The technology industry is not for the faint of heart, the unimaginative, or — it goes without saying — the machine illiterate. Those who prosper in tech are painted as ruthless followers of their own visions, and it is the code that powers it all. I will not tell you to work within the existing system, create a new system, or forget that a system exists. I will tell you, these hyperlinked anchor texts lead to a from the first couple weeks of a tumultuous 2017 (… , re: … , re: … , re: … and onto what matters, technology…). top Hacker Noon stories 10 Ways Web Developers Can Stand Up to the Trump Agenda Adam D. Scott One Way The New Administration Can Fuel American Entrepreneurship Harry Alford Medium and the White House digital transition Andreas Sandre What should the best hackers do? (1) found a company. To do so, advises you to make a ; it will in turn that already knows, and if your business survives it may be because you’ve divided it into ’s , (2) , (3) like , (4) , (5) , like , (6) like , and/or (7) use to . Rohit Sharma minimum buyable product teach you 85 things about being a CEO Sachin Gupta Brad Feld three machines work for a startup Function as a Service Keith Horwood work for a larger tech company initiate a side project Niklas Engberg work in a tech for a non-software company KJ Jones the new Hemingway Editor write blog posts for Hacker Noon Hackers consider how to better approach development, , like , or be like 19 year old hacker and install . Do you ever wonder, before you die, will you be able to install a program in your brain as simply as you can in your computer? It’s like evaluating … Ask yourself like did, Whichever channel or ladder you chose, know there will be technical and professional consequences to your development. How will you fit into the tech industry’s growth? As writes, there is always … and in , as explains, there are “ .”) Sometimes code’s binary, but sometimes it’s not. , like in “ .” Can you go right to the boss level and become a CEO? Will your game be played on an Atari or whatever comes next? Because says . think smarter time tracking Stephan Schultz Brian Tan 25 chome extensions, apps and hacks to double your productivity Nikolai Yakovenko whether AI can beat humans in poker Phil Pearl just how fast are these channels anyway? Carl Vitullo role based authorization (…in React React at 60fps Andrey Okonetchnikov costs and limitations that you may hit sooner or later You might not need if statements David Gilbertson a better approach to branching logic augmented reality Ryan Mickle starting a startup is fucking hard When you think of your career or your business, is it good to be reactionary? Apple would not have pioneered , but then again, Google would have saved themselves from many “meaningless” +1’s if Facebook didn’t invent . Either way, it’s good to stay informed about how you could , and the graphical user face if Steve Jobs did not enter the Xerox Lab the like button React React Studio Public Beta 1 is out now! As the journey is the destination, your development will define you to the world. But as your home is not your customer, your development will not define you to your family. You will. If you are reading this, you must have a kindred spirit with , who knows there is alignment between (which the ) & philosophy that can only be defined as , or . To put the in functional, read ’s . Ah! Is code a way of life or a means to sleep at night? At the end of the day, what everyone — including wants — is . Unless of course you want to hop over to one of one of and learn what it’s like to be named , Joel Thoms javascript Boy with Silver Wings believes is getting scary for beginners death of the for loop replace break by going functional “effective” Hugo Di Francesco first class and high order functions Muh Hon Cheng a smart home (…with sg next bus using Google home & Amazon echo) our sister publications Cody Weber who was homeless in rural ‘merica…. The internet is, first and foremost, . , which was very thoroughly detailed by . If your business depends on the internet, part of you will leak into the internet. Even though we operate as if tech products will not be killed by anything other than — like churning users, company acquisition, supplementation by a competitor or new release cannibalism — remember that, as did, community driven Last pass does not encrypt everything in your vault Concerned LastPass User market detriments Keep Watch, Stay Free five years ago the internet almost stood still. When you browse today and think about your direction, be like and do not forget . Your every fork, every like, every post, and every deployment is not about you. It’s about the person on the other side of the screen. The other . And in your trenches, when the scrum ended at midnight but your clock reads 3:16am, think of the other hacker who is , think of how is , think of , think of ’ , think of , think of — and know that you are not alone. Arun Agrahri why we need a new professional network for our relationships (not contacts) hacker who writes about truth (& cats) migrating 140,000 commits from mercurial to git Erik Corry parsing the madness of real world JavaScript regexps Fallible reverse engineering 16,000 android apps to uncover keys or secrets of a third party services hardcoded in the app Michael Rawlings server-side rendering shootouts with marko, preact, rax, react and vue Aymen El Amri benchmarking Amazon SNS & SQS for inter-process communication in a microservices architecture Mike Parsons scraping any website, service or API with a single SQL select statement Whatever you choose to develop, remember what its underlining purpose means to you. As preaches, The community will help you reverse engineer how it’s built, but only you can answer, why do you build what you build? Abdul Nimeri “How” ages faster than “Why.” “A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes,” — Architect Helmut John. Who am I to say what ladder to climb, how to get to that next rung, if it’s possible to reach the top of tech industry, or whether you can reverse engineer a better metaphor to say, tech-will-be-determined-by-you-because-I’m-literally-just-the-news-and-when-the-story-is-being-read-it-has-already-happened-so-you-better-build-me-something-to-write-about-or-there-will-be-no-more-tech-media-you-beautiful-beautiful-hacker. Until next time, . don’t take the realities of the world for granted Kind Regards, David Smooke . P.S. Over here at Hacker Noon , we’re looking for people and stories that will help make a better internet ( contribute today ), and that has made us “Alexa relevant” ( pictured below ), as in we’re barely friends with the popular girl who has 7,564 American friends. We want to popularize what makes the day to day of tech function, and the ideas that could change tomorrow At the end of today, we are (with leaders like Attila Vágó ) going to be a part of make coding a big part of popular culture .

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