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Microstrategy in Microwatch
By: Rani Sianipar
Tags: Data Analysis, Software Development, Microstrategy, Data Science, Data Visualization

A story about implementing Microstrategy with our product

Microstrategy is an enterprise business intelligence (BI) application software vendor. The MicroStrategy platform supports interactive dashboards, scorecards, highly formatted reports, ad hoc queries, thresholds and alerts, and automated report distribution. Interfaces include web, desktop (for developers) and Microsoft Office integration. MicroStrategy Mobile also supports mobile BI.

We have Microstrategy as a Product Owner also as our provider. We helped to develop our product into some platforms.

Microstrategy for Microwatch

In this section, I will share the analysis process of our dataset (source: data.police.uk). The first thing to do is understanding the features in the dataset.

Features:

Crime ID

Month

Location

Longitude

Latitude

Reported by

LSOA name

Crime type

Last outcome category

We don’t need all the features, so we can drop the unused features like ‘reported by’ and ‘last outcome category’. For some special attribute value, we need to simplify it to the value we need. For the example is in the “location” feature. “Location” has the value like on or near 16th Avenue, but we just need the Avenue. So we need to parse the attribute value for some cases. After that, the data ready to be visualized.

Data Visualization

In developing Microwatch, we need to decide the right diagram which represents the data meaning and should understandable by the public. This far, data visualization still ongoing. In this section, I will share my experience in analyzing data using Microstrategy.

diagram …

A map diagram using latitude feature, colored by the crime type.

Issues

Integrating a program with other services will bring us for some new issues. Here are some of the issues that we‘ve been faced:

Embedding Microstrategy in our web application

Decide the proper diagram to represent the criminalization in U.K

That’s all I can share. Thank you.
Artis Affiliate Reward Program
By: Artis Turba
Tags: Altcoins, Blockchain, Ethereum, Ethereum Wallet, Bitcoin

Artis Affiliate Rewards Program

Artis Turba is excited to announce the ARTIS Affiliate Rewards Program (AARP). The AARP grants holders of ARTIS the right to share in the Artis Turba revenue stream generated by operating its trading platform. Each ARTIS holder will receive an even distribution of 50% of the revenue generated from the trading platform, allocated according to ARTIS holdings. Artis Turba hereby aims to create a sustainable revenue stream for ARTIS holders by way of the AARP and ensure growth in the value of ARTIS as trading increase.

Transaction costs are levied on each trade and in the respective currency of each pair, the transaction cost are split 50% to Artis Turba for operational cost and 50% to ARTIS holders as reward. The rewards due to ARTIS holders are credited to their Artis Turba wallets for each respective currency.

Forward together!

Example

“For example if i will hold 5000 artis how much i will get artis or dollars?”

“It will depend on 2 factors; trade volume on ARTIS TURBA exchange (ex fees are 0.25% per trade) and the prices of all the cryptos listed. The payouts are distributed in BTC, ETH, DASH, LTC, XRP, XMR, ARTIS according to each Cryptocurrency’s underlying volume traded.

So for simplicity let us assume that the sum of all Cryptocurrency volumes equals $10 million per day:

Ex fees = $10 million x 0.25% = $25,000

Share 50% = $12,500

$12,500 is then split among all ARTIS holders via smart contracts (the equivalent in BTC, DASH, XRP, XMR, LTC, ETH and ARTIS).

There is 350 million ARTIS so

1 ARTIS gets $12,500/350,000,000 ARTIS = $0.00003571 per day

Thus 5000 ARTIS gets $0.00003571 per day x 5000 ARTIS = $0.17 per day
My New Year’s Resolutions For Everyone Else
By: Caren Lissner
Tags: Humor, New Year, New Years Resolutions, Life, Satire

My New Year’s Resolutions For Everyone Else

Resolve to heed these in 2020

Photo by JESHOOTS.COM on Unsplash

I’ve made a lot of resolutions and broken them, so why bother? For this year, here are resolutions for all the rest of you.

1. If you start a sentence with “I don’t know how to tell you this” or “I don’t know how to say this,” you’ll end there, both for reasons of morality and accuracy.

2. You will not buzz me into your apartment for half a second so that I end up bouncing off the second door and having to go back and re-buzz. If you do this twice in a row, you’ll move to a castle with a giant door knocker and a pair of ogres to open and close it.

3. You will not use the phrase “the space” in any hiring attempt, unless you work for Elon Musk or NASA. If you’re in publishing and your ad says you need “someone who’s written articles in the [XYZ] space,” and you don’t realize you can just delete “the” and “space” and write “articles about XYZ,” you’ll quit immediately and be replaced by me.

4. You will not post a “cover” of a cool song on YouTube and then it turns out that it’s actually a “drum cover” in which you’re drumming to a record with your thumb and a Sharpie.

5. If I introduce you to your future spouse, you will give me 15 percent of the value of all the wedding gifts, plus pay for airfare to and from the wedding and any future baby showers.

6. You will only put one scary health post about your parents on Facebook per month because it’s depressing. Posts about your pets’ health are ok because they’re cuter.

7. If you have a party and it’s in Brooklyn, you must specify on the invite exactly how many subway stops it is from Manhattan. If it’s a birthday party for yourself and you’re over 20, you have to acknowledge you’re too old for that and have an open bar as a tradeoff for everyone coming to Brooklyn.

