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For some, a midlife crisis arises from a fear that the weaknesses that have dogged you are not just temporary challenges to cope with, but a permanent part of who you are. The chance to confront those weaknesses and recognize the hold they have over us is a key benefit of ultra-marathons, Cross-Fit, or whatever other e... | ['Trends', 'Health', 'Running', 'Great Escape', 'Aging'] |
How do you know this story is super real? Because I am a real flake.
I have not posted for five weeks. The not posting for five weeks also coincides with me not being consistent at adhering to the Keto diet.
Guess what that means? I’ll give you the sequence.
Not eating Keto regularly (lots of cheat days). Mostly not... | ['Weight Loss', 'Diet Fail', 'Ketosis', 'Health', 'Ketogenic'] |
Things are moving rather quickly for Palo Alto-based producer Seneca B. Since posting her first song on SoundCloud a little over three years ago and releasing her debut Rascal EP in May of 2015, Seneca is now on pace to break 3 millions Spotify streams by the end of 2018 — a remarkable rate of progress for an independe... | ['Playlist', 'Producer Interview', 'Hip Hop', 'Music', 'Album Breakdown'] |
With many Californian companies planning to go public soon, there will be an influx of thousands of new millionaires in San Francisco. In 2018, 34 startups from the Bay Area went public, and 23 of them closed the year above their IPO offering prices. Uber, Pinterest, Lyft, and Airbnb are still private companies at the ... | ['Real Estate', 'Business', 'Startup', 'San Francisco', 'Economy'] |
Where we learn between sexual and asexual reproduction, and why there could be such as things as sex at all
Photo by Ousa Chea on Unsplash
I don’t remember exactly when we did it for the first time, but it was probably over one billion years ago and we were still very small organisms made out of single cells, a bit l... | ['Biology', 'Algorithms', 'Science', 'Evolution'] |
The subject of how and if social media effects ranking on the organic web has long been a subject of controversy in the SEO world. While it’s true that links still play a crucial role in retaining visibility, and Google has long stated they don’t count social media much in terms of ranking, these trends are likely to d... | ['SEO', 'Google', 'Rankings', 'Social Media', 'Social Networks'] |
Why No Document?
Documents are important. Everybody knows. Then why we have such numbers of missing documents?
Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash
Engineers are lazy by nature. They try to find the optimal route to complete their work. Their primary focus is to deliver the value of the product to the customer. Natural... | ['Engineering', 'Documentation'] |
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For the longest time, web layout has been one of the hardest problems to solve. This has primarily been due to the fact that the web was originally designed around documents and how a document flows. As the web has changed, the need for proper layout solutions have been in high dema... | ['React', 'Programming', 'JavaScript', 'Css Grid', 'CSS'] |
The Java abstract class eludes many Java developers. Let’s learn what it does for us and how to use it.
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. Al Capp
I am guessing you have heard of the malady called ADD or Attention Deficit Disorder. On a recent trip to Paris, ... | ['Java', 'Software Development', 'Learning To Code', 'Programming'] |
By Matt Carroll <@MattatMIT>
Cool stuff about journalism, once a week. Get notified via email? Subscribe: 3toread (at) gmail.
“How do we respond to threats after our Hillary endorsement? This is how”: With grace, dignity and steely resolve. The Arizona Republicpublishes in a Republican stronghold — and it had never e... | ['Hillary Clinton', 'Media', 'Journalism', 'Data', 'Trump'] |
Things You Wanted to Know About Networking
…and some corny networking jokes that you didn’t.
What the heck is TCP/IP?!
TCP/IP is a model for describing how communication across networks typically occurs from the application layer of a source machine (HTTP), through to the physical layer, through to the destination m... | ['Programming', 'Software Engineering', 'Software Development', 'Networking', 'DevOps'] |
Amazon offers three different quantum computing devices to choose from:
Gate-based superconducting qubits from Rigetti Computing Gate-based ion traps from IonQ Quantum annealing from D-Wave
The third option, quantum annealing from D-Wave, is a different paradigm of quantum computing that won’t work with the above cod... | ['Quantum Computing', 'Programming', 'Software Development', 'Python', 'Technology'] |
How to Debug a ML Model: A Step-by-Step Case Study in NLP
While there are so many articles out there on how to get started on NLP or teaching you a tutorial, one of the hardest lessons to learn is how to debug a model or task implementation.
