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3 differences between a CRM, and a personal CRM
By: Nathan Ganser
Tags: Personal Crm, Relationship Management, Networking Tips

CRMs are a huge industry, every big company has one, and the most popular CRMs are worth billions. We don’t actually know where the term “Personal CRM” is coming from, because in fact, they don’t have much in common. In this article, we’ll show you 3 key differences between the two to give a better understanding of what a personal CRM is, and what it is not.

Personal CRMs are people-oriented, CRMs are not

When you add a contact to your CRM, you want to build a relationship with that contact, but not for the relationship in itself. With CRMs, the relationship is a means to an end. That’s why most customer relationship management tools have some sort of pipeline or funnel. You want to close the contact, to hire him, …

With a personal CRM, the relationship in itself is the goal. You want to build a relationship with this contact, simply for the sake of it. For the value that you’ll get out of building a meaningful relationship with this contact. This is also why personal CRMs don’t have sales pipelines or any sort of funnel.

Personal CRMs are private, CRMs are not

With traditional CRMs, contacts “belong” to the company. They are usually owned by one team member, but this team member is only in touch with this contact because the company wants him to. Most likely, your email interactions with this contact are publicly shared with the rest of the team (for collaboration, transparency, …).

On the contrary, contacts that you add to your personal CRM are people from your network, that you want to stay in touch with even if you leave your current company. Your interactions with these contacts only concern the contact, and you. You might want to share the fact that you know someone, but not the content of your email interactions!

Personal CRMs are cooperative, CRMs are not

We use specific CRMs because they give us an advantage over our customer, our lead or potential hire. Hubspot, for example, has become a very popular CRM because they let you track your sales leads as they navigate through your website. You can find out if they visited your blog page, your pricing page, and so on. Streak, another popular CRM, let’s you track the people you email, based on their IP address, allowing you to find out if they are on vacation, on a business trip or at the office.

Gathering information about our contacts that they don’t have about us and don’t know that we collect, in order to gain an advantage, seems definitely wrong to us. We won’t build such competitive features into our app.

Personal CRMs on the other side, are all about working together. Building a network is a winning game for both sides. You are not hunting, closing or so, you’re building a connection.

Do you see any other difference between CRMs and Personal CRMs? Let us know in the comments!
trouble inside my skin
Tags: Poetry, Pain, Self Loathing, Identity, Bones

the people around me,

i’ve seen them shedding skin like it’s so natural, so human;

as if growing was as simple as breathing,

as if your reflection was never supposed to show you

struggling to stay inside your body

as if you didn’t belong inside of you.

as if you could grow with your body,

unlike the bones i wore on my exterior.

maybe that’s why, off late, i haven’t been feeling human at all.

maybe that’s why growing feels so much more

like breaking this exoskeleton that refuses to acquiesce,

refuses to let me get out of this unscathed.

it leaves me ravenous and pathetic.

my skin wanting to consume Your flesh was no act of romance,

but a denial of self.

this calling, this crepuscular craving of identity

caves its way into my conscience.

for i have words that come by every some time,

knocking, begging to be let in,

but there’s no keyhole in my door and the knob lost its will so long ago.

moments past the gloam,

a nocturnal sacrifice,

i moult until the shards of dawn cut away

at the failure of synthesizing a decorous skeleton,

at the loathing that follows the inadequacy of my individuality,

at the wounds of dissension,

and i am left

asphyxiated, bleeding, catatonic,

with the grief of old bones broken, just like the new will break again

tomorrow.
Someday My Hands Will No Longer Be Beautiful To You
Tags: Chronic Illness, Grief, Blue Insights, Rheumatoid Arthritis

Photo by Kristina Nor from Pexels

Someday My Hands Will No Longer Be Beautiful To You

A Poem

I’ve been told my hands possess a kind of magic(k)

that presses and soothes pain as a butterfly might sip nectar

or somebody might suck the poison from a snake bite.

My fingers are long and thin,

and the woman at home offered compared our hands —

She made me feel guilty for having beautiful fingers

as if it were my fault and a disgrace

that I could thread gold thread from molding straw.

I’ve been told my hands are beautiful,

because they are delicate, gentle, and precise when they touch you.

They produce a warmth, a light you’ve never known before

and nobody really holds my hand

or ever really did consistently

but my hands can hold your heart in their palms,

and they do.

I’ve been told my hands don’t look arthritic (yet)

when others don’t feel their fire or don’t witness the flares.

My knuckles get hot now, though

and I have bumps and nodules and knots where I didn’t before.

My wrists are very weak, and my fingers are beginning to gnarl

when the pain gets bad;

but my hands have long-created tapestries of angel wings

of spider silk and precious gems.

I’ve held hands that, like mine, went unheld for too long,

I’ve healed backaches, headaches, heartaches with these hands

and I’ve tied my own tourniquets,

stitched closed my own wounds and set my own bones

and so my hands will still be beautiful

long after they’re no longer beautiful to you.
Improve Page Load Performance With These Different Script Loading Techniques
By: Nehal Khan
Tags: JavaScript, Software Development, Web Development, HTML, Programming

Problem With the Normal Way of Loading JavaScript

When you load JavaScript into the HTML page, you add the script tag in the head section of the web page. There is a problem here, but to have a better grasp of it, you need to understand how a web page renders.

