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The first step is to invent a thing worth making, a story worth telling, a contribution worth talking about. The second step is to design and build it in a way that people will actually benefit from and care about. The third one is the one everyone gets all excited about. This is the step where you tell the story to the right people in the right way. The last step is so often overlooked: The part where you show up, regularly, consistently and generously, for years and years, to organize and lead and build confidence in the change you seek to make. ...

“Github Major Service Outage”. Georges Seurat, 1884 Brilliant collection of classical oil paintings with modern interpretation. “InfoSec team verifies security flaw.” Caravaggio, 1601-1602

Today, we are excited to share the fruits of our research with the broader community by releasing SyntaxNet. An open-source neural network framework implemented in TensorFlow that provides a foundation for Natural Language Understanding (NLU) systems. Our release includes all the code needed to train new SyntaxNet models on your own data, as well as Parsey McParseface. Parsey McParseface - English parser that we have trained for you and that you can use to analyze English text. ...

I’m not the only one blown away after digging up some of React/Redux boilerplate code. Great article proving some of my thoughts on the subject: ** Copy-pasting configs from boilerplate projects always leads to hard-to-debug issues like this.** It’s easy to miss somebody’s configuration decisions when you’re not the one making them. Don’t use boilerplate projects unless you understand each and every technology it uses! I understand Dan’s frustration. But could we look at this from a different perspective? Don Norman’s The Design of Everyday Things teaches that there’s no such thing as “user error” — humans always make mistakes, and the failure to deal with these is on the product, not the user. How would we approach these user errors if we looked at them as design failures? ...

Electron allows you to build desktop applications with web technologies like HTML, JavaScript and CSS. Among the early adopters of Electron, you can see these names: Atom Harmony music player Discord chat app GitHub Desktop

Always code as if the person who ends up maintaining your code is a violent psychopath who knows where you live. Code of conduct - absolutely great thing in the world of open source and overwhelming media. We try to setup a certain pattern of communication with others, to avoid bashing, insults or any other types of miscommunication. It perfectly works in community organisation. People know their “do’s” and “don’ts”. Every now and then, I wonder why it’s not always applicable to distributed teams, working on common tasks. I’m talking not about the communicational aspect of conduct, - but an actual work. ...

If you’ve been reading startup blogs for years and never started anything, it’s time to accept that your tendency is to be a consumer. Rob Walling An article worth reading, as well as the result of the case study by Matt Jaynes with him dealing with C2P ratio. Consuming for the pure love of learning is absolutely ok. Producing purely because you have a fire that won’t die until you do is fine, too. But don’t kid yourself about who you are.

Project Soli page: The Soli sensor can track sub-millimeter motions at high speed and accuracy. It fits onto a chip, can be produced at scale, and can be used inside even small wearable devices. An update from TechCrunch on 2016 research results: Soli has a new trick up its sleeve thanks to researchers at Scotland’s University of St. Andrews (via The Verge) – it can now identify objects, using radar to determine both the exterior shape and internal structure of whatever it’s sensing to tell you what the thing is. It’s not fool-proof, since it has difficulty determining the difference between objects made up of similar material with similar density, and it has to train the system on what an object is before it can be identified. ...

Vimeo user MorskoiKotik summed up all the movies from 80s we grew up upon in this video: Back in Future Terminator Predator Lethal Weapon Die Hard Cobra. That is truly an old school gathered here. Plus, everything is themed with synth pop/new wave tunes from “Dance of the Dead”. https://open.spotify.com/artist/2KtnZQwMQJN3uyI8eHZRvm?si=ifo9e8hjSg-8WLtRLHfCIg Dance with the Dead artist on Spotify ...

I think I bought already all the singles from Jakwob. This guys is a real talent! Singles like “Fade”, “Electrify”, “Somebody New”. This one just keeps playing on repeat for few days already: