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Four Great Resources That Will Teach You How to Learn
By: Eva Keiffenheim
Tags: Education, Learning How To Learn, Self Improvement, Learning, Personal Growth

No life skill can earn you greater dividends than learning how to learn. Yet, most people don’t know how to master learning.

When asked, “Do you study the way you do because somebody taught you to study that way?” a study by Kornell & Bjork showed about 73% of students answered “no.”

Long after school, we continue to rely on ineffective learning strategies like passive consumption, highlighting, or rereading in the hope new knowledge will magically stick to our brain. Most people ignore that humans don’t absorb information and knowledge by reading sentences.

The mediocre majority will continue struggling through life this way, never experiencing the benefits of effective learning. They don’t care enough about the potential benefits to invest in their growth.

Most people ignore the proven ways to improve their learning process.

As a result, their lives stagnate. “Entertainment and distraction is the enemy of creation and learning. They will keep you in mediocrity,” Benjamin Hardy once wrote.

But it doesn’t have to be this way.

A life full of meaningful learning and growth is available if you know where to start. In the last years, I read +15 books on learning, taught as a Teach for All fellow, and continue working in education. Here are the best resources for learning how to learn.
Mildred
By: Stephen Ray Brown
Tags: Poetry, Loss, Cats, Song Lyrics, Friendship

Poetry

Mildred

Missing someone special

Photo by author, from long ago.

Mildred

Mildred, where have you been?

Mildred, my fine funny friend.

Did you run across the lawn,

chasing another,

moving so fast,

you finally discover at last?

Mildred, where have you gone?

Mildred, it’s been so long

since you sat beside me quietly

humming to yourself.

There could never be

anyone else.

Mildred …

Did you try to find your place

among all the atoms in outer space,

where you will never be

lonely again?

Mildred, where have you gone?

Mildred, it’s been so long.

Mildred, where have you been?

Mildred, my fine funny friend.

© 2020 Stephen Ray Brown

All rights reserved.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Studying For a Master’s Degree
By: Roberto Hernandez
Tags: Software Development, Career, Career Advice, Advice, Programming

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Studying For a Master’s Degree

Before studying, find clarity

Photo by Chichi Onyekanne on Unsplash

I have been an active learner my whole life, so In 2015 I decided to take a Masters degree in Software Architecture.

I am trying to remember exactly what motivated me to take it. One reason was its appealing title. I’m a programmer so the title was tempting and compelling.

However, there were also other things pushing me to study.

I wanted to jump to the next level. I wanted to get hired as a software architect. And, to be totally honest, I was thinking about earning more money.

Back then, I was married, but I hadn’t any kids. I was renting and I didn’t have to worry about a mortgage. I had debts but I was able to pay them without much pain.

In that regard, apart from my evil desire to earn more money I also had more free time and was financially OK. So, I thought, why not give it a try?.

When I say I was financially OK, that doesn’t mean I had the monthly fee to pay the master’s program. I knew that if I wanted to study I needed to find a way to get that fee.

After several hours of planning and crunching the numbers, I found a good solution — a student loan. I got a positive response from the bank and I started to study.
Project 365: Day 128 — Rest
By: Sanika Tillway
Tags: 100 Naked Words, Busyness, Work

These days are hectic. Work and a couple of other things are occupying most of my hours and the one thing I’m looking forward to is getting some sleep at the hotel when I go out of town for work on Thursday.

The stay promises to be great and I look forward to it. For now, I need to rest. Good night for now!
I’VE LEARNED — ABOUT TIMING
By: Maynard Originals
Tags: Prayer

I’ve learned: That we should be glad God doesn’t give us everything we ask for. God in his wisdom knows that if prayer was just asking him for what we want, and we immediately get it, we would be creating a world of chaos.

We realize more and more that prayer is the most important thing we do. We can use our time to no better advantage than to pray whenever we have an opportunity to do so, either alone or with others, while at work, while at rest, or while walking down the street. We will feel better when we have these talks with God.

Be encouraged, wait patiently on your prayers. Have trust that things will work out in the divine order of things to come. Every gift that comes from God is worth waiting for. Write down your prayer of what you want, be realistic, put it away for one year, then look back on your paper with your prayer and reflect on how things have worked out. Trust in His perfect timing.

Follow us at www.secretserendipity.com as we trust in good things to come.
Dear Matt, Happy 6th birthday! ❤
By: Xiao Ma
Tags: Letters, Letters To My Sons, Dad

Dear Matt,

Happy 6th birthday! ❤

Inspired by Tessa’s Dear Lyra, I’m going to write you a letter every year on your birthday, and maybe more.

It has been a great year. You just crossed a big milestone in your life: you graduated from preschool and started kindergarten last August! I still remember the first day I drove you to school. I was so worried that you may need some time to adjust to all the changes, leaving your old friends at preschool and getting to know kids and teachers you never met. But you seemed to be pretty chill about it. On our way to the school, you were excited and happy, which really helped calm daddy down. Thanks for that.

Matt’s first school day.

