Written by Author: Randy Schueller Published: January 18, 2018 We don’t have a transcript for today’s show yet but please enjoy the audio. Listen to the end of show when Perry and I announce that this will be our final podcast for the foreseeable future. Thanks for stopping by! Source link
Cryptography is becoming more important in our every day lives and there’s no way around it. Whether it’s the calls from governments to ban encryption, come up with “responsible encryption”, or to violate norms and laws, cryptography is playing a role in shaping our society. I’d like to approach the role of cryptography from the […]
Cryptocurrency is all the rage these days. From Bitcoin to Ethereum to Ripple, to some silly sounding thing someone will come up with tomorrow, it’s something people want to know about. At the risk of sounding like a super noob, what’s a good introduction to crypto? From the basics through understanding current landscape — Benny […]
I didn’t choose to be a programmer. Somehow, it seemed, the computers chose me. For a long time, that was fine, that was enough; that was all I needed. But along the way I never felt that being a programmer was this unambiguously great-for-everyone career field with zero downsides. There are absolutely occupational hazards of […]
As I was on hour six of debugging how to read an object from the database, my brain suddenly noticed the slight difference in two lines of code. The compiler error had been off, too vague to help me realize that I was never hinting the correct type to the function. Generics had struck again. […]
Two meta-skills that help a programmer grow more than just practicing their coding. Thinking about thinking, and focusing on focusing. — Joe Fabisevich 🐶🐳™ (@mergesort) July 26, 2017 How To Think About Thinking and Focus on Focus Don’t focus on finding the perfect to-do list app. Once found, you still have to light the spark […]
This is a blog post by Jasdev Singh, originally published on jasdev.me. I’m re-posting here since it’s directly tied to me taking over his project, Public Extension. Firing off the first tweet for @PublicExtension on October 9th, 2015 was a rush. I was on the tail end of my batch at the Recurse Center, after […]
Andrew: Hey, everyone, my name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder Mixergy where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses, and I’m struggling with something. This interview is not like usual interviews that I do. Usually, you guys know, I interview entrepreneurs about the step by step, where they got their ideas, […]
Every day at a startup is an exercise in getting to tomorrow. Some days it’s easier, some days it’s harder, but if you don’t make it until tomorrow, there won’t be a next week, month, or year. This is why building a long-term foundation is incredibly important. If you keep making it to tomorrow without […]
Do you know what’s common between the blinking cursor, hyperlinks and text highlighting in TextViews? They’re all implemented using spans. Spans are tiny objects that Android uses heavily across the framework. If you’ve worked with text styling such as bold or italics, then you’re already familiar with the basic usages of spans. But they are […]