/r/Bitcoin is incredibly mad about bitcoin.org saying they won't list any client that says they're going to fork the blockchain.

The ban seems pretty reasonable.

Also: moon.

I just discovered that you can use deleted:1 to search deleted posts.

@StephenM347: Did you see bitcoin.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/24935

@NickODell Yeah, I was wondering what is happening there, but price has been rising for more than a few hours.

@NickODell: Craphound.com belongs to Cory Doctorow

@Murch, I hadn't, but it seems like a good edit to me, showing the solution as well as the problem.

@StephenM347 Well, since it was your post, I thought you might want to review it. :)

Ah nevermind, it has since been reviewed.

Yeah, it's already been approved. I might make one change to the wording, "from the text the problem is identified" flows weird to me.

@StephenM347 Well, it's your answer, edit away. :)

@Murch, are you done with school yet?

@StephenM347 Why, do you want to hire me? :D

Working on my thesis

@StephenM347 I have a Bachelor's degree in CS, and I am currently working on my Master's thesis.

@Murch, haha, no, just curious. How's your thesis?

I'll probably be finished in December

Well, just getting started actually. Doing research, reading into the topic. I'll be researching the benefits of visuo-haptic object representation for robots planning and executing discrete and continuous tasks

So, unfortunately, still in school

I did ascend to the ranks of lecturing two weeks ago, though. :D

@Murch Sounds like an interesting topic!

@StephenM347 Yeah, well, it does sound interesting to me, too, yet still I find it arduous to breach the topic.

Reading papers just is so strenuous. Especially when they are written by people with dubitable mastery of English

:p

Haha, fun fun :)

@StephenM347 Yeah, well, I'm making excuses really.

And how is your life? I saw you posting a lot of bitcoin.se last month. Are you guys coming up with a nifty new development?

I've been there a thousand times, having a bunch of work to do and looking for any excuse to not do it. The internet is all too helpful in finding excuses.

@Murch, I've been working on implementing HD wallets in the mobile app of the company I work for. I've wanted to do a deep dive on BIP32 for a little while, so I'm happy to have an excuse to do it at work :P

@Murch hahahaha

Although, since I've been updating my LinkedIn profile a bit, in foresight of being employable, I have been offered a few interesting jobs and invitations to visit companies for a day.

@Murch, nice! Any names I'd recognize? I need to spend some time on my linked in profile...

@StephenM347 Mostly smaller to midsize German companies or startups. I wasn't aware of any before they contacted me.

@StephenM347 Why, are you "up for new challenges"?

;)

Still wondering what I should pursue: Robotics, Speech Recognition, or Bitcoin.

Or just plain Software Development. :p

Although the former three would actually probably tie into Software Engineering as well.

@Murch, no, I'm pretty happy where I am for now. It's probably the closest job to where all my family lives where I could be working on Bitcoin related projects, which I want to keep doing.

Sounds like you have 3 good options.

@StephenM347 I'm glad to be able to agree.

Yeah, in probably anything you do, programming skills would be useful

Yeah, although our education in programming is not comprehensive at the university that I attend, I've been working as a student assistant and later in a side-job for more than four years now, so I think I've got the basics down.

Our education rather errs on the side of theoretical than practical at the KIT.

Computer science departments do love to teach the theory. My undergrad education in comp sci could have been a little bit more practical.

But I'm getting my practical education in a startup.

@StephenM347 Well, I hope that my next employer offers more in that regard than my current. Currently, I am enjoying the pleasures of a bastardized version of Scrum, where both the Scrum Master and Product Owner are members of the development team, with management hiring people like mad, expecting development speed to pick up, while realistically, more capacity is tied up by needing to introduce new colleagues to the system.

Meanwhile test coverage of the code is at such a low level that one could seriously claim that we are producing legacy code.

sigh

But, since I am there only 9 hours a week, it's hard to make a dent.

@Murch Been there. The larger the development team, the less efficient it is, unless you have a really good manager. Our head of engineering has to do so much of the coding that he can't do scrum right, with proper sprints and backlog management.

@StephenM347 We are 14 people now, still PO and SM are devs. o.0

One "scrum team"

It's a bit ridiculous from what I have learned about Scrum :p

@Murch Right, but did cory doctorow write spamsolutions.txt?

@NickODell Probably not ;)

But then, it is the best hit I get for "spamsolutions.txt", so he might actually have.

Yay, I've just joined @NickODell in the illustre ranks of people with the Copy Editor badge.

@Murch Nice! Now I need to get a new gold badge to stay ahead.

Next big one is Illuminator. ;)

Oh, we are actually tied for gold medals. ;)

I thought, you'd have much more, being on the site so much longer, especially when it was easier to get the voting based medals.

Actually, I had been vying the Generalist badge, but I think I am missing one or two tags with 15 points. ;)

I've been on the site longer, but there was a pretty long period after I registered where I didn't post much.

@NickODell Oh right, I see you only picked up pace starting 2013

pretty much the same as me then

^^

/me feels silly for being excited about a badge. :p

I'm nowhere close on Illuminator.

55/500

I'm 35% of the way to Socratic, though

Which then? Stellar, Great, and Famous Question are basically impossible with our community

oh, okay

I've asked way too few questions for that one

Great Answer is impossible for the same reason, as well as Unsung Hero (too few answers are getting accepted).

So, Perhaps Populist or Reversal might be in reach

You'll get Constable in a few months though, which I have already.

And I got promoted to Mod, when I had ~490/500 helpful flags for "Marshal" which I apparently can't get as a Mod.

Ah, you have Steward though, which I am missing still. :)

Maybe you can ask Tim Post to demod you for a few weeks

lol

Nah, not that important

I don't think I can get Constable.

I'm not a pro-tem mod.

Although, I am sure it would only be a few hours.

Am I?

@NickODell Yeah

you are

because you weren't elected in an election

Pro Tempore Moderators are the ones directly selected by SE staff.

All of us have been/are Pro Tempore Mods

Waddya mean? I got 3 votes. ;)

That makes sense, though.

No, such an Election

which we haven't had on Bitcoin yet: bitcoin.stackexchange.com/election

Alright, I'm gonna go shopping, back in a bit.

@Murch See ya.

Food++