Devilboy

It has explicit error handling (via multiple return values) which the authors argue is superior (even if more verbose) because they know from experience that programmers tend to make mistakes forgetting to check for errors in their code. If the error code comes back as a return value the programmer has to consciously decide what to do with it immediately, leading to better code on average.

They sell for $10 million. Is that what you mean?

Sure but that's not the point here. The important thing is that this quantum computer actually WORKS. In 2 years classical computers will be maybe 5 times faster. But this quantum computer will be 1000s of times faster (at these specific problems) so very soon any comparison will be irrelevant.

Bitcoin addresses are hashes, not the public keys themselves. Thus they are safe against a quantum factoring algorithm. If you spend money from a bitcoin address though, the public key does get written to the block chain but to combat this you merely have to send your change to a new address and you'll be safe again.

If the contract is tight, let em sue. Big companies get sued all the time. Who cares.

$10k per hour, $20k if they want anal.

Gotta get paid half up-front man!

Client: Please record yourself doing the job

Me: OK no problem, that will cost an extra $X

Client: Ah actually don't worry about the recording