1 2016-10-29 04:11:43 <DishEater> so has anyone done calculations to determine at which point it will become more profitable to mine bitcoin addresses than bitcoins themselves? (for the purposes of theft)
 2 2016-10-29 04:46:43 <ap4lmtree> hi
 3 2016-10-29 04:46:58 <ap4lmtree> can someone in here provide me some guidence on what to do with the github program
 4 2016-10-29 04:47:11 <ap4lmtree> and how to approach this, i would like to contribute and review for bitcoin and other projects
 5 2016-10-29 04:47:58 <ap4lmtree> i have the bitcoin direcotry on my drive, and then i am supposed to look at the source code files and see stuff, or i look in github?  how do you guys approach contributing or reviewing?
 6 2016-10-29 20:44:54 <ap4lmtree> hi
 7 2016-10-29 20:45:29 <ap4lmtree> can someone in here provide me some guidence on what to do with the github program and how to approach this, i would like to contribute and review for bitcoin and other projects
 8 2016-10-29 20:45:29 <ap4lmtree> i have the bitcoin direcotry on my drive, and then i am supposed to look at the source code files and see stuff, or i look in github?  how do you guys approach contributing or reviewing?
 9 2016-10-29 21:14:03 <waxwing> ap4lmtree: is your question about bitcoin, or about how to read/review/contribute to code generally?
10 2016-10-29 21:14:32 <ap4lmtree> how people usually do it in general, but yeah, i am going to focus on bitcoin
11 2016-10-29 21:14:39 <ap4lmtree> maybe i should ask in #github
12 2016-10-29 21:14:48 <ap4lmtree> unless you want to offer how you go about it in methodology
13 2016-10-29 21:15:35 <waxwing> ap4lmtree: you can use various editors and IDEs to read code
14 2016-10-29 21:15:58 <waxwing> just reading it on github is fine, but it doesn't have useful features like being able to navigate from a variable or function to its definition
15 2016-10-29 21:16:08 <waxwing> plus tons of other things that an IDE can do
16 2016-10-29 21:16:50 <waxwing> and if you actually got to the point of wanting to contribute, then just reading it on the web wouldn't be enough
17 2016-10-29 21:17:26 <waxwing> but what exactly are you new to? are you new to coding generally?
18 2016-10-29 21:18:30 <ap4lmtree> i took a classes on each java and c++, but i have not coded outside of that
19 2016-10-29 21:19:44 <ap4lmtree> waxwing, so to contribute , you dont just view in the github program, but you look at the directory that you downloaded from github?
20 2016-10-29 21:19:55 <waxwing> ok. start learning git, that's useful
21 2016-10-29 21:20:37 <ap4lmtree> okay thanks
22 2016-10-29 21:20:46 <juscamarena> I can sort of help here. Learn git first, and try contributing to some of the smaller open source bitcoin projects
23 2016-10-29 21:20:53 <waxwing> what kind of code editor did you use before for Java or C++?
24 2016-10-29 21:21:17 <waxwing> that's why i'm a bit confused by your question, you must have done so
25 2016-10-29 21:21:43 <waxwing> perhaps the only thing that confuses you is that you can download the source code from github by using "git" on your local machine ("git clone <repository>")
26 2016-10-29 21:22:08 <waxwing> although you could also have downloaded the source code from bitcoin.org, but perhaps you only downloaded the binary distribution which doesn't include the source.