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Are Developers Not Good Testers?
By: Ajay Kumar
Tags: Testing, Development, Testers, Developer

5. Weak End-to-End perspective

Knowledge of typical bugs is what the tester is fluent in. An experienced tester sees the form and immediately begins to think about what typical bugs there may be hidden and what therefore can be tested in the first place. What do developers do in a situation like this? They give a shot in the dark, isn’t it?

How can you become better at testing?

It is clear that developers are not by default “excellent testers”.

That does not mean a developer should be sloppy and leave everything to the tester. The software should be backed up by unit tests and technical errors should be reduced to a minimum before handing the software to the tester.

I personally don’t mind testing my own code. After all, it’s my baby ;-) I know my code very well. I know where it can fail, where to concentrate more, which is the important path of the application. So, I can do unit testing very well and can effectively identify boundary cases.

Stop seeing testing as an extracurricular activity

A good, agile team requires both developers and testers to test. With this in mind, the first step towards becoming better at testing is to stop resenting the fact that you are testing. Testing is not a dirty job, and as can be understood from all the previous points, it is not an easy job either.

If you want to be good at testing, then start by taking this job as seriously as any other job you do in your daily work, and make sure to set enough time aside for testing.

Understand your limitations and weaknesses as a developer

Awareness of your own “blind spots” is a prerequisite for improvement. Knowing your strengths and weaknesses will help you to perform your job better. If there are things you need to learn, go, and learn it. If you need to ask others how to do something, go ahead and do it. There is no shame in consulting with others and asking for their help.

Plan your testing according to your constraints

Testing requires planning to make sure you are working correctly and on the right aspects of your product. Test Plan helps us determine the effort needed to validate the quality of the application under test.

Don’t test your own code. Do your best to test features developed by other developers, and ask others to test the things you’ve written.

If it’s your code then you need to care

To write good code, you have to care about it. To become a better developer you must invest time and effort.

Quiz: Can you find the mistake? Double use of the word ‘the’.

What are your thoughts on who should be testing your code? How does your organization do it? I look forward to your thoughts and comments below.
How (and Why) Block Chain Works (and Doesn’t)
By: Ilexa Yardley
Tags: Blockchain Startup, Blockchain Technology, Blockchain Application, Bitcoin, Venture Capital

The fallacy of ‘no agent.’

You have to understand the basis for a unit (block) (chain) before you can analyze block chain (decide whether it ‘works’ or ‘doesn’t work’). In ‘other’ ‘words,’ you have to dig deeply into the circular relationship between ‘how’ and ‘why’ anything ‘works.’

It starts with complementarity, and looks like this:

Zero and one.

Dependent on circularity:

Circumference and diameter.

Meaning the number ‘two’ (exactly 50–50) is ‘constant:’

One and two.

Giving us the correct ‘analysis’ (analyses) for ‘block’ and ‘chain:’

Block. Chain.

Which is, always, the correct ‘analysis’ (analyses) for ‘how’ and ‘why:’

How and why.

Where the number ‘two’ is dependent on the number ‘one,’ and the number ‘one’ is dependent on the number ‘three.’

One. Two. Three.

Where the ‘agent’ relationship is, again, dictated by zero and one (one and two) (two and three).

Agent.

Meaning, block-chain does not eliminate the ‘agent.’ At all. In any way.

Block. Agent. Chain.

Because the block and the chain, like any individual and group, share a mandatory circular (complementary) relationship. Meaning the individual is a group (and vice versa):

Complementarity. Circularity.

Where a ‘distributed’ ledger, is, after all is said, and done, an ‘agent’ for a transaction and a transactor. Therefore, all we have done by moving to a block chain system, is, transfer the agent from zero to one (and vice versa).

If zero, then one (if one, then zero).

Meaning, block chain systems are man’s amorous relationship with both zero, and one. And, vice versa.

Man. Zero. One.

Where, no matter what you call it, a three-state-system, is constant (more accurately depicted ‘two-state-system’).

Meaning, you can’t get away from the ‘agent.’ Circularity (the basis for zero and one) is, always, no matter what ‘system’ you prefer, the ‘agent.’

Block chain systems assume we are all on the same block. And, in the same chain. Which, technically, is true. And, not-true. No matter what system.

True. False.

Based on the diagrams above, there will have to be ‘two’ systems. To fight it out. Etc. One ‘block’ chain. The other ‘no-block’ (no) chain. Again, etc. You can do the ‘math.’

This takes deep thinking. Abstract thinking. Technologist-type ‘thinking.’

Why is ‘deep, abstract, technologist-type’ thinking necessary?

Conservation of the circle is the core dynamic in nature.
Cypress — Nov. 25/20
By: Jennifer Hammersmark
Tags: Mental Health, Outdoors, Skiing, Mountains, Exercise

Dr. Jen's Ski Report - 11/25/2020

Wow, what a different experience from only last Friday. Blue skies, lots more snow, and more runs open. Whoo hoo! Today…
Windows 7 Rocks; Needs Better Program Startup Control
By: Robert Merrill
Tags: Windows7, Microsoft, Windows

I have been running Windows 7 Release Candidate for nearly a month and I love it.

