Holy goodness, we are on part 30; I never expected this to go for so long and we have not even gotten to Gosper’s algorithm yet! We will finish up Hensel’s QuickLife algorithm soon I hope. Code for this episode … Continue reading →
5 Aug 2020
There are a few ways to compare two similar tables in SQL. Assuming PostgreSQL syntax, we might have this schema: It is now possible to use UNION and EXCEPT as suggested by Chris Saxon: In PostgreSQL, we can write: Notice how TABLE x is just standard SQL, and PostgreSQL, syntax sugar for SELECT * FROM … Continue reading Use NATURAL…
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We know that, in energy, the winds of change are approaching gale force. The Covid-19 crisis has only amplified and accelerated matters. Yet, the entrenched nature of existing systems and players raise impediments - both cultural and systemic - that have held change back. So, how to get ahead of the disruption wave? Where to even start, when the future’s…
Improve initial load time by skipping the rendering of offscreen content.
4 Aug 2020
The Semantic Code team shipped a massive improvement to the language support system that powers code navigation. Code navigation features only scratch the surface of possibilities that start to open up when we combine Semantic‘s program analysis potential with GitHub’s scale. GitHub is home to over 50 million developers worldwide. Our team’s mission is to analyze code on our platform…
Browsers are changing the default value of the SameSite attribute for cookies from None to Lax. This will greatly improve security for users. However, some web sites may depend (even unknowingly) on the old default, potentially resulting in site breakage. At Mozilla, we are slowly introducing this change. And we urge web developers to test their sites with the new…
COGS refers to the direct costs of selling and delivering your products.
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Predictive analytics uses data to predict the likelihood of future outcomes.
Auth0's Vue guide is really helpful, but as TypeScript is becoming the industry standard, we need good docs to use it. Let's fill in that void. The post Auth0: Vue & TypeScript Quickstart SDK – The Missing Docs appeared first on RisingStack Engineering.
Business intelligence enables organizations to make data-led decisions.
Life cycle costing helps you understand the total cost of a product or asset.
Conversion rate optimization can improve the effectiveness of your site.
EBITDA is used to measure the financial health and stability of your business.
A credit control policy dictates how staff should trade on credit terms.
Right stock, right place, right time – explore inventory management, right here.
Our previous blog looked at 7 D's inexorably driving change in the energy sector. None are dramatically new or surprising. Yet, change has felt frustratingly slow in coming; as if (the Japanese might say) current market participants have ‘heavy bottoms’. This blog looks at some of the main drag factors.
3 Aug 2020
There are always challenges when it comes to debugging applications. Node.js’ asynchronous workflows add an extra layer of complexity to this arduous process. Although there have been some updates made to the V8 engine in order to easily access asynchronous stack traces, most of the time, we just get errors on the main thread of […] The post Let’s Debug…
Last time I used Windows on my main development machine was sometime in the early 2000s. Over the years, I had several side Windows machines (usually because I needed Visual Studio) but I was never really serious about using a PC as my main dev machine. Things have changed a lot in almost 20 years, and especially recently. Apple is…
We’ve built the foundation of the QuickLife algorithm; now let’s make it go fast. This is going to be a longer episode than usual because we have a large volume of code to get through to perform a relatively straightforward … Continue reading →
Learn about invoice factoring and invoice discounting in greater depth.
The Promise object has many useful functions like all, resolve, reject, and race — stuff we use all the time. One function that many don’t know about is Promise.allSettled, a function that fires when all promises in an array are settled, regardless of whether any of the promises are resolved or rejected. Promise.all is great but then isn’t called if…
The first words you see when you land on Thoughtworks.com are 'prepare for the unpredictable'. We help companies embrace the new norm of uncertainty and change. The energy sector sits on the cusp of a Business Model Innovation, only magnified by the Covid-19 crisis. Industry players need to get ahead of the wave, or be swamped by it.
2 Aug 2020
Learn about the Morris Algorithm, a probabilistic method for counting large events with minimal memory. Explore its math and implementation.
You can play with algorithm here and download images. It took me ages to find appropriate pens to plot this one. Also check the blog post about how it is made. On the images below you can see two different drawings. Created: August 2020 Size: 42x30cm Paper: Fabriano Black Black 300gsm Pens: Sakura Gelly Rolls
1 Aug 2020
Thanks to the complete GitHub Actions for MSYS2, it is easier than ever to construct a continuous integration setup for building with compilers and toolchains which can run on MSYS2.
