TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2020

In 2018, Leslie Feinzaig , the founder of Female Founders Alliance , launched a free, equity-free accelerator for women called Ready, Set, Raise. The goal was to provide under-networked female founders the coaching and connections needed to raise money. This year, as funding for female founders drops to 2017 levels , Feinzaig realized why accelerators, hers included, might not work for women as well as they work for men: demo day.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 19, 2020

“Yeah, I don’t do small talk.” “My team understands, I’m cool with THEIR chit chat in-between meetings, but I don’t really have time for that stuff. I’m all business. That’s why I’m so productive.” “I get that small talk is important, but […]. The post How to Get Better at Remote Small Talk appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2020

A startup that is aiming to digitize millions of neighborhood stores in Bangladesh just raised the country’s largest Series A financing round. Dhaka-headquartered ShopUp said on Tuesday it has raised $22.5 million in a round co-led by Sequoia Capital India and Flourish Ventures. For both the venture firms, this is the first time they are backing a Bangladeshi startup.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 19, 2020

The love affair with deep learning runs deep. After all, deep learning is responsible for much of the advancements in machine learning we’ve realized in the past decade. But are […].

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Propseller , a Singapore-based real estate agency that combines a tech platform with in-house agents to close transactions more quickly, announced today it has raised $1.2 million in seed funding. The round included investment from Iterative; Hustle Fund; XA Network; Rapzo Capital; Lazada co-founder Stein Jakabo; and Dot Property founder Ben Neve. Propseller also said “three undisclosed highly strategic investors” and returning private investors participated.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Remember back in March when the VC game was done for the year, checkbooks were snapping shut and startup layoffs led the headlines? So much for all that. Q3’s venture capital numbers are in and they are anything but weak. In retrospect, the Q2 VC slowdown looks more like a short-lived recharge ahead of a big push in Q3 than anything existential.

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DevOps.com

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Black Girls CODE awarded IBM Open Source Community Grant By Todd Moore, Guillermo Miranda, Yolanda Rabun Published October 19, 2020 In today’s climate, racial equality and equity is top of mind. The tech industry has a renewed focus on giving girls in underrepresented communities access and exposure to STEM, particularly in the pre-teen and teen years […].

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2020

UK-based Pimloc has closed a £1.4 million (~$1.8M) seed funding round led by Amadeus Capital Partners. Existing investor Speedinvest and other unnamed shareholders also participated in the round. The 2016-founded computer vision startup launched a AI -powered photo classifier service called Pholio in 2017 — pitching the service as a way for smartphone users to reclaim agency over their digital memories without having to hand their data over to cloud giants like Google.

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Tandem

OCTOBER 19, 2020

We’re excited to announce that we will be accepting applications for our next cohort of software engineer apprentices starting Monday, October 26 ! Tandem’s Apprenticeship Program for software engineers is geared towards individuals who have no prior professional experience as a programmer, but may have gone through a code school, completed a degree program, or self-taught themselves the fundamentals.

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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Today Juniper Networks announced it was acquiring smart wide area networking startup 128 Technology for $450 million. This marks the second AI-fueled networking company Juniper has acquired in the last year and a half after purchasing Mist Systems in March 2019 for $405 million. With 128 Technology, the company gets more AI SD-WAN technology. SD-WAN is short for software-defined wide area networks, which means networks that cover a wide geographical area such as satellite offices, rather than a

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DevOps.com

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Make plans to take part in the low-code/no-code conversation at an upcoming daylong virtual conference MediaOps, the company behind DevOps.com, is excited to announce it will be producing Low Code Today, a new live virtual event taking place Nov. 19. The call for speakers is now open and actively accepting submissions. The low-code/no-code market has […].

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Nathan Magnuson

OCTOBER 19, 2020

No one has gone untouched in 2020. But it hasn’t just been the COVID-19 pandemic that has impacted each person, it’s the repercussions. Work instability, financial hardship, rapid pace of change, family lifestyle adjustments, isolation and loneliness. The stress, anxiety and pressure have reached new levels for many individuals. One Johns Hopkins study noted that one in four individuals will suffer a mental health disorder in any given year… and that was before 2020.

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DevOps.com

OCTOBER 19, 2020

A global survey of 1,652 published today by Eclipse Foundation suggests a flood is lifting all platform boats as IT organizations begin to build and deploy a wide range of edge computing applications. The survey finds artificial intelligence (30%) is the workload organizations plan to deploy on edge computing platforms, followed closely by control logic […].