The list of things Windows 7 brings closer to me and makes more fun/easier to use is kind of endless. Every day I use it, I slowly begin to think that someday I might forget the MS-DOS commands and endless, repetitive click-cycles (the kind your tech support guy repeats from memory when helping you get connected to a projector for a meeting… or get your monitor to show anything at all after the meeting is over) I have committed to memory in order to accomplish anything worthwhile on previous Windows OS’s.

One consistent item I keep wishing I had easier access to was a simple applet that helped me manage my startup programs, or manage what programs start automatically when Windows launches.

This really should be simple to find, but it’s not. In my opinion, if there is anything more detrimental to most-user’s experience with their PC is the crud of programs and their various “notifiers”, “monitors”, “updaters”, “download helpers” and otherwise annoying popup programs that do not NEED to be running, but run every single time the PC starts up.

Searching the Control Panel and Windows Help, I finally came across a link to an applet called “Start System Configuration” (which I recognize as msconfig thanks to my MS-DOS-infected brain) that can help me manage my startup programs, but the description for the applet has nothing to do with what I want to do:

“Any program that tries to start on my machine…. kill it dead.”

To access the Program Startup Killer, access Widows Help and Support, and then search for start system configuration. Ignore that it says nothing about killing off offending startup programs, just click the link to open it.

Up pops the system configuration applet. Click the startup tab and uncheck any programs you don’t want to allow to run when the machine boots. Then click “Apply”, then “OK”.

Danger: This isn’t a well-refined applet, and unchecking the wrong boxes could cause damage to your system or user experience if you don’t know what you’re doing.
A Message from the Chief Creative Officer of VegaWallet
By: Jacob Ballou
Tags: Ethereum, Bitcoin, ICO, Token Sale, Cryptocurrency

The VegaWallet Application Dashboard

I wanted to thank everyone for their continued support!

I’m excited to oversee and direct the creation of an amazing platform. A lot of late nights researching and long meetings have led to this point. Today I would like to show the world what VegaWallet’s native wallet application will look like and discuss some of the features we’ve included!

I know cryptocurrency is a niche subject to the majority of people. Most people have limited understanding of the technologies behind this phenomena. If you have any questions about Bitcoin, crypto, or our new platform feel free to ask!

VegaWallet’s mission is to create and implement real world applications for cryptocurrency. Our platform looks to bring financial support to unbanked areas of the world and to provide assistance in the decentralization so heavily talked about in the crypto market.

User’s will be able to store several major cryptocurrencies and our ERC20 VegaWallet Token (VGW) on our desktop and mobile wallets.

With options to send and receive we make it easy to transfer funds. Live price tracking and access to our advanced exchange also provide options to track and change your portfolio.

Multi-Signature technology has been implemented in all stages of product development and options for 2FA and SMS verification will also be available. Users will be able to use our desktop wallet for cold storage options as well if you do not wish to take your crypto on the go!

After platform launch and the VGW ICO we will launch phase 2 of the VegaWallet project. Businesses will be able to transform our wallet into a complete point of sale system to accept any form of payment.

Our Mobile Application update will also introduce our Mobile Pay technology allowing users to pay with select cryptocurrency ANYWHERE!

Are you interested in our project? Follow or Like our Page!

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Web — www.VegaWallet.com

VegaWallet is currently in the PrivatePre-Sale phase. If you are interested in our our private sale please message us for details!

Public ICO information and our White Paper will be released shortly.
How to Deploy Your First Deno App
By: Nabil Nalakath
Tags: DevOps, Programming, Web Development, JavaScript, Deno

How to Deploy Your First Deno App

Take your first Deno app online in under five minutes

Background image by Leone Venter on Unsplash.

Deno has made its way into the developer community, and unlike its predecessor (which took some time to take off), it is making waves. The internet is already filled with articles comparing it with Node.js, with some even saying that Node is dead for good. Well, I don't want to jump into that discussion, but Deno is here to stay.

Even though it will take a while for people to start using it in production and for popular cloud providers to start providing a runtime for Deno out of the box, that doesn't mean we can’t start experimenting with all the new features. So here’s an article explaining how to deploy a Deno app to a Heroku project. Let’s jump in.
Precious Time
By: Annine Massaro
Tags: Inspiration, Poetry, Fatherhood, Life, Relationships

Precious Time

Wisdom whispers from the womb II

Papa, time with you is what I will crave.

Quality time.

Moments when all of your senses are tuned in to my needs.

Please guard the treasure of my admiration and love.

A kind of love that you will see shining when you look into my eyes, Papa.

Feel my sweet smile as it falls upon your strong presence.

As I grow, your patience and kindness given when I begin to engage with many wonderfully curious and innocent questions —

It will mean everything.

I will be watching you, Papa.

I will be listening.

Did you know that I will feel your energy before you walk into my room?

When I am older, I will call a lover to me that is a reflection of my relationship with Mama and you.

Who would you design to love me?

What are the qualities that he or she must possess?

Are you willing to share these same qualities with Mama from your heart Papa?

By watching how you love her, I will know.

No matter the circumstance, you will teach me ways to love myself.