8. If you open a coffee shop, grocery store, or clothing shop, you will install an accessible public bathroom. Otherwise you have to go to the McDonald’s on the corner to breastfeed like you tell everybody else.

Photo by Andrea Davis on Unsplash

9. If you don’t acknowledge the sheer narcissism of this list, you can’t be my friend.
Knolx Session: Data Structures In Scala
By: Knoldus Inc.
Tags: Algorithms, Scala

This Knolx session we went about discussing data structures. I talked about simple data structures like Queue and Binary Search Tree and their possible implementation in Scala. The idea was to know about a bit of Functional data structures and their implementation in Scala. I then discussed Binary Search Trees and their traversals.

Here is the presentation.

[slideshare id=15365363&doc=datastructuresscala-121127031949-phpapp01]
Breaking Up With the Narcissist
By: Zita Fontaine
Tags: Self Improvement, Love, Lifestyle, Relationships, Abuse

He left me. It was abrupt, unexpected and mean.

He chose the day in advance, to surprise me — and he even said so. He chose my birthday to walk out — just so that he can hurt me even more. And hurt me he did. It was a carefully orchestrated plan, to maximise my pain, to ruin the day and never to forget.

I spiralled into a quickly spreading depression with full-scale anxiety and a blooming PTSD with flashbacks, nightmares and insomnia. And it hurt. It hurt like hell.

How can a breakup hurt so much?

Love is an addiction

When you fall in love and when you are in love it’s a chemical-induced craze that hacks your brain — rendering you irrational, craving for more. The biochemical explanation of this is crystal clear. Helen Fisher pointed out that love activates the same areas of the brain that cocaine does. From the first ecstasy to the last bit of withdrawal symptoms. The dopamine rush we feel near our love is causing real addiction, to make us want to come back for more, always more.

At the point of the breakup this very addictive, cocaine-like dopamine kick has no fuel, so it leaves our systems. We start to have withdrawal symptoms — of a natural drug, but it is still a drug.

“If the beloved breaks off the relationship, the lover shows all the common signs of withdrawal, including depression, crying spells, anxiety, insomnia, loss of appetite (or binge eating), irritability, and chronic loneliness. Like all addicts, the lover then goes to unhealthy, humiliating, even physically dangerous lengths to procure their narcotic.”

The narcissistic love is especially an addictive one — in the love-bombing phase the intensity of the dopamine can take extreme lengths, and with the intermittent reinforcement (playing push and pull all the time) they are establishing an even unhealthier addiction.
A Must-Read for all POMpoets
By: Christina M. Ward
Tags: Newsletter, Poetry, The Pom

A Must-Read for all POMpoets

a bit of news

Image by Layers from Pixabay

Hello, all you fine POMpoets! I hope this finds you well.

Many of you have probably heard, but I will briefly explain — life can change on a dime and right now, mine is a bit upside down. This explains it, although a few things have happened since then to further isolate me from the life I had until now.

I am strong, resilient, but a bit lost right now. Please forgive any delayed messages — I promise, I will get to everything — it just may take me a bit longer than usual.

I hope to be back on my feet soon, but in the meantime, I have had to admit — I need some help. There’s a whole lot of behind-the-scenes stuff that I do to keep The POM group rolling, between the Facebook group, the publication, and the Slack group — I am busy. I also run 2 other pubs and write for over 50, aside from the freelancing work that I am chasing really hard right now to find a way to support myself financially.

(Some have suggested I start a Patreon for myself — to offer reading materials to 1. loyal readers that enjoy my work and want to be a regular supporter and 2. a Patreon level for poets who want educational materials, inspirational materials, and poetry news and prompts. I have not yet decided if I will do this but I think it all depends on the support it might get. I welcome your thoughts on this.)

A few of our POM members are helping out with the publication.

If you see these folks leaving editorial notes on your work — it is GOOD! I have given them clear instructions on how to process your work and I assure you — your work is in good hands.

Samantha Lazar, Ashwini Dodani, Arjan Tupan — all have editorial clearance from me in The POM.

Sam Kimberle and Ashwini Dodani both have admin status in the Facebook group — I may be opening up a few positions here to get help with specifics of the group activities. Stay tuned.

I realize this isn’t MY community — it’s OUR community.

I brought the vision for this group, yes, but the ownership belongs to all of us. I am grateful for these fine people who have stepped up when I need them. We are a wonderful community and I am so grateful for all of your support, your kind messages, and all you have done to uplift me in a very heartbreaking time.

Now that the news is out of the way — are you all ready for the next POMprompt! #16 posted this morning!!

Thank you dear POMpoets — you are invaluable to me.

POMlove,

Christina
細談Scrum 之 為什麼Planning Meeting要開兩次？
By: Yu-Song Syu
Tags: Agile Methodology, Scrum, Scrum Agile, Agile

Kuma老師的軟體工程教室

Welcome to the Kingdom of Software Engineering
Release
By: Deneishia Jacobpito
Tags: Change, Creative Writing, Humanity, Spirituality, Poetry

Once upon a right now, somewhere in the convergence of time we sat as a whole and we said, “let it go”. Each piece of us innately knows exactly where to go and nowhere in this land is there a space without a hand reaching out to hold you up… reaching out to hand a cup filled with joy laughter and life. Release the one in your hand that holds the strife. Take the cup that which you give the one that says that we WILL live. That we will live beyond this point not by luck but by Choice. We choose to hold on to one another the highest self of our sister and brother we choose to hold on not just in hope but in the future things (things we already know).

