"Mike Hearn, a British computer programmer...."

[Blinken]

New York Times, 15 January 2016:

"Mike Hearn, a British computer programmer...."

I stopped reading right there. There is no such thing as a "British computer programmer". There are British people who imagine they could program computers. There are British people who write about computer programming as though they could do it in an imaginary world. There are British people who write about actual American computer programmers. And there are probably some British people who peck at keyboards in a futile attempt to write a computer program (and then after writing one page of code they give up and write a novel about their experiences as a "computer programmer").

Well, I AM a programmer, an AMERICAN living in AMERICA where real programming was invented and where Apple, IBM, Microsoft, Google, Oracle, Intel and every other top software and computer hardware company actually exists, not in a novel, but in real life.

What this prick reminds me of in no particular order:

Edsger W. Dijkstra, a pompous, self-important pendant paid by the Dutch government to write pompous papers about trivial algorithms Americans had already discovered and who probably wrote less than 200 lines of code in his whole life

SAP - the software originally written by American programming genius Robert Adams which was subsequently turned into the most unfunctional piece of bloatware in the world over the course of decades by a bunch of pompous German non-programming theorists and now serves, as far as I can see, to primarily allow large companies to pay $500 million a year so that they can use buzzwords like "service oriented architecture" in their annual reports.

Piers Morgan

Hugh Pickens, the British blogger who tries to inject his obnoxious socialist agenda into every technology subject he can think of, then pollute Slashdot with it

David Cameron after a lobotomy

the NATS computer system

Acorn Computer, the most defective and unusable piece of computer hardware ever invented which sat completely unused in some 100,000 schools in the UK and is now the subject of a bizarre Stalinesque conspiracy by British journalists to write it up as though "a generation of schoolkids grew up learning to program on it" which is a complete lie

the British guy I interviewed for a developer job who had a "Masters Degree in Computer Science" from the University of Leeds and scored 0 out of 10 on a written basic skills quiz with questions like "Convert the number 57 to hexadecimal"

every single British jerkoff who comes here telling us to how to run our country


You would think after the American Revolution these British assholes would get the message: GET YOUR BODY THE HELL OUT OF OUR COUNTRY, YOUR FINGERS OUT OF OUR FORUMS, AND YOUR MOUTHS OUT OF OUR NEWSMEDIA and STOP TRYING TO ACT LIKE YOU KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT OUR TECHNOLOGY

[West man]

LOL 
THIS HAS LIGHTEN THE PRESSURE FROM TODAY FROM MY WEARY MIND!   

[justspare]

Is Mike Hearn the guy that keeps dissing Bitcoin. He is such a retard. And this is soo true. British people are only good at speaking with their accent, nothing else.

[danonthehill]

Alan Turing

[Blinken]

Alan Turing

Nope, he didn't make me think of Alan Turing. I think that is because Turing was smart enough to kill himself and leave all his money in a buried box where noone could find it.

I have a feeling this guy is going to stay painfully alive to annoy us for years to come. 

[franky1]

i do love it when a person who loves international currency that has no borders, make a racist comment using the very language they hate.
i would feel the OP had a point as an american if he atleast attempted to speak native american to atleast prove hits roots really do belong to america.

i see many racist people who actually don't think beyond their own nose..
EG people who want to stop migration.. dont realise that they will never be able to go abroad on vacation themselves it that agenda got enforced
EG people who dont like other languages. yet the very language they use is built up using other languages over the ages
EG people who dont like different skin colours. yet love to get a suntan
EG people who think america is great. yet have a not so great track record of many things from prison population to obesity
https://youtu.be/UkgJZntgaEc?t=1m36s

[xhomerx10]

Alan Turing

"NPL lost the race to build the world’s first working electronic stored-program digital computer—an honour that went to the Royal Society Computing Machine Laboratory at the University of Manchester in June 1948. Discouraged by the delays at NPL, Turing took up the deputy directorship of the Computing Machine Laboratory in that year (there was no director). "

 I see the connection now.  British, failed discouraged, departed.  Makes sense.

