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How to start with Flutter, Firebase and Cloud Functions | What is Faas?
Is server less the next evolution ? ©Ippon
Before beginning, we will speak a little about Function-as-a-Service (Faas) or serverless software.
It is a beautiful mainstream concept.
Imagine, you can store a function in the cloud that does anything you want. No server, no VM, no container, just one thin... | https://medium.com/flutter-community/how-to-start-with-flutter-firebase-and-cloud-functions-1d1aa38c4d82 | [] | 2020-11-23 09:03:14.390000+00:00 | ['Firebase Cloud Functions', 'Programming', 'Flutter', 'Cloud Computing', 'Firebase'] |
Leadership: but not as we know it | Photo by Ethan Weil on Unsplash
Working in the open
Lee Waters AM is running a panel for the Welsh Government looking into digital transformation in the public sector. He’s been blogging as they go along. This is all positive stuff. It’s positive that the government set up this panel, it’s positive that Lee is workin... | https://medium.com/the-satori-lab/leadership-but-not-as-we-know-it-edf0f129062c | ['Ben Proctor'] | 2018-12-06 09:22:37.859000+00:00 | ['Public Service', 'Wales', 'Government', 'Culture Change', 'Digital Transformation'] |
Merit, Luck, and the Importance of the Free Market | “Merit itself is, in large part, the result of luck” and, “Meritocracy is not only wrong; it’s bad” argues Mark Clifton in his recent article for Aeon. That’s a tough pill to swallow for Americans, for whom merit is not just part of our cultural identity, but our economic structure. Indeed, merit is a key part of our c... | https://medium.com/@cddrigotas/merit-luck-and-the-importance-of-the-free-market-87bf12d9867c | ['Conner Drigotas'] | 2020-12-14 16:47:24.163000+00:00 | ['Luck', 'Socialism', 'Merit', 'Meritocracy', 'Free Market'] |
Pro Tips to Help You Get Started With Your Side Project | Pro Tips to Help You Get Started With Your Side Project
Begin with solid foundations to keep the excitement kicking in
Photo by Blake Meyer on Unsplash
Day 1 — You bought your <fancy-name>.io domain name and promised yourself you would finish this product for good, this time.
Day 56— <fancy-name>.io homepage is sti... | https://medium.com/better-programming/pro-tips-to-help-you-get-started-with-your-side-project-15d01b76e0d8 | ['Thomas Guibert'] | 2020-07-15 15:37:27.012000+00:00 | ['Side Project', 'Technology', 'Software Engineering', 'Productivity', 'Programming'] |
In With the Old, In With the New | What does the phrase “Data Visualization” sound like to the uninitiated? “Data” conjures up images of computers and statistical analysis, whereas Visualization is more accessible but vague enough so as to be unclear. They may wonder: Is Data Visualization new, overflowing with cutting edge tools and technology, or is i... | https://medium.com/nightingale/in-with-the-old-in-with-the-new-6cfa3da9997d | ['Isaac Levy-Rubinett'] | 2019-10-18 16:49:40.946000+00:00 | ['Programming', 'History', 'Data Visualization', 'Data Science', 'Visual Design'] |
5 Common Mistakes in Fintech Design and How to Avoid Them | 5 Common Mistakes in Fintech Design and How to Avoid Them Grecia Marin Follow Apr 15 · 5 min read
Social distancing increased digital banking adoption, and many fintech solutions had to be quickly reinvented and adapted to a new context. The world economy is moving towards virtual currency and the number of payment se... | https://medium.com/wolox/5-common-mistakes-in-fintech-design-and-how-to-avoid-them-a8210ea9058 | ['Grecia Marin'] | 2021-04-15 14:59:31.853000+00:00 | ['Usability', 'Accessibility', 'Design', 'Fintech', 'UX'] |
Blockchain API service for Hyperledger Sawtooth | Photo by Marc-Olivier Jodoin on Unsplash
Primechain-API for Hyperledger Sawtooth is a RESTful JSON APIs that makes it very simple for developers to add Sawtooth’s power to their code — electronic signatures, encrypted data storage & more. It is developed and maintained by Primechain Technologies.
Using Primechain-API... | https://medium.com/blockchain-blog/blockchain-api-service-for-hyperledger-sawtooth-4be5539432b | ['Rohas Nagpal'] | 2018-12-24 13:33:52.549000+00:00 | ['Primechain', 'Blockchain', 'Blockchain Technology', 'Blockchain Application', 'Hyperledger'] |
How Do People Force Themselves To Write Daily? | How do people do that?
How do people gather the strength to sit down, look at their blank page or look at an empty document on their screen and start writing if they have nothing to say or if they don’t feel like writing at all?
This is absolute torture for me.
Not only does it feel awful to force yourself to do som... | https://medium.com/the-brave-writer/how-do-people-force-themselves-to-write-daily-3f8ee4fdd7c0 | ['Charles Tumiotto Jackson'] | 2020-10-15 14:55:07.144000+00:00 | ['Habits', 'Personal Growth', 'Self Improvement', 'Writing', 'Writing Tips'] |
Afghanistan’s Institutional Credibility Crisis and Likelihood of ‘Sheepish Elections’ | Eurasia Review, June 21, 2018
By Kambaiz Rafi
Beyond the ongoing militant insurgency, international allies’ attention on Afghanistan proper — internal politics, society and economic development — has gradually diminished following the drawdown of most of the international forces and due to other rising global concern... | https://medium.com/@kambaiz-rafi/afghanistans-institutional-credibility-crisis-and-likelihood-of-sheepish-elections-5e3d50efea76 | ['Kambaiz Rafi - Oped Archive'] | 2020-04-23 16:36:48.265000+00:00 | ['Government', 'Afghanistan', 'Reform', 'Elections', 'Democracy'] |
Who Needs a Magical Reindeer? Or (#deconstruct 2020) | It’s finally fa-la-la-la-la time, and I couldn’t be more ready. Every year as soon as December rolls in (and not a minute sooner), I crank up the holiday music. However, this is 2020, a year in which everything is subject to deconstruction, even the iconic little, red-nosed reindeer. It’s not that I have something agai... | https://medium.com/@maureenwalker/dpwho-needs-a-magical-reindeer-or-deconstruct-2020-683006eeeb1b | ['Maureen Walker'] | 2020-12-23 00:15:05.833000+00:00 | ['Power', 'Magical Negro', 'Rudolph', 'Holiday Music', 'Culture Change'] |
Defining the FT Design Career Framework | We believe it’s important that everyone at the FT feels valued and confident about the next steps in their careers. This is why we introduced levels with clear descriptions, definitions and expectations. The framework that we delivered is a tool for everyone on the team to have a structured conversation with their mana... | https://medium.com/ft-product-technology/defining-the-ft-design-career-framework-fb6ac90aedb8 | ['Leonardo Mattei'] | 2021-09-16 08:50:36.925000+00:00 | ['Career Paths', 'UX', 'Career Development', 'Product Design'] |
Rules in my life | Stay in touch with the people you want to keep in life
This is an important and a valuable rule to me, it is actually a principle as well because I am a believer of working on a social network that gives me healthy perspective in life. If I am surrounded by negative people, guess how that is going to affect me? It is ... | https://medium.com/@cuchu19/rules-in-my-life-87b511c95b49 | [] | 2020-12-17 13:50:04.442000+00:00 | ['Health', 'Happiness', 'Guidelines', 'Perspective', 'Rules'] |
Photo Essay: If We Don’t Have Justice… | On June 2, 2020, I was arrested along with three other journalists and dozens of civilians. We were all cited for a curfew violation while covering protests in Hollywood. The arrest was illegal, violating my rights both as an Angelino and as an American journalist. As a credentialed journalist, I was exempt from the cu... | https://extranewsfeed.com/photo-essay-if-we-dont-have-justice-9adc00bda0e | ['Aaron Guy Leroux'] | 2021-01-23 16:23:16.599000+00:00 | ['Photo Essay', 'Blm', 'Photojournalism', 'Protest', 'George Floyd'] |
Persevere till you finish last | As he lined up in Lane 5 for the 400m semi-final at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, Derek Redmond felt good about his chances. Forced to withdraw from the first heat in the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games due to injury, Redmond had refused to accept the limitations of his own body and come into the ’92 games as a medal favorite.... | https://medium.com/@en-dwarak/persevere-till-you-finish-last-a3e85731a52d | ['Dwarak Narasimhan'] | 2020-12-23 12:32:28.293000+00:00 | ['Nonfiction', 'Leadership', 'Olympics', 'Courage', 'Sports'] |
5 Flights Down & 6 Feet Outside | Today is cold and the sidewalk is quite slippery. I went outside earlier today to mail some Christmas cards and found the deep slushy intersection puddles hard to cross. They soon became an excellent way to dampen my socks. However, the sun was shining and I badly needed exercise.