Mental state before model/task implementation, StockSnap via Pixabay (CC0)
... | ['AI', 'NLP', 'Data Science', 'Technology', 'Machine Learning'] |
Algorithms Are Making Government Decisions. The Public Needs to Have a Say.
Communities need more insight into the government’s use of automated decision systems.
Dillon Reisman , Technology Fellow at the AI Now Institute, Meredith Whittaker, Co-founder of the AI Now Institute, & Kate Crawford, Co-founder of the AI N... | ['Algorithms', 'Police', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Ai And Civil Liberties', 'Technology'] |
The problem is, most managers have traditionally taken a retroactive approach to addressing customer churn. They’ll make tweaks, changes, and adjustments, then look back retroactively and conduct a post-mortem as to whether or not those changes were effective. However, with recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (A... | ['Growth Hacking', 'AI', 'Conversion Optimization', 'SaaS', 'Machine Learning'] |
Inside the Social Media Cult That Convinces Young People to Give Up Everything
The DayLife Army always seemed like a troll. Then it became a nightmare.
It started with a tweet. In the fall of 2013, Matthew had recently turned 18 and was just finishing up his first semester at a college in Chicago. A freshman music bu... | ['Cult', 'Culture', 'Facebook', 'Technology', 'Social Media'] |
Why Great Jones Co-Founder Sierra Tishgart Makes a Habit of Cooking at Home
“I think something that really liberated me to cook more at home was learning that it doesn’t always have to be this perfect endeavor.”
There are many ways to live a healthy life. The Health Diaries is a weekly series about the habits that ke... | ['The Health Diarie', 'Great Jones', 'Health', 'Life', 'Cooking'] |
1. Reinforcement of filter bubbles
The idea that algorithms, might reinforce the echo-chamber effect, particularly for the distribution of news on social media, is now a wide-spread public discussion. Bias bubbles, filter bubbles, information blindness, preference bubbles, are all different ways to describe the same p... | ['Algorithms', 'Innovation', 'Media Ethics', 'Personalization', 'Journalism'] |
Visualizing Crime against women in India on a Map using Geopandas
This article shows us a simple way to plot either state-wise or district-wise statistical data (like the one used here i.e. crime against women in India) on the Indian Map(or you can choose any country) using GeoPandas: A Python Library.
Image Courtesy... | ['Geopandas', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization', 'Python'] |
Castro Antwi-Danso, Esoko
“What I’d like to get out of a Network of Data Stewards is to see the best practices from other places that could inform what we do, especially in Africa where data use and management isn’t very enhanced.”
In this intervew recorded at the Data Stewards Network Camp in Cape Town, South Africa... | ['Interviews', 'Data Stewards', 'Big Data', 'Data Stewardship', 'Data'] |
Cancer is one of the four major non-communicable diseases. Photo source: Project Pink Blue
Editor’s Note: This week’s Thought Leadership Piece comes from Dr. Mamsallah Faal-Omisore, a primary-health physician with qualifications in global health policy, infectious diseases and maternal and child health. This week the ... | ['Nigeria', 'Cancer', 'Health', 'Ncds', 'Diseases'] |
Level 0 (No Automation) — Engineer does everything
This is the process that occurs when engineers receive static mockups, without any additional data. No red-lines, no generated CSS properties, or anything other than a mockup image that represents the end result. Engineers look at the mockup image and re-create everyt... | ['Frontend Development', 'AI', 'Frontend Automation', 'CSS', 'Machine Learning'] |
I read lots of books and saw countless speeches where the agile manifesto has been lifted into the heights of sacred texts, where the agile manifesto is considered to be the foundation and cornerstone of a new religion. The manifesto shows us that we were not meant to live in suffering and develop software like animals... | ['Product Owner', 'Agile Manifesto', 'Software Development', 'Agile', 'Productivity'] |
8 Tips to Solve Vaginal Dryness and Overcome Painful Intercourse
Poor lubrication is a common condition you don't have to live with
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Our bodies change as we grow older, but we do not have to age without a fight. Vaginal dryness is a common condition affecting 50–70% of women after menopa... | ['Menopause', 'Sexual Health', 'Sex', 'Women', 'Health'] |
Mending social divisions through service
America is still the land of opportunity. This is made clear by the fact that so many around the world want to be here. Yet the same opportunities are not necessarily available to all Americans. Prejudice continues to contribute to disparities in areas like employment, wages, s... | ['National Service', 'America', 'Politics', 'Society', 'Race'] |
How to Buy Stocks During the COVID-19 Pandemic | The Motley Fool Staff Follow Aug 18 · 6 min read
Second-quarter 2020 earnings report cards have been rolling in, giving investors a wealth of information on how businesses have been dealing with the worst of the economic lockdown. There has been no shortage of surprises... | ['Stock Market', 'Disney', 'Covid 19', 'Facebook', 'Stocks'] |
Deploy a load balancer and multiple webservers on AWS instances through Ansible
Let’s see how to provision AWS instances and deploy Webservers and HAProxy Server with the help of Ansible dynamically.