[gadman2]

Yeah!
Heil Hitler!
White power!
[insert other simple minded puns here]
'Murica

[West man]

Dam it Hearn look what you have done. 

[lightfoot]

I have got to start issuing press releases:

Lightfoot, a drunken First Officer from the USS Shameless.....

[jonald_fyookball]

OP, you can't be serious.  Mike created bitcoinj.
He can program circles around 99% of anyone.

Oh, and "AMERICA" doesn't own Bitcoin.

If are you just trolling, then pretty funny...good job. 

[Bitcoinpro]

Mike Hearn says Bitcoin has failed

meanwhile goes of to make his own blockchain

[DimensionZ]

Wait did OP just say that Bitcoin is an American Technology? Satoshi Nakamoto is probably an Asian-American math teacher from Austin, Texas.

[elizabethqueen]

New York Times, 15 January 2016:

"Mike Hearn, a British computer programmer...."

I stopped reading right there. There is no such thing as a "British computer programmer". There are British people who imagine they could program computers. There are British people who write about computer programming as though they could do it in an imaginary world. There are British people who write about actual American computer programmers. And there are probably some British people who peck at keyboards in a futile attempt to write a computer program (and then after writing one page of code they give up and write a novel about their experiences as a "computer programmer").

Well, I AM a programmer, an AMERICAN living in AMERICA where real programming was invented and where Apple, IBM, Microsoft, Google, Oracle, Intel and every other top software and computer hardware company actually exists, not in a novel, but in real life.

What this prick reminds me of in no particular order:

Edsger W. Dijkstra, a pompous, self-important pendant paid by the Dutch government to write pompous papers about trivial algorithms Americans had already discovered and who probably wrote less than 200 lines of code in his whole life

SAP - the software originally written by American programming genius Robert Adams which was subsequently turned into the most unfunctional piece of bloatware in the world over the course of decades by a bunch of pompous German non-programming theorists and now serves, as far as I can see, to primarily allow large companies to pay $500 million a year so that they can use buzzwords like "service oriented architecture" in their annual reports.

Piers Morgan

Hugh Pickens, the British blogger who tries to inject his obnoxious socialist agenda into every technology subject he can think of, then pollute Slashdot with it

David Cameron after a lobotomy

the NATS computer system

Acorn Computer, the most defective and unusable piece of computer hardware ever invented which sat completely unused in some 100,000 schools in the UK and is now the subject of a bizarre Stalinesque conspiracy by British journalists to write it up as though "a generation of schoolkids grew up learning to program on it" which is a complete lie

the British guy I interviewed for a developer job who had a "Masters Degree in Computer Science" from the University of Leeds and scored 0 out of 10 on a written basic skills quiz with questions like "Convert the number 57 to hexadecimal"

every single British jerkoff who comes here telling us to how to run our country


You would think after the American Revolution these British assholes would get the message: GET YOUR BODY THE HELL OUT OF OUR COUNTRY, YOUR FINGERS OUT OF OUR FORUMS, AND YOUR MOUTHS OUT OF OUR NEWSMEDIA and STOP TRYING TO ACT LIKE YOU KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT OUR TECHNOLOGY

oh,dont be serious like that,just take it easy,and as bitcoin supporter,we just need to keep trust bitcoin,not trust mike hearn,time will shut up mike mouth soon

[zivone]

Wait did OP just say that Bitcoin is an American Technology? Satoshi Nakamoto is probably an Asian-American math teacher from Austin, Texas.

Probably but now China is in control...

[Jet Cash]

New York Times, 15 January 2016:

"Mike Hearn, a British computer programmer...."

I stopped reading right there. There is no such thing as a "British computer programmer". There are British people who imagine they could program computers. There are British people who write about computer programming as though they could do it in an imaginary world. There are British people who write about actual American computer programmers. And there are probably some British people who peck at keyboards in a futile attempt to write a computer program (and then after writing one page of code they give up and write a novel about their experiences as a "computer programmer").

Well, I AM a programmer, an AMERICAN living in AMERICA where real programming was invented and where Apple, IBM, Microsoft, Google, Oracle, Intel and every other top software and computer hardware company actually exists, not in a novel, but in real life.

This is a typical American attitude, and one to which I take exception. As an English ex-mainframe programmer with over 50 years experience. I started on an IBM 421 (look it up), I have seen examples of American programs. Windows is classic - monolithic, inefficient and untested, and it required an army of personnel managers to save it from falling apart. Remember that the internet was invented by an Englishman, and many major "US" software implementations contain efficient and elegant code, in contrast to verbose American creations. Linus was not an American invention. The list could go on.

[iCEBREAKER]

Mike Hearn says Bitcoin has failed

meanwhile goes of to make his own blockchain

BWAH HA BWAH HAH HA HA HEE HEE EEEE HA HEE HAW BWAH AH AH HAH

Mike Hearn has made himself a laughingstock for the ages.

As for the OP,



Bonus points for first 1337 hax0rz (pwnd Hitler's boxen):

[Lucentar]

Wait did OP just say that Bitcoin is an American Technology? Satoshi Nakamoto is probably an Asian-American math teacher from Austin, Texas.

Probably but now China is in control...

The China is in control of 60% of the mining power. So the British government should do something?

[partysaurus]

New York Times, 15 January 2016:

"Mike Hearn, a British computer programmer...."

I stopped reading right there. There is no such thing as a "British computer programmer". There are British people who imagine they could program computers. There are British people who write about computer programming as though they could do it in an imaginary world. There are British people who write about actual American computer programmers. And there are probably some British people who peck at keyboards in a futile attempt to write a computer program (and then after writing one page of code they give up and write a novel about their experiences as a "computer programmer").

Well, I AM a programmer, an AMERICAN living in AMERICA where real programming was invented and where Apple, IBM, Microsoft, Google, Oracle, Intel and every other top software and computer hardware company actually exists, not in a novel, but in real life.

What this prick reminds me of in no particular order:

Edsger W. Dijkstra, a pompous, self-important pendant paid by the Dutch government to write pompous papers about trivial algorithms Americans had already discovered and who probably wrote less than 200 lines of code in his whole life

SAP - the software originally written by American programming genius Robert Adams which was subsequently turned into the most unfunctional piece of bloatware in the world over the course of decades by a bunch of pompous German non-programming theorists and now serves, as far as I can see, to primarily allow large companies to pay $500 million a year so that they can use buzzwords like "service oriented architecture" in their annual reports.

Piers Morgan

Hugh Pickens, the British blogger who tries to inject his obnoxious socialist agenda into every technology subject he can think of, then pollute Slashdot with it

David Cameron after a lobotomy

the NATS computer system

Acorn Computer, the most defective and unusable piece of computer hardware ever invented which sat completely unused in some 100,000 schools in the UK and is now the subject of a bizarre Stalinesque conspiracy by British journalists to write it up as though "a generation of schoolkids grew up learning to program on it" which is a complete lie

the British guy I interviewed for a developer job who had a "Masters Degree in Computer Science" from the University of Leeds and scored 0 out of 10 on a written basic skills quiz with questions like "Convert the number 57 to hexadecimal"

every single British jerkoff who comes here telling us to how to run our country


You would think after the American Revolution these British assholes would get the message: GET YOUR BODY THE HELL OUT OF OUR COUNTRY, YOUR FINGERS OUT OF OUR FORUMS, AND YOUR MOUTHS OUT OF OUR NEWSMEDIA and STOP TRYING TO ACT LIKE YOU KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT OUR TECHNOLOGY

This post is epic! Im not a american im swedish , but could not stop laughing this is so funny in so many ways. But i dont know if your serius or not , but as a joke this is brilliant.

[hf100]

Isn't the message from the Times in the genesis block an indication that Satoshi is probably British? What's the OP doing registering for a forum started by a British programmer that's all about the revolutionary software he wrote? Why did Satoshi use British spelling, not American spelling, because he's probably British?