Today we gather together as one, the way we do when we are none. When we are nobody, when we are no face, when we are only energy in time and space. This moment on this earth is when the times converge, and now we sit together here to bring an end to the sadness of this earth.

Lose yourself in the dance of the flame. That which you release, please call it by name. Into the fire I release my lack of self worth. I release the uncertainty I adopted while living on earth. Let the fire engulf all of my pains and the smoke carry it on the wind to be cleansed again. Speak out loud in the voice of past, present, and future selves higher. Call it by name and cast it into the fire.

It’s time to choose what we will take into the future and what we will leave behind. In this way we honor the cleansing of the convergence time.
The Night I Felt the Holy Ghost
By: Tracey Folly
Tags: Self, Religion, Spirituality, Culture, Lifestyle

I am a terrible Catholic.

Although I was born and raised Catholic, I spent a decade as a Mormon convert before resigning from the Church of Jesus Christ and Latter Day Saints.

I was even worse at being a Mormon than a Catholic.

During my stint as a Mormon, I was urged to pray about everything. I didn’t mind that; I like to pray. What I don’t like is proselytizing and delivering casseroles door to door like some kind of Electrolux/casserole salesman.

I refused to knock on doors and ring doorbells in an attempt to sell my religion, but I did expand upon my habit of prayer. Since I’d regularly prayed as a Catholic, it wasn’t difficult to adapt my prayer habits to my Mormon lifestyle.

Praying while Mormon was basically the same as praying while Catholic — minus all those pesky Catholic saints. We didn’t believe in those.

I missed saying my Hail Marys. Other than that, I adapted wonderfully.

One night, as I lay in bed praying for a sign, I felt a tingling numbness start at the crown of my head and move down my body until it passed through the soles of my feet. The experience left me feeling warm and awestruck.

I decided it could only be the sign for which I’d prayed, and I was convinced the sensation was the Holy Ghost passing through my body.

Was it the Holy Ghost? Honestly, I have no idea, but that wasn’t the only time I experienced something I couldn’t explain in response to a prayer for a sign.

Around the same time as my Holy Ghost experience, when my conversion to the Church of Jesus Christ and Latter Day Saints was still new, I read a passage in the Book of Mormon that encouraged prayer — even over the beasts in the fields. I’m paraphrasing because I donated my copy of the Book of Mormon to the Goodwill. You’re welcome.

I was so inspired that I even prayed one day as I drove my car to the market. Suddenly, it looked like white feathers were falling from the sky.

The tiny white feathers filled the air as far as the eye could see. I couldn’t find their source, and it was several long minutes before the storm of feathers ended.

It was a warm spring day, and what I saw could not be explained away by snowflakes. I don’t know if I saw pollen in the air or some type of leaves, blossoms, or flowers being carried on the breeze — but they looked just like small white feathers, and I could think of nothing but angels while watching them fall.

Like the previous experience with the traveling tingling and numbness in my body, I attributed the feather storm to divine intervention — an answer to my prayer.

Today, I’m not so sure. I’m tempted to pray for showers of feathers or signs from the Holy Ghost just to test the hypothesis, but I don’t think faith is something you are supposed to test. So I haven’t done it — but that won’t stop me from looking for signs.
Drawing Trump Gets Covid
By: Liza Donnelly
Tags: Economy, Politics, Covid 19, Trump, Visual Journalism

When I heard that Donald Trump got the corona virus, I drew the above immediately. He has downplayed the virus and shown no empathy for those who died or suffered during the pandemic. I do not wish him to die, but I feel he had what is coming to him. Below are the drawings I did as he emerged from the hospital and said outrageous things.

Beware Trump on a normal day, double beware Trump on steroids, which he is on for his treatment.

Direct quote from Trump as he left Walter Reed Hospital. Tell that to the hundreds of thousands of people affected by the virus. And I realize that most who are in the hosptial for Covid cannot have loved ones with them.

Trump has world class doctors and drugs, some experimenal, treatment ordinary citizens cannot get.

Trump abruptly ended stimulus negotiations with the Democrats and said the above. Many Americans cannot put enough food on the table for their children.

All of these were drawn during my daily live drawing on Instagram and HappsTV Follow me at both of these social media sites to watch me draw the news at 5:00pm and 5:30 pm ET respectively.
JPA @OneToMany — I want a foreign key. I don’t want a Join table
By: Blog Moove-It
Tags: Hibernate, Java Enterprise, Jpa, Jee

Suppose you have this two entities: PhoneList and Phone.

PhoneList have a @OneToMany to Phone. (I need only a unidirectional relationship)

Something like:

@OneToMany(cascade=CascadeType.ALmappedBy=”phoneList”)

public List<Phone> getPhones() {

return phones;

@OneToMany(cascade=CascadeType.ALL)

public List<Phone> getPhones() {

return phones;

}

The phone entity doesn’t have nothing special.