When the browser opens a web page, it starts to render the page tag by tag and begins to construct the DOM. And whenever the parser sees the tags to load images and style sheets, those requests are handled in parallel to the render.

But when the parser comes across a script tag, the HTML render process stops and waits until all the scripts are fetched and executed. Then the render of the rest of the HTML page resumes. You can understand this process in a better way by looking at the code and visualization below.

Example of script tag in the head section of a page

Render flow when the script tag is in the head section of the page

When the script is at the start of the page (Photo by the author)

This impacts the page load time since the scripts may be large, which can affect the time taken to execute them. And the actual content of the HTML page itself could be large in most cases. So, all this load and parse time would impact the user’s experience in terms of waiting time.

In this article, you will see the three different approaches that you can use to improve the load performance of the page by loading the JavaScript on the web page in more effective ways.
隱馬可夫模型的三大經典問題
By: Edward Tung
Tags: Statistics, Dynamic Programming, Data Science, Machine Learning

hmmlearn/hmmlearn

hmmlearn is a set of algorithms for unsupervised learning and inference of Hidden Markov Models. For supervised…
Community Health Workers will Save Us All
By: Dr. Sarah Marie Martin
Tags: Public Health, Public Policy, Community Health Workers, Cultural Competence, Healthcare

Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash

I am perched on the exam table wrapped in a paper gown, waiting for my first appointment with a new primary care provider. The nurse is typing into my chart very quickly, her long nails clicking loudly on the keys. I am cold in that gown, and visibly shivering. I don’t think anyone notices. I am new to the city and shopping for a medical home — with very little consumer information to go off of, I choose a provider off the list my new insurance company provides based on distance from my house.

The nurse flies through the screening questions as if there is a bonus for speed. I feel like I’m in that American Gladiators game where the Gladiators shoot tennis balls out of the gun at the contestant. The nurse barely looks up from the screen as she peppers me with questions like:

“Do you have enough food?”

“Are you afraid of being fired?”

“Can you pay your rent or mortgage?”

I respond with one-word answers: “Yes, no, yes.” I give these answers because the truth is too complicated, and I know we don’t have time to dig into why I have a good, full-time job, and life still feels like it’s draining my bank account dry every month. This nurse’s role is not to help me unpack why I’m always afraid of being fired, even when I know I am doing just fine.

“Last question,” she says, “do you feel safe at home?”

And this time, I pause. I sort of freeze. There is a movie montage playing in my head of my home life, highlights and lowlights, memories I had shoved away. She looks at me for the first time, raises an eyebrow. I stutter, “um… yes… yah, totally,” and she sighs in relief.

“Good,” she says, “that’s a lot easier.”
Build the Apple Stocks App Using Flutter (Part 2)
By: Mohammad Azam
Tags: Coding, Programming, Software Development, Flutter, Dart

Displaying Top News

The next step is to display top news articles on the view. We have implemented a NewsList widget, which will be responsible for populating the news on the screen. The NewsList widget requires three arguments:

articles — Represents the news articles to show on the screen

— Represents the news articles to show on the screen onHeaderTap — Callback function to fire when user taps on the header

— Callback function to fire when user taps on the header onDragUpdate — Callback function to fire when user drags the view

Instead of handling events inside the NewsList view, we’re giving opportunity to the parent. This means the parent is responsible for passing the articles and implementing the onHeaderTap and onDragUpdate events.

Here’s the complete implementation of the NewsList widget:

Most of the code is used to set up the user interface for the NewsList . We also used GestureDetector to handle touch events. The onTap and onVerticalDragUpdate events are mapped to the onHeaderTapped and onDragUpdate closures, which means they will be handled by the parent.

In the parent view, we used the AnimatedContainer to animate our drag movements.

Based on the direction of the drag, we expand and compact the NewsList view. The animation is shown below:

In this two-part series, you learned how to create an Apple Stocks application in Flutter. We also used MVVM and the Provider pattern to build our Flutter application, which resulted in a more structured and maintainable codebase.

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Social Media in the Middle East: Online Video and YouTube Use Remains Popular
By: Damian Radcliffe
Tags: Middle East, Vidéo, Saudi Arabia, YouTube, Social Media

Research, analysis, teaching materials and journalistic output by the Carolyn S. Chambers Professor of Journalism at the University of Oregon

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This Is The Image Trump Believes Will Lift Him Up And Carry Republicans To Victory In The Midterms
By: Eric J Scholl
Tags: China, Donald Trump, Politics, North Korea, Nuclear

This Is The Image Trump Believes Will Lift Him Up And Carry Republicans To Victory In The Midterms

And he may be right.

We don’t necessarily mean that image specifically, but that and others like it. Maybe this:

Or this:

Or maybe this:

No doubt the Trump/Kim Singapore summit is an historic meeting, and a huge accomplishment for the President. We don’t mean to downplay that. Nothing super-concrete, but no one expected that. Instead, Trump and Kim today signing an agreement that includes (among other things):

A commitment by North Korea to denuclearize. How and when and what that means exactly to be determined later.

