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Faction Bests the Biz with ToneDen
By: Joanna Novak
Tags: Case Study, Toneden, Social Media Marketing, Music Business, Music Marketing

“Freebie marketing” may not sound glamorous, but it’s effective. A report in Time — yes, in the wake of a 7–11 Slurpee giveaway — concludes that giving something away often fuels consumer spending.

On a daily basis, Edusada takes advantage of two of ToneDen’s marketing tools that allow his team to quickly capture valuable data from their audience. Fanlinks — customizable web links that let you capture your customers’ favorite stores and streaming platforms — are one of these tools. Another tool ofent used are Contest campaigns, where fans have to complete a series of social actions for a chance to win anything from signed merch to meet-and-greets.

“Without ToneDen, I don’t think we’d be able to grow our fanbase on this type of scale,” Edusada says.

These tools don’t just give experiences to the fans — they score invaluable info for marketers, too. “A lot of marketing teams use other advertising agencies that allow you to do awesome advertising but you’re not able to keep that data and re-market,” Edusada says. “What I like about ToneDen is that you can collect and own that data and continue to re-market … as much as you want.”

Take a Facebook contest Faction ran for EDM duo Phantoms. By offering a chance for fans to win a baseball cap, Faction captured data on more than 500 fans. In other words: advertising today becomes even more useful tomorrow. “What’s great,” Edusada says, “is now we’re re-marketing to those same fans for their Phantoms’ tour right now. ”
Making MAST Meaningful; Bitcoin Atomic Swaps Become Private
By: Brian Deery
Tags: Atomic Swaps, Bitcoin, Privacy, Blockchain, Mast

This is still not private, since the hash of x appears in both chains. They would use different pubkeys on the different chains, so the pink key on chain W would differ from the pink key on Y, but the x value must be the same on both chains. MAST allows the first transaction to be rewritten so that only one of the three redeem conditions needs to be revealed. In the cooperative case, neither x nor hash(x) needs to be revealed publicly on Blockchain Y. Both Alice and Bob will know the all the redeem conditions to protect themselves, but won’t reveal unless needed. Here is how the first transaction would be constructed:

Merkle tree of possible spending options

MAST allows us to instead represent this script as a tree. The combining of colors represents hashing. The brown hash at the top is what locks up the coins. The coins can be spent if a proof that colors (hashes) can be combined to a leaf color which matches a spend condition. Also, the tree can be unbalanced, where a shorter proof (smaller cheaper transaction) is used in the common cooperative case. In the below example, they show that blue and pink combine to make a violet multisig. They then show violet and orange make brown. Thus after proving pink and blue are allowed, 2 of 2 signatures from Alice and Bob can move the coins. This looks like any ordinary MAST based 2 of 2 multisig on the blockchain. The public sees none of the fancy protection parts, just the orange hash. The important part is neither x nor hash(x) appears on Blockchain Y, increasing privacy. The public can’t even see that it’s a swap transaction.
Important Notice!
By: The Opinioc Team
Tags: Publication, News, Newsletter, Holidays, Writing

Photo by Katrin Hauf on Unsplash

Dear Writers and Readers,

We, The Opinioc, are highly appreciative of all the efforts and trust you have showered on us. It brings us immense pleasure to inform our esteemed readers, that we are pursuing our goal of fulfilling those promises which were made in the preceding newsletters with the modus-operandi of integrity and dedication.

We have been approached by our enthusiastic members from the extended family but we couldn’t revert within the stipulated time period as new dawn is beginning from our side. However, we haven’t closed our leads and are trying our best to get back as soon as possible.

Considering the time, the project would take, we are off for a couple of days from publishing — as our team is whole-heartedly working towards achieving the desired end with the utmost respect for the means.

We will revert to previous inquiries once the mega-project on cards will take-on. We hope to set a new bar of excellence, accountability, and transparency by time-bound completion of our initiative.

Any inconvenience caused is highly regretted.

Warm Regards,

The Opinioc Team
Equilibrium July Summary
Tags: Eosdt, Staking, Defi, English, Eos

July has brought us several tech milestones and new partnerships, and yet another coin listing. Let’s review the month’s highlights.

Lever up your EOS with Equilbrium’s pyramiding!

Together with the leading decentralized exchange Newdex, Equilibrium has developed a new product called pyramiding, which is aimed to maximally leverage your trading and get the most out of your EOS. By means of this mechanism, you increase your asset exposure on one and the same trade by using our convenient borrowing mechanism with flexible collateralization vs risk exposure. Our calculation service makes using this instrument fast and easy.

New mobile Interface

Now all our features are manageable via our mobile DApp, including our user interface and our staking pool. All your assets and transactions appear in one place. Our dashboard gives users a heads-up display of all the vital information you might need on your EOSDT positions, your savings pool activity, or the current state of voting for EOS block producers on Equilibrium’s EOSDT proxy.

