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This next phase is the development phase. The goal of this phase is to make all the tests pass. Developers should minimize writing a code that does not contribute to making the tests pass. They must be focused, no derailing into other less prioritized work. They should only write sufficient code.
Developers mov... | ['Agile', 'Guides And Tutorials', 'Tdd', 'Software Development', 'Testing'] |
1.There is a picture of me as a toddler kissing a little boy named Jack. We are sitting on a miniature white wicker chair on the front porch of my house. We both have short, wispy curls, his blonde and mine brown, that fall just above the base of our necks. He’s wearing a light blue t-shirt with dark blue stripes. It’s... | ['Pain', 'LGBTQ', 'Queer'] |
No matter how your heart is grieving over the absurd cost, you must take your kids to Disneyland. The theme park has become a compulsory routine of modern American parenting. But even after you navigate the labyrinthine parking structure and slog amid impossible crowds pushing double-wide strollers across miles of hot ... | ['Big Stories Matter', 'Disney', 'Parenting'] |
Before we start, a very special thanks to Michael Toutonghi, John Westbrook and the rest of the Verus team. They have graciously added us to their plugin, and as opposed to try and compete, we want to support them and their fantastic project! Stop by www.veruscoin.io and learn about the future of privacy and Public Blo... | ['Ecommerce', 'Pirates', 'Privacy', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Bitcoin'] |
ls/LIST
Now that users can change directory, they’ll want to know what’s inside. The client-side ls path/to/file command reaches the server as LIST path/to/file , and it will come as no surprise that we have a (c *Conn) list handler function to match.
First, we build an absolute path out of the server rootDir , the c... | ['Go', 'Programming', 'Golang', 'Concurrency', 'Ftp'] |
Currently writing my MBA thesis on devaluation and how it affects the economy and will like to share my thoughts on the argument why Devaluation if adequately managed is actually good for the economy in the long run.
To understand the underlying situation of Nigeria, keeping it simple and first, you must follow the ge... | ['Naira', 'Cbn', 'Exchange Rate', 'Nigeria'] |
Introduction
Users expect applications to be responsive and fast. When your app fails to meet these basic requirements, users often rate it with poor reviews in the Play Store, or even worse, they might uninstall the application.
Either way, it’s no good for business. Lately, the Android team is focused on providing ... | ['AndroidDev', 'Android', 'Mobile', 'Jetpack', 'Programming'] |
POETRY
Before the Lights Flicker Off
A poem of the self
Photo by Content Pixie on Unsplash
what if you just
stopped playing the game
what if you suspended
your disbelief just for a moment
would you see yourself there
in that ten-second pause
would you stare fondly
at your reflection and ask her to
write bac... | ['Poetry', 'Vision', 'Life', 'Self', 'Reflections'] |
Photo Credit: AP
It should be clear to every Democrat by now that when we’ve lost the presidency, the Senate, the House, and two-thirds of state legislatures, we need to seriously rethink who we are and how we best go forward.
The Democratic Party is the party of diversity. We have proudly led the fight against racis... | ['Democratic Party', 'Bernie Sanders', 'Politics', 'Democrats'] |
What is the purpose of establishing a ‘goal weight’?
What does a goal weight mean to you?
Is it a weight at which you will be happy?
Is it a weight where you will become beautiful?
Each time I’ve set a goal weight for myself, it was because I thought that if I reached that number, I would be happy.
I would finally... | ['Self', 'Body Image', 'Self Love', 'Women', 'Lifestyle'] |
At that time, my dad had bought an old truck. He said to my mother, “Prissy, we are going to load all these kids in the truck and we’re gonna drive to Pine Bluff. There’s a spiritual man coming to church who believes in prayer. I’m gonna fast and pray that we’re going to go down there. I have one hundred dollars and I’... | ['Religion', 'Man Selling Electricity', 'Louis Rogers', 'Nature', 'History'] |
1. My generation is much more fortunate compared to my parent’s generation
One of the first lessons that I came to realize is the differences between my generation and my parent’s generation.
A few decades ago in Hong Kong, right before the economy began to skyrock, most people were poor immigrants from mainland Chin... | ['Mental Heath', 'Parenting', 'Life Lessons', 'Life', 'Self Improvement'] |
Who doesn’t like something for nothing?
Especially when it comes to leading technology from the best cloud service providers.
Now when it comes to cloud services; most of the biggest cloud service providers offer 2 types of free offers:
Free for a limited time, or maximum credit amount.
Always free.
Either offer i... | ['Free', 'Always', 'Services', 'Oracle Cloud', 'Tier'] |
Here are 133 important quotes from this must read book:
1. “Bitcoin can be best understood as distributed software that allows for transfer of value using a currency protected from unexpected inflation without relying on trusted third parties”
2. “While Bitcoin is a new invention of the digital age, the problems it p... | ['Cryptocurrency', 'Crypto', 'Bitcoin', 'Blockchain Technology', 'Blockchain'] |
Futourist’s 5 secrets to travelling like a local
Step off the beaten path and become a citizen of the world
Why do you travel? Is it to escape your everyday life? To meet new people? To experience something new? To find your purpose?
While there are as many possible reasons for travelling as there are travellers in ... | ['Tourism', 'Travel', 'Travel Tips', 'Tips', 'Review'] |
Our Dreams, Not mere fantasies
This Shall be Our Story. We shall read it together.
Everyone has their own story to share. They are not only meant to be shared as fantasies but most of them are our dreams for what we live for.
What we live for, it can be any of the things. Our Spouse, our children, our own personal d... | ['Relationships', 'Family', 'Life', 'Love', 'Dreams'] |
Hi,
you want to learn how to code and get the best development job?
Now is the best time to get the right education online.
I’ll tell you something. In my 20 years of development path, nobody has ever asked me what University did I take. The only thing they wanted to know was what I know and what I can do for them. ... | ['Coding', 'Programming', 'Web Development', 'Course', 'Review'] |
The read but unanswered texts; the calls that go to voicemail; the wondering what went wrong/what did I say/what did I do/what didn’t I say/what didn’t I do? The inner turmoil someone creates when they simply up and disappear without warning is, quite frankly, selfish, gutless and just plain rude. It’s a jungle out the... | ['Humor', 'Relationships', 'Love', 'Online Dating', 'Dating'] |
First thing in the morning: a glass of water and a cartoon by The Fluxus.
Follow | ['Humor', 'Alien', 'Comics', 'Cartoon', 'Sunday'] |
Any white leader worth their weight in diversity grants can likely, albeit gingerly, provide that answer. They will tell you about their equity working group, or their beautifully worded mission statement, or the rainbow that is their “rockstar” staff. They may even be gracious enough to say that the problem exists in ... | ['Philanthropy', 'Race', 'Diversity', 'Culture', 'Nonprofit'] |
I actually don’t remember his name, this young man who was my second “lover.” Let’s call him Steve.
I met Steve through his best friend Dan that night I poured a full pitcher of beer over Dan’s head at the Peel Pub. I‘d just found out that Dan had knocked me up the night he raped me. And boy I was something mad!
Dan ... | ['Sexuality', 'This Happened To Me', 'Life', 'Sex', 'Life Lessons'] |
www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets
I Took Investment Advice from Strangers on Reddit
Is there money to be made from meme stocks?
When the coronavirus pandemic struck at the beginning of this year, the global economy ground to a halt. Amidst the uncertainty, investors fled the stock market, and the Dow Jones Industrial ... | ['Investing', 'Personal Finance', 'Finance', 'Advice', 'Money'] |
Summary: Rapper Akon Is Creating His Own Cryptocurrency In Senegal; ING Survey Shows Interest In Cryptocurrency Expected To Double; Robinhood Is Launching A Cryptocurrency Wallet
Rapper Akon Is Creating His Own Cryptocurrency In Senegal
According to CNN, rapper Akon is building a futuristic cryptocurrency city in Sen... | ['Investing', 'News', 'Cryptocurency', 'Blockchain', 'Bitcoin'] |
Photo by Anthony Garand on Unsplash
Voting is a major potential use case of blockchain technology. In most democracies, there are active debates on topics such as increasing voter turnout, decreasing voter fraud, and increasing public trust in the democratic system. Ironically, the introduction of electronic voting in... | ['Cryptography', 'Blockchain', 'Blockchain Technology', 'Bhq Contributors', 'Voting'] |
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There are countless biphobic stereotypes, some of which we know like the back of their hand — we’re more likely to cheat, we’re lying, we’re all down for threesomes. There’s already a slew of articles dedicated to debunking these, and it’s easy to realize that they’re unfair to believe as they make judgm... | ['Kravitz M', 'Sexuality', 'Bisexual', 'Queer', 'LGBTQ'] |
If you’re unaccustomed to the globe of Ethereum investment, you may be speculative if Ethereum may be a smart investment or shall I invest in Ethereum 2020?. Well, let’s break all Ethereum-related myths current on-line before you think about investment in Ethereum.