When I picked you up from school, you proudly told me that “Daddy, I made three new friends today!”
A brew called you
By: Siva Raj
Tags: Love, Relationships, Sonnet, Poetry

Image by rawpixel from Pixabay

I drank a strange brew

That is called you

However much I sip

My thirst it doesn’t nip

So intoxicating

Yet never placating

My heart does expand

And this brew demand

I hereby do resolve

In this brew dissolve

So you can fill your cup

And all of me drink up

So we can always be

Sweet milk and honey.
Setting Up Your Windows For Programming / Coding (web development)
By: Codetopia Community
Tags: Windows, Git, Coding, Terminal, Vscode

setting up your computer for programming / coding (web development)

One of the most important and necessary things to do as a developer is setting up your machine. Though this might seem easy especially on Operating Systems such as MacOs and Linux, it mostly hard and a headache to do on a windows machine. With a little experience over the years, I find windows machines a hell to go with as far as development is concerned. If you ask for my recommendations, I’d suggest you go in for a Unix based box. But I know a lot out there prefer to use windows and that’s not a problem because today am going to be teaching you how to set up your windows machine for development. This tutorial is going to be as basic and self explanatory as possible. So my noobs out there don’t worry, I encourage you not to panic but rather grab a cup of coffee and get ready to follow along smoothly.

Before I move straight into the main tutorials, I’d first like to explain some really important concepts which is going to answer the questions to why we are setting up our machines the way this tutorial is going to be teaching. Also this tutorial is going to cover the following:

Terminal with a suitable package manager

Text editor with suitable extensions

A version control system (VCS), Git

1. Terminal

From experience, I can tell that about 90% of learners who begin their way into the development world often know nothing about the terminal and often get confused when anything about it is mentioned. What is the terminal? one may ask. The terminal is actually an interface where instructions known as commands could be given to the computer to carry out. Unlike the normal GUI (Graphical User Interface) where the mouse is used to click buttons and other graphical elements in order to issue commands, we have another interface called the CLI (short for Command-Line Interface) of which the terminal happens to fall under, and it is through the terminal that commands are written to give out a task. Let us take for instance, a shutdown operation. Using the normal way, a user would click a few buttons in order to achieve that. That same task (shutdown) could be carried out with the terminal but within a short amount of time. Since this tutorials is actually not dedicated to the terminal, we’ll not go deep into it.But below is just a glance of what a linux terminal looks like.
HSTS 的坑
Tags: 程式學習, Aspnetcore, Hsts

最近寫 PoC 在打 API 取得資料、瀏覽器 set-cookie 的時候，遇到一點問題：用本地透過 https 打都沒事，但用 docker 改成用 http 打就失敗了。

跟同事追了整整半天 ASP.NET core 的 cookies, same-site, secure policy 設定，最後才發現問題根源完全不是這些，而是瀏覽器的快取跟 HSTS 設定，於是想寫篇筆記做個紀錄。

情境：用 dotnet webapp 一個專案中的登入頁 (/Signin)，呼叫 HttpContext.SignInAsync ，用 CookieAuthenticationDefaults 把登入成功拿到的資料（用戶名字、ID）塞到 cookies，轉址到會員資料頁 (/Member)。

var claims = new List<Claim> { new Claim(ClaimTypes.Name, name), new Claim("Id", user.Id.ToString()) }; var claimsIdentity = new ClaimsIdentity(claims, CookieAuthenticationDefaults.AuthenticationScheme); await HttpContext.SignInAsync(CookieAuthenticationDefaults.AuthenticationScheme, new ClaimsPrincipal(claimsIdentity));

環境 1：在本地用 https://localhost:5001 打登入 API

環境 2：docker-compose 在 container 用 http://localhost:5000 打登入 API

問題：環境 1 成功、環境 2 拿到資料但無法成功放 cookies & 轉址

Request 打得通：

Cookies 進得去：

Request 打得通，但在瀏覽器的 set-cookie 最後有個驚嘆號，內容是：

This set-cookie was not sent over secure connection and would have overwritten a cookie with the Secure attribute.

Cookies 進不去：

跟同事花很多時間研究 ASP.NET core 的 cookies, same-site, secure policy 設定，卻怎麼調都還是有這個問題。直到後來我異想天開幫 cookie 改個名字就成功在 docker 啟動，跟同事說這件事的時候，他說他看到一篇 StackOverflow 問題，說可能原因是瀏覽器快取造成的：

While my localhost environment in VS worked fine and my user could be logged in this didn’t worked in the published environment for chrome.

This began when I was trying some self-signed-certificate stuff in IIS on my pre-production-environment by turining on https with configured bindings. And after that I went back to http.

What you could try in Chrome is this: Open the developer-tools goto tab Application and in the left pane choose Clear storage. Under the diagram on the right click Clear site data even if the usage shows 0 Bytes used. Do it anyway.

Finally I got my application with login features back.
Collect for the Second Sunday of Advent
By: Alan Bentrup
Tags: Church

Merciful God, who sent your messengers the prophets to preach repentance and prepare the way for our salvation: Give us grace to heed their warnings and forsake our sins, that we may greet with joy the coming of Jesus Christ our Redeemer; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Readings for this week:

Isaiah 40:1–11

Psalm 85:1–2, 8–13

2 Peter 3:8–15a

Mark 1:1–8
“What Happened to the Civil Rights Movement After 1965? Don’t Ask Your Textbook”
By: Jess Brooks
Tags: Civil Rights, History, Activism

“It’s no accident my students learn a narrative that stops in 1965. Most history textbooks end their chapter on the Civil Rights Movement with a short one- or two-page section on “Black Power” that covers Malcolm X and a few post-1965 events…

Textbooks reinforce the Voting Rights Act-as-the-end-of-the-movement narrative when they draw a line between the Civil Rights Movement and the call for Black Power. One example is Teachers Curriculum Institute’s widely used History Alive! The United States. One page after extolling the virtues of the Voting Rights Act, the authors write in their “Black Power” section:

By the time King died, many African Americans had lost faith in his vision of a society in which the color of a person’s skin didn’t matter. Angry young African Americans looked instead to new leaders who talked about black pride and black power.