If you deploy those entities your JPA provider will create 3 tables. One table for each entity and also a “JoinTable”. But, why? This kind of relationship can be done by 2 tables only and I don’t want a third table. I want a PHONE table with an FK column to PHONELIST table.

How can I do that?

Two options:

Make your relationship bidirectional Add an @JoinColumn in the @OneToMany attribute

Option number 1 — Make your relationship bidirectional

The problem is that “I don’t need a bidirectional relationship”! … Ok, but, suppose that you are more interested in solve this and move forward to a “real issue”.

To make this relationship bidirectional, you must add in the Phone entity the reference to the PhoneList entity with the @ManyToOne annotation. Something like:
When the Sky Is Not the Limit
By: Rasheed Hooda
Tags: Flying, Goal Setting, Intuition, Law Of Attraction, Life Lessons

After I wrote about making $50,000 in 2021 using my intuition to help me invest in stocks, I woke up in the middle of the night with the thought, “If my intuition can make me $50K, it can just as well help me make $500K.”

The thought may have been too rich for my blood a few years ago, but as I laid in bed that night, I could see $500K as a distinct possibility as I drifted back to sleep.

Last night, my midnight awakening reminded me of a line from Science of Getting Rich.

If you have failed, it is because you have failed to ask for it largely.

Had I mocked or insulted God / Universe, who speaks to me via my intuition by asking for only $50,000?

Later, I woke up with the memory of my children gifting me a flying lesson for my 50th birthday. I remembered my long-ago dream of flying an airplane and starting an aero-limousine business. Dormant desires seem to be awakening within me.

The next morning, when I looked at my phone, I saw a YouTube video from Marisa Peer in my timeline, How to set & achieve ANY GOAL in your life. She says not to set reasonable goals. Instead, she says, set bold and audacious goals that take you out of your comfort zone.

She says, don’t just set goals to make a lot of money; visualize all the great things you’ll accomplish with that money and all the difference you will make in the world.

One of the core desires in my life has always been to be God’s instrument of generosity.
Looked at the right way, this could be good news!
By: Pito Salas
Tags: Travel, Life, Procrastinate, Happy, Deathclock

I came across this article a few days ago. The Ticktock of the Death Clock — NYTimes.com. Yes a depressing topic. The author muses on the wonderful internet resource DeathClock.com which purports to tell you, to the second, when you will die. Hah Hah funny.

Oddly though the article turns this topic into a positive and constructive messasge. Once the author sees that according to DeathClock.com he only has 18 years to go, he ups and quits his job:

Yes, just like that. Call me crazy. I worked as an editor and, ironically, my soon-to-be-former boss had once given me a copy of Malcolm Gladwell’s “Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking,” suggesting I needed to act more on impulse than rationality. I had previously underlined this particular section: “Decisions made very quickly can be every bit as good as decisions made cautiously and deliberately.

I skipped by the article online, came back the next day, read it again. Still I didn’t have the ‘nerve’ to visit DeathClock.com.

Realizing that 90% of what you find on the web is created by a pimply brazillian teenager working in the middle of the night (nothing against pimples) you know that you can’t take something like DeathClock.com seriously. Still it took me a few more days to visit DeathClock.com. And you know it didn’t depress me at all, it instead served as a kick in the pants to do more of the things that I love to do, and, as it says in the bible (?) “Don’t put off to tomorrow what you can do today!”

That’s my message to you, too.
Retail Sector spending big on Digital Ads
By: Paul Dughi
Tags: Trends, Retail, Shopping, Digital Marketing, Advertising

eMarketer’s tracking of digital ad spend shows continued spending growth. They predict 2017 will see an increase of 15.8% in the retail sector -the largest spending category. They predict double digit growth in retail online ad spend through the next 3 years.

Digital video, per eMarketer, will account for 31% of retail display ad spent this year — increasing by 25% from 2016.

Mobile advertising is the clear focus for retail, accounting for 70% of digital ad spend in 2017.

When it comes to other media, retailers are still spending big on Television, dwarfing all other categories combined. Digital companies are using television, too. Did you notice who was the presenting sponsor for the World Series on broadcast TV this year? Google.

You can get the full report on Retail Ad Spending Trends by clicking here and signing up.
2020 in Pictures — The Year You Will Never Forget
Tags: World, History, 2020, Culture, Photography

Lessons from History is a platform for writers who share ideas and inspirational stories from world history. The objective is to promote history on Medium and demonstrate the value of historical writing.

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On Going Nomad
By: Jeff Jonas
Tags: Life Hacking, Remote Working, Minimalism, Nomad, Life Lessons

That Rock

Over a 45 day period I got rid of almost everything I owned. I’m now a nomadic CEO, running my company from wherever I need or want to be. It all began when I realized I had boxes of stuff under my bed and in the garage that I would probably never open again. And clothes in my closet I’ve owned for years, even decades, and most certainly will never wear again. With this realization I instantly felt disgusted with myself.

I reduced my possessions to under 200 pounds.

My 60-plus Ironman finisher triathlon medals are gone. All my keepsakes, except for three framed items, are gone. Books are gone. Furniture is gone. I don’t have a vehicle or a storage unit.

My empty house in Venice, CA is for sale.

Since Aug 23, 2018 I’ve had no bed I call my own. I’ve been staying in hotels, co-live/co-work facilities or with friends. My 81 pounds of clothes live in a DUFL warehouse and are selectively FedExed to me as needed.

