Friday, March 30, 2018

Daily bread 03/30/2018

  • SoftBank Group and Saudi Arabia plan to spend $200 billion building the world’s biggest solar power plant | TechCrunch

    • SoftBank Group and Saudi Arabia plan to spend $200 billion building the world’s biggest solar power plant

    • known for splashy deals involving billions of dollars
    • to reach its full capacity
    • the largest of its kind in the world by far
    • to diversify its economy beyond oil
    • awarded ACWA Power a $302 million deal
    • extremely ambitious

  • Quiz: Are you an extrovert, introvert or ambivert? |

    • hunch
    • hunch
      • a guess, suspicion or feeling
    • take this quiz
      • *Notice the verb 'take' we use with a Quiz
    • figure out
      • discover, determine; solve
    • double-check
      • An extra check or verification made a second time, usually with additional caution or attention.

  • The world vs. Ivan Duque

    • of Colombia’s peace process is in the defense after a series of gaffes

  • The bright future of software development | App Developer Magazine

    • The bright future of software development
    • has become a bit of a staple
    • “Why Software Is Eating The World”
    • points out that
    • In a nutshell
    • infiltrating businesses all across the globe
    • it will continue to disrupt and evolve industries
    • having moved to a “mobile only” development model.
    • in the world’s emerging markets.
    • in contrast to India where 79 percent (no, that’s not a typo!) of web access is by mobile phone
    • What is driving the growth of software development?
    • three key developments:
    • It is everywhere
    • performs some meaningful function
    • ushering in a new era
    • It is easier to write.
    • It is easier to use.
    • What overall impact is software having on industry?
    • reach this milestone
    • digital disruption
    • a key driver
    • running much more lean and agile
    • their 20th century counterparts.
    • What do companies need to do in order to keep pace in a software-centric world?
    • software becoming the new oil.
    • a slew of new challenges
    • Hiring
    • a mad dash to create software
    • Quality
    • the bar has been raised
    • in terms of quality
    • A key aspect of ensuring
    • can lead to customer abandonment
    • What are some of the key technology initiatives in place by the highest performing organizations?
    • CI/CD processes which are speeding up the software delivery cycle even more.
    • the holy grail
    • real time test scenario
    • What are the challenges of keeping pace (hint: writing quality code quick enough to keep up with end user demands)?
    • need to be nimble
    • The need for flexibility:
    • a “free for all”
    • The need for coverage:
    • fragmented ecosystems
    • the dizzying combination of
    • against all of these scenarios
    • would be best served by relying on
    • can be a real nightmare

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Thursday, March 29, 2018

Daily bread 03/29/2018

  • What Is Phubbing And How Does It Threaten Basic Human Needs?

    • What Is Phubbing And How Does It Threaten Basic Human Needs?
    • being ignored by someone
    • often cited
    • a well-known trend
    • Phone snubbing, otherwise known as 'phubbing'
    • smartphone prevalence
    • negatively impacting relationships
    • The research was conducted by
    • were mirrored
    • the modern phenomenon
    • people succumb to
    • narrowed down the main reasons
    • internet addiction
    • the fear of missing out
    • a lack of self-control.

  • Why Are Some People Left-Handed?

    • Why Are Some People Left-Handed?
    • make up approximately 10% of the
    • responsible for determining
    • may come as a surprise
    • handedness
    • the eighth week of pregnancy.
    • The sucking of the left or right thumb
    • the nervous system
    • the spinal cord
    • motor cortex of our brain
    • fetal development in the womb
    • nerve fibers
    • genetic and environmental factors
    • sinister
    • looms in certain parts of the world
    • harsh
    • stigma

  • When Drinking Alcohol Becomes A Binge And The Problems It Causes

    • When Drinking Alcohol Becomes A Binge And The Problems It Causes
    • poor-decision making
    • long-term chronic health problems
    • binge drinking
    • greatly increasing their chances of
    • significantly consumed more
    • typically associated with
    • the practice in itself does not
    • it can become a gateway to
    • characterized by
    • impaired control over
    • the practice is underestimated in its severity
    • and so on
    • episodic heavy or binge drinking

  • Minimizing Health Risks In Flights: Taking The Window Seat And Other Tips

    • Minimizing Health Risks In Flights: Taking The Window Seat And Other Tips
    • numerous hazards and risks
    • gradually impact
    •  instantly noticeable
    • to come into contact with
    • filth
    • Keeping in mind
    • twirling your ankles
    • flexing your legs
    • stretching your arms
    • thickening
    • clumping together
    • drinking enough fluids
    • body clock
    • jet lag
    • insomnia
    • nausea
    • indigestion
    • taking midday naps

  • Beyond IELTS: The International Student’s Guide to Life in Canada ~ IELTS Exams Tips Philippines | IELTS Review Strategies

    tags: ielts

  • Napping May Improve Learning, Memory

    • Also, many people may not want to admit that they take a nap. They may think that napping shows they are weak or lack energy. That only children, the very old, sick or lazy people nap is not an uncommon opinio
    • In fact, we Americans sometimes do a very strange thing. Some brag about how few hours of sleep they need each night.

