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Learn How to Show Agile Leadership by Getting Curious
By: Todd Lankford
Tags: Problem Solving, Serious Scrum, Agile, Management, Leadership

Moving from being a manager to being a leader is crucial in today’s Agile environment. The success of our Agile teams depends on it. I have written about the need for Agile Leaders and the values of an Agile Leader before. But today, I have a specific scenario to dive into.

Recently, I heard this statement by a manager:

“It would be so much easier if I could tell the team what to do and how to do it.” — Manager in an Agile Transformation

This is a typical reaction to the difficulty in supporting self-organizing behavior. While it seems appealing and less risky to direct a team on their every move, it is not. If you treat your team like robots, you will get robots. And this does not enable Agility.

When you, the manager, are in the decision-making hot seat, your team will be less effective. Every decision you make saps self-organizing behavior from the team.

When you own all decisions, the weight is on your shoulders alone. And you will not always be there with the team when they need a decision to be made. This can lead to a bottleneck.

Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support they need, and trust them to get the job done. — The Fifth Principle of The Agile Manifesto

The self-organizing team is a risk-reducing mechanism for decision-making. Agile Leaders recognize that many minds contributing to decision-making beats one mind.

Your team is the best equipped to make the right decision. They are closest to the problem. And the root cause is obvious to them.

Your team members are intelligent professionals. You hired them. So now it is time to trust them and enable them to spread their wings.

Let’s investigate how getting curious can help you do this.
Fast Lane from Dagger2 to Hilt — Dependency Injection
By: Akash Patel
Tags: Android, Dependency Injection, Hilt, Dagger 2, Kotlin

We have seen Dependency Injection using Dagger2 in our previous blog Fast Lane to Dagger2. Now Google has introduced Hilt, Which is built on top of the Dagger dependency injection library, providing a standard way to incorporate Dagger into an Android application, It is like dream came true for Android Developers, Let us get into details.

In this article, we will see what is Hilt and how to implement it.

Hilt is Jetpack’s recommended library for dependency injection in Android to reduces the boilerplate in your project. without dependency injection, you needs to manage and construct classes manually. it’s a time consuming and lengthy code process, also required more testing.

Using manual dependency

Lot of boilerplate code and code duplication is needed to create instance of classes.

Code execution should be in a fixed order. Like, Need to make sure that we initialise repository before ViewModel.

It is difficult to maintain reusability, it makes writing test case complicated.

Using Dagger-Hilt

Make same Dagger code easy. Different set of bindings for different build type. Just inject dependancies where needed and rest will be generated by Hilt itself by using annotations. Makes code testable.

Let’s see the steps of using it:

Adding gradle dependencies

Add the hilt-android-gradle-plugin plugin to your project's root build.gradle file:

buildscript {

...

dependencies {

...

classpath 'com.google.dagger:hilt-android-gradle-plugin:2.28-alpha'

}

}

2. Then, apply the Gradle plugin and add these dependencies in your app/build.gradle file.

Hilt uses Java 8 features, enable Java 8 for your project:

...

apply plugin: 'kotlin-kapt'

apply plugin: 'dagger.hilt.android.plugin' android {

...

compileOptions {

sourceCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8

targetCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8

}

} dependencies {

implementation "com.google.dagger:hilt-android:2.28-alpha"

kapt "com.google.dagger:hilt-android-compiler:2.28-alpha"

}

built-in set of components

Hilt Design APIs
Chesterfield Gorge
By: Parker Richardson
Tags: Time, Nature, Poetry, Creative, Creative Writing

You move your lips to imitate the wind

and looking at the layered stone,

I wonder how they came to rest upon one another,

how many positions they tried before they came to rest

before they decided,

“this is the one.”

How long did it take to get comfortable?

For all to settle into place?
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Tags: Binance, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Korea, Research

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The Anti-Suffragettes’ Koolaid
By: Patsy Fergusson
Tags: Feminism, Equality, Women, Gender Equality, Politics

The role of media in upholding patriarchy

Ebinger also said she was committed to 5050 by 2020, meaning that 50 percent of the films we pay attention to (as of this year!) should be by women.

Why? Because films by men overvalue the masculine principle. And because overvaluing the masculine has led to this dystopian place.

As a passionate consumer of film and literature myself, I have another reason to support the “revolutionary” proposition of 50/50. Boredom. Because after a lifetime of watching television, going to the movies, and reading books, there is no story told from the male point of view that I haven’t already heard multiple times. I’ve seen it all. Every iteration. Yet the woman’s viewpoint is still new. Fresh!

This reminds me of a scene from Little Women, the book written by Louisa May Alcott in 1868 and most recently adapted by Greta Gerwig in 2019.

Greta Gerwig’s 2019 adaptation of Little Women. From the Indiewire review.

The main protagonist, Jo, is a writer and here she is talking about her latest endeavor with her sister, Amy.

“It’s just about our little life. Who will be interested in a story of domestic struggles and joys? It doesn’t have any real importance.” “Maybe we don’t see these things as important because people don’t write about them.”

