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As the very first crypto, Bitcoin was designed to encourage financial equality - it was a way to make online payments from one party to another without needing a ‘third party’, and it gave anyone with internet access a chance to participate in the financial ecosystem. But for all of the industry’s meteoric growth, optimism, and progress - this isn’t enjoyed by everyone and crypto is still in catch-up mode when it comes to inclusivity In this post, Janine Grainger - Founder and CEO of Easy Crypto - shares three fundamentals the industry needs to focus on if we stand a chance of delivering on crypto’s original vision… #1 Radical Representation - Diversity Starts at the ‘Top’ Although the crypto industry is gradually embracing diversity, we have to remember that the space itself was born from two very male-dominated industries: finance and technology. Late last year, a of 50 prominent crypto and blockchain firms revealed that women hold just 6 percent of CEO positions, painting what it called a ‘disheartening picture’ of underrepresentation. study Unsurprisingly - this has affected both product design and who (and how) products are marketed to industry-wide. Unsurprisingly, a large percentage of women are ‘crypto curious’; but ultimately, hesitant to participate because it feels like a ‘boy’s club.’ But as one of the industries that has been arguably the slowest to respond to a call for diversity, there’s the impetus to be the most radical about change - including leadership appointments and creating work environments in which all types of talent can flourish. We need companies to go ‘all in’ on hiring female talent, and to be unapologetic about doing so. Companies need to commit to gender diversity and send a strong message about inclusivity and equality. This will foster an environment where diverse perspectives can shape the company's future, from product development to strategic direction. #2 Education and Empowerment - Giving Everyone the Confidence they Need to Invest With more and more women starting to take responsibility for their own financial freedom, the industry’s focus needs to be on empowering everyone to become an investor easily (within minutes) in alternative assets, with the understanding and confidence to do so. By providing users with the knowledge and confidence to navigate the crypto space, innovators are breaking down barriers and encouraging more women to participate in the financial revolution. Driving education and information at every step of the process for those who use their platform builds confidence and ultimately, platform loyalty. #3 Product Innovation - Recognizing the Need for Tailored Products Although there is now much wider recognition that crypto investors aren't all young, hoodie-wearing Silicon Valley males who mine Bitcoin from their basements, a lot of products out there still cater to this demographic and have limited the industry's appeal to a broader audience. To counter this, smart companies are focusing on products that address some of the key concerns associated with the crypto industry. This includes user-friendly wallets designed to make the digital world as accessible as traditional apps - with an emphasis on security alongside user-friendly features that do away with complexities such as seed phrases. In addition, a new breed of stablecoin marries the trustworthiness of traditional fiat assets with the benefits of blockchain (without the volatility). These stablecoins provide an easy ‘on-ramp’ to the world of crypto, facilitating instant, low-cost, global, and programmable payments and will become a catalyst for greater crypto adoption and the digitization of financial products and services. Importantly, improving representation, education, empowerment, and product innovation is work that needs to happen day in and day out. Beyond Women’s Day, these focuses must become intrinsic to how the industry operates if it wants to support meaningful change. If not, we risk not delivering on the full potential of crypto for a large portion of society.

Crypto Is In ‘Catch-Up’ Mode When It Comes to Inclusivity

Okay, be honest – you've seen the phrase plastered all over the internet. It's like this weird battle cry for those of us who spend way too much time online. But did you ever stop to think about where it actually came from? Get ready for a nostalgic trip because I'm about to take you down memory lane! "Do a Barrel Roll!" My love affair with Star Fox 64 Back in 1997, I was obsessed with . I don't mean your run-of-the-mill kid obsession; I mean full-blown "this is all I think about" kind of mania. Those space battles, the crazy characters, and, of course, the voice commands! Peppy Hare, Fox McCloud's slightly overprotective wingman, had this way of shouting advice you couldn't quite ignore. Even in the heat of battle, his one-liners made me grin. Star Fox 64 But none of those were line. You know what I'm talking about. When things got dicey when enemies swarmed, Peppy would bellow in glorious desperation: Honestly, at the time, it was just a quick way to dodge out of trouble. But oh boy, did that phrase stick with me. the "Do a Barrel Roll!" A meme is born (and I have no idea how) Years later, I'm not even sure when the internet exploded with I was shocked, amazed, and weirdly proud. Turns out, I wasn't the only one who remembered Peppy's panicked yells. Message boards lit up, people shared images, and, of course, . It felt like this secret inside joke from my childhood had suddenly burst into the mainstream. "Do a Barrel Roll!" memes were absolutely everywhere Google knows a good meme when it sees one. Even Google decided to have a bit of fun! For a while now, if you typed " " into the search bar, the whole dang page would actually spin around. How cool is that? It's like this little bit of nostalgia hidden in the code, just waiting for fans to get a kick out of it. Do a Barrel Roll The thing about memes... It's weird how "Do a Barrel Roll" went from this throwaway line to a full-on internet phenomenon. But that's just how memes work, right? They latch onto our sense of humor, our weird shared experiences, and the simple things we love. video game Barrel Roll Mania: Beyond just memes The influence of this meme didn't stop at message boards and image macros. "Do a Barrel Roll!" has a way of sneaking into all corners of pop culture. Who can resist a good ol' barrel roll, right? And the folks behind Star Fox didn't forget their roots, either. In Star Fox Zero, way back in 2016, good ol' Peppy still hollers "Barrel Roll!" every time he gets those maneuvers going. It's heartwarming to see that they acknowledge the impact the game had. The "Do a Barrel Roll!" spirit pops up in the most unexpected places, too. Remember ? At one point, you're straight-up ordered to "do a barrel roll" in the middle of the chaos. Plus, in the 2022 reboot of Saints Row, they have an achievement called which means, you guessed it – more barrel rolls! It might not be a direct shout-out to Star Fox, but you can't convince me it wasn't at least a little wink and a nod at the classic meme. Saints Row IV "The Spins," And, sometimes, a flying bunny yelling a space pilot command is all it takes to create something awesome and enduring. I mean, at least that's what my younger self would have thought!