Welcome back to my another article, Here you will get the solution to many problems like how to provision AWS instance... | ['Web Server', 'Load Balancer', 'AWS', 'Ansible', 'Haproxy'] |
It’s an unfortunate truth that most people today still don’t understand the importance of privacy online. But thanks to Facebook, the world just got the harsh wake up call that it needed. Now that we’ve begun to move our money online in a very literal sense with cryptocurrencies, this lesson is more poignant than ever ... | ['Bitcoin', 'Privacy', 'Facebook', 'Thanks Facebook', 'Social Media'] |
By Eric Williams, Director of Data Science @ Omada Health
In 1991, millions of postmenopausal women were given a very good reason to be in a very good mood. It turns out the same hormone replacement therapies they’d been prescribed to balance their emotions came with an unexpected side-benefit: a much healthier heart.... | ['Healthcare', 'Data Science', 'Health'] |
When it comes to advertising an adult industry, it’s going to take more than just money. Pornhub has the money, and they’ve proven this. In 2014 they purchased prime marketing real estate in New York City’s Time Square. The ad didn't have anything more explicit than a silly pun, but the fact that an adult entertainment... | ['Marketing', 'Generation Z', 'Branding', 'Data', 'Branding Strategy'] |
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I like to keep a few python scripts handy, this is more of a cheatsheet, to search for a particular thing! Most of these are one liners, so really helpful to add into other scripts! You should be able to run them in the following way:
python -c "{script}"
e.g.
python -c "import ... | ['Software Development', 'Python'] |
The past year has ushered in an exciting age for Natural Language Processing using deep neural networks. Research in the field of using pre-trained models have resulted in massive leap in state-of-the-art results for many of the NLP tasks, such as text classification, natural language inference and question-answering.
... | ['Machine Learning', 'Bert', 'NLP', 'AI', 'Deep Learning'] |
Our tools and technology make it so easy to work remotely instead of taking a genuine sick day. But just because you can do something does not always mean that you should.
Last year I fell into a bad habit of working from home when I was sick. Rather than resting and giving my body and mind the space to heal, I would ... | ['Team Culture', 'Work Life Balance', 'Software Development', 'Productivity', 'Sick Day'] |
This blog was written in collaboration with Rohan Shiva
Introduction
Creating a nice, clean, polished dashboard is a skill every programmer wants to have. Being able to translate raw data into a visual that’s easy to understand is a hard task. Plus, most dashboards require knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, alon... | ['Dashboard', 'Coding', 'Streamlit', 'Graph', 'Google Colab'] |
Giving back and doing the right thing has always been a special part of my life. When given the chance to ask Javier one question in the flurry of events after his win on The Voice I decided to ask what charity projects he is working on. Here is his answer:
Q: I was just wondering if there are any charities that you p... | ['Javier', 'Colon', 'Music'] |
Emphasis on text, numbers and data points will lead the audience to the information we want them to know. Cole Knaflic’s book, Storytelling with Data outlines the following principles for effective visualizations:
Understand the context of what you need to communicate.
NYC subway riders needed to know how to navigate... | ['Design', 'Dvhistory', 'New York City', 'Maps', 'Data Visualization'] |
Asynchronous programming is very important for mobile application development. In Flutter framework, there are 2 ways to do asynchronous programming.