So I took my trusty Fuji x100 V stree... | https://medium.com/@johnames/5-flights-down-6-feet-outside-22e9d864181a | ['John Ames'] | 2020-12-18 22:27:40.060000+00:00 | ['Fuji X100v', 'City Living', 'Cold Weather', 'Exercise', 'Street Photography'] |
This or That: The Power of Choice | This or That
As we go about our day, we are making thousands of choices. It starts from the moment we open our eyes to the time we close them to go back to sleep. Even opening our eyes is a choice that we get to make.
The idea of choice seems to be one that many people believe they get to make of their own free will ... | https://medium.com/@monica-444/this-or-that-the-power-of-choice-3a151d6bd39f | ['Monica Bartholomew'] | 2021-02-16 20:12:25.671000+00:00 | ['Consciousness', 'Choices', 'Decisions', 'Thoughts', 'Awareness'] |
BCH & BCHA network separation guide. | In order to use Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Bitcoin Cash ABC (BCHA), network separation must be done first. After completing the network separation for these hard forked coins, you can then normally use the transfer function.
How do you perform the network separation?
Network separation must be done in 2 phases.
Phase1: ... | https://medium.com/dcentwallet/bch-bcha-transfer-is-reactivated-b0a826591eaa | ['D Cent Wallet'] | 2021-06-24 12:05:56.953000+00:00 | ['Bitcoin Cash', 'English', 'Dcent Wallet', 'Bitcoin Cash Abc'] |
USDOT introduces VOICES Proof of Concept for Autonomous Vehicle Industry-A Paradigm Shift? | Program references
· https://www.transportation.gov/hasscoe/voices
· https://usdot-voices.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/VP/overview
I have reviewed the Virtual Open Innovation Collaborative Environment for Safety (VOICES) Proof-of-Concept (PoC) document and am very encouraged by what it says. It appears may be a paradig... | https://medium.com/@imispgh/usdot-introduces-voices-proof-of-concept-for-autonomous-vehicle-industry-a-paradigm-shift-87a12aa1bc3a | ['Michael Dekort'] | 2021-05-06 13:06:15.876000+00:00 | ['Autonomous Cars', 'Driverless Cars', 'Mobility'] |
GAE Network : Claim Airdrop Phase 1 | 💥💥ANN Important Airdrop🎄🎄
➡️ To keep building a stronger community also players can have experience with GAE NETWORK , The Gae Team decided distribute the Airdrop Phase 1 sooner expected time.
➡️After we conducted checking and statistics on valid airdrop accounts.
We recognized many cheat accounts participated A... | https://medium.com/@gaenetwork/gae-network-claim-airdrop-phase-1-6e631477ab40 | ['Gae Network'] | 2020-12-21 15:40:41.478000+00:00 | ['Free Token', 'Bounty Program', 'Claims', 'Airdrop', 'Gaenetwork'] |
How to slowly build-up your A-game at work? | What does it really take to be a workplace star? A lot of the fancy stuff you read in self-help books, no doubt. It’s common internet knowledge and google throws up a massive list of things you can do to stand-out.
Yet, not everyone is able to apply these at work. Having spent half of my lifetime working with five+ or... | https://medium.com/@keeperang240780/how-to-bring-your-a-game-at-your-workplace-ddecd1ec93a8 | ['Angelus Pereira'] | 2021-08-27 17:40:18.660000+00:00 | ['Personal Branding', 'Gamechangers', 'Leadership', 'Personal Development', 'Success'] |
Introdução ao Spark — Parte 1 by Tiago Diniz | Learn more. Medium is an open platform where 170 million readers come to find insightful and dynamic thinking. Here, expert and undiscovered voices alike dive into the heart of any topic and bring new ideas to the surface. Learn more
Make Medium yours. Follow the writers, publications, and topics that matter to you, a... | https://how.kovi.work/introdu%C3%A7%C3%A3o-ao-spark-parte-1-531e93f83f6e | ['Tiago Diniz'] | 2020-12-30 15:23:31.242000+00:00 | ['Analytics', 'Big Data', 'Spark', 'Big Data And Analytics'] |
The Great Division | What happens in the corporate world post covid?
The isolation economy caused by covid forced us to change. It forced us to accept pre-existing technology that we had resisted e.g. remote working, zoom calls and online collaboration became a necessity.
As we overcame our inertia to change then this in turn allowed for... | https://medium.com/@swardley/the-great-division-87a58e8d3709 | [] | 2021-05-10 08:56:30.027000+00:00 | ['Strategy', 'Mapping'] |
Golden Road by Gareth Wilson | G olden Road by Gareth Wilson
Toronto 2015. Artist’s own image.
Starved of everything you needed,
The sacrificial lamb was in your bed.
Those sounds I hear from your apartment,
You can tune it out but you can’t replace your head.
I did not forget the name I lost the number.
But you wrote it out into the ledge.
... | https://medium.com/@drflannerywilson/golden-road-by-gareth-wilson-e69a29b12bf4 | ['Flannery Wilson'] | 2020-11-21 16:35:26.734000+00:00 | ['Music', 'Creativity', 'Lyrics', 'Art', 'Spotify'] |
Connection, as your primary unique selling proposition | I worked at cafes for 10 years and I often asked people why they went to some venues over others. The most common answer I got was, “It’s just good coffee and I like the owners.”
Good coffee is no longer a unique selling proposition anymore. If you want to succeed in the space nowadays, you absolutely must serve amazi... | https://medium.com/@brewcopy/connection-as-your-primary-unique-selling-proposition-6c7033ce8333 | ["Jayden O'Neil", 'Brew Copy'] | 2021-01-28 12:57:58.540000+00:00 | ['Brand Messaging', 'Copywriting'] |
Anarchism and anti-fascism | You can be forgiven for thinking I had a bad attitude towards anarchism based on my early articles concerning vanguardism and the USSR, and a post from around last year where I concerned CHAZ to be a case study refuting anarchism. But I am a Libertarian Marxist, and although that comes from a different theoretical trad... | https://medium.com/@comradecypher/anarchism-and-anti-fascism-e0c44fa06937 | ['Alex Cypher'] | 2021-05-12 20:06:13.259000+00:00 | ['Communism', 'Boogaloo Boys', 'Anarchism', 'Antifa', 'Antifash Gordon'] |
Back to the Present. Wonder Woman 1984: Back to the Present | Back to the Present
(Spoilers ahead.)