  • Marriage Miles: How a new Colombian app is hoping to spice up your relationship - The Bogotá Post

    • to spice up
    • to meet your match.
    • brand new
    • posing the question
    • niche
    • reinvigorate
    • loved-up
    • brownie-points
    • quality time
    • redeem the ‘matripuntos
    • your significant other
    • the kinks are worked out

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Saturday, March 24, 2018

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Friday, March 23, 2018

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Thursday, March 22, 2018

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Wednesday, March 21, 2018

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Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Daily bread 03/20/2018

  • A 'Black Mirror' Episode Is Now Real Life in China

    • a glimpse into
    • has been steadily expanding
    • publicly called for
    • Doing volunteer work
    • donating blood
    • boost one’s
    • recycling
    • incurring debt
    • render you blacklisted
    • eerily similar to
    • is ejected from
    • secure a seat on a

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Sunday, March 18, 2018

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Saturday, March 17, 2018

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Friday, March 16, 2018

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Wednesday, March 14, 2018

Daily bread 03/14/2018

  • Warren Buffett’s “2 List” Strategy: How to Maximize Your Focus and Master Your Priorities - James Clear - Pocket

    • Warren Buffett’s “2 List” Strategy: How to Maximize Your Focus and Master Your Priorities
    • simple 3-step productivity strategy
    • write down his top 25 career goals.
    • STEP 1:
    • circle his top 5 goals.
    • STEP 2:
    • STEP 3:
    • No matter what, these things get no attention from you until you’ve succeeded with your top 5
    • The Power of Elimination
    • Force yourself to focus. Complete a task or kill it.

  • Developers love trendy new languages, but earn more with functional programming | Ars Technica

    • Developers love trendy new languages, but earn more with functional programming
    • about the programmer community
    • annual survey
    • Stack Overflow
    • JavaScript remains the most widely used programming language
    • HTML (#2 in the ranking), CSS (#3), and PHP (#9).
    • SQL at #4, Java at #5, and C# at #8.
    • Shell scripting made a surprising showing at #6
    • Python appeared at #7
    • C++ rounded out the top 10.
    • most-loved list; Python (#3), JavaScript (#7), and C# (#8)
    • topped by Rust
    • Kotlin
    • TypeScript,
    • Go language c
    • F# and OCaml are the top average earners
    • in the US, Erlang, Scala, and OCaml
    • Visual Basic 6, Cobol, and CoffeeScript were the top three most-dreaded
    • 20 percent of devs were worried about AI taking jobs (
    • 28 percent were concerned by AI intelligence surpassing human intelligence

  • The 1 Percent Rule: Why a Few People Get Most of the Rewards | James Clear

    • Vilfredo Pareto
    • fussing about
    • The Pareto Principle
    • the 80/20 Rule

    • The Power of Accumulative Advantage

       

    • Winner-Take-All Effects

       

    • Winner-Take-Most

    • The 1 Percent Rule

       

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Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Daily bread 03/13/2018

  • How Much Money Do You Need To Be Happy? More Than Most People Are Maki

    • How Much Money Do You Need To Be Happy?
    • day-to-day
    • emotional well-being.
    • decreasing returns
    • only partly right.
    • researchers calculated that $95,000 is an optimum salary for achieving fulfillment
    • as opposed to
    • Keep in mind that
    • accruing money
    • vastly above
    • a long way off.
    • correlated with
    • stack up against
    • trivial

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Monday, March 12, 2018

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Sunday, March 11, 2018

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Saturday, March 10, 2018

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Friday, March 9, 2018

Daily bread 03/09/2018

  • Coca-Cola Will Launch Its First Alcoholic Drink To Compete In Japan : The Two-Way : NPR

    • Coca-Cola Will Launch Its First Alcoholic Drink To Compete In Japan
    • tapping into a growing trend
    • mildly intoxicating
    • a specific slice of our market."
    • It makes sense to
    • trial-and-error

