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Re:Ethereum Fork Fails on OpenEthereum on Thursday April 15, 2021 @11:03AM (#26821325)
This is not true, and I can say that because I work on Geth. We take great care to ensure that all clients behave according to the specification, and Geth has had similar faults in the past.
Re:Ethereum Fork Fails on OpenEthereum on Thursday April 15, 2021 @10:38AM (#26821056)
It's not fixed yet, the OE instance in forkmon was syncing the whole time and hasn't hit the issue yet.
Re:Go 1.8 Release Candidate 1 is released on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @07:35AM (#13373488)
faketime is very useful on its own. We use it to run network simulations in accelerated time.

https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/blob/master/p2p/disc...

Re:Golang Package: plugin on Thursday September 22, 2016 @06:53AM (#12555910)
You can already create shared libraries that expose a C API using -buildmode=shared.
Re:Sciteco – a modern TECO based on Scintilla on Saturday March 08, 2014 @09:17AM (#7365207)
oops, it seems sourceforge doesn't like traffic.
it's up again by now. tsa, tsa, tsa, operating on cpu quota limit.
Teaching children to use Windows is like teaching them to smoke tobacco—in a world where only one company sells tobacco

No wonder Microsoft offers the first dose to children at a low price.

neat.

Re:The dumbification of Spore on Monday November 03, 2008 @04:55PM (#352590)
a summer spent playing with pattern language and cellular automata

if they had followed that route, the game would probably have been a lot more fun to play. games should really be done in an exploratory way, since what comes out is a universe of ideas, closed over itself.

Re:Erlang Web: open source framework for applications on Monday November 03, 2008 @04:38PM (#352558)
last release was 6/14/07, though discussions continue on the erlyweb google group.

seems like it's still used by a (small) number of people.

Re:Incremental reading [learning technique] on Friday October 10, 2008 @06:22PM (#329320)
gotta try that!
Re:Smalltalk: Complaints And Opportunities on Friday October 10, 2008 @06:14PM (#329315)
smalltalk is one of the most influential languages i have ever used. after reading about it in a crappy computer magazine, downloading squeak and learning how to build things i virtually spent the rest of the night wondering, laughing about the simplistic beauty of its clean design. its extensibility and the duck typing principle, as well as object orientation in general, are key concepts of many dynamic languages.

apart from seaside, which is nice anyway, even rather 'primitive' things like graphical user interfaces were invented in smalltalk. the 'extraordinary productivity', as bowkett is putting it, may probably be the reason for that.

so if smalltalk is cool again by now, why bother? looks like its comeback will bear resemblance to the lisp comeback in about 1999.