Tinker and Alliance are looking pretty shaky in the long term - Tinker just dropped out of a tournament and Alliance was unable to play games of theirs earlier today. It looks right now like they'll soon see major changes, disband, or become one team. Alliance also sponsors a League of Legends team and a few other teams in other scenes though.

EDIT: This also includes D2L - a relatively large DOTA league, as well as parts of CLG (CounterLogic Gaming) - http://clgaming.net/news/611-kelby-may-steps-down-as-general...

I think Alliance will be fine. There was a really good interview with Loda at the Summit where he said that he has a plan/vision but Chessie's medical problems were a big blow to them (remember they were beating VG and Mushi's Team Malaysia 2-0 in China just 2 months ago). That's why Bulldog is also on a break, they don't want to play with standins.

Loda also had a good performance at the Summit recently, standing in for Tinker. Even if Alliance may not be so hot on the scene right now, the talent at the core of their team is still present.

And I thought it was about cloud9.gg at first glance.

I find it rather crazy that "cockpit", an almost brand new project has its entire backend written in C. Not your typical backend language by any means...

Well it does make deploymeny really simple, since it'll have such light dependencies. If it's statically linked it could even be as simple as unpacking a tar file.

Go can also compile to a static binary. Haskell almost (libgmp is the only hard dependency).

Go is less useful on older systems, since you have to go out and get the Go compiler/etc. and compile them yourself before you can compile anything else, whereas you can expect that all systems (not just recent ones) have a C compiler installed.

What's wrong with compiling elsewhere and transporting the binary there?

Also, there are builds of the compiler that one can use, you're not usually forced to compile the compiler.

What prevents limbmp from being statically linked in?

Licensing of libgmp does.

Having spend the last week or so working with client certificates, they could be so much more if browsers implemented a proper interface for managing them, or at least a much more intuitive one than they do at the moment. They work spectacularly for building closed APIs where you control both sides, however. They're just a bit tricky for the end user most of the time

Tossed one of my domains in. Awesome idea, took a while to figure out what domain to let go though

cough cryptocat cough

The cryptocat issue can be viewed sideways:

* Open source applications are bad, see what happened to cryptocat?

* Open source is awesome! Look what happened to cryptocat!

If cryptocat was closed-source... would ever be noticed? I wonder...

People insist on looking at this through their default prism of "closed source bad, open source good". But people with crypto experience have other prisms; for instance, "competent, well-vetted crypto" versus "amateur enthusiast crypto". Sometimes open source is also competent and well-vetted, but vetting is expensive, and there is a lot of amateur crypto out there.

> Sometimes open source is also competent and well-vetted, but vetting is expensive, and there is a lot of amateur crypto out there.

You seem to be implying that one must be a hobbyist in order to write incompetent crypto software with no or incompetent review and tend to need company resources to get quality code reviews.

Having crypto is often an important checkmark and tack on for shipping a product and usually no one in the product group is competent to analyze the security of the way they tacked on encryption. If a few in the larger company are competent, they will avoid reviewing these projects. Being the engineer everyone associates with delays and frustrations doesn't do much for you and there will never be any proof of the costs you may have prevented.

The few better than I know how to criticize implementations that I have seen haveusually had considerable cross company and university involvement. That usually means open source or a lot of NDA and complex license agreements for cross organization code sharing.

I have no idea what you're trying to say here, but just a random stab at responding: my perspective in this discussion comes from managing a consulting practice that, among a few other things, specializes in assessing the security of cryptographic implementations.

I've been in a role of evaluating security vulnerabilities on security products and features from many different origins..

All I am saying is that I am in a position to estimate ~9/10 of everything critically exceeds the competence of its authors to safely combine features and security. So a primary explanation for failure that only applies to 40%(60%?) of the market doesn't sound right to me.

So either we disagree considerably on proportion of software that is poorly implemented or you are saying the majority of commercial software is also written by hobbyists?

Currently, I don't think there's a fully working HAMMER implementation for Linux - there may be a read only one floating around though, IIRC

The fun thing about Bitcoin is the immense latency in moving money (USD) between exchanges, which has at minimum 4 days of transit. This makes just about anything involving multiple exchanges or high frequency (especially arbitrage trading) absolutely impossible to do without a service such as bitinstant, which is currently MIA

Just so that it's said, buying at Coinbase right now gets you the right now price (or at least their spot price at the moment).

You're perfectly right that you won't receive the coin for 4 or more days, which leaves a lot of opportunity on the table for turning it around quickly, and perhaps increases the risk non-negligibly, but buying is done at spot price, not receipt.

Assuming that you're willing to maintain inventory at multiple exchanges, you could still absolutely do arbitrage inter-exchange.

Unfortunately there's no way to hedge your BTC inventory so you have to take on a lot of currency risk.

Where does this 4 days of transit come from?

once your funds are in, you can instantly exchange between crypto-currencies

Nothing stops you from doing HFT on one exchange, or on multiple ones independently. Most of them have APIs.

I certainly hope you realize that quite a few members of the Wayland core development team are former/current X.org maintainers/core developers.

The reason they're starting from scratch is they ran out of features to cut from X without breaking it.

On one hand, they're justified because most people don't use X as intended.

On the other hand, maybe people should be.

Now I'm just a little bit disappointed I didn't buy any when I first heard of them... But this feels like the same bubble Bitcoin has had twice before - it spikes then plummets, but it plummets to a point higher than the last drop