Quote from: S.Boxx on November 26, 2014, 04:10:34 AM

Quote from: inBitweTrust on November 26, 2014, 04:02:44 AM

Quote from: S.Boxx on November 26, 2014, 03:54:18 AM

Let me try to translate Vitelik's bulshiteese into more straightforward English:

Quote from: me in somebody's else voice

"I have zero experience in working with actual financial software. I even have no amateur's interest in learning how it works. I'm writing a demagoguery targeted at the lowest common denominator of code monkey: Javascript or PHP programmer for the web services."

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Are you trying to suggest Vitalik isn't a prolific programmer or hasn't co-developed his own software stack?

https://github.com/vbuterin

I'm saying he doesn't know much about anything.....here is a typical Vitalik statement:

Vitalik Buterin:

"lower threshold that the total satoshi count manages to fall just below: the largest possible integer that can be exactly represented in floating point format"

Bullshit detector tripped!

Floating point since forever had two flavors: binary and decimal. The most well known standards are: IEEE 754-1985, IEEE 854-1987 & IEEE 754-2008. The only remaining question is which flavor of bullshit is being served here:

1) undereducated/incompetent
2) intentional deception/preliminary setup for future fraud
3) two-for-the-price-of-one mixture of the above

Standard links for those who are not afraid of the truth and not afraid to admit that they may have slept through some lecture:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_floating_point
http://speleotrove.com/decimal/

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That's ridiculous. You don't need to know the history of IEEE standards to be a good programmer,
and even if he did, he may have been speaking loosely.

I'm no fan of ethereum, etc, but to say he doesn't know what he's talking about because he didn't
use the terminology you expected when discussing data types is kinda nuts IMO.