I don’t know whether Alcott or Gerwig wrote that line, but it speaks to me directly, because of course the experiences of half the world’s population have value! It’s absurd that we ever saw it any other way.

There was a time when movies centered on women were so rare they were called “chick flicks” (are they still?) and men were embarrassed to see them. The trivializing term is another masterful deception, suggesting that movies about women and human relationships are inconsequential when compared to movies about men blowing things up.

That topic in turn reminds me of a saying my brother-in-law attributes to his dead Irish mother. “The winners write the history books. The losers write the songs.”

And which of those are more often true, I wonder? More philosophical? More likely to lead us to a better place?

It’s masterfully deceptive how describing women as angels is both flattering and condescending at the same time — placing men at the center of the world and women as something “other” sent to guide them to do the right thing.

We’ve seen in 2020 in particular, when protestors were inspired to pull down monuments to “heroes” of the Confederacy — men who went to war to protect their “right” to keep people as slaves — how poorly history books are written, how much is left out, how much is plain aggrandizement and lies.

Part of the reason is most histories were written by men, the “winners” who overvalued the masculine ideals and left the feminine out. The same is true of most monuments, movies, and books.
Liquid to list USDC stablecoin
Tags: Market, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Stablecoin, Bitcoin

TOKYO, November 2, 2018 — Global digital asset platform Liquid today announced that it will list USD Coin (USDC), a regulated, US dollar-backed stablecoin governed by CENTRE, an industry consortium co-founded by Coinbase and Circle.

Initial USDC trading pairs on Liquid will include BTC and ETH. Traders will be able to buy and sell USDC to protect their investments at times of price volatility, while the tokens can be quickly and cheaply transferred over the blockchain, far more efficiently than moving fiat.

Each USDC represents a single US dollar and moves neither up nor down relative to its reference currency. One USDC is a 1:1 representation of a US dollar on the Ethereum blockchain. Each USDC is 100% collateralized by a corresponding US dollar held in accounts subject to regular public reporting of reserves.

“We are thrilled to see Liquid launch support for USDC. As the leading exchange for the Japanese Yen market and a pioneer in the cryptocurrency exchange market, they are a strong partner for USDC. We share a common vision of an open, connected and global financial system built on cryptocurrency assets and blockchain technology, and this is an important step in reaching that goal as we connect additional major markets with open fiat rails. We are looking forward to future collaboration with Liquid as we expand our efforts in this space together,” said Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire.

“Circle is a natural partner and ally for Liquid as we share common values in our motivation to clean up cryptocurrency, bring much needed liquidity to the space and lay the foundations for the kind of sector-wide stability that will lead to the next wave of adoption. This pro-regulation partnership is more than just a listing of USDC. This is a pledge between Liquid and Circle to join forces together and with other regulated actors to legitimize cryptocurrency for the whole world,” said Liquid CEO Mike Kayamori.

Circle is a money services business registered with FinCEN and holding 48 US state money transmitter licenses. Circle was also the first recipient of the BitLicense issued by the New York State’s Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) and is actively working with NYDFS to bring USDC to New York customers in a regulated way. Quoine, the fintech company behind Liquid, is licensed by the Japan Financial Services Agency (FSA). Quoine is a member of the Japan FSA cryptocurrency self-regulatory body, JVCEA, mandated to formulate guidelines for cryptocurrency exchanges in Japan.
Solving CISOs’ Greatest Challenge: Our Investment In JupiterOne
By: Enrique Salem
Tags: Asset Management, Cybersecurity, Venture Capital, Network Security, Funding News

CISOs face a myriad of challenges keeping their organizations’ networks secure, but when we ask our CISO friends to name their biggest daily headache, they almost always answer the same thing: asset management. With every company today relying on a complex technology stack of hardware, on- and off-premise software, cloud infrastructure, and mobile devices, it has become increasingly complex to understand what actually makes up the enterprise estate. What assets does my organization have? Who has access? What information and data is where? Are there any weak points in our security protocols?

CISOs have made tremendous progress towards understanding their companies’ devices and infrastructure. Deploying endpoint agents, instrumenting networks, and implementing firewalls, gateways, and proxies have all helped CISOs understand what is within each of their enterprise’s overall estate. Thus, the modern security organization now has lots of visibility from all of this tooling, but it is also faced with duplicative data and no single source of truth for what hard and soft assets exist under the enterprise’s umbrella. Through a combination of spreadsheets, configuration management database (CMDB) products, and proprietary tools, CISOs have worked to address the challenge of understanding and managing their IT asset inventory.

We believe that given the broad instrumentation of enterprise endpoints and the shift to cloud native (API-enabled) infrastructure, asset management must become a fully-automated and high-accuracy practice. With automated asset management, CISOs gain access to a centralized platform for automating security alert and compliance workflows, solving many of the manual processes that frustrate them today.

We are pleased to announce a $19 million Series A investment into JupiterOne, a fully-automated asset management and configuration monitoring platform.

