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Explore What’s HOT at ALAX’s Booth in China Joy 2019!
Tags: Alaxblog, Android, App Store, Shanghai, China

First time China Joy and we cannot stress our excitement enough!

ChinaJoy — Highly industry-recognised event is landing in Shanghai this August! Save the date and markdown our booth now!!!! We will be attending this huge event held from 2–5 August 2019 at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre. Mark our booth: BTOB AREA, A564.

We are SUPER excited to present the first look of our booth at China Joy 2019 and cannot wait to meet and connect with industry players in this HUGE Asian market!

To celebrate our first time at China Joy, ALAX has come up with a brand new selection of souvenirs including Tote bag, keychains etc! Hints: the keyring with Mascot — MAX is our personal favourite!

During the course of the event, we will be launching our new app: ALAX Merchant. This app is not for gamers and only for the token distributors who will sell AIA token for us. Want to dig into details about this new app? Ask as much as you want at China Joy!

Ensure you mark down your booth and come to say hello to us at Booth: A564 BTOB area.

Heads up for more updates and details for China Joy 2019!

The latest information about this event will always be updated on our social media channels, please follow it! We look forward to seeing you in person at ChinaJoy!
Who Said Holidays Can’t Be Spicy?
By: Melissa A. Matthews
Tags: Drinks, Culture, Holidays, Recipe, Tradition

Who Said Holidays Can’t Be Spicy?

Spice up your holiday drink menu with this extra special cocktail/mocktail.

For many of us, holidays are steeped in tradition. It’s a time for honoring our families , histories, and cultures — a time to pass down all of the important recipes so that they survive for upcoming generations. Traditionally, here in Trinidad we have a few staple drinks that are on everyone’s table, ponche de creme, sorrel, and ginger beer. I love making them, conjuring memories of childhood and creating new memories with my daughter. In fact, I have a great vegan recipe for ponche de creme — think Caribbean eggnog — and even a twist on ginger beer that I’ll be posting soon. However, as wonderful as tradition is, sometimes, I want to create new rituals — spice things up.

This year, I decided to freestyle my own holiday version of a shandy. Typically, a shandy is a blend of beer and fruit juice. It’s so popular here that our largest local brewery produces a bottled shandy in several flavors and it can even be found in the United States (probably anywhere that Caribbean people live LOL). My version is tailor made for the holidays, though and doesn’t contain any of the flavors I’m familiar with locally. I decided to use ginger ale and club soda to do a mocktail version for the kids and light beer for the adult cocktail.
3 Mostly Forgotten Vital Parts of a Business Story
By: Christian Soschner
Tags: Life Lessons, Startup, Entrepreneurship, Business, Leadership

3 Mostly Forgotten Vital Parts of a Business Story

What You Need to Have Before Raising Money

All pictures in the article are CANVA Pro Images

SARS-CoV-2 or the disease it causes COVID 19 hit the news in 2020. Everybody is aware of the situation we are in. As Europe got into the first lockdown, I was approached by many investors and companies to help them raising or investing money.

Some wanted to help humanity. Others wanted to make money. Both are just claims in the business world. Yet, I declined most offers and only picked up a few opportunities.

All pictures in the article are CANVA Pro Images

When everybody rushes to the market, how can an entrepreneur stand out?

The situation reminded me of the term “Gold Rush Mood.” I learned it at the university as the first “Internet Gold Rush” came up. Every trend that goes into a bubble seems to be attributed to the term “Gold Rush Mood.”

The term was probably coined back when the human race experienced gold rushes in the wild wild west. Everybody wants to go there where the gold needs to be picked up. Yet, only a few are willing to do what is necessary.

Meaning putting the work in. Definitely, in every gold rush, win those who produce and sell the shovels needed to dig for gold.

In March, everything looked like a new gold rush started. Yes, I know, it comes across sarcastic as a pandemic can cost lives. In fact, many people really wanted to help. Investors were flooding to the life science industry.

As did companies who wanted to develop something that helps to fight the pandemic. Public funds set up novel schemes to support companies who are working on a solution.

I always checked whether a company has 3 pre-requisites before recommending it for investments, also in this case. I want to make sure to separate the wheat from the chaff.

What are these 3 things I consider important?

All pictures in the article are CANVA Pro Images

Vision

“People don’t buy what you do; they buy why you do it. And what you do simply proves what you believe” — Simon Sinek

One of the books I love the most has been written by Simon Sinek. He emphasizes the importance of knowing.

Why you do what you do

In my consulting and seminars, I call it having a vision. Your vision defines your long term goal. It is what you want yourself, your team, and your company to become.

It is what you want to contribute to society.

For example, a vision in Life Science is:

I want to cure cancer. I want people to live a happy, healthy, and long life without a deadly disease burden.