I will be a mirror of the ways you gave or withheld your love and care for the woman that carried your shared creation of me.

Think, Papa.

Think.

Is there gentleness in your touch?

Kindness in your eyes?

True compassion in the words you speak?

Before you co-create the sprout of me, ask yourself —

Have you embraced all the little ones at war inside of you?

Have you opened your heart to each one of them, Papa?

Until you make peace with yourself in this way…neither of us will truly be free.
Gracious Life
By: Ivette Cruz
Tags: Poetry, Life, Spirituality, Spiritual Secrets, Life Lessons

I am a warrior of life, striving to be a better person every day. Finding my voice on writing.

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Top Flutter plugins to take your app to next level
By: Ravgeet Dhillon
Tags: App Development, App Design, Flutter, Flutter App Development

Top Flutter plugins to take your app to next level

Best of the Flutter plugins that can be used almost in any Flutter app and enhance the User Experience to a great extent.

You can also read this article directly on RavSam’s blog. We publish our articles on Medium after a week.

Flutter is one of the fastest rising frameworks for developing cross-platform applications. At RavSam, we also use Flutter for mobile app development services. One of the biggest advantages of Flutter is its plugin ecosystem. There are tons of plugins available on pub.dev built by the community that can be integrated right on the go with our Flutter apps. In this article, we will take a look at some of those plugins which can be used almost in any Flutter app and enhance the User Experience to a great extent.

Share is a plugin that we can use to share the app content via other apps using the platform’s share dialog. It works on both Android and iOS and can be used in a social media application. According to its developers, a backward-compatible 1.0.0 version will be released soon as the plugin has reached a stable API.

Geolocator is one of the must-use plugins if you are building an application that shows content based on the location of the user. It provides an easy to implement API which can be used to access platform-specific location services. We can access the last know location, current location of the device, and even get continuous location updates. This plugin is of great use in Cab Booking, Food Delivery, etc.

URL Launcher is one of the most famous plugins which is used on almost every production Flutter app. It is a plugin for launching different URL schemes like:

It supports every platform that Flutter targets such as iOS, Android, Web, Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Shimmer is a brilliant plugin to enhance the UI/UX of the app while the content is loading. It is visually appealing as it gives the user an indication that the content is being fetched from the Internet. This package provides a Widget for adding a shimmer effect in the Flutter project.

There may be sometimes when a user opens our app but he is not connected to the WiFi or Mobile Internet connection. In circumstances like these, we can simply add this plugin to our Flutter app for discovering network connectivity and deciding the UI state accordingly. This plugin provides the developers with a great way to distinguish between Mobile and WiFi connection. According to its developers, a backward-compatible 1.0.0 version will be released soon as the plugin has reached a stable API.

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Blessed Be the Deeply Rooted
By: Jason B. Hobbs Lcsw
Tags: Christianity, Faith, Spirituality, Christian Living, Spiritual Growth

My father grew many crops on the farm: soybeans and wheat, peanuts and corn. Some years he would plant sunflowers for a dove shoot in the fall. If the price was right, these crops were sold. Most of the time what was planted and harvested would become food for the hogs, the primary income for the farm. This was especially true of the corn.

Hogs love corn. We loved fat, “number one” hogs that would bring a good price at the market. So we loved feeding corn to the hogs.

But corn has always struck me as a strange, vulnerable crop. From their shallow roots, the plants grow tall in the heat of the summer. You need a good bit of rain at the right times and the right type of rain to have a good harvest. Farmers pray for those slow summer storms that drop about an inch or two of rain but the kind of rain that is slow and gives the corn plant’s shallow roots a chance to drink up the rain.

Sometimes a good soaking would come out of a thunderstorm, but if that rain came too fast, the water may just run off instead of soaking into the soil. Or worse yet, sometimes those thunderstorms brought strong winds that would tip the corn over. The roots of corn do not go very deep. After a particularly strong storm, my father and I would drive to the fields and find the corn toward the edges of those fields tipped over, those little scraggly roots pulled right out of the ground.

You would think that a plant that should eventually hold those great big yellow and silver ears of corn would be stronger than that. You would think that the stalk would need to be firmly planted in the ground, but it is not. Everything you see is above the ground with corn.
MUSIC: Maggie Szabo — Don’t Give Up (On Love)
By: Darren Stehle
Tags: Youth, LGBTQ, Music, Transgender, Social Justice

Maggie Szabo is the accomplished LA-based Canadian singer-songwriter from in Dundas, Ontario, (13 million YouTube views; Ryan Seacrest debuted her single.)

She is also a rising star for LGBTQ advocacy using her music to conquer social injustice.

Even though Maggie identifies as straight, soon after moving to LA she became “hyper-aware” of LGBTQ issues. In particular she wanted to work with the trans community, especially trans kids. In an interview with TheGayGuideNetwork.com publisher Shaun Proulx (hear it below) she expressed her desire for social justice, saying:

“Before any big social movement can be made, I believe that allies need to come together and we all have to help.”

