :(

Would you be interested in a remote (east coast) Rails engineer w/ 8 years experience?

All of the problems you mention are solvable and present another business opportunity for an entrepreneur on HN.

This much we know:

* Brain cells die. * Brain cells hold ideas. * We need to regenerate brain cells to continue to support the brain past 80-90 years. * Each new brain cell will probably adopt the ideas of the surrounding culture.

So I would suspect that over time, an aging but renewed brain will adapt to the conditions of the culture it lives in. Some brain cells are more stubborn than others, but a serious and dedicated effort to not adapt will be met with obvious survival constraints.

Homelessness and poverty in developed nations are typically symptoms of mental illness, so I would assume they would be on the target list of diseases to correct on the way towards indefinite lifespans.

I remember seeing this here: http://n0where.net/final-term/

While the idea looks great, it seemed slow to react to my key presses. Maybe they can fix that in the near future. Otherwise I'm probably sticking to xterm.

> Often times, this is a one-time ask. You get money allocated once, so you better get enough to build the whole thing. You can't go back and say, "hey boss! look what we got with the first $10k, can I have $10k more?"

This is an area where software engineers who've made serious profits and turn around to become investors have an edge over traditional that do not understand the levels of risk involved with large software projects.

Explaining the granularity in the types of risk that are involved is complicated to people that expect to write a check once and have a finished product come out of it.

Yes, I hate to sound mean, but it would be nice to wait until there is more content before promoting.. I don't think it would be too much trouble to pick up a copy of "Algorithms in a Nutshell" and start populating the site on your own

I just tried it out and I love this thing already! Although this might be because I have a fetish for hypnosis-inducing flashing images :) Would love to see a Firefox plugin.

New features every week? At that rate, you're bound to make yourself quite a mess. With almost every project I've worked on, the complexity becomes so unbearable, I end up refactoring everything into half of a framework. I would dare say that you'd need a lot more than that to get flexibility from a language like C#, which this particular blogger seems to be supporting.

Haha.. +1 to the Dead Kennedys video :)

Some people don't quite get the message unless you use swear words. Especially when the message is "this code is used to be compatible with X, and IMO, X is not very good". 'Not very good' doesn't really describe the emotion that it gives you. I'm sure there's probably better ways to criticize another software system, but when you're short on time, sometimes swearing does the trick. Most often I've deleted such comments or re-written it with a more eloquent vocabulary. But in general, I don't think it's forbidden territory. Call it being passionate about your craft :)

I've always had the thought that first time students should just be given a REPL and follow along line by line with the instructor. Assignment would be so obvious if one could just type the variable and have it spit out the value. Teach good debugging first and kids will be able to teach themselves the rest is what I say.

Hey, man.. I can't disagree with you that some pundits are inflating these ideas a bit, but you can't deny we're in the middle of something big for humanity, and we're still trying to figure it out.

Thirded..