JupiterOne aims to transform how organizations manage their cloud-based infrastructure. The company leverages an organization’s existing API-enabled infrastructure to build an accurate and deep graph of all hard and soft enterprise assets. Erkang Zheng, CEO and founder of JupiterOne, saw the asset management problem up close as a security operator at several F500 companies, so he built JupiterOne from the ground up to be a comprehensive solution that solves CISOs’ biggest challenge.

JupiterOne has developed a compelling product that integrates quickly, is applicable across enterprise segments, and is highly reviewed by current customers. We couldn’t be more pleased to partner with the JupiterOne team and lead its Series A financing.
“Stolen funds, a discarded gun, swamp rumors and Aled the alligator on the run not willing to face…
By: Kyle Freeman
Tags: Inktober, Webcomics, Art, Crime Fiction, Illustration

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Souvenir
By: Aaron Quist
Tags: Memories, Death, Poetry, Ego, Life

Souvenir

A poem

Photo by Henrique Jacob on Unsplash

Perhaps a feather,

or maybe

a single grain of sand

to pocket and keep

for when this all

inevitably

disappears,

for when this all

invariably

dissolves

in a shadowed

flash of light,

as if swept off

the edge

of the razor

by god’s fluttering

lashes.

Or

perhaps a page

torn from a book,

or maybe

an eye gouged from

the lover that I

just can’t seem

to let go of —

surely

they won’t need it

wherever we may

be headed.

Then again,

perhaps a single breath

would be the best

trinket to bring,

or maybe

that really stupid joke

you once told me

on an evening

when life couldn’t quite

justify its existence

to either of us,

and so we laughed

so hard that

an idea like breathing

no longer held any

meaning.

Yeah,

I think I’ll take

the joke — we

could all use

a laugh

when its time

to go. We

could all use

a cheeky jest

to keep something

as unfathomable as

leaving ourselves behind,

in perspective.

After all,

I just may need

something funny

to break the ice with.
How to Consistently Attract (And Hold Onto) Beautiful People in Life
By: Kunal Walia
Tags: People, Self, Love, Relationships, Life

‘For Every Action, There Is an Equal and Opposite Reaction’

To paraphrase Newton’s Third Law, when you take action by treating yourself well, the universe will reward you with people who also treat you well. Or as Sitara Devi once said,

“Treat yourself with love and respect, and you will attract people who show you love and respect.”

By dedicating more time to work on you, you naturally develop into a more well-rounded individual. At some point, your ‘scale of attractiveness’ goes through the roof.

If you’re unsure whether you’ve already reached this stage in life, ask yourself this: “Is this the current version of ‘me’ the one that I want to present to the world?”

If the answer’s “no”, then identify the areas in your life where you’d like to improve.

Use this article as a self-reflection prompt. Maybe you lack patience, or you’re not as generous as you think you should be — practice turning up to meetings early, start giving more, find ways to climb your own scale of attractiveness.

Only then will you begin to attract the sort of high calibre people you want in your life.

And if you’ve already done this…

What if you’re already as attractive as you possibly can be? You’re surrounded by wonderful people that mean a great dear to you — friends, partners, loved ones, and so on. The physics of attraction is working.

Now what?

Now the real battle begins. Now’s the time to show how much we care, and how appreciative we are of having such people in our lives.

Rest assured, Newton’s Third Law comes in handy here, too.

You see, by being unselfish with how much time you give the people that matter most to you — e.g. picking up the phone every once in a while, asking them how they’re really doing in life — you’ve surprisingly already completed 50% of the work.

And yet you’ve achieved 100% of the outcome.

How so? Because you’ve encouraged them to meet you halfway in the relationship.

Remember, for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

Takeaway #1: Present the best version of ‘you’ to the world. It’s the most effective way towards becoming and staying, spiritually attractive.
Beginners Guide to TYPO3 CMS, Community and Resources
By: Nitsan
Tags: CMS, Community, Beginners, Typo3, Guide

Are you a TYPO3 beginner and interested to explore TYPO3 CMS? Congratulations and, Welcome to TYPO3 universe — One of the world’s most powerful OpenSource CMS and Community.

Generally, the developers are not sure where to start and learn from in TYPO3. Don’t worry here I’m going to guide you with a step-by-step overview of TYPO3 CMS product, community, and available official resources.

Fall in love to TYPO3

Always Great To Start with History

What all big names prefer TYPO3?

TYPO3 Success in Statistics

Let’s Have a Quick Try

Ready-made TYPO3 Themes

Get Editor-level Backend Knowledge First

TER — A free TYPO3 App Store!

Sharing and Caring TYPO3 Community

What are TYPO3 LTS and ELTS version?