Don’t Give Up is the first single from Maggie’s upcoming EP, Worthy. The song is dedicated to transgender youth around the world who live in fear and suffer from rejection and exclusion, and features the Trans Chorus of Los Angeles (TCLA), with whom she recently performed at LA Pride.
Giving apps a new home in Slack
By: Buster Benson
Tags: Slack, Bots, Productivity, Chatbots, Development

You probably invested weeks or months to build your fantastic Slack app. You submitted it for review by our team, and now it’s in the Slack App Directory. Our customers discover apps there, especially featured apps, and it’s likely if you’ve had your app on the front page that you saw a nice bump in installs as a result.

We built the Slack platform with the vision that we could eventually become a significant distribution and engagement lever for enterprise software products built by all kinds of teams — like yours. Fortunately, because of your partnership, we’re starting to see that vision become a reality. We now have over 1,000 apps in our App Directory, and more than 200 of them have over a thousand companies actively using them.

Today we’re taking another step towards that goal. The Slack App Directory — the place customers discover apps — is moving into the Slack client! Users can now find apps in the sidebar, right under their direct messages and Slack channels.

Discover

With today’s update, users can click Apps from the sidebar to see the Slack apps installed on their team. We’ve heard from many of you that continued engagement after installation is a priority, and this is a simple way to remind users that your app is ready to be used.

If your app isn’t already installed on a given team, it is now discoverable in Slack via search. Users can search the entire Slack App Directory — right within Slack — using your app’s name or by keywords like “Productivity” or “Marketing.” From the search results, users see a call to action where they can initiate the installation process and, just like that, your app has a new user.

Interact

Users have traditionally found bots under their direct messages list. Those bots now show up in a dedicated Apps section of the sidebar, a space that will one day include apps without bot functionality as well.

In addition to moving bots down into the Apps section, we’ve also refreshed what users see when they interact one-on-one with a bot. Accompanying the direct message space is an About tab, showcasing the bot’s product screenshots, video, and description from its App Directory listing (if you haven’t added these to your app yet, now’s a great time to add them.)

What’s to come

Only bots appear in the sidebar for now, but you could imagine how this space could function for all types of apps. Apps could use it as an onboarding space for new users, as an inbox space for notifications, or as a dashboard to manage a trial or billing period. It’s a new canvas for future app functionality. Stay tuned for updates that will impact this space over the next couple of months.

We know it’s important you stay informed about where someone might encounter your Slack app. To that end, you can reference this short cheat sheet.

If you have thoughts or feedback about these changes, we’d love to hear your input. You can drop us a note on Twitter.
How Trello Beats Jira
Tags: Product Design, Innovation, Features, Product Management, Software Development

Product Craftsmanship

Everything I know, I try, and I Fail About Making A Product…
Why Letters are So Important on Medium
By: Brian Rowe
Tags: Entrepreneurship, Community, Writing, Medium, Email Marketing

So what exactly are Letters on Medium?

You might not have heard of the Letters feature on this site. I had never heard of them until late April! I had had my own publication for weeks and hadn’t even looked at the Letters link.

But now I use them every day, and I’m not sure my success on Medium would be where it is today if I hadn’t eventually been tipped off to this feature.

To use Letters, you need to create your own publication. If you’ve never created a publication before, you should probably look at this first…

Once you’ve created your publication, you probably shouldn’t use the Letters feature right away. It’s not really in your interest to use it until you’ve started building your followers.
Meditation Of Silence
By: Johannes Mudi
Tags: Poetry, Meditation Of Silence, Spirituality, Spiritual Secrets, Poetry On Medium

Meditation Of Silence

A Poem

Photo by JD Mason on Unsplash

Stillness fills the soothing air



Inspiring conscious awareness



Leaving with it winds of peace



Enchanting streams of meditation



New vision revealing clearly



Calming wearied spirits with ease



Embracing jittering souls until stilled
Impressive Medium Articles on AI/ML This Month
By: Richmond Alake
Tags: Towards Data Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Data Science

GPT-3 impressively explains the origin of everything

Kirk Ouimet article is a dialogue between himself and GPT-3, which is referred to as ‘Wise Being’.

The content of the dialogue is around the origin of the Big Bang and other associated topics such as time, space and the Universe.

I was truly expecting to be bored or at the very least be a little bit impressed by the output of the ‘Wise Being’ in the dialogue.

After reading the entirety of the dialogue and article, I would have to admit that the responses from the ‘Wise Being’ felt almost human-like, and surpassed my initial expectations. The responses were well put together and had some form of logic, well as much logic as possible when answering questions that are outside the realms of human imagination.

The key takeaway for me from this article is that the GPT-3 language model is clearly very robust and can mimic creativeness. It also has the ability to draw upon the relevant source of text from its training data to provide some decent responses.

Although it should be noted that GPT-3’s responses are not actually unique and is not generated as a product of reasoning. Not for now, anyway.

An excellent read for:
Streams Of Intergalactic Unconsciousness
By: Lark Morrigan
Tags: Poetry, Future, Science Fiction, Short Story, Post Apocalyptic

In the end, there is nothing. There is no sea of nothing. There is neither absence nor the presence of nothing, but nothing.

The sun that has once emitted its cosmic rays delivering its light for all to see shines no more and has faded from a glorious star to piles of dust.