A commitment by the U.S. to end frequent military exercises on the Korean Peninsula. Although U.S. troops will remain in place. And for now, economic sanctions will also remain.

Here’s a photo of the signed joint agreement, taken when Trump held it up. (It was not immediately released to the media). Click on the photo for a larger version:

Although it’s not in the written agreement, according to the New York Times, Trump said Kim subsequently agreed to dismantle a missile engine testing site. That would be hugely significant because way-faster-than-expected improvements to North Korean missile engines are what put the mainland U.S. in range of North Korea’s nuclear missiles, and is kind of what got everybody to spring to action in the first place.

At a news conference after the summit, Trump said he’d invited Kim for a White House visit (and he’d be willing to visit Pyongyang), but not quite yet. And he hoped the U.S. would establish diplomatic relations with North Korea, but also not quite yet. Here’s a clip (click on the photo to watch):

Trump also said he did bring up human rights issues: “we’ll be doing something about that”, although “it was discussed relatively briefly compared to denuclearization.” Here’s that clip (again, click on the photo to watch):

A couple of other things jumped out at us:
The Model of a Man
By: Scott Overdyke
Tags: Poetry, Leadership, Trump, Politics, Parenting

Parental Advisory Notice: The following poem includes direct quotes

from President Donald Trump and is unsuitable for children.

The Model of a Man

Today in class my teacher asked

which heroes we admire -

We had to pick a person quick

to whom we do aspire

Of course I choose the person who’s

the highest in the land —

It’s evident the President’s

the model of a man!

I must assume that half the room

believed the same as I —

for it was “Trump!” we shouted out

when asked for our reply

The teacher sighed and rubbed her eyes

and simply asked us “why?”

A kid declared, “he’s a zillionaire!

At business, none compares!”

If he can help us win like him,

does it matter if he shares?

And when losers lose along the way,

then isn’t that just fair?

If I get mine and you get yours,

who cares if they get theirs?

“The president’s a genius!”

yelled another of my friends;

He built the wall to save us all -

and make us great again!

And but for him, the future’s grim -

we’ll all speak Mexican!

(The church agrees, for it decrees

that none but Trump shall win)

“Just look at Covid — Trump’s devoted!

He hides behind no mask!”

When protests flare, our man’s not scared

to fight with guns and gas;

His order and law protect us all

(unless, of course, you’re black)

“He shoots us straight! His words are great!

He tells it like it is!”

It may offend, but in the end

I want a voice like his:

“Horseface, fat, disgusting slob”

The man has got technique!

“Pocahontas” (keeps ’em honest!)

That’s how winners speak!

“Trump gets chicks!” a boy insists —

He knows how to succeed!

“A young and beautiful piece of ass”

is all you really need.

“Grab ’em by the pussy”

for a woman will submit —

His dating advice is rather precise:

“You have to treat ’em like shit”

My parents say the world today

has gotten out of hand —

that things look bad but still they’re glad

their party’s in command

“We’re Conservatives, son, it’s important he won;

someday you’ll understand”

Well I know what I see — who I want to be —

The model of a man.
disbelief
By: Matt Vercillo
Tags: Poetry, Poetry On Medium, Literally Literary, Fiction, Creative Writing

Literally Literary

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Hey ONO, Where’s my Invitation Code??
By: Angie Chin-Tan
Tags: Decentralization, Community, Dapps, Blockchain, Ono

Yes, we are waiting for GODOT too (Image credit: Google)

Imagine this. You saw the announcement on the sale of the latest and coolest gadget in town. Your heart beats fast. Excited, you made plans to ensure that you will be one of the firsts to wait in line to get your hands on the gadget. So you started your countdown till D-Day!

Keep checking for that Invitation Code y’all! (Image credit: Google)

Fast forward, you came earlier before the store opens. You gathered friends to join you. You brought breakfast so you won’t get hungry. So everyone waited in line patiently. Some brought books, headphones, Ipad, etc to keep them company. Even though you only waited for a few hours, it seems like years!

You can’t wait till the store to be open at 10am sharp!

Suddenly, a sales person appeared before everyone and made that dreadful announcement. It turns out that a supplier encountered a delivery problem hence the delay of the shipment to the shop. Not only to that one shop, but to all the shops nationwide. Disappointed and upset you went home empty handed.

What year is it again? (Image credit: Google)

We totally get this. We understand your frustration — perhaps your pain, of waiting too!

But let’s face it. Delays happens. Technical glitch happens. Mostly unanticipated. While the above is just a metaphor, this is exactly what’s happening to us now with ONO. We have all waited for the INVITATION CODE like since forever!

The team is working hard, over dosed on coffees to fix the glitch (Image credit: Google)

The ONO team hears you. And as you are reading this, they are working hard round the clock to fix the issue. Hence there will be a slight delay on the International Launch. But don’t worry, everyone will get their Invitation Codes soon!

Instead of speculating or spreading speculations (which doesn’t solve the problem), let us be a little bit patient and let the team do their job. Hey, if we can wait this long for ONO, we can always wait a little while for the matter to be fixed so we can have a better ONO experience.

Wise people say “Good things comes to those who waits”, let us wait for the team to revert to us on the outcome and we will update everyone soonest we can!

