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Onto what matters — the top 29 tech stories this week!
Dev
Announcing VSCodeThemes by Jordan Schroter
ASP.NET Core Razor Pages Vs MVC: Which Will Create Better Web Apps in 2018? by Zealous System
Cross Platform Mobile Apps with .NET and Uno by Alex Billson
How We Used Redux on Backend and Got Offline-First Mobile App as a Result by WebbyLab
I hate programming, and you should too. by Mika Yeap
139 Traits That Make A Better Programmer by Sadick
RESTful API Design — Step By Step Guide by Tanmay Deshpande
The Essential Skill of a Developer by Silvestar Bistrović
Training an Image Classifier from scratch in 15 minutes by Aakash N S
Bitcoin
3 Urban Legends of Bitcoin Debunked by Kenny Li
Crypto Trends
Cryptocurrencies: What Retail Investors Should Know (Part 1) by Iliya Zaki
Dash, the friendly cryptocurrency by David Gilbertson
Why NHN’s Hancoin is the ‘Godfather of Korea’s Crypto Craze’ and Why it Signals Crypto Forever by Bernard Moon
Blockchain Trends
HackPedia: 16 Solidity Hacks/Vulnerabilities, their Fixes and Real World Examples by vasa
How Walmart, Alibaba, and Others are Shaking Up Retail With Blockchain by Kirill Shilov
Stablecoins, The Only Real Threat To Government Money by Abram Symons
Data
A visual story behind words on the web by Rajeev Dixit
Data-Driven? Think again by Cassie Kozyrkov
What is Human-in-the-Loop for Machine Learning? by Mothi Venkatesh
The Dark Side of Big Data by Jeremy Erdman
12 Mistakes that Data Scientists Make and How to Avoid Them by Blockchain DuDe
Tech Careers
Common Learning Mistakes That Developers Make And How to Avoid Them by Isabel Nyo
How to Start a Career in Cybersecurity (and Why You Should) & Should You Be a Back-End, Front-End or Full-Stack Developer? by The Martec
Should you do a Udacity AI Nanodegree or an AI Masters Degree? by Daniel
What It Takes to Become an Intern at Tesla — Interview with Three Interns by Flora Q.
Management
Systems thinking in management by Andrey Salomatin
AI
AI Is Hard? It’s Child’s Play With This AWS AI Services Scratch Extension by Ceyhun Özgün
Every AI startup is not an AI startup by Artashes Vardanian
How Artificial Neural Networks Can Code Smarter Than GUI Programmer by Katrine Spirina
Until next time, don’t take the realities of the world for granted.
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