Is 2020 the best time to invest in Ethereum?
What is... | ['Investment', '2020', 'Ethereum', 'Buy Ethereum India', 'Ethereum Investment'] |
⭐️ Function
Kotlin allows us to do Object Oriented Programming as well as Functional programming. We can use it in both OO and FP styles or mix elements of the two.
So it’s not necessary to wrap your logic in a class unnecessarily.
See below code and notice difference 👇.
Here you can see we extracted methods out o... | ['Android', 'Programming Languages', 'Coding', 'Programming', 'Kotlin'] |
Grief Doesn’t Follow a Calendar
Lessons learned from the loss of our child
Image credit: author
January 20th has, for the past 17 years, been a lousy day in our house. January 20, 2003, is when we lost our son. He was almost five years old when he died of complications due to Trisomy 13. Nothing alters a day on the ... | ['Family', 'Grief', 'Trisomy 13', 'Loss Of A Child', 'Parenting'] |
That dream in which I saw myself to be a flower - a wild - blooms and wilts in a day - not for anyone - but for herself
All my virtual personas go by the name Chembarathi. It means Hibiscus in Malayalam, my mother tongue. I started using this name around 2009 and it has stuck with me since then. Hibisicus is something... | ['Personal', 'About Me', 'Personal Story', 'Reflections', 'Life Lessons'] |
Santa’s Home Town
The Peripatetic Historian visits Patara, Turkey, birthplace of Saint Nicholas.
Roman Gate, Patara, Turkey. Author photograph.
Christmas specials and holiday displays have conditioned us to associate Santa Claus with the cold snows of the North Pole, but the real Saint Nick had a Mediterranean backg... | ['Roman', 'Christianity', 'Christmas', 'Religion', 'History'] |
How Stablecoins can affect the unbanked and those in the developing markets Stably Follow Aug 20, 2018 · 3 min read
In the near future, stablecoins such as StableUSD will affect a much larger market segment than they currently do. Currently, the average stablecoin user is a cryptocurrency investor looking to reduce ex... | ['Stablecoins', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Ethereum', 'Crypto', 'Bitcoin'] |
How to Prioritise Tasks When Everything Seems Urgent
Run your life instead of letting life run you
Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images on Pixabay
Do nothing.
Yes. That’s right. Stop and give yourself time to think. When everything seems urgent our brains go into overdrive.
According to Harvard Health Publishing — Wh... | ['Planning', 'Life Strategy', 'Business', 'Self Improvement', 'Life'] |
How To Solve The Counting Valleys Challenge
How To Solve HackerRank’s Counting Valleys Code Challenge With JavaScript
How To Solve The Counting Valleys Code Challenge
Problem
The Counting Valleys challenge is counting the number of valleys Gary the hiker goes though:
Gary = Hiker
Sea level is 0 — Also the startin... | ['Code', 'Nodejs', 'JavaScript', 'How To', 'Coding'] |
Fistful of Dollars (USA, 1964) • Yojimbo (Japan, 1961)
It’s widely accepted that the Spaghetti Western was inspired by Japanese Samurai films, or chanbara. Hollywood directors saw the parallel in their semi-mythic settings and the potential of replacing swordsmen with gunmen, whilst keeping the central narratives inta... | ['Movies', 'Remakes', 'Culture', 'Features', 'Film'] |
BitBox02 ❤️ Electrum: part 2
This is the second article of our Electrum series. In this post we explain how to use advanced Electrum features, best in combination with the BitBox02 hardware wallet. It is written for advanced users, so we go a bit more into details.
Electrum
The Electrum wallet is a powerful Bitcoin ... | ['Hardware', 'Wallet', 'Crypto', 'Electrum', 'Bitcoin'] |
What was your first job? You know, the one that paid you actual money. Mine was cleaning Persian show cats’ cages for a woman who lived outside of town. $1 an hour. I was over the moon!
My fee for babysitting was only 50 cents an hour; I was going to clean up.
And I did
I cleaned up cat shit and cat litter and cat v... | ['Life', 'Jobs', 'Action', 'Work Life Balance', 'Work'] |
Law in the Old Testament
Does it confuse you when preachers and teachers talk about the law of God? I wouldn’t blame you for the angst if you find such terminology to be a kind of Christianese that everyone is supposed to understand but doesn’t. If you count yourself among the perplexed, this post is for you.