So while waiting for that good news, go make coffee, watch movie, play with your pets/kids or sing your heart out to Jon Bon Jovi and pretend that you are in a concert! Use this waiting time to do what you have procrastinated to do and before you know it, your Invitation Code will arrive safely in your inbox waiting for you.

Least when you expect it, YOU’VE GOT MAIL!

Don’t forget to sign up and be part of the links below to get updated on ONO’s latest progress!

ONO Official Links
The Best Christmas Present We Can Give
By: Zen Michael
Tags: Self Improvement, Christmas Gifts, Attention, Calm, Mindfulness

The Best Christmas Present We Can Give

It’s inside of us

Photo by Giftpundits.com from Pexels

Our attention — this is the best gift we can give someone.

It is a special gift — and it only becomes special when we share it. It is the act of offering it, of giving our attention to someone, that makes it special.

It is a unique gift — one that only we can offer. Only each one of us can decide to offer this gift to those around us, to those who can make this gift even more special.

It is a difficult gift to offer — it requires our dedication, it requires purpose. We have to practice active listening to be able to give this special gift. Learn to listen without letting judgments and opinions take control of our attention.

It is a gift that we can always offer — at any time of the year. We do not need to wait for Christmas to offer this special gift to those around us, to those we love most. Or even to a stranger we meet on the street and who needs some help from us.

I wish everyone a happy, calm, and safe Christmas.
It’s a Great Day…
By: Kaitlin M. Debellis
Tags: Life, Poetry, Wonder, Life Lessons

I opened an email from Thrive Global the other day, with the following statement ‘Today is going to be a good day and here’s why…’ and a challenge: complete it. I immediately completed it.

Today is going to be a good day and here’s why…I woke up.

We live in a culture where it’s rush, rush, on to the next thing, what’s coming next? What if we stepped back, paused and reflected on how blessed we are just to wake up every day. Just to open our eyes. Look around. Put our feet on the floor-? What if we took the time to revel in the most basic of pleasures, the things we almost always take for granted.

What if we lived every day for exactly what it is: a supreme blessing. Instead of worrying about what we don’t have, where we aren’t at, the job we wish would happen for us, the trip we are longing to take, the money we hope will land in our bank account. And instead just take the day to appreciate being.

A whole new world would then present itself, one full of wonder and light, possibility, hopes and dreams. Perspective. One word-so many possibilities. When you choose to view your world through ‘rose colored lenses’-then that’s what you will see. You will see the simple beauty that is all around, all the time. We each have so much to celebrate every, single, day…if we just choose to focus on our many blessings, the simple ones, the ones often taken for granted.

Optimism is in fact a choice. Today is a good day because I woke up. Today, I challenge you: to do the same, complete the sentence, Today is going to be a good day and here’s why-
Earn for building your web3 workID
By: Luke Shipley
Tags: Future Of Work, Identity, Blockchain, Web3, Ethereum

Earn for building your web3 workID

A bounty reward for reaching minimum viable Web3 WorkID

Zinc publicly launched on mainnet 8 weeks ago and we’ve been flattered by the response. We’ve had an overwhelming number of signups but not enough people have made it to a minimum viable Web3 work ID. Yet...

Zinc offers the tools for anyone to freely start building their web3 identity. You can now get rewarded for collecting 3 proofs on the Zinc too.

Here are the steps for early web3 adopters to collect a bounty reward for reaching MVW3-WID (minimum viable web3 work ID ~ catchy right 😀)

Sign-up to: https://zinc.work/ with LinkedIn/Google/Github, email/password or MetaMask. Use a company email for validation where possible. A decentralised sign-up creates an ENS subdomain for you and deploys your identity contract to the network. Socially authenticate yourself: An old world web2 identity is required to verify your new new digital identity. Verify your LinkedIn from your account page: https://zinc.work/account/profile Request proofs: Start building your profile by clicking the ‘Request Reference’ button on your profile and enter a colleagues email (this can be past or present) that can provide a verifiable work proof for you. Claim reward: Once you’ve collected at least 3 professional references submit your profile to our bounty for review: https://explorer.bounties.network/bounty/1735.

P.s work proofs from ETHBerlin and Devcon count towards your MVW3-WID.

Zinc is a Web3 based work platform that offers tools to collect references and proof of any form of work (courses, workshops, certificates). With a blockchain-based backend, you can prove this information and use it over and over throughout the rest of your career. Using a distributed database we can also offer an opportunity to truly control & own information.
Currently Accepting Submissions!
By: M.R. Holland
Tags: Poetry, Submission, Write, Poem, Poetry On Medium

Poetry en Motion is looking for creative individuals that would like showcase their work. If you would like to be considered for publication, send a link of a poem draft on your medium account to Matthewryanholland@gmail.com.

If approved by Poetry en Motion, we will make you a writer for the publication. You can then submit a draft of this poem and we can then approve and publish.

Once you’re added as a writer you can click on “new story”. You add a title and your piece, also, please add a picture that you feel fits your work.

If you click on the “publish” dropdown you can add up to 5 hashtags so that people who are seeking a read related to your piece will see it. (Do not finalize the publish)

Lastly, you click on the “…” in between publish and notifications to find “add to publication”.

