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There is a real IDE, with proper syntax highlighting, code completion, etc, that runs in any browser. It's called Visual Studio Monaco. It's only available for Azure users right now.

See here for a few videos of the thing in action.

I don't think you know enough about Bitcoin, and I encourage you to read more about it. While it is hugely volatile, and even more hugely risky - not to say stupid - to "invest" in, I think many of your criticisms are invalid.

Bitcoin is absolutely traceable - it's far more traceable than cash. Read up about how the blockchain works (and see the Zerocoin proposal to see how it could be made untraceable, optionally, in the future). (The only non-traceable coins are those minted by miners with very paranoid security arrangements).

Cornering a "significant supply of coins" would take a significant investment of "real world" cash to actually corner these coins - not a trivial thing to get your hands on. So I don't think this is a large risk for the current Bitcoin ecosystem.

Also, you suggest that with regard to an entity trying to coopt or alter Bitcoin, "there's absolutely nothing you can do about that as a user of bitcoin". That's not true - simply running the reference software implementation makes you a node in the network, thus enforcing your (i.e. the default software's) set of rules on the transactions you do/do not relay. And additionally, the computing power deployed by today's miners would probably be impossible to exceed except by a very determined and well financed attacker. How much would a government spend to attack Bitcoin?

And if the "creators" (by which I suppose you mean the current set of core devs) try to create a new blockchain, good luck to them - the blockchain is far more resilient and the network runs as a democracy. It wouldn't work unless a vast amount of users also followed.

Your point about exchanges is key of course - they are extremely amateur operations right now. But that's easily changeable by hard work.

Digital cash ought to excite any geek - whether Bitcoin is "it", or simply an alpha version of something better yet to arrive, who knows.

It sounds like: "sto divyatnadtsat".

Whatever people do in China, it's almost none of the things punishable by law, so most of them may actually feel just as much free, as people in the USA or anywhere else in the world, even more free, if they actually believe, that the political and economical system in their country is better, than elsewhere.

But when we speak about people's freedom in a political sense, usually it means very distinct things like freedom of press, freedom of self-expression, freedom to hold meetings and such, which requires one to actually do something like that to 'test' their freedoms.

There is a difference between an individual's sense of the amount of freedom he has ("the silent mass" is mostly ignorant) and the actual status of general freedom in a state (i.e. the amount of limitations of certain freedoms to its population as a whole).

The difference is such, that when you just believe that you're free, while you aren't, you will be quickly disappointed by the reality. Continuing to believe that you're free (and act as if you were), while getting all the possible restraints and punishments from your oppressor, is a definite sign that you're crazy. When you are free and you *understand* what your freedom is (usually freedom is limited, there is no absolute freedom), if your freedom is continued, there is no reason for being disappointed in anything concerning it. You behave freely and there is no punishment for that.

When working with music on, I've found that whatever the style of music I listen to (from ambient to afrobeat to folk rock to heavy metal), it tends to put me into a trance-like state, where I am able to do good designing or a lot of routine coding work, or debugging, which makes me much more productive. But what I've also noticed is that every kind of music sets a different working rhythm, so different kinds of programming work need a different type of music for the best results.

Nice ambient, lounge, trance for example, tend to be somewhat good for designing and implementing new stuff, or cracking hard debugging issues (i.e. they stimulate abstract thinking and imagination). Hard rock, afrobeat, drum'n'bass make it easier doing some routine coding (I mean, coding which is routine) and simple routine debugging and testing, increasing your raw productivity.

I have also found, that just putting on big noise-cancelling headphones decreases the amount of effort needed to concentrate, while still allowing you to quickly respond to anyone asking you about anything. This is detrimental though, since closed earphones tend to make your ears more susceptible to catching cold, when you're using such headphones too much, something I have found out myself the hard way.

Naah... Been there, done that... Any other ideas?
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Same as squrrels, foxes, seagulls and occasionally bears?

Huh, where is math here? Same anecdotal evidence and inductive logic at best.

There are some very good games, where Germans actually have a lot of superiority in numbers and weapons. Example: "Theatre of War 2: Africa 1943".

That looks like it *will be* an Emacs clone pretty soon!

Is a peasant betraying his comrade to his enemy an innocent death? Is a bandit, making use of the chaos in the country you ware guerilla warfare and revolution to get as much as they can an innocent death? Or were the ones killed as Sierra Maestra's cooperators by Batista's government forces innocent deaths, for which Che is somehow responsible?..

I guess, it's a kind of "terrorism": the law firm is supposed to "learn" not to get affiliated with MAFIAA, or something like that.