Partnership with Wombat

Equilibrium started cooperation with Wombat, an EOS-based wallet plus gaming center that also supports Telos and its native currency. It is adding support to our stablecoin EOSDT and utility token NUT, and hosting our DApp in its explorer. In turn, we have integrated the wallet into our website. Wombat offers high security — private key encryption and recovery, and you can protect your private key with your fingerprint or facial ID. The wallet is particularly user friendly and comes with several benefits, like free EOS and Telos account creation, free and automatic resource staking, easy crypto purchases per credit card, and unlimited play for selected games.

We created a detailed guide for staking

Our staking system is an ideal way to earn passive income using all of our assets: EOSDT, NUT, and EOS. In July we prepared a convenient step-by-step guide on how to do it. The overall process of staking and getting yield is pretty straightforward — choose the currency, set the stake size, connect your wallet, transfer crypto — and you are all set. Use our practical calculator to balance your staking and predicted returns.

EOSDT and NUT were listed on Xangle

We are proud to have been listed on Xangle, a valuable resource and disclosure platform for the crypto market. It collects and curates real-time data on companies and crypto value to assess their value and potential, thereby assisting market participants to cut through the clutter on the crypto market and find solid projects.

Equilibrium’s staking product was added to “Staking Rewards”

As we tweeted to recently, Staking Rewards is a leading data-provider for staking and crypto-growth tools which rates and reviews projects. Our listing with them includes a handy overview of our project and a calculator to check your earnings.
Caught by Time
By: Giulia De Gregorio Listo
Tags: Life Lessons, Poetry, Life, Self-awareness, Love

Caught by Time

A poem about past and present colliding

Art by Anna K Williams

Why are you doing this? Daring with the edge so much…

Stop, turn around. I’ll hold you.

The words slip from me as a final breath, I cannot catch them.

There’s a hook pulling my heart, taming it as a wild fish

The water is not where I want to be but I also don’t want to go,

Searching for some unknown atmosphere I could breathe in

And reach out to you better than words would ever do.

I’m handcuffed by time and its inability to let me trespass

The rules shout out by raging guard dogs that would tear me apart

Before our fingers could even touch.

Time is the villain of our dissatisfactions.

Stop, please.

I know I cannot even hold myself but I’d hold you.

I’d turn it all off, the smells and the sounds,

The colors and the wounds.

I’d change the meaning of the words

Turn his speech into a vow.

You need to stop this now!

Reality has a cruel carcass to always remind us we’re awake

The air falls dense as a widow’s veil

With the prohibitions of existing before and beyond the time given

And watching as history unraveled with those we’ve kept in love with,

Not even another face and another place could destroy.

The living go on with their march, searching for explanations

A reason for everything they experience

Trying to make connections as a spider web, aimless,

Hoping the final result is, at least, beautiful.

We try to understand the purpose of our many legs and threads

Watching the ones before and where they were caught

Powerfully fragile and dangerous to approach,

Cobwebs still kill flying bugs, even if the spiders are long gone.

Stop.

Please.

Stop or thread me along.
Dear Anger, We Need to Talk
By: Katrina Paulson
Tags: Anger, Self Love, Emotional Intelligence, Self, Self-awareness

I hate to break it to you, but you’re not the only one with ideas. Humanity has grown up now and we have ideas of our own. You won’t believe me, but not everything out there is trying to kill us anymore. Did you know there are other ways to live besides in fear? No, of course, you don’t. How silly of me.

I hear the sounds of your protests already as I write this. Don’t forget how well I know you, but it’s true nonetheless. While you’ve had your eye on the horizon watching for predators, we were introduced to Love, Happiness, and Balance. We’ve all become good friends in fact.

No, I’m not the one being unfair. You like to believe you’re the strongest, but it’s time you know you’re not. Someone has to tell you; it might as well be me. We go back a long time, so you know I’m telling you the truth. There’s more to life than trying to insert control over everything. For once, I refuse to submit to you. You cannot and will not change my mind.

I’ll tell you why — because your smoke and mirror tricks don’t hide your truth as well as you believe. The show you’ve put on has been quite the display, but your time on stage is over. No one is applauding you anymore. Personally, I grew so tired of your negativity I wanted to banish you from my life. No, I’m not being dramatic.
If You Give A Mouse Another Cookie
By: Sara Lautman
Tags: Life Lessons, Childrens Books, Sara Lautman, Cartoon, Comics

If You Give A Mouse Another Cookie

The Lautman Variations
How to mock a function from module
By: José Castro
Tags: Testing, JavaScript, Tdd, Software Development

If you have something like:

var myFunction = function(...){

...

}; var myFunction2 = function(...){

myFunction();

}; exports.myFunction = myFunction;

exports.myFunction2 = myFunction2;

Then you try testing myFunction2 with a mock of myFunction , but you can’t, because mocking a function after requiring a module is impossible in javascript.

So I read this possible solution

var myFunction = function(...){

...