Official TYPO3 Resources

Read whole blog at https://www.nitsan.in/blog/post/beginners-guide-to-typo3-cms-community-and-resources/

#WeAreTYPO3
Himalayas
Tags: Verse, Himalayas, Nature, Poetry, Snow

Himalayas

A Verse

Photo by Bisesh Gurung on Unsplash

a abode of snow

how much do i know

you stand so tall

do you even hear my call

you must be so alone

in that no vegetation zone

where animal don’t roam

we can survive cold

even when we are old

but what to feed on

we are fire

we need to eat

how will you know

you are snow

you have your ways

your ayes and nays

i am here to converse

sing to me your verse
The Artist Who Never Used an Eraser
By: Michelle Muses
Tags: Family, Self, Art, Relationships, Life

I first met Leah when we were both thirteen.

I spent lunch breaks sitting cross-legged on the school lawn, sketching on my notepad. One day, I looked up to see a girl perched on the edge of a bench diagonally across me. She was drawing too. The next few days, I kept seeing her at the same spot.

Sometimes I would watch her draw, utterly transfixed by the tranquil sight — her wavy dark hair spilling over her shoulders as she sketched, hands moving swiftly across the page, pencil deftly working its magic. I was amazed by how achingly beautiful her drawings were, from a close-up depiction of the soulful eyes of a woman to a delicate rendition of leaves fluttering down a tree.

Once, we looked up at the same time and it was like a mirror image — each, a skinny brunette with a sketchpad and pencil in hand, looking up hesitantly. She had big, expressive eyes and a heart-shaped face. She broke into a grin first and patted the seat next to her on the bench. I went over and from that day onward, we were always sketching together during our lunch break. On one occasion, I forgot my eraser and told her I was going up to get it.

She scoffed, “I never use an eraser.”

Incredulous, I asked, “What if you make mistakes?”

She replied, “You can’t entirely erase a mistake anyway, no matter how ugly it is. It becomes a part of the whole. Just make the best of it or start anew.”

This kept me intrigued for days and made me want to know her better.
Stuck: Life on the fringes of fortress Europe
By: Sean Williams
Tags: Migration, Human Rights, Syria, Greece, Refugees

Stuck: Life on the fringes of fortress Europe

Years after conflict tore their lives apart, thousands fleeing death, torture and devastation remain stranded in Greece. We look at the reality of life stuck between two worlds, as Europe’s migrant crisis continues.

While Europe obsesses over economic migrants and politics, thousands of children and families seeking genuine refuge are abandoned. They fled bloodshed. Now they are stuck. Many large NGOs have left Greece, leaving volunteer-run organizations like Refugee Support to supply essentials.

Kazia arrived in Greece with nothing. She is still waiting to start a new life. (Photo credit: Celeste Hibbert)

But funds are dwindling, and more migrants arrive — like Kazia from Iraq, pictured — with neither housing nor food. “We do what we can,” says Refugee Support founder Paul Hutchings. “But Europe is failing in its moral obligation to give people the opportunity to rebuild their futures. That’s not going to happen while they are stuck in refugee camps.”
Cocktail of the Week: Red Apple & Bourbon Fizz
By: Jonathon Howard
Tags: Ginger Ale, Bourbon Whiskey, Apples, Apple Juice, Lemon

As we move further into Fall I find myself flipping through my cocktail book looking for drinks that fit with the season. There are 1000s of cocktails but so many of them seem better suited for Spring and Summer. So I find myself flipping through my cocktail book again and again hoping to stumble upon a warm or hot cocktail, one that isn’t iced or chilled, or one that uses seasonal fruits. Mostly without any success. I do have one more cocktail recipe from a cookbook I’ve previously mentioned, Fresh from the Market. And that’s the cocktail we’re making this week! It’s also the perfect drink for Fall as it places apples center stage!

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Red Apple & Bourbon Fizz

2 oz. Bourbon

1 oz. Apple Juice

1 oz. apple syrup

3/4 oz. lemon juicw

splash of ginger ale

2 thin apples slices

Combine the bourbon, apple juice, apple syrup and lemon juice in a shaker. Shake with ice and strain over fresh ice in a highball glass. Top with a splash of ginger ale and garnish with the apple slices.

This is a delicious cocktail! A perfect blend of sweet apple and bourbon! As soon as D had finished hers she wanted another one. Cool, crisp, and clean going down the cocktails warms its way down into your core. Bonus: turns out the sliced apples that garnish the drink taste delicious after soaking in your drink.
Alana Massey and the Cultures of Girlhood
By: Anna Hundert
Tags: Feminism, Sylvia Plath, Review, Essay, Books

The collection’s titular essay is somewhat of an outlier in that it centers a not-so-recent celebrity. In “All the Lives I Want: Recovering Sylvia Plath,” Massey unpacks some of the gendered reasons why the establishment refuses to take Plath seriously. She cites one particularly heartbreaking line from the New York Review of Books that calls her a “sensation among bulimic female undergraduates.” Even if that were true, why should a writer’s appeal to ostensible “sad girls” make her work any less legitimate in the canon?