The vision statements want to answer questions like:
Blockchain Quantum Computer Threat & Resistance?
By: Divi Cryptocurrency
Tags: Token Sale, ICO, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Quantum Computing

We sat down with our blockchain advisor, Daniel Kraft, to ask about quantum computers and what to do to make sure Divi’s blockchain is “future-proof” against them when they become available in a few years. We thought people would ask us about this and wanted to be prepared with an answer.

So we asked him: What about Quantum Computer attack resistance? Can we just double the key length? This wikipedia article makes it seem like it’s that easy: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography)

Response:

There are two different main algorithms that a quantum computer would enable:

Shor’s Algorithm: This one is the main reason why a QC would break a lot of encryption. Basically, it means that a QC is able to compute the private key to a public key quickly, for the most popular encryption systems (including RSA and also ECDSA as used by Bitcoin and most other cryptos). For Shor’s algorithm, it won’t help to double (or otherwise increase) the key size — the only weak protection from longer keys may come from the fact that it is more difficult to build a QC with many qubits (so if you have keys longer than the maximum possible qubit size at the moment, you are still somewhat safe — but that is very fragile protection).

Gopher’s Algorithm: This allows to speed up things like finding a pre-image or a hash — substantially, but not in a way that absolutely breaks things. To counteract Gopher’s algorithm, doubling the key size (or length of a hash function) is precisely what one needs.

With respect to security in Bitcoin (and thus mostly all other cryptos as well), it looks like this: If an attacker with a QC knows your ECDSA public key, then they can steal your coins — and increasing the key size won’t help. However, if you have never used an address before, the address alone *won’t* reveal your public key — as the address adds another layer of hash around the public key. So coins in addresses that haven’t been used ever are mostly safe against QCs — at least up to some practical difficulties in how to enable spending of these outputs without making the unconfirmed transaction (which reveals the public key) vulnerable to a QC attack.

I think that for now, though, worries about quantum computers are not yet really relevant; and if there would be a practical QC, then there are probably bigger problems than Bitcoin being broken — since basically all the world’s communications would become vulnerable. When a QC seems possible, it will always be possible to upgrade the protocol to quantum-resistant crypto. (BTW, there’s almost regularly a thread or two popping up on Bitcointalk asking about quantum computers — so if anyone is interested, you should be able to find a lot of good discussions about this topic there.) https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1749803.0

More info: http://www.cryptomorrow.com/2017/10/21/quantum-resistant-cryptocurrencies
VIFF — A Private War. Marie Colvin is a hero. As a war…
By: Jennifer Hammersmark
Tags: Press, War, Movie Review, Reporter, Review

tiff.net

Marie Colvin is a hero. As a war correspondent, it was her mission to bear witness to the world’s atrocities, and give voice to those who had none. She did this, however, at great cost.

As one would expect, racing to the frontlines of war zones can take it’s toll. Not only did Marie lose an eye, and eventually her life, she also lost relationships, her mind once in a while, and even herself. Secondary or vicarious trauma, as it is called, is a real deal and her story illustrates it’s devastation.

From VIFF:
31Events Builder Bob Series: Calendar Invite Inside a Flip Button
By: Arnie Mckinnis
Tags: WordPress, Marketing, Jsfiddle, Codepen, Calendar

One of the things we are always doing is stretching ourselves, see how create new eye catching designs, using 31Events and industry standards (like HTML, CSS & Javascript) along with tools you use today — like WordPress, Canva, MailChimp, etc.

Well, this weekend, I was playing around with Codepen.io and found the coolest button ever — you mouse over and it flips down. I thought, it would be the coolest thing to use it to popup one of our opt-in calendar modals. Check it out below …

I also decided to do a version that is a bit more mobile friendly over at JSFiddle.net … here’s the link.

And finally, click here for a landing page view (without all the distractions around it).

Feel free to grab the code, or fork it and create your own version. We love to see new designs, so if you do something really cool, put the link in the comments so we can check it out!
Buy/sell StormX (STMX) on WazirX
By: Wazirx Bitcoin Exchange
Tags: Announcements, Cryptocurrency, Stormx, Crypto, Cryptocurrency News

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STMX Trivia

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Domestic
By: Juliette Roanoke
Tags: Poetry, Relationships, This Happened To Me, Mental Health, Parenting

I

should

leave this place,

leave these bottles and their glass,

the anger, the threat,

leave the violence

No more fret

Yes,

yes I should

I should run fast

I should make an escape

I’ll grab my daughter and we’ll go

We’ll find a new place,

find a new home

together

away,

away from this place,

find a new space for us two

We will not be bothering you,

won’t be calling on you

won't be harmed —

We are through

me and you

Just me

Yes

That’s who,

that’s who I’ll be

I’ll just be me, you be you

She’s all I want, and happily

we’ll share our time alone

in a space of our own

No man to speak of

No man to throw

words that sear

and that burn

my heart,

home,

Me,

Her

our daughter

No, my daughter

she couldn’t be better —

She won’t be better until I go,

until I flee away from you

I’ll grab her and we’ll go

It’s right, she’ll know

But I’m still here,

frozen in fear

Frozen.