31 Jul 2020
Do you still find financing or banking a hassle in your business? With fintech, they don't have to be. We spoke with the Small Business Commissioner, Capital on Tap, and Tide to show you how.
[Webinar] An introduction to fintech for small businesses: Payments, reconciliation & forecasting
GoCardlessDo you still find payments, reconciliation, or forecasting a hassle in your business? With fintech, they don't have to be. We spoke with the Small Business Commissioner and Intuit to show you how.
Do you still find pricing or invoicing a hassle in your business? With fintech, they don't have to be. We spoke with the Small Business Commissioner, GoProposal, and Xero to show you how.
MapTiler is excited to announce a partnership with MySwitzerland.com.
Due to the ongoing challenges of COVID-19, we decided to run the 7th edition of XConf, our yearly technology conference, in a virtual format. XConf Online covered a wide range of topics including: mutation testing, docker container security, data science, unit testing COBOL and much more. Here are a few key highlights from the day. You can write unit tests…
30 Jul 2020
We now have enough gear to make a naïve “proto-QuickLife” implementation as a test to see (1) does it work at all? and (2) what is the performance compared to our other implementations at various levels of sophistication? Code for … Continue reading →
I always forget the details about Kubernetes pod shutdown lifecycle when I need them, so this is my now made public notes on the subject.
29 Jul 2020
A chart of accounts is a complete listing of your company’s financial accounts.
28 Jul 2020
Firefox 79 offers a new Promise method, more secure target=_blank links, logical assignment operators, tooling improvements for better JavaScript debugging, and many other updates of interest to web developers. In addition, shared memory is back at last, with a safer implementation. The post Firefox 79: The safe return of shared memory, new tooling, and platform updates appeared first on Mozilla…
Enterprise value is the measurement of a company’s total value.
It’s pretty much instilled into us since the day we arrive at university that the end goal is to get a fulfilling job in an industry you love. Within my first few days of my degree, career fairs and internships were ingrained into our brains. I remember thinking...this three years is going to end. I’m going to have to get…
27 Jul 2020
Notebooks in VS Code are getting revamped! This experience is currently being exclusively rolled out to VS Code Insiders so be sure to download today to try it out! The post Notebooks are getting revamped! appeared first on Microsoft for Python Developers Blog.
The days sales outstanding formula can help improve payment collection times.
Understanding the Nacha operating rules is important for managing ACH payments.
Everything you need to know about invoice financing vs. factoring.
Deferred revenue refers to payments for goods that haven’t been delivered yet.
We’re continuing with our deep dive into Alan Hensel’s QuickLife algorithm, rewritten in C# with an emphasis on clarity. When last we left off we had the following established: A Quad2 is an immutable wrapper around a ushort A Quad3 … Continue reading →
Total contract value refers to the total value of a contract, including fees.
Customer attrition refers to the loss of customers by a business.
26 Jul 2020
In my book, A Programmer’s Introduction to Mathematics, I describe the Taylor Series as a “hammer for every nail.” I learned about another nail in the design of modern smartphone accelerometers from “Eight Amazing Engineering Stories” by Hammack, Ryan, and Ziech, which I’ll share here. These accelerometers are designed using a system involving three plates, which correspond to two capacitors.…
Explore Slowsort, the deterministically worst sorting algorithm! Learn how it works and its "Multiply and Surrender" paradigm.
24 Jul 2020
A portfolio site is one of the best marketing and sales tools you as a web developer have in your arsenal. And if it’s set up right, it’ll save you a bunch of time having to: Chase down new clients, Spend time convincing them to work with you, Answer questions about your experience as a coder and what you can…
We’re busy preparing for our software engineering fall hiring season. Over the years we’ve done our best to make our interview process more transparent to candidates. While many candidates show up knowing something about what our interviews look like, much of the information floating around on the internet is outdated or wrong. These past few months have also changed a…
23 Jul 2020
We are pleased to announce the release of our new experimental extension, Gather! Gather is a notebook cleaning tool that analyzes and determines the necessary code dependencies within a notebook and performs code cleanup, automating this difficult and time-consuming task. The post Gather: A New Way To Clean Notebooks appeared first on Microsoft for Python Developers Blog.
Last time on FAIC we saw how we could start with nine 2-quads — a 12×12 grid of cells — and with only a handful of ands, ors and table lookups we could get an 8×8 grid of cells of … Continue reading →
To check if a program is doing what it should, you can inspect the output from a given input. But as the system grows, you also need logging to help you understand what is happening. Good log messages are crucial … Continue reading →
MDN Web Docs turns 15 years old! This celebratory article highlights fifteen big wins of the last five years. With initiatives like the browser compatibility data project, learning areas and new pathways for beginning devs, interactive examples, as well as the Product Advisory Board, the Web DNA Report, and the MDN Swag Store, the MDN community has been busy sharing…
Data is the fuel for intelligent decision making for both humans and machines. Just like high quality fuel ensures that jet engines run efficiently and reliably in the long run, high quality data fuels effective and reliable decision making.
The world has changed dramatically in just a few months, going from crowded bars and tourist spots to an almost world-wide lockdown. While we are still learning about the virus which caused this pandemic, we can clearly see the major impact it has had on our daily lives and the economy. In the fitness world, gyms are closed and people…
22 Jul 2020
YAML files dominate configuration in the cloud-native ecosystem. They’re used by Kubernetes, Helm, Tekton, and many other projects to define custom configurations and workflows. But YAML has its oddities, which is why the Cloud Native Buildpacks project chose TOML as its primary configuration format. What is TOML? TOML stands for Tom’s Obvious, Minimal Language. It’s […] The post Ground Control…
I just fixed a bug. The fix required me to initialise an Object[] array with the init values for each type, instead of just null, i.e. false for boolean, 0 for int, 0.0 for double, etc. So, instead of just doing: I needed: For the subjective 8E17th time, I wrote a loop. A loop that … Continue reading Could we…
In today’s global economy, English proficiency unlocks opportunity. People all over the world are motivated to improve their English skills in order to make a better life for themselves and their families. Cambly is a language education platform that helps millions of learners advance their careers by connecting them with English-speaking tutors from a similar […] The post How a…
In our new series ‘Career Pathways’, we’ll share inspiring, real-life stories from our Thoughtworkers based in Australia on how they began their careers in technology, their learnings, and how their journey at Thoughtworks has continued to enable their career as technologists.Name: Garima Singh
While Thoughtworks hires technologists all around the world, our recruiters encounter similar questions from candidates regardless of their location. We asked recruiters from multiple countries for the most frequently-asked questions they get from candidates. Here are the top 7 FAQs.1. What are the main technologies that Thoughtworks works with?
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[Stories of social change] Reducing the gender gap in the music industry through technology
Thoughtworks InsightsOver the years, the world has seen remarkable and rapid advancements in technology which are deeply impacting society. Despite this, we continue to struggle with issues such as poverty, violence, and climate change. At Thoughtworks, we believe that technologists have a unique role to play in how we can positively impact society and push for a more equitable tech future.
21 Jul 2020
At Mozilla, we want the web to be capable of running high-performance applications so that users and content authors can choose the safety, agency, and openness of the web platform. Shared-memory multi-threading is an essential low-level building block for high-performance applications. However, keeping users safe is paramount, which is why shared memory and high-resolution timers were effectively disabled at the…
Realtime Communication is providing enterprises with an innovative way to deliver better, more cost-effective customer service.
The Houdini Properties and Values API is coming to your CSS file in Chromium 85.
20 Jul 2020
One of my favorite and most essential Function method is bind, a function we added to MooTools when it wasn’t featured in the JavaScript language itself. We often think of using bind to simply bind a method’s call to its host object, but did you know you can also bind arguments with the host object? You’ve probably done something like…
Let’s crisp up the problem from last episode. The problem for today’s episode is to write a method that takes these nine 2-quads: Computes these sixteen 1-quads: And returns these four 2-quads: Those four 2-quads form a 3-quad; I haven’t … Continue reading →
rsync access can be restricted with a custom wrapper script or an official script named “rrsync”. Access to your remote filesystem should always be restricted so you won’t leak any information in case of a security breach. I’ve used GitHub Actions a lot in the last few months. For web […] The post Restrict SSH to rsync for deploying files…
Generative process allows me to work with huge number of elements and tiny details. These details are sometimes impossible to plot, as they would just get lost in the process. That's why I love large format prints - they allow tiny details to be seen and shine through. Created: July 2020 Size: 60x84cm (can't remember for the small one 🙈)…
Everything is important and urgent, we just need more capacity. Sound familiar? Every organization has more things it wants to do than it can do. This is often viewed as a capacity problem; if only we had more capacity, we could get everything done. However, this is not true. All organizations have a finite capacity and from our experience, there…
19 Jul 2020
This is a blog post rather than a bug report, partly because I really don’t know what’s at fault. Others with more knowledge of how the console works in .NET Core, or exactly what the Travis log does, might be able to dig deeper. TL;DR: If you’re running jobs using .NET Core 3.1 on Travis … Continue reading Travis logs…
Bitcask was introduced as the backend for a distributed database named Riak in which each node used to run one instance of Bitcask to hold the data that it was responsible for. In this essay, we take a detailed look into Bitcask, its design, and find the secret sauce that makes it so performant.