"Do a Barrel Roll!" – How My Favourite Video Game Catchphrase Took Over the Internet

The United States v Meta Platforms Court Filing October 24, 2023 is part of . You can jump to any part in this filing . This is part 16 of 100. HackerNoon’s Legal PDF Series here 2. Meta prioritizes maximizing engagement over young users’ safety. 134. Meta denies that it seeks to maximize young users’ engagement on its Social Media Platforms. 135-136. [Redacted] 137. Zuckerberg stated to Congress on March 25, 2021, that “it is a common misconception that our teams—our goals, or even have goals, of trying to increase the amount of time that people spend” and “I don’t give our News Feed team or our Instagram team goals around increasing the amount of time that people spend.” 138. Meta has also claimed, in a statement published by Gizmodo on October 3, 2021, to “do internal research to ask hard questions and find out how we can best improve the experience for teens.” 139. These representations were false and misleading. Contrary to Meta’s public statements, one of Meta’s key goals is to induce young users to spend ever-increasing amounts of time on its Social Media Platforms. 140-150. [Redacted] 150. Thus, notwithstanding Meta’s public representations to the contrary, increasing young users’ engagement was, and is, a core business objective for Meta. Continue Reading . Here About HackerNoon Legal PDF Series: We bring you the most important technical and insightful public domain court case filings. This court case 4:23-cv-05448 retrieved on October 25, 2023, from is part of the public domain. The court-created documents are works of the federal government, and under copyright law, are automatically placed in the public domain and may be shared without legal restriction. Washingtonpost.com

Meta's Catch-22: Balancing Digital Well-being and Increased User Engagement 

Github Motion to dismiss Court Filing, retrieved on January 26, 2023 is part of . You can jump to any part in this filing . This part is 11 of 26. HackerNoon’s Legal PDF Series here ARGUMENT II. PLAINTIFFS FAIL TO STATE A DMCA CLAIM. B. Count I Impermissibly Lumps Together Multiple Defendants, Claims, And Theories Of Liability. Plaintiffs cannot get around Stevens, but in any event the “failure to allege what role each Defendant played in the alleged harm makes it exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, for individual Defendants to respond to [the] allegations.” In re iPhone Application Litig., No. 11- MD-02250, 2011 WL 4403963, at *8 (N.D. Cal. Sept. 20, 2011). Such a pleading therefore does not satisfy Rule 8(a). Id.; see Destfino v. Reiswig, 630 F.3d 952, 958-59 (9th Cir. 2011) (affirming dismissal of “shotgun pleading”). Count I is a textbook example of this problem. It is alleged against “All Defendants.” Over the course of a nearly 30-paragraph thicket of assertions, Plaintiffs appear to claim violation of all five of the statute’s prohibitions. Compl. ¶¶ 142-71. They also purport, by parenthetical under the title of “COUNT I,” to advance “(Direct, Vicarious, and Contributory)” theories of liability. Id. at 34. No allegation is specific to either GitHub or Microsoft. Nothing elsewhere in the Complaint explains what any particular Defendant is supposed to have done. This defect is worst with respect to Microsoft. Plaintiffs allege that Microsoft owns GitHub and is an investor in OpenAI. Compl. ¶¶ 5-7. But it is basic corporate law that absent some disregard of corporate formalities, Microsoft cannot be held liable as a corporate parent or shareholder. See United States v. Bestfoods, 524 U.S. 51, 61 (1998). As for Microsoft’s subsidiary GitHub, there is no explanation of what GitHub supposedly did with respect to the alteration or removal of CMI. And since there is no allegation suggesting that GitHub or Microsoft engaged in primary conduct involving CMI, Plaintiffs presumably mean to sweep them in with the “vicarious” and “contributory” labels. But § 1202 does not provide for such theories of liability on its face, and it is doubtful that the Ninth Circuit would find § 1202’s doublescienter requirement compatible with theories of secondary liability. Cf. Petroliam Nasional Berhad v. GoDaddy.com, Inc., 737 F.3d 546 (9th Cir. 2013) (refusing extra-statutory contributory liability theory under anti-cybersquatting statute in part because of “bad faith” requirement). Plaintiffs are claiming entitlement to statutory damages of over $9 billion for their § 1202 claims. Compl. at 52 n.42. Defendants cannot properly address these claims without knowing what Plaintiffs say each Defendant did to violate the statute. Continue Reading . Here About HackerNoon Legal PDF Series: We bring you the most important technical and insightful public domain court case filings. This court case 4:22-cv-06823-JST retrieved on September 11, 2023, from is part of the public domain. The court-created documents are works of the federal government, and under copyright law, are automatically placed in the public domain and may be shared without legal restriction. documentcloud.org

