What gift ideas for your business partners and employees do you currently have? I’m really fond of backpacks. A hosting company I worked for as a brand ambassador branded a nice camouflage Dakine backpack for a Christmas party, which I believe also contained a pack of Converse sneakers. I still remember both and really appreciated...
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Should Social Media Platforms Fact Check News Posts?
Social media platforms need a proper reporting mechanism for fake news sites. Some like Facebook do that, however, that’s often misleading, and relying too much on automation is making things worse. Others, like Twitter, don’t really incorporate that (aside from banning accounts). Facebook is easy to fake because it only takes ...
How I Leverage My Smartphone for Different Work Activities
Other than calls and messaging, I try to leverage my phone for different work activities. Tethering is one of the obvious go-to actions when I’m working from a coffee shop. This process is a VPN for security purposes which also lets me connect to our intranet (accessible from a static IP). I run a VPN for security purposes which also l...
Who Can Develop Something Like Quora?
In a nutshell, Quora isn’t a complex application (purely speaking of its feature set). Building a pet Quora “clone” at home is possible in the sense of creating an app supporting: User sign-ups and profiles (including messages)TopicsQuestionsAnswersCommentsBlog (an incredibly simple one)Activities with questions and users - followin...
What Is The Morning Routine of a Typical American CEO?
Do you know how many CEOs work in the States? (assuming you don't include the rest of North and South America) I took a quick look at LinkedIn, searching for CEOs in the US, and here's what comes up: Nearly 3 million CEOs, or close to 1% of the population (or maybe more since not everyone is on LinkedIn). And not every CEO is la...
How To Become An Efficient Full-Stack Developer
It takes over a decade of building back-end systems, configuring server environments, altering front-end layers for different browsers and operating systems, applying design patterns, and dabbling with the latest trends in software engineering (big data, machine learning, embedded development, whatever comes in). It’s a poor action plan...
The Best Content Management System for Photographers
All Content Management Systems out there support media uploads, galleries, content production (About/Contact pages or blog posts or other story pages including your work). For starters, when searching for the best content management system (CMS) for photographers, you can really launch your portfolio with any of them. From a visual standp...
How Do Companies Like Facebook Keep Their Software Engineers In Check
Facebook employs over 10,000 engineers. Deploying anything to production isn’t as simple as a rogue engineer secretly hacking something in or out leading to billions of people rendering the end result. Lots of people monitor the code base (since they work on it). You have to familiarize yourself with the flow and the ongoing changes ...
Competitive Programming vs. Paid Programming Jobs
Competitive programming is fun, and could be applied in certain scenarios — mostly in large tech companies building compilers, dealing with humongous databases and analytics programs, dabbling into compression techniques, encryption, and the like. The vast majority of companies employing developers build projects solving business p...
Steps To Choosing A Topic For Public Speaking At Your School
Figure out the specific topic that you would like to cover. Could be: The value of being loved and supported by your family.Maintaining a healthy relationship with your parents.Family values transferred to school and other extra-curriculum activities.An inspiring story from your childhood that shaped you into a young, reasonable...