For reliable applications, the web giant relies on ‘site reliability engineering’: DevOps with an engineering foundation. Everyone wants to do DevOps these days, but what does a well-humming DevOps environment really look like? What is the vision to strive for? …
If this is so difficult to reason about, why don’t we just stop using it? Seriously. Why. don’t. we. just. stop. using. it.? If you have read How I rediscovered my love for JavaScript after throwing 90% of it in the trash, then you …
It’s not entirely clear what level of mathematics is necessary to get started in machine learning, especially for those who didn’t study math or statistics in school. In this piece, my goal is to suggest the mathematical background necessary to …
Learn how to inspect an array or object of objects with console.table in the browser. When building software in JavaScript, I often need to inspect an array of objects or object of objects. One of my favorite methods for achieving …
Python tips which are relatively uncommon and are very useful. Talk is cheap show me the code Swapping values Create a single string from all the elements in list Find The Most Frequent Value In A List. Checking if two words are anagrams Reverse a String …
Want to catch tax cheats? The government of Rwanda does — and it’s finding them by studying anomalies in revenue-collection data. Want to understand how American culture is changing? So does a budding sociologist in Indiana. He’s using data science …
The artificial intelligence (AI) industry has been leading the headlines consistently, and for good reason. It has already transformed industries across the globe, and companies are racing to understand how to integrate this emerging technology. Artificial intelligence is not a …
Used for general purpose programming, data science, website backends, GUIs, and pretty much everything else; the first programming language for many, and claimed to be the fastest growing in the world, is of course Python. The newest version 3.7.0 has just …
A software architect is a software expert who makes high-level design choices and dictates technical standards, including software coding standards, tools, and platforms. Software architecture refers to the high level structures of a software system, the discipline of creating such …
How many businesses still use spreadsheets as part of their business operations? The reality is that they are used even at the highest levels in multinational companies. Is this some kind of accident? Did they not receive the memo about …
Linux has long been a favourite platform with developers due to the rich array of languages and toolchains available. In this article we highlight 6 IDEs that can boost your productivity. Each IDE is just a Snap away so you can easily …
Deep Learning is a branch of Machine Learning. It is just a fancy name for Neural Networks. Neural Networks is a machine learning technique that is inspired by how computation happens in our brains. Machine Learning Machine learning can be characterized as …
DevOps is more than a buzzword; it’s a culture in which the lines between the traditional roles of software development and operations (system/network/database admins) are blurred to achieve continuous integration (CI) and delivery (CD). By getting software development (Dev) and operations …
I love the text editor setup I’ve been using for the past year and a half, so I want to show off my setup! Visual Studio Code has far surpassed my experiences with Atom, Spyder, Sublime Text, Emacs, and Idle (the built-in …
Dijkstra’s algorithm can find for you the shortest path between two nodes on a graph. It’s a must-know for any programmer. There are nice gifs and history in its Wikipedia page. In this post I’ll use the time-tested implementation from Rosetta Codechanged …
Linux has long been a favourite platform with developers due to the rich array of languages and toolchains available. In this article we highlight 6 IDEs that can boost your productivity. Each IDE is just a Snap away so you can easily …
NodeJS is one of the technologies that is dominating the software development market. But as almost every technology available out there, the most critical part is not about the technology itself but how we use it to accomplish our goals. Therefore, …
Please welcome our weekly sponsor Pusher to Hacker Noon! Pusher makes realtime APIs that enable developers all around the world to quickly add communication and collaboration features to their apps. Their core product enables developers to easily create features like in-app notifications, activity streams, …
As I was chatting, someone from Coding Blocks slack channel (#javascript) has asked a question regarding a code snippet var uniqueInOrder = function (iterable) { return [].filter.call(iterable, (function (a, i) { return iterable[i – 1] !== a })); } view rawuniqueInOrder.js hosted with …
Reflection – What you need to know. In computer science, reflection is the ability of a computer program to examine, introspect, and modify its own structure and behavior at runtime.[1] So what does that mean? Reflection is a term thrown …