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smga3000 (30)in #energy • 6 years ago
Energy Ideas For A New Decade
Ever since I got my first solar-powered LCD watch in the late 1970s, I’ve been a fan of solar power, but what has amazed me in the 40’ish years since then is the rather pathetic…
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smga3000 (30)in #blockchain • 6 years ago
The Hyperledger Ecosystem
When Hyperledger was announced in December 2015 and then further refined through early 2016, I saw all the corporations getting involved and I was immediately skeptical over the…
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smga3000 (30)in #sql • 6 years ago
Dqlite - A Distributed SQLite
Canonical just did a very interesting thing to the venerable SQLite, one of the most used databases in the world, it is written in C, is small, tight and fast so it is common for…
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smga3000 (30)in #bigdata • 6 years ago
Pilosa: A Scalable High Performance Bitmap Database Index
Big data is a big problem, at least getting anything useful out of it. Every day there is about three quintillion (the next step up is sextillion or one zettabyte) bytes of data…
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smga3000 (30)in #business • 6 years ago
Deep Dive Into Open Source BI Tool Helical Insight
When Helical Insight first announced a couple of years ago that they were releasing an Open Source Business Intelligence (BI) tool, it really caught my interest and I reached out…
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smga3000 (30)in #transpiler • 6 years ago
Introducing the Gobol Language
I was quite busy during Y2K fixing software systems (yes, they needed fixing, the only reason everything didn’t collapse is that a lot of people worked very hard to make sure it…
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smga3000 (30)in #blockchain • 7 years ago
BigData Behind Blockchain Forensics
It seems a week doesn’t go by without more news of another cryptocurrency hack, fault, failure, scam, or what have you. Just this week saw EOS have a hacker lift $7.7 million in…
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smga3000 (30)in #bittorrent • 7 years ago
Trons BitTorrent Problem
In June of 2018, blockchain technology company Tron purchased the revolutionary file-sharing company BitTorrent for $120 million, beating out NEO’s $170 million bid. Now we know…
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smga3000 (30)in #bitcoin • 7 years ago
Blockchain: Technology Platform or Religion?
This extended cryptocurrency bear market is seeing some really interesting comments and memes across social media. Things like “Bitcoin: If you didn’t love me at $6,000, you…
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smga3000 (30)in #bitcoin • 7 years ago
The Case for $1 Trillion Bitcoin in 2019
After a pretty huge drop in crypto at the beginning of 2018 following the ridiculous highs at the end of 2017, we’ve had a year of relative stability in the crypto markets, and…
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smga3000 (30)in #outsourcing • 7 years ago
Why "Just Outsource It" Is A Bad Idea
Like many of you, I saw the Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, and I was struck by a comment that Freddie Mercury makes to the other band members when they meet in the managers…
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smga3000 (30)in #blockchain • 7 years ago
Blockchain Spotlight on Energi
Ethereum has been in the news again in recent months, and not for particularly good reasons. The long predicted scalability problems are finally taking their toll, the fixes have…
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smga3000 (30)in #blockchain • 7 years ago
Blockchain Spotlight on TiberiusCoin
There have been a number of attempts to tie cryptocurrencies to tangible assets, such as gold, diamonds real estate and oil. Some have been successful, most have failed and then…
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smga3000 (30)in #blockchain • 7 years ago
Blockchain Spotlight on Health FX
There are several obvious use cases for blockchain technology, like supply chain management, voting systems and critical records management, but there are many nuances within…
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smga3000 (30)in #tv • 7 years ago
Why I Won't Use SlingTV and Neither Should You
It was the hot days of August 2016 and I really wanted to do some cable cord cutting. Cox Communications has a stranglehold on our city for cable and internet, they have managed…
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smga3000 (30)in #blockchain • 7 years ago
Can Blockchain Make Sex Obsolete?
Of course not, but that headline isn’t any more outrageous than most of the claims that you see in the Blockchain and Cryptocurrency space. Every day I get an email from a…
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smga3000 (30)in #blockchain • 8 years ago
The Latest Blockchain Consensus That Is Hack Proof
There are a number of ways to get consensus on the blockchain, classics such as Proof of Work (PoW) are used by Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and others, but there are more, such…
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smga3000 (30)in #blockchain • 8 years ago
Blockchain and the Insufferable Wannabe
About a month ago I posed the question “Why Aren’t More Women In Blockchain?” which the answer was essentially, because they don’t want to. The article of course is being…
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smga3000 (30)in #blockchain • 8 years ago
Why Aren't More Women In Blockchain?
The short answer is, because they don’t want to be. First, a little background. I first started programming in 1978 as part of an elective math class at my high school, this was…
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smga3000 (30)in #blockchain • 8 years ago
My Blockchain Adventures in Africa
In December 2017 I had an opportunity to discover the Kenyan based Nurucoin ICO and write up a spotlight article on it. As sometimes happens, I develop an affinity for the…
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