TechCrunch
DECEMBER 29, 2022
Blair Silverberg. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Blair Silverberg is co-founder and CEO of Hum Capital , a financial services company using technology to accelerate the fundraising process. More posts by this contributor. The right questions to ask investors when fundraising in a down market. 8 steps for building a financial model to calculate your fundraising needs.
CIO
DECEMBER 28, 2022
Even though sustainability can be an amorphous organizational pursuit, it’s becoming more of an urgent priority all industries must clearly define. Whether that’s through internally motivated ESG efforts or imposed regulations, CIOs, in particular, find themselves increasingly central figures in sustainability initiatives. And scope 3 reporting—an account of carbon emissions across the supply chain to build equipment, provide professional expertise, or deliver a subscription service—may be the m
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The Crazy Programmer
DECEMBER 26, 2022
Unicode and ASCII are now the two-character encoding systems that are most extensively used worldwide. We can process, share and store text in any language through unicode encoding, as opposed to ASCII, which is used to represent text in computers as symbols, characters, and numbers. What is ASCII? American Standard Code for Information Interchange is referred to as ASCII.
Xebia
DECEMBER 30, 2022
The AWS Transfer Server provides a SFTP as a service. If you want to migrate from an existing SFTP server, you can add your own host keys. Unfortunately, host keys are not supported with Cloudformation. This custom provider add host keys and allows you to define the set of active keys of the server. Add transfer server host key To add a Transfer Server host key in your AWS CloudFormation template, use the following syntax: TransferServerHostKey: Type: Custom::TransferServerHostKey Properties: Se
Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage
Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, CTO of Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI prototypes into
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 29, 2022
In 2014, Prayank Swaroop made a pitch to the storied venture firm Accel, where he worked as an associate, about future marketplaces in India. At the time, Flipkart and Snapdeal were the only two e-commerce startups in India that had shown a semblance of scale. Swaroop made a case that as more Indians come online, opportunities will emerge in food delivery, automotive aftermarket, warehousing, road freight, and social commerce among many other marketplace areas.
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David Walsh
DECEMBER 27, 2022
When it comes to animations on the web, developers need to measure the animation’s requirements with the right technology — CSS or JavaScript. Many animations are manageable with CSS but JavaScript will always provide more control. With document.getAnimations , however, you can use JavaScript to manage CSS animations! The document.getAnimations method returns an array of CSSAnimation objects.
Xebia
DECEMBER 30, 2022
Recently I needed to export table data from a Sql Server backup. Since Cloud Sql for Sql Server has no feature for this, this blog shows how to export tables using a Cloud Build job. Understanding The Extraction Job The export process takes a Sql Server backup (BAK-file), restores the backup and queries the database to export all table data. The table data, finally, is copied to Cloud Storage for further usage.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 29, 2022
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. We’re almost there, folks. It’s the last Thursday of 2022, and today we have some news for you out of Alibaba and Spotify, as well as some crypto news out of India. And as always, we give you some goodness from TC+, our premium membership program.
Let's Grow Leaders
DECEMBER 26, 2022
Your Favorite Leadership Articles of the Year. Every year, we count down the best leadership articles of the year, according to your reading and sharing. Thanks so much for being a part of our human-centered leadership development community and for all you do to encourage courage! We would love to hear from you in the comments. Which leadership article resonated most with you and why?
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While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.
David Walsh
DECEMBER 26, 2022
Knowing when resources are loaded is a key part of building functional, elegant websites. We’re used to using the DOMContentLoaded event (commonly referred to as “domready”) but did you know there’s an event that tells you when all fonts have loaded? Let’s learn how to use document.fonts ! The document.fonts object features a ready property which is a Promise representing if fonts have been loaded: // Await all fonts being loaded await document.fonts.ready; // Now d
CEO Insider
DECEMBER 24, 2022
With tremendous growth comes an abundance of opportunity, and the nonprofit industry in the U.S. has shown exactly that. Overall, nonprofit giving had a growth rate of 4 percent over 2021, with environmental and human rights-related causes growing the most. Opportunities to do more, help more, and be more are at a peak, and nonprofit […]. The post Tips for Leading Nonprofit Teams appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 30, 2022
The biggest news last week wasn’t another of Elon Musk’s Twitter tantrums, but the announcement that scientists had finally cracked one of fusion power’s biggest challenges — successfully getting more energy out of a controlled fusion reaction than they had put in. Fusion power, which has always seemed like science fiction and just about as plausible, suddenly took a very tangible step toward reality.
The Daily WTF
DECEMBER 28, 2022
Ah, password validation, how can that possibly go wrong? Original -- Remy. Ah, routers. The one piece of networking hardware that seems inescapable; even the most tech-illiterate among us needs to interface with their router at least once, to set up their home network so they can access the internet. Router technology has changed a lot over the years, including how you interface with the admin portal: instead of having to navigate to a specific IP address, some of them have you navigate to a URL
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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.