Missing from this passage is the angry young King, who reminded us after 1965 that his dream had “turned into a nightmare,” who attacked segregation in the North, who opposed the Vietnam War, who advocated for a massive redistribution of wealth, who called for Black pride, and who worked closely with Black Power proponents…

The broader curricular crime is that History Alive! teaches students to accept the turn to Black Power as the end of the successful Civil Rights Movement, and therefore not worth spending class time exploring”
#PopJustice: Social Justice and the Promise of Pop Culture Strategies
By: Liz Manne
Tags: Social Justice, Pop Culture, Philanthropy

In February of 2016, I published the #PopJustice series of reports intended for funders, advocates and entertainment industry professionals interested in the promise and potential of popular culture as an agent of change.

#PopJustice, Volume 1: Social Justice and the Promise of Pop Culture Strategies is the main volume in the series. It provides a definition of popular culture and describes how pop culture relates to culture on a broader level; it then moves on to a “theory of change” that describes the activities and potential outcomes of a prospective new grantmaking program; we follow with selected case studies narrating some real-world examples; and close with recommendations for grantmaking investments going forward. It is our hope that Volume 1 in itself effectively makes the case for the excitement and potential of this space, and helps funders reach an understanding of where, how, and why to invest.

Subsequent volumes delve deeper into the subjects that inform this main report. #PopJustice, Volume 2: Mapping the Players (Organizations and Practitioners at the Intersection of Popular Culture and Social Justice) clusters and lists potential grantees and other relevant partners in our shared ecosystem. #PopJustice, Volume 3: Pop Culture, Perceptions, and Social Change (A Research Review), published in partnership with Perception Institute, is a review of academic studies and research reports to determine the empirical support for our hypothesis that popular culture is an effective agent of change. (It won’t spoil the read to say the answer, in short, is “yes.”) #PopJustice, Volume 4: Understanding the Entertainment Industry explains the inner workings of the business sectors we feel are most ripe and ready for intervention: film and TV, music, social media, video games, and celebrity. #PopJustice, Volume 5: Creative Voices & Professional Perspectives (my personal favorite) is a collection of essays by and interviews with professionals working in the entertainment industry and at the crossroads of pop culture and social justice. Finally, #PopJustice, Volume 6: Economic Data & Foundation Grantmaking provides economic data for the popular culture sector and an overview of current foundation grantmaking relevant to popular culture and social justice. (If you love charts, this is your volume; if not, consider yourself forewarned.)

Happy reading!
Storiqa (STQ) Listing on Indodax
By: Digital Asset Indonesia
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin Exchange, Indodax, Bitcoin Investment, Bitcoin

Indodax completed integration with Storiqa (STQ/IDR), which are the winners of the Community Coin Voting period 1. You can trade Storiqa on Monday, May 28, 2018.

Here are the schedule details for both events:

Saturday, May 26, 2018, at 4:00 pm, Storiqa can begin to be deposited in Indodax account.

Monday, May 28, 2018, at 3:00 pm, Storiqa can be traded with Rupiah in Indodax.

Official Indodax STQ/IDR

Storiqa Medium : Storiqa
Nimiq is speaking in Vienna
By: Team Nimiq
Tags: Nimiq, Research, Blockchain, Proof Of Stake, Bitcoin

Nimiq is speaking in Vienna

We would like to see you there!

Team Nimiq will have a prominent appearance in the 1st International Summer School on Security & Privacy for Blockchains and Distributed Ledger Technologies. This will be jointly organized by members of the Technical University of Vienna (TU Wien), Princeton University and SBA Research Center for Information Security.

Want to be part of it? Keep on reading!

The event came to our attention thanks to some friends who are organizers from TU Vienna. Given the technical focus of the event and the contributive spirit of Nimiq, we decided to support the project as a Platinum Sponsor.

Nimiq at the event

As a sponsor, we get the special opportunity of presenting Nimiq at the conference. The summer school, code name #BDLT19, is one of the most interesting conferences of the year for Nimiq to give an in-depth explanation of Albatross to an experienced audience of engineers and researchers. Not only is Pascal, Blockchain Developer of Nimiq, giving a talk about Albatross, but Nimiq will also have a workshop for attendees to get their hands on Nimiq. In the workshop, we will teach attendees to interact with the blockchain directly using JavaScript.

Schedule of the event. Nimiq’s presentation will take place Wednesday 4

As part of this unique occasion, Nimiq is giving away two event access tickets to our loyal Community (EUR 1300 value each!). The conference will take place in Vienna, coming September 2–5, 2019. If you are a Nimiq supporter near the area, you can participate to win a ticket for the conference by sending a message with your full name to community@nimiq.com. Team Nimiq is in the process of building something amazing with Nimiq 2.0 and we would love to share it with a couple of Nimiq die-hard fans and #BDLT19 school seems to be the perfect setting.

