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Redefining ‘founder-friendly’ capital in the post-FTX era

TechCrunch

Blair Silverberg. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Blair Silverberg is co-founder and CEO of Hum Capital , a financial services company using technology to accelerate the fundraising process. More posts by this contributor. The right questions to ask investors when fundraising in a down market. 8 steps for building a financial model to calculate your fundraising needs.

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JavaScript print Events

David Walsh

Media queries provide a great way to programmatically change behavior depending on viewing state. We can target styles to device, pixel ratio, screen size, and even print. That said, it’s also nice to have JavaScript events that also allow us to change behavior. Did you know you’re provided events both before and after printing? I’ve always used @media print in stylesheets to control print display, but JavaScript provides beforeprint and afterprint events: function toggleImages

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Daily Crunch: 2 weeks after extended system failure, Alibaba CEO takes over company’s cloud division

TechCrunch

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. We’re almost there, folks. It’s the last Thursday of 2022, and today we have some news for you out of Alibaba and Spotify, as well as some crypto news out of India. And as always, we give you some goodness from TC+, our premium membership program.

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Websocket beginner guide

InnovationM

What is WebSocket? WebSocket provides a way to exchange data between the browser and server via a persistent connection. The data can be passed in both directions as “packets”, without breaking the connection and the need for additional HTTP requests. Where can we use WebSocket? we use WebSocket where we need real-time data sharing i.e. online trading platforms, games, and social media platforms.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Dispatch from Bangalore, end of 2022 edition

TechCrunch

In 2014, Prayank Swaroop made a pitch to the storied venture firm Accel, where he worked as an associate, about future marketplaces in India. At the time, Flipkart and Snapdeal were the only two e-commerce startups in India that had shown a semblance of scale. Swaroop made a case that as more Indians come online, opportunities will emerge in food delivery, automotive aftermarket, warehousing, road freight, and social commerce among many other marketplace areas.

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Is Instacart a forerunner of bad news?

TechCrunch

As much as we like to end the year with some good news , what we are hearing from grocery delivery company Instacart is not exactly that. According to The Information , citing “two people familiar with the situation,” Instacart has cut its internal valuation to around $10 billion. That’s 20% lower than its October 2022 valuation — and a 75% cut compared to its March 2021 peak.

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When you or someone on your team gets sick, how do you approach the situation?

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Our reader poll today asks: When you or someone on your team gets sick, how do you approach the situation? Stay home, stop working and only focus on getting well 31.81%. Stay home but stay in touch on major deliverables 29.69%. Stay home and keep current on as much work as you can 30.03%. Power through and go to work for important tasks 3.88%. Power through, take medicine and get back to work 4.59%.

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Recall.ai helps companies make the most of virtual meeting data

TechCrunch

For organizations that do a good chunk of their work through virtual meetings, simply hitting record or taking notes isn’t enough to capture everything that’s said. Some build their own meeting integrations to capture data, but that’s time-intensive and costly. Recall.ai helps with a unified API that currently works with Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Team, and can be used to build apps that (among other use cases) automatically fill out CRMs or prompt customer reps during support calls.

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Detect Browser Bars Visibility with JavaScript

David Walsh

It’s one thing to know about what’s in the browser document, it’s another to have insight as to the user’s browser itself. We’ve gotten past detecting which browser the user is using, and we’re now into knowing what pieces of the browser UI users are seeing. Browsers provide window.personalbar , window.locationbar , and window.menubar properties, with the shape of { visible : /*boolean*/} as its value: if(window.personalbar.visible || window.locationbar.visibl

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Top 5 Challenges in Designing a Data Warehouse for Multi-Tenant Analytics

Multi-tenant architecture allows software vendors to realize tremendous efficiencies by maintaining a single application stack instead of separate database instances while meeting data privacy needs. When you use a data warehouse to power your multi-tenant analytics, the proper approach is vital. Multi-tenant analytics is NOT the primary use case with traditional data warehouses, causing data security challenges.

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Was 2022 the Year of Resilience?

Harvard Business Review

HBR readers reflect on what they’ve learned over the past year — and what they’re expecting in the next one.

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Learning From the Past — Ten 2022 Cybersecurity Events to Know

Palo Alto Networks

While it might seem counterintuitive to revisit last week’s newspaper for valuable information, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Stepping back to recollect the security events from the recent past is particularly important, as the risk of repeating past mistakes is particularly high. Last year’s most popular posts on the Unit 42 Threat Research blog let us examine what the events of 2022 can tell us about the year to come.

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Michigan Culture Committee’s year end round up!

Perficient

This has been an eventful year at Perficient’s Michigan office and for the Culture Committee. With more colleagues returning to the office when pandemic restrictions were lifted, the culture committee team went into action mode to make sure we had events lined up for all to participate in. Whether it was the in-office and virtual Lunch & Learns or pancake breakfasts or the after-hours board games sessions or some new experiments outside the office like leasing a plot for gardening or t

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3 Trends for AI in Retail & CPG for 2023

Dataiku

The past three years haven’t exactly been smooth-sailing for the global supply chain. In many ways, it still feels like we’re grasping for the new normal. Nevertheless, enterprises across the Retail and CPG industry are looking ahead and planning for the future in novel ways. With that in mind, in this blog we’ll take a look at three trends in Retail and CPG to keep your eye on for the coming year.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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Project Loom And Kotlin: Some Experiments

Apiumhub

A Primer. The publishing of Java 19 in September of this year heralded the first public release of the much-awaited Project Loom into the JVM (Java Virtual Machine) ecosystem. A brief description for those who are unaware: Project Loom is an endeavor year in the making by the developers of the Java programming language with the goal of enabling the use of virtual threads within Java code.