David Walsh
DECEMBER 29, 2022
Media queries provide a great way to programmatically change behavior depending on viewing state. We can target styles to device, pixel ratio, screen size, and even print. That said, it’s also nice to have JavaScript events that also allow us to change behavior. Did you know you’re provided events both before and after printing? I’ve always used @media print in stylesheets to control print display, but JavaScript provides beforeprint and afterprint events: function toggleImages
Mentormate
DECEMBER 28, 2022
What does it take to deliver a product or service that doesn’t just work as intended but also drives value to the customer? While it might seem like a complex process, the answer is pretty straightforward: it takes good product management. Today, I’m going to explain why this practice is so vital for businesses of all kinds. What is Product Management?
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 29, 2022
As much as we like to end the year with some good news , what we are hearing from grocery delivery company Instacart is not exactly that. According to The Information , citing “two people familiar with the situation,” Instacart has cut its internal valuation to around $10 billion. That’s 20% lower than its October 2022 valuation — and a 75% cut compared to its March 2021 peak.
The Daily WTF
DECEMBER 26, 2022
The Daily WTF would like to take this chance to remind you: wash your hands. Original. -- Remy. Ellen had just finished washing her hands when her phone buzzed. It vibrated itself off the sink, so there was a clumsy moment when it clattered to the restroom floor, and Ellen tried to pick it up with wet hands. After retrieving it and having another round of hand washing, Ellen read the alert: the UPS was in overload.
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David Walsh
DECEMBER 30, 2022
Reacting to events with JavaScript is the foundation of a dynamic experiences on the web. Whether it’s a click event or another typical action, responding to that action is important. We started with assigning events to specific elements, then moved to event delegation for efficiency, but did you know you can identify elements by position on the page?
thoughtLEADERS, LLC
DECEMBER 29, 2022
Our reader poll today asks: When you or someone on your team gets sick, how do you approach the situation? Stay home, stop working and only focus on getting well 31.81%. Stay home but stay in touch on major deliverables 29.69%. Stay home and keep current on as much work as you can 30.03%. Power through and go to work for important tasks 3.88%. Power through, take medicine and get back to work 4.59%.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 28, 2022
More than half of professional developers have CI/CD, DevOps and automated testing tools and services available at their organization, Stack Overflow’s 2022 developer survey uncovered. However, Stack Overflow noted, only 38% of the 34,906 respondents reported having a developer portal to make it easy to find tools and services. Similarly, data observability tools are only available to a minority of developers.
The Daily WTF
DECEMBER 27, 2022
Managing whitespace is one of those things that feels harder than it should be. It gets even harder when you do it wrong… Original. -- Remy. Veteran developer and frequent contributor, Argle , once worked for a company which handled shipping. On April 3rd, 1988, a C function which used to work stopped working. What's so special about April 3rd of that year?
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Multi-tenant architecture allows software vendors to realize tremendous efficiencies by maintaining a single application stack instead of separate database instances while meeting data privacy needs. When you use a data warehouse to power your multi-tenant analytics, the proper approach is vital. Multi-tenant analytics is NOT the primary use case with traditional data warehouses, causing data security challenges.
CloudZero
DECEMBER 26, 2022
Your company may receive a monthly bill that includes the storage, network, and compute used to run Kubernetes applications. At this point, you can see how much you’ve spent on Kubernetes as a whole.
InnovationM
DECEMBER 29, 2022
What is WebSocket? WebSocket provides a way to exchange data between the browser and server via a persistent connection. The data can be passed in both directions as “packets”, without breaking the connection and the need for additional HTTP requests. Where can we use WebSocket? we use WebSocket where we need real-time data sharing i.e. online trading platforms, games, and social media platforms.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 28, 2022
Building an investor network from scratch sounds daunting. This is true particularly if, like many founders, you don’t happen to be part of a social or economic circle where striking up early conversations with potential investors is a no-brainer. We recently sat down with three VCs who have also been founders to talk about different ways founders can approach this problem, how to land that first term sheet and what that term sheet should contain.
Palo Alto Networks
DECEMBER 28, 2022
Due to staffing shortages, skill gaps and compliance concerns, more customers are moving to a managed services model to achieve their business needs. To meet this changing model, more partners are looking to deliver managed outcomes to their customers. However, creating a managed service practice can be a costly investment for partners. Partners need to ensure they have the right systems, processes and technology in place to create and scale their Security Operations Center (SOC).
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In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.
CloudZero
DECEMBER 28, 2022
Scalability is one of the main reasons for using Kubernetes. Yet, scaling Kubernetes systems can reduce visibility into critical components. To overcome this, you have to organize your Kubernetes resources in a way that helps you find and track them more easily.
thoughtLEADERS, LLC
DECEMBER 28, 2022
The key to weaning squeaky wheels is to boost their confidence and make them more independent. Your high-cost producers are in the upper-left corner of the leadership matrix. They deliver great results, but they consume a lot of your time and energy. The squeaky wheel is the epitome of a high-cost producer. They need to be weaned off of taking up all of your time.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 28, 2022
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Hey, folks, welcome back! Below we’ve got some 2022 roundups and even some news. I suspect it’ll get even leaner as the week wears on, but no matter! There will always be stories to share. Now, here is your Wednesday edition of the Daily Crunch. — Hank.
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