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Angular: Create a Lazy-Loaded Tailwind Modal
By: David Dal Busco
Tags: JavaScript, Programming, Angular, Nodejs, Tailwind Css

Modal Container

To initialize the modal, the container, we create a new module modal.module.ts .

We then add the related component modal.component.ts , which does not do much except be created with a state display per default initialized to true and expose a function close .

As we are lazy loading the modals, these are going to be displayed upon creation, therefore the default state is open respectively, not closed.

The close function contains a small timeout so that the modal first graphically fades away before being effectively detached from the DOM by the service we just created previously.

The HTML code of the container is extracted from the free overlay example provided by Tailwind. We are using a section for which we apply a fixed position and to which we give a z-index of 10 . In addition, we are responsively styling the required spaces, shadows, and sizes.

Besides the UI itself, it is worth to notice that we are using the Angular content projection capability, ng-content , to be able to add any content in the modal respectively to make this dialog a generic container.

We also attach the close function to the section, and we stop the propagation of the $event on its content; otherwise, the modal will close itself each time one of its children is clicked or pressed.

Finally, we animate the opening and closing of the modal upon the style class open with some custom CSS. It might be possible to achieve this with some Tailwind utilities, but I felt more confident to solve it that way.
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Tags: Türkçe Yayın, Türkçe, Psikoloji, Sevgi, Ruh

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The Quick Start Guide for Vue 3's Composition API
By: Seifeldin Mahjoub
Tags: Vuejs 3, JavaScript, Programming, Web Development, Vuejs

Reactivity

One of the many exciting things in Vue 3 is the new reactivity system. It is not only abstracted into a separate package but also solves some caveats when it comes to interacting with Arrays or Objects in Vue 2

State

Now that we understand how to pass variables from the setup method to the template, let’s take a glimpse at how we can define a reactive variable.

Previously, using the Options API, you would define that in the data option. Now you’ve got two options: ref or reactive .

Both allow you to create a reactive reference to an object or primitive data.

Due to how JavaScript works, primitive types such as string , number , and boolean are passed by value, while objects and arrays are passed by reference — hence the introduction of ref .

Accordingly, you can use ref for primitive and reactive for objects.

Note: refs are always wrapped in an object, so if you want to access the value in your setup method, you have to access .value like this:

firstName.value = 'Batman' .

Computed

There is not much changed here. It works as you would expect.

Watchers

Similarly to the Options API, you can watch other properties.

import { watch } from 'vue' watch([fooRef, barRef], ([foo, bar], [prevFoo, prevBar]) => {

/* react to change */

})

Methods

In order to create a method, you just write a regular JavaScript function. Just confirm that you return or export the function if you want it to be available in your template.

Template refs

As mentioned earlier, there is no this and therefore you might be wondering how to access this.$refs .

Lifecycle hooks

You can access all the lifecycle hooks except created and beforeCreated by calling onMounted and onXXX .

import { onMounted, onUnmounted } from 'vue' onMounted(() => { /* do stuff here */ }

Creating a composable

We have seen how to use the new Composition API. Let’s explore how can we use it to compose components.

Assuming that we want to reuse the mouse X and Y values across several components, we can write a simple composable.

Then we can consume this composable in our component.
Swipe Right for the Moon
By: Craig Brett
Tags: Future, Space, Science, Technology, Life

Something strange happened on the way to the moon.

The technology kept getting better. And the people started getting worse.

To see what I mean, let’s begin with Buzz Aldrin. This was his background before leaving for the moon in 1969:

2,200 hours flying fighter jets

engineering degree from West Point

doctorate in science from MIT

6 years of rigorous training at NASA

Now let’s look at Yusaku Maezawa, who will be the next person visiting the moon in 2023:

graduated from high school

played drums in a punk rock band

made billions selling shoes and handbags online

And then there’s this.

Earlier this year, Maezawa decided a trip to the moon could help him find a girlfriend. So he announced a seat was open for someone who was single, over 20 and had a ‘bright personality.’

About 28,000 women applied.

But maybe Elon Musk didn’t like the idea of SpaceX being used to trawl for dates, because Mawzawa later scrapped the idea.

Whatever happened, this is where we seem to be going today. We started at “one giant leap for mankind” and ended up as an episode of The Bachelor.

Sadly, it was always going to turn out this way.
Setting an inner terminal with anaconda in Atom
By: Alfredo Castaneda
Tags: Towards Data Science, Atom, Developer, Data Science, Anaconda

Anaconda logo ❤

As a developer sometimes you want to customize your tools to your requirements , Atom as his page says is “A hackable text editor for the 21st Century” and this is true for lots of developers that use it every day for his amazing purposes.

Atom logo that is an actual Rutherford model atom OMG

Let’s talk about a basic customization that any of you will find useful, to set a terminal panel working with anaconda prompt in windows!

With this your workflow will be a lot more organic and fluent.

