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Discord is close to closing a round that would value the company at up to $7B

TechCrunch

Discord , the communications service that’s become the 21st century’s answer to MUD rooms, is close to closing a new round of financing that would value the company at up to $7 billion, according to sources with knowledge of the round. The new funding comes just months after a $100 million investment that gave the company a $3.5 billion valuation.

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An Event for Crazy Programmers Only

The Crazy Programmer

2020 has been an eventful year, but what if we tell you that events are not all the same? What if there was an event for developers with no dress code, no small talk, no limits – only genuine connections? What if there was no endless list of speakers with boring topics, but only the premium minds of the industry with the real tech knowledge and insights?

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Improve Your Agile Retrospectives by Learning From Science!

Agile Alliance

How well are Agile retrospectives serving you? We assume you follow the Agile retrospective agenda by starting with setting the stage, then gathering data, followed by generating insights before you decide on actions and close the retrospectives. We furthermore hope that at your next retrospective you look back to your earlier decisions in order to … Continued.

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How Leaders Can Find the Fun During the Slog

Let's Grow Leaders

Find the fun with authenticity, surprise, and variety Robert unmuted his microphone, leaned into the camera, and asked in a near-whisper: “How can we find the fun again?” We were facilitating at the Inc 5000 Vision Conference, helping leaders navigate the challenges […]. The post How Leaders Can Find the Fun During the Slog appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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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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Slack’s stock climbs on possible Salesforce acquisition

TechCrunch

News that Salesforce is interested in buying Slack , the popular workplace chat company, sent shares of the smaller firm sharply higher today. Slack shares are up just under 25% at the moment, according to Yahoo Finance data. Slack is worth $36.95 per share as of the time of writing, valuing it at around $20.8 billion. The well-known former unicorn has been worth as little as $15.10 per share inside the last year and worth as much as $40.07.

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Mathematical Modelling of Football

Henrik Warne

This fall I took the course Mathematical Modelling of Football from Uppsala University. It was taught by Professor David Sumpter , and I believe this is the first academic course of its kind. The main subjects covered are modelling and analysis of events (on the ball actions), movement and pitch control (tracking data), player evaluation, and match result simulations.

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On Being Grateful: An Asking For a Friend Interview with Dan Rockwell

Let's Grow Leaders

We’re excited to share this special Thanksgiving edition of Asking For a Friend. Karin interviews Dan Rockwell, Leadership Freak, about how to be grateful– even during difficult times. In this episode, we unpack some of Dan’s recent and inspirational writing on gratitude, […]. The post On Being Grateful: An Asking For a Friend Interview with Dan Rockwell appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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How the pandemic drove the IPO wave we see today

TechCrunch

This is The TechCrunch Exchange, a newsletter that goes out on Saturdays, based on the column of the same name. You can sign up for the email here. I had a neat look into the world of mental health startup fundraising planned for this week, but after being slow-motion carpet-bombed by S-1s, that is now shoved off to Monday and we have to pause and talk about COVID-19.

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VMware Fixes Critical Flaw in ESXi Hypervisor

CTOvision

[link] critical and important-severity flaws were found by a team at the China-based Tiunfu Cup hacking challenge. VMware has hurried out fixes for a critical flaw in its ESXi hypervisor, […].

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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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Organisational structures to create autonomy: what I’ve learned from my daughter

Xebia

I’m grateful to learn from my daughter. Be able to see how the brain develops and picks up new concepts, skills and words. Nowadays, I enjoy to sit down and watch her play. As a parent, I also need to help her to achieve her autonomy: emotionally, mentally and physically. It is the job, and […]. The post Organisational structures to create autonomy: what I’ve learned from my daughter appeared first on Xebia Blog.

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This Is Recruiting: Zoho’s Out-Of-The-Box Recruiting Strategies

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

What’s common to teaching Greco-Roman literature to a bunch of Ph.D. students and heading HR at a global corporation? The answer: a sustained interest in the individual. While HRs are known for protecting the interest of the companies they work for, Christian Blood , who heads People Ops at Zoho’s offices in North America, believes that it is also an effective mechanism for advocacy for individual employees.

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Affirm, Airbnb, C3.ai, Roblox, Wish file for tech IPO finale of 2020

TechCrunch

Editor’s note: Get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use by email every Saturday morning (7 a.m. PT). Subscribe here. The wait was long but this week the time was right: Airbnb finally filed its S-1 and so did Affirm, C3.ai, Roblox, and Wish. We are likely to see these five price on public markets before the end of an already superlative year for tech IPOs.

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MemSQL Re-Brands to SingleStore to Reflect New Product Vision

CTOvision

MemSQL is re-branding to SingleStore, according to a press release on the company’s website. Though MemSQL is a well-recognized name among data architects and performance engineers, the company’s flagship data […].

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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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Use a Submit Button Outside of a Form!

David Walsh

Have you ever felt like you’ve been a professional developer or designer forever, and somehow not known something basic, and borderline hate yourself? That’s me with a trick that was introduced to me by Miguel Piedrafita: You can submit forms from a button outside of the form tag by using the form attribute pic.twitter.com/72pjoWu5Ll — Miguel Piedrafita (@m1guelpf) November 22, 2020.

