joaobatalha
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Comment · 6 years ago
amplemarket.com | Lisbon / Lisboa, Portugal | Full Time | Onsite | Senior Software Engineer
* Developing software that makes sales much less painful
* Stack: Ruby, React, Elasticsearch, Postgres, Python (for machine learning)
* Backed by Y Combinator. Co-founding team started Fermat’s Library
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Comment · 7 years ago
It seems that the etymological origin of Marmelade is Marmelada
Comment · 7 years ago
amplemarket.com | Lisbon / Lisboa, Portugal | Full Time | Onsite | Senior Software Engineer
* Developing software that can do the job of the most junior position in sales
* Stack: Ruby, React, Elasticsearch, Postgres, Python (for machine learning)
* Backed by Y Combinator. Co-founding team started Fermat’s Library
Comment · 7 years ago
amplemarket.com | Lisbon / Lisboa, Portugal | Full Time | Onsite | Senior Software Engineer
* Developing software that can do the job of the most junior position in sales
* Stack: Ruby, React, Elasticsearch, Postgres, Python (for machine learning)
* Backed by Y Combinator. Co-founding team started Fermat’s Library
Comment · 9 years ago
It truly is a wonderful paper. Lots of information in it.
You don't need that much background knowledge to understand it, but it can take a few reads to wrap your mind around it.
I would suggest also taking a look at the annotated version of the whitepaper on Fermat's Library:
- https://fermatslibrary.com/s/bitcoin
I wrote some of the annotations and tried as much as possible to make it so that this annotated version would provide a motivated reader with all the resources needed to truly understand the bitcoin protocol.
Michael Nielsen's blogpost about Bitcoin (http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/how-the-bitcoin-protocol-a...) is also a great read.
Comment · 9 years ago
"Reflections on Trusting Trust" by Ken Thompson is one of my favorites, and fairly self contained.
Most papers by Jon Bentley (e.g. "A Sample of Brilliance") are also great reads and usually pretty short.
I'm a frequent contributor to Fermat's Library (https://fermatslibrary.com), which posts an annotated paper (CS, Math and Physics mainly) every week. In the annotations you will usually find a concise piece of knowledge that helps you understand some part of the paper without having to spend a long time in the "recursive rabbit hole". For instance, in the Bitcoin paper, there is an annotation with a succinct explanation of the essential cryptography concepts (Hash functions, Public Key Cryptography, Signatures) you need to know to understand the paper. And the nice thing is that if you feel so inclined, you can add your own annotations and make the paper easier to grasp for the next person who reads it :)
- Reflections on Trusting Trust (Annotated Version) - http://fermatslibrary.com/s/reflections-on-trusting-trust
- A Sample of Brilliance (Annotated Version) - http://fermatslibrary.com/s/a-sample-of-brilliance
- Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System - https://fermatslibrary.com/s/bitcoin
Comment · 9 years ago
Not sure what happened, it was down, but it seems to be back up now. [email protected] is usually pretty responsive
joao [at] orankl.com