How Wikipedia dodged public outcry plaguing social media platforms

Everybody has an opinion about how to govern social media platforms. It’s mostly because they’ve shown they’re not too good at governing… | Continue reading


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The Complications of Growing Up Bionic

When I was nine, my class went on a field trip to a sensory research lab. A local TV crew came along as part of a human interest story on what schoolchildren thought about animal testing. It must’ve… | Continue reading


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Getting Banned from Google AdWords

Customer service from our robot overlords | Continue reading


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What I learned over a year of asking users for money for the first time

I was terrified of launching a product and asking people for money. So I just did it. | Continue reading


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What Keras Models Are Missing

tl;dr We need to know the “confidence” of a deep learning model before we can trust and use it. Model “confidence” is more nuanced than… | Continue reading


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People Hacks for Technical Leads

Lately I’ve been thinking about, doing a lot of research on and experimenting with management strategy. As a technologist I’m inclined to… | Continue reading


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What is blockchain worth to your economy?

2018–08–30 | Continue reading


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Why I disabled the water tap at our Amsterdam office for 2 weeks

Why I disabled the water tap at our Amsterdam office for 2 weeks. | Continue reading


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Busting Moves with DanceNet AI

Inspired by STEM-focused YouTuber carykh, Indian developer Jaison Saji has produced a deep network system, DanceNet, that can… | Continue reading


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The 15 Best Associate and Rotational Product Manager Programs

Interested in Product Management? Early in your career? Explore the world of APM, RPM and other programs that give you the right experience | Continue reading


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The Horrors Lurking in Your Legacy Codebase

We’ve all come across design patterns, right? Common solutions to common problems, more specific than a language or a platform, less… | Continue reading


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By 2030,one-third of jobs will require skills that aren’t common

At Google Cloud my job is to reimagine enterprise — the tools we build and how we design them. Traditional enterprise products don’t… | Continue reading


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Billboard.js 1.6.0 released today

Happy to announce the new release of the billboard.js! | Continue reading


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Need a confidence boost before a bit pitch? Try this advice from Michael Jordan

As a startup founder, I find that confidence is a key ingredient to success. | Continue reading


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How We Benefit from Getting Our Genomes Sequenced

When the first smartphones arrived, few people understood how they would change our reality. Today, our internet-connected mobile device… | Continue reading


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Why 'She Hacks Purple'?

The story of my handle: SheHacksPurple. | Continue reading


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How to design for the modern web

Best Practices of Modern Web Development | Continue reading


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Three Ways Agile Has Gone Astray

And How Open Source Can Fix it | Continue reading


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Learn Merge Sort in 15 Minutes or Less

For those of you who are just starting the process of learning computer science fundamentals, or just need a refresher for that upcoming… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

PostgreSQL on Kubernetes the Right Way

The story for managing stateless microservices on Kubernetes is very clear. However, stateful legacy apps like PostgreSQL and other… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Quillette's Claire Lehmann on Speaking Freely with Tyler Cowen

This Aussie thinks Americans are too afraid to speak their mind. | Continue reading


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Still Life with Algorithms

Thoughts on designing algorithmic systems | Continue reading


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Tools powering Botsplash team productivity

Botsplash started as a side gig and gradually evolved into bootstrapped, software-as-a-service platform. As it started to grow in form of… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

HBO’s Misguided Quest to Become Netflix

From the age of 25–40, my range of emotions could generously be described as “narrow.” I loved nobody, and the only real emotions I felt were satisfaction or disappointment from my ambition as I… | Continue reading


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PlasmaChain, GameChain, SocialChain: The Loom Network Universe Expounded

Before we dive in, let’s start with a little background… | Continue reading


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Operation Overhaul: Swapping Out a Monolith App for Microservices

Swapping Out a Monolithic App for a Microservices-Based Architecture | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Beyond the For-Loop: Higher Order Functions and List Comprehensions in Python

A higher order function is a fuction that operates on other functions, either by taking a function as its argument, or by returning a… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Why I am a big fan of Node.js ecosystem

I have worked on lots of languages and ecosystems over the years and this article summarizes why I absolutely love Node.js more than… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Gaming, me and life – an interesting love story

I have spent a lot of time in my life playing games which amounts to many thousands of hours. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Practical Apache Spark in 10 Minutes. Part 6 – GraphX

In our last post, we explained the basics of streaming with Spark. | Continue reading


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Girls and minorities break records in computer science as fastest-growing groups

When Code.org launched in 2013, AP Computer Science was tiny. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Could Red Dead Redemption 2 Be a Trojan Horse?

Red Dead Redemption 2 (RDR2) will be the biggest release of the year, and there’s no reason to believe it won’t launch on Steam. Afterall… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Gitpod – Online IDE for GitHub

After over one year of intensive work, we are proud to announce the general availability of Gitpod. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

How can crypto get ready for quantum computers?

Quantum computers are becoming a reality. It could be a decade before they become ubiquitous enough for the average Joe. Until then, there… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Get Started with React Native Animations

What are Animations in React Native? | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Best Popular Science YouTube Channels

One man said “To become a genius you need to learn new thing every day”. | Continue reading


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In-Depth Description of Hearing for the First Time with an Artifical Ear

What it’s really like to hear for the first time after growing up totally deaf | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Understanding promises by writing your promise library

Promise results in computation of asynchronous work which may have succeeded/failed. It makes the asynchronous code look like synchronous… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Microdosing Isn’t a Shortcut to Professional Success

The transition from fully committed to quitting was slow to start. My hours of operation started to sync with my circadian rhythm. The 9–5 became 8–3. Mornings were so efficient that by midday, I’d… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Three Ways Agile Has Gone Astray

And How Open Source Can Fix it | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Why JavaScript needs the method ‘last()’ and the proper way to add it yourself

I have a set of file-paths. I want to extract the file-names from them. Perhaps I have an Array of URLs and am creating hyperlinks, and… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Amazon Has a Bernie Sanders Problem

Technology is augmenting wealth inequality, it’s time to realize that. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

A case for better Python docstrings

I have been using Python daily for 3 years, and working professionally with it for about a year now. It is a great language, and I’m… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Top things of an MNC that a startup should mimic…

…only to die way sooner than it expects. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

My Journey in Creating a CSS Learning Tool

CSS Playground is a website that I’ve made as a fairly large side project. The unique aspect of CSS Playground is the “playing” or… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Unlike babies, the best managers come with instructions

First time parents of a newborn often lament that their child did not come with instructions. Is he crying because he’s hungry or in pain… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Web Developer Monthly – August 2018

2nd issue! If you missed the first one click here. Scroll down to see what happened this month in the web developer world. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Keychain.swift: Why we didn't use a keychain wrapper framework

When working on the new version of Tink we were very deliberate when bringing in third party dependencies and frameworks — primarily for… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago