A developer’s guide to dealing with growth, burnout, and imposter syndrome

This article was originally published on.cultbyRyan Latta. you’re free to read this original piecehere. As the onboarding comes to a close, millions of questions remain about how to start doing valuable work. Heres what you might experience, and how to handle it. People feel this throughout their careers. I still feel it after a decade. For people new to the field, it can create incredible levels of anxiety and doubt....

July 15, 2020 · 4 min · 817 words · Patricia Allen

Choose your startup’s crisis strategy: Offensive vs defensive

Business leaders are now determining how best to advance. Failure to do so may lead to knee jerk reactions and harm the business in the long term. Gather your team and get an in-depth update on every client. Next, pay attention to your technical data. Then deep-dive into your finances. Burn rate should already be tracked on a monthly basis but it is extra important during this time. Calculate incomings, divided by your monthly burn rate, and assess your roadmap based on these new figures....

July 15, 2020 · 3 min · 558 words · Christine Schroeder

Here’s what’s stopping AI from reaching human-like understanding

What does he have better than [Pompon]? Rien(nothing), answers Aurelie in a shaky voice, barely above a whisper. Its not clear whether shes talking about the stray alley cat or the shepherd boy. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. You sayrien, Aimable tells his wife in a sweet and soft voice. Again, there are many hidden meanings and accusations in his words. And thats where he drives the dagger....

July 15, 2020 · 3 min · 445 words · Carla Richards

You’re probably making these Python mistakes — here’s how to avoid them

Even though it looks pretty simple, its was very confusing for me at the time. So, lets have a look at the example below: 40% off TNW Conference! In one code snippet, the global variableXgives anUnboundLocalError. However, when we have a go at print the variable, it works. The has to do with scoping. When you make an assignment to a variable in a scope (e.g. This is what happened in the first scenario when we didx += 1....

July 15, 2020 · 1 min · 171 words · Brenda Perez

Coronavirus changed our sex lives — can tech fill our horny void?

The coronavirus pandemic is affectingsexuality and relationships. The confinement and social distancing measures protecting us are unintentionally exacerbatingintimacy-related difficulties and limiting peoples access to partners. For some, COVID-19 is synonymous with loneliness and relationship stress. But creativity loves adversity. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Sex in the time of coronavirus The COVID-19 lockdown and social distancing measures are impacting human life. Paradoxically, these protective measures also generate unintended stressors....

July 14, 2020 · 2 min · 258 words · Francisco Pham

How to celebrate LGBTQ+ employees every day — not just during Pride Month

Thisarticlewas originally published byBuilt In. It was then that my journey to find belonging began. By the end of my first week, I had already encountered homophobic slurs on the street. I landed my first job at a company run by a gay CEO. The company held regular pride events, had LGBTQ-focused products, and had more LGBTQ+ employees than heterosexual ones. I have to admit, it was a huge culture shock....

July 13, 2020 · 2 min · 407 words · Eddie Conley

From floating guts to ‘sticky’ blood — here’s how to do surgery in space

This was successfully treated with medication by doctors on Earth, avoiding surgery. Surgical emergencies are in fact one of the main challenges when it comes to human space travel. Mars is a whopping 54.6 million kilometers (33.9 million miles) away from Earth, when closest. In comparison, the International Space Agency (ISS) orbits just 400 kilometers above Earth. This is tough on astronauts bodies and takes time getting used to. It’s free, every week, in your inbox....

July 12, 2020 · 2 min · 385 words · Timothy Arnold

A beginner’s guide to robot programming with Python

Lets face it, robots are cool. Im joking of course, butonly sort of. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Robot control software can only guess the state of the real world based on measurements returned by its sensors. It can only attempt to change the state of the real world through the generation of control signals. Often, once control is lost, it can never be regained. (Unless some benevolent outside force restores it....

July 11, 2020 · 6 min · 1140 words · Courtney Wheeler

Australia to start paying EV owners for transferring electricity back to the national grid

In the short term theyrestill expensive. In the long term charging millions of vehicles from the electricity grid presents challenges. 40% off TNW Conference! The REVS trial project uses vehicles from the ACT government fleet. To understand the importance of this work we need to imagine electrifying all of Australias19 million vehicles. Every electric car has the potential to be a power source for the national grid. Thats around35%of Australias annual electricity consumption....

July 11, 2020 · 2 min · 298 words · Katherine Williams

Javascript regular expressions aren’t that daunting — here’s how to design your own

In hindsight, I now realize that it wasnt actually that scary after all. In face, it was an easy way to solve the problem in hand. But why did I ever feel this way? My intention here is not to scare you because regex can be simple. So, first. What are regular expressions? Regular expressions are a way to describe patterns in data strings. But what kind of patterns are we talking about?...

July 11, 2020 · 2 min · 291 words · Jacqueline Mueller

Don’t trust anyone selling you a phone without a charger

Even better, feels like Samsung is gearing up toget rid of the charger in its phone boxes too. 40% off TNW Conference! At first, I was gently amused by this. Hell, I had a great time speculating aboutother things the company could remove to make money. How about the inserts? The SIM ejector tool? Or, actually, on reflection, why dont we just scrap the box altogether? Simply protect our valuable phones with our disposable flesh?...

July 10, 2020 · 2 min · 318 words · Rachel Kelly

How today’s best business software goes viral

Thispiecewas written by Matthew Guay,Capiches founding editor and former senior writer at Zapier. When Jiro dreams of sushi, youd hardly imagine him slicing sashimi with an ordinary, dull knife. Experts use expert tools. Rigorously tested, finely tuned, carefully built to perform at the highest levels. Theyre crafted, built for the most demanding audiences. Then those best features trickle down, until yesterdays best is todays ordinary. Along the way, the best, ideal versions of those tools become icons, symbols of victory....

July 10, 2020 · 6 min · 1149 words · Beverly Moreno

Securing €3M investment and thriving during a pandemic — here’s how we did it

Around February 2020 we saw our revenue going down. On top of that, we had been in the process of closing a significant funding round. The final checks were being made when rumblings of COVID-19 potentially coming to Europe started coming in. 40% off TNW Conference! At the same time a key senior employee decided to leave the company. That was really when I felt we had hit our low point....

July 10, 2020 · 3 min · 542 words · Austin Rose