Choose Poetry en Motion and I will be notified to review and publish.

We look forward to reading!
Configuring Chef Development Environment
By: Alejandro Falkowski
Tags: Ruby, Infrastructure As Code, DevOps

Configuring Chef Development Environment

Background

At the current place that I am at one of the things that we are lacking is the concept of Infrastructure as Code. So I have decided to put my DevOps hat on and get the ball rolling.



I decided to use Chef as it feels more natural to me as a Ruby developer. The setup process was not as straight forward as I thought so I decided to document it, as I will forget later on.

Installation
DisclosureGroup in SwiftUI
By: Kelvin Tan
Tags: Mobile, iOS, Swift, Swiftui, Programming

DisclosureGroup

You will first have to create a State to control the dropdown, but rest assured that the rest of it will be taken care of. Here, you will be creating a dropdown menu that consists of food items and drinks.

So you will be needing at least three States , with each of them attached to its respective dropdown:

@State private var topExpanded: Bool = false

@State private var foodExpanded: Bool = false

@State private var drinkExpanded: Bool = false

Next, use DisclosureGroup :

Voila:
ICOVO’s Token “OVO” will be listed on cryptocurrency exchange “BitOnBay” in August 2018.
By: Icovo Ag
Tags: Headline, English, Blockchain, Bitcoin, Exchange

We are exciting to share with you that “ICOVO’s Token OVO will be listed on cryptocurrency exchange BitOnBay “ in August 2018.

About BitOnBay

BitOnBay Corporation (CEO Suparat/Thailand) have three future. First is fast transaction, strategy pleasant trading experience through unique and fast trading system. Second is strong security, provide top notch security system. Third is customized trading environment, easy and intuitive UI. Both beginners and experts in trading can use our platform with easy.
Things That Are Not For Sale
By: Elle Rogers
Tags: Poetry, Poetry On Medium, Prose, Self, Memories

The memory of the day I cracked my face against the crisp ice and my grandfather, aged eighty-two, rose up laughing and helped me drag the toboggan back uphill for another frigid run.

The first time I breathed in the blessed notes of Notre Dame cathedral and crept reverently into all the nooks and alcoves I could find to memorize the colored glass and incense and prayers of millions long since passed.

The day I flew a tiny Cessna in shaky circles and realized I could never leave my feet upon the earth for long again.

The fractures earned by running, running, running until my bones bent, then broke beneath the strain.

Twelve ribs, poking shyly through the gaining flesh after months of sharp, protruding edges felt in every meal I did not eat.

A million cups of coffee, sipped slowly while contemplating art and air and sky and fear.

The constellations of freckles earned from years of frolicking beneath our ancient sun.

The feel of a pen in my hand, tracing lines across pages that will last until time swallows them into the yawning gap of its infinite grace.

These are the things not for sale. These are the relics of a free and mighty soul.
Smart Contract: Cryptocurrency mining in a more sustainable, transparent and equal profitable way
Tags: ICO, Smart Contracts

In newspapers and in television we hear more and more talking about Blockchain and Bitcoin, but we can not say the same for another concept, that has great potential: the Smart Contract.

With Ethereum technology, we have developed this particular form of contract, let’s analyze it.

With this cryptocurreny the market has succeeded in something incredible, that is to develop contracts without the need for trust between the parties involved in it.

As we described in our article on BlockChain’s power, even in this case, we have exploited the fact that there is no need for trust when it comes to algorithms.

Let’s start from the beginning.

Do you know the vending machines for snacks and drinks?

Very rudely, they act on a Smart Contract, very basic, but the concept is that one.

If you enter 2 €, and you select the 2B button then, and only then, the 2B button drink drops and can be taken.

This is an “electronic” contract written within the vending machine itself.
The Days of Our Pies
Tags: Humor, Cooking, Life, Food, Funny

I had a “Buddha Bowl” at a friend’s house the other night. I had never heard of them before, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. A dish piled high with veggies, grains and greens? What’s not to love?

So I tried something similar at home, roasting a pile of kale, sweet potatoes, broccoli, and other tasty veggies. I piled the veggies into bowls and topped them with spiced chickpeas and a nice tahini sauce. It was seriously delicious folks; restaurant quality if I do say so myself.

I set the bowls down in front of the family. My hubby, a meat and taters kind of guy, asked why I gave him a bowl-ful of “side dishes.”
As condo association president, I approve this Halloween message
By: Shamontiel L. Vaughn
Tags: Bylaws, Halloween, Homeowners, Condominiums, Halloween 2020

So I fully understand where Angela Nava of Richmond, Texas was coming from when she changed her mind about taking down her Halloween decorations after she received complaints from the Homeowners Association.

“We’ve all been cooped up, and it’s been just a terrible year,” Nava told United Press International. “We’ve just decided if this brings a little bit of joy and a little bit of smiles to someone, then we’re doing everything right.”

Not only are her pole-dancing skeletons a sight to behold, but apparently she’s “changing the scene up every night.” I get why it’s considered “inappropriate” and “offensively positioned,” but I’ve got a two-foot furry spider hanging over my dining room table. I’m not exactly looking for classy Halloween decorations. (Is that a thing?)