A syste... | ['Christianity', 'Gospel', 'Church', 'Religion', 'Grace'] |
On 26–27 June 2018, ZeroBank — a highly feasible project in money exchange and remittance, took a step further in its global presence by joining the Blockchain Summit London 2018 — the biggest blockchain forum in Europe. Here, Dr. Bao — CTO and co-founder of ZeroBank, one of the speakers at the event, spoke with other ... | ['Blockchain'] |
One Formula to Guide Your Paid
Media Strategy
Paid promotion isn’t just for the content marketers, but you’ve got to think harder about ROI if you’re in the influence game
It’s among the thorniest questions in digital marketing. For all the persuasive arguments about why modern companies must act like publishers — a... | ['Social Media', 'Digital Marketing', 'Advertising'] |
A graph visualization issued from the Opte Project, a tentative cartography of the Internet
By Vegard Flovik — 13 min read
Graph theory might sound like an intimidating and abstract topic to you, so why should you even spend your time reading an article about it? However, although it might not sound very applicable, ... | ['The Daily Pick'] |
I’ve recently started a new project where audio files are played in loops. This presents an interesting challenge as the loading bar makes more sense to be circular rather than linear. Added to this I also wanted to be able to control the amount of time it takes for the animation to complete, and to be able to loop it.... | ['Bar', 'CSS', 'Animation', 'Circle', 'HTML'] |
How Would Negative Interest Rates Affect Bitcoin? faast Follow Jun 19 · 3 min read
In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, more central banks are considering negative interest rates.The question on many crypto traders minds is: Would going negative have a positive or harmful effect on bitcoin?
What are Negative Inte... | ['Central Bank', 'Crypto', 'Negative Interest Rates', 'Deflation', 'Bitcoin'] |
I’m peering out at you through a haze of Christmas dinner and fairy lights, finding a welcome distraction from assembling toys and cooking. I’ve written about many plugins over the last year, but I use two regularly, so I’d like to offer these morsels up as my plugins of the year.
The first is Seek, by Vic Goldfeld. S... | ['Git', 'Plugins', 'Motions'] |
Build Your Own Continuous Integration/Delivery will be a short series sharing my recent attempts of finding a descent solution for myself and to my surprise I didn’t even by the everyone who claim they have one. The goal is to build a lightweight development/integration/deployment pipeline that is fully customizable to... | ['Software Development', 'Ci Cd Pipeline', 'Gcp', 'Cloud', 'Gcloud'] |
Relationships | Love | LGBT+ | Autobiography
In Another Dimension with Michael
Reminiscences of 1970s San Francisco
It was early evening of what had been an absolutely first-class, San-Francisco-summer day in the first week of August 1979. It was the end of my second day in the city after having been absent in Fairb... | ['Spirituality', 'Creative Non Fiction', 'LGBTQ', 'Relationships', 'Drugs'] |
Shaheed Bhagat Singh College (University of Delhi) in association with SBSC Alumni Association held a Workshop on “CAREERS IN MEDIA AND ART” on Friday, the 9th October 2015 in the College premises. A total number of 110 students participated and 11 teachers attended this workshop. Mr. Pankaj Rakesh, media professional ... | ['Art', 'Workshop', 'Archive'] |
Update your morning coffee
A fresh-pressed juice, bulletproof coffee, or even a Hippie Speedball may be the answer to jumpstarting your morning. Or not. The point is, plain coffee may not be the best beverage for optimizing your mornings.
You may even feel the difference opting for a glass of water with lemon instead... | ['Personal Development', 'Personal Growth', 'Morning Routines', 'Lifestyle', 'Self Improvement'] |
Sandeep Kumar Mishra
In upper part of my body
A cognitive bell rings
From a dial up connection of live wires;
The modem is working JUST
To repeatedly provide the facsimile of
Barren and bald paths;
Inner lumbering of daily freight
Coiling, clutching upward;
There is no vivacity
The vital force parasited
How ... | ['Poetry', 'Sandeep Kumar Mishra', 'Thesceneandheard', 'Sadness', 'Hope'] |
Background image by Francesco Mazzoli
Spring has arrived! At this time of year, everyone cleans their house thoroughly. As a developer, I suggest a different approach: Clean up your code.
What is clean code?
Clean code is easy to read, understand and maintain by the author of the code and other developers.
Why you ... | ['Refactoring', 'PHP', 'Programming', 'Clean Code', 'Best Practices'] |
Senior Software Engineer | I love coding, software architectures and all new technologies. I’ll try to share, in an easy way, all the bits of my head.
Follow | ['Best Practices', 'Software Development', 'Clean Code', 'PHP', 'Facade Pattern'] |
The Stock Market Is Forward-Looking
One of the most fundamental concepts you will learn in a finance course is the time value of money. The price of a stock is the present value of its future cash flows. Simply put, investors value stocks based on cash flows the company will receive years from now; which is why the st... | ['Economics', 'Business', 'Stock Market', 'Money', 'Finance'] |
I have a problem. Well, more like, I have feelings. It sounds like I’m trying to say that my feelings are a problem, which I’m not, but they are starting to FEEL that way.
Showing myself out.
I just started a fully immersive course in Software Engineering through the Flatiron School. Well, it’s supposed to be fully i... | ['Coding', 'First Post', 'Ruby', 'Web Development', 'Flatiron School'] |
Facebook wants advertisers to makes as much ROI and ROAS as possible. Good results helps Facebook attract more advertisers — and make more money.
That’s why there’s a new feature with the latest Facebook update — Campaign Budget Optimization (CBO). This helps you automatically redistribute your budget to the best perf... | ['Campaign', 'Facebook Marketing', 'Facebook Ads', 'Advertising'] |
The self that dances in the sky of our heart
and drifts like summer breeze
through the conscious ocean of our being,
is a universal self
gazing through all of us,
dissolving all thought
like sunshine dissolving mist
near the surface of a pond,
transforming its dark water
into light.
The self that loves all li... | ['Poetry', 'Philosophy', 'Spirituality', 'Mindfulness', 'Yoga'] |
Yet another article on code! I must be on a roll. This came off a particle effect I was working on for a client. Initially, I was just generating little divs on the stage and moving them around, but as the number of particles grew, it started to get a little sluggish on my client’s tiny laptop. So I decided to convert ... | ['Code', 'Javascript Tips', 'JavaScript', 'Coding', 'HTML'] |
The top ICO cities in the world
Initial coin offerings (ICOs) raised USD 5.95 billion in 2017, according to Token Report’s quarterly ICO data, with 3.06 billion coming in the fourth quarter alone. When it comes to the geography of traditional venture capital deals in the United States, the San Francisco Bay Area has h... | ['Bitcoin', 'Ethereum', 'ICO', 'Blockchain', 'Venture Capital'] |
Perhaps you’ve learned to fear the coming storm
or else, derive from hopeful light some dread
that eats away the heat, the blessed warm
that you have wrapped around your hopeful head
as armor: grief will nibble at your nose
and eat, as frost, the tender bits of skin
so unprotected; melt the glowing rose
that you... | ['Poetry', 'Life', 'Grief', 'Life Lessons', 'Hope'] |
When using the sealed keyword and if the compiler will have the confidence to make a direct method call and by consequence optimize and skip the vtable lookup completly. This won’t give you any massive performance gains, but it did improve performance when I used sealed consistently in a game engine’s hot-path. Next to... | ['Sealed Classes', 'Optimization', 'C Sharp Programming', 'Programming', 'Programming Tricks'] |
In the latest update, the analytics team has improved risk scoring profiles, alert settings, customer connections, and added a search logging solution.
Risk Score Profile and Alert Settings History
Customers will now be able to save the history of changes to any risk score profiles or alert settings. This update will... | ['Blockchain Analytics', 'Bitfury', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Crystal Blockchain', 'Bitcoin Wallet'] |
Binance cryptocurrency exchange now lets users convert crypto dust into BNB tokens. Yes, you heard it right now Binance users can convert their Binance dust into BNB tokens and then buy other cryptocurrencies with that BNB tokens. Changpeng Zhao (CZ), the Binance CEO made this known via a tweet on April 23, 2018. Binan... | ['Crypto Dust', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Binance', 'Bnb Token'] |
Free verse and loss
Liquefaction in the Daze
In loving memory of Brandi Scanlon
Photo by David Reynolds on Unsplash
I scour the halo from my bones in denial. This ending of yours comes unbound from the pages of Marvel, where we’d scamper the waywards of New Orleans to ride mechanical bulls and squat on thrones.
I ... | ['Poem', 'Friendship', 'Loss', 'Free Verse', 'Mourning'] |
ScrollyTeller is a JavaScript library that streamlines the process of building scrolling data stories from tabular data
Introduction
In the last 5+ years, the data visualization community has seen a burgeoning of data storytelling in various forms. A popular format is the “scrollytelling” data story, where scrolling ... | ['Scrollytelling', 'Data Visualization', 'Data Storytelling', 'JavaScript', 'Data Stories'] |
Update: Thank you very much for your overwhelming response on original article. I’ve received a lot of request on social platforms for updating the article to support Angular 10+. So here you go… this article is an edited version of setting up Angular 6–8 universal setup on serverless framework.
Introduction
With the... | ['Angular', 'Serverless', 'Nodejs', 'Server Side Rendering', 'Angular Universal'] |
About Me — Adebayo Ijidakinro
I’m a programmer who loves to travel, loves languages, and loves people
My name is Adebayo Ijidakinro or Ade for short. Most people who try to say my name butcher it. Some people would call me Abuday, Arde, and a host of other atrocious attempts. But that’s fine, I respond to all of them... | ['About Me', 'Language', 'Travel', 'Programming', 'Introduction'] |
I am a product builder who specializes in programming. Strongly believe in humanist.
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1. Coinbase launches its cryptocurrency debit card in six more countries in Europe
As of Wednesday, the Coinbase Card will be available in Spain, Germany, France, Italy, Ireland and the Netherlands. The card allows users with Coinbase accounts to spend cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, ethereum and litecoin in stores and... | ['Blockchain News', 'Blockchain', 'Cryptocurrency News', 'Altcoinnews', 'Cryptonews'] |
Photo credit: Gage Skidmore via Flickr
There’s been plenty of talk about the so-called “Trump effect” among political commentators, usually meant to describe a trend within American politics of embracing vicious mudslinging. But there’s another type of Trump effect that’s becoming increasingly difficult to deny that g... | ['Extremism', 'Racism', 'Politics', 'Sexism'] |
In this post, I will show you how to quickly add Room support for Room database in your app using Kotlin. There are quite a few articles on how to use Room but most of them are not up to date.
Earlier Room was part of the android.arch.persistence library but recently it was moved to androidx . I will walk you through ... | ['Database', 'Room Persistence Library', 'Android', 'Kotlin', 'Android App Development'] |
This post has been written by Ana Yardley, a Certified Zoho Partner at pickSaaS, and originally published here.
Zoho Opens Remote Toolkit To The World — And We Help You Navigate How to Use Them
Zoho was one of the first corporations to open their premium tools for free in the face of the current Coronavirus pandemic.... | ['Remote Working', 'Zoho', 'CRM', 'Free'] |
The Man in the Arena
And now we arrive at Roosevelt’s speech:
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; ... | ['Twitter', 'Self', 'History', 'Advice', 'Theodore Roosevelt'] |
It takes a crisis.
That’s when the big ideas, the radical ideas that seemed too fringe for the status quo just prior, all of a sudden seem not only plausible but inevitable. “Never let a serious crisis go to waste,” Rahm Emanuel told the Wall St. Journal at the peak of the 2008 financial crisis. Milton Friedman, one o... | ['News', 'Policy', 'Bernie Sanders', 'Economics', 'Government'] |
Oversubscribed
We set a cap of 50k Pluton (PLU), which equates to 0.25% of the total supply, to be sold during the PlutusDEX sale and it was oversubscribed within 48 hours. We hit our target from ~200 participants and there are almost one thousand potential pledgers still in line.
Backlog
Over the last 24 hours, we ... | ['Cryptocurrency', 'Bitcoin', 'Ethereum', 'Fintech', 'Announcements'] |
I have spent the better part of the last seven years working with artists, managers, labels and super fans at PledgeMusic, and I’ve had the privilege of exploring the artist-to-fan connection in its many forms. I have looked through this lens from multiple vantage points, from that of the fan, the artist, the label and... | ['Blockchain', 'Music Business', 'Virtual Reality'] |
By Awanish Rajan and Himanshu Tiwari
If you are even remotely active on crypto-Twitter, you must be aware of the Bitcoin Cash fork drama and the consequent hash wars that are unfolding. For those late to the party, here’s a quick rundown of the situation:
Bitcoin ABC vs Bitcoin SV
The Bitcoin Cash network divided in... | ['Cryptocurrency', 'Blockchain', 'Trading', 'Decentralization', 'Bitcoin'] |
Mike Pence Quotes as Dennis the Menace Comics
“Pence the Menace” is the comic literally nobody asked for
Vice President Mike Pence has said a lot of things that are pretty hard to take! I thought some of them might go down a bit easier coming from America’s most lovable and mischievous boy next door.
But I was wrong... | ['Comics', 'Humor', 'Culture', 'Election 2020', 'Politics'] |
Hello, friends welcome back to my second story in the Animated Series of Flutter Widget. My first story on Animated Align received a lot of appreciation in terms of reading. Around 2K views and 1K reads within a week and a small celebration for being on the first page of Google’s search. Yay!😁
What is Animated Contai... | ['Animation', 'Coding', 'Programming', 'Flutter', 'Flutter Widget'] |
Knowledge of balance
Mufasa teaches Simba about the Circle of Life. Source: Google Images
“Everything you see exists together in a delicate balance. As king, you need to understand that balance and respect all the creatures, from the crawling ant to the leaping antelope” — Mufasa
In this movie, Mufasa has taught Sim... | ['Life Lessons', 'Disney', 'Personal Development', 'Lion King', 'Cartoon'] |
☛ What is concurrency?
In computer programming, concurrency is ability of a computer to deal with multiple things at once. For general example, if you are surfing internet in a browser, there might be lot of things happening at once. In a particular situation, you might be downloading some files while listening to som... | ['Go Programming Language', 'Golang', 'Golang Tutorial', 'Go Programming', 'Programming'] |
The Plutus.it dev team has now grown to 8 developers pushing their limits. And since then, our codebase has increased substantially and automated KYC has gone live for the PlutusDEX.
If you haven’t already, please take a look at the general update recently posted by our CTO, Chris, where he talks about new hires and e... | ['Mobile Payments', 'Fintech', 'Blockchain', 'Announcements', 'Bitcoin'] |
What is a string interpolation?
A string literal can have placeholders. These placeholders are also called as verbs. These placeholders can be replaced by actual variables using string formatting functions provided by fmt package.
Some of these verbs or placeholder in Go might appear in %x format where a formatting v... | ['Golang', 'Golang Tutorial', 'Go Programming', 'Go', 'Programming'] |
Rollover to an IRA
Most of us are not at risk of either litigation or bankruptcy, so rolling over the money to an IRA is a good option.
The big advantage of an IRA is control. If you keep your money with an employer 401K, you are stuck with the limited choices presented to you. These plans famously have a limited num... | ['Investing', 'Financial Planning', 'Rollover', 'Money', 'Retirement'] |
The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation brought together a bipartisan group of secretaries from the key swing states of Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania to discuss the challenges they are facing, the pressures they are under, and what they are doing to make the November election work for the citizens of... | ['Voting', 'Harvard', 'Voter', 'Elections', 'Democracy'] |
I don’t have any idea why this was launched nearly a month ago and I am just finding it, but I think Facebook Chat is a pretty cool idea… and NOT because it’s “CHAT”.
Nevermind that TechCrunch somehow knew about Facebook Chat and I didn’t… must have been that day twitter was down..
First a few screenshots:
The first... | ['Awareness', 'Communication', 'Chat'] |
“Religion is the prop of a man who has not yet found himself.”
This is an argument put forward by the Indian revolutionary Bhagat Singh. He denounced religion as the garb of a man who does not know himself. This is a radical statement and it gave me some food for thought. Having considered it for some time, I feel tha... | ['Religion', 'Life', 'History'] |
Faded
Cross my heart and hope to die
Don’t belong to any nation
If they find me facedown on the sidewalk
Will they look at my medical bracelet
Thoughts that cloud my mind
They’re all complicated
It’s 2020
Walking downtown with a faded twenty
In my wallet
Staring at all the closed shops
Remembering the time
... | ['Poetry', 'Poem', 'Covid 19', 'BlackLivesMatter', 'LGBTQ'] |
If you’ve read the whitepaper, been to any of our meetups, or have just been following us for a while, you’ve probably heard about the Color Spectrum. Although there are many components to the Color Spectrum, it has one main overarching goal: to make life easy for the developer, seamless to the user. The Color Spectrum... | ['Color Platform', 'Consensus', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Color Spectrum', 'Blockchain'] |
It is noted we define money too narrowly, using differing definitions which often exclude many forms [of money] in use.
This becomes problematic when understanding inflation; and since the binding value of our money lays in Central Banks targeting a ‘rate’ of inflation — it would follow that to understand money, we sh... | ['Inflation', 'John Nash', 'Bitcoin', 'Nash Equilibrium'] |
Morning Medicine
Poems From The Porch
photo by Ezra Jeffrey-Comeau on Unsplash.com
It is quiet and peaceful on this powder pink morning,
a warm cup of coffee comforting my hand.
The sunlight is caressing the tops of the trees
as the happy rooster calls out his greeting.
