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yelnatz··on Paypal acquires Stackmob
"By joining PayPal, the StackMob team will maintain its focus on developers and extending innovative mobile technologies that aim to allow consumers to access the rich capabilities of the PayPal global network... We believe that our work at PayPal will make it easier for developers to create seamless payment solutions that span online, mobile, and in-store experiences."

I think they're done.

They're gonna be joining Paypal to improve what Paypal has.

yelnatz··on Paypal acquires Stackmob
So they're closing up shop? No more Stackmob?
yelnatz··on Earn $4 in bitcoins for any commit to sferik/t, a command-line Twitter tool
Bitcoin provides anonymity in the way that it doesn't anchor its addresses with your real life identity.

Yes, the addresses are public, but there isn't a way to prove who's who according to addresses alone.

Unless of course you publicly attach your identity to one.

yelnatz··on Benchmarking D vs Go vs Erlang vs C for MQTT broker
Still not following. For Loadtest:

D: -- [121.7 +/- 1.5] -- [166.9 +/- 1.5] -- [171.1 +/- 3.3] -- [167.9 +/- 1.3]

C: -- [106.1 +/- 0.8] -- [122.4 +/- 0.4] -- [95.2 +/- 1.3] -- [74.7 +/- 0.4]

E: -- [104.1 +/- 2.2] -- [124.2 +/- 5.9] -- [117.6 +/- 4.6 -- [117.7 +/- 3.2]

G: ---- [90.9 +/- 11] -- [100.1 +/- 0.1] -- [99.3 +/- 0.2] -- [98.8 +/- 0.3]

G(2): ? ? ? ? ?

G(4): ? ? ? ? ?

G(8): ? ? ? ? ?

yelnatz··on Benchmarking D vs Go vs Erlang vs C for MQTT broker
Are your numbers in line with the blog's table?

So you get those instead of these?

Loadtest:

Go: 90.9 +/- 11 100.1 +/- 0.1 99.3 +/- 0.2 98.8 +/- 0.3

If not can you make it relevant to the table so people can compare and contrast?

yelnatz··on Is this the most value-dense information on Earth?
Considering when you sell all the gold in Fort Knox all at once would pretty much crash gold's value.

How much is the gold in Fort Knox really worth?

yelnatz··on Build a RESTful API with Martini
Wow, the simplicity of it is what amazes me.

Hopefully it matures more!

(Use cases with db, auth (oauth2), caching, frontend integration, would be nice :3)

yelnatz··on Choosing Scala
My university switched from Java to Scheme (Racket) for their first year language.

I'm not sure why they're trying to scare the poor first years away.

yelnatz··on I'm the guy who bought 259684 Bitcoins for under $3000 yesterday (2011)
Mods edit titles all the time.
yelnatz··on Why GNU grep is fast (2010)
I'm actually more familiar with the KMP algorithm than BM. So I looked it up to see what the difference was:

The classic Boyer-Moore algorithm suffers from the phenomenon that it tends not to work so efficiently on small alphabets like DNA.

The skip distance tends to stop growing with the pattern length because substrings re-occur frequently.

By remembering more of what has already been matched, one can get larger skips through the text.

One can even arrange 'perfect memory' and thus look at each character at most once, whereas the Boyer-Moore algorithm, while linear, may inspect a character from the text multiple times.

1: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12656160/what-are-the-mai...

yelnatz··on Missing hard drive containing Bitcoins worth £4m in Newport landfill site
Most people just throw away their laptops when it breaks for whatever reason.

Even if the HD was ok, they won't even bother opening it up.

yelnatz··on The Rook's Guide to C++
Pretty basic, but a good place to start with.

It definitely is for beginners. The things you learn in the first month, in your first programming class, in your freshman year.

It doesn't get going until chapter 19, but it suddenly cuts off.

yelnatz··on Someone just made a $147,239,214 Bitcoin transfer
I doubt you can pay your house with gold bars alone.

I doubt you can pay your car with stocks alone.

I doubt you can pay taxes with option derivatives alone.

I doubt a lot of people call those funny money.

yelnatz··on Two Harvard University Alumni Win Salesforce $1M Hackathon Prize
Same one!
yelnatz··on Many PS4 units dead on arrival
At least you know right away that they're dead.

It'd be more annoying 6 months down the road.

yelnatz··on Inputs.io hacked – 4100 BTC stolen
It's traceable...

But no one's gonna stop them from using it, and if you're the receiver, you wouldn't care where it came from.

yelnatz··on Microsoft to retire Skype Desktop API
If the mobile skype app can call desktops, then maybe they interface with the desktop API.
yelnatz··on Webdesign tool Macaw raises $275k on Kickstarter, $200k more than original goal
The only bad thing about Macaw is that early access is not until January 2014.
yelnatz··on Pass the Rap Genius Tech Interview, Get $1,000 Cash
On the other hand, you get to work with these people:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NAzQPll7Lo

yelnatz··on Why Meteor will kill Ruby on Rails
I'm a beginner web developer and I can clone facebook in a few hours.

In its core, the app is just users who can friend each other.

Add AJAX to that... and tada, something that resembles facebook.

Scaling the app to be very reactive, available to millions accessing it at the same time, and with near 100% up time is where the hundreds millions of dollars go. (and all that data mining)

yelnatz··on Show HN: Gmelius – No Ads and Better User Interface for Gmail
I don't know if you can compare this to what you did.

This seems more like a client side hiding and moving things around with CSS/javascript.

yelnatz··on NY US Attorney: $28M in bitcoins seized
Less BTC in the wild, all other bitcoins value rise.

With Silkroad -> "Oh BTC is only used to buy drugs."

Silkroad shutdown -> "Oh I can't wait until fanboys can explain how this is a good thing for BTC."

yelnatz··on Salesforce $1 Million Hackathon
Sweet! I can afford signing up for the hackathon.
yelnatz··on Technology Change: .Net to Scala
Wait, what?

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=scala%2C+groovy%2C+clojure...

yelnatz··on Amazon’s Interview Questions And Why I Don’t Work At Amazon
Can't just do that right away since you have to parse the string first:

...11123...

Is that a 1, an 11, a 12, a 112, a 123?

yelnatz··on Map Tiling Algorithm – HTML5 and JavaScript RPG
Well the link is dead.
yelnatz··on Healthcare.gov has disappeared from CMSGov's GitHub account
I guess they used some of that money to pay for a private repo.
yelnatz··on TextTeaser – An automatic summarization algorithm
Are you using LSA?
yelnatz··on EA finally “exploring the possibility” of offline mode for SimCity
They did install a new CEO recently.

Maybe he's the one leading the new EA.

I do remember everyone being confused when EA did the humble bundle where proceeds went to charity.

http://www.ea.com/news/humble-origin-bundle-results

yelnatz··on The Myth of the Rockstar Programmer
I've worked with someone like this during my internship at IBM.

He was an intern like me but he was carrying the whole team. Solving problems, implementing features left and right.

Never really did talk to the team, other than meetings, just did his work and locked himself in his cubicle.

During our internship he studied for and took a couple of scjp and c++ certifications just because he was bored not studying for exams.

I miss that guy. Not that sociable but really really fucking efficient as a developer.

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