xgil

Re:Show HN: A blockchain glossary for beginners on Saturday November 04, 2017 @03:31PM (#15626499)

Good idea. Thanks

Re:Show HN: A blockchain glossary for beginners on Saturday November 04, 2017 @03:30PM (#15626495)

Thanks for the feedback. I'll review those definitions

Re:Show HN: A blockchain glossary for beginners on Thursday November 02, 2017 @10:47AM (#15610854)

Hey guys, I have created this glossary of terms to help people wanting to start with blockchain and cryptocurrencies. I hope you find it useful. Feedback is welcome!

Show HN: A blockchain glossary for beginners

Posted by xgil on Thursday November 02, 2017 @10:46AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://www.theblockchainnewsletter.com/glossary.html

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Re:Bitcoin.org to denounce “Segwit2x” on Friday October 06, 2017 @10:51AM (#15417208)

The outcome of the Bitcoin hardfork is highly unpredictable.

Building the Super Tiny Compiler with Reason (part 1)

Posted by xgil on Friday October 06, 2017 @10:47AM
from the medium.com dept.

https://medium.com/@javierwchavarri/building-the-super-tiny-compiler-with-reason-part-1-21460cd4ae7b

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Bitcoin.org to denounce “Segwit2x”

Posted by xgil on Friday October 06, 2017 @10:43AM
from the bitcoin.org dept.

https://bitcoin.org/en/posts/denounce-segwit2x

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Re:Show HN: The Blockchain Newsletter on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @10:11AM (#15347936)

A few weeks ago I started a newsletter curating the best articles on blockchain, bitcoin, ethereum, ICOs and more.

This will hopefully save time to those of you that want to be up to date with the cryptocurrency world.

Show HN: The Blockchain Newsletter

Posted by xgil on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @10:10AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://www.theblockchainnewsletter.com

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Protostarr Shutting Down

Posted by xgil on Saturday September 02, 2017 @07:07AM
from the protostarr.io dept.

https://protostarr.io/press-releases/protostarr-shutting-down

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How we doubled our trial conversion rate with in-app messaging

Posted by xgil on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @08:22AM
from the baremetrics.com dept.

https://baremetrics.com/blog/how-we-doubled-our-trial-conversion-rate-with-in-app-messaging

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Re:Uber’s C.E.O. Plays with Fire on Sunday April 23, 2017 @01:37PM (#14179227)

> For months, Mr. Kalanick had pulled a fast one on Apple by directing his employees to help camouflage the ride-hailing app from Apple’s engineers. The reason? So Apple would not find out that Uber had secretly been tracking iPhones even after its app had been deleted from the devices, violating Apple’s privacy guidelines.

How could they track iPhones after the app was deleted?

MongoDB queries don’t always return all matching documents

Posted by xgil on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @04:35AM
from the engineering.meteor.com dept.

https://engineering.meteor.com/mongodb-queries-dont-always-return-all-matching-documents-654b6594a827#.q6axvoryx

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A self-organizing thousand-robot swarm (2014)

Posted by xgil on Thursday May 14, 2015 @12:10PM
from the seas.harvard.edu dept.

http://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2014/08/self-organizing-thousand-robot-swarm

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Re:Goodbye MongoDB, Hello PostgreSQL on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @01:48PM (#9185432)

I also keep reading about how bad is MongoDB for lots of projects. I don't think MongoDB is worthless, but from my experience I also have concerns about it.

If so many people migrate to other technologies, why is MongoDB still so popular? Have a look at http://db-engines.com/en/ranking_trend, MongoDB has just passed PostgreSQL