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"banking the unbanked" It has never been the goal of bitcoin. The original Satoshi paper rather implies the "unbank the banked" objective which is to remove corrupt middleman.

This story has the happy ending. To understand what may happen to the US visitor read this book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30524537-the-russians-ar... I can confirm it's …

tl;dr Web Push API requires centralized service the messages are sent over what has serious privacy implications. Android Chrome makes it even worse because it does not allow chang…

While NATs might have contributed to its demise, there were more fundamental reasons why CORBA failed. For anyone interested in thorough analysis instead of opinions I recommend th…

Fruho is a decent VPN GUI on Linux

Tcl is a great language and ecosystem. It fell victim to a few independent political decisions that resulted in low popularity: - Sun's pushing Java and killing everything else - S…

True for an individual. For life seen as a part of system/society reproduction is the key motivation (for lack of a better word). Non-reproducing activities are irrelevant temporar…

even experienced architects working in familiar domains have great difficulty getting boundaries right at the beginning. By building a monolith first, you can figure out what the r…

For Go: https://tio.run/##S8//X5CYnJ2YnqqQm5iZx5WZW5BfVKKglJZbovQ/rT... BTW Do we really need ~540 bits (~90 chars of base62) to identify permanent link?

This was my first thought: sandboxing is gonna be tricky for such project.

"Network Programming in Go" is no longer free so it should be removed from the list. This book has been removed as it will shortly be published by APress.

It's not only a misnomer but the term is not needed. We've had SOA, web services, microservices, now serverless. I'm not saying it's all hype. It's rather a steady, lasting a few d…

Unfortunately no word on durability and maintenance guarantees. What happens after a few years when batteries lose most of their capacity? Who is going to take care of recycling? I…

You are right. The second point remains valid though.

With the difference that when user types the password it is not displayed on the screen. Server-side generated password must be somehow presented to the user.

systems should probably not let users pick their passwords. That is they get to pick a generated password (by the system) It implies that the system knows plaintext password. Even …

It might be the natural size optimal for efficiency but not for survival (in the natural selection sense). The capacity of an organization grows with headcount even with diminishin…

This is so terrible use case for blockchain. In a trusted environment blockchain might only introduce complexity and security problems. Hey, but isn't it what consulting is about?

You can view GOPATH centered development as a sign of simplicity. Probably not the most elegant thing in the world but the code organization is easy to fix with: ln -s PROJECT_SOUR…