Programmers Filed a "Catch-All" Lawsuit, Making no Specific Allegations Against GitHub or Microsoft

The regular day of a startup juggles between two states, namely shipping or fixing. You can catch any developer working at any time (day or night), they are usually pushing code to production as long as it is functional or fixing the code in production that they shipped after marking it as functional. It’s funny, but this is what makes working at a startup fun. This blog highlights the advantage of using sentry and Expo to push your code to production quickly. Using Expo: Expo is a tooling available to build cross-platform applications using single codebase. With underlying framework React Native, you can target web, android and iOS, all at the same time. What does a startup wants is the most feature pushed with least amount of cost to it. And Expo is the one solution stop. The developer experience is extremely awesome and the most native complexity is hidden under the Expo layer. You can simply start your project by npx create-expo-app hackernight
cd hackernight You can run to generate your native build code folders. easy to build features dependent on native code, and you can also managed it via config plugins. npx expo prebuild This support is only extended by another tooling provided by Expo is ( . EAS Expo Application Services) So you don’t have to worry about managing releases for your mobile apps as well. You can manage your deployment pipelines right from your terminal. You can create channels/ environments like and . This makes it easy to manage the app releases for the testing and quality analysis in no-strings attached environment. development , staging production Using Sentry Integrating Sentry in your product enables you to receive realtime errors  and crash reports. You can use it to monitor performance of your over metrics and events you wish to optimise. You can install it in the app by npx expo install sentry-expo
npx expo install expo-application expo-constants expo-device expo-updates @sentry/react-native Now you have to initialize Sentry SDK in your app, Sentry.init({
  dsn:   <_YOUR_DSN_HERE_>,
  enableInExpoDevelopment: true,
  debug: true, // If `true`, Sentry will try to print out useful debugging information if something goes wrong with sending the event. Set it to `false` in production
  autoSessionTracking: true,
  enableNative: true,
}); After all You can expect to have the fighting duo at your disposal in your startup arsenal. There are many features of startups today uses, one specifically is ability to write code once, run everywhere and second, manage the CI/CD pipeline right from your terminal via EXPO EAS I am working at a startup, using expo and integrated Sentry. We have faced realtime crashes, issues, solved the bug and shipped the solution literally in minutes because of our dynamic duo. Here  is how we were able to do so we faced during our fast iteration and faster shipment days. Sentry captures  errors, exceptions, crashes, transactions, and generally anything that goes wrong in your application in real-time. Before our internal user decides to report the bug, we get the notification about it with a detailed  report. There is in-depth stack trace on every issue that our user faced. It keeps history of all the events that happened before the actual code break and sends the event data to DSN This detailed dashboard help us to pinpoint  the cause of error, we debug it , ship the solution and then move to improve debugging on the app by planning our actionmap for future and unforseeable bugs. There is a feature called tags, which give a detailed visual idea about the bug (like machine/device, OS version, API version, release version, environment )  and in Sentry dashboard one can customize a tag the errors based on the type of origin, an error particularly has. You can debug the issue as  fast as you understand it. The data about the issue only makes it faster to solve. Debugging via Sentry is a great to way to understand the internals of a stack that we use and gives us opportunity to work on improving our understanding about the programming concepts and helps us design better systems.  This has significantly helped our startup in having fast fixes  and faster deployments.

