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.
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.
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:
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".
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.
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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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?
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
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.