Of course, you will need anaconda and atom already installed in your system.

Install Terminus

To install terminus package you can do it by clicking install in this link https://atom.io/packages/terminus

For terminus every terminal is loaded with your system’s default initialization files. This ensures that you have access to the same commands and aliases as you would in your standard terminal, all you love about terminals, now in a pocket size Atom panel.

Atom package that enables bottom terminals

Once the installation is finished you will be blessed with two new buttons at the bottom “+” and “X” with these two guys, you can add and delete as many terminal as you want!, I know it’s beautiful.

The two buttoms of doom

Setting anaconda

Now you need to configure terminus to star working with anaconda, by default terminus will work with Power Shell and this can be a little tricky for people that are used to work with CMD so the first thing is to override the shell instance that we are going to work with.

Enter in Atom configuration panel by pressing “CTRL” + “,” once you have it go to “Packages” and write “terminus” in the search bar, then press “Settings” and go to Core>Shell Override.

In shell Overid writte “C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe” this will enable terminus to work with the command prompt,

The next step is to configure the “Auto Run Command ” just writte or copy these “ C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\Scripts\activate.bat C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3”

Now try to open a new terminal with the “+” button , if everything is right you will be able to see something as beautiful as this

if you see the precious (base) before your path then you made it !

You are “now” a wizard Harry

If you reach this part then you can star enjoying working with as many terminal as you want, I work with flask developing web applications so an environments like this helps me a lot, I hope it can help you too.

And for my Linux lovers there are good news! If you already have anaconda to work with your terminal then terminus will star working with anaconda and that would be all! ❤

Thank you all for reading!
Are We Selling Our Privacy to the Highest Bidder?
By: A Singular Story
Tags: Privacy, Culture, Media, Internet, Data

Are We Selling Our Privacy to the Highest Bidder?

On making a living from the first-person industrial complex

Photo by Enrico Carcasci on Unsplash

Am I sharing this in the spirit of service? Knowing what to disclose and when to hold back is key to preserving privacy, not just yours but that of the people in your life as well.

When personal essays are your livelihood, it’s easy to sell your life piecemeal for short-term gain. But focusing on eyeballs, clicks, and bucks right now could come back to haunt you or your loved ones at a later date.

Mommy bloggers share pictures of their kids because they believe it makes their copy more relatable. But don’t children have a right to grow up carefree away from the public eye, instead of having their existence monetized?

Nothing tugs at the heartstrings of the commentariat more than the picture of a young child. But when a single mom uses such pictures to justify sharing every single aspect of her life online, how much is too much?

Where does survival stop and exploitation start? And what will little Emma’s future classmates make of her mama’s graphic descriptions of what she likes to get up to behind closed doors?

To many Gen X folks like me, who grew up without the internet, thinking of it as an ephemeral medium is a grave mistake.

As a journalist, I tend to treat it as print, with the caveat that some media organizations I work for may choose to archive or delete my work at a later date. It has happened but it isn’t always the norm; as far as I’m concerned, the internet is forever.
Any Questions About Medium?
By: Kr Franklin
Tags: Writing, Fellowship Writers, Helping Others, Questions, Answers

QUESTION AND ANSWER

Any Questions About Medium?

This is a place for individuals to ask questions about Medium and get straightforward answers.

Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash

We have all been there.

You have a question, and Google does not have an answer. How does the search engine dedicated to the mathematical expression 1 x 100th power not have an answer? You wonder what to do next. If only there were a place on Medium to ask questions from your fellow writers…

How about this next scenario?

You have a question about the platform but feel it is too simple to ask. You fear ridicule from other writers. You wonder what to do next. If only there were a place on Medium to ask questions from your fellow writers…

Fortunately, we’re introducing a potential solution.

This story will be shown on our homepage and it is a new section called Question and Answer. This is a safe place for anyone to ask any question about the platform and receive answers. Simply leave your questions in the comments sections, and either a fellow writer or the Editor will respond with an answer.

If we don’t find an answer, we will write a story asking the community for help. Simple as that. Once we have a solution, we will post the answer to your question and notify you.

So feel free to ask away in the comments section!

Here are some example questions:

Why do publications only accept unpublished drafts? How can I see how many followers a publication has? How do I add a Sub-title to my Title? How do I change the Title of my story after I have published it? The preview is showing the old Title. How do you get a “Kicker” added to the Title? In other words, how do you get the gray text added right above the Title? What is an external view? How many words equates to 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5+ minutes of reading time?

These are some of the example questions I have received during my time as Editor of Fellowship Writers. Typically, I respond privately with an answer. However, with this new section on our homepage, we can leave answers to common questions for all members to view.

Over time this Q&A section can grow into a dedicated resource for all members to use.

Sound like a plan?

Any Questions?! :)
Love Can Be
By: Scott Ninneman
Tags: Poetry, Poetry On Medium, Love, Poetry Sunday, Relationships

Love Can Be

A poem of love possibilities.