Max Lord, the Ian Flemishly-named villain of Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman 1984 is a cripplingly insecure fraud — a failure in business whose every act is driven by his desperate need to win respect and to be admired.
His empty shell of a business empire, built on lies and all gol... | https://medium.com/@ramatsu/quick-take-7afd7a978e2a | ['Allen Matsumoto'] | 2020-12-27 02:17:34.603000+00:00 | ['Wonder Woman 1984', 'Movies', 'Wonder Woman', 'Movie Review'] |
Harmony OS and International Relations Theory | Harmony OS and International Relations Theory
Following the disastrous first half of the 20th Century it was recognised in the Western countries that international relations needed to be put on a more stable long-term footing to avoid a future war that could be truly catastrophic.
Thus, international relations became... | https://medium.com/@pauldixon-xyz/harmony-os-and-international-relations-theory-695a43bba646 | ['Paul Dixon'] | 2020-12-23 14:31:51.117000+00:00 | ['International Relations', 'Harmony Os', 'Economics', 'Yuan', 'China'] |
Filling up the Civic Tech Toolbox | Assuming rationality
So much of the work we do in government technology modernization involves developing what essentially boils down to advice — lists of best practices, playbooks, and guides to help agencies adopt technology more successfully. “Here is how agile works, here is why DevSecOps is so important, talk to ... | https://medium.com/@mheadd/filling-up-the-civic-tech-toolbox-a976161a84be | ['Mark Headd'] | 2020-11-08 19:11:28.173000+00:00 | ['Procurement', 'Product Management', 'Civictech', 'Government', 'Technology'] |
400% ROI on Masternodes? | The BlockNode network offers quite an impressive return on investment when it comes to coin Staking and Masternode hosting. Payments are made every 12 hours, and anyone is able to participate in the hosting process.
The reward for each PoS (Proof-of-Stake) block is split as follows:
80% to Masternodes.
15% to stakin... | https://medium.com/blocknode-tech/400-roi-on-masternodes-e3b6cdea0953 | ['Anonymous Duck'] | 2018-09-01 00:15:38.912000+00:00 | ['Bitcoin', 'Blockchain', 'Investing', 'Busines', 'Cryptocurrency'] |
How Can Art Battle Against Human Trafficking? | For the past 5 days I have drawn a picture to go with a prayer scripture. One every day.
And the pictures had to be in yellow. Yes — yellow.
I am advocating against human trafficking working with IJMCanada (International Justice Mission). Join me.
It’s a tough topic. No one likes it. (except the perpetrators). But n... | https://medium.com/publishous/how-can-art-battle-against-human-trafficking-a9cbf4f6a762 | ['Janis Cox'] | 2018-11-09 12:31:01.025000+00:00 | ['Human Trafficking', 'Prayer', 'Inspiration', 'Art'] |
I Am So Tired, Even My Tiredness Is Tired: How To Relieve Your “Work From Home” Fatigue | I Am So Tired, Even My Tiredness Is Tired: How To Relieve Your “Work From Home” Fatigue WellBe Jun 17·9 min read
In the early stages of the Coronavirus pandemic, the realities of indefinite remote work were not yet clear to many workers. At first, the set-up may have sounded ideal: no commute, loose clothing all day a... | https://medium.com/@wellbe-global/i-am-so-tired-even-my-tiredness-is-tired-how-to-relieve-your-work-from-home-fatigue-6ddaf9b8a74 | [] | 2021-06-18 12:21:43.697000+00:00 | ['Stress', 'Tired', 'Working From Home', 'Fatigue'] |
6 Great progressive web app examples for entrepreneurs | The technology trends are introducing new aspects every day. With the changing aspects of technology, customer needs are changing too. As businesses are required to make the best use of every further aspect introduced in the market, customers are benefitting the most from these technological changes.
But as technology... | https://medium.com/techgenyz/6-great-progressive-web-app-examples-for-entrepreneurs-5e7b941e82c5 | [] | 2020-03-11 11:16:03.923000+00:00 | ['Uber', 'Mobile Devices', 'Pinterest', 'App Development', 'Progressive Web App'] |
If White Conservatives Loved All People The Way They Do Embryos | If White Conservatives Loved All People The Way They Do Embryos
Then they’d actually be pro-life.
Photo credit: iStockPhoto
By John Pavlovitz
Conservatives love embryos.
They tell us all the time.
They speak effusively about them in conversation, publicly revere them, shed crocodile tears over them, accost strang... | https://medium.com/equality-includes-you/if-white-conservatives-loved-all-people-the-way-they-do-embryos-2b8bcc0b7c04 | ['The Good Men Project'] | 2020-11-11 21:32:47.383000+00:00 | ['LGBTQ', 'Equality', 'Children', 'Racism', 'Christianity'] |
For equity, colleges need to change more than policies | When I was working on my master's degree in the 1990s, I read several autoethnographies that explored literacies. Gilyard’s Voices of the Self changed how I thought about my work as an educator. At the time I read it, I was working with urban preschool teachers pursuing degrees in early childhood through a scholarship.... | https://medium.com/@saschakovacs/for-equity-colleges-need-to-change-more-than-policies-6ef2084ee789 | ['Sascha Kovács'] | 2020-12-06 23:37:45.393000+00:00 | ['Urban Education', 'Equity', 'College', 'Black English'] |
5 Valuable Lessons we learned in 2020 to keep in mind. | Do you remember your goals and to-do list for 2020? Did you achieve them? Well, that didn’t work for most people, including me. The majority of people just gave up on their plans at the beginning of this year because of many obvious reasons, Quarantine is one of them. Time goes and it’s already December, looking at my ... | https://medium.com/@husseinaliforreal/5-valuable-lessons-we-learned-in-2020-to-keep-in-mind-8dd1e8cad98f | ['Hussein Ali'] | 2020-12-27 14:28:18.500000+00:00 | ['Motivation', 'Success', 'Self Improvement', 'Goals', 'Self-awareness'] |
How My VC Journey Led Me to Start VC Unleashed, a National Community of BIPOC MBA Investors | Breaking into VC has been a lonely road and uphill battle.
To paint a picture of my experience — in my 2022 class at Columbia Business School of 600+ students, there was only one Latinx and one Black student pursuing venture. Even with my experience founding and growing a company and working in VC and at an angel grou... | https://medium.com/@michelle_unplugged/how-my-vc-journey-led-me-to-start-vc-unleashed-a-national-community-of-bipoc-mba-investors-79074800dd1e | ['Michelle Unplugged'] | 2021-09-15 23:00:05.772000+00:00 | ['Investors', 'VC', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Mba', 'Bipoc'] |
Your Chance to Play the Festive Half-Are-Stupid Game | Your Chance to Play the Festive Half-Are-Stupid Game
The Law of Averages does not identify which half is stupid. (free public domain: clipart-people.com)
It’s the season to be nice and forgiving. So this is the safest time of year for you to try the following social experiment. I call it “having fun with averages.”
... | https://medium.com/@nonsenseatwork/your-chance-to-play-the-festive-half-are-stupid-game-32d04a50292a | ['James Mcintosh'] | 2020-12-09 16:05:02.103000+00:00 | ['Life Lessons', 'Law Of Averages', 'Nonsenseatwork', 'Stupid', 'Forgiveness'] |
But … when do you actually work?. A reflection that started from a… | A reflection that started from a simple, candid question.