Using Future Using Streams
In this tutorial we will learn how to do asynchronous programming using Future
Futures:
Dart is a single-threaded programming language Futu... | ['Async', 'Await', 'Flutter', 'Dart', 'Future'] |
Research Says It Doesn’t Matter How Fast You Walk; Just Walk
Total steps matter more than intensity for mortality
Photo by Danny Howe on Unsplash
There are many reasons I love walking. For one, it’s easy. Almost everyone can lace up a pair of shoes and walk outside (or inside). Heck, all the movement we do in a day,... | ['Life Lessons', 'Health', 'Life', 'Self', 'Fitness'] |
“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.”
Let me first tell you a little bit about my experience when I started working on my first Developer job because I wanted you to know more about how it is in real life before you can start designing your portfolio.
As a Self-Taught Developer we di... | ['Web Development', 'Freelance', 'Software Development', 'Programming', 'Software Engineering'] |
New Year, New You, New Data
Can dataviz help us achieve our resolutions?
The end of 2020 is nearly upon us, which means it’s time for…New Year’s Resolutions! Are you the kind of person who makes resolutions? Do you stick with them? And, most importantly, do you use dataviz to help you out?
We’re planning a Nightinga... | ['Newsletter', 'Data Physicalization', 'Data Visualization', 'New Years Resolutions', 'Dataviz'] |
in In Fitness And In Health | ['Aws Cloudfront', 'Darkmira', 'AWS', 'Aws S3', 'Workshop'] |
I have been programming for more than 20 years. During that time, I’ve had the pleasure to work with many people, from whom I learned a lot. I’ve also worked with many students, coming fresh from university, with whom I had to take on the role of a teacher or mentor.
Lately, I have been involved as a trainer in a prog... | ['Technology', 'Software Engineering', 'Software Development', 'Learning', 'Programming'] |
Top 5 ways to get more traffic to your website.
Picture this, You’ve spent the past few weeks getting your new business venture off the ground. On launch day you’re excited to finally get your product out to the world. Days go by, then weeks, then months and not a single sale. This sound familiar?
Working with bus... | ['SEO', 'Business', 'Digital Marketing', 'Internet Marketing', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
Voting Alone Won’t Fix This.
And the sooner we realize that, the better.
Photo by Steve Houghton-Burnett on Unsplash
It’s difficult to believe that it has only been five months since the coronavirus pandemic began to take hold here in the United States, and frankly it’s still difficult to even begin to wrap my mind ... | ['Society', 'Election 2020', 'Politics', 'Government', 'Economy'] |
ABC May be Ready to Cancel ‘Shark Tank’
The veteran reality investment show is on its last legs
In 2009, reality investment show Shark Tank premiered on ABC to decent numbers and enormous potential.
Spun-off from the British reality TV series ‘Dragons Den’, Shark Tank is a reality show wherein everyday entrepreneurs... | ['Business', 'Money', 'TV Series', 'TV Shows', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
A Guide to Meaningful Political Discussions
Our discussions miss their target. Here is a guide for real results.
Photo by Sushil Nash on Unsplash
The political culture in the West is currently very charged.
Debates are conducted in an emotional, unrelated, and offensive manner, and in many discussions, one has the ... | ['Language', 'Election 2020', 'Politics', 'Society', 'Culture'] |
How to Be an Active Listener
Communication begins with listening — properly.
I hate it when people don’t listen.
Sure, they hear what you’re saying. They register the noise that comes out of your mouth when you are speaking. But they don’t really hear you. They may be able to respond. But their effectivity is hamper... | ['Leadership', 'Self', 'Advice', 'Creativity', 'Personal Growth'] |
A Better Approach to Dark Mode on Your Website
Learn how to implement Dark Mode today
Image by the author
Dark Mode seems to be here to stay. Initially, it was mainly used by developers in their code editors, but now it’s all over the place, from mobile, desktops, and now even the web. Supporting Dark Mode is more a... | ['Design', 'JavaScript', 'Programming', 'Web Development', 'CSS'] |
AI News Roundup — June 2019
The Opex AI Roundup provides you with our take on the coolest and most interesting Artificial Intelligence (AI) news and developments each month. Stay tuned and feel free to comment with any stories you think we missed!
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Thi... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Roundup', 'News', 'Data', 'Data Science'] |
Early learnings
In my personal life, I am a self-admitted me first person. Of course, this has evolved as I have gotten married and had kids so not as extreme as when I was younger. However, in my professional career, I have embraced the concept of “we first” approaches to collaboration and motivating colleagues to ac... | ['Lean Startup', 'Software Development', 'Agile', 'DevOps', 'Cloud Computing'] |
It ought to send a shiver down our spines that one of the world’s most murderous centuries lurks so closely in the rear-view mirror.