  • AI Has a Dirty Little Secret: It's Powered by People

    • powered by an army of real people
    • makeup artists in Venezuela to women in conservative parts of India
    • drawing boxes around cars in street photos, tagging images, and transcribing snatches of speech
    • data feeds directly into "machine learning" algorithms
    • offer a decent wage
    • pay pennies
    • underpins
    • investors have poured tens of millions of dollars into
    • in the loo
    • runaway inflation
    • pretty decent
    • roughly half
    • call is rerouted to
    • freeing up
    • misheard
    • it will be five to 10 years before computer algorithms can learn to perform without the need for human labeling

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Thursday, March 8, 2018

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Wednesday, March 7, 2018

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Tuesday, March 6, 2018

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Monday, March 5, 2018

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Sunday, March 4, 2018

Daily bread 03/04/2018

  • TO VERB VS FOR VERB-ING : Sentence Correction (SC)

    • ‘TO VERB’ VS ‘FOR VERB-ING’

  • When to take the risk in software testing: A guide - Developer Tech

    • When to take the risk in software testing: A guide
    • In today’s faster, smarter, cheaper centric world, with the technologies, tools and experience that software companies have at their disposal, you might assume that businesses would be able to create and release software that is (almost) defect free.
    • Many organizations knowingly release products with defects and others time box testing and release with areas of functionality unproven.
    • need to get better at providing the decision makers with the correct information to allow them to take the call on “when to take the risk” of releasing or deploying a product.
    • Testing as a part of the risk mitigation business
    • In software development, the pre-emptive action required to avoid any risk is testing.
    • decision, to release prior to 100% of testing
    • risks involved with every software release.
    • key to success in the drive for cost effective, timely and appropriately tested software releases.
    • “when has enough testing been done?”
    • “when has enough risk been mitigated?”.
    • two types of risk we need to identify and profile
    • traditional or natural risks, and product risks.

      • traditional risk logs:

         
           
        • The test environment will be commandeered for a production fix
          •  
        • Development will over run impacting test start date
          •  
        • Higher than estimated defect density will occur impacting test end date
          •  
        • Key test resources will become unavailable
    • product risks
      • The new single sign on portal will allow access to users incorrectly
        •  
      • The link to the 3rd party payments collection site fails
        •  
      • When switching to “Super Intergalactic Turbo Mode” the game fails to render on iPad
        •  
      • The shade of blue displayed in the game sky is not consistent across browsers
        •  
      • The wrong regional headers and footers are applied to letters and statements
    • This approach should not be seen as “do less testing” but, if rigorously applied, will allow risk-based decisions on when sufficient testing has been done, to be taken based on quantified, repeatable science.

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Saturday, March 3, 2018

Daily bread 03/03/2018

  • Binge-Watching TV Shows Might Put You At Risk Of Blood Clots

    • Binge-Watching TV Shows Might Put You At Risk Of Blood Clots
    • kicking back
    • binge-watching television shows
    • blood clots
    • may significantly rise
    • spend extended periods in front of the television
    • potentially leading to
    • took place over a period of
    • study, conducted by
    • the association between
    • To the best of our knowledge
    • the potential harms of
    • regularly engage in
    • prolonged sedentary behaviors
    • controlling body weight
    • In terms of limitations
    • the scope of the project
    • absolute accuracy
    • Unsurprisingly,
    • binge-watchers
    • a 70% higher chance of developing
    • The emergence of
    • people finish viewing multiple episodes (and sometimes, multiple seasons!) of a televison show in one sitting

  • 'Oxford English Dictionary' Adds New Entries Including 'Hangry' : NPR

    • 'Oxford English Dictionary' Adds New Entries Including 'Hangry'
    • Hangry
    • "bad tempered or irritable as a result of hunger."
    • when a man explains "needlessly, overbearingly or condescendingly."
    • mansplain

  • Google Teaching Machine Learning and AI For FREE - Techzim

    • Google Teaching Machine Learning and AI For FREE
    • Introductory course on Artificial Intelligence(AI) and Machine Learning(ML) for free on its new Learn With AI site.
    • a hub of information for AI and ML
    • from beginners to advanced researchers
    • requires a surface level understanding of algebra and some basic programming ability
    • 15 hours long
    • programmers who are interested in ML and AI
    • 15 hours of free knowledge

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Friday, March 2, 2018

Daily bread 03/02/2018

  • BBC Learning English - 6 Minute English / Hello, hello

    • It's usually the first word you say to people, but the word 'hello' has an unusual history. And just why are greetings so important? Join Rob and Catherine in 6 Minute English as they explore the world of greetings, and say 'hello' to some useful vocabulary!

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Thursday, March 1, 2018

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