Rules of the contest

Send an e-mail with your full name to community@nimiq.com

You have time to participate until Friday, August 16 2019

The winners will be chosen randomly by Team Nimiq and announced the same day

Winners will each receive one event access ticket

(ticket not refundable for cash value, regular registration and accommodation info: https://bdlt.school/registration/)

Discussions in the #BDLT19 school will revolve around novel attacks on distributed systems, consensus protocols and fault tolerance, incentive structures such as Proof of Work, Proof of Stake, blockchain scalability, payment channels, and state channels. These topics match exactly the current points of interest of the Nimiq Blockchain Team, so we expect to also learn a lot from other high-impact research projects. See you there!

Pura Vida

Team Nimiq
Fade to Black
By: Gretchen Lee Bourquin, Pom-Poet
Tags: Poetry, Courage, Relationships, Self, Friendship

You flew in through the open window

with your patchwork Technicolor cape

the superhero suit

you put together from thrift shop finds

and pulled me out of the burning building



I didn’t even know it was warm



but you took me through the sky over tall buildings

and changing atmosphere

through sun and rain

and snow and hail



we sailed



You always wanted to be Superman

and I was your chance

to play the rescuer

I felt safe beside you

You in your silly suit

I felt as normal as never

but it didn’t matter



we flew



we flapped our wings

like chickens in the sky

we never should have made it

two feet off the ground

but we flew through space

surfed on Saturn’s rings

the Universe was ours until



you dropped me



And I bounced off the clouds

each pillow fell into place

and I was fine

aside from the fear

that you’d forget me



but you didn’t



I could still see the way

the corner of your eye

reflected off the birdbath water

while I waited on the balcony

eyes skyward like Lois Lane



I screamed your name

And you came

sometimes

and sometimes the black engulfed you

and I cried

missing our funky chicken dance.



like Icarus, I tried to build wings

from the feathers that fell from the sky

knitting them together

with my own gray hairs

pulling and tying in angry desperation

until you landed on my balcony



and we embraced



The whole world melted

I felt protected

as you took me on a reprise

through the air

and I notice the sequins you added

to your ensemble

and the way we reflected

in the night sky

like swirling comets

until you set me down

gently this time



and you took off



I watched the flashes of color

from the silver sparkle foil

on your suit

wrote notes on paper airplanes

and soared them into space

where you seemed to swat them

like mosquitoes

that fell back on my shoulders

like snow



so cold



I longed to be back

in the burning building

and I wondered if the fire

had only been in the furnace

and I had been safe

all along



I launched the last letter

with my slingshot

balled-up tight

off like a rocket

so hard and far

you could never send it back

my one last word,

goodbye

before you fade to black
Fetch Browser Extension!
By: Hansmeet Sethi
Tags: Chrome, Ethereum, Fetchproduct, Metamask, Decentralized

We’re happy to share that the Fetch Browser Extension is live in the Chrome Web Store. Go ahead and download it today!

This release brings the simplicity of Fetch from the desktop & web directly to your browser. Manage your portfolio, see live rates at 20 exchanges and one-click transactions are a click away.

This is just the start, we’ve got some great stuff coming soon to:

Sign Transactions — The Fetch Extension will soon be able to sign Ethereum transactions on 3rd party sites. Use one app to manage your portfolio, make trades AND explore dapps. Super simple.

— The Fetch Extension will soon be able to sign Ethereum transactions on 3rd party sites. Use one app to manage your portfolio, make trades AND explore dapps. Super simple. Mobile Apps — Use Fetch on Android and iOS devices oh so soon!

— Use Fetch on Android and iOS devices oh so soon! Synchronize Fetch — Setup Fetch on new devices with one-click and have a sync’d experience across all your devices. Make a trade on your desktop and walk away to receive notifications and updates on your portfolio on your phone.

We can’t wait to share more of what we’ve been working on with you and get your feedback.

At Fetch, we’re building the brokerage that makes it simple and accessible for investors to benefit from Tokenized Finance. Try it out today and follow us on twitter @hello_fetch!
Love In Three Words
By: Sylvia Wohlfarth
Tags: A Cornered Gurl, Reflections, Relationships, Challenge, Love

An Irish-Nigerian soul living in Ireland after 40 years in Germany. A social anthropologist, English teacher, and more. With stories to share; and an opinion…

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Azure Enchantment
By: Hope Dufault
Tags: Poetry, Thesceneandheard, Photography, Sexy, Poem

Liquid-lipped sun

drips pleasure

to the sea-wet tangling of hips

licking drunk sweat tendrils

slinking behind the ear.

We fall asleep;

Baring kiss

to the skin beside us

Bearing body

to the drool of afternoon.
Beware of the Peach-Colored Fly Agaric
By: Urszula Humienik
Tags: Life Lessons, Mushrooms, Poetry, Nature, Nature Writing

Beware of the Peach-Colored Fly Agaric

A poem

The Amanita muscaria, commonly known as fly agaric // Photo by Timothy Dykes on Unsplash

Beware of the peach-colored fly agaric, my friend

The pleasant taste that’s poisonous

If prepared improperly

Beware in wood of oak and pine

The peach tree of Immortality

Will not be found there

Seek life and happiness

Among the trees do roam

But beware of edible fungi
How to Interact With Smart Contracts From a Web App
By: Juan Cruz Martinez
Tags: JavaScript, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Ethereum, Programming

Updating Values to the Smart Contract

Lastly, we need to make sure we can also transact with the smart contract, and for that, we will show an example by accessing our setter function to change the coolNumber stored in the contract.