We are in the second half of 2020, my partner and I, together with the rest of the World, got used to the “new normal” of home office and our daily schedules of virtual meetings. This day, my partner’s mother is there, and, while she does not really understand ... | https://medium.com/@fnrgontier/but-when-do-you-actually-work-425e5fbdfcde | [] | 2020-12-29 15:58:54.172000+00:00 | ['Meetings', 'Work From Home', 'Work Life Balance', 'Time Management', 'Productivity'] |
Benefits of using WhatsApp Business for your company | In addition to being one of the most popular mobile applications, WhatsApp is also the second largest social network in the world. Despite its enormous popularity, they want to go one step further and become the corporate communication channel par excellence.
Thus, Meta created WhatsApp Business, a tool that facilitat... | https://medium.com/@polaxdigital/benefits-of-using-whatsapp-business-for-your-company-e2d52a6aa121 | ['Polax Digital'] | 2021-12-14 22:07:33.013000+00:00 | ['Web Development', 'Small Business', 'WhatsApp', 'Business'] |
Scratch to SOTA: Build Famous Classification Nets 4 (GoogLeNet) | Photo by Ed 259 on Unsplash
Introduction
Two articles ago, we dissected the structures of AlexNet and VGG-family. While the two networks differ largely in their choice of filters, strides and depths, they all have the straight-forward linear architecture. GoogLeNet (and later the whole Inception family) in contrast, ... | https://medium.com/@pasa34987/scratch-to-sota-build-famous-classification-nets-4-googlenet-2e3bac439462 | ['Gary L. Brown'] | 2020-12-06 13:19:46.962000+00:00 | ['Pytorch', 'Image Classification', 'Step By Step Guide', 'Machine Learning', 'Computer Vision'] |
Top 5 Easy Tips to Lose Weight Faster | Obesity is one of the major issues that people face today. Unhealthy lifestyle, bad eating habits, sleepless nights, too much work pressure and lots of other factors are the main reason behind your increasing weight. And finally, you end up with physical issues like, pain, high pressure, diabetes, PCOS, and lots of oth... | https://medium.com/@weightlosstrileana/top-5-easy-tips-to-lose-weight-faster-41ba2cf9a14 | ['Trileana Weight Loss'] | 2019-05-18 05:28:25.961000+00:00 | ['Obesity', 'Weight Loss Tips', 'Health'] |
Flying Falcon Sponsors Players to Start Earning In NFT Games | Donors to the YGG Sponsor-A-Scholar program will help onboard newcomers to play-to-earn games.
Thanks to Flying Falcon, new players in the Philippines, Indonesia and India have received YGG scholarships to play-to-earn with Axie Infinity.
Yield Guild Games (YGG), a decentralized gaming guild of players and investors ... | https://medium.com/yield-guild-games/flying-falcon-sponsors-players-to-start-earning-in-nft-games-2d5f179d74e7 | ['Yield Guild Games'] | 2021-05-03 14:03:01.150000+00:00 | ['Earn Money Online', 'Gaming', 'Nft', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Philanthropy'] |
Beyond COVID-19: Lessons from the Pandemic that Changed the World | Deadly global and highly contagious virus? More than a million cases in our country? Self-isolation restrictions? It seems like we are living in a science-fiction movie, and none of us know the ending. Yes, vaccines have arrived earlier than expected but the future remains very much uncertain.
Every part of the world ... | https://medium.com/@sergimateo/beyond-covid-19-lessons-from-the-pandemic-that-changed-the-world-62677a98140d | ['Sergi Mateo'] | 2020-12-17 21:26:22.168000+00:00 | ['Travel', 'Digital Nomads', 'Future Of Work', 'Pandemic', 'Covid 19'] |
Introduction to Neural Networks | A neural network is a progression of calculations that tries to perceive fundamental connections in a lot of information through a procedure that imitates the way the human brain works. In this sense, neural network mentions to frameworks of neurons, either natural or artificial in nature. Neural systems can adjust to ... | https://medium.com/@pradnyasaval20/introduction-to-neural-networks-d9bd643d8723 | ['Pradnya Saval'] | 2020-04-22 18:06:21.532000+00:00 | ['Artificial Neural Network', 'Supervised Learning', 'Neural Networks', 'Reinforcement Learning', 'Unsupervised Learning'] |
The short story of Alibaba and 40 thieves in English | What is the story of Alibaba and the forty thieves?
Many years ago, a carpet merchant lived in a city in Persia. His 2 sons were Qasim and Alibaba. His business was going well but he died after some time after which the elder son Qasim, who was a greedy man, took over all the business and drove Alibaba home.
After wh... | https://medium.com/@essaystories/the-short-story-of-alibaba-and-40-thieves-in-english-b64d3b0e736a | [] | 2020-12-25 08:42:18.320000+00:00 | ['Story', 'Movies', 'Film', 'Storytelling', 'Tale'] |
Email Spoofing 😈 | Email Spoofing 😈
Learn what it is, how it works, and how to defend against it with SPF, DKIM, DMARC
Photo by Rinck Content Studio on Unsplash
Email spoofing is the creation of emails with a forged sender address. Faking the senders’ address is often a part of a phishing attack. There are different ways to fool the ... | https://medium.com/bugbountywriteup/email-spoofing-9da8d33406bf | ['Martin Thoma'] | 2020-12-05 16:39:38.458000+00:00 | ['Infosec', 'Computer Security', 'Spoofing', 'Cybersecurity', 'Hacking'] |
I wish for a tree-type view of folders on Drive | I wish for a tree-type view of folders on Drive Aishvarya Jun 17·3 min read
Do you use Google Drive or OneDrive? Have you ever searched the folders on Drive crazily for a file or document? How frustrating has that process been?
I get you. I use Google Drive predominantly, but have lately been using OneDrive as well. ... | https://medium.com/@aishvarya-gopal/i-wish-for-a-tree-view-of-folders-on-drive-78aff32345db | [] | 2021-06-28 03:59:41.161000+00:00 | ['User Interface', 'Google', 'Onedrive', 'Google Drive', 'User Experience'] |
Curate App — Fundamentals. Hi there, I’m James, the founder of… | Hi there, I’m James, the founder of Curate, a discovery marketplace app supporting crypto payments and rewards.
My twitter profile is: twitter.com/jvhak and you can find me on telegram with the username @curateproject where I hang out in our group t.me/curate
There’s been a lot of focus recently on $XCUR, our native ... | https://medium.com/@curate-xcur/curate-app-fundamentals-68bfe41cce8c | [] | 2021-02-10 00:23:45.795000+00:00 | ['Defi', 'Curate App', 'Marketplace', 'Curate', 'Xcur'] |
Jean-Baptiste Daguené, Former Trustpilot Sales Superstar, joins Safein Advisory Team | Jean-Baptiste Daguené, Former Trustpilot Sales Superstar, joins Safein Advisory Team
Safein is proudly announcing that Jean-Baptiste Daguené, Co-Founder at Evergrowth, Partner at Startup.lt and Executive at Practica Capital, one of the most prominent venture capital funds in the Baltics, has joined our advisory team.
... | https://medium.com/safeincom/jean-baptiste-daguen%C3%A9-former-trustpilot-sales-superstar-joins-safein-advisory-team-90127991a275 | ['Audrius Slažinskas'] | 2018-03-30 13:34:47.769000+00:00 | ['Growth', 'Blockchain', 'Advisor', 'Sales'] |
It’s Finally Safe to Go Outside | “Let’s get some food. I’m starving.” Mihaela’s fingers disappeared as she slid them through her long black hair, emerging moments later covered in grime. She frowned. “Plus, I’m dusty from having spent the past six months inside.”