But I respect how the board handled these complaints. They gave her 30 days from Sunday (Oct. 25) to remove the display. It doesn’t take much to realize they did her a solid and required her to remove this display by Thanksgiving. If you’re on the board, sometimes you have to be the “bad guy.” I have chased kids and adults off of the lawn for eating popsicles while being at risk of accidentally digesting pesticides. I’ve become that grumpy neighbor who wants everybody to get the hell off the lawn — even when I’m not watering it. I’ve given away abandoned toys from a tenant who had them scattered all over our basement like it was her living room. I’ve blown up people’s phones to get their cars out of the parking lot for deck power washing and staining. And I’ve pushed a cart down the street because it never had any business being in our lobby — a second time. (Family Dollar, I’m sorry a tenant stole one of your carts.)

I try as much as possible to respect the bylaws and assist with making the building look presentable without being a busybody. But Halloween (and Christmas) are two times of the year where I think all board associations should let the tenants and condo owners go nuts. Make the whole building look like a haunted house if you want to. Let adults be kids for just those two days— especially in a hellish year like this one. Now somebody give me $1 to donate to the twerking skeleton.
Weird Medium Stuff
By: Mark Starlin
Tags: Software, Humor, UI, Medium, Publishing

Responses Enigma. “What?!”

Responses are an enigma wrapped in confusion, then tucked into a mystery full of riddles that don’t make any sense. The browser and mobile apps each seem to work in random, different, unpredictable, unfathomable ways.

Why do I have to click to see “Out of Network” responses? I want to see them all. I don’t want to exclude people who are not in my network. Sometimes people who are in my network show up there also.

Sometimes I see responses. Sometimes I have to click on a link to see them. Or click on three links to get there. And then when I go to click the link, a Medium box link to another story pops up and steals my click, whisking me away to another story. ARRRGGH!

Sometimes my responses to responses are shown, other times there is a link.

Sometimes my responses to responses get divided and shown out of context at the bottom of the responses. Usually when someone else comments on a response.

Who has the secret code book to responses? I can’t crack (or hack) them.
You Are Here?. Friends, readers, fans, random…
By: Carvell Wallace
Tags: Emotional Health, Writers On Writing, Spirituality, Pandemic, Lil Uzi Vert

You Are Here

You Are Here?

What Will This New Column Be About? I…Promise to Know By The End Of This Post?

Friends, readers, fans, random stalkers. I’m so very happy to announce that I’m going to be writing a regular column on Medium starting…oh shit…today??!

A column about what you ask? Great question. I’m glad you asked. I appreciate the question, and I appreciate you asking it. It’s an important thing for us to talk about things like this… in times like these…to address the situation… with everything going on. And to be open to that dialogue, those…courageous conversations, is just so vital. Just so, so vital. And you asking “a column about what?” is a great way to get that important dialogue started, and I appreciate you for that.

Oh wait actually I just figured it out. It’s this: Your literal humanity is, at this point, a question. And I don’t think I’m kidding. How you respond to this moment, this call for survival, this call for love, this call for hate, this call to ignore or embrace your own suffering, your own grief, the suffering and grief of others, your own healing the healing of everyone around you, the people you love and the people you fear, the self you protect, and the self you abandon…the way you answer that call, that’s where your humanity either does or doesn’t survive this. In a cosmic sense the stakes are fairly unimportant. One planet around one sun in a galaxy of four billion suns, in a universe of four billion galaxies. But as it happens, scale has never justified detachment. We are here. I am here and you are here. Therefore we matter to each other. In a human sense things are exactly as important as they’ve ever been.

I was out in the sticks recently and the whole shit looked like this

So a column about what? Short meditations on how I try to keep my humanity in tact in a word that does not seem to want to help with that. A brief story about the woods, or a prison, or a teenager. Maybe something I saw on Twitter and what it made me feel. Maybe a sky under which no one can breathe. Maybe a dream in which Lil Uzi Vert pulled up next to me in a Jeep on the freeway, winked at me and told me I was doing ok. (Actually I probably won’t write about that one, there actually isn’t much more to say about it. It was just…what I needed to hear)

Anyway please tune in. I have just decided, literally in this sentence, that the column is to be called “You Are Here”

Some people pray. I write. Quietly offering words into an abyss hoping something good happens; basically the same idea.

Join me.

See you soon.

-c.
Bitcoin Correlations
Tags: Digital Asset, Cryptoasset, Cryptocurrency, Correlation, Bitcoin

Fundamental correlations between bitcoin and other global financial asset classes have tended to shift over longer time periods, and by data, are not as established as correlations between more traditional asset classes.

Exampli gratia, we know the strong inverse correlation between USD and gold, that is well documented and reliable. In this article we gathered data from multiple sources to get a holistic view on bitcoin’s correlation between S&P500, gold, and different indexes, during first quarter (Q1) of 2019. As bitcoin grows as a global asset class, the correlation data will be one of the essential indicators we’d all be following.

There’s a clearly growing demand for safe havens as risk sentiments change. During market cycles and situations like: Turmoil, macroeconomic concern, or geopolitical risk, investors are eager to reallocate into the perceived safety of “safe haven” assets like bitcoin. As a decentralized digital currency that is, by definition, entirely independent from any single central bank, economy, government, or political party, bitcoin has a very real potential to serve as the perfect hedge for traditional assets, i.e. digital gold.

