Long ago, when people believed that everything was made up of four elementsâearth, air, fire, and waterâthey thought the stars and planets were made up of yet another element. In the Middle Ages, people called this element by its Medieval Latin name, quinta essentia, literally, "fifth essence." They believed the quinta essentia was essential to all kinds of matter, and if they could somehow isolate it, it would cure all disease. People have since given up on that idea, but English users have kept quintessence, the offspring of quinta essentia, as a word for the purest essence of a thing. Some modern physicists have given quintessence a new twistâthey use it to refer to a form of the dark energy believed to make up almost 70 percent of the energy in the observable universe.
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Blockchain 101 \ 4: Consensus
Blockchains are designed with decentralization in mind, operating as an digital ledger maintained by a distributed network of computer nodes. For this reason, blockchain technology allows for the creation of trustless economic systems where transparent and trustworthy financial transactions can be carried out without the need for intermediaries. Cryptocurrencies are being adopted as a viable alternative to traditional banking and payment systems, which rely heavily on trust.
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Blockchain 101 \ 3: Cryptocurrency Wallet
In fact, cryptocurrency wallet or wallet is a tool you use to see your own cryptocurrencies, and interact with them by sending, receiving funds, and tracking balances.
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Blockchain 101 \ 2: Terminology
My darling complains that she doesn't understand some articles because of many new terms, so I created a glossary of terms that she often encounter when learning about blockchain or participating in cryptocurrency trading here.
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Blockchain 101 \ 1: What is Bitcoin?
Yesterday my darling looked straight into my eyes and said "Next year, I am going to invest in cryptocurrency". The way she said so seriously made me unable to refuse. I spent all night telling her my knowledge regarding blockchain, consensus, byzantine, and asymmetric cryptography... and realized one night is not enough. So I decided to write this series so she can read them many times ~~and not get rekt when investing~~.
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The hard thing about hard things
My favorite quote so far. Every time I start with a new product or a new startup, this quote is around my head.
#quote #product-managerQuintessence
noun â /kwÉȘnËtes.Éns/Quintessence is a formal word that can refer to the most typical or perfect example of something, or the most important part of something.

Cryptography during the French and American wars in Vietnam (P.2)
In the Introduction we commented that a common view of the American war in Vietnam is that, despite overwhelming technological superiority, the Americans lost the war because the âhearts and mindsâ of the people were on the side of their opponents. In view of the assumed vast technological inferiority of the Vietnamese, it is somewhat surprising that in a crucial realm of military technology â communications security and signals intelligence â there was a type of symmetry between the two sides.
#algorithm #cryptography #mathematicsKafkaesque
adjective â /ËkÉËf.kÉËesk/Something described as Kafkaesque has an often nightmarishly complex, bizarre, or illogical quality to it. More broadly, anything relating to or suggestive of the writing of Franz Kafka may be said to be Kafkaesque.Â
Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was a Czech-born German-language writer whose surreal fiction vividly expressed the anxiety, alienation, and powerlessness of the individual in the 20th century. The opening sentence of his 1915 story The Metamorphosis has become one of the most famous in Western literature (âAs Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insectâ), while in his novel The Trial, published a year after his death, a young man finds himself caught up in the mindless bureaucracy of the law after being charged with a crime that is never named. So deft was Kafkaâs prose at detailing nightmarish settings in which characters are crushed by nonsensical, blind authority, that writers began using his name as an adjective a mere 16 years after his death. Although many other literary eponyms, from Austenian to Homeric, exist and are common enough, Kafkaesque gets employed more than most and in a wide variety of contexts, leading to occasional charges that the word has been watered down and given a lack of specificity due to overuse.

Cryptography during the French and American wars in Vietnam (P.1)
Does the history of cryptography during the French and American wars in Vietnam have any relevance to the concerns of people working in information security in the 21st century? The years 1945â1975 predate public key cryptography, predate DES, and hugely predate the internet. Nevertheless, there are several reasons why this story needs to be told in our time.
#algorithm #cryptography #mathematicsQuixotic
adjective â /kwÉȘkËsÉË.tÌŹÉȘk/Quixotic describes people and ideas that are foolishly impractical, especially as they pursue or relate to the pursuit of ideals. A quixotic person is often known for lofty romantic ideas or extravagantly chivalrous action. Quixotic can also describe things that are unpredictablet.
If you guessed that quixotic has something to do with Don Quixote, you're absolutely right. The hero of Miguel de Cervantes' 17th-century Spanish novel El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha (in English "The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha") didn't change the world by tilting at windmills, but he did leave a linguistic legacy in English. The adjective quixotic is based on his name and has been used to describe unrealistic idealists since at least the early 18th century. The novel has given English other words as well. Dulcinea, the name of Quixote's beloved, has come to mean "mistress" or "sweetheart," and rosinante, which is sometimes used to refer to an old horse, comes from the name of the hero's less-than-gallant steed, Rocinante.

13 Tips & Tricks to write a good RSD
Do not use related words such as âandâ, âorâ, âalsoâ, âsimilarâ etc. This is especially important because the words above can cause devs and testers to misread requirements.
#document #how-to
Versioning
MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH in that MAJOR version when you make incompatible API changes. MINOR version when you add functionality in a backward compatible manner. and ...
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Product Owner role in agile product
The Product Ownerâs role is for maximizing the value of the product resulting from work of the Development Team.
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