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HackerEarth Sees Significant Surge In Remote Assessments And Interviews For Tech Roles In Q3 2020

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

The platform has experienced a 250% YoY increase in remote assessments, and a 4,000% YoY increase in remote interviews conducted on its platform FaceCode. November 23, 2020: HackerEarth, a leading developer assessment and tech interview solutions provider, today reported a significant surge in the number of remote assessments and remote interviews conducted across its platforms during Q3.

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There’s no ‘hacker house’ geared toward undergraduate women, so they created one of their own

TechCrunch

Hacker houses are making a comeback for entrepreneurs as remote work drags on. While founders are adapting to quarantine in style, a group of college women in their 20s aren’t waiting until they are done with undergraduate to plunge into the lifestyle themselves. Started by college juniors Coco Sack and Kendall Titus , Womxn Ignite is a house for female and non-binary college undergraduates studying computer science.

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Boston Dynamics’ robo-dog gets Israeli Percepto’s drone capabilities

CTOvision

Israeli autonomous drone startup Percepto announced on Tuesday the completion of a $45 million series B funding round. The company also revealed that it is expanding its activity into additional […].

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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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Detect Generator Functions with JavaScript

David Walsh

In the current JavaScript climate of new syntaxes, features, and using loads of external libraries, it seems harder than ever to be sure what your functions are being given or even what the data represents. Of course, we’ve come up with Flow and TypeScript to help, but we can’t count on those always being available. That’s why I like doing my own detection with JavaScript, especially when it comes to function types.

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Article: Kick-off Your Transformation by Imagining It Had Failed

InfoQ Culture Methods

Large scale change initiatives have a worryingly high failure rate. A chief reason for which is that serious risks are not identified early. One way to create the safety needed for everyone to speak openly about the risks they see is by running a pre-mortem. In a pre-mortem, we assume that the transformation had already failed and walk backward from there to investigate what led to the failure.

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YC-backed Cashfree raises $35.3 million for its payments platform

TechCrunch

Cashfree, an Indian startup that offers a wide-range of payments services to businesses, has raised $35.3 million in a new financing round as the profitable firm looks to broaden its offering. The Bangalore-based startup’s Series B was led by London-headquartered private equity firm Apis Partners (which invested through its Growth Fund II), with participation from existing investors Y Combinator and Smilegate Investments.

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Windward partners with four shipping firms on AI-powered predictive intelligence

CTOvision

Windward, the Predictive Intelligence company applying AI to transform global maritime trade, has partnered with a number of organizations in the maritime field including four major shipping companies – Norden, […].

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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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The Future of Application Development

DevOps.com

What lies ahead for application development? Can we look forward to a less hierarchical system? The current state of application development has an often overlooked problem: It’s inaccessible. Top tier companies such as Google, Microsoft, Apple and Facebook are at a major advantage. With their large capital, they can invest in innovative development tools and […].

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Saying Thank You to Your Employees

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Dr. Cindy McGovern offers five meaningful ways employers can say “thank you” to their staffs during the holidays and throughout the year. Today’s post is by Dr. Cindy McGovern, author of Every Job is a Sales Job (CLICK HERE to get your copy). A holiday party for employees is a nice touch as the year winds down, and nobody ever turned down a big bonus as a reward for doing a good job month after month.

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Mobile banking app Current raises $131M Series C, tops 2 million members

TechCrunch

U.S. challenger bank Current, which has doubled its member base in less than six months, announced this morning it raised $131 million in Series C funding, led by Tiger Global Management. The additional financing brings Current to over $180 million in total funding to date, and gives the company a valuation of $750 million. The round also brought in new investors Sapphire Ventures and Avenir.

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New Grelos skimmer variant reveals overlap in Magecart group activities, malware infrastructure

CTOvision

A new variant of a skimmer has revealed the increasingly muddy waters associated with tracking groups involved in Magecart-style attacks. On Wednesday, researchers from RiskIQ described how a new Grelos […].

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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DevOps Unbound: How to Lead a DevOps Transformation

DevOps.com

Is C-level support required to have a successful digital transformation? In the sixth episode of DevOps Unbound streaming broadcast on TechStrong TV and DevOps.com’s sister site Digital Anarchist, Mitchell Ashley of ASG and Alan Shimel are joined by Eveline Oehrlich of the DevOps Institute, Louise McCarthy of Bain & Company and Mark Settle, author of […].

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Digital Transformation in Style: How Boden Innovates Retail Using Apache Kafka

Confluent

As a clothing retailer with more than 1.5 million customers worldwide, Boden is always looking to capitalise on business moments to drive sales. For example, when the Duchess of Cambridge […].

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Mental health startups are raising spirits and venture capital

TechCrunch

A spate of startups focused on mental health recently made enough noise as a group that they caught the eye of the Equity podcast crew. Sadly, the segment we’d planned to discuss this topic was swept away by a blizzard of IPO filings that piled up like fresh snow. But in preparation, I reached out to CB Insights for new data on the mental health startup space that they were kind enough to supply.