Love can be a minute

A moment stolen in time

Love can be a lifetime

A heart overfilled with rhyme

Love can be tomorrow

Hopes and dreams of what could be

Love can be a memory

Held tight for eternity

Love can be a flower

Dancing gently on the stem

Love can be a diamond

Sparkling as a vibrant gem

Love can be a daydream

Quiet moments in the sun

Love can be a sonnet

Fourteen lines, yet never done

Love can be a sunset

Fainting embers of a song

Love can be eternal

Its splendor is never wrong
Bitcoin Plummets as Bitcoin Cash Hard Forks
By: Shane Moser
Tags: Bitcoincash, Crypto, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency

Bitcoin saw a fierce drop in value from ~$6,387 USD to ~$5,358 USD at its lowest point over the last week. This drop in value followed a period of stability that stretches back all the way to early September. While significant drops in price aren’t anything new for Bitcoin, they still seem to happen at an interesting moment in time.

A hard fork of the Bitcoin Cash blockchain was just recently implemented as two clashing protocols couldn’t seem to agree on the best way forward.

The first, new code that would help numerous cryptocurrencies communicate more effectively with one another as well as improvements that reorder transactions which in turn increase overall block capacity.

The competing protocol is actually old code which is harvested from the original Bitcoin protocol, which quadruples block capacity from 32MB to 128MB.

Although there are two separate chains existing at the moment for bitcoin cash, that may not always be the case. Advocates for either side of this protocol battle warn of possible damage to networks that could fatally impact things going forward for Bitcoin Cash.

While it is clear that there is still a need for a conclusive outcome, two separate chains will continue to exist until such a time.
Finding the purpose you’ve already got
By: Sally-Anne Airey
Tags: Purpose, Coaching, Wellbeing, Mindfulness, Leadership

A journey from the outside in

Funny how you can happily build a successful career over 20+ years in a top class organisation and then, when you stop doing doing doing, you come unstuck.

Joining the Royal Navy straight from university seemed like an obvious step. As a linguist with a thirst for travel, I was looking for opportunity and adventure. I launched myself into Service life, embraced the ethos and worked hard for 23 years until I reached the rank of Commander and became the first working mother the Navy had known.

And then, with a sense that there was something else I wanted to do but with no clear idea of what that was, I decided to leave. It felt like another obvious step.

I hadn’t foreseen that it was actually a huge step into a purposeless void.

After a year of painful reflection, I realised that I’d been so committed to my work, so absorbed by its clear, collaborative purpose, that my work had become my identity. When I moved on, it felt as though I was leaving an essential part of me behind. I had come unstuck.

So before I could figure out “what next?”, I had to answer “who am I?”

I wrestled with this question for a long time. I martialled my strengths, my weaknesses, my skills and my experience. I created a compelling CV and landed a great job as the first business manager of a rapidly expanding international school in Kyiv, Ukraine. Yet again I threw myself into the sense of purpose that this provided. In one year I and my Ukrainian team of 60 battled through the challenges of creating a stable platform from which the school could function and grow.

More doing, more achieving, more observable success. But still no real answer to my question “who am I ?”

A turning point was discovering the writing of Thich Nhat Hanh. On my first mindfulness retreat at Plum Village, there was a lightbulb moment when I realised that I’d been chasing ‘out there’, instead of looking ‘in here’ — to the voice within me that had the answer all along.

I learned how to be still. I learned how to connect with my breath and follow its gentle flow in and out of my body. I learned how to observe my random thoughts with curiosity rather than judgement. I learned how to be truly present and aware, to accept and be grateful for what is. I learned how to create the space in my everyday life to tune into what really matters.

With practice, patience and time, my purpose became clearer. The work I now do as a coach is to help leaders make sense of themselves, find the deeper meaning in their work and enable success and wellbeing for themselves and others. In this way I contribute to a more compassionate, enlightened world.

In helping others, I know I am helping myself. And with what I call Mindful Command® (more on that another time), I am able to sustain this through its inevitable cycle of dark and light.

Want to know more? Check out my website

This blog is adapted from a talk I gave for purpose-driven entrepreneurs at this year’s Happy Startup Summercamp
Culture Shock: Everything You Need To Know About “A Garfield Christmas”
By: Gavin Byrnes
Tags: Brandhole, Movies, Christmas, A Garfield Christmas

“A Garfield Christmas” follows everyone’s favorite Monday-hating, lasagna-loving feline through a Christmas with his family. If you’ve never seen Garfield, Jon, and Odie celebrate Yuletide, use this primer to catch yourself up!

Garfield is voiced by Bill Clinton when he’s happy but by Diana Ross when he’s mad: When “A Garfield Christmas” was made in 1987, Garfield’s voice was supposed to be performed by then-Arkansas governor Bill Clinton. However, Clinton couldn’t capture the raw power of Garfield’s anger, so scenes in which Garfield is furious were re-dubbed by Supremes singer Diana Ross.

“A Garfield Christmas” reveals that Odie has an IQ of 164: An eight-minute-long subplot in the middle of the special revolves around Odie discovering an unsolved equation on a blackboard at MIT, solving it, and eventually being tested for mathematical genius. Jim Davis later sued Ben Affleck and Matt Damon when they ripped off the idea ten years later in Good Will Hunting.

Binky’s original catchphrase was “I’m Gay!” before Jim Davis’s brother came out: Binky, the titular character of the in-universe book Binky: The Clown Who Saved Christmas, was originally supposed to be a flamboyant homosexual stereotype. However, after Jim Davis’s brother came out as gay in 1986, Binky’s sexuality was integrated into the storyline in a more respectful manner.

The letters to Grandma that Garfield finds in the attic are written in the same Enigma code solved by the cryptanalysts at Bletchley Park: While the Arbuckles do a good job of hiding the truth from Garfield and Odie, keen-eyed viewers can spot the clues that suggest that Grandma was secretly communicating with the Nazis until at least 1942.

Jon Arbuckle is a deeply depressed man who ingests large quantities of hallucinogens to give himself the illusion that his pets are talking to him: You really think a fucking cat knows what day of the week it is?
Manager of Product Management — Ryan Burgoon
By: Robert Drury
Tags: Careers, Product Manager, Product Management, Career Change, Product

Manager of Product Management — Ryan Burgoon

Stories of getting started in product management

As part of our Getting Started in Product series, we look at some people who have already made the transition into a product role and ask them all about how they got started.

What’s your current role?

I’m a Manager of Product Management at Verizon Media.

What did you do before you got into Product Management?

I was a Manager of Systems Operations also in a technology company and was responsible for the team managing our 10s of thousands of servers across the globe.

How did you get your first product role?

I applied internally at the same company and my manager helped out by reaching out to the Chief Product Officer at the time.

I did a few lunch and learns and then interviewed with the internal product team. They accepted me as intern while I kept my Manager, Systems Operations job and then during my 60-day review was offered a full-time position.

What was your biggest challenge when you started in product management?

I knew very little about being a product owner/manager for a software development team.

I didn’t know how they organized work, Scrum/Agile, how to get useful feedback from customers, how to gather data and use it to make decisions, but the biggest surprise was my lack of business acumen.

I studied Graphic Design for my undergraduate degree, which lead me to seek out and obtain an MBA

What is the one piece of advice you’d give someone starting out in product?

I actually have two pieces of advice:

Always put the customer’s needs first, but make sure you truly understand those needs and and can deliver a superior experience; and If you’re going to move into product, it’s going to be next to impossible to get hired in a different company without prior experience. You must have Product experience, domain expertise, or both. So, look for opportunities to transition laterally in your current company or intern through a degree program because it’s going to be MUCH easier than trying to find a company that will be willing to take a large risk on an unproven PM.

More from Ryan

If you’d like to get in touch with Ryan then you can visit him on LinkedIn.

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At Getting Started in Product we write about how those who want to get into product can go about doing so, as well as how to do the job when they get there.
The Hyperledger Project and the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance Join Forces
Tags: Blockchain, Hyperledger, Ethereum

The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance and Hyperledger are joining their organizations in an effort to foster mass blockchain adoption.

The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA), a non-profit that educates businesses on how to use Ethereum to address specific industry use cases, and the Linux Foundation´s Hyperledger project, an open-source collaborative initiative that aims to “advance cross-industry blockchain technologies”, have officially joined their organizations in an effort to accelerate the mass adoption of distributed ledger technologies, and help foster a climate of collaboration between the two enterprises.

Ron Resnick, the executive director of the EEA, said in a statement he believes that this represents “a time of great opportunity”, since the collaboration through a mutual associate membership could open the way “for both organizations to work more closely together”.

Amber Baldet, founder of the Clovyr dApp store, and former head of blockchain at JP Morgan Chase & Co., commented on the synergy that results from such an initiative,

There are already several organizations that belong to both Hyperledger and EEA, and good relationships among those in leadership positions […] It makes sense to work together toward the common goal of solving real business challenges with decentralized technologies.

Executive Director of Hyperledger added,

Great open standards depend upon great open source code, so this is a natural alliance for both organizations.

This news puts to rest rumors that Hyperledger and the EEA were at each other´s throats in a bid to achieve enterprise blockchain supremacy. Casey Kuhlman, CEO of Monax, explained that while this may have been the case in the past, there are no current confrontations among both parties.