Our change function will simply assign a new random number and save it on the blockchain:

There are two things I want to highlight here. First, we refer to a getCurrentAccount() function that is undefined for now. We will work on that a bit later. Second is how we call our setter. If you pay attention to the line where we call the setCoolNumber method from the contract, it looks slightly different from what we did for the caller:

const coolNumber = await window.contract.methods.setCoolNumber(value).send({ from: account });

Instead of using call , we are using the send method. We need to specify the sender account. Why? It turns out that we need a transaction for changing values on the blockchain. With that said, a transaction requires a from and to account to be valid — from being who originated the transaction and to, in this case, being the smart contract address.

Can we use any account as a from value? No, it has to be an account you have access to (and in our case, registered on your MetaMask wallet), as you will need to authorize the transaction and confirm the gas fee.

Now that we cleared that up, let’s build the getCurrentAccount() method:

async function getCurrentAccount() {

const accounts = await window.web3.eth.getAccounts();

return accounts[0];

}

Web3 is excellent. We can interact with the blockchain and our wallet, so it is possible through Web3 to request information about the accounts registered on the wallet. In our sample, we simply get them all and use the first account to make the transactions.
Vite Labs Listing OKB with Mining Capability
By: Khun Sir
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Announcements, Vite, Vitex

About OKB

OKB is a global utility token issued by OK Blockchain Foundation. It is currently in the form of an ERC-20 token, but will be transformed to the native token of the OK public chain. OKB is designed to connect prospective digital asset projects to OKEx users and professional investors, creating an ecosystem that advances the development of the digital asset industry.

Related Links

Website：https://www.okex.com/

Telegram： https://telegram.me/okexofficial_en

Explorer： https://etherscan.io/token/0x75231f58b43240c9718dd58b4967c5114342a86c

Twitter： https://twitter.com/okex_

Statements

The asset description is taken from official materials such as white papers issued by the official project team so that investors can better understand and evaluate the project. The content of this article is obtained through legal channels to ensure the reliability, accuracy and completeness of the information as far as possible, but does not guarantee the accuracy and completeness of the information stated in the official materials.

Vite Labs does not provide any investment advice or advice on trading techniques, models, algorithms, or any other schemes, and makes no representations, warranties, or guarantees to you of any kind. The Site and the Services are offered strictly on an as-is, where-is basis and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, are offered without any representation as to merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose. The contents of this article shall not be used as the basis or evidence of morality, responsibility and law, whether expressed or implied.

Cryptocurrency investment is subject to high market risk and price volatility. Please carefully evaluate your capability of handling potential risks and make prudent trading decisions.
Despite What They Say, You’re Not Guaranteed a Job by Learning to Code
By: Madison Hunter
Tags: STEM, Programming, Data Science, University, Education

My case wasn’t unique either. Talking to other individuals in the same situation from elsewhere in the world — some who had similar qualifications, others who had a four-year degree, and others who had gone to coding boot camps/taught themselves to code — it seemed like we were all entering into an economy that supported only the well-established and over-qualified.

9/10 job ads were asking for people with 4+ years of experience to fill junior positions.

9/10 job ads were asking for a full laundry list of technologies that the candidate would have needed years of experience to become proficient in — these job ads were looking for “unicorns”, people proficient in front-end, back-end, and database application.

9/10 job ads were asking for candidates that specifically had a four-year degree, something that was rarely needed to fulfill the job requirements.

So you might be saying: so what? Pull up your bootstraps, start upskilling, and get your own experience so you can apply for those jobs.

The problem with that: you can get as much experience as you want, building your own projects, teaching yourself new languages, and participating in hackathons, but at the end of the day, if you don’t have a degree, employers won’t look at you twice. Having a degree is singly the most often required item on the wishlist of a company looking to hire a computer science or software engineering grad.

While Google has a reputation for not hiring individuals based on their qualifications but instead hiring them based on their abilities, most companies don’t have that same mentality. So no matter how amazing a programmer you are, if you don’t have a piece of paper that costs you $100,000 to get, they’ll likely tell you not to get hit by the door on the way out.
It's Not Me, It’s You
By: Melissa Steussy
Tags: Poetry, God, Blue Insights, Surrender, Prayer

It's Not Me, It’s You

A poem

Photo by Diana Simumpande on Unsplash

It’s not me whos writing,

It’s not me whos breathing,

It’s not me who’s walking,

It’s not me that’s talking.

It’s a power greater than me.

I put my fingers on the keyboard and the pen on the paper,

And he says everything I wish I could have said.

He makes my thoughts more clear than a summers night.

He makes me greater than I could ever think to be.

He is so good to me,

He treats me like a princess,

My highest wish is granted,

My deepest desire is cared for.

No wish is too magnificent for the

King of my heart.

Your majesty, I praise you.

I worship you.

I call out to you.

You unlock the vessels of my heart.

