My opinion, if you really want to do something, anything, then you should join others. You have nobody to debate and you'll apply your knowledge and logic on what is already known
I engage others in debate as I did with @jaekwon but he just banned me and shut down the Github issue when he decided he didn't want to let me explain further how his project is broken and can't be fixed. He expect me to unravel the obfuscation they have done with protocol and that is not my job. I already understand the fundamental reason blame is impossible. It is their job to find out how they obfuscated this fundamental in their understanding of their design. Or later I can take the time to write or hire someone to write a formal refutation of their Proof of Accountability. Why should I encourage them to stop working on their project and wasting their time? Much better for me to have one less potential competitor and not to lose my precious time doing their work for them. At the right time, we can make it 100% proven that their projects are a total failure. And that will best done when my project is already released. Don't wake up a sleeping dog prematurely.
I also agree it is important to work with others and the point of the ICO would be to make that happen, but why should I work with some dumb ass Millennials who have their ego up their ass. I would prefer to work with some top notch programmers from outside of our dysfunctional ecosystem who don't get easily offended when having technical discussions. The drama in our ecosystem is like 5 years old fighting over toys or throwing sand.
Actually Steem's main coder appears to be very good (from browsing his code). I might like to steal him away, but I don't know him yet. We just exchanged some words recently on a blog where I had refuted Dan
Hopefully can find some guys to work with who are low on drama and high on professionalism and production.
I don't disrespect Vitalik and Vlad. Some of Vitalik's blogs are helpful and I have cited 2 or 3 of them. Vitalik has been good for our ecosystem. His approach is interesting. Someone wrote recently that Ethereum could even be viewed as important as a teaching tool and bringing others into crypto. I am not so closed minded as to not appreciate other vantage points.
But I don't like Vitalik's style of mgmt and budgeting. I don't like how he approaches development. I have decades of experience actually developing software that shipped to millions of users. Vitalik is a young guy living in a fantasy. Sorry he is too out-of-touch with the harsh realities and it offends my past experience of actually shipping software. In other words, I don't think professional programmers would work for him. Programming should be a pretty much invisible activity only seen by those who are in the trenches on Github. Not weekly video Hangouts on Google and slack. All that time wasting verbiage such as we are doing now here in this thread.
what was known and just say bluntly, "it won't work". You also seem to be very proud and that certainly ain't helping.
You stay with V&V. And let's see how the reality works out.
Of course you will say that. Do you have experience creating software and shipping it to millions of users?
Interacting is important. But interacting with Vitalik and Vlad as I have observed ends up being a lot of noise. Because they are making it up as they go along. They haven't studied enough to be expert on the topic they are working on. Professionals arrive prepared and much less verbiage is required.
Yes I would love to work with experts and prolific coders. That would be very fun. But you've also got to work out the financial aspects. Programmers aren't cheap. And in our dysfunctional ecosystem here, all the devs want to have a portion of the money supply. Or you've got purely voluntary contributors such as for Monero, but this can drag on for a long time and even be abandoned (3 years for Monero to produce a GUI I heard).
You aren't in your prime and it's probably hard for you now to work with people half your age that may know more than you do.
It is difficult for me to work with Millennials who are into political correctness and easily offended. I didn't realize that until I actually started to interact with them.
That doesn't mean there might not be some younger guys who are very professional.
As for knowing more than I do, be careful with that presumption. You seem to not value experience. If experience isn't valuable, then WTF?
You are also presuming that my intellect isn't unique. It doesn't mean I am the most astute mathematician or any particular attribute.
You can't judge a person's abilities based on what you would like to believe. You will only know based on the results or unless you interact with that person closely and can observe their true abilities.
I will just tell you that someone who was an adjunct professor at George Washington Univ and was a Dept head at SAIC recently told me in LinkedIn that he thought in college I would be the one to cure cancer. I told him I was going to attempt to change the monetary system instead.
There are most likely 10000 things that aren't fixed yet and can most likely be fixed with easy workarounds you or anyone else haven't thought about. Just because you don't know about programming it only mean there wasn't found a solution / workaround yet. You seem to be a bit close minded.
I am expert programmer. Do you not know I have written millions of lines of code for software that shipped to millions of users.
It is quite funny to see a non-expert arguing with an expert. You are certainly free to go on thinking what ever you wish. It is a free market.
I don't care to justify everything to you. I'd rather compete with you. It is amazingly slow and inefficient to sit here and argue with every person.
I think it is more productive to go do what I want to do. You can do what ever you want. Doesn't bother me.
You will learn in the end if I was correct about Casper. But since I was correct about everything else, why would I be wrong this time. But you are apparently not familiar with my record. C'est la vie.