Disclaimer: information contained herein is provided without considering your personal circumstances, therefore should not be construed as financial advice, investment recommendation or an offer of, or solicitation for, any transactions in cryptocurrencies.
Lessons from my 0th Year as a Data Scientist
By: Matthew Sarmiento
Tags: Machine Learning, Programming, Advice, Data Science, Software Development

Play to Your Strengths

Data Science is a broad field. It’s easy to be overwhelmed by the sheer number of topics that many assume you need to know in order to be a good Data Scientist — linear regression, time series, A/B testing, distributed computing, machine learning, deep learning, databases, SQL, computer science, bayesian inference, MCMC… The list goes on and on.

I don’t share this opinion. You do not need to know everything there is to know about everything, although it can sometimes feel that way. My advice is to play to your strengths. What do I mean by that? Well, take me for example. I am by all accounts terrible at statistics. All of this talk about estimating parameters and hypothesis tests just goes way over my head. Rather than beat my head against a wall trying to understand what the heck an F-test for significance is, I move on. On to the next thing, the thing that actually makes sense to me.

As a result, I end up knowing a decent amount about a small number of subjects and very little about anything else. This might seem like a bad thing, depending on your point of view. The thing I like about this sort of approach to learning is that the things you come to really grasp, the things that make sense to you, become places of refuge you can fall back to when the going gets tough. The subjects you know will give you confidence and serve as footholds from which you can grow your understanding of new subjects later on.
Dota 亞洲邀請賽 DAC 2018 主賽事 Day 3
Tags: Dac2018, 2018major, Dota2 Match Review

in Both Sides of the Table
Side Effects Include
By: J.P. Melkus
Tags: Humor, Pharmaceutical, Absurd, Wordplay, Wellness

Photo by rawpixel on Unsplash

Pylsaplen-T (dadbodex metrodinephylatefilisonetateanylomaxisolibab) has shown some indication of, occasionally, just every so often — like, once in a blue moon, totally statistically insignificantly — causing side effects in some people, mostly the weak, old, young, or otherwise ambiguously susceptible. Please contact your doctor if you experience any of the following:
Week 2— Talks at HapRamp
By: Rajat Dangi
Tags: Talks, Hapramp, Team, Personal Development, Indian Startups

Day — 1

The Magic Hammer by Shubhendra Vikram

The talk started with a question which makes us feel excited and guilty at the same time, the question is ‘What are those big tasks in your to-do list for so long but you never accomplished?’

We all looked at each other with a grin, thinking about items from our personal To-do lists that never took off. This happens with all of us.

The speaker explained it with an analogy;

Big tasks cannot be processed directly, you need to break them into smaller pieces.

“…Our mind works in a way that it processes the smallest and easiest task first. And the bigger tasks on our to-do list are like huge rocks that need to pass down the imaginary funnel. To achieve them, you need to be aware of your ‘Magic Hammer’ that can be used to break down the big rock into smaller pebbles and then they will be accomplished more easily. There is also a ‘magic sand’, which doesn’t take any effort at all to pass through the funnel, but beware of that magic sand. That ‘magic-sand’ could be your social media addiction or hours of binge- watching YouTube videos, but that sand takes you nowhere and the mind is pretty good at accepting that magic sand. So, pick up your magic hammer and start breaking down those big and important tasks to get them done…”
I Want to Scream: COVID Obviously is the Reason
By: Brenda Mahler
Tags: Poetry, Covid 19, Reflections, Coronavirus, Faces Of Covid

I Want to Scream: COVID Obviously is the Reason

A poem that places a face on Coronavirus #3

Jodi is my granddaughter; she is a teenager who is navigating a new world during the pandemic. She volunteered to participate in this project to put a face on COVID. These are her thoughts formed into a poem.

Click to the link below to access her thoughts.
TOD-BERT: Pre-training Transformer for Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems
By: Prakhar Mishra
Tags: Chatbots, Artificial Intelligence, Naturallanguageprocessing, Transformers, Bert

Dialogue/Conversational agents are computer systems intended to converse with a human in one or more of text, speech, and other modes for communication on both the input and output channel.

This paper from EMNLP 2020 proposes a new pre-training objective on existing BERT base architecture for task oriented dialogue systems/chatbots because of the underlying difference of linguistic patterns between general text and task-oriented dialogue which makes existing pre-trained language models less useful in practice.

Task-Oriented Chatbots are restricted in the variety of tasks that it can help a user with. They can help one accomplish clearly defined tasks like checking one’s account balance, making a reservation or finding the right recipe.

Authors use 9 different human-human multi-turn dialogue datasets to pre-train their model with the modified objective function. Their approach outperforms existing approaches such as DialoGPT, GPT2, BERT, etc in this domain, authors verify it using downstream tasks like Intent Detection, Dialogue state tracking, Dialogue state prediction, Response selection. They also show that TOD-BERT has a stronger few-shot ability that can mitigate the data scarcity problem for task-oriented dialogue.

