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The cameras used to set off an alert every time someone they didn't recognize stepped onto campus.

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Why AI Will Bring an Explosion of New Jobs

Recently I’ve switched from a developer role to hands-on team lead and decided to share my experience while it is still fresh in memory.

How to get a Team Lead job

The Gladiator Pit of Hardware Startups

Sometimes, it’s kind of interesting to know the origins of the products/projects we love. I made a collection of such products/projects and the stories of how they got their name.

How software projects got their name

It’s 2018 and my team has some incredible ideas and <a href="https://www.uktech.news/news/investment-news/octopus-ventures-leads-fintech-startup-fluidlys-2m-seed-20170928" target="_blank">is funded</a> too. Now it’s time to realise those ideas and execute on our vision. The trouble is, I have not enough product and too few customers. I need to create that product and prove that our business idea will work before our funding runs out — a familiar startup story. While I need to move as quickly as I possibly can, I don’t want to ship too many bugs or force future development to stall while a substantial re-write is undertaken.

How to Develop Software at an Early Stage Startup

 The AI box era is here. Build your own for privacy and control—or let Big Tech own your digital life. The next 2 years will shape who controls your AI.

The AI Box Is Coming—Build Your Own or Be Owned by Big Tech

Once in a while, I write non-technical blog posts when I've something worth sharing. Today, I'd like to write about my North America "Tour" 

Apache APISIX: How My North America Tour Went

Learn everything you need to know about Money via these 225 free HackerNoon stories.

225 Stories To Learn About Money

Learn everything you need to know about Future Technology via these 120 free HackerNoon stories.

120 Stories To Learn About Future Technology

Most of these smells are just hints of something that might be wrong. Therefore, they are not required to be fixed per se… (You should look into it, though.)

How to Find the Stinky Parts of Your Code [Part XL]

The concept of ideas being trumped by execution in the startup world is so prevalent that there is no single adage to capture it.

Idea Factories — How Do we Create More and Better Ideas for Humanity

Debugging in practice means getting lost on tangents, trying to look good in front of your subordinates and doing just a little bit of debugging on the side.

Dirty Jobs: Debugging Till the Last Minute

Scrum is a buzzword, the virtue signal of choice for middle-management in software organizations.

Leave Scrum To Rugby - 4 Major Issues With Using Scrum 

This article aims to provide the basics of LSTMs (Long Short Term Memory) and implements a word detector using the architecture.

LSTM Based Word Detectors

Do we get to choose the inscription on our tombstone? One person I know for sure that succeeded in doing just that was the comedian Spike Milligan, author of the popular 1950s UK Goon Show. He famously wrote Dúirt mé leat go raibh mé breoite or I told you I was sick on his gravestone, ever funny to the end. In fact, when legendary singer and close friend Harry Secombe died before him, Spike remarked he was glad as he didn’t want Harry to sing at his funeral. The last laugh was on Spike because they still played a song from his late friend anyway at Spike’s memorial service.

Writing John McAfee’s Tombstone with John McAfee

Last month, Timothy May, the incendiary co-founder of the Cypherpunks mailing list and author of the Crypto Anarchist Manifesto, died, leaving behind a complicated legacy for the cryptosphere.

What We Can Learn from Crypto’s Anti-Hero

It’s been nine years since my daugter said the above to me at six years old, and I’ve nearly forgiven her by now. I still love her, but this story isn’t about her. No, this story is about my first love, the Commodore 64 — a home computer from the 80’s, which is still the best selling computer of all time. More PC’s have been sold since, of course, but no single model of any computer has sold as many units as the Commodore 64 did back in the day.

A Love Letter to the Commodore 64

The untold story of Bitcoin’s historic 2017 year-run lies in Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) 148, or User-Activated Soft Fork (UASF).

BIP-148 UASF First Year Anniversary: A New System of Governance

Startups pattern themselves off the capital available to them. The creativity and diversity of strategies around how crypto economies are funded is not only the first and (so far) most powerful disruption in the blockchain space, but a force that could allow true innovation in the structure and approach of crypto organizations themselves. Put differently, fundraising is crypto’s first killer app.

The Reimagining Of Risk Capital

“You have to be kidding me! Don’t tell me I don’t know how to write a story!” I overhear a BA in my scrum team as he receives critical feedback about his story.

You’re doing Stories wrong!

Missed me? It’s definitely been a while since my last post. And though I’d love to justify my “hiatus” with the original reason which was “I’ll write a post about being employed for 6 months so I’ll just wait until then”, the real reason was a couple of weeks vacation. Also it’s been 7 months now. But who’s counting?

Road to Mastery: Half A Year On The Road

By far the most popular article I’ve ever penned is “<a href="https://hackernoon.com/why-everyone-missed-the-most-mind-blowing-feature-of-cryptocurrency-860c3f25f1fb" target="_blank">Why Everyone Missed the Most Mind Blowing Feature of Cryptocurrency</a>”. Every day it’s tweeted hundreds of times. It gets debated on social media, podcasts and more. It brought an avalanche of people pouring into <a href="http://decstack.com/" target="_blank">DecStack</a>, my virtual co-working spot for cryptocurrency and distributed application projects.

Gamifying the Delivery of Money

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Dedicated to Secret Headquarters in Los Angeles

Dedicated to BakkaPhoenix Books

Why AI Will Bring an Explosion of New Jobs

How to get a Team Lead job

The Gladiator Pit of Hardware Startups

How software projects got their name

How to Develop Software at an Early Stage Startup

The AI Box Is Coming—Build Your Own or Be Owned by Big Tech

Apache APISIX: How My North America Tour Went

225 Stories To Learn About Money

120 Stories To Learn About Future Technology

How to Find the Stinky Parts of Your Code [Part XL]

Idea Factories — How Do we Create More and Better Ideas for Humanity

Dirty Jobs: Debugging Till the Last Minute

Leave Scrum To Rugby - 4 Major Issues With Using Scrum

LSTM Based Word Detectors

Writing John McAfee’s Tombstone with John McAfee

What We Can Learn from Crypto’s Anti-Hero

A Love Letter to the Commodore 64

BIP-148 UASF First Year Anniversary: A New System of Governance

The Reimagining Of Risk Capital

You’re doing Stories wrong!

Road to Mastery: Half A Year On The Road

Gamifying the Delivery of Money

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