Freely given fire gifts
of woodsy aroma,
... | ['Poetry', 'Spirituality', 'Metaphysics', 'Nonduality', 'Nature'] |
Psalm exists because we realized we needed it at Vimeo. It was open-sourced a year later because we thought that others might appreciate it, too. Working on it has been a fascinating experience — when I began I’d never talked to a PHP developer outside Vimeo. That quickly changed once we open-sourced Psalm, and I’ve si... | ['Static Analysis', 'Psalm', 'Vscode', 'PHP'] |
Sunshine & Laughter
A sweet little story about the end of the world
Photo by Ozark Drones on Unsplash
I nudged Stephen, waking him up. He grunted and squirmed; as much as he hated going down for his afternoon nap, he never seemed in a hurry to get back up. I suppose it was cruel to wake him after what I’d just heard... | ['Science Fiction', 'Apocalypse', 'End Of The World', 'Fiction', 'Short Story'] |
Selected as third winner for Investors Award out of 19 other ICOs, the world’s first Blockchain & A.I. driven marketplace from dating, courtship to marriage, Viola.AI celebrates the win at the biggest ICO Pitching Competition at Cayman Islands on 30 January 2018, organized by d10e, the leading conference on decentraliz... | ['Viola', 'ICO', 'Blockchain', 'Ethereum', 'Pitching'] |
NEXT.JS 10 // REACT-QUERY // AXIOS // DATASTAX DOCUMENT API
6 Tricks for Next-Level CRUDs
Cache more, fetch less with React Query
To follow along with this demo, initialize a free Cassandra database at DataStax, whose super-simple new Documents API we’ll be using for our backend. Make note of your username, password... | ['React Query', 'GraphQL', 'Cassandra', 'Nextjs', 'React Hook'] |
Frank’s Deli & Restaurant.. needed a fix.
Taylor Ham Egg & Cheese, ‘locus classicus’ — The foodie move is to to ask for the Taylor ham to be browned well, but not well-done. Frank’s has a thicker-than-usual cut on the taylor ham.. which affords a far better textural experience and flavor profile, than thin cut. Gettin... | ['Pork Roll', 'Jersey Shore', 'New Jersey'] |
Occurrences of cryptocurrency addiction are becoming so widespread that the medical industry is now starting to take notice.
Earlier this week, The Castle Craig Hospital in Scotland launched an initiative aimed at treating people who have become addicted to cryptocurrency trading.
“It is a form of gambling. People ga... | ['Cryptocurrency', 'Bitcoin', 'Ethereum', 'Blockchain'] |
Photo by Bruno Bergher on Unsplash
Hello folks
Today we are going to discuss about the complete roadmap for web development. It is a general trend students who are in their initial days of engineering thinks about learning web development, as we all encounter many websites in our day-to-day lives and developing these... | ['Web Development', 'Web Design', 'Roadmaps', 'Programming', 'Computer Science'] |
Strangers tend to want to talk to me a lot.
My sister once told me it must have something to do with my face.
She said it looks welcoming.
I don’t know about all that, but what I do know is that many of my conversations with strangers usually only last a short while before they realize I’m socially awkward.
Over th... | ['Friendship', 'Lifestyle', 'Life', 'Self Improvement', 'Social'] |
Originally published at www.thedailybeast.com on January 5, 2018.
I agree with Dave Chappelle about this much: Being transgender is “kind of fucking hilarious.”
“I’ve never seen somebody in such a hilarious predicament, not have a sense of humor about it,” the comedian claims, in one of the over 10 minutes’ worth of ... | ['Comedy', 'Transgender Rights', 'Gender', 'Dave Chappelle', 'Transgender'] |
In recent weeks, a slew of think tanks and journalists have published reports or articles arguing that the American political system is in dire need of “democratization.” These pieces make a variety of claims, but their basic thrust is simple: America’s political institutions, as currently constituted, do not reflect c... | ['Senate', 'Elections', 'Representation', 'Democracy'] |
How to Enhance Your Windows Batch Files by Adding GUI
Let’s modernize your old-fashioned Windows batch files with the help of PowerShell and .NET
Photo by Bahman Adlou on Unsplash
We normally use Bash scripting on the Linux platform to perform various types of automation tasks. Similarly, we could write batch script... | ['Programming', 'Powershell', 'Software Development', 'Technology', 'Windows'] |
Induced emotions
The best movies make you feel things. That’s why you watch them. Sure they could be educational, analytically exciting, or an excellent study material if you are a student of the movie industry or a writer looking for tips on how great stories are being told. But you cannot avoid feeling things when w... | ['Movies', 'Imagination', 'Feelings', 'Film', 'Horror'] |
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