“Bitcoin has an asymmetric return profile — there is much more upside than downside in owning the asset. The downside is capped at the total amount of capital invested, yet the upside is ~100X+.” -Anthony Pompilano.

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The Masked Manual
By: Oliver K. Ernst
Tags: iOS, Masks, Covid 19, Open Source, Apps

Open source iOS app for referencing face mask data

The Masked Manual on the iOS app store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-masked-manual/id1542536599

The problem:

Masks are important. Choosing the right type of mask and understanding its qualifications is critical. Currently, mask information is scattered between the openFDA database, FDA websites and CDC websites.

The solution:

“The Masked Manual” is a free iOS app that shows mask information compiled from openFDA, FDA websites and CDC websites. It lets you easily search for masks and see their qualifications, as well as instructions for wearing it. You can also use the camera to recognize and find your mask by scanning its packaging.

Screenshots from the app. 2000+ masks are included.

At the time of writing, the following masks are referenced:

Data sources

The source for each data is listed explicitly in the application for each mask or respirator entry. Data are sourced from:

The substantive content of the materials has not been changed from their original sources.

The material is otherwise available on the respective agency website for no charge.

The terms of service for all data follow from their source as indicated for each entry for a mask. Data from openFDA is available under Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal dedication (timestamp: 11/28/2020). Data from the CDC provided here is not under copyright and is in the public domain (timestamp: 11/28/2020). Data from the FDA provided here is not under copyright and is in the public domain (timestamp: 11/28/2020).

Link to the app (free):

You can find the app on the iOS app store here:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-masked-manual/id1542536599

Developer?

This is an open source project — you can contribute here:

https://the-masked-manual.herokuapp.com

https://github.com/smrfeld/the-masked-manual-ios

https://github.com/smrfeld/the-masked-manual-python

Feedback and contributions are welcome, thanks!
Making use of Node.js’s Built-in Debugger
By: Poorshad Shaddel
Tags: Debugging, Chrome, JavaScript, Nodejs, Programming

Making use of Node.js’s Built-in Debugger

Debug files in Node.js without the use of ‘debugger’

Let’s imagine that I have a simple JavaScript file and I want to calculate the sum of integer numbers but I have a problem and I want to debug this file(but I don’t want to use console.log as a debugger!)

This is the file:

A simple function that we are going to debug.

In order to use debug mode we need to run the file with this command:

node inspect sumCalculator.js

Also, we can use this command but it is deprecated:

node debug sumCalculator.js

As we enter the debug mode we can see these lines on the console:

Nodejs debug mode

As we can see debugger is listening on port 9229 and a unique URL. We are going to use this URL after we learn a few commands in debug mode.

We can use the help command to see what we can do here: help

Nodejs debug commands

Basic debug commands:

Resume execution(continue): c or cont

or Next line: n or next

or Step into a function: s or step

or Step out: o or out

or Set breakpoint: sb or setBreakpoint

or Clear breakpoint: sc or clearBreakpoint

The repl command gives us a repl mode command line and we have access to functions and variables in debug mode. (Or as Node.js docs define: Open debugger’s repl for evaluation in debugging script’s context)

Let’s debug this simple file

First of all, we need a breakpoint. I think line 4 is the best place we can set a breakpoint. So in order to set a breakpoint at line 4, we need to execute this command: sb(4)

Setting a breakpoint

We can use cont command but what is the point if we cannot see variables?

There are two ways to check variables in debug mode:

1. repl you have to enter repl mode and then you have access to variables and functions and you can check them.

2. Using watch .

We are going to use the second way as it is a better way when we are in a loop:

watch('index')

watch('sum')

Pay attention that the watch function expects a string.

As I start the debugger I might encounter with an error like this: sum is not defined and that’s OK since before reaching our breakpoint these variables are not defined.

If we use cont then we can see the values of these variables:

Watching values

So I guess the problem with my function is that I’m starting from 0!

Debug inside the browser

We want to use chrome dev tools to debug any script:

Enter the debug mode: node inspect yourFile.js Open chrome and in an address bar type chrome://inspect .

chrome inspect tool

You can see that because of the port of debug mode chrome is watching this file and by clicking on the blue inspect text we can enter the debug mode in chrome:

chrome inspect tool

Now you have access to all debugging options in a graphical way.
Análisis de datos en la investigación y el diseño de UX
By: Blanca Quiriarte, Talent
Tags: UX Research, Data, Data Science, Data Visualization, Analytics

We team up with our clients to understand their needs and offer them the best digital talent. We have 20 years of experience selecting top tier digital professionals in Latin America and Europe.

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The Uncharted Utopia
By: Lita Tiara
Tags: Growth, Self Improvement, New Year, Self Love, Creative Non Fiction

— an anecdote of potpourris.

The Uncharted Utopia

Young Minds of Medium 2021 Hopes & Dreams

Photo by cottonbro from Pexels

I often dwell on how exactly ‘progressing’ would look like. Mundanely, it would comprise each one of us riding the same bus, stuck in traffic, for a 9 to 5 and doing it all over again in the morning. It seems tedious to look at it just the way it is for me. So, for the sake of tiring my restless mind in hopes that it’ll eventually fall asleep, I visualize.

