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How to Choose a Development Laptop

September 29, 2018 by “Prodigy” Hare

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Developers have specific needs with their systems. If you are a developer, or have been considered giving programming a try, then you will need the right equipment for the job. Choosing a development laptop may seem like an arduous task, but really it’s not unlike choosing any other laptop.

Filed under: IT Hare SchoolFor dummies by dummies

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How Blockchains Get Attacked and How Bitcoin Got Hacked, Part II

September 18, 2018 by “Bitcoin” Hare

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Armed with this information, criminals could steal user’s cryptocurrencies.

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The Lightning Network is the next generation of proposed solutions to the Bitcoin scalability problem

Filed under: On.SecurityBest Practices

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How Blockchains Get Attacked and How Bitcoin Got Hacked, Part I

August 28, 2018 by “Bitcoin” Hare

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Security is often cited as the foremost advantage of choosing blockchain technology over centralized systems.

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There are recorded cases of hackers either compromising or taking advantage of loopholes in self- executing contracts on the blockchain

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Too Much Unit Testing Is Detrimental for Code Quality?

August 3, 2018 by “No Bugs” Bunny

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Code quality tends to be Quite Bad(tm) when there is no unit testing at all, reaching maximum when there are 0 to 10% of the unit testing methods, and degrading afterwards

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It is quite easy to get past the optimum amount of unit testing for your project. And whenever your unit testing starts to affect your code in a negative way – you should stop

Filed under: On.DevelopmentDevelopment Processes

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