17 Jul 2020
We are pleased to announce that the July 2020 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. In this release we addressed 51 issues, and it includes support for our new language server Pylance and new experimental extension Gather. Keep on reading to learn more! The post Python in Visual Studio Code – July 2020 Release…
DeveloperBridge: SoundCloud’s Program for Training People from Diverse Backgrounds to Become Engineers
SoundcloudDeveloperBridge is a year-long, full-time, paid traineeship program where participants learn from and work with engineering teams at…
The need for digital innovation in retail has never been greater
16 Jul 2020
I work on Heroku’s Runtime Infrastructure team, which focuses on most of the underlying compute and containerization here at Heroku. Over the years, we’ve tuned our infrastructure in a number of ways to improve performance of customer dynos and harden security. We recently received a support ticket from a customer inquiring about poor performance in […] The post Making Time…
Today we’re sharing three performance enhancements that we have recently rolled out to apps running in Private Spaces: Dynos upgraded to the latest generation infrastructure for 10-15% perf improvement More consistent performance for Small Private and Shield Space dynos Optimized clock source selection Heroku is a fully managed platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and we work tirelessly to […] The post Container and…
When last we left off we had representations for 0-quads — a single bit — 1-quads — four bits in a row — and 2-quads — a wrapper data structure around an unsigned short that could extract single cells or … Continue reading →
The goal I want to create emails that look their best in all mail clients, whether graphical or text based. Ideally I’d write a message in a simple format like Markdown, and generate the final email from the input file. Additionally, I’d like to be able to include fenced code snippets in the message, and make them available as attachments.…
Dear No Estimators: You are probably estimating, even if you don’t admit it. When you say something is “small” or “easy”; when you say “yes I think we can get that done” or “these are about the same size for flow” or “these are about the same over time”, you are estimating. And even if you aren’t, please remember that…
15 Jul 2020
Summary: Read about my efforts to solve the game of Ultimate Tic Tac Toe. It’s been a fun journey into interesting algorithms and high-performance parallel programming in Rust. Backstory Starting around the beginning of the COVID-19 lockdown, I’ve gotten myself deeply nerdsniped by an attempt to solve the game of Ultimate Tic Tac Toe, a two-level Tic Tac Toe variant…
I went out to Shilshole Bay Marina Tuesday night to get a few photos of the comet; it is quite spectacular! If you’re going stargazing this week, bring binoculars, look to the northwest about an hour after sunset, below the … Continue reading →
14 Jul 2020
Explore our limited liability definition and learn everything you need to know.
Explore how to set up a subsidiary company with our comprehensive guide.
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What to say when your customers have questions about Direct Debit
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Should you make Direct Debit your only payment option?
13 Jul 2020
Vonage Video integrations + PubNub, anybody can add high-quality voice/video calls: Maximum flexibility, minimum effort, no need for webRTC.
Vonage Video integrations + PubNub, anybody can add high-quality voice/video calls: Maximum flexibility, minimum effort, no need for webRTC.
This series is getting much longer than I expected, but I’m having a great time, so let’s keep it going. I want to look at two more algorithms; for the next few episodes we’ll look at the brilliant and subtle … Continue reading →
We’re approaching the first anniversary of when I stepped down from my operating role at Splice. The company kept on growing rapidly and be impactful, I am very proud of what the team is doing to change things from within the music industry. I had a blast during my time off: I worked on a great project with Grimes which…
To complete the team and to be able to further professionalize the Blender project, a number of open job positions have been defined!
We’ve known for a decade that lazy loading resources like JavaScript, CSS, and especially images is a massive performance win for web pages. At first we used tricks and JavaScript to do the lazy loading, but more recently native image lazy loading has debuted in browsers. Did you know that you can also lazy load IFRAMEs using the same loading="lazy"…
We analysed over 52 million payments from 55,000 GoCardless businesses to find out everything you need to know about payment failure rates.
A simple explanation of frontend and backend web development and how they fit together.