The moon that has enchanted man and living creatures since the dawn of time with its haunting, luminous glow has crumbled into rocks and ashes.

The stars that once shone from millions of light years away have faded back to the dust that once danced with sparkling crowns in unity across the sky.

The planets that once revolved around the sun no longer exist.

Perhaps they have fallen out of the orbit before the great hole in the center of the universe swallowed every celestial body that has ever existed.

The Universe has folded itself into nothing, yet the blackness, the absence of the Universe, knows no bounds.

A lone being stands on the other side of this hole. He lives on, breathing, dreaming, pondering.

Lost in his thoughts, he turns his head around, hoping to find something familiar, at least a fragment of a lost memory in the empty blackness surrounding him.

He calls out the names of his loved ones, but the void swallows them whole, while a sense of despair washes over him like the black waves of the sea of shadows — the shadows of oblivion.

And oblivion has haunted him night and day, but time has forgotten all what once was remembered.

There is no universe to exist upon, yet he finds it paradoxical that he is still in existence. To ensure that this is so, he takes a gulp of air, inhales, and exhales. But if the Universe has ceased to exist, there is no air to breathe…and he shouldn’t be feeling what he is currently perceiving to be feeling.

Yet I am still breathing…I feel the rush of air in my lungs, though there is none…Why?

His mind spins. But his body is still.

His bones creak with age and the weight of the universe, yet his youthful visage forms a blank stare.

He is breathing…yet he wonders why he is still breathing if there is no air left to breathe…if all of the air around him has collapsed into nothing…

Why am I here? Why do I breathe if there is nothing to breathe?

Why do I live if the Universe is neither living nor dead? Why am I aware of my own consciousness when I should be experiencing the consciousness of the state of being unaware of this state of mind?

Am I so lost that I am spinning around in oblivion with nothing to reach for, nothing to dream of…nothing to exist for.

He closes his eyes and lets his mind wander above the blackness his hollow body is imprisoned in…
List of the top sources of Data Science content
By: Peter Nistrup
Tags: Python, Programming, Machine Learning, R, Data Science

Podcasts

Podcasts are a great way to catch up on Data Science related news and breakthroughs while commuting or relaxing. The podcasts range from highly factual and educational to more relaxed and hypothetical.

I’ll preface each entry with the owners own ‘about’ paragraph.
Thank You Friends For Your Readership
By: Laura Gulbranson
Tags: Inspiration, Friendship, Writing, Love, Relationships

Hello there, stranger. :)

I hope this letter finds you even amidst the noise of the world.

I might not know you or your story — but I acknowledge that you exist — that you are also a human being with as much beauty and as many flaws that I have as well.

I have always been bad about keeping up with the people who have decided to take their time to read my work and follow me here on Medium. It is the mirror to my friendships even in real life.

I like to bask in solitude too much, at times forgetting to keep up with relationships . I spend much time in solitude in hopes that I can paint the world with the mixture of the very best hues of paint from the world that resides within my own inner world.

I like the shadow casted from light which envelops me in its arms. It whispers to me: Your inner world will always be here for you. Go out into the world and share the love you’ve found in me with others.

I want to share this letter to you, because you as my readers have always been on my mind.

Sometimes the fear of not saying the right words and not being ready paralyzes me from reaching out.

On Instagram and Facebook combined, I am friends with about 100 people give or take a few people. Most of them are my friends, second families, as well as a few acquaintances.

But Medium is different territory for me. Yet it doesn’t have to be.

We sometimes forget that there is a human behind the screen and that the people who have decided to follow us — who have decided to write their heart upon a screen — are humans too.
Tokenomy trading competition!
By: Varunraj Keskar
Tags: Trading, Token, Announcements, Giveaway, Competition

Tokenomy trading competition!

Dear Users,

After the ecstatic response to our trading competitions, we have decided to come up with another trading competition for our community! This time, we will be hosting a trading competition in TEN-INR and TEN-BTC markets.

Now, if you haven’t already gone through our earlier article about Tokenomy (TEN), I request you to go read it!

Moving on,

Tokenomy (TEN) Trading Competition!

TEN Trading Competition

When?

The Tokenomy (TEN) Trading Competition will go live at 10:00:00 PM on 19th June 2018 and will be active during the launch week! Competition concludes at 9:59:59 PM on 26th June 2018.

How can you participate?

All you have to do is trade Tokenomy (TEN) during the stipulated week to participate in the competition!

Only the orders executed during the stipulated time period will be considered for the competition! For this competition, the trading volume will be combined from TEN-INR as well as TEN-BTC markets.

What do the winners get?

You have around 63,000 TEN tokens up for grabs!

We have prepared a table for you to showcase the winnings according to the potential rank!

Reward Pool

To help you succeed in your competition, we will be providing you updates about your competitors and how many trades you require to bridge the gap! . Contest will go live at 10:00 PM on 19th June. More details will follow!

Below is the chart to show how the reward varies with the rank.

Reward vs Rank Chart

That’s it for now!

Stay tuned for more announcements!