Power of Sentry + Expo: Catch Bugs Before They Bite and Supercharge Your Startup's Success

El poder de Sentry + Expo: Atrapa los errores antes de que piquen y potencia el éxito de tu empresa emergente

Power of Sentry + Expo : Attrapez les bugs avant qu'ils ne mordent et boostez le succès de votre startup

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Sentry + Expo の力: 虫に刺される前に虫を捕まえ、スタートアップの成功を加速させます

Power of Sentry + Expo: pegue bugs antes que mordam e potencialize o sucesso de sua startup

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Sentry + Expo 的力量：在错误被咬之前抓住错误并为您的创业公司的成功助力

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is part of the HackerNoon Books Series. You can jump to any chapter in this book here . The Prosecutor Catches Mitya Chapter VI. The Prosecutor Catches Mitya Something utterly unexpected and amazing to Mitya followed. He could never, even a minute before, have conceived that any one could behave like that to him, Mitya Karamazov. What was worst of all, there was something humiliating in it, and on their side something “supercilious and scornful.” It was nothing to take off his coat, but he was asked to undress further, or rather not asked but “commanded,” he quite understood that. From pride and contempt he submitted without a word. Several peasants accompanied the lawyers and remained on the same side of the curtain. “To be ready if force is required,” thought Mitya, “and perhaps for some other reason, too.” “Well, must I take off my shirt, too?” he asked sharply, but Nikolay Parfenovitch did not answer. He was busily engaged with the prosecutor in examining the coat, the trousers, the waistcoat and the cap; and it was evident that they were both much interested in the scrutiny. “They make no bones about it,” thought Mitya, “they don’t keep up the most elementary politeness.” “I ask you for the second time—need I take off my shirt or not?” he said, still more sharply and irritably. “Don’t trouble yourself. We will tell you what to do,” Nikolay Parfenovitch said, and his voice was positively peremptory, or so it seemed to Mitya. Meantime a consultation was going on in undertones between the lawyers. There turned out to be on the coat, especially on the left side at the back, a huge patch of blood, dry, and still stiff. There were bloodstains on the trousers, too. Nikolay Parfenovitch, moreover, in the presence of the peasant witnesses, passed his fingers along the collar, the cuffs, and all the seams of the coat and trousers, obviously looking for something—money, of course. He didn’t even hide from Mitya his suspicion that he was capable of sewing money up in his clothes. “He treats me not as an officer but as a thief,” Mitya muttered to himself. They communicated their ideas to one another with amazing frankness. The secretary, for instance, who was also behind the curtain, fussing about and listening, called Nikolay Parfenovitch’s attention to the cap, which they were also fingering. “You remember Gridyenko, the copying‐clerk,” observed the secretary. “Last summer he received the wages of the whole office, and pretended to have lost the money when he was drunk. And where was it found? Why, in just such pipings in his cap. The hundred‐rouble notes were screwed up in little rolls and sewed in the piping.” Both the lawyers remembered Gridyenko’s case perfectly, and so laid aside Mitya’s cap, and decided that all his clothes must be more thoroughly examined later. “Excuse me,” cried Nikolay Parfenovitch, suddenly, noticing that the right cuff of Mitya’s shirt was turned in, and covered with blood, “excuse me, what’s that, blood?” “Yes,” Mitya jerked out. “That is, what blood? ... and why is the cuff turned in?” Mitya told him how he had got the sleeve stained with blood looking after Grigory, and had turned it inside when he was washing his hands at Perhotin’s. “You must take off your shirt, too. That’s very important as material evidence.” Mitya flushed red and flew into a rage. “What, am I to stay naked?” he shouted. “Don’t disturb yourself. We will arrange something. And meanwhile take off your socks.” “You’re not joking? Is that really necessary?” Mitya’s eyes flashed. “We are in no mood for joking,” answered Nikolay Parfenovitch sternly. “Well, if I must—” muttered Mitya, and sitting down on the bed, he took off his socks. He felt unbearably awkward. All were clothed, while he was naked, and strange to say, when he was undressed he felt somehow guilty in their presence, and was almost ready to believe himself that he was inferior to them, and that now they had a perfect right to despise him. “When all are undressed, one is somehow not ashamed, but when one’s the only one undressed and everybody is looking, it’s degrading,” he kept repeating to himself, again and again. “It’s like a dream, I’ve sometimes dreamed of being in such degrading positions.” It was a misery to him to take off his socks. They were very dirty, and so were his underclothes, and now every one could see it. And what was worse, he disliked his feet. All his life he had thought both his big toes hideous. He particularly loathed the coarse, flat, crooked nail on the right one, and now they would all see it. Feeling intolerably ashamed made him, at once and intentionally, rougher. He pulled off his shirt, himself. “Would you like to look anywhere else if you’re not ashamed to?” “No, there’s no need to, at present.” “Well, am I to stay naked like this?” he added savagely. “Yes, that can’t be helped for the time.... Kindly sit down here for a while. You can wrap yourself in a quilt from the bed, and I ... I’ll see to all this.” All the things were shown to the witnesses. The report of the search was drawn up, and at last Nikolay