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January 2, 2018

Who created today’s strong economy? Janet Yellen.

"One of Washington’s permanent parlor games is how much credit or blame a president deserves for the state of the economy. Inevitably, then, the question being asked now is whether Donald Trump or Barack Obama created today’s strong economy. The correct answer: neither." read full text »

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January 2, 2018

Democrats think 2018 will be a good year, but are they realistic about their own problems?

"Thanks mostly to President Trump, Democrats believe they are poised for good things in 2018: the possibility of taking control of the House and gains elsewhere in the midterm elections. But planning victory laps would be premature." read full text »

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January 2, 2018

Linear Regression with Gradient Descent in JavaScript

"Recently I started to take the Machine Learning course by Andrew Ng on Coursera. So far, it is a blast and I am so keen to apply all the learnings in math from university." read full text »

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January 2, 2018

Auto-Sizing Columns in CSS Grid: `auto-fill` vs `auto-fit`

"One of the most powerful and convenient CSS Grid features is that, in addition to explicit column sizing, we have the option to repeat-to-fill columns in a Grid, and then auto-place items in them." read full text »

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January 2, 2018

The 100 best nonfiction books of all time: the full list

"After two years of careful reading, moving backwards through time, Robert McCrum has concluded his selection of the 100 greatest nonfiction books. Take a quick look at five centuries of great writing 1." read full text »

Full alertness means something quite different

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Better executed effort

October 28, 2017

Ouch

October 28, 2017

Muddied water

October 28, 2017

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February 14, 2016

IamA Full Time Uber Driver AMA!

"ScienceWe are the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, and we have made the first direct detection of gravitational waves and the first observation of two black holes merging. Ask us anything! (self.IAmA) Hi Reddit, we will begin answering questions starting 2:15 PM EST." read full text »

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February 14, 2016

Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to... — programming is terrible

"“Every line of code is written without reason, maintained out of weakness, and deleted by chance” Jean-Paul Sartre’s Programming in ANSI C. Every line of code written comes at a price: maintenance. To avoid paying for a lot of code, we build reusable software." read full text »

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January 22, 2016

JavaScript At Scale — Achieving High Velocity — MLS Digital Labs — Medium

"Before we talk about JavaScript in context, there are some platform-independent things that can make your life much easier. JavaScript is powerful. It provides object composition with prototypal inheritance as well as functional programming." read full text »

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January 19, 2016

Jeb Bush says as governor, he helped reduce youth heroin use in Florida by 50 percent. We checked that out.

"Addiction is a deeply personal issue for Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush, whose daughter Noelle suffered from addiction and a string of related criminal charges while he was serving as governor of Florida. In a Medium post on Jan." read full text »

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January 18, 2016

Object-Oriented JavaScript — A Deep Dive into ES6 Classes

"Often we need to represent an idea or concept in our programs—maybe a car engine, a computer file, a router, or a temperature reading. Representing these concepts directly in code comes in two parts: data to represent the state and functions to represent the behavior." read full text »

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January 14, 2016

PHP Sessions Can Hurt Your WordPress Performance

"Many of the projects that we onboard come with crippling performance issues that make their WordPress sites slow, resource-hungry and incapacitated under load. Today we’ll look at another common problem that we often see – PHP Sessions." read full text »

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January 13, 2016

Back to the Future in 2016

"A funny thing happened on the way to 2016. We asked some of our smartest friends in the web design and development communities what new skills they planned to master, or what new focuses they intended to bring to their work, in the new year." read full text »

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January 12, 2016

40 Million hits a day on WordPress using a $10 VPS

"I recently tested many of the biggest names in managed WordPress hosting in my article Managed WordPress Hosting Performance Benchmarks. I am preparing to do a second round of testing with double the number of companies on board. Some of us like to setup servers ourselves (or are cheap)." read full text »

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January 9, 2016

Setting up PHP 7 Servers with Laravel Forge and DigitalOcean

"One of the most popular requests in our end-year reader-satisfaction survey was more PHP 7 content. In this quick guide, we’ll cover two ways to bring a PHP 7 server online on DigitalOcean – a popular VPS provider." read full text »

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January 8, 2016

Simple Guide to Finding a JavaScript Memory Leak in Node.js

"Few months ago, I had to debug a memory leak in Node.js. I found a good number of articles dedicated to the subject, but even after carefully reading some of them, I was still pretty confused on what exactly I should do to debug our problem." read full text »

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January 7, 2016

How To Use Asynchronous PHP In WordPress

"PHP executes code in series, which means one thing is done after another. This can be problematic when you need to do a lot of processing in one session or if you are relying on calls to external APIs." read full text »