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With love for the Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies,

Coindelta Family
Uruguay to the next stage of the World Cup !
By: Blog Moove-It
Tags: Mexico, Forlan, Francia, Suarez, Uruguay

After the victory again Mexico (1 x 0) Uruguay pass to the next stage of the Soccer World Cup.

We share some pictures …
March
By: Caroline Mellor
Tags: March, Hope, Poetry, Change, Micropoetry

MICRO POETRY

March

Micropoetry about changing times

Photo by Mohammad Ali Jafarian on Unsplash

“Every storm runs out of rain.” — Maya Angelou

Winter is tired;

she longs to lie down

in the arms of spring

among the sweet

white blossoms

and the ripening buds

of new beginnings.
If We’re Alice, TikTok is Wonderland
By: Christina Garnett
Tags: Online, Tiktok App, Marketing, Social Media, Entertainment

If We’re Alice, TikTok is Wonderland

We need a little nonsense.

Photo by Haley Lawrence on Unsplash

It seems that you can’t hear the news without getting sad. It’s either COVID-19, politics, death, or the latest celebrity getting canceled. It’s in a word — exhausting. We need an escape.

Just like Alice, in Lewis Carroll’s classic Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, we need a nonsensical place to call our own. A place where the rules don’t make sense (I see you TikTok algorithm), and everything is for a laugh. You are entertained. You are amused. And what would seem tone-deaf on another social media channel feels funny and refreshing when it’s looped in with Cardi B’s “Coronavirus” on repeat in the background. It doesn’t have to make sense. It just has to give you a positive break from what has become our new normal.

While other social media channels have become the source for news (Twitter), family connection (Facebook), and live interaction with friends and celebrities (everyone discovered Instagram Live around the same time apparently), TikTok stands as the short-form content hub. When the rest of us aren’t on Netflix and YouTube for longer content, it’s TikTok where we head to escape the mundane and tragic. TikTok will make us laugh even during a pandemic.

Unlike channels like Facebook and Instagram, where the aesthetic of choice is one of perfection, the former having the perfect marriage and the ideal family to the latter being an opus to luxury living through fashion and travel, TikTok rejects that. In contrast, TikTok adopts the “we’re all mad here” style where creators openly express how proud they are at being weird and enjoy creating content that genuinely represents how imaginative and different they are. It’s a feast of cosplayers, make-up artists, doctors, Harry Potter fans, over 30s, dancers, and celebrities who won’t let us have a social media channel without them. There is truly something for everyone. Being different is a badge of honor here.

With us all stuck in our homes, working/not working, and just generally trying to cope and survive, TikTok is not only a means of entertainment, but it’s also a conduit for creativity.
Leetcode 239: Sliding Window Maximum
By: Aaron Yan
Tags: Python, Data Structures, Doubly Linked List, Algorithms, Dynamic Programming

題目

Given an array nums, there is a sliding window of size k which is moving from the very left of the array to the very right. You can only see the k numbers in the window. Each time the sliding window moves right by one position. Return the max sliding window.

Example:

Input: nums = [1,3,-1,-3,5,3,6,7] , and k = 3

Output: [3,3,5,5,6,7]

Explanation:



Window position Max

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[1 3 -1] -3 5 3 6 7 3

1 [3 -1 -3] 5 3 6 7 3

1 3 [-1 -3 5] 3 6 7 5

1 3 -1 [-3 5 3] 6 7 5

1 3 -1 -3 [5 3 6] 7 6

1 3 -1 -3 5 [3 6 7] 7

給一個寬度為k的sliding window，問sliding的過程中，每個window內的最大值。
Pi Palette Is a Hacker’s Cosmetics Case
By: Hackster Staff
Tags: Cosmetics, Technology, Raspberry Pi, Cyberpunk, Makers

Naomi Wu, better know to the Maker community as “SexyCyborg,” has come up with an interesting hacking tool: a tiny Linux-based computer hidden in a rather large makeup compact.

The device runs Kali Linux on a Raspberry Pi 3, and is meant to act as a concealable tool for penetration testing using an RTL3070 Wi-Fi adapter. The case itself is 3D-printed, and can actually hold cosmetics if necessary while the hacking goes on in the electronics hidden beneath its keyboard/eyeshadow tray.

The display doubles as a smart mirror in portrait orientation, with optional touchscreen capabilities. Pi Palette is also equipped with a 5000mAh battery, which can be wirelessly charged via an induction cradle.

Though a functional computer, SexyCyborg states that it’s “not a serious infosec tool,” so it seems that it lies somewhere in the realm between extremely detailed cyberpunk “prop” and useful gadget. If nothing else, it appears that something like this would make a great old-school gaming emulator!

Intrigued? You can find plenty more pics on Imgur along with SexyCyborg’s new pink educational edition as well.
SET to be listed on LATOKEN. Here’s how to set up your wallet
By: Dwight Sproull
Tags: Blockchain

We’re pleased to announce SET will be listed on LATOKEN in January 2019. Please visit the following link to set up your deposit wallet so you can begin using this exchange. Swytch is swiftly moving forward with our business plan, and we believe LATOKEN offers users many benefits through their professional services. The Swytch team is excited to partner with the LATOKEN team.