}; var myFunction2 = function(...){

exports.myFunction();

}; exports.myFunction = myFunction;

exports.myFunction2 = myFunction2;

And then in your test:

module.myFunction = function(...){ ... };

module.myFunction2(...);

But for me still I get the initial function myFunction .

So I try to use rewire from the repo:

rewire acts exactly like require. With just one difference: Your module will now export a special setter and getter for private variables. myModule.__set__("path", "/dev/null");

myModule.__get__("path"); // = "/dev/null" This allows you to mock everything in the top-level scope of the module, like the fs module for example. Just pass the variable name as first parameter and your mock as second.

So I use this to mock the module function like this:

var rewire = require('rewire');

var module = rewire('../module'); module.__set__('myFunction', function(...){ console.log('do anything!'); });

And now I can mock and set the behaviour for the test! :)
All you need to know about Google Cloud Dataproc
By: Priyanka Vergadia
Tags: Data, Machine Learning, Google Cloud Platform, Cloud Computing, Data Science

Best cheatsheet to answer “What is Dataproc?”

All you need to know about Google Cloud Dataproc

Managed Hadoop & Spark #GCPSketchnote

If you are using Hadoop ecosystem and want to make it easier to manage then Dataproc is the tool to checkout.

Dataproc is a managed Spark and Hadoop service that lets you take advantage of open source data tools for batch processing, querying, streaming, and machine learning.

Dataproc automation helps you create clusters quickly, manage them easily, and save money by turning clusters off when you don’t need them. With less time and money spent on administration, you can focus on what matters the most — your DATA!

In this video I summarize the what Dataproc offers in 2 mins.

In this video I summarize the what Dataproc offers in 2 mins. #GCPSketchnote

Erin and Sam are part of growing data science team using Apache Hadoop ecosystem and are dealing with operational inefficiencies! So, they are looking at Dataproc which installs a Hadoop cluster in 90 seconds, making it simple, fast and cost effective to gain insights as compared to a traditional cluster management activities. It supports:

Open source tools — Hadoop, Spark ecosystem

Customizable virtual machines that scale up and down as needed

On demand ephemeral clusters to save cost

Tightly integrates with other Google Cloud services.

To move you Hadoop/Spark jobs, all you do is copy your data into Google Cloud Storage, update your file paths from HDFS to GS and you are are ready!
Listen to Our Music (But Please Not Too Much) — Music Streaming Services
By: Razeeb Mahmood
Tags: Spotify, Apple Music, Business Models, Music, Tech

Services like Spotify and Apple Music pay record labels and distributors on a per stream basis. This is a simple breakdown of how much they pay.

On occasion artists and labels get additional money to have their music be exclusive to a platform. However exclusives are apparently losing momentum as they could hurt overall revenue.

So the primary goal of these streaming companies is to have users listen to music on their platform for about $10/month or with some ad-supported services (like Spotify). Now the latter model is a bit different. It’s an appetizer to attract new users with the idea that some will convert to premium services. And even if they don’t the ads make it somewhat cost-effective for the company. The focus of this post is on the paid-model dependent services.

Once you are successful in signing up a premium member, as long as you provide a quality service most users won’t leave (personally speaking Spotify suckered me in good and I’m glad I don’t “borrow” music anymore). As result you have a very healthy revenue stream per user.
Leonardian (LEON) — A blockchain based all-in-one marketplace for software and services
By: Stefan Ivanoff
Tags: Ethereum, Bitcoin, Blockchain, Lightning Network, Smart Contracts

Brief Project overview.

Leonardian has a great vision in front of them.

After they have determined that the current marketplaces offering software and freelance services can be developed into a product that will serve to a greater extent the service providers and the customers, they started developing such a platform.

Some of the solutions will be a greatly decreased fee, instant payments, quality assurance conducted by an AI and seperately a person, while also having a safenet and unbiased algorithms for displaying the sellers.

With a token economic that rewards holders and an interesting funds and tokens distribution system, the team is embarking on a quest to provide a better service in an expanding market with the help of blockchain and years of experience.

The ICO start on the 11th of June and the end is the 6th of August 2018.

The token of the platform is called LEON, and the current cost of 1 is 0.37$ with a Hard Cap of 20 million USD.

It will follow an interesting model of conduct — the Dutch Auction model.

Link to the website of Leonardian — leonardian.com

You can read our extensive overview of Leonardian on our website cryptohydra.com

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Microservicios como infraestructura
By: Antonio García
Tags: Infraestrutura, Arquitectura De Software, Microservicios, Monolithic Architecture

Nowports Tech

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And Martha Wept At Last
By: Jocelyn Soriano
Tags: Life Lessons, Short Story, Fiction, Friendship, Flash Fiction

It’s been nine years since she last saw Elsie. Nine long years but now she is expected to behave as though nothing has changed between them. It’s true that they had been the best of friends before. They almost looked as though they were twins, mirroring each other’s looks.

