spalladino

Falsehoods that Ethereum programmers believe

I recently stumbled upon Falsehoods programmers believe about time zones, which got a good laugh out of me. It reminded me of other great lists of falsehoods, such as about names or time, and made me look for an equivalent for Ethereum. Having found none, here is my humble contribution to this set.

About Gas

Calling estimateGas will return the gas required by my transaction

Calling estimateGas will return the gas that your transaction would require if it were mined now. The current state of the chain may be very different to the state in which your tx will get mined. So when your tx i

VictorTaelin

Make Ethereum massively scalable today with delayed computations

Suppose you're writing a contract which involves a huge amount of participants. As an example, think of an online, blockchain-based Trading-Card Game with tournaments. How would you program a playCard function? You might be thinking of something like this:

function playCard(uint player, uint card){
    ...
    else if (card == PROFESSOR_OAK){
        // shuffles the player's hand on his deck
 shuffleHand(player)

lizrice

package main

// @lizrice, mostly copied from @doctor_julz: https://gist.github.com/julz/c0017fa7a40de0543001

import (
	"fmt"
	"os"
	"os/exec"
	"syscall"
)

nick-desteffen

sudo ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC /etc/localtime