As for the bolded in our defense it did start Monero related. 
Wish there was more price speculation and less discussion of 0s/2 warp 🙁
Ps I hate my job
Still over $13, we are gonna see alot of shakeouts over the next few months I think. I’m just gonna keep buying a little each week, I don’t want to see it double or more again on me when I don’t have any. That was a bummer after 2 years. Lol
I concede. Monero was mentioned after all (;-)
As to price action: I always imagine a bank of monitors as a monster is awakening on a slab somewhere after being hit with sufficient energy. “Come up to the lab and see whats on the slab” Many shakes. And a binary bet of note; zero or hero ! Just not the whole house please even though it looks good. Stubborn patience with opportunistic accumulation along the way.
Ah the old days. I still have an original OS2 warp German edition flying around btw lol And about 7 million floppies with slackware base and xwindows. My god todays hardware in comparison. Typing this on a $100 acer chromebook with xubuntu and 250GB ssd upgrade. What joy in responsiveness, 8 hours of battery and low low cost. I dont miss the old clunkers. Fkn around in high memory to squeeze another 5k trying to get doom to work…..what joy when it did too. hmmm mixed emotions….
So if I learn anything from that reminiscing in relation to Monero its that ‘ease of use’ for end users needs to still come a long way. We’ve just come out of having to fdisk your partitions and define the scanlines of your monitor equivalent to hmmmm? early xwindows maybe. So there is a long way to go to set forget tap pay done functionality. I had quite a lot of issues with the blockchain reporting it is in sync when it is not quite. Transactions going into ‘pending’ for ages and having to flush_txpool in the daemon, runs show_transfers out and rescan_spent in the cli. I now have developed the appropriate minefield traverse methodology to calmly run everything very slowly and deliberately. And everything works. Like in the old days….But it’s not quite ready for prime time just yet. Unless you are at least a bit techie you are likely going to struggle. And once money is involved, fear of loss makes operating in an uncertain environment a bit of a showstopper for most.
So we need loads of state checking, locking, error checking and clear user feedback to bring the frontend to appliance levels of usability imo.
I cant really comment on the gui as I have only compiled it once and briefly ran it but reading the various comments and calls for help from new users I assume we have similar ‘user incompatibilities’ to eradicate there as well.
Published at Fri, 17 Feb 2017 00:05:45 +0000