Here.
Otsu’s Method for Image Segmentation
By: Google Earth
Tags: Earth Engine, Image Processing, Geospatial, GIS, Satellite Imagery

Sure, you could click around with the inspector and use trial and error until you find a threshold that looks right, but it wouldn’t be optimal. First, let’s define optimal as Otsu did: whatever partition of the data that maximizes inter-class variance (equivalently, minimizes the sum of intra-class variances). Define inter-class variance as BSS/p, where BSS (between-sum-of-squares) is

In our case, there are two classes so p=2. Here we’re using the between-sum-of-squares (BSS) terminology to indicate that this is a general method to describe the variance structure of a dataset. DN is the digital numbers of the NIR band, where D͞Nₖ indicates the mean digital number in class k and D͞N is the mean digital number of the entire dataset. Class k is defined by every DN less than some threshold. We’re looking for that threshold that maximizes the BSS.

We’re not going to search exhaustively. We’re just going to search over the thresholds that are represented by the bins in a histogram. The advantage of that approach is that it only requires a single pass over the data. At each bin of the histogram, define class k as the pixels in that bin and lower. Class k+1 is everything else. Here’s the implementation as a function, which takes the output of an image.reduceRegion(ee.Reducer.histogram()) :

The function looks at every possible partition of the input data defined by the bins of the histogram, then returns the mean associated with the bin that maximizes the BSS. This works better when you strategically choose the region for which the histogram is generated. For example, by choosing a region in the image that has water and land in approximately equal proportion, we can get a rudimentary water mask:

(Landsat 2017)

For interested readers, here’s a link to the code that generates the images.

Happy coding!

Graphics by Chris Herwig
Introducing GuildChat — An app that makes crypto simple for everyone
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Crypto, Bitcoin, Trx, Blockchain

Introducing GuildChat — An app that makes crypto simple for everyone

Open BETA for our latest app can now be downloaded

We just launched the open BETA of our latest endeavor, GuildChat.

We’re excited to bring this new app to the market, with our primary goal being to provide the simplest solution for using cryptocurrency in everyday life.

To promote the launch of GuildChat’s open beta, we’ll be giving away 5 Million TRX via our Coin Drop feature. As soon as you join, you’ll be automatically invited to an official GuildChat group, so keep your eyes peeled for some free tokens! We’ll be doing PLAT Coin Drops as well, and are working on integrating other community reward features in the near future. Learn how to set up your wallet here.

GuildChat users will be able to send and receive any ERC20 and TRC10 tokens between friends and community members alike, through the integrated wallet features — all from within a simple and easy to use chat interface.

Our primary and most exciting of these features is the Coin Drop. It’s a really fun and easy way to send cryptocurrency to groups, allowing users to select the number of recipients, the type and number of tokens to send, as well specify how they would like the total number of tokens to be split — in even or random quantities among members.

Send and receive tokens in an innovative, fun, new way!

Store your tokens safely in both Centralized and Decentralized wallets!

By integrating these features into the core of GuildChat, and providing an engaging social ecosystem around them, we hope to create a place where both new and veteran cryptocurrency users can come together, pushing adoption to new and wider audiences.

Post special moments for your friends to see and interact with!

Participate in GuildChat’s Open BETA today and experience the first social networking app built for crypto enthusiasts:

Tell us what you think! Send all feedback to support@bitguild.com
Medium Fiction Publications
By: Medium Formatting
Tags: Publication, Médium, Fiction, Submission, Writing

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Elixir Protocols — Implementing Inspect over custom data type
Tags: Software Development, Tips, Elixir, Programming, Coding

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Elixir Protocols — Implementing Inspect over custom data type

Designing custom datatype inspection

Protocols are one of the concepts we don’t use often in our projects. I have been waiting for a moment to use protocols in one of my Elixir projects. I never got a chance to do so.

I gotta figure out myself. In one of my projects, I used to work with a large struct. Whenever I inspect the struct using IO.inspect it is printing the enormous struct with all the keys and values which I don’t care for.

So, I re-designed the inspect output for any specific type by implementing the Inspect protocol and overriding inspect function.

Let’s see the Code.

Defining a Struct

We can define a struct in elixir using defstruct

defmodule Student do

defstruct name: "John", place: "Earth", address: "black street", class: "Grade 3"

end

To keep this simple, I’m using a simple struct here.

We all know that each struct in Elixir defines a custom type as the module name. So, our custom type is Student here.

