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The Rule: When naming a variable, don't encode it's type into its name, even in a dynamically typed language.

Why You Should Always Avoid Encoding Type Into Names

While "real" hell may or may not exist (no need to get into religious beliefs here), tutorial hell is very real.

Building Your First Coding Project and Avoid Tutorial Hell

What Is the Difference Between a Junior and a Senior Software Developer? 

15 Things I Wish I'd Known As a Junior Developer

4 Growth Hacks to become a Successful Entrepreneur!

One of the best things about running <a href="https://twitter.com/d4software" target="_blank">D4</a> is the sheer number of different projects we get to work on. While some projects allow us to choose our <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/technology" target="_blank">technology</a> platform, others require us to get to grips with something else. Sometimes it’s something new that we haven’t used before.

Pragmatism Over Purity

You’re staring at your code and thinking, “There’s nothing wrong here.” 

But there is: the app isn’t working. 

What is Pair Programming?

Learn in this post how to mount Web3 Decentralized Storage as a folder on your desktop. Drag and Drop onto Web3 in seconds using Filebase and Mountain Duck.

Mounting Web3 Storage as a Folder on Your Desktop

Disclaimer: Being a Scrum Master is not the same as being a (traditional) Manager, although one can consider that Scrum Master is a management level position. <a href="https://www.scrum.org/forum/scrum-forum/6060/scrum-master-management-position" target="_blank">This post</a> helps clarify the distinction. I think the concepts in this article also apply to people who are developing and managing software and not necessarily doing Scrum. My apologies if the title of the article is somewhat misleading.

Balancing Software Development and Management

I remember the day I was born. I remember feeling all warm on the inside and slowly opening my eyes. There she was, holding me in her hand and looking at me intently. A bright white light illuminated her face, and we were surrounded by grey walls and crowds of people. I welcomed her&nbsp;, asking her for her information, and she introduced herself.

Life of a Smartphone

Getting stuck in a programming problem is a very common thing. 

5 Steps in Programming to Keep You From Getting Stuck

Interested in how brand names appear in the IT world? Today we will talk about our experience — how we came up with the name for our service. What drove us to the decision to name our remarkable bookmarking service GrabDuck.

How we came up with the name GrabDuck

It already seems like they’re onto building something engaging, sassy, and pain solving stuff all the time. Perhaps, the kind of quality they’re up to will potentially beat out the other saturated brands.

5 Coolest #1 Products of The Day On ProductHunt [Oct-Nov 2017]

When I hear people talk about Go, a lot of the discussions focus on its concurrency features. Whilst it has a good concurrency story, the language landscape is currently filled with languages that have an equally good or better concurrency story — F#, Erlang, Elixir, Clojure, etc…

Why I like Go’s interfaces

In this blog, we'll demonstrate how to perform basic data operations using PySpark, Pandas, DuckDB, Polars, and DataFusion. 

Exploring Data Operations with PySpark, Pandas, DuckDB, Polars, and DataFusion in a Python Notebook

Master the art of debugging with strategies like Rubber Ducking, leveraging tools, and systematic checklists. Turn challenges into rewarding puzzles!

Debugging Tips and Tricks: From Talking to Ducks to Embracing the Struggle

The wild duck is strong of wing and a passionate lover of travel. 

THE DUCK

Discover how real-time interaction technologies are implemented to make Goose Goose Duck such a successful game providing an engaging experience. 

Goose Goose Duck Hits New Heights With 700k Players: How RTI is Driving the Game's Success

The idea of rubber duck debugging is straightforward. When you are struggling with a problem, you simply ask the duck.

Why The Rubber Duck is The Ultimate Hacker Gadget

In this episode, Amy & Sharmini (CMO at Mysterium Network) chat about whether it's possible to achieve anonymity and decentralization from the modern Internet. 

How Decentralized Can We Get in The Modern World? (Podcast Transcript)

This article dives into learning duck typing in Javascript and examples of polymorphism.

Learning Duck Typing in Javascript

If you’re unfamiliar with DuckDuckGo, they are an Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal 
information online, without any tradeoffs.

DuckDuckGo Is A Step In The Right Direction For User Privacy

Liskov’s Substitution Principle | SOLID as a Rock

If it Looks Like a Duck, Quacks Like a Duck, But Needs Batteries - You  Have the Wrong Abstraction

If your website gets hacked, the hackers behind the scenes can wreak all kinds of havoc on your website, your database, and even your company’s reputation in ways you may not even realize. They can steal personal information and credit card numbers, shut down your website, destroy your information, inject your content with malicious links, use your server as an email relay for spam, store illegal files on your server, install spyware or spybots that monitor the activity of your users&nbsp;… the list goes on and on. Which is why you have to ask yourself, is your website a sitting duck for hackers?

Is Your Website a Sitting Duck for Hackers?

Three overlooked eigenvalue diagnostics can predict whether your AI will succeed, fail, or silently collapse. Here’s the 1950s math the industry keeps ignoring.

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Why You Should Always Avoid Encoding Type Into Names

Building Your First Coding Project and Avoid Tutorial Hell

15 Things I Wish I'd Known As a Junior Developer

4 Growth Hacks to become a Successful Entrepreneur!

Pragmatism Over Purity

What is Pair Programming?

Mounting Web3 Storage as a Folder on Your Desktop

Balancing Software Development and Management

Life of a Smartphone

5 Steps in Programming to Keep You From Getting Stuck

How we came up with the name GrabDuck

5 Coolest #1 Products of The Day On ProductHunt [Oct-Nov 2017]

Why I like Go’s interfaces

Exploring Data Operations with PySpark, Pandas, DuckDB, Polars, and DataFusion in a Python Notebook

Debugging Tips and Tricks: From Talking to Ducks to Embracing the Struggle

THE DUCK

Goose Goose Duck Hits New Heights With 700k Players: How RTI is Driving the Game's Success

Why The Rubber Duck is The Ultimate Hacker Gadget

How Decentralized Can We Get in The Modern World? (Podcast Transcript)

Learning Duck Typing in Javascript

DuckDuckGo Is A Step In The Right Direction For User Privacy

If it Looks Like a Duck, Quacks Like a Duck, But Needs Batteries - You Have the Wrong Abstraction

Is Your Website a Sitting Duck for Hackers?

Three Numbers. That’s All Your AI Needs to Work

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