Alexandru looked at his wife, his coral blue eyes glowing as if lit by a spotlight. His ... | https://billadler.medium.com/its-finally-safe-to-go-outside-658ac3b2384c | ['Bill Adler'] | 2020-04-14 07:28:47.139000+00:00 | ['Horror', 'Short Story', 'Flash Fiction', 'Horror Fiction', 'Vampires'] |
Everything You Need to Know About This Year’s Flu Season | By: Patricia Salber MD, MBA (@docweighsin)
Here is information and stats from the CDC and elsewhere to help answer many of the questions you may have about this year’s flu season.
The 2019–2020 flu season officially started on October 1. Although it is early, we can get some hints of what’s to come by looking at Aust... | https://docweighsin.medium.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-this-years-flu-season-663695b8a17c | ['The Doctor Weighs In'] | 2019-10-21 17:37:22.682000+00:00 | ['Health', 'Primary Care', 'Infectious Disease', 'Flu'] |
A 19-Year Old’s Philosophical Thoughts After Potentially Getting COVID-19 | Yet within the universe, I am nothing. I’m not Tina, the undergraduate who attends school at the U. I’m not the artist who paints, the girl who does TikToks, the spunky girl who’s trying to run her business club’s recruitment cycle. I’m just a dot, a speck of dust. My feet don’t even touch the ground. Some could say I’... | https://medium.com/@tina-talks/a-19-year-olds-philosophical-thoughts-after-potentially-getting-covid-19-ae844c9e448f | ['Tina Yang'] | 2020-12-21 03:14:05.232000+00:00 | ['Philosophy Of Mind', 'Coronavirus', 'Mindset Shift', 'University', 'Corona'] |
God for the Gay Former Atheist | I’m at the tail end of a tumultuous marriage, though I find myself struggling to pull the trigger on ending it. My mind is chaotic, filled with reasons to stay and go, depending on what he has said recently, how our day has gone, if he drank, if he finally did the thing I asked of him, if he spent all day on the couch ... | https://medium.com/@seanshanley/god-for-the-gay-former-atheist-124d88a715f6 | [] | 2020-12-22 03:08:48.696000+00:00 | ['Divorce', 'Spirituality', 'Marriage'] |
Email Subject Lines: Do’s and Do Not’s | The subject line plays a pivotal role in an email campaign. If it is good, you are likely to notice a high open-rate. In fact, 47% of recipients click on an email based on its subject line. When it comes to email subject lines, there are certain things that work and a few things that don’t. Here is what you need to kno... | https://medium.com/@arcamax-publishing/email-subject-lines-dos-and-do-not-s-1f277538af15 | ['Arcamax Publishing Inc.'] | 2020-12-22 15:20:00.931000+00:00 | ['Email Marketing', 'Digital Marketing', 'Email Marketing Tips', 'Optimization'] |
A Letter To, | A Letter To,
Words and image by the author
To the special guy,
I’ve written this on my last days lying on the deathbed. Because of my stubborn illness, I had to end the relationship. Not for my sake, but for hers. I couldn't bear to see the hurt in her eyes, knowing that the remains of our ebullience might one day t... | https://medium.com/paper-poetry/a-letter-to-5b4cf1fb8002 | ['Daniel A. Teo'] | 2020-12-06 21:04:36.385000+00:00 | ['Prose', 'Sad', 'Love', 'Letters', 'Poetry On Medium'] |
Windows 10 Features You Might Have Missed | Table of Contents
Right now, when the whole world fits right in your pocket, there is nothing that one device is incapable of doing. But in IT industries or in any other profession there are certain devices assigned for one particular work.
There are PCs designed for gaming, designing, business work, etc. Till now, t... | https://medium.com/@ajarmstrongtgh/windows-10-features-you-might-have-missed-a16249958d48 | ['A.J. Armstrong'] | 2021-09-11 21:05:58.848000+00:00 | ['Windows', 'General', 'Office'] |
The 3 unanswered A’s the big pharma need to answer while making the big claim of more than 90% efficacy for COVID-19 vaccines in their trails | The 3 unanswered A’s the big pharma need to answer while making the big claim of more than 90% efficacy for COVID-19 vaccines in their trails Kiran Krishnan Dec 20, 2020·3 min read
COMBATING A NOVEL VIRUS
Vaccines are like twin edged swords, they can save lives or kill lives. While accines are not new, as they exist ... | https://medium.com/@sogmoe/the-3-unanswered-as-the-big-pharma-need-to-answer-while-making-the-big-claim-of-more-than-90-2e352290668f | ['Kiran Krishnan'] | 2020-12-20 14:38:23.188000+00:00 | ['Virus', 'Humans', 'Vaccines', 'Covid 19', 'Safety'] |
Understanding Machine Learning | What is Machine Learning?
Machine Learning is one of the fastest growing areas of computer science with, far-reaching applications. Basically, Machine Learning is a system that has the ability to automatically learn and improve from past experiences without being explicitly programmed.
When Do We Need Machine Learnin... | https://medium.com/codingurukul/understanding-machine-learning-114e85cd3f0e | ['Paras Patidar'] | 2019-12-13 14:50:26.878000+00:00 | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Understanding Ml And Ai', 'Machine Learning', 'Codingurukul'] |
When it comes to marketing, startups are a completely different animal | By Jana Kotze, Head of Venture Marketing
We all know that marketing is essential for business, but even more so for startups. Startups are a completely different animal when it comes to marketing. We often don’t have the luxury of massive marketing budgets, resources or tools, so our approach needs to be lean and agil... | https://medium.com/the-delta-studio/when-it-comes-to-marketing-startups-are-a-completely-different-animal-c1467e8ff9f5 | ['The Delta'] | 2021-03-19 09:57:34.372000+00:00 | ['Commercialization', 'Corporate Innovation', 'Startups', 'Marketing', 'Commericialisation'] |
Know Web Development? Become a Digital Nomad Tomorrow. | You want to travel the world, but you are just waiting for that perfect remote job that allows you to log in from anywhere, and pays you the big bucks so you can live the lifestyle you’ve dreamed about!
Instagram photos from 2019 of my wife and I in Mexico, Costa Rica and Guatemala
That’s where I was two years ago. T... | https://medium.datadriveninvestor.com/know-web-development-become-a-digital-nomad-tomorrow-c137a4666e4d | ['Alex White'] | 2019-02-13 09:19:38.015000+00:00 | ['Tutoring', 'Mentorship', 'Digital Nomads', 'Freelance', 'Web Development'] |
What If It Ends? | What If It Ends?
What if this were the end?
Who would you see or call?
What if no days to come?
How would you spend it all?
What if the last sunrise
Greeted you on this day?
What if your lover’s smile
Disappeared as you pray?
What if tonight it’s done?
Tomorrow will not come
What if the timeline froze?
Your... | https://medium.com/speaking-bipolar/what-if-it-ends-feecde426da8 | ['Scott Ninneman'] | 2020-06-23 18:09:27.463000+00:00 | ['Poetry On Medium', 'Poet', 'Poetry', 'Poems On Medium', 'Poem'] |
What is Global Warming? | For 2.5 million years the earth’s climate has fluctuated cycling from the ages to warmer periods but in the last century, the temperature of the planet has rise unusually fast and 1.2 to 1.4-degree Fahrenheit. Scientists believe it’s a human activity that’s driving the temperature up a process known as global warming.