Be with me,

I call out to you always.

Forever your child,

Forever my father.

I praise you

I worship you

Your mercy overrides

All of my failings.

Your graces overtake my misery

You are the one and only father

I am your daughter.

You show me how it feels to be loved by another

You created me and you care for me,

You walk with me when I feel alone

You show me how to speak

You create in me a peace

My innermost thoughts

Are known by you

You are my retreat

An Oasis.

My refuge from the noise and chaos

You comfort me in my weakness

You reach out when I’m alone

I’ve never had someone like you before

Take my hand

Your freedom envelops me

And makes me want to head home

To your arms,

Where I lay my head in your lap

And you softly sing me to sleep.

Your courage is outrageous

Your manner is steady

Your love for me encompasses all odds

It’s you and me forever

You’ve instilled in me this peace

This gracious peace

I will never forget it

I surrender to your will forever

And ever.
What Is Life?
By: Ioana Andrei
Tags: Spirituality, Poetry, Life, Love, Poem

What Is Life?

A poem

Photo by Ray Hennessy on Unsplash

Life

What is Life?

It is neither flesh

nor skin

It does not run

nor does it swim

It lies not in a book

nor in the mind

Life just is

It does not yearn to have a name

It did not ask to be surveyed

under a microscope

under a pen

It is happy to just be

It knows itself

and lacks no more

Life flows

and doesn’t flow

Words cannot encompass it

Beyond walls, Life

spreads its wings up high

It flies

and doesn’t fly

What is life? the child asked

To which, Life laughed

and the child laughed with it.
Swift Generics
By: Sridharan T
Tags: iOS, Swift, Generics, Programming, App Development

Generics

In swift, Generics are the parameterized types. By using generics we can create flexible and reusable functions or methods that work with any type. In swift class, structure or any method that operates on parameterized types called a generics.

Generally in swift, by using generics we can avoid a duplicate code by writing reusable functions or methods in a clear and abstracted manner based on our requirements.

The concept of generics is powerful in swift and the standard libraries like arrays or dictionaries of swift built by using generic code. In swift, when we create an array, it can hold any type of data like integer, string, or any other types the same way dictionaries are also used to hold any type of data as a key-value pair.

Here is the simple non-generic function example which shows how generics will help in the Swift programming language.

In the above example, we have defined two functions swapInteger and swapString separately. Because swapInteger function will work only for integers and swapString will work only for strings.

When we run the above example, the output will be

After Swapping firstNumber: 3334, secondNumber: 445 After Swapping firstString: Orange, secondString: Apple

In swift, if we use non-generic code we need to create separate methods or functions based on the type of data due to that redundant code will increase in the application.

If we use generics, we can create a single method or function that can accommodate any type of data.

Generic Functions & Type Parameters

In swift, Generics will work with any type for that need to add <T> after the function name.

Now we will implement a generic version for the above example which we used to swap integers and strings.

In the above example, we defined a single function with a generic placeholder <T> to swap any type of values like integer, string, double.

The placeholder T doesn’t say anything, but it does say that both a and b must be of the same type T, whatever T represents. The actual type to use in place of T is determined each time the SwapValues(_ :, _ : ) function calls.

We can call SwapValues() function by passing two values of any type, as long as both of these values are of the same type as each other.

When we run the above code, the output will be

After Swapping firstNumber: 3334, secondNumber: 445 After Swapping firstString: Orange, secondString: Apple

Based on the above result we can clearly say that Generics will help us to write a flexible and reusable code to perform our operations in applications based on our requirements.
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Tags: 日本, Stories, 日本語, Japan, Japanese

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The Unofficial Weekly Stratis Retrospect #78 — Khilone
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Stratisweekly, Stratis, Bitcoin

It’s time for The Unofficial Weekly Stratis Retrospect #78.

For anyone wanting to read my previous blogs, you can find them all here.

Disclaimer: Never take anything I say (or anyone else on the Internet says) to be investment advice. Consult with a professional, and extensively do your own research before ever investing into anything.

Stratis Monthly Development Update #5

Another month has passed since Stratis’ first monthly update. You can read the monthly #5 here.

Development Update

Stratis working with global provider of market intelligence, IDC

Stratis presents to Industrial Bank of Korea

Stratis attends All-Party Parliamentary Group on Blockchain

Stratis listed in influential EU Blockchain initiative

Sidechain Masternode Dashboard

Last week Stratis released the Sidechain Masternode Dashboard alongside with the documentation which you can find here. With the dashboard, masternode operators can view their node health and approve smart contracts in C# for deployment.

The Stratis SRC-20 Contract

Last week Stratis announced that the SRC-20 Standard Token Issuance contract has been voted into the whitelist by the community operated masternodes and is now deployable on the Cirrus Sidechain. This enables anyone to deploy their token on the Cirrus Sidechain that can then be utilized to meet many different use-cases.

Deploying your token from within Cirrus Core is achieved via the Smart Contracts tab within the wallet. You can read the full announcement here.

That’s it for now. All the best to everyone!

Khilone

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Why I created Making of a Millionaire
By: Ben Le Fort
Tags: Money, Personal Finance, Education, Personal Development, Life Lessons

Why I created Making of a Millionaire

Ben Le Fort, Founder of Making of a Millionaire

Hi, my name is Ben. I am the founder of Making of a Millionaire and the author of many but not all articles you will read on this publication.