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⏩ Paper Link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.06871.pdf ⏩ Paper Authors: Chien-Sheng Wu, Steven Hoi, Richard Socher, Caiming Xiong ⏩ Organisation: Salesforce Research

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Zimbabwe Remittance Service Bitmari Enters Beta Phase
By: I Love Black People Billmari
Tags: Articles, Press, Bitmari, Remittances

Zimbabwe Remittance Service Bitmari Enters Beta Phase

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The Key
By: Jessica Lee Mcmillan
Tags: Writing, Intuition, Nature, Poetry, Balance

Pine facets

wrapped tight

in prehistoric fortress,

the key to nature is

a wooden flower

Spirals unlocked by sun,

hot tongues seed

in aridity,

and germinate

intuitively

the fingerprints of life

In too tight a grip,

fingers are pricked

that manipulate

the process of balance
Get Mentally and Emotionally Prepared for the New Year
By: Laura Izquierdo
Tags: Psychology, Family, Productivity, Anxiety, Wellness

Get Mentally and Emotionally Prepared for the New Year

5 tips for when the prospect of 2021 feels daunting

Photo by Benjamin Davies on Unsplash

The year is finally rounding off. Many people have had a tough time; most at least a discomforting one. Your plans may have been canceled or postponed, and you may not have achieved everything that you hoped you would. In turn, the thought of starting a new year that comes with a whole new set of challenges, milestones, and goals, might seem daunting.

If you’re anything like me, the unexpected events of 2020 might have knocked your confidence slightly, and maybe you don’t quite feel like your best self. Yes, we’re turning over a new leaf, but you might not feel particularly optimistic that things will improve. It feels a little bittersweet.

I for one don’t want to start the year on a bitter note. I want the 1st of January 2021 to feel ‘sweet sweet’. I’m pulling the plug on all the pointless, negative thoughts that cloud my mind at night like dirt to bathwater. Out with the old and in with the new.

Here are 5 things you can do to start the year with positive energy, and a greater semblance of control that will ease your new-year-anxiety.
Delphy Monthly Airdrop — July 2019
By: Ada Gao
Tags: Airdrop, Blockchain, Prediction Markets, Ethereum

Time flies faster in the Crypto world. It’s almost end of July 2019, can you believe it? And it’s time for the Delphy Monthly Delphy Airdrop.If you have been holding DPY (Delphy token) at the moment of snapshot, you will benefit from our Monthly Delphy airdrop. Yes, you heard that right!

We value our community, in fact Delphy promised to give 50% of all DPY tokens, which equals to 50 million DPY tokens in total, to our token holders in a linear distribution way within two years, for free. By end of each month, Delphy will monitor the number of holders and the amount of tokens held by each holder at a randomly picked moment (a snapshot) decided by Delphy. This reward program has started from Oct, 2017, as said before, will last for 2 years.

The total amount DPY token to be awarded to our holders is exactly same amount every month, which is: total of 50 million (DPY) /24 (months) = 2,083,333.33333 (DPY).

For July 019, the snapshot moment is 18:00 on 30th of July, 2019, Beijing Time. The number of tokens to be received by a holder = the amount of token held at snapshot moment/ 45 — transaction fees(which is about 0.5DPY at this moment = Gas price * Gas used/Price of DPY). (Why 45? Because, the total months for airdrop is 24, and till now, 21 airdrops have already happened.) Due to the transaction fees, if the number of DPY tokens you are holding at the moment of snapshot is less than 22.5, you will not be able to receive airdrop.

You can get the airdrop, if you keep your DPY tokens at your exchange account, like gate.io, okex.com, cybex.io, and CoinMex.com. However, the speed at which the tokens are received, may depend on the workflow and workload of the respective exchanges. Therefore, if you would like to get the airdrop immediately, the best option would be to have your DPYs in your wallet.

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About Delphy

A Decentralized mobile social platform for prediction markets. Delphy is a decentralized, mobile prediction market platform built on Ethereum. The Delphy App is a light Ethereum node running on mobile devices. Delphy uses market incentives to allow participants in a market to communicate, instantly and transparently, their wisdom regarding the outcome of upcoming events, effectively predicting the future. We design Delphy from the start to be decentralized, which makes it difficult to manipulate prediction results.

These are our official social platforms:

Telegram Ann: https://t.me/DelphyANN

Telegram Chat: https://t.me/DelphyCHAT

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Delphy_org

Medium: https://medium.com/delphy

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

Bitcointalk: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2046622.0

Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Delphy/

The Delphy Team
A Little Story about Amazon ECS, systemd, and Chaos Monkey
By: Mathias Lafeldt
Tags: Systemd, Chaos Monkey, Chaos Engineering, Ecs

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Changing the world: Pluralsight One news & empowering words from Malala
Tags: Malala Yousafzai, Education, Salt Lake City, Pluralsight

Main stage & breakout presentations

We couldn’t close out LIVE 2018 without hearing from some more amazing speakers. These industry leaders did not fail to make us laugh, inspire action and get us excited about creating the future with technology.