Parfenovitch went out, and the clothes were carried out after him. Ippolit Kirillovitch went out, too. Mitya was left alone with the peasants, who stood in silence, never taking their eyes off him. Mitya wrapped himself up in the quilt. He felt cold. His bare feet stuck out, and he couldn’t pull the quilt over so as to cover them. Nikolay Parfenovitch seemed to be gone a long time, “an insufferable time.” “He thinks of me as a puppy,” thought Mitya, gnashing his teeth. “That rotten prosecutor has gone, too, contemptuous no doubt, it disgusts him to see me naked!” Mitya imagined, however, that his clothes would be examined and returned to him. But what was his indignation when Nikolay Parfenovitch came back with quite different clothes, brought in behind him by a peasant. “Here are clothes for you,” he observed airily, seeming well satisfied with the success of his mission. “Mr. Kalganov has kindly provided these for this unusual emergency, as well as a clean shirt. Luckily he had them all in his trunk. You can keep your own socks and underclothes.” Mitya flew into a passion. “I won’t have other people’s clothes!” he shouted menacingly, “give me my own!” “It’s impossible!” “Give me my own. Damn Kalganov and his clothes, too!” It was a long time before they could persuade him. But they succeeded somehow in quieting him down. They impressed upon him that his clothes, being stained with blood, must be “included with the other material evidence,” and that they “had not even the right to let him have them now ... taking into consideration the possible outcome of the case.” Mitya at last understood this. He subsided into gloomy silence and hurriedly dressed himself. He merely observed, as he put them on, that the clothes were much better than his old ones, and that he disliked “gaining by the change.” The coat was, besides, “ridiculously tight. Am I to be dressed up like a fool ... for your amusement?” They urged upon him again that he was exaggerating, that Kalganov was only a little taller, so that only the trousers might be a little too long. But the coat turned out to be really tight in the shoulders. “Damn it all! I can hardly button it,” Mitya grumbled. “Be so good as to tell Mr. Kalganov from me that I didn’t ask for his clothes, and it’s not my doing that they’ve dressed me up like a clown.” “He understands that, and is sorry ... I mean, not sorry to lend you his clothes, but sorry about all this business,” mumbled Nikolay Parfenovitch. “Confound his sorrow! Well, where now? Am I to go on sitting here?” He was asked to go back to the “other room.” Mitya went in, scowling with anger, and trying to avoid looking at any one. Dressed in another man’s clothes he felt himself disgraced, even in the eyes of the peasants, and of Trifon Borissovitch, whose face appeared, for some reason, in the doorway, and vanished immediately. “He’s come to look at me dressed up,” thought Mitya. He sat down on the same chair as before. He had an absurd nightmarish feeling, as though he were out of his mind. “Well, what now? Are you going to flog me? That’s all that’s left for you,” he said, clenching his teeth and addressing the prosecutor. He would not turn to Nikolay Parfenovitch, as though he disdained to speak to him. “He looked too closely at my socks, and turned them inside out on purpose to show every one how dirty they were—the scoundrel!” “Well, now we must proceed to the examination of witnesses,” observed Nikolay Parfenovitch, as though in reply to Mitya’s question. “Yes,” said the prosecutor thoughtfully, as though reflecting on something. “We’ve done what we could in your interest, Dmitri Fyodorovitch,” Nikolay Parfenovitch went on, “but having received from you such an uncompromising refusal to explain to us the source from which you obtained the money found upon you, we are, at the present moment—” “What is the stone in your ring?” Mitya interrupted suddenly, as though awakening from a reverie. He pointed to one of the three large rings adorning Nikolay Parfenovitch’s right hand. “Ring?” repeated Nikolay Parfenovitch with surprise. “Yes, that one ... on your middle finger, with the little veins in it, what stone is that?” Mitya persisted, like a peevish child. “That’s a smoky topaz,” said Nikolay Parfenovitch, smiling. “Would you like to look at it? I’ll take it off ...” “No, don’t take it off,” cried Mitya furiously, suddenly waking up, and angry with himself. “Don’t take it off ... there’s no need.... Damn it!... Gentlemen, you’ve sullied my heart! Can you suppose that I would conceal it from you, if I had really killed my father, that I would shuffle, lie, and hide myself? No, that’s not like Dmitri Karamazov, that he couldn’t do, and if I were guilty, I swear I shouldn’t have waited for your coming, or for the sunrise as I meant at first, but should have killed myself before this, without waiting for the dawn! I know that about myself now. I couldn’t have learnt so much in twenty years as I’ve found out in this accursed night!... And should I have been like this on this night, and at this moment, sitting with you, could I have talked like this, could I have moved like this, could I have looked at you and at the world like this, if I had really been the murderer of my father, when the very thought of having accidentally killed Grigory gave me no peace all night—not from fear—oh, not simply from fear of your punishment! The disgrace of it! And you expect me to be open with such scoffers as you, who see nothing and believe in nothing, blind moles and scoffers, and to tell you another nasty thing I’ve done, another disgrace, even if that would save me from your accusation! No, better Siberia! The man who opened the door to my father and went in at that door, he killed him, he robbed him. Who was he? I’m racking my brains and can’t think who. But I can tell you it was not Dmitri Karamazov, and that’s all I can tell you, and that’s enough, enough, leave me alone.... Exile me, punish me, but don’t bother me any more. I’ll say no more. Call your witnesses!” Mitya uttered his sudden monologue as though he were determined to be absolutely silent for the future. The prosecutor watched him the whole time and only when he had ceased speaking, observed, as though it were the most ordinary thing, with the most frigid and composed air: “Oh, about the open door of which you spoke just now, we may as well inform you, by the way, now, of a very interesting piece of evidence of the greatest importance both to you and to us, that has been given us by Grigory, the old man you wounded. On his recovery, he clearly and emphatically stated, in reply to our questions, that when, on coming out to the steps, and hearing a noise in the garden, he made up his mind to go into it through the little gate which stood open, before he noticed you running, as you have told us already, in the dark from the open window where you saw your father, he, Grigory, glanced to the left, and, while noticing the open window, observed at the same time, much nearer to him, the door, standing wide open—that door which you have stated to have been shut the whole time you were in the garden. I will not conceal from you that Grigory himself confidently affirms and bears witness that you must have run from that door, though, of course, he did not see you do so with his own eyes, since he only noticed you first some distance away in the garden, running towards the fence.” Mitya had leapt up from his chair half‐way through this speech. “Nonsense!” he yelled, in a sudden frenzy, “it’s a barefaced lie. He couldn’t have seen the door open because it was shut. He’s lying!” “I consider it my duty to repeat that he is firm in his statement. He does not waver. He adheres to it. We’ve cross‐examined him several times.” “Precisely. I have cross‐examined him several times,” Nikolay Parfenovitch confirmed warmly. “It’s false, false! It’s either an attempt to slander me, or the hallucination of a madman,” Mitya still shouted. “He’s simply raving, from loss of blood, from the wound. He must have fancied it when he came to.... He’s raving.” “Yes, but he noticed the open door, not when he came to after his injuries, but before that, as soon as he went into the garden from the lodge.” “But it’s false, it’s false! It can’t be so! He’s slandering me from spite.... He couldn’t have seen it ... I didn’t come from the door,” gasped Mitya. The prosecutor turned to Nikolay Parfenovitch and said to him impressively: “Confront him with it.” “Do you recognize this object?” Nikolay Parfenovitch laid upon the table a large and thick official envelope, on which three seals still remained intact. The envelope was empty, and slit open at one end. Mitya stared at it with open eyes. “It ... it must be that envelope of my father’s, the envelope that contained the three thousand roubles ... and if there’s inscribed on it, allow me, ‘For my little chicken’ ... yes—three thousand!” he shouted, “do you see, three thousand, do you see?” “Of course, we see. But we didn’t find the money in it. It was empty, and lying on the floor by the bed, behind the screen.” For some seconds Mitya stood as though thunderstruck. “Gentlemen, it’s Smerdyakov!” he shouted suddenly, at the top of his voice. “It’s he who’s murdered him! He’s robbed him! No one else knew where the old man hid the envelope. It’s Smerdyakov, that’s clear, now!” “But you, too, knew of the envelope and that it was under the pillow.” “I never knew it. I’ve never seen it. This is the first time I’ve looked at it. I’d only heard of it from Smerdyakov.... He was the only one who knew where the old man kept it hidden, I didn’t know ...” Mitya was completely breathless. “But you told us yourself that the envelope was under your deceased father’s pillow. You especially stated that it was under the pillow, so you must have known it.” “We’ve got it written down,” confirmed Nikolay Parfenovitch. “Nonsense! It’s absurd! I’d no idea it was under the pillow. And perhaps it wasn’t under the pillow at all.... It was just a chance guess that it was under the pillow. What does Smerdyakov say? Have you asked him where it was? What does Smerdyakov say? that’s the chief point.... And I went out of my way to tell lies against myself.... I told you without thinking that it was under the pillow, and now you— Oh, you know how one says the wrong thing, without meaning it. No one knew but Smerdyakov, only Smerdyakov, and no one else.... He didn’t even tell me where it was! But it’s his doing, his doing; there’s no doubt about it, he murdered him, that’s as clear as daylight now,” Mitya exclaimed more and more frantically, repeating himself incoherently, and growing more and more exasperated and excited. “You must understand that, and arrest him at once.... He must have killed him while I was running away and while Grigory was unconscious, that’s clear now.... He gave the signal and father opened to him ... for no one but he knew the signal, and without the signal father would never have opened the door....” “But you’re again forgetting the circumstance,” the prosecutor observed, still speaking with the same restraint, though with a note of triumph, “that there was no need to give the signal if the door already stood open when you were there, while you were in the garden....” “The door, the door,” muttered Mitya, and he stared speechless at the prosecutor. He sank back helpless in his chair. All were silent. “Yes, the door!... It’s a nightmare! God is against me!” he exclaimed, staring before him in complete stupefaction. “Come, you see,” the prosecutor went on with dignity, “and you can judge for yourself, Dmitri Fyodorovitch. On the one hand we have the evidence of the open door from which you ran out, a fact which overwhelms you and us. On the other side your incomprehensible, persistent, and, so to speak, obdurate silence with regard to the source from which you obtained the money which was so suddenly seen in your hands, when only three hours earlier, on your own showing, you pledged your pistols for the sake of ten roubles! In view of all these facts, judge for yourself. What are we to believe, and what can we depend upon? And don’t accuse us of being ‘frigid, cynical, scoffing people,’ who are incapable of believing in the generous impulses of your heart.... Try to enter into our position ...” Mitya was indescribably agitated. He turned pale. “Very well!” he exclaimed suddenly. “I will tell you my secret. I’ll tell you where I got the money!... I’ll reveal my shame, that I may not have to blame myself or you hereafter.” “And believe me, Dmitri Fyodorovitch,” put in Nikolay Parfenovitch, in a voice of almost pathetic delight, “that every sincere and complete confession on your part at this moment may, later on, have an immense influence in your favor, and may, indeed, moreover—” But the prosecutor gave him a slight shove under the table, and he checked himself in time. Mitya, it is true, had not heard him. About HackerNoon Book Series: We bring you the most important technical, scientific, and insightful public domain books. This book is part of the public domain. Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2009). The Brothers Karamazov. Urbana, Illinois: Project Gutenberg. Retrieved October https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/28054/pg28054-images.html This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. 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Frameworks are fantastic ready-made tools that offer a wealth of functionality for building applications. However, there is often a hidden drawback to using them. In this article, I'll explain why I had to stop relying on frameworks and start thinking like a problem solver instead. I have been a backend engineer using Python for four years and enjoy developing the unseen components of a system. It makes me feel like the character Elliot from Mr. Robot, which is quite amusing. During my early days as a backend engineer, I was quick to solve problems using Django. The framework had all the necessary tools to create a minimum viable product for a client, so there was no need for much thought. I’ll tell you what happened. I got so comfortable with using the framework, and the ORM (god, so seductive) that I did not bother myself to understand the SQL operations it abstracted for me. A day came, I was working as a contract backend engineer, and the tech lead asked me a couple of simple, really simple SQL questions like: What are “Joins” in SQL? Why do we need “indexes”? How do you “select” and “limit” a hundred records from a table using SQL? What is the difference between “inner joins” and “outer joins”? My heart sank. I could literally hear the voices in my head screaming “Oh, god. Oh, god. Oh, god. What do we do? What do we do now? Think, think, think, think!”. And after five minutes of an awkward long silence, he said to me: “Abram… You are an amazing young engineer, and I am blown by your early exposure and experience you have in the industry. But if you do not know the answers to the questions I just asked you, then, that’s a very big problem.” My so-called self-esteem and my knowing-it-all mindset got destroyed. I decided not to go ahead with building the project. I was depressed! And there’s where it hit me, just because you’ve successfully built and launched a backend system doesn’t mean it’s tightly secured, or that it adheres to principles that exist to govern the way you build systems. You need the know-how on how certain tools work underneath the hood. So, I did what anyone in my position would do, I began to study. I refused to take up any contract, full-time or part-time role that involved me building projects that would be used by “real people”. I was scared something would happen. After six months of studying, and late-night brainstorming, I was confident again. I now had the confidence to build even more robust and high-performant systems without worrying that I was doing something the wrong way. Whenever I am building an application with Django, I don’t say “I have designed the User and UserProfile models”, instead; I say, “I have designed the users and user_profiles table schemas”. The way I approach solving problems changed. I was no longer thinking in the “Django way” of doing things. I was thinking (literally) like a problem solver. Summary and Parting words At the end of the day, Django is just a tool for building software. So are Laravel, and NodeJS. You shouldn’t be obsessed with these technologies, someday they’re going to be obsolete. What happens then? Would you around complaining? Or be a problem solver that can quickly adapt to the forever-changing industry? bitch I once was asked to work on X feature with Vue.js and I gracefully accepted the challenge. In less than 20 hours, I had read six (6) articles about/on Vue.js, read through important concepts I ought to know on its official documentation, and delivered the feature the next day. Was I surprised I could pull off such a hat trick? No. Did I know I could do such a thing without no experience whatsoever? Why, yes. Of course! I am an engineer, and solving problems that would make my brains scream is something I love doing.