LATOKEN Description:

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LATOKEN is a rapidly growing Top-30 crypto exchange focusing on providing liquidity for new tokens:

● $50+ million daily turnover

● 120,000+ registered traders

● 250+ crypto pairs available for trading

Besides crypto trading, LATOKEN users can participate in selected Tokens Sales at pre-sale and crowd sale stages.
Submit to Fantasy Shorts
By: J.A. Taylor
Tags: Sci Fi Fantasy, Fantasy, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Short Story

Coiner of Centinas and Pentinas, Jim died in 2076 from either trying to kill a spider while driving or from eating too many burritos. May God rest his soul.

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Safety & Security is paramount.
By: Team Koinex
Tags: Security, Blockchain, Team, Cryptocurrency

Safety & Security is paramount.

Highlights from the recent maintenance activity

On 5th May 2019, Koinex went under maintenance and our engineers worked diligently to get the platform up and running. We made modifications to our infrastructure for better process optimisations and better overall performance of the platform. All services except crypto deposits/ withdrawals went live on 8th May 2019. However, after the recent shocking incident of the world’s largest crypto exchange - Binance getting hacked, we decided to revisit our security infrastructure and make a deeper inspection of our exchange. In spite of the Binance hack setback to the crypto community, we believed that this will be another opportunity for us to add more security layers, implement robust health checks and add advanced reporting protocols.

Being the largest exchange in the country, it is our responsibility to ensure that all funds and data are safe at all times. A holistic security scrutiny is underway at the time of writing this blog and our engineering team is working hard to leave no stone unturned in establishing full confidence in our users by delivering better security on all our products and services. We apologise for the inconvenience caused to our users due to unavailability of some of our services during this week. But our philosophy is to value the hard earned money that our users invest in this new age asset class by utilising the services we provide. While the inconvenience is regretted, we are confident that our users will understand the huge responsibility that we undertake on their behalf and will excuse us for making the platform more secure for them.

Being firm believers in blockchain technology, we stand by each and every exchange, be it Indian or global. We strive to keep BUIDLing towards a future that is decentralised and appreciate all the love and support that we receive on this journey.
A Guide To Crafting The Best Creative Brief
By: Alyssa Leverenz
Tags: Marketing, Teamwork, Creativity

Before starting a creative project, expectations and goals must first be clearly defined.

For a marketing campaign, a creative brief will outline the purpose of every component of communication and help keep everyone on the same page.

Here is an outline to help guide your next creative brief in 4 main parts:

Part 1: State Problem and Solution

What is the problem?

What is the purpose of this project? What are our challenges?

What is the solution?

Who is the client? What is the business? What is the product/service? How are we solving the problem at hand?

Part 2: Determine Relevant Audiences

Who are our target audiences?

Describe in great depth the intended consumers, including demographics and psychographics.

Who are our competitors?

Who are the top competitors solving the same problem? List/describe them.

Part 3: Carefully Craft Controlled Messaging

What main message it to be conveyed?

This should include a statement that encapsulates the single most persuasive or compelling benefit of the product/service.

How will we communicate the message?

Aside from obvious call to actions, what mediums will be used to communicate our messages in a nonverbal, subliminal way?

How is this [product/service] positioned in the market?

Every piece of communication must tie back to our brand identity. Who are we serving? What is our standpoint? What is our brand personality?

What action do we want people to take when they receive our messages?

This is the most important part of our campaign. Elaborate on exactly what call to action we want to express to people. What emotion do we want our audience to feel?

What are our distinguishers?

What sets this solution or business apart from the competition?

Part 4: Establish Project Specifications

What are the project deliverables?

Who is responsible for delivering what? Are we delivering a full-service rebrand? Creating a new brand? Developing a website? Designing a logo? Creating content? What are the project expectations? This can be in list form simply outlining the exact tasks to be performed.

What is this effort expected to accomplish?

What is the greater goal of this particular project? What do we want to happen after the intended audience sees this piece of work?

What restrictions are there?

Are there assets to use? Brand guidelines? Certain words or phrases that must be used? Time constraints? Any special requests or specific limitations must be mentioned here.

Thank you for reading. Please follow my blog! To learn more about what I do, check out my agency, Couple of Creatives.
Are You Afraid of Being Lonely?
By: Rose Marie
Tags: Self Improvement, Depression, Love, Life Lessons, Relationships

My heart, well, it was breaking and trying to put on a brave face was a farce that I couldn’t keep up for very long, especially around the holidays. So, I decided to pick myself up and force my mind to shift in order to allow me to have joy and happiness regardless of what the ‘closest’ person to me was doing.

So, at the risk of sounding pathetic, I decided I had to tell you those parts of my story in order to get to the meat of this article because the meat is where it’s at. I’m going to tell you exactly what I did on a daily basis in order to ensure my own inner happiness and peace. They’ve worked for me and I hope that at least a few of them work for you as well.

Getting the Heck Outta the Funk

Morning Booster

The morning booster comes in three sections: First, you’ve got to wake up a little earlier than everyone else so that you have a bit of time to yourself. I used that time to reflect and meditate before moving to step two, which is simply turning on some good music (I ALWAYS use Beautiful Day by India Arie) and I wiggle around the house as it plays and the shower heats up… Which brings me to step three — a warm shower. Don’t you always feel better after a nice rinsing off?

