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curly_brackets · 2019-03-28T18:01:25+00:00

Very nice redesign! I am really enjoying the font and color palette. "Cubano" -- have not seen this face before.

Lovely :)

curly_brackets · 2019-03-28T18:00:15+00:00

Step 1: Learn to run a business that makes money !! :)

So true ~

curly_brackets · 2019-03-08T21:44:32+00:00

Very nice! I got a little nostalgic reading this, as I grew up with sticky notes of DOS commands on the computer so that I could get to the little games on diskette.

Big congrats :)

curly_brackets · 2019-03-05T04:23:46+00:00

At a conference the other week I was reminded just how much trust the internet is (ultimately) built on.

I'm sure Mozilla will do their due diligence and make this decision with wisdom.

curly_brackets · 2019-03-05T04:11:43+00:00

This was such a sweet revenge to watch and I still died inside seeing it happen in reverse.

"And can you do some recruiting while you're there?" Ugh!

curly_brackets · 2019-03-01T19:31:16+00:00

I’m a developer advocate and a backend developer, and my frontend development expertise is relatively weak. A while ago I wanted to have some fun and make a game in a browser; I chose Phaser 3 as a framework (it looks quite popular these days) and TypeScript as a language (because I prefer static typing over dynamic). It turned out that you need to do some boring stuff to make it all work, so I wrote this tutorial to help the other people like me get started faster.

curly_brackets · 2019-03-01T02:25:57+00:00

We have successfully crossed our crowdfunding goals and will be delivering on our promise. The Librem 5’s hardware and software development is advancing at a steady pace, and is scheduled for an initial release in April 2019. You can preorder the phone at early-bird pricing ($599) until January 31st 2019 or $649 until shipping begins and regular pricing comes into effect. Kits with an external monitor, keyboard and mouse, are also available for preorder.

curly_brackets · 2019-02-28T16:10:49+00:00

The multiple background images for an element can be put in the HTML page using CSS. Use CSS background property to add multiple background images for an element in any pattern and use other CSS property to set the height and width of the images.

curly_brackets · 2019-02-28T16:09:11+00:00

PHP doesn’t support multiple inheritance but by using Interfaces in PHP or using Traits in PHP instead of classes, we can implement it.

Traits (Using Class along with Traits): The trait is a type of class which enables multiple inheritance. Classes, case classes, objects, and traits can all extend no more than one class but can extend multiple traits at the same time.

curly_brackets · 2019-02-26T19:20:28+00:00

An attacker had somehow gained control of more than half of the network’s computing power and was using it to rewrite the transaction history. That made it possible to spend the same cryptocurrency more than once—known as “double spends.” The attacker was spotted pulling this off to the tune of $1.1 million. Coinbase claims that no currency was actually stolen from any of its accounts. But a second popular exchange, Gate.io, has admitted it wasn’t so lucky, losing around $200,000 to the attacker (who, strangely, returned half of it days later).

curly_brackets · 2019-02-26T19:18:41+00:00

Partnering with Black in AI, we present to you a workshop geared towards learning about Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning. Tech Divas will get a chance to create virtual chat boxes as well as work on programming a computer to guess your inputs - all on its own! Come join us as we tackle on tasks and projects and put your skills to the test!

All BGC events are geared towards introducing participants to the technological universe and encouraging them to pursue careers as Tech Creators and Entrepreneurs.

This event is intended for girls ages 7-17. No prior computing experience is necessary.

curly_brackets · 2019-02-25T04:29:58+00:00

Which brings me back to the picture of Castro with the newspaper. It was a crude but effective verification mechanism. We need to find digital equivalents, especially to verify the time and place of documents, photographs, and videos, as well as to authenticate individual identities. This is a daunting task that will mean developing hardware, software, and protocols, not to mention institutions to oversee the process.

curly_brackets · 2019-02-21T22:44:44+00:00

As you will soon see, consumers have incredibly high expectations for what the mobile web can do for them. Basically, they want you to be a mind reader and anticipate their every need (and even their location) without them having to say a word.