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Do Today What Others Won’t. When John Harley created in 2015, his motivation was to do things better. This concept is not new, and it is certainly prevalent in the business world, where entire industries have flourished on simple day-to-day improvements. Fishing Online However, Harley’s approach to his one-stop shop for all things fishing has encompassed this idea time and time again. His refusal to accept the satisfactory or even comfortable status quo has consistently yielded Fishing Online and its customers benefits that will only continue to grow. From its inception, through numerous growing pains, to being honored on the INC. 5000 list for the third year in a row in 2022, Harley has strived to make his company as efficient as possible. “Oh, the places you’ll go?” -Dr. Seuss Coming from a family with five other siblings, Harley was no stranger to facing challenges. Even as the family struggled to pay for his college education, he was able to earn his degree in computer science from the University of Pittsburgh. Although he always wanted to own his own business and be his own boss, his career as a software engineer provided him with a good life. Even as his brother launched a successful online business, Harley had yet to make the jump himself, instead helping his brother streamline his company on the side. It wasn’t until he went to a kayak fishing tournament that he visualized his path to entrepreneurship. He saw countless competitors with their kayaks and gear, often valued in the tens of thousands of dollars. He realized that this was a massive market, without a convenient, fully stocked, vendor with the data integrity customers demand when providing their credit card information. From here, Harley set out to build Fishing Online. For the first three and a half years, he had to keep working his day job to accumulate the capital he needed, where he had entire months with no days off. In his own words, “I thought I’d be a millionaire overnight. With my automation background, I’d just optimize everything, it would just run itself. This was not true.” Despite the hardships, and hitting low points, Harley’s final words of wisdom to me were “Stick with it. Keep pushing through the hard times, and eventually you’ll get there.” He sacrificed his own comfortable life to pursue his dream of owning a business because he knew there was a better way for avid fishermen to shop for all their needs. “Automation is driving the decline of banal and repetitive tasks.” -Amber Rudd Harley’s pursuit for improvements didn’t end once the company began. He continued to optimize his electronic footprint, both externally and internally. Originally, Harley used Bigcommerce for his platform, but they were overbearing and had several negative issues. After forcing him into a corner, he made the decision to switch to Shopify. This was a major risk, as this could’ve crippled his business for an unknown amount of time. However, Harley was willing to take the risk, as he knew there had to be a better way to operate, and he wasn’t willing to accept the current situation. With his programming background, he was able to get his company to go live on Shopify within three days and has been much happier with their service. In regard to catching the search algorithms, there was a rude awakening for Harley to develop the brand. He was unaware that the product descriptions were crucial to getting in front of customers as they searched the web. From his own experience, his brother told him that good descriptions are a necessity to being found organically. Harley had thousands of products that all needed new descriptions. Despite the task in front of him, he did not accept the state of things and invested the time to improve the search engine presence of Fishing Online. Inside his own walls, he first relied on C# to build his accounting software, with the hopes of crafting a system that would automatically manage the ordering process. He soon learned that Excel, with the right Macros could accomplish everything he needed, catapulting his efforts with a solid foundation he no longer had to construct. His custom-made spreadsheets incorporated all the different data that his employees tracked, including inventory, invoicing, and ordering materials. His automated bookkeeping system was able to instantly pull all the information he needed to issue purchase orders. He could now make orders as large as a quarter of a million dollars within minutes, with zero errors. Harley acknowledges that there is existing software that could mimic this capability, but his current system has been crafted and polished to specifically meet the needs of his company. From his service provider to his online sales pitches to his internal data management, Harley continuously pushed for a better way to do business. “A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.” -Michael LeBoeuf His dedication wasn’t limited to the virtual world. From limited warehousing to product selection and customer experience, Harley also looked to optimize his operations in the real world. By the time his original shop had grown to include a 10,000-square-foot warehouse, this space was already too small. Rather than slow his scaling, he worked to reduce or eliminate slow-moving products, while also negotiating with a third-party logistics firm. Luckily Harley’s business model was well established to keep his largest items moving, in this case, kayaks. They would sell out before even hitting a shelf. This enabled him to relegate using 3PL for smaller items, which is naturally their strong suit. The kayaks themselves were an excellent opportunity for him, despite their challenges, and often provided the coattails for accessory sales, increasing overall profits. As mentioned, he had to prioritize his inventory due to space, but he made sure to account for the secondary sales a loss leader could generate. One example is the Hawk Trough. As he said “We made no money on it. But we were the only vendor that offered it. Everyone who needed one came to us. Even though it wasn’t profitable, it got people to shop.” Harley’s understanding is that a better customer experience with limitless options, despite the detriments, would pay off in the end. Finding a better alternative for his customers and his business has certainly contributed to Fishing Online’s success. Be Proud, but Never Satisfied. Harley’s unwillingness to settle drove him to create a lucrative, niche business that caters to all the needs of its target clients. Over the course of creating and growing Fishing Online, had he simply accepted the status quo at any of its crucial milestones, the company might not exist, let alone thrive the way it has. From his personal goals that drove him to leave his comfortable programming job to developing a superb, automated process for inventory and order management, to optimizing his real-world footprint and product selection, Harley has always kept his eye out for better and more rewarding opportunities, regardless of the hardships required to seize them. He stated that his next goal is to surpass his personal best on the INC. 5000 list of 260, which he achieved in 2019. I have no doubt he will accomplish this, as his success over the years has never made him complacent or scared of hard work and change.

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