How to make sense of it all? How, even, to feel the pressing weight of 120-some million dead? Perhaps because of these eye-watering quantities, such a figure fails to imprint us with the... | ['Politics', 'History', 'Society', 'World', 'Philosophy'] |
I am a Computer Science undergraduate student from Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. And Recife is a tech hub . I can’t tell my whole story in tech here but just to sum up:
Studied in a technichal school of Game Development (which also had lectures on Design and Game Design).
Passed the entrance exam for University (ENEM)
... | ['Health', 'Data Science', 'Public System'] |
Video games mean big money. It’s a multi-billion dollar industry that’s projected to continue growing in future years. So it should be no surprise to see companies trying to capitalize on the market. Console wars generate media coverage, new titles frequently wear a $60 price tag, and customers are always given reasons... | ['Marketing', 'Gaming', 'Economy', 'Business', 'Customer Experience'] |
Why Your Startup Needs Founder-Market Fit
What comes before product-market fit
I’m a senior Ruby on Rails engineer with a background in building enterprise software for SaaS companies. My co-founder is also a senior engineer with a background in building enterprise data processing pipelines. We co-founded a start-up ... | ['Startup Lessons', 'Startup', 'Business', 'Startup Life', 'Programming'] |
What I’m Listening To Today, Episode #4
There’s A Moon Out Tonight, The Capris
I remain determined to end this week on a positive note. Last night, upon my evening arrival to the homestead, a rare letter from the tax man sat at the foot of the stairs awaiting my return.
“You have paid too much tax”, it began. Wonder... | ['Fifties', 'Humor', 'Blog', 'Music'] |
The world needs your creativity, imagination, and contribution
A reflective exercise bridging your heart’s desires and your mind’s adventures
Photo by Tetiana SHYSHKINA on Unsplash
As the job markets are being transformed by Covid-19 and the bigger technological shifts triggered by artificial intelligence, many prof... | ['Imagination', 'Self', 'Creativity', 'Life', 'Inspiration'] |
What are WebSockets?
The WebSocket API is an advanced technology that makes it possible to open a two-way interactive communication session between the user’s browser and a server. With this API, you can send messages to a server and receive event-driven responses without having to poll the server for a reply. https:/... | ['Express', 'Coding', 'Websocket', 'React', 'Web Development'] |
A late afternoon lustre, still as Sunday. I remember being in the car. Kids crammed in the back, awkward cosy redcheek slumped — full of innocent air, like stuffed toys clutching their own stuffed toys.
The elastic tie with London at full stretch, about to spring back.
And I remember the sun — no, the light, making c... | ['Lyrics', 'Poetry', 'Music', 'Joanna Newsom'] |
David Brooks hits the nail squarely on the head
Delighted to see this amazing piece by David Brooks in The Atlantic.
During this period [between 1950 and 1965], a certain family ideal became engraved in our minds: a married couple with 2.5 kids. When we think of the American family, many of us still revert to this id... | ['Openness', 'Society', 'Tolerance', 'Family', 'Children'] |
Working with react js is fun until you have to do some SSR (Server Side Rendering) or SEO (Search Engine Optimization) for your application. When I created my first application in React js I got into a problem with SSR because my backend was in WordPress. There wasn’t much information on how to do SSR with PHP in the b... | ['React', 'Reactjs', 'JavaScript', 'Nextjs', 'Axios'] |
A few tips on designing for AR /VR with examples from my experience.
Over the last few years I have designed and prototyped multiple AR /VR experiences. Having worked with 3D for some time and being interested in immersive digital experiences, AR/VR was an obvious choice for me. I started off creating simple experienc... | ['Design', 'Augmented Reality', 'Virtual Reality', 'Technology', 'UX'] |
Icons play a crucial role in interface design. They can certainly be used as visual embellishments, but they are quite often able to convey their meaning without additional text, making them a handy tool for designers & developers. There are many different ways to build icon systems. In the past, I have written about a... | ['JavaScript', 'React', 'Icons', 'SVG', 'Programming'] |
We never hear specifics from organizations like Black Lives Matter to solve racism
Photo by Julian Wan on Unsplash
Organizations like Black Lives Matter are great at pointing out problems they think exist but never offer logical solutions with specific goals and metrics.