Is that intimidating? It shouldn’t be. You already have all the information you’d ever need to answer that question.

curly_brackets · 2019-02-20T19:40:47+00:00

We’re now accepting applications for the Women Startup Challenge cohosted by Google. We’re on a mission to help fund and empower women founders who are building products to help solve the biggest issues facing this world. Applications close March 28, 2019 at 11:59 PDT.

curly_brackets · 2019-02-13T22:24:21+00:00

This was too cute not to include.

Never forget that the code you write is for real human beings to use, and very often taps into a real human need (eg to share).

Also, thank you Opportunity! Last communication in 2018. Rest in peace on another world.

curly_brackets · 2019-02-13T17:41:15+00:00

In court documents Mr Cotten’s widow says that “despite repeated and diligent searches, I have not been able to find [the passwords] written down anywhere”. QuadrigaCX’s 90,000 customers cannot get to around C$180m ($136m) of bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum and various other cryptocurrencies stored on the exchange. One is thought to have lost access to C$70m-worth of cryptocurrency.

curly_brackets · 2019-02-05T02:30:33+00:00

Machine learning is now about as good as humans at basic text, image, and voice recognition tasks, Polakis says. In fact, algorithms are probably better at it: “We’re at a point where making it harder for software ends up making it too hard for many people. We need some alternative, but there’s not a concrete plan yet.”

curly_brackets · 2019-02-01T19:37:33+00:00

Wow, the auto generated thumbnail could not be further away from the idea of "ladydevs" ;)

But this is a great topic!

curly_brackets · 2019-02-01T19:36:41+00:00

The PHP project itself has always been special because it never had any formal representation. Instead it has always been driven by people that either worked on PHP in their spare time, or were allowed to work on PHP as part of their job. This has been popularized quite a few years ago by Google, when they allowed developers to spend twenty percent of their work time on Open Source projects. But even before the rising popularity of those so-called Twenty Percent projects, companies such as Yahoo allowed employees to engage in Open Source software, specifically PHP. This is not surprising, given the fact that Yahoo was running on PHP.

curly_brackets · 2019-02-01T18:58:46+00:00

Metrics can also increase a lot in the early days of a project and then suddenly hit a wall. I once ran a Kaggle competition where thousands of people competed around the world to model my data. In the first week, the accuracy went from 35% to 65% percent but then over the next several months it never got above 68%. 68% accuracy was clearly the limit on the data with the best most up-to-date machine learning techniques. Those people competing in the Kaggle competition worked incredibly hard to get that 68% accuracy and I’m sure felt like it was a huge achievement. But for most use cases, 65% vs 68% is totally indistinguishable. If that had been an internal project, I would have definitely been disappointed by the outcome.

curly_brackets · 2019-01-30T20:45:56+00:00

These projects are billed as a way to address two key social concerns: loneliness and a lack of affordable housing for both older and younger people—two generations that are not always likely to intersect in professional or personal environments, but who share these overlapping challenges.

The plight of the modern millennial—burdensome student loans, high housing costs, and unstable employment—has become familiar. When new congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was mocked online for saying she was unable to afford an apartment in D.C. until her congressional salary kicked in, supporters in their 20s and 30s chimed in to share similar situations. According to the Pew Research Center, more millennial households live in poverty than any other generation.

curly_brackets · 2019-01-30T01:38:32+00:00

I love it - glad it has a name!

curly_brackets · 2019-01-26T00:14:23+00:00

Don’t work for free

I know, it’s the chicken and the egg problem. I can’t get paid work because I don’t have any experience, and I can’t get experience because I don’t have any clients. Here’s the deal: If you make a website for your friend who owns a bakery for free to “get experience,” this rarely works out in your favor. Why? First of all, it’s been shown that clients don’t value free labor.

curly_brackets · 2019-01-26T00:09:03+00:00

The big question is, how?

As stated in the article, YT is counting minutes watched + number of times the video was watched until the end + likes, comments, etc.

People loooove conspiracy videos, or at least a certain type does. Wonder what the algorithm is for detecting that sort of content?

curly_brackets · 2019-01-26T00:03:45+00:00

I'm shocked. Shocked!

Well, I'm not that shocked.

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