But nine years have passed and now here they are again. “Why should it be like this?” she asked in her mind. But her friend remained quiet, unable to say anything more.

“Would things have been different had I called?” another question came to her mind, but no word escaped her lips. How could she? What right does she have to even ask?

She knew she could have easily let the years go by without calling. Just like the past nine years. What’s another nine years? Or what’s the rest of a lifetime to forget?

But here she was being forced to remember, being forced to be a good friend. What was it like again to be a friend?

When you’re young, you seem to know instinctively what it meant. You spend time with the people you like. You talk your heart out and you listen to them in return. You do foolish things together. You argue, you spend time away, but you always got back together as though nothing ever came between you.

This time, however, everything’s changed. This time, there is no going back.

Martha knew that from then on, there’d be no more laughter, only memories to haunt you. From then on, there’d be no more escapades to look forward to, only days of deep regret.

“I could have been there. I could have called,” Martha wept at last.
How To Outsource Your Marketing the Right Way
By: Matt Sandrini
Tags: Marketing, Outsourcing, Productivity, Personal Branding, Virtual Assistant

How To Outsource Your Marketing the Right Way

Four expert entrepreneurs tell you how VAs can help grow your business

These days, marketing manages to be both easy and complicated at the same time.

Easy because the barrier to entry has been lowered by technology and access to new knowledge and competent collaborators.

Complicated because…everyone has the same access. The standard of competition is higher. Plus, there are so many tempting tactics, potential platforms, and exciting experiments to try.

If you run a growing business or create content for your personal brand, marketing is how you get your business and content in front of the right audience, but it can become so overwhelming that you don’t have time to produce content, or focus on your services.
The Definition of Home and Normal
By: Elianna Desota
Tags: Travel, Relationships, Change, Life, Philosophy

Rural Rajpura is full of Indians.

This makes perfect sense. The city is plopped just southeast of Central Punjab. In the heart of it, you won’t see anything taller than a four-story building and on the outskirts, all you‘ll find are sprawling fields, crowded houses, and wandering bulls.

When I was there I was so surrounded by Punjabi’s, the first time I saw another white person in India — in a hotel near the golden temple — I gaped, I had nearly forgotten that there was a world in which I wasn’t the only foreigner within a 50 mile radius.

Growing up in the US, I mastered the art of trumpetless arrivals and subtle exits but after landing in Punjab, I was noticed even though I couldn’t say a word. This was a very different world, a world in which every conversation turned towards me when I entered the room.

I was an oddity to be examined. Markedly different by birth.

I knew I had arrived back when I could blend into the crowd and no one would know who I was. I had arrived back when I showed up in the airport and instead of mutterings of “ghora — foreigner” and the shocked faces when I could respond in Punjabi, I heard only English and the words had nothing at all to do with me.

After my eight months were up, the anonymity more than any other thing was what made me aware I had finally made it home.
Independent label vs The Major labels. Pros and Cons!
By: Peter Moore
Tags: Artist, Independent, Labels, Finance, Promotion

When it comes to getting a record deal, finding the right fit and structure with a label is crucial — but is an indie or a major record company a better overall fit for you?

Firstly, you will need to know the difference’s between a major and independent record label.

The common perception of a “record label” is one of the major record labels, located in London, Los Angeles or New York, which signs all of the major artists and bands.

These major record labels, including Sony, Warner, EMI, Capitol and Universal Records, are major corporations with hundreds of millions of dollars behind them to support projects they choose too.

This allows them to fully fund the biggest artists out there. In the eyes of emerging artists, a record deal with a major label was always the big prize to go after.

Bright lights and big city — sound familiar!

However, the major music industry is on life-support (or dead men walking) with the introduction of online social networks (Facebook, Twitter etc) and digital music retail stores such as iTunes & Amazon.

The fact that major releases are often leaked to the internet weeks before their release day.
Impatience
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: Poetry, Relationships, Destination, Struggle

Are you stuck with/on me?

But

I mean are you going to walk

that way & not

inside the footprints revealing the plastic rain

Instead of embracing

the time it’s taking to get to the sole

picture in your apartment

celebrating the location of all the contours

of existence

before there’s a rush the other direction

All the sensibility

afforded by the drama we entered

\waded into tonight

a melee of disorientation & glee

The coming-to-be

of the changed & significant

is set aside in pursuit of something

immediate

Are you

are you going to run past me

now?
Trimming videos in your Story Maps
By: Owen Evans
Tags: Storytelling, Esri, Video, Beginner, Web Development

Sometimes you have a video you’d like to include in a story map, but it’s too long (snoozer!) or only a portion of the video is applicable to your story. No problem—you can easily trim videos from YouTube or Vimeo to define the start and stop times.

Read on to find out how…

Video hosting sites support URL parameters that let you customize the behavior of their video players. Here are the URL parameters that let you trim videos.

