I've been reading Proof of Stake lately. It's a collection of essays about cryptocurrency, cryptoeconomics, etc. by one of the creators of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin. In one of the early essays Vitalik defines the seigniorage of a currency as the difference between the "face value&
An interesting fact about Unicode is that it assigns code points for things that aren't themselves characters. Some of these things are special values called surrogates. These are used in UTF-16 to represent characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane, or BMP.[1] There are 2,048 such code
(interpreting and combining two concepts and an essay while not having any knowledge or experience about software as a business, don't mind me) What creates the "[covering] fire" in the software version of "Fire and Motion"? Is it purely psychological on the developers'
I frequently like to read about some particular kinds of social phenomena that arise around software. This is my attempt at making a list of ideas and clusters of ideas that seem interesting. For my own sanity I won't attempt to find the source through which these ideas
In any given Discworld book I often find a word or two I don't know. Here's such a passage from Men at Arms: "Bad case of Flameless Gripe," said Lady Ramkin. "Hope we've got it in time–" The dragon ripped