I have got an insight alright. Microsoft took it over.

Soon most will have forgotten how essential and stable github was at some point in the past.

Jeez, his surname is spelled differently 3x in the first couple of paragraphs (Sijbrandij / Sijbrandiij / Sijbrandi). Proof-reading, anyone?

I suspect this could be an SEO trick for people who mis-spell the name when searching.

I doubt it. Google is smart enough to fix the misspellings at search time, and the Forbes editorial quality doesn't look great all round.

Ahhh. Finally we understand the genius of "covfefe".

Finally, some respect!

Sijbrandij is the correct one.

Ha, nice! Played this to death in my young years :) Also: Shooting Gallery...

I think I actually played Haunted Mansion at a party my dad took me to when I was super little; I rediscovered Dangerous Dave later. Never did get past the "outdoor" level...

First game i ever played, i wouldn't get off the computer till i finished it, good times.

Have one too. Proud owner for over about 11/12 years now. Amazing mixer :)

By the way, the article is at fault, as it mentions it was released in 2010. This is false - it was released around 2003/2004 I believe.

In https://www.deejayforum.de/threads/32604-djr-400-rotary-mixe... (a thread from 2006) one forum user mentions the delivery of a DJR400 in 2004.

The article made me doubt it for a little while, but I'm quite sure I ordered mine before 2010 ;)

Nice, but classifications can be better. The Deep House track wasn't really exemplary IMO :) Then you hear Larry Heard - Can You Feel It which is classified as Chicago/Garage house...

Better to do this on NEO instead. Their tech is better than ETH in every way; it can handle up to 10.000 transactions per second (whereas ETH can handle ~15) and it supports almost all mainstream coding languages. What's more, transactions are free.

I'm thinking it might be time for Hacker News to start enforcing a rule against nonsubstantive promotions of various three-letter technologies.

Deploying a Smart Contract on NEO costs 500 gas, which is approx. 28k$ as of today.

True, but once deployed it's free to execute. The intent is to weed out junk contracts, among other reasons. There has also been discussion of reducing this cost, as the value of GAS rises.

Is there a downside or trade off? I’m a little skeptical that NEO is strictly better in all aspects.

NEO is currently quite centralized†, which is an easy trade-off to make for higher throughput (see the traditional infrastructure of the web). It may not become more decentralized in the future, but its consensus mechanism (dBFT) is not really proven yet, which is why they are playing it safe. They will continue developing it of course, as will Ethereum with its proposed and not-yet-rolled-out PoS.

Time will tell which one is safe. If the rewards are high enough, someone powerful/knowledgeable will inevitably try and break or cheat the system.

† Some people like to make a distinction between "distributed" and "decentralized". For me the former is part of the latter.

Cryptokitties is possible because of ERC 721, which allows for unique tokens to represent individual assets (having an indivisible kitty with its own dna). As far as I'm aware, NEO doesn't yet provide the ability to create individualized tokens that can be stored on the blockchain in a similar way.

ERC 721 just an API standard for non-fungible assets. There's nothing special on inherent to Ethereum that makes Cryptokitties possible.

You can totally build something Cryptokitties with NEO -- the only difference is that because there isn't a standard, there isn't a third-party marketplace for these assets. (i.e., there's nothing inherent about NEO that prevents something like Cryptokitties from being built.)

Can you elaborate on this? I've been curious about other dApp platforms similar to Ethereum as I can't help but feel underwhelmed by Ethereum's capabilities currently.

Just started mining, looks neat! Would love some coins as well: 290B39E31298A1EB5C6F53596E8015CA372869CC

Thanks!