http://trilema.com/2013/a-study-in-the-working-of-free-markets-with-application/ Moving targets for a fast crowd. Wed, 13 May 2026 20:56:01 +0000 http://polimedia.us hourly 1 http://trilema.com/2013/a-study-in-the-working-of-free-markets-with-application/#comment-96860 The Failure of Urbit and Bitcoin's Future of Computing | Bingo Blog Sun, 15 Dec 2013 13:41:17 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=51586#comment-96860 [...] Urbit in ways beyond its foundation in the sand of x86 and Unix however failed its most crucial test...3 While structural damning's for a future of computing ought to be damning enough, the failure to have an implementation of a simple vintage game written in the language in order to claim no small bounty speaks to both the small appeal of the Urbit solution and its lack of development in the sense that tools were unavailable for completing the task. Now, generally any Turing complete computing language is going to be able to complete all of the tasks another Turing complete computing language can. Depending on the languages involved though this could mean substantially more code and programmer's time to accomplish the task in one language rather than in another language. Consider the challenges that would be involved in rewriting DOS or MINIX in either Fortran 77 or COBOL. Or the amount of time it took for Javascript to birth the turd cultured from Clostridium Difficile and once potentially healthy portions of the colon known as Node.JS for which I have never met a website operator that does not constantly suffer attacks from outside. Inputs.io, CoinChat, WhiskChat, and other sites that both handle Bitcoin and run off of Node.JS have suffered trouble. Whether this sort of failing is inherent to Node.JS or the srt of people attraced to Node.JS I care not one whit. [...] [...] Urbit in ways beyond its foundation in the sand of x86 and Unix however failed its most crucial test...3 While structural damning's for a future of computing ought to be damning enough, the failure to have an implementation of a simple vintage game written in the language in order to claim no small bounty speaks to both the small appeal of the Urbit solution and its lack of development in the sense that tools were unavailable for completing the task. Now, generally any Turing complete computing language is going to be able to complete all of the tasks another Turing complete computing language can. Depending on the languages involved though this could mean substantially more code and programmer's time to accomplish the task in one language rather than in another language. Consider the challenges that would be involved in rewriting DOS or MINIX in either Fortran 77 or COBOL. Or the amount of time it took for Javascript to birth the turd cultured from Clostridium Difficile and once potentially healthy portions of the colon known as Node.JS for which I have never met a website operator that does not constantly suffer attacks from outside. Inputs.io, CoinChat, WhiskChat, and other sites that both handle Bitcoin and run off of Node.JS have suffered trouble. Whether this sort of failing is inherent to Node.JS or the srt of people attraced to Node.JS I care not one whit. [...]

]]> http://trilema.com/2013/a-study-in-the-working-of-free-markets-with-application/#comment-96843 Mircea Popescu Sat, 14 Dec 2013 22:10:28 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=51586#comment-96843 Pai si tie la fel mei :) Pai si tie la fel mei :)

]]> http://trilema.com/2013/a-study-in-the-working-of-free-markets-with-application/#comment-96842 Morosan de la Caracal Sat, 14 Dec 2013 22:04:16 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=51586#comment-96842 Ma bucur sa aud. Sarbatori fericite pa' ori unde ai fi. Nu te-am mai vazut de mai bine de un an. :p Ma bucur sa aud. Sarbatori fericite pa' ori unde ai fi. Nu te-am mai vazut de mai bine de un an. :p

]]> http://trilema.com/2013/a-study-in-the-working-of-free-markets-with-application/#comment-96827 Mircea Popescu Sat, 14 Dec 2013 16:32:28 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=51586#comment-96827 Io bine. Io bine.

]]> http://trilema.com/2013/a-study-in-the-working-of-free-markets-with-application/#comment-96825 Morosan de la Caracal Sat, 14 Dec 2013 15:27:48 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=51586#comment-96825 Ba!!! Ce mai faci?!?! :D Ba!!! Ce mai faci?!?! :D

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