The hardest item for me to discard was a small rock I found as a child. I must have been somewhere between 8 and 11 years old when I found it. It was the shape of a perfect throwing stone. I imagined someday I would throw it at someone in self-defense to save a life, maybe my own. This small rock was the only thing I found as a kid and kept my whole life.

It’s January 1, 2019 and I have nothing in this world that is rusting, leaking or scraped. No plants in the yard I keep forgetting to tell the gardener about. Nothing that needs pointless maintenance, cleaning or dusting month after month. I am now utterly unencumbered from these mundane energy sucks and free to focus on building my company, Senzing, and deepening relationships with friends and family.

My plan is to live in various major cities for a few months each. Places where I have business to conduct and friendships to deepen.

I’ll be in full nomad mode until I decide to stop. I don’t know enough yet to commit to this lifestyle forever.

[One caveat: I still have my boat.]
Ruby Hash
By: Daniel Liu
Tags: Hash, Programming, Ruby on Rails, Ruby, Data Structures

Overview

A hash in ruby is a key-value pair similar to a dictionary in python. It is unordered, changeable and indexed like a dictionary. The keys and values are not stored in any specific order, you can change the values of keys and it is indexed because each key has one value and it is accessed by passing the key value.

New Hash

There are different ways to create a hash. One way is using the constructor and passing in a single value or no value. If you pass a value to the constructor the default value will be thee value that was passed if the key does not exist.

hash = Hash.new("hello")

puts hash[0]

>> hello

puts hash["a"]

>> hello

To create a hash with existing keys and values you can use Hash and brackets or just use curly braces.

hash = Hash["a"=>1, "b"=>2]

hash2 = {"a"=>1, "b"=>2}

puts hash["a"]

>> 1

puts hash["b"]

>> 2

puts hash2["a"]

>> 1

puts hash2["b"]

>> 2

puts hash == hash2

>> true

Read

To access values from a hash you need to pass the key to a hash inside the square brackets.

hash = {"a"=>1, "b"=>2}

puts hash["a"]

>> 1

puts hash["b"]

>> 2

Update

To add a new key value pair or to update a existing key you need to access the key and provide it a value.

hash = {"a"=>1, "b"=>2}

hash["a"] = 3

hash["c"] = 4

puts hash["a"]

>> 3

puts hash["c"]

>> 4

Iteration

To go through all the keys and values of the hash you can use the each method.

hash = {"a"=>1, "b"=>2}

hash.each do |key,value|

puts "#{key}-#{value}"

end

>> a-1

>> b-2

Length

To get the length of the hash you can use the length method.

hash = {"a"=>1, "b"=>2}

puts hash.length

>> 2

Keys and Values

To get all the keys in the hash you can use the keys method to get an array of all keys.

hash = {"a"=>1, "b"=>2}

puts hash.keys

>> a

>> b

Similarly to get all values in the hash you can use the values method to get an array of all values.

hash = {"a"=>1, "b"=>2}

puts hash.values

>> 1

>> 2

Delete

To delete the key and value in the hash you would use the delete method and pass it the key. If the key does not exist there is no errors thrown. If the key exists it will return the value of the key.

hash = {"a"=>1, "b"=>2}

puts hash.delete("c")

>>

puts hash.delete("a")

>> 1

puts hash["a"]

>>

Copy

To get a copy of the hash you can use the dup or clone method.

hash = {"a"=>1, "b"=>2}

hash2 = hash.dup

hash3 = hash.clone

puts hash == hash2

>> true

puts hash == hash3

>> true

puts hash2 == hash3

>> true

Conclusion

Hash is similar to Pythons dictionary and Javas Hashmap where both support key value pairs, do not have duplicate keys, are unordered, changeable and indexed. You would use hash when you want to associate certain values with keys.
Internet of Value
By: Gayan Samarakoon
Tags: Smart Contracts, Internet Of Value, Blockchain, Bitcoin, Dapps

Blockchain is ushering in the Internet Of Value

The “Internet of value” is in a world where money changes hands at the speed of information movement today.

Transactions can occur in real-time and across global networks, addressing the problem of cross-border payment systems that are not interoperable today.

As an example, The U.S. system cannot easily communicate with the European system. This is similar to times before the advent of the internet where communication methods such as an international phone call were incredibly expensive and beyond the reach of many. Surprisingly we now take this for granted. There are now instant global, free communication networks, which didn’t just replace phone calls and letters but ushered in new models you could have never imagined.

This is what the internet of value represents. Now there is a technology that solves this problem of a lack of interoperability between networks and allows value to move like information.

Why now and not before? Until now, confirmation of value transfer required a central operator. Hence, some network operator in a country or a private enterprise to be the central authority to say that value moved.

The arrival of distributed ledger systems can now eliminate this central operator, thus removing a key problem.

Internet of Value

[1] “What is an Internet of Value? — CME Open Markets — CME Group.” 26 Aug.2015, http://openmarkets.cmegroup.com/10381/what-is-an-internet-of-value.

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From Afterthought to Everyone’s Business: Diversity Matters Now
By: Ivana Markovic
Tags: Company Culture, Diversity, Inclusion, Team Building

I’m passionate about talent management and culture. My objective is to make Osedea the best workplace for our team.

