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Here's a broken link that lead me to a very interesting and informative 404 page.-Stoic Joker (January 24, 2015, 11:01 AM)
I'm a bit pissed off.-Renegade (January 24, 2015, 08:37 PM)
Speaking of which, how's the hand ... that oughta be worth at least a mini-rant.-barney (January 25, 2015, 02:28 AM)
And I have much less endurance -- e.g. when shaving my thumb tires out and I need to "shake it out" a bit to continue. My first knuckle is still a bit numb. All in all, relatively minor conveniences. About the only real problem is the endurance, which isn't much of an issue right now, but will be when I need to do more manual tasks later on when we move. (Looking forward to getting off the grid there.) I should do the DMSO thing though. I haven't done that yet. What I find bizarre is that I've had much larger cuts with zero problems. I guess I just drew the short straw there and it hit some nerves/tendons/something. I really have nobody to blame but myself -- I smashed the window and I guess I was a bit careless when I pulled and smashed the remaining glass. Not much of a rant. 
So many books to read... So much to learn... So little time... Dammit!-phitsc (January 20, 2015, 01:47 AM)
because of the licensing?-wraith808 (January 19, 2015, 07:54 AM)
Yeah. I had a client that used it. The license used to go (still does?) for several thousand IIRC.-40hz (January 19, 2015, 08:06 AM)
That's the pricing... I know about that since we were evaluating them vs ComponentOne, and (still) in my opinion should have gone with SyncFusion. Licensing implies something different to me than price, however...-wraith808 (January 19, 2015, 09:30 AM)
I should have said price. They upgrade rather frequently, and I didn't want to get trapped into $xxx.xx every year. @Renegade - I'm not disagreeing with you, but at first this may sound like it does:
What about kiddie pr0n?
This seems to be the ultimate sacred cow in America, where virtually everyone agrees that free speech stops before it gets to this, and that virtually any amount of encroachment is justified in preventing this.
So, two questions:
1) How confident are you that this type of speech is fundamentally different? Or are we just like every other society on the planet, just setting the line a bit differently?
2) Can you see any way to avoid the abuse of children in this manner, while not explicitly attacking the speech that communicates it?-CWuestefeld (January 19, 2015, 10:48 AM)
(see attachment in previous post)-crabby3 (January 17, 2015, 01:44 PM)
BLOCKCHAIN PROGRAMMING IN C# - FIRST BOOK OF THE TRILOGY AVAILABLE ON PUBLIC DOMAIN
Aspiring developers are looking at Bitcoin in order to take their coding skills to the next level. Even though there are plenty of hints, tips and tricks to be found on the internet, an actual “coder’s manual” is not as easy to find as one might want. That is about to change however, as the first part of “Blockchain Programming in C#” has been made available for free.
Nicolas Dorier is the author and creator of “Blockchain Programming in C#”. The reason for making this series of books available to the public for free, is because Nicolas strongly believes that one of the way to make Bitcoin successful is to teach developers how to program it themselves. But how do you get started in the world of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency?
A lot of (aspiring) developers wil rely on web API calls in order to create a new Bitcoin tool, service or platform. Not that there is anything wrong with that, but these API’s have so much underlying technology which isn’t used to its full potential by those developers. Furthermore, you are almost “forcing” the user to look at a certain “problem” through someone else’s eyes, which is not what Bitcoin and decentralization is all about.
One of the major drawbacks of relying on API calls for your coding masterpiece is the fact that these APIs don’t give you full access to everything Bitcoin technology has to offer. When learning to develop for Bitcoin from scratch, you will get access to far more possibilities than by relying on a third party service. And there is a lot of technology and functions to learn about!
In order to “advance” to the next part of the book, readers will be presented with C# coding challenges which need to be completed successfully. These challenges will start off relatively easily by letting users create a private key, and the difficulty will increase over time. One of the more advanced challenges will be “how to implement a voting system with colored coins”.
The books written by Nicolas Dorier is the first of a three-part series, all of which will be published under the public domain. Feedback in regards to “Blockchain Programming in C#” part one is more than welcome in the official Bitcointalk thread. Overall, the feedback seems to be very positive so far, and I might try my hand at some of the challenges myself even though I am not a coder.
Website : http://blockchainpro...g.azurewebsites.net/
Book link : https://aois.blob.co...et/public/Blockchain Programming in CSharp.pdf
It looks quite literally like the set of some dystopian techo-hell film. I suppose this is just one peek into the mindset of the technocrats.-Renegade (January 17, 2015, 07:16 PM)
Again, sometimes life is even creepier than films!
I didn't think it looked like a dys-film at all!
Instead, it looks more like just a boring case of "you're not here to work. You're here to be furniture to my expensive board meetings as the west coast office of Conde Nast."-TaoPhoenix (January 18, 2015, 01:24 AM)
Stop making things illegal, and the risk disappears from those markets, and you put the HA out of business.-Renegade (January 17, 2015, 06:57 PM)
OMG!That's an unbelievably massive oversimplification if I ever heard one. But I'm guessing Ren is cutting corners and overstating things to make his point?
-40hz (January 17, 2015, 11:27 PM)
What follows is both a funny and sad story about what has to be one of the most bleak-looking workplaces imaginable. One that looks more like a floor in some dystopian secret police headquarters than it does the offices of a jouralistic enterprise.
Doesn't seem dystopian to me, but I'm picturing it in its final state, being populated by hipsters wearing their horn-rimmed glasses with the non-prescription lenses, artificially distressed leather messenger bags, and their "It's not dystopian...we designed it this way ironically. If you don't get it, you'll never get it" attitudes.-Innuendo (January 17, 2015, 07:22 PM)
Interesting how the image a company presents through its physical workspace says so much about the mindset of the organization itself...-40hz (January 17, 2015, 11:45 AM)
Maybe your right, maybe the 81 are just as "good" as Boy Scouts.
Here's a result from searching Hell's Angels on Google. Nothing positive like free tire repairs or helping an ol' lady cross the street there.
Even Wikipedia can't seem to post a solid, clear, positive and honest portrait of this philanthropic group.
Guess main stream media needs a revamp hé!-dantheman (January 17, 2015, 04:00 PM)