We’re told by BLM, Antifa, and grifters like ... | ['Diversity', 'Society', 'Equality', 'BlackLivesMatter', 'Racism'] |
In 1987, a decade before the term “bling” invaded popular vernacular, underground hip-hop star Biz Markie came to upstart jeweler Jacob Arabo with an unusual request. Biz wanted a signature piece, something so big and eye-catching that it worked as a costume: in other words, something fans could see from the stage.
Ar... | ['The Bookshelf', 'Hip Hop', 'Diamonds', 'Music'] |
The Trump administration has proposed yet another sale of weapons to Taiwan, this time involving a $2.37 billion Harpoon defence system by Boeing.
This comes in the immediate wake of the threat of sanctions imposed by China on all companies involved in such deals, including Boeing.
China has recently expressed its st... | ['Society', 'Taiwan', 'War', 'USA', 'China'] |
Pavel Jedlicka @freeimages.com
I will decide to love the empty book of your body, the blank pages of sages hermiting stories deep within you. The ones I will never come to know because they inhabit the mystery that animates your soul. No matter what kind of degree in advanced humanity I achieve, I can never graduate i... | ['Love', 'Soul', '100 Naked Words', 'Poetry', 'Creativity'] |
Photo by ev on Unsplash
The era of self-regulation for the technology industry appears to be over. In its place, a series of new government regulations are being implemented. The European Union (EU) introduced its General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in 2018 to ensure appropriate levels of privacy for its citizen... | ['Transparency', 'Facebook', 'Gdpr', 'Tech Ethics', 'Privacy'] |
Venture capitalists are partying as if it’s 1999 — and we know how that went. Entrepreneurship 101 says startups should conserve cash, keep costs flexible, and operate with parsimony. Way too many founders in the 90’s laughed at that — the same way they’re laughing today.
The Money Keeps Pouring In, But It Keeps Pouri... | ['Business', 'Venture Capital', 'Finance', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Startups'] |
Geofencing: Impact, Spending, Limitations, and Examples for Marketers
How do you strategically acquire customers with digital tools in a specific area?
Geofencing — also called location-based marketing — is a type of mobile ad targeting that involves a two-step process as follows:
Mapping out a specific geographic a... | ['Marketing', 'Technology', 'Digital Marketing', 'Advertising', 'Business'] |
We aim to inspire and educate data scientists worldwide, regardless of gender, and support everyone in the field.
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With just over a month left in office, the Trump administration has made a last ditch effort to rollback nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ+ Americans.
The US Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs quietly issued a final rule on Monday, allowing federal contractors to discriminate ag... | ['Justice', 'Equality', 'Politics', 'LGBTQ', 'Society'] |
A Brief History of Money
Know where it was, see where it’s going.
Photo by Karolina Grabowska from Pexels
Historians believe that money was invented much earlier than writing, perhaps anywhere from 6 to 9 thousand years ago. Unsurprisingly, the early history of money is not well-documented.
Before the invention of ... | ['History', 'Money', 'Economy', 'Society', 'Politics'] |
3 years ago, we wrote ‘What does Unsplash cost?’ to give a totally transparent look at the bills associated with hosting one of the largest photography sites in the world.
Since then, Unsplash has continued to grow tremendously, now powering more image use than the major image media incumbents, Shutterstock, Getty, an... | ['Photography', 'Articles', 'Technology', 'Software Development', 'Startup'] |
Daily detox routine
Morning
Oil pull
This is an Ayurvedic technique I have recently been experimenting with. It’s not as awful as I expected but I also wouldn’t say that it’s pleasant. Essentially, oil pulling is when you put a tablespoon of oil in your mouth, usually organic coconut oil, and swish it around for 10–... | ['Self Improvement', 'Lifestyle', 'Health', 'Advice', 'Routine'] |
Custom App Development Vs. Off-The-Shelf Solutions (Business Edition)
I’ve studied all the alternatives to custom apps and that’s what I’ve learned.
Every second person on earth has a smartphone. According to rough estimates, there are already about 4 billion smartphone users worldwide. Hundreds of billions of dollar... | ['Business Strategy', 'Business Development', 'Software Development', 'Mobile App Development', 'Investment'] |
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Variadic functions are functions that are flexible about the number of arguments you can pass into it.
This article is part of the Functions in Go series
Variadic functions are defined using the 3-dot-notation, ... , here’s an example of this, where shoppingList ( line 8) is a variadic f... | ['Variadic Functions', 'Google', 'Go Programming', 'Golang'] |
Lessons From China’s COVID-19 Visualizations
And interview with three data viz practitioners who have responded to the urgent need for communicating information about the coronavirus pandemic in China
The threat of the coronavirus has frightened people around the world. Disentangling the real and imagined from the th... | ['Design', 'China', 'Covid 19', 'Programming', 'Data Visualization'] |
How would you like to make $100,000 in just five months selling t-shirts online? Benny Hsu did it and there is a chance you can too. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not easy at all, but hey, it’s 100K!
How would you also like to have a business where you can have fun? Making people happy with your t-shirt designs is a blast!... | ['Tshirts', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Business', 'Ecommerce', 'Social Media'] |
The Clarity Trap: How to Keep Creating Despite Uncertainty
3 Things to Remember
Photo by Andreas Brücker on Unsplash
I have a friend, who writes beautifully.
But what happens to him happens to many of us artists before embarking on a project. He falls in love with the idea yet feels the enormity of it.
Therefore, ... | ['Advice', 'Writing', 'Self Improvement', 'Self', 'Art'] |
In the world right now, there are 750 million adults who lack basic literacy skills. Almost two-thirds of that number is made up of female adults.
That’s half a billion young girls who missed out on education compared to 250 million boys.
I don’t know about you, but it’s clear that a boy’s education is more favoured ... | ['Society', 'Culture', 'Women', 'Equality', 'Education'] |
In the latest episode of To Be Continuous, Edith and Paul discuss the challenges and benefits of refactoring monolithic applications into microservices. They examine various approaches for creating microservice boundaries and dispel the myth that they should be defined as small as possible.
This is episode #38 in the ... | ['Microservices', 'Continuous Delivery', 'To Be Continuous', 'Software Development'] |
Zero and one is female and male, literally, and figuratively.
TechSex
Biology and technology share a circular relationship, both dependent on zero and one, one real, the other virtual (both real, both virtual). Genetics and neuroscience are dependent on technology and technology is dependent on a circle (zero and one... | ['Universal Relativity', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Virtual Reality', 'Data Science', 'Circular Reality'] |
Go-Funk: Utility functions in your Go code
Make your life easier with this library of helper functions.
Introduction
If you’re coming from languages like Javascript or Python, you could have some surprises programming in Go. You’ll quickly notice that all those functions such as filter , map or reduce are not part o... | ['Programming', 'Software Development', 'Go', 'Development', 'Golang'] |
Trump’s CDC is Banning Evictions, and it Probably Will Help Him.
His latest faux populist gimmick could work.
Carolyn Kaster/AP
As I’ve said now countless times before, I’ve struggled with processing just how quickly everything has spiraled out of control over the course of a matter of months. It feels as though wit... | ['Society', 'Election 2020', 'Politics', 'Trump', 'Government'] |
Nearly 15 years after its founding, however, Spotify is shaping up to be the very tyrant that it set out to slay; founded as a reaction to rampant music piracy, Spotify is becoming another kind of threat to the stability and success of a diverse and thriving music industry. The platform’s recent struggles attracting ma... | ['Leadership', 'Streaming', 'Brand Strategy', 'Growth', 'Music'] |
Innovation in a time of uncertainty
In the age of Coronavirus, businesses and decision makers will need to think differently about how they strategise and steer their organisations through a more uncertain landscape.
Markets for transport and the built environment traditionally have exceptionally long lead times and ... | ['Covid 19', 'Leadership', 'Business', 'Strategy', 'Coronavirus'] |
1. General Idea
My employer COYO offers a mobile app called ‘Engage’ that lets employees easily communicate with each other including a messaging functionality like you might know from WhatsApp or other messengers.