Image: Sylvia Plath

In a warm yet still analytical passage, Massey discusses the way young girls are often dismissed for demonstrations of passion like “wearing T-shirts of boy bands or one half of a best-friend-necklace pairing,” when the openness of displaying one’s devotion to anything or anyone could be considered an act of bravery. She then explores the way girls have formed certain corners of the internet — from Tumblr pages to Etsy shops—devoted to a feminine aesthetic that often invokes Sylvia Plath’s words or includes images of her.

Massey describes the experience of finding images of tattoos within the “Sylvia Plath” tag on Tumblr:

I find myself returning over and over to an image of skin bearing the haunting finale of The Bell Jar: ‘I am, I am, I am.’ […] Sometimes it is accompanied by its preceding line, ‘I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart.’ I struggle to think of any line of thinking more linked to being a socialized female than to consider the declaration of simply existing to feel like a form of bragging. But that, of course, is the plight of the feeling girl: to be told again and again that her very existence is something not worth declaring.

This “declaration of simply existing” as somehow presumptuous also extends to the documentation of one’s own interiority. Later in the essay, Massey expands her discussion and considers how Plath’s introspective writings might be compared to “a young woman who takes endless selfies and posts them with vicious captions calling herself fat and ugly.”

At first, as a reader, I recoil from this comparison. How dare she belittle Plath in such a way? But then, Massey continues:

She is at once her own documentarian and the reflexive voice that says she is unworthy of documentation. She sends her image into the world to be seen, discussed, and devoured, proclaiming that the ordinariness or ugliness of her existence does not remove her right to have it.

In this way, Massey repeatedly constructs clever turns in her prose to open up new ways of treating the world with a gaze that is at once shrewd and tender. The essay about “recovering” Sylvia Plath somehow colors all of the other discussions—from Anna Nicole Smith to Princess Diana—with the self-aware notion that to apply a respectful, thoughtful gaze to famous women can be a way of recovering them from the exterior narratives that seek to define them.
New alliance with Ericsson 5G Life Campus in Belgium
By: Frank Van Geertruyden
Tags: IoT, Blockchain, Data Marketplace, 5g, Telecommunication

We are happy to fill you in with the most recent DataBroker DAO news! We’re proud to announce our new alliance with Ericsson Belgium.

For many of you Ericsson needs no introduction, but we’re doing it any way. With 142 years of experience, they are one of the international leaders in ICT. By developing, delivering and managing telecommunication networks they provide hardware, software, and services to enable the full value of connectivity. From 5G to IoT, Ericsson is supporting digital transformation for the next generation of mobile services. Their Research and Development has got an outstanding reputation, so we’re more than excited to get down to business.

DataBroker DAO and Ericsson are going to explore test case potential at the 5G Life Campus which gives us the opportunity to explore the benefits 5G has got to offer for IoT usage. This inspiring and exciting environment is the perfect place to deploy new and exciting applications for DataBroker DAO. We’ll announce a more in-depth update soon, so keep posted!

Ericsson and Corda Campus partnered to open on January 17th 2018 the first 5G Life Campus in Hasselt, Belgium.

ericsson.com/networks/strategies/5g-life-campus

The 5G Life Campus located at Corda Campus, a technology park, is fully connected to Ericsson’s R&D center in Aachen, Germany where 5G development and international pilot projects are executed.

The aim of the 5G Life Campus is to provide industry players such as SettleMint and DataBroker with a test environment to develop and trial new applications using the latest technologies for the next generation of mobility, potentially years ahead of the expected commercial launch of 5G in Belgium.

www.settlemint.com

SettleMint is an enthusiastic young Belgian company, focussed on making blockchain technology accessible for organizations. With Mint, SettleMint’s distributed blockchain middleware, it’s easy for IT teams to build and integrate blockchain applications. With DataBroker DAO, you can see Mint in action. SettleMint created this P2P marketplace that is ready to welcome enterprise level players buying and selling valuable IoT sensor data.



Find more information on databrokerdao.com & join our Telegram channel for all information and questions or drop us a line: hello@databrokerdao.com
USDS by Stably is Live on Totle Swap
Tags: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Fintech, Ethereum, Decentralized Exchange

USDS by Stably is Live on Totle Swap

You can now swap ETH or any popular ERC-20 directly for USDS on Totle Swap

You can now acquire USDS on Totle Swap!

USDS is a stablecoin created by Stably which is pegged to the price of USD. It is a one-to-one backed ERC-20 token which is directly redeemable for USD. Stably’s reserve of USD is held in an FDIC-insured trust account managed by a state-chartered trust company with quarterly audits and attestations.

To purchase USDS on Totle Swap, simply connect a wallet, select the token you want to swap and USDS, and automatically get the best pricing available on the decentralized exchange market.

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Easily acquire USDS with ETH or any popular ERC-20 token: Totle Swap

Build USDS swaps and payments into your dApp: Totle Dev Portal

Totle is a decentralized liquidity aggregator that automatically acquires users the best pricing available for ETH and ERC-20 swaps.

Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Telegram, or Medium for the most up-to-date news on Totle.
Tarkovski congela el tiempo con sus polaroids
By: Los Inrockuptibles
Tags: Artes, Photography, Fotografia, Andrei Tarkovsky

in Both Sides of the Table
Your Biggest Risk Is To Not Take A Risk
By: Matthew Royse
Tags: Success, Personal Development, Self Improvement, Leadership, Risk

Your Biggest Risk Is To Not Take A Risk

5 things you should think about when it comes to taking a risk

Photo by Jonathan Petersson on Unsplash

Risk is your best friend if you take a risk intelligently. We view risk in a negative light. That it’s dangerous. It’s unwise.

That’s the wrong mindset to take toward risk. Risk can be positive. It can be good. Risk is the price of success.

When you take a risk and succeed, you end up with a higher reward than if you took a more conservative approach. Taking calculated risk is a necessity step toward the path to success.

“20 years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” — Mark Twain, an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur

When you take risks, you’ll grow through the process. You’ll become more resilient. You’ll become more confident. When you build your risk skills, you’ll improve the chances of achieving your goals.

In today’s turbulent times, there is no such thing as playing it safe. You could play it safe and find yourself out of work. I have received the pink slip on Friday afternoon. It wasn’t fun but it was a blessing in disguise.

“The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.” — Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and CEO of Facebook

You don’t have to take a crazy risk, you just have to plan it out. You have to prepare to take risks. You have to educate yourself about the fall out and the potential win fall.

There are five things you should think about when it comes to taking a risk.
The community of Decred is present around the world
Tags: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Crypto Community, Decred, Growth

As you may know, Decred is a decentralized project — its digital currency is available to everyone, anywhere, at any time. However, the project is not limited to the digital realm only.

In fact: the Decred community is expanding its global presence!

Here are some pictures from around the world. Enjoy 😎

Mexico

From the 22th until the 26th of April, many young people visited the Decred booth at Talent Land in Guadalajara:

Morocco

On the 24th and 25th of April, Decred community members were present at the IEEE Blockchain Summit in Rabat:

Australia

On the 30th of April, some Decred community members organized a crypto governance panel in Melbourne:

Brazil

On the 4th and 5th of May, lots of people visited this awesome Decred booth at Bitconf in São Paulo:

Canada

On the 8th of May, several community members were invited to speak at the ThatCrypto studio in Toronto:

United States

From the 9th until the 17th of May, a large number of community members gathered at the Blockchain Week in New York:

China

On the 17th and 18th of May, Decred was introduced to a big crowd of crypto enthusiasts in Hangzhou and Chengdu:

Nigeria

On the 24th of May, a team of Decred developers and community members presented the project at a blockchain conference in Lagos:
The Optional Chaining Operator in JavaScript
By: Matthew Croak
Tags: Objects, JavaScript, Es2020, Web Development, Software Development

This ES2020 feature allows you to optionally access an attribute without having to check if the object is defined or not null. Imagine a user object, it contains username , id and name . You can access the attributes like so.

var id = user.id

This, however, will break your code if user for whatever reason is undefined or null . Traditionally, to conditionally access attributes and store them as variables, you’d need to write something like the below.

var id = user ? user.id : null

Thanks to ES2020, and the optional chaining operator, we can shorten the above code using ?. .

var id = user?.id

This syntax will check if user is defined. If it is, it will try accessing the attribute, otherwise the returned value is undefined . This saves us from having to write the ternary syntax above. Cool! Most modern browsers support this syntax, but there are a few that do not.

Despite the convenience of this syntax, there is one area that I noticed it could potentially be improved upon.

Use with Object Destructuring

Object destructuring is a useful shorthand when trying to store object attributes as variables by the same name. In the user object, we can store all of the attributes in variables of the same name like so.

const {id, name, username} = user

This saves us from having to write user.KEY throughout the rest of our code. In order to use this AND account for user being undefined or null , you’d have to write something like the below.

const {id, name, username} = user ? user : {}

While this looks like a job for the optional chaining operator, it is currently unsupported in ES2020. While members of the dev community are discussing the matter with regards to deeply nested objects, I just want to access all of my attributes using object destructuring. Potential syntax could look like the following.

const {id, name, username} = user?.*

I think of this syntax because it’s reminiscent of using import * as A from 'abc' which will import everything marked as an export in 'abc' . Those exports can be accessed by doing A.EXPORT_NAME . I also feel like this might be a better option than simply allowing a user to leave the optional chaining operator open ended.

const {id, name, username} = user?.

I would like to point out that I have never contributed to JavaScript syntax updates, amendments or introductions and therefore don’t have prior experience in doing so. If this is (or is not) feasible please let me know! I’d love to learn more about feature/syntax development. Feel free to mention any of your own syntax proposals that might achieve this functionality.

References
Bitcoin or Stocks: Which is a Better Investment?
Tags: Stock Market, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Investment

Investing in the stock market is something of a timeless tradition. Financially savvy people have been doing it for decades. The average person with a low to mid income typically regarded investing in stocks as something only the rich do. It takes a lot of money and time to make a lot of money, so the average person didn’t see the immediate appeal.