YouTube

Supports both start and end times

Format: &start=90 , &start=30&end=180 , &end=245 (times in seconds)

, , (times in seconds) Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZfuNTqbHE8&start=30&end=60

TIP: Make sure the URL you use follows the example above. There are a few forms of URLs that you can grab from YouTube (for example, the link should not have /embed/ in it.

Vimeo

Supports only start time

Format: #t=30s

Example: https://vimeo.com/52246291#t=30s

Adding trimmed videos in story map builders

In Cascade, you can include URL parameters on the end of a video link when adding it to the Link to Content tab of the media picker. As of the June 2018 update, these parameters will be honored.

In Journal and Series, you can add a video link with URL parameters as Web Page content (instead of as a Video).

That’s it! When the video appears in your story you’ll see the video player indicate that the video has been trimmed. For example, the YouTube player adds small tick marks at the specified start/end times.

Intro photo by Frank Okay on Unsplash. Movie trailer via YouTube.
My Blockchain Journey
By: Collin Thompson
Tags: Founder Stories, Ethereum, ICO, Bitcoin, Blockchain

I’ve recently updated my introduction to Metabase please read and share it to your friends.

It will be especially relevant to founders, or anyone who is interested on blockchain technology.

here’s why

Over the course of the last 5 years, as one of the leaders at Intrepid Ventures, I have embarked on the process of moving from a crypto-lamen to arguably someone knowledgeable and well versed in the technology.

Writing here on medium was a part of that process. For me, when I learn something, I want to share it. Mostly because it helps me reinforce my own learning, but also because it might help someone else on their journey.

Over the last few years you have probably come across some of my intellectual waxings on blockchain technology,

Intellectual as defined as a second hand peddler of first rate ideas,

and hopefully it helped you, or you found enjoyment from it at least.

Writing my pieces takes alot of time and effort, so i’m thankful that you take the time out of your day to read what I write, as whatever I have learned, did not come without hard work, confusion, skepticism, and alot of research.

As part of my learning, which is deeply imbedded in the DNA of our company for all the previously mentioned reasons, I have tried to make blockchain technology accessible to all who want to learn.

I’m not saying that i’m the definitive or most accurate resource for this learning, but I am authentic, earnest, and have a deep passion for the topic.

So much so, that I have made it my life, and if you have come to know me over the years, you will know that as a designer.

I’m definitely and outsider to the space and take a very different approach when it comes to technology than most people in the blockchain space.

so this is why you should read the introduction to Metabase and hopefully you will continue reading and participating in the journey.
Bounty Program: The Suggestion on InterValue Ecological Construction Policy
Tags: Blockchain, Art, Suggestion, Blockchainnews, Bounty

Dear InterValue Community Member: For building a strong InterValue Ecology, we drafted the <InterValue Ecosystem Construction Foundation Principles and InterValue Ecosystem Policy>. We need your precious suggestions for the Policy, and we will reward the best ideas with our INVE Tokens.

Time: Nov. 13th-20th

Steps:

Firstly, You must like and follow our Facebook & Twitter.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InterValueofficial

Twitter: https://twitter.com/intervaluepro

Secondly, Read the policy carefully.

LINK: http://www.inve.one/files/InterValue_Ecological_Instruction_en.pdf

Thirdly, Fill in the “Ecological Construction”Suggestion Form and submit.

https://goo.gl/forms/ohIkplv1HgDHOpC12

Note: Don’t use exchange’s ETH address, we only support those wallets: imToken, Kcash, COLDLAR, Biyong. We will not reissue the INVE Token due to an ETH address error.

Fourthly, we will select 10 excellent suggestions. The 500 INVE Token rewards for each suggestion. (Reward once for each account). The result will be announced on our Facebook & Twitter. We will give the award within 3 working days after the result is announced.

Looking forward to your suggestions！

Twitter: https://twitter.com/intervaluepro

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InterValueofficial/

Telegram: https://t.me/InterValueProject

Website: https://www.inve.one/
The Voice Within
By: Greg Frankson
Tags: Poetry, Intersectionality, Invisible Illness, Mental Health, Race