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Managing Your Dotfiles With Git
By: Eric Chi
Tags: Github, Git, Programming, Software Development, Tutorial

Step 1. Create a Repository

I like to make a lot of assumptions, which is bad, but this case is no different. I’m going to assume you know what Git is. If you don’t know what Git is, I’d suggest you look into it as it’s a very important tool for programmers.

To begin, I’m going to create a new repository called sample-dotfiles . Keep in mind, you can name this repo whatever you like.

I will be using GitHub in this article, but feel free to use whatever service you like for managing repositories. Keep in mind that if you have sensitive information in your dotfiles, then I would suggest making this repo private. Or if you just don’t want anyone else to see it, I would suggest making the repo private.

Creating a new repo in GitHub

Alright, once we have created our new repo for our dotfiles, let’s go ahead and clone it onto our machine by copying the clone button on GitHub.

git clone git@github.com:{github_user_name}/sample-dotfiles.git

Or if you are using HTTPS:

git clone https://github.com/{github_user_name}/sample-dotfiles.git

Now that you have your repo all set up, you’d ask yourself, “Oh, don’t we just add everything into this repo and send it up?” Yes and no. We are going to want to keep our dotfiles in their original place, which is usually in our home directory of a user. We are going to use this repo to store symlinks to our original dotfiles, which will make it seem like nothing has changed. It’s programming magic at its finest.
Square Peg ♡ Round Hole
By: Joe Váradi
Tags: Humor, Fiction Friday, Relationships, Love, Allegory

Square Peg had been on edge.

In a world of contours and nuance, of free-flowing forms, he saw himself as — a misfit.

Surrounded by ebullient personalities, of nebulous shapes and sizes, he was — an outsider.

He felt cornered.

There was that persistent pressure, pounding his every square inch.

He was afraid that he might crack, buckle and implode.
HTML/CSS — Done
By: Stephen Roberts
Tags: Coding, Codeacademy, Code, CSS, HTML

Not quite…

I’ve completed the preview HTML & CCS course on Code Academy and overall I’m very happy with what I’ve learnt. Editing classes of code so they all have a standard style, manipulating the box model, through to setting background images and inserting tables — this was a good course to pick up the basics of HTML/CSS.

The course is very user-friendly and much easier to pick up than the Ruby course. If I’d had my time over I would have started with this before moving onto Ruby later, just to get a taste of programming first. But in the end it’s all good. It was a good confidence boost to fully understand everything I was doing and seeing the big impact some simple changes can make to the format of a webpage. I still feel like I understood the majority of the Ruby course, but I would definitely need to keep referring back if I were to ever move onto a Ruby project. But that’s exactly how it’s supposed to be given I’m a complete novice. So I’m on the right track at least…

Lots of notation in HTML/CSS are pretty intuitive, e.g. font-size sets….the…font….size.

There are some trickier things to consider, like the sizing of boxes in the box model, and how sizing can be set with regards to pixels, ems, or by relative percentage. I’ve almost resigned to not learning hex colours — how can you even interpret those codes?!!!

When moving through the course you start to think how you would start such a project from scratch, and it really drives home the importance of planning. Sketching out how you want your website to look and interact — I can see this saving a lot of time in the long run. Failing to prepare and all that jazz…

I’ve caught the bug now. It’s daunting at the start when you see over half a dozen languages being streamed off when you google “What do you need to become a web developer” but in reality I think there’s a lot of cross-over and it’s more about syntax differences. To me it looks like you want to learn to program in general terms, and then the individual languages are just tools to help you get to that end point (but i could be very wrong!).

So HTML was the content. CSS is the style of the content. But it’s all very static at the moment. The natural transition leads me to JavaScript. So starting tomorrow I’ll be cracking on with the preview JavaScript module to get a taste of the most used language on the web (or so YouTube keeps telling me!).

I’ve also signed up to General Academy’s Dash project. It’s a free course and provides instruction on making 5 different projects:

Building a personal website

Build a responsive blog theme

Build a small business website

Build a CSS robot

Build a madlibs game

I think once I’ve gone through JavaScript then this project will help to cement the knowledge I’ve gained over the past couple of weeks. I’m hoping the course will teach how it’s all done from scratch and guide me through the process without too much spoon-feeding. Code Academy was great to give you snippets of info and helpe you though those tasks, but now I’d like to really improve my knowledge with less hand-holding.
Waves
By: Anna Rozwadowska
Tags: Poetry, Humanity, Love, Ancestry, A Cornered Gurl

Beyond the dance of our ancestors, engagement within a threshold of range,

questionable spaces between life and love appear,

sometimes, in the midst of emptying the empty deserts

filling quiet skies, loving, deserted bodies,

life-giving oxygen hath been blown into arrivals of deserted winds.

It is this, that the bequeath of will adores,

simply violets in sandy fingers, findings of joy within sandcastles,

beaches are flowing as currents idly wander by,

hushing the noises is sacred twinning,

beautified crystals within caves; love being all that matters.
Use Express.JS as a Web Server
By: Hussain Arif
Tags: Node, Nodejs, Coding, Programming, JavaScript

What is Express and What Makes It So Great?

