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Bitcoin Wallet for Android
6 Jul 2011Tonight a buddy of mine (who works at Google) and I released an open source application. It’s an Android app for Bitcoin that allows you to have a digital “wallet” on your phone. Here are a few screenshots: Simply put, the app allows you to send and receive bitcoins from your Android phone. If you’ve never [...]
Learning Programming
In: Technology
20 Jun 2011I was tutoring someone in web app development recently, and the monumental task in front of him really hit me. He was trying to learn and use nine new languages at the same time. In our case it was: Ruby Rails MySQL Bash (command line usage) HTML CSS Javascript JQuery Git (Capistrano, Yaml, nginx, ??) [...]
Punishing Nigerian Scammers
8 Nov 2010I started getting complaints recently from some tutors on UniversityTutor.com that they were receiving scam emails. I looked into it and the scam is the same one you commonly see on Craigslist and numerous other sites. It usually goes like this: Someone contacts you pretending to be interested in your services (tutoring in this case) [...]
Greater levels of abstraction
In: Technology
30 Sep 2010At the risk of oversimplifying, the entire history of computer programming could be summarized as a series of higher and higher levels of abstraction. Early computers just had individual bits you could flip on and off. Then came assembly languages that allowed you to manipulate numbers. C made strings, arrays, and all sorts of things [...]
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