The Voice Within

A Poem about the Intersectionality of Race and Mental Health

Photo by Nada&Ninguem on Unsplash

i am Black

my stigma is in my skin

it’s visible to everyone

no matter how i look within

i live with it every day

and concealment is not a choice

i have available to help me

when i choose to raise my voice

Black is beautiful

that’s how i feel about my skin

a beauty seen by everyone

no matter how i feel within

i think about it every day

and it appears i have no choice

but to have others react to it

when with pride i raise my voice

Black is dangerous

that’s how others feel about my skin

a menacing threat to everyone

because of my rage within

i fret about it every day

for it appears i have no choice

but to generate a fear response

when i loudly raise my voice

i was born Black

my identity in my skin

unchangeable to everyone

from without and from within

defines my treatment every day

and leaves me with no choice

except defend my rights with vigour

and that’s why i raise my voice

i have depression

the stigma breaks my heart

invisible to all but me –

the stress this truth imparts

i live with it every day

conceal this truth by choice

this poem the first i have confessed it

when i’ve chosen to raise my voice

i am beautiful

that’s how i feel about my heart

even if it’s not the first thing you see

when my inner anxieties start

i think about it every day

but only sometimes have a choice

of when or how my truth reveals itself

when i choose to raise my voice

the mentally ill are dangerous

so others say about mind and heart

a menacing threat to everyone

just wait for the rage to start

we fret about this every day

others believe there is no choice

but to focus on their own fear response

when i loudly raise my voice

we are born as we are

our identities in our hearts

unchangeable to everyone

the strength this truth imparts

defines my treatment every day

and leaves me little choice

except defend all rights with vigour

and that’s why i raise my voice

both stigmas are real

in the skin, mind, soul and heart

we dispel dangerous assumptions

when understanding compassion starts

they live among us every day

i am one — so i have no choice

but to ask you to speak our truths out loud

with a single, deafening voice.
Top Signs Of An Over-Experienced Programmer
Tags: JavaScript, Software Development, Careers, Humor, Programming

They Dislike “Complexity” and “Over-Engineered Designs”

At a certain point, I think some engineers no longer want to think about other people’s code.

So when you create a module that utilizes everything you learned at school all in one amalgamation of object-oriented memoization, they like to claim that the code is over-engineered.

Personally, we just think that they don’t want to think through the brilliance of someone else’s masterpiece.

How hard would it be to take the time to understand the how object A inherits from object B, which calls function C, which then calls function D and sometimes options F or G that pulls in information from config file E, which uses function F to parse data from database G that then stores logs in Hadoop, CouchDB, and S3.

They start to complain and say that the code is too elegant and or over-engineered. Their laziness keeps well-designed code that is really easy to maintain out of production. Instead, they attempt to push younger engineers to write code that is too simple.

Sure, it might seem like it’s easy to look at and understand. But as engineers, we aren’t focused on simplification. We take complicated problems and create complicated solutions.

They Are Stuck in the Future

The frameworks I know now are the only frameworks I will need to know from now until I die.

Yet, over-experienced engineers seem to spend a lot of time learning new frameworks and languages or at the very least, reading up on new design principles.

It all seems like a waste of time. As an engineer, you should be smart enough to know everything you need to know after you finish college. Anything after the fact is clearly not important. Some of them even still practice leet code problems and study, as if they might have an interview coming up. It’s not like software engineers have to worry about being let go.

Doesn’t everyone still program in the language they learned in college?
Hydro Projesi: Topluluk Güncellemesi 18/01/2019
By: Hydro Türkiye
Tags: Hydro, Cryptocurrency, Partnerships, Decentralization, Blockchain

HYDRO Fans

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Meet core developer Alon Elmaliah
By: David Sønstebø
Tags: Iota, Blockchain, Bitcoin, IoT

It’s time to officially present the core developers of IOTA to the larger crowd. First up is Alon Elmaliah. He is a programmer and electrical engineer with great passion for security and cryptography.

After several years in the semiconductor industry, most recently at Intel, Alon devotes his time to the study of distributed, decentralized systems & digital cash alternatives; bringing large scale problem-solving skills to software implementations.

With strong background in education & technology, Alon is an active member of the Cryptocurrency scene in Tel Aviv.

Skilled in Python, Computer Science, and C++, he joins the IOTA core development team to push IOTA even further.

B.Sc. in Computer Science & Electronic Engineering from Tel Aviv University

- Curious, loves to research & master new skills.

On why he joined IOTA
To ‘gram’ those moments
By: Tracy Nguyen
Tags: Life, Memories, Instagram, Self, Photos

It’s not deep at all but I do want to achieve that mission statement. As it is the final year of the decade, I intend to do that.

I have thought of a challenge that I have been meaning to do.

Daily posting.

Ever since Instagram got rid of likes, I put it on myself that I should post more on Instagram.

News flash...

I didn’t

Typical Taurus behaviour of procrastination, I know.

I have a lot of photos of myself, too much. I exposed myself when I wrote an article by going through my hard drive.

600 selfies/photos of just myself.

It doesn’t include what I have on my phone…

I have gotten some use out of my camera that I bought to use Indonesia because it has been collecting dust ever since I came back to Australia.

I have so many photos to share, so why not take the initiative to post them.

I don’t intend to reach a certain amount of followers nor likes. I’ve never put such meaning to the numbers now that I know that it doesn’t hold that deep to me. It’s more of a personal passion project of sorts ever since I created my ‘public’ profile.
Linked List: how to approach
By: Anastasia Orlova
Tags: Problem Solving, JavaScript, Data Structures, Linked Lists

What is actually a linked list?

Well, first of all, it’s a very common and broadly used type of data structure. According to Wikipedia, a linked list is is a linear collection of data elements whose order is not given by their physical placement in memory. Instead, each element (or, node) points to the next, which alongside other nodes represents a sequence.