Express is the most popular Node.JS framework to handle multiple different HTTP requests at a specific URL. Furthermore, it’s minimal, open-source, and flexible which aids the developer to invest less effort and time into developing even better websites and apps.

With tech giants like Uber and Twitter using it, surely it must be an amazing tool. It adds dead-simple routing and essentially shortens the lines of code that is needed to handle web requests.

Let me illustrate an example:

Reusing the code from my previous article:Use Node.JS as a Web Server, here is an example using the http module in NodeJS

Now let’s rewrite this using the Express API:
She did Understand Me
Tags: Children, Mothers, Listen, Love, Microfiction

A week after her funeral, their attorney visited to discuss her will.

“The estate, including $500,000, the cottage, and the Mercedes to her younger son.”

“She did understand my needs,” sobbed Jack.
DSE2: G3 Data Analytics of Covid-19
Tags: Botnoi, Botnoi Classroom

This publication consists of articles related to Data science and AI written from Botnoi’s data scientists and students.

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Me Inc.
By: Alok Tyagi
Tags: Kaizen, Enterpreneurship, Organization Development, Personal

Are you the CEO of your destiny who is investing towards your future — learning and sharpening the game?

Great musicians never stop trying to improve; great athletes never stop trying to improve — so why should that not be true for everyone else.

However, it is rather common that many of us stop investing towards learning once formal education is over. Class room education may stop but quest for learning and keeping up with the changing landscape should remain high on the personal agenda. Whatever it is that one want to be better at — can be better — should a person keep hunger in the belly to learn and create opportunities to apply.

It remain a key difference that set apart individuals who succeed from others. Successful individuals never stop applying new learning. They can be gauged by their curiosity to learn and apply everyday. One key metrics — just check their book shelf. It is common for them to read several books a month.

So ask yourself — what is competing for your time that takes away personal obligation towards investing in yourself and learning?

One way is to make a commitment — find books/on-line material/social networking groups/etc. that are relevant to an individual profession and get started. Good books can be the single best personal investment and life mentor.

I say let’s start today.
Christmas Haiku
By: Danita Hall
Tags: Christmas, Haiku, Pandemic, Poem, Covid 19

Christmas Haiku

Be Safe This Holiday Season

Christmas time is here

But COVID is still lurking

So STAY home this year

Danita Hall is a human by day and a Humor, Parenting, Lifestyle, Ranting, Poem Writing Blogger by night. Click here to read past blog posts and stay connected on Facebook and Twitter
What Programming Language Will YOU Learn First?
By: Claire Yan
Tags: Stackoverflow Survey, Data Analysis, Programming Languages

Photo by Max Chen on Unsplash

What Programming Language Will YOU Learn First?

A data based approach using 2017–2019 StackOverflow Developer Survey Results.

Introduction

I still remember the day when I started writing my first line of code around 13 years old — at an extra-curricular coding class for FORTRAN. There were not many languages to choose from like nowadays, but having a good choice of learning priorities could possibly make a difference in the long run.

What Programming Language Will YOU Learn First?

Let’s import antigravity. Photo by Niketh Vellanki on Unsplash

Depending on what we want to achieve, there maybe several programming languages that all handle the task well. To support our decisions better, let’s check out what languages current developers are working with in recent years.

In the following sessions, I used the data from StackOverflow’s Developer Survey during 2017–2019 to take a closer look at the different aspects of programing languages from a statistical view. Here is a brief introduction of the number of respondents in each year:
Up, Down and Up
By: Terry Mansfield
Tags: Humor, Stock Market, Poetry, Poem, Stocks

Up, Down and Up

The stock market acts funny.

With everybody’s money.

Up then down then up it goes.

Just the normal ebbs and flows.

Although this makes one nervous,

One must be impervious.

For likely things will be fine.

If they’re given enough time.
Crypto and Taxes — The Basics Part 1
By: Dorian Kersch
Tags: Bitcoin Mining, Cryptocurrency, Taxes, Ethereum, Bitcoin

Below is Part 1 of 3 on how to file your cryptocurrency taxes.

Part 1 will go over the basics of creating a capital gains/loss report. We will touch on things like cost basis, 1099B, etc.

Part 2 will go into “How do I know if I need to pay taxes”. We will go over use cases such as buying altcoins, mining, donating, etc.

Part 3 will go into some of the tools / services out there to help you calculate the reports.
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Tags: Algorithms, 港股, 香港, 交易, 投資

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What they’re saying… Industry
By: Segwit Resources
Tags: Statements, Bitcoin, Blockchain

We see Segregated Witness as a fix of many holes left in the Bitcoin protocol, which do need to be fixed. Problems like quadratic scaling during transaction signing, malleability issues, the inability to know the value of an input… Yes, Segregated Witness is a pretty complex solution, but these issues cannot be fixed much [more easlily]. It is also one of the most tested changes in Bitcoin history. — Marek Palatinus — Slush Pool
Ascension
By: Johannes Mudi
Tags: Assumption, Lovethyself, Know Thyself Heal Thyself, Life Lessons, Poetry

Ascension

We Rise By Lifting Others

Photo by Noah Buscher on Unsplash

Was lost in thoughts when I looked around

But felt consoled with what I found

A man with greater need lost in grief

Quietly aspiring to live my dreams

When I thought I’d lost it all

The world crumbling at my door

I’m still a blessing to one in need?



