Archive for Apr 2016

4 entries

Self-Sovereign Identity and Legal Identity

Sun Apr 24 10:23:00 2016

We've finally gotten to a place where self-sovereign identities are technically possible. This is a huge milestone. The next hurdle is getting organizations, including governments to allow the use of self-sovereign identities as the basis for their administrative identities. In the case of legal identity, this would provide 1.8 billion people who have no legal identity with a way to establish one.
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We're Teaching Programming Wrong

Tue Apr 19 09:07:00 2016

Event-based programming is more natural for non-programmers than imperative or object-oriented styles.
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Properties of Permissioned and Permissionless Blockchains

Tue Apr 12 14:38:00 2016

Doc Searls asked me a question about blockchain that led to me writing him a rather long email. I thought I'd take a minute and write up my thoughts with some references.
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Reactive Programming Patterns: Examples from Fuse

Tue Apr 5 17:23:00 2016

Reactive programming requires new programming techniques and methods. This post describes common patterns in asynchronous reactive programming and gives examples from the open-source code base for the Fuse connected car platform. While the examples below are based on the pico platform, they are equally applicable to other Actor-based reactive programming platforms like Akka.
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