This scary-sounding “order is not given by their physical placement in memory” is a very important feature: that means, we can add and remove elements from the beginning less costly (think about time and space complexity!) than when we do so by implementing an array’s shift() and unshift() methods. Also, with a linked list we can’t run out of space.

Here’s a picture of how a simple linked list looks:

geeksforgeeks.org

As we can see, each node has some data and a pointer (or a link) that connects it to another node. We call the first node a head. The last node on the list points to null. If a list is empty, the head is null.

There are MANY ways of how we can build a linked list in JavaScript. I’ll show you the approach that I found the easiest and neatest.

First step: create a single node. To do so, we initialize Node class and by using a constructor function define an object with two properties, data, and a pointer called “next”. As for now, next is equal to null.

class Node {

constructor(data) {

this.data = data

this.next = null

}

}

Second step: create a linked list using a Class constructor. If the head node is not passed, the head is assigned null.

class LinkedList {

constructor(head = null) {

this.head = head

}

}

Third step: let’s create some nodes using the Class we’ve created as a first step.

let node1 = new Node("hello") //we create the first node with a data equal to "hello" let node2 = new Node("world") //we create the second node with a data equal to "world" node1.next = node2 //we connect these two nodes with a pointer .next

Fourth step: time to add our node1 to the list!

let list = new LinkedList(node1)

Since node1 and node2 are connected with a pointer, our node2 is also in the linked list! So, our fifth step is to console.log.

console.log(list.head.next.data) //returns "world"

That’s our first linked list!

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4 Life Lessons from Learning a New Language
By: Frank Andrade
Tags: Life Lessons, Psychology, Productivity, Self, Language

4 Life Lessons from Learning a New Language

Learning a language has taught me more than grammar rules.

Photo by Timothée Gidenne on Unsplash

Learning multiple languages made me develop skills that are necessary not only to speak a foreign language but also to face new challenges.

Each skill came from lessons that I learned after feeling I wasn’t making progress in my studies. Thanks to those lessons, I could improve my professional and personal life.

Here are the 4 life lessons that I picked up while learning foreign languages.

1. Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

I used to think that hard work would always be beneficial. However, I learned that more time spent in an activity doesn't guarantee positive results. No matter how many hours you study or practice something, the results might be disappointing if you do it the wrong way.

This is true, especially when it comes to learning by repetition. Repetition helps us remember and memorize names, rules and patterns. However, if you’re repeating something meaningless, then the result would be meaningless too. Garbage in, garbage out!

The approach we follow to learning something new also matters a lot. When we google “how to learn …” we often find a formula that helped an average group of people; unfortunately, that might not be the right approach for you. It’s like following an average diet found on the internet to lose weight.

If you’re not taking the approach that fits you better, then it doesn’t matter how much time you invest “practice won’t make perfect.”
6871 Simple Thank You’s — 189% of Target Achieved in Simple Token Sale (Sale Completed)
By: Jason Goldberg
Tags: Ethereum, ICO, Bitcoin, Blockchain, Tech

In overwhelming numbers and with increasing enthusiasm, the blockchain community voted with their ETH the past 18 days and expressed support for the Simple Token mission to power cryptocurrencies for digital communities.

6871 unique purchasers from 130 countries purchased 261,070,175.3 Simple Tokens (including all bonuses) for a total 46,828 ETH. (In a remarkable coincidence, at current ETH = $464, the average value of the ST sold was $0.083 each, right back where we started).

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Because of you, we achieved 189% of the Target for the sale.

We give all credit where it’s due: To the community.

The blockchain community’s enthusiasm for the Simple Token project created an acceleration of interest and excitement unlike any we’ve seen before in the crypto space. Most token sales spike on day 1 and then fizzle out, whereas the Simple Token sale grew stronger and stronger with each passing day. People who learned about the Simple Token technology overwhelmingly became Simple Token supporters and advocates.
Meet New Features in YellowDuck
By: Yellow Duck
Tags: Instagram Stories, Live Streaming, Instagram, Instagram Live, FAQ

You asked and we listened. There were some things a lot of you wanted, and finally they are here!

Basically, the image above explains it all. 😁 However, we will keep it brief.

Disable commenting while streaming

Some people like receiving comments, some don’t. Who are we to blame them. We have decided to embrace this native Instagram feature and made it possible in the YellowDuck app.

Save the video to your Story

Now, you would be able to save the live stream to your Story once it’s finished. The whole process just takes a click, according to the GIF below 👇

Oh, and please reinstall the app on your PC or MacOS machine in order to ensure that the features above work as they intended.

Have a great live streaming! 😉
Work Futures Update | Chaos for the Fly
By: Stowe Boyd
Tags: Change, Innovation, Update, Digital Nomads

Work Futures Update | Chaos for the Fly

| Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic on Innovation | Sad Digital Nomads | Changing Change |

Photo by Andres Herrera on Unsplash

Beacon NY 2020–11–08 | I had the best sleep last night since New Years.

