Steve Marx

@vibronet So sorry to hear this. Among your other contributions, I'll always remember the disgusting pictures you drew to make us laugh in meetings at Microsoft. I miss you.

You might have heard that I have pancreatic cancer. What’s new is that the bleeding is accelerating, and it’s not impossible that I might die from it - soon. I can’t really piece together a good farewell tweet, but I also didn’t want to risk not having a chance to write any. 1/n.

@dunnry Yeah, except we didn't get 5 minutes to review. :⁠-⁠)

Paging @smarx. Didn’t we win this at Dropbox?

@leahculver Did you order it?

So this is what Amazon thinks of me. Possum in a peanut.

@vibronet @ntotten I'm sorry that happened to you.

@smarx @ntotten The mythical @smarx appeared on my screen just last week. I bought a 3D tablet and was using it to look at ancient 3D pictures: he was featured in uncomfortably close closeups in a folder about MIX in Vegas 😛

@GNSPS My favorite resource for that (because I wrote it): programtheblockchain.com/posts/2018/03/…

Learn about the storage model. Please. Know how arrays in storage work. By heart. If you know that, it probably means you know everything about the EVM. Solidity will follow.

@factoidforrest Every time I look for a Ropsten faucet the ones I used to use are gone and new ones have popped up. :-) I haven't tried in quite awhile.

@smarx It's on the way out, all I could find. I couldn't find a working faucet, can you?

@smarx is capture the ether totally dead with the Ropsten test network going down and the faucets broken? Any chance of moving it to a new network?

@DoryZaih That's the transaction where you're trying to tell Capture the Ether that you've already completed the challenge. Can you share the transaction where you're calling callme() on your challenge contract?

@DoryZaih Did you figure this out yet? If you need help, maybe share a transaction ID here or post it to the subreddit.

@r3v3ndx Just opened my DMs.

@smarx Hello @smarx this is an incredibly interesting opportunity to me! Any chance we could talk about it through DMs? Thanks!!

I've been at Metronome for about a year now. I work with an incredible team on a huge opportunity. If you're interested, we're hiring: jobs.lever.co/getmetronome

@leahculver "I just picked a whole bouquet of oopsie-daisies."

@ImAllInNow This looks to be the actual issue. Interestingly enough, it links to a blog post I wrote. :-) github.com/The-Poolz/Pool…

@ImAllInNow Out of gas rarely means there was actually not enough gas. It usually just means the transaction failed for some reason (e.g. one of the `require` statements failed).

@ImAllInNow Yeah, I'm surely missing context here since I haven't heard of FTX. But generally, I don't understand what poker has to do with this except as one example of a reason someone might want to borrow cash against another asset.

@ImAllInNow I don't get this... no reason you have to make a long-term borrow and watch the ETH price. You could just borrow for a few days for a tournament.

@ImAllInNow Not sure what gas fees are like these days. But you'd have to pay SOMEONE to escrow money, handle payments, etc. Not sure whether Ethereum is cheaper or not than other middlemen would be.

@ImAllInNow I don't think this is specific to poker, and it's already solved? It's pretty easy on Ethereum to borrow a stablecoin by putting up ether as collateral. Search "DeFi lending." All on-chain with smart contracts, so fairly low cost (but the loans are heavily overcollateralized).

@hubbersnaks Is this a question about Capture the Ether? Pop open the console if it's still happening... my guess would be hitting the daily Infura limit?

The orange button to check my answers is not showing up today @smarx