Re:Walmart Is Getting Suppliers to Put Food on the Blockchain
by swalsh on Thursday April 26, 2018 @04:00AM
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Blockchain is the new NoSQL. In 10 years some poor engineer tasked with maintaining this thing is going to ask why they didn't use a more reasonable technology.
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Re:Walmart Is Getting Suppliers to Put Food on the Blockchain
by cm2187 on Thursday April 26, 2018 @04:09AM
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Resume driven development... Like running massively cpu intensive calculations in python, or storing 100 MB csv files in Hadoop. AI will be the same thing. We will see developers burning GPUs for days to solve problems that would be trivially and efficiently solved with a simple algorithm. And I have no problem with people toying with new technologies on home projects just to learn. But at work...