Karenann Terrell, Chief Digital & Technology Officer at GSK, sat down with our CMO, Heather Zynczak to discuss the importance of empowering people in the workplace and being mission-driven.

Jaime Teevan, Technical Advisor to Microsoft’s CEO, said technologists have a responsibility not to engage in the “war to misuse attention” that’s happening, and to think carefully about what they’re doing in order to create positive change.

Global VP and CLO at SAP, Dr Heike Laube, talked about the importance of organizations “building a story” when it comes to learning.

Self-proclaimed “Kim Kardashian of data visualization,” Brendan Dawes gave an enlightening and hilarious presentation on the importance of starting small and avoiding perfectionism, while wowing the audience with examples of his work and inspiring us all to create.

Education activist, Ziauddin Yousafzai, had a tough act to follow—his own daughter! But he did not disappoint. His presentation and Q&A with Aaron Skonnard was illuminating and heartwarming, encouraging attendees to be more courageous and focused on the importance of education.

Check out the recaps from day 1 and day 2 at Pluralsight LIVE 2018, and see how you can join us next year: August 26–29, 2019. Until next time, LIVE squad!
Why You Need A Companion!
By: Tatiana Santana
Tags: Companionship, ASPCA, Education, Animal Advocacy, Animals

Just petting an animal brings your blood pressure down and helps to relax.

Most people have heard of therapy dogs or goats… or ponies, there are a lot of different animals that provide therapy. Your animal does not have to be certified to live in your home and be therapeutic. Petting animals lowers blood pressure and helps you relax, it also releases serotonin which is the hormone responsible for happiness. It can be very therapeutic for anyone to have an animal.

You may think you don't have room for another life in your home.

You may think that you have a family to love and there is no need for another life to love and that is totally fine! But just remember, pets add love no matter what, they never take it away! I know a lot of people aren't animal lovers, but give it a chance. You may come to the realization that it is the best thing you have ever done, and you would never go back to life without them.

Of course… One animal can not replace another.

Animals become family, you can never replace a deceased family member, you can learn to love another but you can never replace them. This is perfectly normal and shows that you cared about your animal so much! It can always help to bring a new little guy home though!

Adoption is an opportunity to change a life!

Adopting an animal is always an amazing thing to do, you are quite literally giving another chance of life to an animal that may have never gotten a chance. Sometimes adoption is not the first place people go to look, everyone wants a new baby dog, cat, etc, and never think of the ones that got taken or given away without a home. You should consider adopting!

Take-Aways

You should really consider getting a little buddy to love on, it is healthy for the mind, body, and soul. Animal love never fails and I highly recommend finding the right animal for you. I hope you learned something and I hope I changed your mind about getting a fur baby. My whole life has revolved around animals, from big horses, medium-sized pics (Haha) to dogs and cats, and I have learned to love animals from a very young age. Giving your children an opportunity to learn to love them is also an amazing reason to get an animal they can grow with!
The wings outstretched
By: Virtual Mosque
Tags: Birds, Chapter 24, Holy

We are the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam and this publication is dedicated to portraying the true, peaceful instructions of the final religion through our live broadcasts in the UK and regular editorials.

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Uumm … Why do we have a right to be jealous, resentful, and covetous?
By: Treathyl Fox
Tags: Random Thoughts, Claps On Medium, Society And Culture

Uumm … Why do we have a right to be jealous, resentful, and covetous? What kind of a right is it? A human right? A civil right? Cause if it’s a legitimate right, then shouldn’t we fight for it? I mean it’s a matter of equality, fairness, equity, etc. for the entire human race. Right? (O.o)
A Quick Guide to Call, Apply, and Bind in JavaScript
By: Annie Liao
Tags: JavaScript, Programming, Angular, Nodejs, React

A Quick Guide to Call, Apply, and Bind in JavaScript

JavaScript fundamentals

Photo by Irvan Smith on Unsplash.

Back in February, I created a quiz to help myself and others better understand the this keyword in JavaScript. At the time, I didn't delve into ways to explicitly determine what object this is referring to (i.e. using the call , apply , and bind methods).

Fast-forward to this week, when I came across the call method while exploring the zooming effect of d3.js (a data visualization library):

svg.call(d3.zoom().on('zoom', () => {

g.attr('transform', d3.event.transform)

}))

As with any tools, it is easy to forget how to use them if you don’t encounter them frequently. So here’s a quick reference to all three methods as a reminder of their usage and differences.
Here’s How You Can Use Docker With React
By: Indrek Lasn
Tags: JavaScript, Programming, Docker, React, Software Development

Here’s How You Can Use Docker With React

How you can combine the Docker and React applications

Image from Docker

Docker is possibly the most popular solution to have all your services run in a container. Containers allow us to run and develop an application in the same environment, regardless of what machine you’re on.

Containers are a standardized unit of software that allows developers to isolate their app from its environment, solving the “it works on my machine” headache.