I’d picture every human being walking in an all-grey realm. The direction varies, though; each of us is going differently straight, no matter how strange that may sound. No sun, moon, not even the slightest speck of light, but we all can see each other just fine.

It’s just us, purely walking one step at a time.

It seems like a never-ending walk to nowhere. From time to time, however, our pace would change. Sometimes, a little faster than our feet could handle. We can’t help it, though: some people run for sport while others are running for their lives. To where, I know not. But I like to imagine that each of us is heading towards our utopias.

Some say it could take days, months, even years just to smell the air. We know them purely as walking through the seasons. Yet, it’s not always the cool summer breeze or whichever favorite season you prefer.

Those lucky souls who have survived the storm have become the figment of the imagination. Regardless of how impossible it may seem, they’re exactly where they want and needed to be, and they can do what we — who are still walking, yearn for the most: slow their pace.

They’re there, and we can only admire from afar.
ICO Alert Podcast #60: David Wachsman
By: Ico Alert
Tags: ICO, Blockachain, Cryptocurrency, Podcast, Bitcoin

ICO Alert Podcast #60: David Wachsman

CEO and Founder of Wachsman, a PR and professional services powerhouse for blockchain and crypto companies

My guest today was David Wachsman of Wachsman PR. While Wachsman’s primary focus is PR, they are considered a professional services company offering a variety of services to FinTech focused clientele.

We talk about David’s thoughts on the current crypto PR scene, learn about how Wachsman got started, and get his take on a variety of key market forces in the industry right now.

David is a brilliant, well-spoken guy who I think you’ll find has a wealth of knowledge about this space. Now managing a company with roughly 170 employees and three offices around the world, you won’t want to miss this one.

Enjoy!

The ICO Alert Podcast showcases exclusive, in-depth interviews with founders of past, present, and future Initial Coin Offerings. The podcast is hosted by Mike Finch, Co-Founder of ICO Alert. If you’d like, you can request a guest to appear on a future episode by emailing podcast@icoalert.com.

Prefer to read along? Read the transcript here at blog.icoalert.com.
QuarkChain и ArcBlock объявляют о новом стратегическом партнерстве
Tags: Russian, Blockchain, Blockchain Technology, Sharding

QuarkChain provides a secure, decentralized and scalable blockchain solution to deliver 100,000+ on-chain TPS

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Elaine Shi, Thunder Research, Consensus 2019 Presentation
By: Peter Abilla
Tags: Proof Of Stake, Thunder Announcement, Blockchain, Thunder Research, Ethereum

Dr. Elaine Shi, Co-founder, Chief Scientist at ThunderCore, and Head of Thunder Research, presented at Consensus 2019. Below is her presentation, along with a few key takeaways.

Dr. Elaine Shi, Head of Thunder Research, Presents at Consensus 2019

Key Takeaways

Pala Consensus Open Source Release

Dr. Shi announced that Pala is now open source. Go check it out at

https://github.com/thundercore/pala

What is Pala? Pala is a byzantine fault tolerant consensus protocol invented by T-H. Hubert Chan, Rafael Pass, and Elaine Shi. It can achieve low latency and high throughput in a partially synchronous network setting. Pala allows support seamless proposer switch with no delay in normal operation. When there is a network partition, the protocol switches proposers with little delay (say 6s) to keep liveness as long as there are at least one honest proposer and 2/3 voters in a single partition. All honest nodes maintain consistency no matter how the network is partitioned.

ThunderCore blockchain plans to use Pala to move towards a more decentralized architecture.

Full Node Open Source Release

ThunderCore will open source release its Full Node in Early June.

And a lot more.

Check out Dr. Shi’s presentation at Consensus 2019.
Sunrise 20201222
By: Jenny Lawton
Tags: Nature, Gratitude, Haiku, Mindfulness

entrepreneur, mentor, advisor, mother, wife, dog parent and lover, tennis player : changing the world one woman and entrepreneur at a time

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Por qué es mala idea que el software se desarrolle donde el cliente
By: Mauricio Palma Lizana
Tags: Agile Development, Negotiation, Desarrollo De Software

Computer Engineer, working at @OrandResearch, growing medium.com/Impresee, @SafeSignerSpa and @Safehis. Member of medium.com/mejorindustriati and ASCE.cl.

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Excel in competition through result-oriented eCommerce SEO services by experts!
By: Sajiv Kumar
Tags: Synapseinteractive, Ecommerce Marketing, Ecommerce Seo Services, Hire Seo Experts

SynapseInteractive offers complete eCommerce SEO services in India. We understand the challenge that is present for the eCommerce industry today due to so many online stores being launched at an unprecedented pace. Google is flooded with websites that sell and promote similar products/ services/ brands and, therefore, it is difficult for your online store to get noticed by your potential customers. With effective SEO, however, you can ensure that your eCommerce store appears on top of the Google search pages whenever your potential customers type in relevant keywords in the Google search box. Being found on the Internet means you will get more visitors and genuine customers to your online store and that, eventually, means improved ROI for you! Please visit SynapseInteractive website for more information on this.

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