One very commonly asked feature is Audio Messages. This is extremely useful especially when you quickly... | ['Android', 'Software Development', 'Mobile', 'Hackathons', 'Mobile App Development'] |
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) is an independent research organization whose mission is to improve the health of the world’s populations by providing the best information on population health. A simpler way to summarize what IHME does is:
We collect, process, and distribute big data for global ... | ['Big Data', 'Data Storytelling', 'D3js', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization'] |
How I Radically Changed My Lifestyle with CrossFit
Thank you CrossFit Vienna :)
Photo by Victor Freitas on Unsplash
I thought I knew a thing or two about keeping yourself fit and going to the gym, but when I started feeling out of breath walking a flight of stairs, I was a little concerned. I had previously expresse... | ['Sports', 'Weight Loss', 'Gym', 'Health', 'CrossFit'] |
Da’Shan Smith
Photo courtesy of Republic Records
Over the course of her decades-spanning discography, Mary J Blige has been a conduit for communal pain and healing. She’s shared her world and given generously of herself over 13 studio albums, and remains a singular force in R&B. Starting out as the artist who showed ... | ['Hip Hop', 'Music', 'Lists', 'Culture', 'Pop Culture'] |
Data Visualization for Artificial Intelligence, and Vice Versa
by Nicolas Kruchten
Data visualization uses algorithms to create images from data so humans can understand and respond to that data more effectively. Artificial intelligence development is the quest for algorithms that can “understand” and respond to data... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Visualization', 'Visual Analytics'] |
John Pavlovitz has been on fire recently — or I should say I just became aware of him and his writing during the campaigns — and it’s great. He’s a pastor, in North Carolina, so he adds diversity to the group I tend to tune into, but he often writes from a place I recognize in myself.
On this, the day when we will swe... | ['Personal', 'Trump', 'Society', 'Politics', 'America'] |
‘Future Leaders’ is a series of blog posts by the Financial Times in which we interview our team members and ask them how they got into technology, what they are working on and what they want to do in the future. Everyone has a different perspective, story and experience to share. This series will feature colleagues wo... | ['Engineering', 'Commodore 64', 'Tech Culture', 'Financial Times', 'Web Development'] |
When I write a poem I try to keep the words as simple and true as I can manage. The temptation to show-off with language is always there, and the temptation to force meaning will make me pause and doubt the words. I know that the music is in the plainsong of language and that meaning is in the precise and simple statem... | ['Remembering', 'Observing', 'Writing', 'History', 'Art'] |
To understand why I work in a run-down brothel, we have to go back to when I was 11 years old. My best friend was Anna from down the road. I scored super high on my year-six exams, and I was about to begin dealing with a downward health spiral that still affects me today.
During the first week of the summer holidays, ... | ['Health', 'Sex Work', 'Feminism', 'Women', 'This Happened To Me'] |
Terraform code quality: checking for compliance
So far, we talked about the initial steps, with a very static analysis and we got a bit further with TFLint by asking the API for real IDs, checks for reality, etc…
So if you’re familiar with Terraform after this analysis step, you have the planning phase. The planning ... | ['Terraform', 'Azure', 'DevOps', 'Infrastructure As Code', 'AWS'] |
One of the most attractive aspects about the 2000-year old teachings of Stoic philosophy is how relevant they still are today.
Let’s face it, pearls of wisdom like “If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it” and “While we wait for life, life passes” never really go out of fashion.
What the like... | ['Facebook', 'Marcus Aurelius', 'Social Media', 'Stoicism'] |
Photo by Bruce Mars on Unsplash
Questioning the world around, and observing hidden opportunities to provide a solution for a problem constitutes an entrepreneurial mindset.
This mindset results in a willingness to move forward and change the surroundings with a revolutionary idea. Questions like “what if” are the dai... | ['Starting A Business', 'Work Life Balance', 'Business', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Self Improvement'] |
Introduction
ES2020 is the version of ECMAScript corresponding to the year 2020. This version doesn’t include as many new features as those that appeared in ES6 (2015). However, some useful features have been incorporated.
This article introduces the features provided by ES2020 in easy code examples. In this way, you... | ['Es2020', 'Programming', 'Front End Development', 'JavaScript', 'Typescript'] |
As the collective internet recently descended on cancelling the term #Girlboss, my friends and I who for so long fit the definition, sighed in relief.
The best part is no longer having the narrative to buy into in the first place.
A slew of prominent female founders were ousted recently in a wave of both Covid-19 rel... | ['Women', 'Startup', 'Business', 'Culture', 'Female Founders'] |
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