Are you an ambitious business professional looking to get ahead in the industry…
This week Google’s AlphaGo beat world champion Lee Sedol in four of five games of Go, almost exactly…
There are over 100 applications in Myo Market. Here are just 15 ways people around the world are exploring…
I wrote my first bot a few months ago: It was a very simple chatbot in slack for fashion shopping; a…
I’ve started reading Ready Player One. It’s a fun book so far. If you’re not familiar with it, here’s the two-sentence version: An eccentric billionaire created a virtual world that everyone on the planet participates in. He died, and he left behind a puzzle to solve within that virtual world, and…
19 Mar 2016
Note: A complementing repository for this post can be found at: https://github.com/mrafayaleem/kafka-jython
With the release of Kafka 0.9.0, the consumer API was redesigned to remove the dependency…
I’ve always enjoyed playing pranks on people. I don’t envy my younger brother…
This is a follow-up to Smell Dating: From the Trenches (Part 1) — in which I share my motivation (such as it is) and first impressions of Smell.Dating
Repeat after me… I am not afraid of the mouse
Recently I spoke to about a thousand people from the dental industry in Atlanta at the Georgia World Congress…
This Week: “Brandon Stanton Interview, Why we Work So Hard, Hiring Execs, Year of Saying Yes, Attention Scarcity”
Each week, we curate five unique articles, the Rad Reads. The topics are expansive and groovy, ranging from leadership, technology, pop culture…
All in uppercase. Yes. I am yelling at you!
One week a go I built IHaveAnIdea.Rocks, a platform that helps future entrepreneurs to validate their ideas.
With immediate feedback a future entrepreneurs can save a…
The suggested web is also killing the once popular blogs that people used to follow and were a medium of freedom of expression. Now what I read daily is from my Facebook feed. Facebook now decides what I should read or not. If FB chooses to censor an article, the reach of it is severely limited. Now you don’t find people linking to articles in their…
This article is as sensational as it is confused but it brings up lots of great discussion points:
“(Most smartphone) AIs aren’t programmed to help…
This column originally appeared in SFAQ.
An argument could be made that a new startup would force you to sink or swim,ensuring that you learned from your mistakes and adapted quickly. Humans are a resourceful people and the added pressure of an under funded startup would make you dig even deeper into your own resources.
A few days ago, a friend of mine asked me ‘What social network do you usually spend time on? Twitter? Instagram? Facebook?’
How Did I Do?
This year I had the pleasure of researching at the Montreal Neurological Institute in the Cognitive Neuroscience unit. Throughout the last two semesters, I’ve been administering two relatively new tests to participants in order to improve neuropsychological markers of frontal-lobe dysfunction. One of the two…
One of the better developers on our team is a woman. She’s quite skilled in JavaScript and is transitioning to Dart without fail. She handles large refactors, etc with no problem. There is no gender deficiency.
I know some people have a negative view, but it is inaccurate. I strongly dislike the sexism seeing as women helped…
Yesterday, Sara Wachter-Boettcher wrote a piece titled “Dear Tech, You Suck at Delight”. It struck a chord with me, not just because of the distressing scenarios it presents, but because it demonstrates how much knowledge has been lost as the…
Middleman
Middleman is one of my #2016DevResolutions picks (Padrino and Bourbon are the others) and the best way to learn something new is to try it out, so here I am.
I will try to take a logbook of all major steps, in order to see my learning curve and how (and if) I will be able to improve with…
I lie on the damp earth under a multi-hued canopy. Sunlight plays around and over me, as do the many insects. My clothing…
Self-Driving Cars Won’t Work Until We Change Our Roads — And Attitudes Our infrastructure needs to adapt to…
Some days can feel like they drag on forever.
As we come into a new year of products, devices and services of all things, there is a very high demand for one thing in particular, services are getting very popular. They are the recorded as the easiest market to get into, hardware comes with all types of problems…
Andrew Church You will learn that writers on Medium do not want a debate or advice as they only want validation or a yes response. Any response from a binary male, even a “positive” response will be seen as benevolent sexist, misogynistic, racist, homophobic, or trans-phobic.
tech = men behaving badly it seems
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Hehehee. English majors unite!
2 Powerful Questions To Ask Before Launching An Internet Startup
Internet startup can be either blogging, news aggregation, SaaS, eCommerce, App and…
Driving is not an easy task and it is something that should not be taken lightly. Every time we get into a car not only do we put our lives into potential danger, but everyone around us as well. Each year around 1.3 million people die in car accidents; that’s about 3,287 people a day. With the…
Patreon, a website trying to provide a sustainable income for every creator.
Patreon is a website trying to provide a sustainable income for every creator. It’s an online platform where you get paid for creating or pay the creators you love the most. It’s similar to crowdfunding, because you get funded by the crowd but the…
I have to say that in all honesty, I am glad I grew up so long ago that it has never occurred to me to be offended by the generalities of others. My elderly parents taught me not to take everything personally. It was a good lesson. I find little offends me. I have no interest in living in a gender neutral world. If a person were to rid the world of…
This is an interesting use case that just happened a few hours ago on MB™. MB™ detected a series of web connections or probes coming from another network, edge-web.edgenetworks.co. Analysis of the web traffic patterns showed that the visitor…
Learn How To Carry The Load!
Let’s first start off with explaining/defining stress. Stress can ultimately be defined as one’s bodily response to a certain kind of demand or threat. When we feel threatened, our nervous system responds with an increased level of stress hormones, more specifically adrenaline and cortisol which…
Sony currently has its Xperia Z5 trio rolling in the market against key smartphones. The devices of Xperia Z5 line came with a number of improvements and new features. But like prior Xperia devices there are some familiar issues…
I joined Medium for several reasons; it’s less personal than Facebook, more accessible than WordPress, I can publish short bouts of inspiration without too much editing. If I don’t get too many likes that’s okay. I have been reading Chimamanda Ngozi Aditchie, and by God can she write! Left me in a rut for a while, as if I’ve received a knockout in a…
Without a smartphone these days, it is highly likely that one may lag behind in the competition. These apps for modern gentlemen are going to notch up your productivity for the day. Also, read 10 apps that will rock your 2016!
Staff Recruitment at its best
Staff recruitment especially from a different country from where your firm is located may seem difficult for most businesses. This is made even more complex due to travel arrangements that include visas, flight bookings, as well as accommodation. Most companies will find that this is a huge…
Really interesting writeup Levent, thank you for sharing all the details. I’m curious about your twitter/email outreach, how did you contact 5000 people? Seems daunting. Did you automate this in some way?
It’s not even a bold or futuristic thing to say. Machines will slowly replace all of us. It’s who is next that might surprise you most.
How soon and how fast is still up for debate. NPR has a great interactive article where you can see an estimate on how…
Aereo was an app that provided cable tv for a low $10 a month but was sued into bankruptcy by comcast which owns all of the universal content. I doubt any one would go near tv in the US at least of a while. With more ISPs and new technologies, however Internet service might get a little more consumer friendly
Interesting article, I didn’t know that they hadn’t loaded Siri with stress/crisis protocol for as long as that… it seems silly what with more and more of us thinking that using a phone’s native software to help us with a problem, other than convenience, is mad.
I’m still LMFAO at the “adult"responses to avoid the child’s questions.
Check out the new Episode of Techwebcast #Podcast
Monday, my phone was broken, so I took it to HTC, And I thought that we are to depend on the phone ,so I can’t do anything without the phone.
Life, where u go I am coming there funny with you