... | https://medium.com/@anwarce90/what-is-global-warming-e83371518ee5 | ['Md. Anwar Hossain'] | 2020-12-09 16:42:42.984000+00:00 | ['Global Warming Impact', 'Global Warming Solution', 'Global Warming'] |
Conductor Conduct | Photo by Rohit Munshi on Unsplash
I was, once again, taking the NJ Transit express train from Penn Station New York to my home of Middletown, New Jersey this evening. It was a normal, boring, run of the mill trip. We boarded, announcements came on, we were off, etc. One of the announcements was to MAKE SURE you activa... | https://medium.com/@alexdsimmons/conductor-conduct-12a0464db183 | ['Alex Simmons'] | 2019-02-07 01:59:13.508000+00:00 | ['Conflict', 'Reflections', 'Travel', 'Life', 'NYC'] |
Happy Birthday, Dad.. Too many times I’ve sat down at a… | My Dad would’ve turned 64 today. He would’ve been singing “When I’m 64” by The Beatles. I would’ve called him to wish him a Happy Birthday, and he would’ve said “It doesn’t get any better than this!” A famous Russ Peter line. I’d like to think he would treat himself out to some fancy seafood, but I also know he was a h... | https://medium.com/@ctothep20/my-dad-wouldve-turned-64-today-362b297850b2 | ['Courtney Peter'] | 2020-09-15 17:54:50.681000+00:00 | ['Birthday', 'Dads'] |
Flutter Clean Architecture Series — Part 1 | The Architecture and Dependency Rule
If you have created the folders as organized in the diagram, then great job.. because now we will talk more about the architecture that we will use in details and the purpose of each layer.
Firstly, let us take a deep look at this diagram below:
architecture diagram — devmuaz
Ta... | https://medium.com/@devmuaz/flutter-clean-architecture-series-part-1-d2d4c2e75c47 | ['Abdulmuaz Aqeel'] | 2021-02-18 15:45:09.752000+00:00 | ['Flutter', 'Rest Api', 'News', 'Clean Architecture', 'Local Database'] |
Analysis paralysis in product design | Analysis paralysis in product design
Improve decision making in your product
As product designers, we encounter the wonders of the human brain through design. The human brain is incredible and a complex element, which makes humans act, and behaviours unique from one to another. The UX designer has to understand how e... | https://uxplanet.org/analysis-paralysis-in-product-design-e3fda6e40cbf | ['Muditha Batagoda'] | 2020-12-25 12:53:47.695000+00:00 | ['Design', 'User Experience', 'UX', 'Product', 'Psychology'] |
Calculate the Max Distance in an Array | Problem
Max distance: InterviewBit
Given an array A of integers, find the maximum of j - i subjected to the constraint of A[i] <= A[j] . Example: Input A: [3, 5, 4, 2]
Output: 2 for the pair (3, 4)
Solving Process
Brute Force
One brute force solution consists in iterating over each pair of the array and finding t... | https://medium.com/solvingalgo/solving-algorithmic-problems-max-distance-in-an-array-7e8c9f71c8b | ['Teiva Harsanyi'] | 2020-12-09 19:28:45.280000+00:00 | ['Algorithms', 'Coding', 'Java', 'Programming', 'Arrays'] |
I Love a Manipulative Pisces | November 25th, 2020
I love a manipulative Pisces. Easy to talk to and be around. | https://medium.com/@lbseligman/i-love-a-manipulative-pisces-c41974f30bef | ['Lindsay Seligman'] | 2021-02-25 08:24:14.946000+00:00 | ['Manipulate', 'Lovely', 'Spark', 'Pisces', 'Joy'] |
Made the right move — Des’ story. This case study highlights how Premier… | This case study highlights how Premier Jobs UK helped Des find the right job for him and reignite his passion for financial services
The challenge
After 30 years in Financial Services, I was disillusioned with being a Financial Adviser and had taken up a number of contract positions instead to utilise my experience. ... | https://medium.com/@PremierJobsUK/made-the-right-move-des-story-dfa211de4b92 | ['Premier Jobs Uk'] | 2019-12-17 17:33:10.378000+00:00 | ['Recruiting', 'Financial Planning', 'Financial Services', 'Fintech'] |
To D or not to D, during pandemic! | Vitamin D could have had been our winning mantra against the fear of CoVid19
Writing this quick blog post after a family member with low Vitamin D levels first got infected with CoVid19, while higher Vitamin D maintaining family members either didn’t catch an infection or were asymptomatic which indicates a better imm... | https://medium.com/@malikvikrant/to-d-or-not-to-d-during-pandemic-922eb26d40c5 | ['Vikrant Malik'] | 2020-12-24 09:42:08.705000+00:00 | ['Science', 'Immunity', 'Covid 19', 'Vitamin D', 'Wellbeing'] |
Video Games Are Changing Live Music in the Midst of COVID-19 | Video Games Are Changing Live Music in the Midst of COVID-19
Concerts and festivals may never be the same
With the advent of COVID-19, many events are being canceled as people are encouraged to stay inside. This of course is bad news to everyone, but to music festival and concert goers it’s even worse. Many big event... | https://medium.com/super-jump/video-games-are-changing-live-music-in-the-midst-of-covid-19-39c21849cbb2 | ['Joshua Gad'] | 2020-05-08 01:35:45.172000+00:00 | ['Features', 'Concerts', 'Music', 'Virtual Reality', 'Gaming'] |
Solving for ‘Why’ and WTF | (Rated PG-13 for one rude word. But if that one rude word is more offensive than the other stuff, then I can’t help you.)
© J.A. Carter-Winward
I had a Jr. High math teacher who told me I was “just one of those people who couldn’t do math.”
Looking back, I wish I had said, “Maybe you’re just one of those people who ... | https://medium.com/akathisia/solving-for-why-and-wtf-33b88902d644 | ['J.A. Carter-Winward'] | 2020-12-09 14:32:28.835000+00:00 | ['Pharmaceuticals Industry', 'Black Box Warning', 'Mental Health', 'Prescription Drugs', 'Suicide'] |
How to deal with more than 2 billion records in the SQL database? | One of our customers had a problem with a large MySQL table with over 2 billion records, which was continuously growing. Without replacing the infrastructure, there was a danger of running out of disc space which could potentially break the whole application. There were also other issues with such a big table: poor que... | https://blog.softwaremill.com/our-way-of-dealing-with-more-than-2-billion-records-in-sql-database-99deaff0d31 | ['Kamil Charłampowicz'] | 2020-12-14 11:49:10.951000+00:00 | ['Bigquery', 'Kafka', 'Big Data', 'Data Streaming', 'MySQL'] |
Oh, Shit | It’s gonna get raw in this piece.
To an outside observer (perhaps yourself), cycling appears to roughly fall into two camps: rough and rowdy mountain bikers and shaven legged (across all gender identities), somewhat effeminate, folks in pseudo-superhero outfits. The former may seem boorish and the latter may seem, wel... | https://medium.com/@ezweave/oh-shit-472227a0dffe | [] | 2019-05-06 15:54:13.898000+00:00 | ['Cycling'] |
Covid-19 Pancreatic Cancer Treatment Market Forecasts, 2018–2025 | May 2020 | Report Format: Electronic (PDF)
The global pancreatic cancer treatment market is expected to reach USD 4.2 billion in 2025, according to a new report by Grand View Research, Inc. Increasing tobacco consumption, smoking, obesity, and growing awareness pertaining to various treatment options available are pro... | https://medium.com/healthcare-market-research/covid-19-pancreatic-cancer-treatment-market-forecasts-2018-2025-621aae5197c9 | ['Rajesh Varma'] | 2020-06-01 13:30:29.073000+00:00 | ['Covid 19', 'Health', 'Pharmaceutical', 'Cancer', 'Doctors'] |
Change of view — hypocrisy or growth? | Change of view — hypocrisy or growth?