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Get Your AEM Content Ready for Launch

Perficient

The Adobe Experience Manager ‘Launches’ feature presents a simple way to make new content changes and manage existing content until you are ready to replace it. Adobe describes Launches this way: “A launch is created to allow you to make changes ready for future publication (while maintaining your current pages). After editing and updating your launch pages you promote them back to the source, then activate the source pages.”.

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Strategic Leadership for 2023

CEO Insider

2023 has almost arrived, and the rolling evidence of a recession arrived with it. Economic downturn demands resilience from business leaders. They are on a critical mission to survive the recession and thrive afterward. Recession brings diverse terms to diverse groups of businesses. There is a group of businesses that thrive in a recession, such as […].

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Error'd: For Auld Lang Syne

The Daily WTF

Instead of replaying a "best of" moment from 2022 for this final column of the year, I thought I'd dig through the barrel of submissions this week and see what the readers have to offer. Turns out, we got TWO winning entries from someone who appears to be a brand-new poster. Joel Jakubovic sent in his vacation snapshots and it looks like. this might also be his last submission ever.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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CVE-2022-47939: Critical RCE Vulnerability in Linux Kernel

Tenable

CVE-2022-47939: Critical RCE Vulnerability in Linux Kernel A critical remote code execution vulnerability in the Linux kernel has been publicly disclosed by Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative in its ZDI-22-1690 advisory. The vulnerability has been given a CVSSv3 of 10.0. There are no reports of active exploitation. Background. On December 22, Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) released an advisory detailing a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in the Linux kernel.

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CEP by Praxent

Praxent

A financial services nonprofit goes from “We need an app,” to building trust, improving user adoption, and growing partnerships with a full UX/UI refresh and development-ready mobile app and web portal designs. Background. “We were very early—long before our time—to adopt having a web portal for our customers. We missed ‘cep.com’ by six months, but we were right on the cutting edge, technologically, in the 90s.

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Operating Smarter with Slack and Salesforce Webinar Series Recap

Robots and Pencils

Operating Smarter with Salesforce + Slack is a 3-part webinar series hosted by our Salesforce Practice Lead Daniel Peter , a 7x Salesforce MVP with 30+ certifications! In this blog, we share what you can expect from each episode. By watching, you can get ideas for how to best combine these systems to accelerate organizational efficiency, productivity, and growth.

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Decision Making in Leadership: Successful Strategies for Extreme Leaders

Steve Farber

From the minute we wake up every morning to when our head hits the pillow each night, we are constantly faced with decisions. They may be as simple as deciding what to eat or which. Read more. The post Decision Making in Leadership: Successful Strategies for Extreme Leaders first appeared on Steve Farber.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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The Programmer's Paradox

Recently, I started queuing up posts for Thursdays at 9pm. Not really sure why, just seems like a good time to publish. I figured there would be near zero readership over the holidays, people have much better things to do. So, initially, I was going to skip today, but I guess I’ll just ramble a little bit about the future anyways. We’re at a strange juxtaposition in our history, where our overall trajectory doesn’t look great, but there are still a few things “in the wind” that could be epic gam

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How to Keep Your Team from Melting Down During the Holiday Season

Women on Business

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How to Start a Heavy-Duty Parts Business in 5 Simple Steps

Strategy Driven

If you know about the manufacturing and the sale of heavy-duty parts, and you have an entrepreneurial spirit, you might want to start selling them. Starting your own business may appeal to you, and if you have the aptitude for it, there’s no reason not to pursue this endeavor. You might sell international truck parts or other heavy-duty parts for which there is a market.

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Looking Back, Looking Forward!

QAspire

My mantra for 2022 was “ Go with the flow ” and the journey in 2022 took me to some very interesting places. By nature, going with the flow means there will be interesting twists, turns and hurdles that we need to find our way through, much like the stream of water that alters it course as it flows. I started as a solopreneur in year 2021 – something that I always wanted to do.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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5 Reasons Using A PR Firm For Your Business Should Be On Your List In 2023

Strategy Driven

Being a “software as a service” provider company, you must invest in marketing for your product as much as your competitors do. Every company regardless of what size it is and whether it belongs to the FMCG sector, electronic appliances, automobile, or any service sector, is going to need some sort of promotional function on its side. Public Relations is a good option.

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Complete Digital Transformation – One Step Towards a Brighter Future

Datavail

A global telecom company helps people across the globe connect with cutting-edge equipment that facilitates voice, chat, data, and internet connections. With more than 2,000 employees across 28 countries, the organization is a critical resource for service providers, private enterprises, government organizations, and millions of individual users worldwide.