perfectnsphere

Re:The Beginning of the Monte Carlo Method (1987) on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @06:15PM (#17242548)

At its heart, Monte Carlo is just trying something a bunch of times and seeing what happens, right1?

Re:How to write horrible Java on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @07:39PM (#17183695)

#1 I know a few people who call themselves senior devs who are bad programmers and #1 is the first tell.

No, you do not need to wrap every method all the way down in a try catch. You see, that makes it impossible to catch real errors AND it makes the code at least 5x more difficult to read.

Re:Why genetic IQ differences between 'races' are unlikely on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @07:33PM (#17183667)

OP in your mind what is the difference between two people of different races? Do you imagine the only differences are the ones we see?

Will Ethereum succeed?

Posted by perfectnsphere on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @07:30PM
from the self-post dept.

The actual product of Ethereum (the unstoppable world computer) doesn't seem to be taking off. People are buying into the idea as evidenced by the rising price of ether but I don't see a lot of compelling reasons to use Ethereum myself.I think of things I might want from Ethereum:1. open government2. decentralized government databases3. seeing "power" move away from central authorities4....

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Re:Mint-lang: a language for the front-end web on Saturday May 26, 2018 @09:22PM (#17165024)

I'm not sure what you mean by progress.

Re:Mint-lang: a language for the front-end web on Saturday May 26, 2018 @08:59PM (#17164961)

Why do you think it's awesome? It's just another zealous implementation of some guys unearned and unfounded ideology. You know you can write the same thing with regular JavaScript and cut out the middle-man.