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TechBeacon

OCTOBER 19, 2020

The large-scale switch to remote work triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic has added to the multiple challenges that security operations teams are facing to protect the enterprise against modern cyber threats, finds a new survey conducted by the CyberEdge Group.

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DevOps.com

OCTOBER 19, 2020

All startups face unique sets of challenges and issues at each stage of their existence. The DFINITY Foundation, a Swiss-based not-for-profit with the remit to extend the functionality of the internet, is no exception. Like any new organization, we have had to evolve and adapt our DevOps and other practices in response to different obstacles. […].

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CEO Insider

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Let’s say today is the big day and you are not feeling it. You’ve got that morale building speech to give at your company’s all-hands meeting, you’re coming in to close a deal with a client, or it’s just a regular day, packed full of Zoom meetings while you work from home for the eighth […]. License and Republishing: The views expressed in this article How to Project Confidence and Energy on Zoom – Even if You Aren’t Feeling it on the Inside are those of the author Eileen Smith

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DevOps.com

OCTOBER 19, 2020

In any economic climate, every business deploying custom apps needs to assess their APM needs to protect their business There are numerous use cases for custom-made apps, but only one reason they’re deployed: Something off-the-shelf just won’t cut it. When we launch a new kind of digital business, or if operations are far too complex […]. The post APM: Helping Overcome Custom App Management Woes appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Openxcell

OCTOBER 19, 2020

An app like TikTok has taken the world by storm, and as we can, there were no signs to look back. . In social media apps and entertainment apps, the best app like TikTok has grown globally and has become one of the popular entertainment options for teens and adults. It is worth more than the US $75 billion and unbelievably, with more than one billion downloads worldwide in 75 dialects.

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Gitprime

OCTOBER 19, 2020

By giving employees a path to measurably grow in their careers, certifications provide a reliable path to more responsibility and higher pay. PCMag recently reported on the highest paying IT certifications; here are seven curated lists of courses specifically designed to help you confidently prepare for and pass each exam.

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OverOps

OCTOBER 19, 2020

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Dell EMC

OCTOBER 19, 2020

A “cloud-like” approach for managing data and applications could be the best option for IT administrators looking for a safe and flexible solution to fit their needs.

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Netflix Tech

OCTOBER 19, 2020

by Maulik Pandey Our Team?—? Kevin Lew , Narayanan Arunachalam , Elizabeth Carretto , Dustin Haffner , Andrei Ushakov, Seth Katz , Greg Burrell , Ram Vaithilingam , Mike Smith and Maulik Pandey “ @Netflixhelps Why doesn’t Tiger King play on my phone?”?—?a Netflix member via Twitter This is an example of a question our on-call engineers need to answer to help resolve a member issue?

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Dzone - DevOps

OCTOBER 19, 2020

The DevOps approach has increased in popularity among software teams to move ahead in a competitive market and efficiently deliver innovative products. If you’ve already read The Phoenix Project , you have some idea of how the transition from Ops to DevOps looks like, in this case, when an American tech company decides to do it. Today, many companies decide to go down this road.

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TechBeacon

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Mark Martin, co-founder of UKBlackTech, is not afraid to call the tech industry out and say where he thinks it should be doing better.

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The Daily WTF

OCTOBER 19, 2020

The C# "extension method" feature lets you implement static methods which "magically" act like they're instance methods. It's a neat feature which the.NET Framework uses extensively. It's also a great way to implement some convenience functions. Brandt found some "convenience" functions which were exploiting this feature. public static bool IsLessThen ( this T a, T b) where T : IComparable.

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Dzone - DevOps

OCTOBER 19, 2020

With the current advancement in the tech and space, it is becoming daunting for companies to maintain both the quality and the efficiency of mobile app development. This is the reason that testing and QA automation testing services have always been one of the most critical activities which get forgotten because of the limitations pertaining to both technology and cost.

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Dell EMC

OCTOBER 19, 2020

We knew coming into 2020 that it would be a banner year for SD-WAN as the technology continued to mature …

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David Walsh

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Every once in a while I get to a website that doesn’t allow me to paste into a form input. In most cases it’s something to do with login credentials (username and or password) and auth codes. So how are they preventing me from pasting information? It’s as easy as you’d think! Let’s start with the input element: <input type="text" onpaste="return false;" ondrop="return false;" autocomplete="off" /> The onpaste attribute lets us prevent pasting into the form.

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