I am writing this article in April 2021. In the past year, the world has seen the onset (and hopefully exit) of a global pandemic that has taken the lives of millions of people around the world, the exit of Trump from presidency, hate crimes against the black and asian communities... | https://medium.com/@iseemirages/change-of-view-hypocrisy-or-growth-e27b3e15510a | ['Takini Vasi'] | 2021-04-25 10:14:25.146000+00:00 | ['Blm', 'Mental Health', 'Covid 19', 'Equality', 'Trump'] |
Baby Sleep Schedule — First 3 Months | Baby sleep schedule for the first three months may not be regular and easy to plan. On the other hand, those first three months of your baby’s life are crucial for development. I like to call it the ‚4th-trimester’ period. Basically, the baby should still be inside the womb but instead must deal with own growth and the... | https://medium.com/@contact_96166/baby-sleep-schedule-first-3-months-758ea05adb41 | ['Susan Urban'] | 2019-02-11 11:30:50.392000+00:00 | ['Baby', 'Sleeping', 'Babysleep', 'Parenting', 'Sleep'] |
Why Today’s Bright Green Environmentalists Won’t Save the Planet | Desert Sunlight Solar Farm in Desert Center, California.
Why Today’s Bright Green Environmentalists Won’t Save the Planet
“The beauty of the living world I was trying to save has always been uppermost in my mind,” Rachel Carson wrote. “That, and anger at the senseless, brutish things that were being done.” Silent Spr... | https://medium.com/@maxwilbert_78674/why-todays-bright-green-environmentalists-won-t-save-the-planet-2de2453c94b6 | ['Max Wilbert'] | 2020-12-18 20:37:56.186000+00:00 | ['Environmentalism', 'Environmental Impact', 'Environmental', 'Environment', 'Environmental Issues'] |
Python for FPL(!) Data Analytics | Python for FPL(!) Data Analytics
Using Python and Matplotlib to perform Fantasy Football Data Analysis and Visualisation
author’s graph
Introduction
There are two reasons for this piece: (1) I wanted to teach myself some Data Analysis and Visualisation techniques using Python; and (2) I need to arrest my Fantasy Fo... | https://towardsdatascience.com/python-for-fpl-data-analytics-dadb414ccefd | ['Charlie Byatt'] | 2020-10-16 18:20:34.390000+00:00 | ['Python', 'Data Analysis', 'Matplotlib', 'Data Visualization', 'Football'] |
The Most Underrated Benefit of Intermittent Fasting | The Most Underrated Benefit of Intermittent Fasting
Photo by Oladimeji Ajegbile on Unsplash
“I could never do that. I have to eat every few hours or I die.”
This phrase, or something like it, is what I said the first time I ever learned about Intermittent Fasting (IF). This was long ago, before it was the latest fad... | https://medium.com/in-fitness-and-in-health/the-most-underrated-benefit-of-intermittent-fasting-195cac7b6bdb | ['Stephanie Dorsay Rondeau'] | 2020-12-22 03:37:05.477000+00:00 | ['Health', 'Diet', 'Intermittent Fasting', 'Nutrition', 'Fitness'] |
Job Enjoyment vs. Pay: What Can You Sacrifice? | Job Enjoyment vs. Pay: What Can You Sacrifice?
An open letter
Photo courtesy of Pixabay
Have you ever had to weigh the choices of good pay and an enjoyable job? Have you had to determine if the commute, long hours, burnout, or work was worth it? Have you ever decided “no?”
Then this letter is for you.
I know what ... | https://medium.com/coffee-house-writers/job-enjoyment-vs-pay-what-can-you-sacrifice-571f966fee0e | ['Alexandria Hoover'] | 2018-02-26 14:01:02.611000+00:00 | ['Work', 'Balance', 'Job', 'Open Letter', 'Happiness'] |
Uncovered Medical Herbs in the wild forest of Borneo.. | I am a novice Blogger who want to improve my writing and thinking while staying intact at home under lockdown for the year 2020. Retrenched , eat sleep pray | https://medium.com/@seniei/https-rag2ric-com-health-uncovered-medical-herbs-in-borneo-wild-forest-amp-1-1a98aaba22fd | ['U. Ajg'] | 2020-12-03 15:55:02.698000+00:00 | ['Wildlife', 'Natural', 'Treatment', 'Herbal Remedies', 'Forest'] |
How to Know if You Are a Success or Failure | You don’t compare your life to others
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”-Herman Melville
Your Life is your answer to the question paper given to you by the almighty and your question paper is as unique as you are in this world.
The problem is that you compare your answer with someone... | https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/how-to-know-if-you-are-a-success-or-failure-1e475a8d287a | ['Amit Kumar'] | 2020-12-13 16:02:56+00:00 | ['Failure', 'Growth Mindset', 'Education', 'Successful', 'Life Lessons'] |
How To Make 2021 Great | How To Make 2021 Great
Erik Kostov, the person who’s writing this
If you are anything like me, you are tired of “2020”.
It was a year where nothing actually happened, Yet everyone went into fear and panic and conservation instead of expanding.
I’m planning to make my 2021 amazing.
And if you want that for yourself... | https://medium.com/@erikkostov02/how-to-make-2021-great-f664bede8cbd | ['Erik Kostov'] | 2020-12-26 17:39:10.015000+00:00 | ['Motivation', 'Success', 'Goals', 'Advice', 'Life'] |
Why does every wine taste mousy now? | There’s something that’s been taking up space along the margins of my sanity over the past few years. It began in earnest in 2016. Every wine suddenly started tasting mousy. I’m being a bit hyperbolic, but only a little. And it’s been an unrelenting ascent since then. I taste multiple mousy wines every single day at th... | https://medium.com/domestique-wine/why-does-every-wine-taste-mousy-now-dc6fe49692e7 | ['Jeff Segal'] | 2021-09-08 14:56:08.240000+00:00 | ['Farming', 'Food And Beverage', 'Wine', 'Climate Change', 'Science'] |
Haskell Context of Reasoning | How difficult is writing a for loop?
We start programming by learning how to perform a loop, such as the following example.
for (let i = 0; i < 6; i++) { print i; }
I don’t know if this bothers you, but looping isn’t pretty to look at. Not to mention the additional boilerplate as well as keeping track of the extra i... | https://medium.com/swlh/haskell-context-of-reasoning-66580aa580bf | ['Fang Jin'] | 2020-12-05 00:16:44.139000+00:00 | ['Context', 'Haskell', 'Functional Programming'] |
If My Mother Gets Covid-19, I Don’t Think She’ll Tell Me | If My Mother Gets Covid-19, I Don’t Think She’ll Tell Me
And I worry about it constantly.
Disclaimer: if you disagree with me, that’s fine and your right to do so. However, I am not one to fight on the internet, so if that is your intention — please look elsewhere.
As a shock to no one Trump has tweeted to not be af... | https://banaszewskialicia.medium.com/if-my-mother-gets-covid-i-dont-think-she-ll-tell-me-2eb6ae0ab25 | ['Alicia Banaszewski'] | 2020-10-16 22:18:49.870000+00:00 | ['Democrats', 'Opinion', 'Essay', 'Parents', 'Covid-19'] |
How To Tell a Compelling Story With Data | Step 1: Gather your thoughts
If you have conducted a certain data analysis, you should know why you initially started it. However this is easier said than done: sometimes you can lose track of the primary goal of an analysis as you move forward in data handling and interpretation. Don’t worry, I’ve been there before.
