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pkkp | 7 years ago | on: MtGox: Announcement of Commencement of Civil Rehabilitation Proceedings [pdf]

BTC was priced at ~$825 on 2/1/2014 when Mt Gox disabled transactions, and is around $6,150 now. Provided they're able to pay out ~13% of each claim, claimants will at least be able to "break even" on the freeze (ignoring, of course, BTC's astronomical gains in the last 4 years).

pkkp | 10 years ago | on: Kakoune – An experiment for a better code editor

You'll want to take a look at your site's theme on mobile devices. On my iPhone 6 on iOS 9 (Safari), the navigation bar is fixed at the top half of the pane and takes up over half the screen.

pkkp | 10 years ago | on: Jaws: The Serverless Framework

A neat idea, but the resultant vendor lock-in here worries me. I've heard horror stories of the amount of effort required to move away from PaaS platforms like Heroku (I believe Genius is one such tale) due to architecture-specific components like jobs, but this seems to take that reliance to a whole new, all-inconclusive level.

This might be neat or a quick weekend or hackathon project where you just want to Get Shit Done, but I can't imagine anyone ever committing fully to the platform and having no second thoughts.

An open architecture built on this sort of idea would be nifty, but tools like Docker have almost reduced the sysadmin components for a lot of simple projects to something that's not too far from this anyhow, from an ease of use perspective.

pkkp | 10 years ago | on: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft

My thoughts exactly. To me, OS/X's quality has been slipping, but I haven't found any non-Apple hardware that's comparable. If they get the trackpad and keyboard right on it, this will open a lot of interesting doors.

pkkp | 10 years ago | on: We're Replacing Comments with Something Better

Andrew Sullivan's blog The Dish[0] did this for its entire existence. It was a driving point of the site's culture, to the point where certain topics gained frequent contributors that were probably better recognized because of the advantageous signal-to-noise ratio.

Many sites seem to be turning toward a manual moderation model now. This doesn't seem too whacky as a next step for many of them.

[0] http://dish.andrewsullivan.com

pkkp | 10 years ago | on: “Stop reverse engineering our code”

Is it just me, or is the childish, mocking tone in the OP simultaneously baffling and totally befitting of the point they're trying to make? I understand that they're frustrated by the repeated submission of automated security vulnerability reports, but blanketing it entirely as "reverse engineering" and responding to it like this is... a strange approach.

Did someone at Oracle actually think that this was the best way to make this point?