Urbit Is Building a 'Virtual Galaxy' for Bitcoin Nodes

Re:Urbit Is Building a 'Virtual Galaxy' for Bitcoin Nodes by Animats on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @02:36PM (#12003626)

Zero is intentionally used to denote “true” to defy programmer intuition.

OK, that was just perverse. Except check out the latest iteration of point of sale credit card terminal keypads. "0" is Yes and "X" is no.

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Re:Urbit Is Building a 'Virtual Galaxy' for Bitcoin Nodes by pmahoney on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @03:30PM (#12004121)

For unix processes, exit status zero is conventionally considered success and non-zero is failure.

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Re:Urbit Is Building a 'Virtual Galaxy' for Bitcoin Nodes by Ruud-v-A on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @05:37PM (#12005015)

Now that Urbit is not entirely vaporware any more they regret this, but reverting the decision is not worth the trouble:

There are more interesting insights in that thread about Urbit’s unorthodox decisions.

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Re:Urbit Is Building a 'Virtual Galaxy' for Bitcoin Nodes by astrange on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @02:41PM (#12003663)

That's normal in Asia. (They swap everything in the UI when porting Playstation games over here.)

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Re:Urbit Is Building a 'Virtual Galaxy' for Bitcoin Nodes by pygy_ on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @03:25PM (#12004078)

Indeed, ine may want to earch for "batsu and maru".

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