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by fergazen 9y ago
These are not "Rules of Programming", but are excellent "Guidelines for Performance". Having 30yrs under my belt I have come to all the same conclusions as Rob Pike over my years, so these are very deserving of some seri
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by fergazen 9y ago
In every post i've made it has been crystal clear I'm referring to "blockchain the data-structure"... The "consensus component" is an algorithm for detecting if one blockchain disagrees with other blockchains,
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by fergazen 9y ago
A very literal reading of the Merkle sentence on wikipedia could conclude that it's stating each block of a blockchain must contain a valid Merkle tree, and so technically that sentence on the Wiki is incorrect; because, aside from re-
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by fergazen 9y ago
I just wonder what goes on in your mind when you try to ponder the phrase "simplest possible blockchain"...because you don't think there's a specific single characteristic of a "blockchain", but there actually
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by fergazen 9y ago
The Wikipedia article on blockchain has this sentence: "From the technical point of view a blockchain is a hashchain inside another hashchain", and that sums it up. The actual blockchain algorithm itself is as simple as that. Peri
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by fergazen 9y ago
Merkel WAS a genuine innovation, and it DOES collapse into plain blockchain if all 'nodes' on a given tree have one child, because in this case the directed graph (tree) is a linked list. If the key innovation in both structures w
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by fergazen 9y ago
I'm no lawyer, but they really need to outlaw patents on 'general purpose' technologies. Adam Carolla famously got sued for owning a podcast company, when someone claimed to have a patent on the entire concept of "downlo
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by fergazen 9y ago
Very interesting, thanks. I had never heard of Merkle Tree. Since a linked list is merely a special case of a 'tree structure' (i.e. one where there is always only one child), we can consider Merkle to be the true 'inventor&#
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by fergazen 9y ago
Back in 2008 I invented an algorithm for tree structures where the definition of the hash of any node, was "the hash of hashes of all its immediate children". I had invented a way to do 'tree node comparisons' where any
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by fergazen 9y ago
wow. That Anders video is definitely the best description/explanation of blockchain I've ever seen.
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by fergazen 9y ago
Interesting standard. I'm also working on an app that you would categorize as an open source social media platform: SubNode -> http://sbnode.com
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by fergazen 9y ago
sounds cool. Yeah in that case i'd much rather use your bracket than my fanny pack!
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by fergazen 9y ago
I would be afraid to have my garage able to be gotten into by anyone who happens to know where I live and has a screwdriver. But from a technical standpoint, I'm impressed with what you did, and as a mechanical engineer would love to h
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by fergazen 9y ago
Yeah, when there is something interesting (like a wreck) on the side of the road don't take your foot off the gas and slow down slightly to look. If each person only slows down 1/100th of a MPH to look, then in a few minutes the t
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by fergazen 9y ago
One other solution is that whoever it was in hollywood that first declared fanny packs to be 'uncool' needs to be 'drawn and quartered'. My little tiny remote is easy to access while i'm on my bike thanks to this am
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by fergazen 9y ago
Wikipedia was a technology that was at one point capable of becoming a competitor, but the found their niche and stayed there. I am working on an app (sbnode.com) that I hope WILL become a facebook + twitter killer some day. I want this sof
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by fergazen 9y ago
I've developed a sort of 'core technology' that can be used to build out what can hopefully become another option in the social media arena. It's open source. It's supports a fully threaded 'tree' of conte