... | https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-tell-a-compelling-story-with-data-d00ea8cd1bb | ['Marie Lefevre'] | 2021-09-08 19:20:03.687000+00:00 | ['Data Science', 'Data Visualization', 'Data Analysis', 'Data Journalism', 'Editors Pick'] |
Hollywood Makes 45 Year Age Minimum to Play Teenagers | SATIRE
Hollywood Makes 45 Year Age Minimum to Play Teenagers
One director expresses tremendous confidence Morgan Freeman can pass as 14
Photo by dylan nolte on Unsplash
Facing criticism that “teenagers” in movies look like they’re too old to be teenagers, Hollywood has doubled down. Instead of having 19-year-olds o... | https://medium.com/the-bad-influence/hollywood-makes-45-year-age-minimum-to-play-teenagers-36db2818d712 | ['Ryan Fan'] | 2020-12-29 13:03:16.082000+00:00 | ['Satire', 'Movies', 'Film', 'Culture', 'Humor'] |
難道愛情中的傷害都是故意的嗎？ | in THE SIX FIFTY | https://medium.com/@heder-henry/%E9%9B%A3%E9%81%93%E6%84%9B%E6%83%85%E4%B8%AD%E7%9A%84%E5%82%B7%E5%AE%B3%E9%83%BD%E6%98%AF%E6%95%85%E6%84%8F%E7%9A%84%E5%97%8E-beed031dcf4e | ['Henry Chen'] | 2021-01-27 06:25:58.393000+00:00 | ['Gay', 'Heder', 'Podcast', '男同志', '愛情'] |
The Atlas: Our HD Mapping System | How we design the lightweight, scalable maps that serve as a foundation for the Aurora Driver.
This image shows the two primary layers (world geometry and annotations) of our mapping system, the Aurora Atlas. Our Atlas design allows us to build accurate, lightweight maps in new areas and push updates to on-vehicle map... | https://medium.com/aurora-blog/the-atlas-our-hd-mapping-system-262e7b0fadd1 | ['Aurora Team'] | 2019-10-17 20:00:44.123000+00:00 | ['Autonomous Cars', 'Technology', 'Maps', 'Self Driving Cars', 'Autonomous Vehicles'] |
Programmer Best Practices — When Should we Code | Photo by Fabrizio Conti on Unsplash
To be a professional programmer, there’re many things that we’ve to do to be a good one.
In this article, we’ll look at when we should code.
Worry Code
If we feel bad, then we shouldn’t be coding.
Stress distracts us from doing the hard task of coding.
We can’t maintain focus o... | https://medium.com/dev-genius/programmer-best-practices-when-should-we-code-7ed25153bb5f | ['John Au-Yeung'] | 2020-06-22 16:40:58.319000+00:00 | ['Technology', 'Software Development', 'Productivity', 'Programming', 'Web Development'] |
Daryl’s Top 3 for April 3, 2020 | Deep Reading Can Make You a Better Writer
By: Christine Seifert, PhD
When I took my first creative writing course in university, my professor started the first lecture by saying, “The key to becoming a good writer is to read, read, and read some more!” From my own experiences, the importance of reading can be overloo... | https://medium.com/top-3/daryls-top-3-for-april-3-2020-ed3e07b93029 | ['Daryl Bruce'] | 2020-04-03 10:01:00.873000+00:00 | ['Top 3', 'Self', 'Mental Health', 'Writing', 'Reading'] |
Midterm Proposal: A Samhain Altar | How It Will Look:
I’ve assembled a series of altars in a Pinterest board to draw inspiration from. I’m a little nervous about adding perspective, so I am going to try doing a top view alter, looking down on a black background with some sort of witchy correspondence.
The center will have a simple three-card layout tha... | https://medium.com/code-of-creativity/midterm-proposal-a-samhain-altar-771045eef61b | ['Lauren Busser'] | 2020-10-09 12:26:07.793000+00:00 | ['Midterm Proposal', 'Samhain', 'P5js', 'Tarot Cards', 'Creative Coding'] |
Polish Labor-Shortage Concern: Should Businesses Look for Workforce Productivity Optimization Solutions? | “Can Worker Tracking Help Me to Maximize the Utilization of My Existing Workforce and Increase Output?”
Managers of manufacturing businesses in Poland are seeking ways to handle the record shortage of workers. Of course, finding more workforce abroad is an obvious way to mitigate the problem, but it’s certainly not th... | https://blog.indoorway.com/polish-labor-shortage-concern-should-businesses-look-for-workforce-productivity-optimization-5df44dd5c314 | ['Julia Saniewska'] | 2019-10-18 13:03:55.610000+00:00 | ['Business', 'Manufacturing', 'Lean', 'Poland', 'English'] |
The Empathy of Maintainable Code. This post is primarily intended for… | Photo by Sebastian Ahmed
Technology developments that involve coding, such as software, firmware, FPGAs or silicon, typically rely on a substantial amount of “internal” software. This is the software that constitutes “the machinery of development” as opposed to software that is shipped as part of an end-product (tools... | https://medium.com/swlh/empathy-is-maintainable-internal-software-8b7ee0b34ec0 | ['Sebastian Ahmed'] | 2021-01-05 20:07:55.452000+00:00 | ['Documentation', 'Empathy', 'Software Development', 'Testing', 'Silicon'] |
Benefits of Installing CCTV security camera at Your Premises | Closed-circuit camera comprises at least one camera transmitting data to a monitor or video recorder. The data transmitted can either be video and audio, or only video which is different from any ordinary TV. An ordinary television receives publicly broadcasted content while a CCTV doesn’t have this facility. In everyd... | https://medium.com/@protectburbank/benefits-of-installing-cctv-security-camera-at-your-premises-a7a9a86b6858 | ['Protect Burbank'] | 2019-08-22 11:26:00.405000+00:00 | ['Security Camera'] |
Hiring a VP of Product? Here are the questions to ask | So you’ve decided it’s time to hire a product leader: congratulations! If this is a new role, you may not have a true sense of what qualities, experience, or skills are needed to hire successfully for this critical position. Even if this is a backfill hire, the state of executive talent in the product space has been ev... | https://uxdesign.cc/hiring-a-vp-of-product-here-are-the-questions-to-ask-6abba252ec9f | ['Jen Swanson'] | 2020-04-15 23:32:08.688000+00:00 | ['Product Design', 'Product Management', 'Digital Transformation', 'Job Interview', 'Executive Search'] |
Five Steps to Sharing in Celebration | Photo by Erwan Hesry on Unsplash
Sitting here at the end of 2020, I have a hard time considering putting up decorations, lighting candles or celebrating much of anything at all. With nearly 300,000 dead in the United States and a dumpster fire of a year in the bag, I can think of a million reasons not to celebrate and... | https://medium.com/@aklatzky/five-steps-to-sharing-in-celebration-7588bb0555d2 | ['Antoinette Klatzky'] | 2020-12-14 22:39:24.704000+00:00 | ['Celebration', 'Grief', '2020', 'Insights', 'Self Improvement'] |
How to Secure Your DocuSign Webhook Listener | It is necessary and recommended for most developers to secure their webhook listener. This can prevent spam, and also protect your application in case bad actors attempt to send fake data to trigger your own application’s workflows.
DocuSign provides several options for securing your webhook listener. For Account-leve... | https://medium.com/swlh/how-to-secure-your-docusign-webhook-listener-87a699919038 | ['Thiwanka Wickramage'] | 2020-12-15 02:02:31.709000+00:00 | ['Docusign Tutorial', 'Esignatures', 'Security', 'Docusign', 'Webhooks'] |
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