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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 opportunity to learn from and work with people who think differently than the general population.

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 information records between non trusting organizations and businesses. You could do this with something like a highly distributed Cassandra cluster. But some of the inherent rules to a blockchain allow us to provide higher security, higher data persistence and availability between nodes, auditable records, and accountable participants / contributors.

And it's not centralized, it's completely distributed - just not publicly available to anyone who can download a mobile app.

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.

Also take a look at the many projects Hyperledger projects. Hyperledger is incubated by The Linux Foundation. Their attitude towards open source development is that of purely technical curiosity and experimentation. Brian Behlendorf is directing the project so it's in good hands. He speaks about this attitude here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr4Hb0jb0lo

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 specifically asks.

Blockchain is sensationalized beyond belief. I can't wait for the rose tinted glasses to fall off and we realize it's just a data management technology for specific use cases.

I think the biggest danger to the technology is that the community focuses on "blockchain will change the world" not "how can we make this better".

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" code is Go. Widely adopted language that was basically designed for networking efficiency.

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 correction towards the end of 2017.

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/IBM-Blockchain/learn-chaincode

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 manner. I find myself incredibly curious and fascinated with how it works - then immediately rejected once I see discussions on HN about the blockchain.

According to your bio you've been programming for many years - is an apprehension towards something new a common pattern you've observed?

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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 machines. Minimum 8gb ram machine.

Do you have any advice on how to keep the memory footprint low?

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 Makefile

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 everyone comes in with a different background and everyone has a unique approach to learning.

The problem expressed in this article is a fundamental bottleneck of education. The communication between teacher and student is often misinterpreted at both ends and the subject matter is never perfectly conveyed or received.

I feel what really lacks in the learn to code community is teaching one how to actually learn. Lay a positive attitude towards failure and a framework of problem solving first, the content and understanding of a language will come after.

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 of the way through and thoroughly enjoying it.

This is a very fun read that's worth leafing through

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, albeit seeming so.