I want to take a moment to explain to our readers why I started Making of a Millionaire.

I have been obsessed with personal finance and learning how to manage money, ever since I graduated from University in 2010. I had a pile of student loan debt and experienced some challenging financial circumstances in the wake of the financial crisis.

I spent the next 10 years continuing my journey of educating myself about money. This education was both formal and informal.

On formal education, I earned a Bachelors’s and a Masters’s degree in Finance & Economics.

On the informal side, I consumed every book, video, blog post, and podcast that discussed personal finance.

Education was nice, but it wasn’t until I began implementing what I learned that I started feeling more hopeful about the future.

Before long, I had paid off my first loan. Then the next. By 2015 I was debt-free.

By 2016 my wife and I bought our first house.

Then we started investing. We bought another house and began building real wealth.

As our wealth grew, the memories of those financial struggles seemed further and further in the rear-view mirror. My stress and anxiety began to melt away, and I could sleep at night without my mind racing and problem-solving.

By 2018 I knew it was time to start sharing what I learned about managing money, and Making of a Millionaire was born.

The purpose and mission of Making of a Millionaire is to help educate, motivate, and inspire people to create a healthy, life-long relationship with money.

I want to be clear that I am not a financial advisor, and I do not work in financial services. You should conduct thorough research before making any financial changes. You should never make a financial decision after reading a blog post. I work very hard on the content you will find on Making of a Millionaire, but I will make mistakes, and more importantly, just because something worked for someone else does not mean it will work for you.

​The ideas and information you read on Making of a Millionaire are a great place to start your research, but should not be the endpoint of your research before making a change in your finances. If you are ever unsure of what to do, consult a financial advisor.

I hope you find the articles, videos, and courses created by Making of a Millionaire to be of value to you. Please feel free to reach out to me directly if you ever have feedback or suggested improvements you would like to see.

Cheers,

Ben

PS: If you have a financial question or a topic you think we should write about, leave a comment and let us know.
[withR]좀더 하는 ggplot2-Annotations with Model Coefficients(그래프 주석달기)
By: Neo Jeong
Tags: Data Science, R, Ggplot2, Data Visualization

#library(ggplot2)

#library(gcookbook)

그래프에 주석을 달아 보자.

먼저 먼저 그래프를 만들기 위한 데이터를 생성하자.

library(gcookbook) #예제 자료

#모델 생성

model <- lm(heightIn ~ ageYear, heightweight)

summary(model)

#R cookbook Graphics 책 참조

predictvals <- function(model, xvar, yvar, xrange=NULL, samples=100, …) {

if (is.null(xrange)) {

if (any(class(model) %in% c(“lm”, “glm”)))

xrange <- range(model$model[[xvar]])

else if (any(class(model) %in% “loess”))

xrange <- range(model$x)

}

newdata <- data.frame(x = seq(xrange[1], xrange[2], length.out = samples))

names(newdata) <- xvar

newdata[[yvar]] <- predict(model, newdata = newdata, …)

newdata

}

#예측값데이터 생성

pred <- predictvals(model, “ageYear”, “heightIn”)

sp <- ggplot(heightweight, aes(x=ageYear, y=heightIn)) + geom_point() +

geom_line(data=pred)

sp + annotate(“text”, label=”r²=0.42", x=16.5, y=52)

sp<-로 할당하여 재사용하기 편하게 코딩하고 있다.

그다음에 sp+annotate()를 이용해 그래프 위에 주석을 달아 r²값 결정계수를 표현한다.

sp + annotate(“text”, label=”r² == 0.42", parse = TRUE, x=16.5, y=52)

주석에 표현이 달라진다.
Wednesday. Is it worth?
By: Martino Pietropoli
Tags: Humor, Wednesday, Illustration, Art

First thing in the morning: a glass of water and a cartoon by The Fluxus.

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Wet In More Ways Than One
By: Ashley Hruby
Tags: Orgasm, Women, Sex, Erotica, Sexuality

It was a long ass day at work. I walked in the house, and my 8-month-old Husky decided to pee on my leg as I walked in the door.

After crating the dog and multiple cuss words flying from my mouth, getting the kids situated, and the animals fed, I got my stuff together and hopped into the shower.

The water felt terrific, flowing down my body. Friendly and hot like usual. To the point, I feel like I’m auditioning for hell kind of hot. Where all the mirrors in the bathroom fog over.

After washing my hair and slathering my body, I stood under the water and let it hit my body and my face for a few moments. I was leaning into the water, letting it take away the stress from my day. Washing my hair and watching the purple slowly wash down my skin into the puddle of water at my feet.

I heard the door open.

After a quick breeze, I felt hands slide across my waist and lips cross my neck. A smile crossed my face, and my head fell to one side, enjoying the sensations. His hand slid down my side and around my pelvis and began rubbing my pussy. My body twitched, and I heard him chuckle.

Suddenly, a hand on the base of my neck pushed me forward, and my hands slammed against the wall. Before I knew it, there was a cock deep inside me. I let out a loud moan. Between the sounds of the water and my music playing from my iPhone, I could be a little louder than average.

He gripped my waist and thrust deep inside me a few times before sliding out and spinning me around and down to my knees. I took his penis into my hand and immediately into my mouth.