What is a Docker Container? — Source: Docker.com

Containers are an abstraction at the app layer that packages code and dependencies together. Multiple containers can run on the same machine and share the OS kernel with other containers.

When you deploy an application you have to install all the dependencies (MySQL, Node, Redis) on the host system. With Docker, instead of managing host systems, you just specify a Docker file that lists all the dependencies for the project.

Docker builds an image out of all of those dependencies which we can re-use over multiple computers. Docker users can store images in private or public repositories, and from there can then deploy containers, test images, and share them.

Think of Docker applications as tiny containers, which have their own filesystem and dedicated RAM, but a shared kernel with the host operating system.
Blockchain: Real Estate Purchase Process
Tags: Economy, Blockchain, Real Estate, Ethereum, Bitcoin

This is a first of a series of Blockchain related articles using real world use cases that we are developing at Vikasa Studios. Blockchain Technology is one of the most exciting areas we are working currently. A technology that is easy to setup, design, implement and deploy to the world.

This article dips the readers’ toes into the use of Blockchain in a real estate use case in the residential property market. At Vikasa Studios, we are developing a simple application using the Ethereum Blockchain that can reduce cost and time and enhance trust during the property buying process. The real value related operand in using Blockchain technology is not cost or time but trust (without the need of a “trusted” third party). Cost and time are effects of the trust operand.

Introduction

In New Zealand, buying your first home is fundamental to the Kiwi culture. Every young couple seeks this and saves up considerably to put in their first deposit. The government has also created a scheme where it aids buyers using their Kiwisaver (similar to Superannuation in other countries) funds to purchase their first home.

As part of the process of buying, one of the most common and repetitive aspects of this search is the Sales and Purchase Agreement (S&P). Every time a potential buyer is interested in putting an offer, they use the document to negotiate and settle on the price and the settlement date. This article goes into briefly a common purchase process with the assumption that it is a simple and straight forward transaction.
Why Force Creativity?
By: Jaclyn Hall
Tags: Art, Painting, Personal Growth, Creativity, Nonfiction

A natural occurrence: Short read

Photo by Daniel Apodaca on Unsplash

Lets have a deep moment, why force creativity? Why spend hours a day or days thinking of your next creation? Forcing creativity wastes time, time you could be spending having a natural movement; a natural movement of creative flow.

“To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.” — Kurt Vonnegut

Vonnegut’s quote should inspire you but not push you. Do it in a way that comes naturally, like a ‘spark’. When you finally have that ‘spark’, either big or small, write it down, then start truly thinking why you were hit with a ‘spark’. What does that ‘spark’ mean? Where did that ‘spark’ originate from?
The Philharmonic of Southern New Jersey kicks off its 24th season on Nov. 2
Tags: The Voorhees Sun, Families, Concert, Entertainment, Headlines

The Philharmonic of Southern New Jersey kicks off its 24th season on Nov. 2 Admin Follow Nov 1, 2014 · 2 min read

The Philharmonic of Southern New Jersey kicks off its 24th season on Sunday, Nov. 2 with a concert to honor veterans. The performance includes the New Jersey premiere, and only the second performance ever, of composer Jake Runestad’s “Dreams of the Fallen,” co-commissioned by the Philharmonic and a small consortium of orchestras nationwide, led by the Louisiana Philharmonic and the National World War II Museum. Combining the musical forces of solo piano, chorus and orchestra, with powerful texts written by Iraq War veteran and award-winning poet Brian Turner, “Dreams of the Fallen” explores a soldier’s emotional response to the experience of war. Pianist Jeffrey Biegel joins the Philharmonic, along with the Rutgers University-Camden Choir and the Temple University Concert Choir. Led by music director and conductor Matthew Oberstein, the all-American program includes Morton Gould’s “American Salute,” Samuel Barber’s “Adagio for Strings,” Aaron Copland’s “Lincoln Portrait,” and the stirring “Armed Forces Salute,” a medley of the marches from each branch of the armed forces.

Tickets range from $15 to $30 and are now on sale through www.psnj.org. The concert begins at 3 p.m. Music director Matthew Oberstein leads a pre-concert talk with the guest artists at 2 p.m.

“I would like to congratulate the Philharmonic of Southern New Jersey on its 24th season and we are proud to support this special tribute to our veterans. It’s important that in addition to providing services to our veterans, we thank and honor them with special tributes like this special performance,” said freeholder Ed McDonnell, liaison to Camden County Division of Veterans Affairs.

The Philharmonic of Southern New Jersey’s 2014–2015 season honors heroes on the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War. The season includes residencies with Grammy-winning composer Joan Tower (March 1, 2015), Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Jennifer Higdon (May 3, 2015) and Jake Runestad, all of whose work is featured during the season. Holiday Pops returns for the second year, featuring 15-time Emmy Award winner Sonia Manzano (“Sesame Street”) as guest narrator.

This program is made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.