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Quote of the Moment

What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.

| Charles Addams

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How To Manage Disruptive Talent | Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic debunks the idea that businesses are pushing for greater innovation, when in fact they are tied up by the fear of failure:

It is nearly impossible to find a company that disagrees the idea that innovation is important, just like nobody thinks a culture of innovation is a bad idea. And yet, those same organizations are reluctant to invest in innovation unless they are sure that it will pay off. “Sure, we can put in place a culture of innovation, so long as you show me for sure that there is an ROI”. As Jeff Bezos noted in his early Amazon years, “if you know it’s going to work, then it’s not innovation”. So, having a culture of innovation means embracing failure as an option, not least because the alternative more than pays off for it.

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The Digital Nomads Did Not Prepare for This | Erin Griffith relates the tales of various people who opted to escape their immediate surroundings to avoid the worst effects of the coronavirus, often with laughable results.

It turns out there are drawbacks the trend stories and Instagram posts didn’t share. Tax things. Red-tape things. Wi-Fi rage things. Closed border things. The kinds of things one might gloss over when making an emotional, quarantine-addled decision to pack up an apartment and book a one-way ticket to Panama or Montreal or Kathmandu.

And this wonderful one-liner that perhaps explains all the mishaps:

Americans have never been especially good at vacation.

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The road to successful change is lined with trade-offs | Maya Townsend and Elizabeth Doty disentangle some key threads around the so-called resistance to change in organizations. When leaders have concocted a plan in isolation, and then spring it on the rank-and-file being asked to implement the change, the dynamic can become adversarial:
Piccola raccolta sull’Euro e dintorni
By: Alfonso Fuggetta
Tags: Euro, Europa

There is a broad range of benefits and costs in sharing a currency. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the macroeconomic costs of losing influence over macroeconomic stabilisation by relinquishing direct control over monetary policy and the exchange rate are more contained than previously feared. Moreover, the euro has spurred macroeconomic stability and financial integration. The latter will increasingly foster financial-based risk sharing. There is also evidence of a wide range of microeconomic gains in terms of improved microeconomic efficiency, and of broadly positive external effects.

An underlying temporary asymmetry is not receiving enough attention. Some costs are incurred at the start of monetary unification, such as the changeover cost and the investment to set up a sound institutional framework. Instead, some benefits accrue gradually as the new currency gains acceptance, its circulation widens, as economic and financial integration deepen, and as economic governance consolidates. In other words, time plays an important role.

Despite evidence of further integration over the last decades, Eurozone countries are still quite heterogeneous and are likely to remain so for the foreseeable future. It is unlikely that differences in legal systems, financial structures, and various other domestic characteristics, institutions, and preferences will rapidly fade out. Is that a problem? Various commentators have argued that heterogeneity should not be overstated. Moreover, financial based risk sharing will increasingly contribute to smoothing asymmetric shocks.

We have also learned that the costs of slow dynamic adjustment are far above all other costs. It is also still poorly researched and poorly explained to the general public. In essence, this is a cost from not undertaking structural reforms and liberalisations. For many countries, reforms were postponed for too long and would have been even more complex to undertake without the euro: i.e., assuming that peer-pressure and market discipline help. In other words, opportunities should be seized.

Recent events are showing that what has been achieved by the EMU cannot be taken for granted, but needs instead to be nurtured. The EMU needs new economic governance with broad ownership and an assessment of how systemic risks have now changed and are still changing. In particular, fiscal governance must be revisited in various ways. Hence, perseverance also plays an important role for the success of the EMU.
Being Understood
By: Joe Luca
Tags: Poetry On Medium, Compassion, Empathy, Understanding, Love

Not too long ago, my wife was going through a rough patch, where it seemed that all her conversations were going sideways and all her efforts to help others, was being received as anything but. Generally inclined to reach out and be of use, she was rebuffed at every turn and ended up in a puddle of hurt and uncertainty. So, I wrote this poem for her in the hopes it would let her know, that even when others don’t see her for who she is, I always will. The rough patch ended. Who she was, emerged once again. And though there will always be some that don’t understand her, many do, and that makes it all worthwhile.

She eyes the world

as a child its dreams

and wonders where to play;

She sings her songs

as a songbird does

and greets a brand new day;

She breathes deep the air

that others expel and

laughs as she skips to school;

She never lies but

often cries, at a world

that calls her fool;

She is my love, my friend

my foil, consumer of

all my sins;

My laughter, my haunts,

the fears that she flaunts

the sail to my gentle wind.

Joe Luca is writer and editor for ILLUMINATION and a published author and writer of children’s stories, short fiction, non-fiction articles, screenplays and poetry. Publications include Child’s Life, Children’s Playmate and others. There are some other articles below — have a read. And thank you for stopping by.

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