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Daily Crunch: After glitch causes a two-hour global outage, WhatsApp restores service

TechCrunch

Overheard at a VC/startup conference recently: Product market fit is like a product going around from weirdly shaped customer group to weirdly shaped customer group, like that old kid’s book “ Are you my mommy? 8 questions to answer before your startup faces technical due diligence. Big Tech Inc.

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ChatGPT goes pro, layoffs at Alphabet, and Dungeons & Dragons flirts with restrictive new licensing

TechCrunch

Welcome, welcome, folks, to Week in Review, TechCrunch’s regular column that recaps the last week in news. With tickets starting at $99, it’ll be a worthwhile stop along the Eastern conference circuit, packed with expert-led workshops, case studies and deep dives with technical founders.

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ST Engineering showcases applications of new technologies to stay ahead of disruption

CIO

The advent of new technologies has accelerated the rate of innovation and disrupted the business landscape as we know it. As the pace of innovation speeds up, tomorrow’s front runners are those who readily embrace disruptive technologies to spearhead new business models and capture new avenues of growth.

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Effective Software Testing – A Developer’s Guide

Henrik Warne

The author is an Assistant Professor in Software Engineering at the Delft University of Technology. I have used randomly generated tests to very good effect before, but always on complete systems (like generating random calls between phones), never as property based tests. Not all situations benefit from TDD. Naming tests.

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For founders who want to launch apps, ‘being non-technical is not a limitation’

TechCrunch

Our clients are often very focused on the hardware side, which requires us to be more diligent when working on the software/firmware side of the project to ensure everything will work together smoothly. What percentage of your clients are non-technical people who have an idea, but no coding experience?

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HackerEarth introduces Full-stack Assessments at Hire10(1) Conference

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

HackerEarth’s CEO, Sachin Gupta, made the announcement today at Hire10(1) , HackerEarth’s flagship virtual conference to help recruiters and engineering leaders hire top developers and build great tech teams. Customizability : Recruiters can customize the development environment and the task based on their specific technology stack.

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‘High conviction, low volume’: Playfair launches $70M pre-seed fund for European startups

TechCrunch

‘High conviction, low volume’ Playfair, for its part, seeks out founders “outside of dominant tech hubs,” as well as founders working on projects that may run more tangential to where the main hype and “buzzy-ness” exists. ” A large chunk of early-stage deals fall apart in the due diligence phase. .