Music Break/Dance

These breaks can happen intermittently throughout your day. Whenever you’re beginning to feel a bit down and lethargic, turn on a hyper tune (not some sad R&B stuff) and begin to boogie down. I don’t care how silly you think you will look, it will make you laugh and instantly feel better. If you’re too shy… Start with the finger dance.

Comedic Expression

Simple… Laugh at yourself, watch a comedy, go to the mirror and make the craziest of faces and I bet you’ll get to feeling a bit joyous.

Exercise

I cannot stress the need to exercise enough. It really helps to get your blood flowing and also sends out endorphins that interact with the receptors in your brain and can give your body that happy feeling. Also… You’ll get in shape!

Journaling

This seems like a given, but since the release of all of these technological devices, the art of active journaling has been lost. Nobody seems to want to take a pen and pad and tediously write out their feelings when typing is much quicker. I, however, would suggest that you do your journaling the old school way because the ease and relaxation of the pen strokes are calming, and the extra time it takes you to get everything down will allow you to free your mind from the peril that it may have been in.

Bonus: Just don’t give a crap

Honestly, you can do these in any order, just make sure that you try to do them daily. Remember to take care of yourself and that this too shall pass.
Slumber
By: Morgan Roberts
Tags: Poetry, Magnet Poetry, Poem, Creative Writing, Poetry On Medium

Photo by kevin laminto on Unsplash

The Writing Cooperative and Chalkboard Magnet Poetry Prompt

Once I thanked the warm, black night,

wisps of deepest dreams to find

desire in silent lips that dined

and wished on stars and sky and might.

Moments forever in starlit pool

warm as bath water under my feet,

grace my soul a reality sweet,

Sink in pillows hold most cool.

As ghosts, memories drawn, falling,

waiting for dawn to grace my eyes,

blanket in fingers grasped and twined,

to slumber final moments calling.
Move.
Tags: Postvoid, Poetry, Poetry On Medium

Buzzing chatter fills the chilled carriage.

I exit the public transport — going home…

pulling out my wallet, the ruler of all,

my card beeps with agreement.

I traverse the streets — to reach my personal transport,

Then realise that I am at bliss.

No one but myself to disturb and be disturbed

the life that is truly desired — by who though?

I contemplate, as I step into the car — transport to wherever I can muster.

Wouldn’t it be better to be like this… or not at all?

Go home. Alone. Be Quiet. Alone.

Or do I crave that for poor intentions? — Uncertainty is all that I hate

I return home, to a full house, no idea where it exists though

I hate existing in such a space

but, when they leave — enjoyment

…No troubles to share or people to care.

What do I really want?
Making Learning Easy by Design. How Google’s Primer team approached UX
By: Sandra Nam
Tags: Mobile, UX, Design

How can design make learning feel like less of a chore?

It’s not as easy as it sounds. Flat out, people usually won’t go out of their way to learn something new. Research shows that only 3% of adults in the U.S. spend time learning during their day.¹

Think about that for a second: Despite all the information available at our fingertips, and all the new technologies that emerge seemingly overnight, 97% of people won’t spend any time actively seeking out new knowledge for their own development.

That was the challenge at hand when our team at Google set out to create Primer, a new mobile app that helps people learn digital marketing concepts in 5 minutes or less.

UX was at the heart of this mission. Learning has several barriers to entry: you need to figure out what, where, how you want to learn, and then you need the time, money, and energy to follow through.

This meant our UX needed to serve double duty: The app needed to be inviting and intuitive, and it needed to overcome all the factors that keep people from learning.

To tackle that challenge, we thought about the three main places where users would spend time in our app: the dashboard, the individual lessons, and the activities within each lesson.

1. Dashboard

The dashboard is incredibly important because it’s the first thing people see when they open the app. We iterated and prototyped different dashboards for months. We had lots of ideas: lesson packs, letting users pick from three random lessons, geolocation for events related to the lesson topic, or special widgets about experts and brands we worked with. The possibilities were endless.
Use It or Lose It Is Often Bad Advice
By: Barb Mcmahon
Tags: Self Improvement, Enthusiasm, Life, Advice, Helpful Hints

I am a serial enthusiast. I get really excited about something for a while and then lose interest in that for another enthusiasm, sometimes circling back to things that have held my interest in the past and sometimes not.

People like me are often viewed as dilettantes.

We’re warned that we’ll never get anywhere if we keep picking up and dropping enthusiasms. The dominant paradigm is someone who finds their life’s work or even their life’s hobby and sticks with it.

For life.

Often, as I’ve let one enthusiasm slide in favor of another, I’ve been warned that I will lose my abilities. “Use it or lose it,” people who have no idea what I’m actually like will warn. “You’ll kick yourself if you don’t keep practicing.”

“Keep writing! You don’t want to waste your gift!” As if one day I might forget what words are for.

But is this even true?

Do you lose all your abilities if you let something slide awhile, maybe even years?

That hasn’t been my experience.