When the cryptocurrency market showed up, people who never before cared about investing wanted a piece of the pie. Buyers and sellers were making big money in record time. Suddenly, many people changed the way they looked at investing.

Both Bitcoin and stocks have the potential to be valuable investments. Which one you should choose depends on your level of comfort and investment style.

Why People Choose Stocks Over Bitcoin

When the stock market crashes or drops significantly, it’s big news. Many rules and regulations have been put in place to keep the stock market as stable as it can be. People enjoy the reliability of the stock market. It’s long established, warning signs are clear to read, and it’s easy to see what a good move might be.

Stocks tend to grow at slow and steady rates. Many people invest in stocks while they’re still young and sell them when they hit retirement. They reinvest some and live off of the profits. Many companies use these stock schemes as a part of their retirement package.

People stick with stocks because they’re comfortable and they know what to expect. They maintain a “slow and steady wins the race” mentality, and they want their money to be there for them in the future. While some high powered traders make their living quickly moving around a ton of stocks, this isn’t how the average investor thinks. They’re not as concerned with their immediate needs as they are their future security.

Why People Choose Bitcoin Over Stocks

Bitcoin comes with instant gratification. Some people buy a piece of a Bitcoin and sell it at a high profit the very next day. The market is a little more disorganized, and everyone has their own motivations. This leads to drastic fluctuations as the value will soar one minute and plummet the next. While traditional investors are often too scared to put their money into a market that seems shaky, people who just want to make a few quick bucks have fewer reservations. They want “right now” money, rather than future money.

Making the Best Choice

Casual investors or new investors often feel like they have to make a choice between Bitcoin and stocks. The smart answer is both. They both have different advantages and disadvantages. A well rounded investor would put some money into Bitcoin and some money into traditional stocks to assure long term financial security.
Universa makes it to Blockchain 100 list of leaders in the global blockchain community
Tags: Blockchain

Universa makes it to Blockchain 100 list of leaders in the global blockchain community Universa Follow Aug 1, 2019 · 1 min read

Universa makes it to Blockchain 100 list of leaders in the global blockchain community, prepared annually by LATTICE80.

LATTICE80 is a community of more than 110,000 fintech startups. The annual list consists of companies recognized as global leaders in blockchain technology development and implementation.

https://www.lattice80.com/lattice80-2019-blockchain-100/
Minnesota Great: Bicyclist Dottie Farnsworth and the Six-Day Races of the 1890s
By: Matt Reicher
Tags: Sports, Minnesota, Equality, Bicycling, History

Minnesota Great: Bicyclist Dottie Farnsworth and the Six-Day Races of the 1890s

A triumphant and ultimately sad story of one of Minnesota’s earliest sports stars

Leona “Dottie” Farnsworth posing on her bicycle — a Dayton Racer (via FIndaGrave)

The introduction of the “safety” bicycle in the mid-1880s ushered in an explosion in bicycling’s popularity, one that continued through the next decade. The opportunity to travel as far as your wheels could take you was intoxicating, and soon a large part of society rode a bicycle. It had social benefits, as well. Bicycling played a vital role in the push for improved public roadways throughout the country and was a major driving force behind the changes in the women’s emancipation movement of the 1890s.

In taking to the “wheel,” women reshaped how they were viewed by society. Bicycling, once a males-only recreation, now had universal appeal. Riding took women out of the Victorian Age, changed how they dressed and allowed them the autonomy to travel as they pleased. The bicycle helped usher in the “new woman” and gave her access to a world that offered the independence that she once lacked. Ladies’ six-day bicycle races were an embodiment of many of these virtues.

Races took place on wooden tracks throughout the country from 1888–1902. Contestants competed over six consecutive days for a predetermined time of two and twelve hours per day. Prize money was distributed between each of the competitors, with most winnings given to the race champion at the end of six days. Thousands of fans came out each night to yell themselves hoarse as they cheered on their favorite rider.

The races were dangerous, and the women that competed risked injury each time they took to the track. However, doing so allowed them to travel the country, dress as they please, and gain a degree of financial independence that they had previously only dreamed. The sport’s popularity contributed to over one million women riding a bicycle in the 1890s. The older generation may have hated what they stood for, but their age applauded them, and the young girls of the next generation hoped to one day be just like them.
Escaping the Time-Scarcity Trap
By: Team Nirvana
Tags: Gtd And Productivity, News, Philosophical

In case you missed it, Janet Choi from @idonethis has a compelling piece on 99U titled “Escaping the Time-Scarcity Trap.”

“When you are busy, you feel flustered. When you’re flustered you start focusing on reactive work — which makes you feel busier. And when you are busy, you feel flustered… The good news is that it’s possible to escape the trap of time-scarcity thinking by reframing how you perceive your lack of time.”

