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We're only beginning to really understand Autism, Asperger Syndrome, and countless other cognitive states. So programs of this nature are wonderful to see — they create the opportu…

This does a pretty good job of explaining the differences if you're curious: https://medium.com/@philippsandner/comparison-of-ethereum-hy...

Yes, right now it is completely a glorified database. It's always been a database. It's a different database. We're using it for compliant sharing of and collaboration on private i…

If you're into consensus algorithms take a look at Algorand: https://people.csail.mit.edu/nickolai/papers/gilad-algorand-... It has some novel approaches to node / data agreement. …

Couldn't agree more. We're using some blockchain technology to solve specific problems at my company. It's a part of our stack, but we don't mention blockchain unless someone speci…

Solidity is just the first try. I built a couple projects and ideas with it - found it to be a very uncomfortable language. On the other hand you have Hyperledger, it's "contract" …

I dream of seeing a "security first" development process adopted ..

yup, the vast majority of these unregulated ICO's are borderline fraud and stand only to hurt the ecosystem which they're trying to enrich. I expect there will be a heavy correctio…

The hyperledger equivalent of ethereum's smart contracts is called chaincode. I'm playing around with it now - so far enjoying it much more than smart contracts. https://github.com…

I completely agree, it sounds like the forever present problem of wrong tool for the right job. However it offers the potential to approach problems in a fundamentally different ma…

I'm hoping to have a technical discussion, emotions aside.

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Amazing, we are using 5.0.x I'll see if that helps. Thank you!

We're in the process of harmonizing our entire team (9) to use Vagrant in a VirtualBox. For the most part it works, but we run into issues regarding VB memory consumption crashing …

The solution often lies in a good distraction

The bane of all work slack channels

It's almost November 2016 man, you can't do that anymore. Just Redux your Flux and make sure you transpile and compile your TypeScript before you deploy that micro service with a M…

Last fall I went through a coding bootcamp in Toronto. It was 9 weeks of hard work sprinkled with lots of frustration and lots of feel good successes. A main takeaways I had was ev…

My Dad always tells me he flat out does not understand what I do. He respects it, knows it's challenging and fun, but just doesn't get it. I've sent this to him -- he's about 1/4 o…

His style of writing that you find boring is exactly what has made him a great writer. The notion of conveying a powerful message or story as simply as possible is not an easy task…