Dark clouds may roam

Without control

But for a while

There must be dawn

A clear blue sky

When inner light begins to blink

Broken heart a wholesome piece

But first I must survive the strife

I must walk through life’s blazing fires

Endure the bashing of its chilling winds

Each day give hope a chance

Come rain, come sunshine
Becoming Rich
By: G M Potter
Tags: Rich, Wealth, Income Inequality, Money, Income

Becoming Rich

It is always about trading time for money

Photo by Qasim Sadiq on Unsplash

One day when I was about 11 years old, my father said to me, “sometimes you have to do things that you don’t want to do.”

This was very disappointing to me when I was 11. Crushing, in fact. I’ve always remembered that moment not because I blame him for pointing out the facts of life but to thank him for pointing them out. His message was one of empathy and sympathy and kindness. A part of me knew at the time that he was trying to be my father in the best way he could.

I have carried that message with me to every job and career I have ever had.

If your path is leading you to become richer financially, or you wish it were, you have probably reached the conclusion that you will have to trade your time for money in some way or another. Except for those in this world who are already rich, each of us will trade our time for compensation, and we call this a job.

Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash

Some of my jobs did not earn very much for the same amount of hours and minutes I offered. I have worked as a carpenter, a dishwasher, and as a soldier. In each of these choices, I was exchanging my time for income, yet in each of these specific cases, I got something more than just money for my time even though none of them paid me very much money.

Some jobs are as equally lopsided in the opposite manner. I’ve worked as a car salesman, a photocopier salesman, and as a financial advisor for a Fortune 100 company. I had agreed to the exchange rate for the money, and I accepted the difficulty or dissatisfaction with both eyes on my income and both ears listening to my father.

Any job or occupation can be seen this way. Taking the job means we accept the terms of the exchange of money for our time. The trick, of course, is to find terms of an exchange that are satisfactory to our sense of what our time is really worth.

I loved the years I spent working as a carpenter. Equally, I was quite content to work as a dishwasher in a restaurant because of what it allowed me to do outside the restaurant. The exchange, at the time, was worth it to me.

I put up with the 80-hour workweeks as a financial advisor and the emotionally depleting position as a car salesman simply because I was making really good money. The exchange was also worth it to me.

The rates of the exchange can evolve over time

Had I stayed as a financial advisor, the long hours and impatience with the corporate environment would have fallen away completely. I would now be making an incredible amount of money each month and have very little corporate contact. And I wouldn’t be working more than 30 hours a week.
Hello, My Name is Karma
Tags: Comedy, Humor, Web Series, Life, Self Improvement

I’m only a beyotch if you are

Karma — source: the author

Seriously, I’ve been getting a bad wrap for like, 2,000 years now.

I’m over it. I mean, you, humans, blame me for EVERYTHING. Oh, blah blah blah happened? Must have been karma! You got such and such? That’s karma for ya! You won! You must have great karma!

It’s not as simple as all that.

If you’re really a mean person you’re going to come back as a fly and eat poop.

― Kurt Cobain

Um… yeah, I don’t have that kind of super gross power, Kurt. I just don’t.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

― Wayne W. Dyer

I dig Wayne and all but I’m telling you now, I might not immediately get to that person who did you wrong. Not just because my plate is full these days, but because I need to do a lot of background research to find out how wrong it was or if it was wrong at all. I’m judge and jury and that’s… a lot. Sure God helps out when he can, but then he comes in with all sorts of other criteria that I just don’t get at all, quite frankly.

I’m not the punisher.

What am I then? In a nutshell, according to eastern religions, I’m cause and effect. The cause and effect in your own life, that you create, within you. You are creating your good and bad, not me. In Sanskrit, my name means, action. I am energy created by your willful action. You can change your karma by changing your thoughts and actions.

But most humans just don’t get it. So I was sent to earth in a human body to assist you with the righting of the wrongs.

Sure, it may resemble punishment sometimes, but, ah, heck, just watch and decide for yourself.

And be good. (Or else.) 😳

Watch Karma in action for free here:

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Can You Love Yourself?
By: Nicole Ivy
Tags: Questions, Self Love, Authenticity, Life Lessons, Life

Red by Nicole Ivy

Can you love yourself completely? What about when you’re not wearing any makeup? Or when you’re hair has frizz on top of frizz? What about when you just did something you really shouldn’t have done. What about when you don’t know the answers? Can you love yourself when others don’t? Or won’t?

Can you let yourself say something that may turn heads and possibly turn people against you? Can you be honest about the way you feel all of the time? Are you able to take off your mask? Do you even know the face underneath?

Can you love yourself when you face criticism, and all the negative beliefs you have about yourself are recited back to you by someone you love and respect? Can you love yourself when you’re not achieving anything? When you haven’t been productive and have nothing to show for the day, or the week? Do you still need proof you are worthy?

Can you love yourself alone? Can you love yourself in a relationship? Can you love yourself enough to know that you deserve more than you give yourself permission for?

Unless we are all answering YES to all these questions, we should be easing up on ourselves. Loving you is your number one job. It comes before everything else. If we don’t know and love ourselves, everything else that comes from you is tainted with inauthenticity and emptiness.

Fill your cup. And you drink first.