Implementing Inspect Protocol for Student type

We can implement any protocol using defimpl as

defimpl <protocol>, for: <data-type> do

…

end

So, our protocol is Inspect and our data-type is Student .

defimpl Inspect, for: Student do

...

end

Overriding the inspect

Inside defimpl , we need to override inspect function.

defimpl Inspect, for: Student do

def inspect(student, opts) do """

-----------|---------------------

Name : #{student.name}

-----------|---------------------

Place : #{student.place}

-----------|---------------------

"""

end

end

We are simply returning our beautiful framed struct with a limited number of keys. So, whenever we do inspect call over Student type, we can see this beautifully framed struct with keys Name and Place only.

Note:

I just defined the keys to be printed. But the protocols are not limited to this feature.

Hope you got the idea of usage on how to implement Inspect protocol over custom data type.

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Happy Coding !!
Usability testing in Germany
Tags: Software Development, UX, UI Design, UI, Agile

Caroline Gustafsson conducting usability testing

A couple of months ago we completed a usability test of an app in Germany for our client. We were a team that developed a check-in and check-out solution as an add-on to current apps. Before we got the go ahead for implementing the design, the strengths and weaknesses of the design needed to be investigated. And, in order for it to be tested in the the best possible way, it seemed only logical to test it in the right context — as a user.

So, we chose to complete a big field test in Germany, where we jumped on trains and used the app in its right environment. However, our Berlin colleagues were a little pressed for time, and the data really needed to be collected asap. So, we thought about how insights could be gained in the meantime — until they were able to be involved in the Berlin test scenario. We looked closer to home, and decided to add our feature into Skånetrafikens new app and test it on 10 co-workers. This was the most optimal way to test, with the least amount of effort, and with maximum value.

While testing at the office, we all had a lot of fun and it was exciting to be able to share this side of work with colleagues outside of the project. They were given a background story, about how they were travelling from Malmö Triangeln to Lund and how the conductor needed to control their ticket when they tested the app. It yielded some well-needed feedback that meant that improvements could be made straight away before the field test in Berlin.

prototype app screens

The outcome?

The findings in the Skånetrafiken version vs. the “real” version that we tested in Germany differed a lot. There was considerable focus on the UI side of things when trying it out with our colleges. When we tested it out in Germany, we found some flaws and were able to recommend changes to improve the whole user journey.

Receiving feedback this way also helped us to understand the expectations on the algorithm better.

Overall, the outcome successfully combined both a fun field experience and many useful insights that will ultimately make a difference for the product.
A beautiful process
By: Dan Mccarthy
Tags: Desire, Peter Gizzi, Love, Photography

Lines Depicting Simple Happiness

The shine on her buckle took precedence in sun

Her shine, I should say, could take me anywhere

It feels right to be up this close in tight wind

It feels right to notice all the shiny things about you

About you there is nothing I wouldn’t want to know

With you nothing is simple yet nothing is simpler

About you many good things come into relation

I think of proofs and grammar, vowel sounds, like

A is for knee socks, E for panties

I is for buttondown, O the blouse you wear

U is for hair clip, and Y your tight skirt

The music picks up again, I am the man I hope to be

The bright air hangs freely near your newly cut hair

It is so easy now to see gravity at work in your face

Easy to understand time, that dark process

To accept it as a beautiful process, your face

— Peter Gizzi

You protest when I take a photo of you but you don’t understand where I go when the editing program opens and I tweak the light and push the contrast and smooth out the grains. You think I’m touching up, erasing the imperfections. That’s not what I’m doing. The photograph isn’t you until I find you inside it, and every picture I have of you is the start of an exploration. It is a beautiful process, and you are the only one in the world who gives me that gift.

Happy Valentine’s Day.
6 Lessons I Learned in 2020 That Are Going To Stay With Me Forever
By: Shreya Badonia
Tags: Self Improvement, Life Lessons, Self-awareness, 2020, Pandemic

No matter how many memes we keep on making about 2020, this year was an eye-opener for most of us. Arduous and slow. Fragile and real.

I learned a lot about myself and about life during this challenging year. These are not the learning that you can disown once everything comes to normal — these are the lessons that will stay with me for a long period of time

1. We need little to survive

At the beginning of this year, I wanted to buy a new watch and a knee-length coat from Zara when it’s doesn't get that cold in Bangalore. The things I wanted to know was endless.

Once the lockdown was announced, I lost track of that list.

I was concerned about the essential and nothing beyond that fascinated me. Initially, I was worried about how I was going to manage without ordering outside food and the liberty to visit the supermarket and the apothecary.

When we understood that the virus would survive for 4–5 days depending on the surface, we stopped ordering and buying anything that we didn’t need. When so many people lost their jobs, and the pay cut became normal, our expenses came down drastically and the economy faced an outburst — we all learned that we need very little to survive.

“Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.”

— Edwin Way Teale

Most of the things we want are a decoration that's good for the ambiance but it doesn't help in keeping us warm in winter. This was a breakthrough lesson for me and a boon to my freedom.
What you learn when someone in sick!
By: Paul K Saunders
Tags: Singer Songwriter, Music, Indie Music, Music Production, Music Marketing

So someone close to me was recently sick.

This made me think that if all of your revenue and money making relies on you and your personal efforts when your sick that comes to a hard stop. And each day that passes you lose money.

This is totally true for all of you who are performers, in bands or are singer songwriters, if you can’t play you don’t get paid right!

So what is the solution, well back it the day it was called “mailbox money”, meaning a pay check that arrived in the mail for stuff done in the past such as song royalties, licensing fees and other residual incomes.

Now, I know all of you that are brand new are going to say but I have not got any of that, its ok cause I ‘m working on a way for you all to be able to have revenue all the time even when you don’t or can’t play.

Let me explain…

So you’re a brand new music artist, you record a track and make a video what now — in the old way you would would seek to play a ton of gigs to promote the track and try to sell merch and hope the clubs paid you at least enough for food and gas to the next gig.

But suppose I told you there was a way to invest in yourself and make residual income from this track and video and have it build up so that you got paid every month and then had enough for the next track and video and so on. Even getting to the point where you with be able to produce an album and still continue receiving revenue.

How does it work and how much does it cost to get started — well lets assume you have a track and a video which are both strong and well produced after all no matter what you have to have good music. Then we work with you to set up a marketing campaign that seeks to use paid ads to drive video views and audio plays so that you earn streaming revenue which also enables you to make back end sales of music, merch and even tickets to shows all while making money even if your not playing a ton of shows.

Bottom line, with a good track and a video and about $3,000 to launch the campaign, I can set up it up so that you will make around $6,000 a month in streaming revenue and if you recycle some of the money it will continue every month without additional investment by you.

Are you interested to know more…

Until we talk again…
Weekly Roundup: Library events, Shawnee soccer star, Food Bank CEO
By: Melissa Riker
Tags: New Jersey, Libraries, Soccer, Sports, Community

Weekly Roundup: Library events, Shawnee soccer star, Food Bank CEO

Catch up on what happened this week in Medford.

Letters from the library

Check out your opportunity to make holiday crafts at the Pinelands Branch Library this month. They’re offering wreath making and wine glass painting, along with yoga for adults and paws to read for children.

For dates and times, click here.

Shawnee senior takes a unique path to soccer success

With a soccer career that started by accident, Shawnee senior Donovan Wu has progressed immensely — although his story takes a route out of the ordinary.

Throughout his time as a soccer player for a Medford travel team, the Aaronson Real club team, Continental FC Academy and Philadelphia Union Academy, Wu faced some challenging decisions.

The full story can be found here.

Tabernacle resident earns new role as CEO of the Food Bank of South Jersey

Tabernacle resident Fred Wasiak is no stranger to the nonprofit world, spending the past 35 years in leadership roles throughout Massachusetts, Michigan, Connecticut, New York and New Jersey.

This includes his previous experience as CEO of YMCA Camp Ockanickon in Medford.

His personal goal is to enhance people’s lives in spirit, mind, body and heart, and through the Food Bank of South Jersey he feels he can do exactly that.

The full story can be found here.
Are You Better Than Yesterday?
By: The Blessed Hub
Tags: Personal Growth, Islam, Tips, Growth, Muslim

Make a list of the difficult, complex personal or professional improvements you’d like to make. It’s OK if you have a fairly long list. Now, for each item in the list, think about what you could do today to make yourself or that item better than yesterday. Tomorrow, look at the list again.

Was yesterday better than the day before? How can you make today better? Do it again the next day. Put it on your calendar. Spend two minutes thinking about this each morning.
How To Host a React Static Website on Azure
By: Bhargav Bachina
Tags: JavaScript, Cloud Computing, Azure, Web Development, React

How To Host a React Static Website on Azure

A step by step guide with an example project

Photo by Domenico Loia on Unsplash

There are a number of ways you can build a website with React such as Java with React, NodeJS with React, NGINX serving React, etc. For the single-page applications, all you need to do is to load the initial index.html. Once you load the index.html the React library kicks in and do the rest of the job like loading components, calling API calls, etc. What if there are no backend calls and you want to build a static website with React?

Azure CDN with blob storage is one of the options which provides low cost and highly reliable static website hosting solution. These static sites have only CCS, HTML, JS files, fonts, etc. In this post, we can see how we can build a static website with React and host that on Azure.

Example Project

Prerequisites

Host Static Website With Azure Blob Storage

Deliver With Azure CDN

Uploading With Azure CLI

Summary

Conclusion

Example Project

Here is an example project which we can put in the Azure blob storage for static website hosting. This is a simple profile page with a header and some sections.



git clone // clone the projectgit clone https://github.com/bbachi/my-profile-react.git // install dependencies and start the project

npm install

npm start

You can clone the project and run it on your machine. Here is the demonstration when you run it on your localhost and the port 3000.
A Common Right of Passage
By: James G Brennan
Tags: Life Lessons, Poetry On Medium, Vagabond Voices, Poetry, James G Brennan

This right of passage is one that exists not

to one such as me

in this foreign land I call home.

Money is the only language with a voice

met with smiles, and a warm wai greeting.

Recite the money mantra

to gain yearly acceptance into this land,

there is no permanence a family will bring.

No point wasting breath on any other words.

How much, how much, how much, it’s universal I believe.

A golden fleece at authority’s disposal may get

your needed acceptance; until the fleece has itself been fleeced.

At this point, you will no longer care for the desired

right of passage; or any other right of passage.
Benefits of Competitive Programming
By: Injurious Answer
Tags: Competitive Programming, Codeforces, Hackerearth, Codechef, Hackerrank

Photo by Danial RiCaRoS on Unsplash

Makes you faster and more focused

Taking part in programming contests make you a more disciplined, swift, and focused coder. In the competition, you must solve problems in a stressful situation and against time limit otherwise, you lose. Taking part in competitive programming teaches you how to be more focused on the task and not only complete it quickly, but accurately.

Helps you solve complicated problems

During the contest, you must solve difficult problems, which are not for ordinary programmers. While you are competing, you learn how to think out of the box. Eventually, it helps you prepare for a job because you can adapt comfortably and handle various types of situations.

Teaches you how to work in teams

Competitive programming helps you learn how to work together synchronously, as you must work with others on your team to complete the same task. It enables you to assess your team members strengths, weaknesses and effectively divide responsibilities between each other.

It helps you prepare for a career as a programmer

Sometimes some people receive job offers from companies immediately after participating in a coding competition. Participating in a coding competition is something you should highlight on your resume.

Makes you a desirable candidate to most companies

Participating in competitive contests is a great opportunity to be seen by FAANG and many others. These companies keep track of these types of events and participants to find talented employees.

There are a ton of websites where you can practice and participate in competitive programming contests like CodeChef, HackerRank, HackerEarth, Codeforces and many others. In my next post, I will be talking about the concepts which you should master in order to excel at competitive programming.
Healing and Familial Denial
By: Lisa Martens
Tags: Stress, Healing, Anxiety, Family, Mental Health

Healing and Familial Denial

What happens when your change is uncomfortable for others?

The little one has some anger issues…must be your side of the family. Photo by Daniel Cheung on Unsplash

I have a relative who has not worked as a waitress in over a decade.

And yet people still ask me, “Is she still a waitress at Friday’s?”

She’s had four corporate jobs and three kids since then.

What is going on?
Werewolf Road
By: Holly Jahangiri
Tags: Creativity, Werewolf, Art, Perspective, Digital Art

I am, once again, inspired by Timothy Key and his lonely, howling wolf:

Mine, apparently, just longs to take a bite out of the great sky-cookie, the full moon that has freed him, for a night or two, from the suited, strait-jacketed world of spreadsheets and shareholder presentations to run free in the forgotten foothills, to find a whole different perspective on blacktop and dotted lines that slice through the wilderness, connecting town to dreary town. Perhaps his boss is within howling distance. He hungers.
DevOps Skills ตอน เริ่มต้นใหม่กับ Docker - Level 1
By: Thitipat Inkham
Tags: Development, Artisan, Docker, How To, DevOps

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

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Building a team
Tags: Technology, Cryptocurrency, Tokenization, Blockchain, Sports

It is always a challenge to build a new company from the beginning. Globatalent is not exempt from this and the last three years have been a big challenge every single day.

I am used to building companies and teams. I have been a serial entrepreneur for almost twenty years. I still own part of some companies that I founded, others have failed and in others I made an exit. However, in all of them there were the same objective, building a team through leadership.

To be honest, building a team is a role that I have been doing almost all my life, thanks to being involved in professional sport. Since I was sixteen I had to organize the youth teams of a pro basketball club and then at the age of twenty two became General Manager (GM) of a pro basketball team. So I had to choose the best twelve players for my team. First lecture: players don’t perform the same at every club . Why? Different environment, teammates, etc.

Leadership? I still remember when I signed one of the best european players of the 90’s, Carlton Mayers, and converted a losing team to a winning team in just 24 hours. He had the fame of being very selfish, so in his first game with the team scored 24 points with only 3–4 shots; the rest were from the free line. He was MVP of the weekend and made 20 assists. Very easy, he made his teammates happy, won the game and became MVP just throwing 3–4 times during the game. Clever example of leadership and intelligence.

So my experience building teams have been used in all my companies and Globatalent is not an exemption.

I never tried to sign a teammate for Globatalent that was similar to me. We need different roles and skills but, most important, different personalities. But all of them must have the skill to analyze and argue.

We have different nationalities from all over the world and this is a plus for us. Blockchain revolution will help us to build a better world and Globatalent starts to have social impact in every part of the globe.

Globatalent is already focusing in its business development and we start to have the first athletes campaigns available worldwide and democratizing sport investment, where anybody can purchase tokens investing in clubs or athletes and getting future incomes from their earnings.

Having a look to how Blockchain is involved in sport: Tokyo will use this Technology for tickets and merchandising in the next Olympic Games, Real Madrid allowed purchasing Stadium Tour with Cryptocurrency through Blockchain and Borussia Dortmund launched a digital collectibles platform. Just a few examples of what this new Technology can do to improve the sports business.

My wish? To help all sports talent over the world to succeed in their careers.

By Sunil bhardwaj capo / CEO of Globatalent. Follow me on Twitter and Instagram!
BuzzFeed Partners With Rdio As it Pushes Into Music Space | Digital — Advertising Age
By: Ipg Media Lab
Tags: BuzzFeed, Rdio, Percolate, Music, Partnership

BuzzFeed Partners with Rdio as It Pushes into Music Space
NativShark: Language learning made simple.
By: Nicholas, Niko
Tags: Nativshark, Japanese, Press Release, Language Learning, Edtech

The backstory

NativShark’s mission is: Make learning simple.

The founders of the company were frustrated with the current state of language education, in which hopeful learners have to piece together a medley of resources if they have any hope of reaching an advanced level of proficiency.

NativShark’s answer to this problem was to create an education platform that only requires a student to show up every day, click “Study Now,” and make progress toward their goals. In short, it allows students to stop thinking about how to learn a language and instead make progress toward their fluency goals.
IDAP at Dubai’s International Crypto Currencies Investment Congress
By: Bitfex Exchange
Tags: Investment, Announcements, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Blockchain

Member of our team presented the IDAP project at the prestigious, International Crypto Currencies Investment Congress. Organised by the Agora Group at Dubai’s JW Marriott Marquis from September 23rd to September 25th, the event saw crypto investors and ICO projects come together for exploring opportunities in the emergent fields of digital currencies and blockchain.

IDAP’s CEO, Awanish Rajan along with CTO Murali Thakur, gave their presentation to an august gathering of investors. Both the presentation as well as the IDAP project were lauded by the audience.

The presentations by all the projects were followed by one-to-one interactions with the attendees. Here, further details about the IDAP project were explored and interested investors has personal interactions with the team members.

The team was also joined by Naviin Kapoor, our ICO Advisor. Overall, the team members and the project were highly appreciated at the Congress. Watch the video of the presentation delivered by IDAP team by clicking on link below:

To paraphrase from the speech delivered by Awanish during the presentation, ‘IDAP is playing a crucial part in the crypto revolution of today, by laying down a block of foundation for tomorrow’s digital financial markets.’
Bifrost will be invited to participate in the Xiamen Blockchain Summit, Weekly Report 25
By: Bifrost Finance
Tags: Liquidity, Defi, Polkadot, Stakingderivative, Blockchain

Bifrost will be invited to participate in the Xiamen Blockchain Summit, Weekly Report 25 Bifrost Finance Follow Sep 12 · 2 min read

Development

bifrost-eos-relay depends on upgrading RC6 and subxt 0.12

Compile and deploy PreCC3 nodes

Refactored the brml-assets module

bridge-iost module development

Dapp front end reconstruction

bifrost.js refactoring

Ecosystem

Bifrost staking derivatives series articles have been published and completed “ New DeFi Track: How to Balance staking voting rights and rewards”

The Bifrost Ambassador Program was released to assist the partner to select high-quality ambassadors and organize regular committee work report meetings.

Announce the winners Bifrost addresses and BNC numbers of Asgard CC2. Updated and published in Bifrost Wiki. Details: https://wiki.bifrost.finance/zh/events/finished/event-07.html

From September 17th to September 20th, Bifrost was invited to participate in the Xiamen Summit Polkadot DeFi Roundtable.

What is Bifrost ?

Bifrost is the DeFi project for PoS tokens, that include staking and liquidity both. It allows to get vToken for operations and delivering liqidity, plus you got staking rewards all the time your DOT, KSM,EOS or other token blocked by the smart-contract. You get reward from the Day 1 of nomination, without locking periods and can change your, for example, vKSM for KSM any time. BNC is the native token of Bifrost.

vToken can optimize transactions in multiple scenarios such as DeFi, Dapp, DEX, etc. When vToken is used as a collateral for lending, its staking income can offset part of the interest and realize low-interest borrowing.

With vToken you can hedge the risk of locked positions, DeFi & Staking double rewards and leverage Staking and other application scenarios.
Christmas Carolers Still Exist in 2020
By: Jill Kelley
Tags: Christianity, Learning, Poetry, 2020, Christmas

Knock, knock, knock

at the door.

“Hello.

Would you like us to sing for you?”

“Oh, yes, please, do,

But first, hold on,

let me get my husband.”

“We have carolers!

Come on!”

And they sing.

“We wish you a Merry Christmas!”

We listen.

And we smile.

“Thank you.

Merry Christmas.”

Joyfully, we watch

them go

on to the next house.
The Rocketmen
By: Andrew Thornebrooke
Tags: Lit Up, Poetry, Life, Writing, Science Fiction

Original image by OpenClipart-Vectors

There were rocketmen in our dreams back then.

Sitting on the hood of an old Chevy

We could see them plunging across the sky

And traveling from station to station.

They were strangers passing through strange lands where

Space was more than just vast emptiness.

We smoked cigarettes then, and spent the night

Listening to David Bowie’s “Blackstar.”

They did not see our light but all blinked out.

In that darkness, we shined on regardless.
How much longer can I carry this unspent love?
Tags: Love Letters, Poetry, Relationships, Ps I Love You, Love

How much longer can I carry this unspent love?

There is an affinity I keep hidden in the deepest depths of my heart.

When I feel brave I empty that pocket

And let myself feel, let this love free

So that all the particles and the invisible forces

That you have illuminated in me

Make their way across the great divide

And find a way to you.

Until there is no space left

Skin to skin, heart to heart

I am there, once again right beside you

And this time around, I don’t hold anything back

It’s as simple as this.

I reach out to hold your hand

And whisper words that require no reply.
The Pages of August
By: Priyanka Srivastava
Tags: Poetry, Literature, Letters From Li, Literary Impulse, Writing

Heartiest welcome to the new writers, Iva Hotko and Sneha Mankar who have joined Literary Impulse.

Few new announcements are lines up, do keep checking our social media feeds and join us there for other stories which we share there. Thanks a lot for the support and for sending colours of your life through poems and stories to us.

Literary Impulse sixth edition will be live on the website on the 31st of August.

You can read fifth edition stories here.
A Different Pen
By: Anne Harrison
Tags: Poetry, Grief, Weeds And Wildflowers, Life Lessons

A Different Pen

Some poetry

I’ve always loved books © A. Harrison

Words should

Fall

Onto

These pages

Images

Ideas

Conceits

Instead of

Nothing

If only I held

A different pen

Maybe then

I could write

With such beauty

Ink of a shimmering blue

Or perhaps a soft turquoise

Flowing from an ancient nib

Onto creamy parchment

Words I want to read

A story I want to live

If you enjoy my writing, please visit my blog Wise Men Fish Here , where (if you feel like contributing to my coffers) you can also buy my photos and my latest ebook of poetry, Songs of a Sad Summer. Thank you!
ICO Alert Crypto Minute: June 1, 2018
By: Joseph Argiro
Tags: American Express, South Korea, News, Blockchain, Crypto Minute

ICO Alert Crypto Minute: June 1, 2018

American Express launches a blockchain, South Korea warms to ICOs, Bitcoin company “Blockchain” hits 25 million crypto wallets, top gainers, big losers and more!

American Express Launches Rewards Blockchain

According to americanbanker, Amex has built a distributed ledger that merchants can use to tie card rewards to products they want to move off the shelf. The blockchain lets merchants for the first time offer Amex rewards on their own channels, such as websites and apps, rather than through the card company’s channels. American Express used Hyperledger Fabric, the open-source distributed ledger technology that was originally based on software contributed by IBM and Digital Asset, to build its system.

South Korea Wants to Restore Domestic ICO Industry

According to themerkle, the National Assembly will introduce a legislative ecosystem which will allow ICOs to thrive. The National Assembly of Korea has very good reason to change its approach. Various South Korean enterprises have moved their businesses to other countries where initial coin offerings are allowed to take place.

Bitcoin Company Blockchain Hits 25 Million Crypto Wallets

It can be confusing for cryptocurrency newbies to learn that one of the oldest bitcoin companies, launched in 2011, is named Blockchain. Nevertheless, Blockchain, the company, which is the world’s №1 provider of free wallet software for storing cryptocurrency, hit a significant milestone this week: 25 million customer wallets. However, Blockchain’s wallet count is not the same metric as individual users, since some users have multiple wallets. But 25 million global wallets still speak to the company’s staying power as the leading wallet provider.
Puerto Rico
By: Kamala Harris
Tags: Kamala Harris, Puerto Rico

With Ricardo Rossello’s resignation, Puerto Rico can now begin to move forward and heal. But let’s speak truth, Puerto Rico has been suffering long before the hurricanes of 2017 and recent corruption scandals.

Congress needs to acknowledge and address the conditions that resulted in economic turmoil on the Island in the first place, correct policy disparities, and implement appropriate checks and balances to ensure economic stability and prosperity for all Puerto Ricans.

The People of Puerto Rico have every right to be heard. They can no longer be ignored. I am here to be their partner and listen.