The full piece can be found here:

http://99u.com/articles/27117/escaping-the-time-scarcity-trap
Code for America Blog Has Moved!
By: Code For America
Tags: Civictech, Government, Blog, Storytelling

To our Medium followers,

We’re so glad to count you as part of our community, keeping up with the work we’re doing to make government work by the people, for the people, in the digital age.

We’re still committed to bringing you all of those stories — but our blog has found a new home on Code for America’s website. You’ll continue to hear from us from time to time on Medium, but to get the most up-to-date and comprehensive blog posts and announcements about our work (not to mention the oldies-but-goodies), make sure you bookmark codeforamerica.org/news.

And if you want those stories and more delivered to your inbox, be sure to sign up for our newsletter.

—The Code for America Team
Analyzing data networks
By: Burak Arikan
Tags: Social Network, Data Visualization, Data Science, Big Data, Open Data

Using the “Clustering” function in the Analysis bar, you can identify organic groups in your network. When you run the clustering process, it applies the Louvain Modularity algorithm and finds the tightly knit groups characterized by a relatively high density of ties.

When clusters are detected, it is important to highlight their significance within the larger network. Therefore, they are automatically labeled based on the most connected node in the cluster. However, we strongly recommend you to rename these communities yourself to highlight what these communities specify in your network.

The “Penal Systems Network” (seen above), is a network map of countries in relation to juridical topics such as such as life imprisonment, parole, indefinite sentence, and amnesty. By displaying if or how these topics are being exercised, it provides a comparison of penalties at scale between countries and legal systems.

When we apply the clustering analysis, it shows the following clusters, which are labelled by the most central node within a given cluster:

Countries where amnesty is granted by president

Countries with life imprisonment

Countries where requesting parole varies by sentence

Amnesty by royal decree

The cluster of death penalty

Countries where requesting parole is below 25 years

The clustering of these countries and penalty systems is inline with the distinction of law traditions. The common law countries (from US to UK and its past colonies), the civil law countries (Europe, Latin America, Asia and beyond), and the mix of religious and civil law countries (partly Middle East and North Africa) stand close to each other in the network diagram.

List important actors and ties

Depending on the type of network, some nodes may have relatively more important positions than others. In some situations, important nodes may be defined as being central to the network when they have many connections, or as having a bridging role between two communities. Bridging nodes can be important because their removal may break the network into parts or they become too powerful as they are the broker of the information flow between the communities.
Her
By: Taylor Woods
Tags: Poetry, Love, LGBTQ, Free Verse, Poem

Her

a poem

Photo by Brooke Cagle on Unsplash

Her hair falls like a velvet curtain,

Soft yet heavy down her torso.

That mind of hers

Constantly turns.

Dizzy.

Her eyes can communicate,

maybe more than her words.

The dimple on her cheek

Tells me where to leave my kiss.

Nervous.

She bites her bottom lip

And must know she tastes like honey.

Not to be greedy, but I am in need of something yummy.
基礎知識-融資、融券
Tags: Stock Market, Investing, Knowledge, Finance

in Both Sides of the Table
Fenwick Tree (Binary Indexed Tree)
By: Aman Bharti
Tags: Data Structures, Programming Languages, Programming, Computer Science, Algorithms

Fenwick tree, also known as Binary Indexed Tree is data structure which is commonly used for range problems like getting sum of a range and updating a element of array. we can also use prefix sum for getting sum of range but updating array in prefixsum approach takes O(n).

=> It calculates sum of all elements of a range [l , r] of array in O(log n) time.

=>It update the value of any element of array on O(log n) time.

=>It taken only O(n) memory space to do these operations.

Fenwick Tree ,Which i am going to discuss here is zero based indexing. we can also do one based indexing.

Image taken from EMAXX

In this each node cover some region so when we update an element than we have to update only those nodes which covers region contaning that element. For ex in above figure if we have to update 3rd element than we will update node 2 ,3 and 7 only.

As fenwick tree is represented as array so how to reach parent node?

let us take current node as i than We can go to parent node as i|(i+1)

for ex:

2|(2+1) = 3

3|(3+1) = 7 and so on.

node (size of array -1) will be parent of all nodes as 7 is parent for all nodes for array of size 8

so we can update parent node by using loop from the position where we want to update to all its parent nodes.

Now How to get sum of a range(l,r) from array?

sum = prefixsum(r)-prefixsum(l-1)

if some how we get sum of all parent nodes from r to 0 than we can get sum of range using above formula.

for ex :

if from above figure we want sum of elements from index 0 to 5 than we do no require to go every nodes from 0 to 5. we can say sum as node 3 +node 5 as node 3 is parent of node 0,1and 2. so node 3 will contain sum of node { 0,1and 2}. so how to go from node 5 to node 3.

next_node = (i&(i+1))-1 assuming i as current node

for ex : (5&(5+1))-1 = 3

(6&(6+1))-1 = 5

thus by traversing (using loop) from current node to node greater than or equal to 0 we can get sum of prefix(r)

sum of range(l,r) = prefix(r)-prefix(l-1)

Initially we take all elements of fenwick tree as 0 and add all elements by using update function.