I closed my eyes as the water runs down my face while I bob back and forth using my tongue and hands till he feels weak in his knees. I think he is about to buckle. He gripped my hair and lifted me to him.

His lips met mind and his tongue explored my mouth. His hand gripped my leg and placed it on the soap holder so he could get a better angle. He slid himself inside me slowly while I used him for leverage against gravity.

The water down my back, water-falling over my ass while his wrist width 9 inches, got me wet someplace else felt insane. I could feel my legs giving out under me, but he gripped me tighter and pounded me hard.

He moaned into my ear while the water distorted all sounds. He sounded animal-like, that was even more of a turn on. I wasn’t able to identify the water from my juices and which one was running down my leg mixing with my purple hair dye by our feet in the water.

All the moans and sounds of water as he slammed his body against mine were deafening in the best ways. I slid my hand down the glass door and came hard. I may not have been able to feel the differences of fluid, but I sure as hell heard it at that moment.

I knew he was letting loose too…I could feel it inside me. He bit my neck hard to muffle himself against my skin.

The moans and groans we expelled reminded me of a lion and lioness during mating season.
[INTERNSHIP] เป็นเด็กฝึกงาน AE (Account Executive) 4 เดือนที่ Artisan Digital
Tags: Review, Artisan, Internships, Account Executive, Intern

We are a full-scale digital agency based in Chiang Mai, Thailand, specializing in software development, design, and digital marketing consulting.

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Week 1: Enjoying Simple Moments
By: Aaron Charles
Tags: Short Story, Cooking, Marriage, Relationships, Simplicity

From Zero to Raw Shrimp

“What would you like for dinner?” Sarah asked, beginning a familiar dialogue.

“Uh, I don’t know,” began my sparkling reply. “Do we have any leftovers?”

“No, we have zero food,” Sarah responded. “Could you go to the store tonight?”

Now, I knew for a fact that we didn’t literally have ZERO food in the apartment. But something I’ve learned quickly in our six months of marriage is that playing in semantics doesn’t usually get me very far.

“Sure, honey, of course I’ll go to the store,” I said with a smile. “In fact, I’ll do it right away.”

Or something like that.

As Sarah began to put together the list, I thought about what we usually have for dinner. Chicken and turkey are staples of our culinary tradition. Add on to that the fact that we were doing a detox at the time, and our choices were somewhat limited.

Well, not really, it just meant we couldn’t have pizza.

“What about seafood?” I asked. “Would you wanna try fish or maybe shrimp?”

I love seafood, but I wasn’t sure if Sarah would go for the idea. I had never personally cooked fish before, but Sarah’s a genius in the kitchen. She could cook anything. Still, I figured she’d just want to stick with our regular fare.

“Sure, that sounds great!” she replied.

Well how about that!

So I set off on my daring journey to the store, list in hand. I made my way gallantly through aisle after aisle checking items off the list as I went. And then I came to my final conquest — shrimp.

There were two bags of shrimp staring me in the face. One was a bag of cooked shrimp, the other a bag of raw shrimp. The cooked shrimp was familiar. I knew what I was getting. Thoughts of my dad’s famous New Year’s shrimp crackers came to mind.

But this was different. Sarah and I were going to make the whole meal ourselves! This was an adventure! Not the time for familiar things.

I picked up the raw shrimp.
Is Democracy Dead?
By: Abbey Heffer
Tags: Politics, Politics And Protest, Trump, Brexit, Democracy

What is democracy?

For so many of us, democracy is like God; we accept that it exists, even though we don’t fully understand how it works or what it is, or why we even accept its existence. We place our faith in it, as good citizens, and trust that democracy will bring us prosperity and control over our own little lives. If we believe hard enough, even we can change the course of nations. When not, we at least trust that democracy has our best interests at heart.

Like religion, democracy began with the best of intentions. It offered a way of life, a good and honest way to lead the people after centuries of kings and queens and off-with-her-heads. It seemed so simple; one person, one vote, and all are equal in the eyes of the ballot box.

Yet we are not all equal. In some democracies — the UK and US, for example — how equal your vote depends on a whole host of factors you can’t really control. Where you live, who else lives nearby, your ability to travel to vote, your citizenship, country of birth, your relationship with the law, your age, your race, all influence how much or how little your one vote counts.

Democracy is like God; we accept that it exists, even though we don’t fully understand how it works or what it is.

In 2015, a few months before the now-notorious Brexit vote, the UK held an election. Nearly four million voters, 12% of all votes cast, won just one seat in Parliament. To put those nearly-four-million votes in perspective, it took less than two million votes for the Conservatives to win the election. For the Conservatives, two million votes more than the Labour Party translated to more than a hundred seats. It took only 36.8% of the vote for the Conservatives to take power.

It is not only supporters of the far-right UK Independence Party who find themselves underrepresented playing by the rules of British democracy. The Green Party, although it failed to win as many individual votes as UKIP, also earned a disproportionately low number of seats compared to how many people it represents.

There are, of course, also positives to this system; it protects the rights of countries occupied by the English when Britain was created. Indigenous Scottish, Northern Irish, and Welsh parties win local seats far more easily than parties that cater to a geographically scattered, though large, support base. When this system starts to silence the voices of millions, however, it becomes problematic.