#techthoughts

[sofiaxmiranda]

A lot of “AI” products today are rebranded dashboards. Here's why that matters.

[blue-headline]

🏡 Bitcoin boom or bust?

Here’s something wild: even if Bitcoin never crashes… it could still hurt society.

A recent economic analysis reveals that Bitcoin’s rising price doesn’t create value—it just shifts it around.

💡 The early adopters get richer. The latecomers and non-holders? They foot the bill—without even realizing it.

Think about it: the next luxury villa bought with crypto profits might be funded by your shrinking paycheck or pension plan.

❓Do you believe Bitcoin is a fair system—or just another way to concentrate wealth?

Reblog if this made you pause. Follow for more bold tech insights. Full read: https://blueheadline.com/startups-tech/bitcoin-newcomers-are-paying/

[biancarogers]

NEW Mac Studio & Apple Event Reactions! 💻 📱 🖥️ https://applevideos.co.uk/mac-studio/new-mac-studio-amp-apple-event-reactions

[vynzora]

What They Don’t Tell You About Website Development…

Website development isn’t just about code. Website development is late-night bug hunts, endless coffee refills, and celebrating when your CSS finally listens to you. Website development is turning someone’s idea into an experience — pixel by pixel, line by line.

You Google more than you code. You break it 10 times just to fix it once. And you learn something new with every single project.

But here’s the magic: Website development teaches you how to build more than just websites — it teaches you patience, creativity, and problem-solving.

So yeah… website development is a challenge. But it’s also art. It’s logic. It’s pure creation.

And if you’re into website development… You're not just a developer. You’re a digital architect.

Keep building. Keep breaking. Keep loving the chaos of website development. 💻🔥

#website #websiteDevelopment #coderlife #microblog #webdev #techthoughts #frontend #backend #html #css #javascript #digitaldiary

[speakinc]

Olympia Le Point - NASA SCIENTIST

🌟 AI + Human Intuition = A New Era of Innovation 🤖💡

What if the key to groundbreaking innovation wasn’t just artificial intelligence—but the fusion of AI and human intuition?

🚀 Olympia LePoint, an award-winning NASA rocket scientist, is revolutionizing how AI is used for decision-making & problem-solving. She believes that AI should enhance human intelligence, not replace it.

Her insights make AI more accessible & empowering, helping professionals embrace the future with confidence.

✨ Imagine a world where technology and human instinct work in perfect harmony. What breakthroughs could we unlock?

💬 What’s your take? Should AI complement human intuition, or is tech better left to logic alone?

#AI #FutureTech #OlympiaLePoint #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #STEM #NASA #WomenInSTEM #Science #TechThoughts

[nicholassasse11]

Technology is no longer just a tool, it's a lifestyle. From the moment we wake up to the time we go to bed, we're surrounded by it. But have you ever stopped to think about how much technology has changed our lives?🤔

Share your thoughts in the comments below!

[techthoughts]

[Week 07 - Techthoughts]

Week 7 - Effective Communication and Storytelling and Lesson Learned Pitching Template

Communication plays a critical role in a startup company. Still, more than that, it plays a vital part in effectively conveying our purpose and the message that we want to reach our target market through our navigation application, NavigaTour. 

As a startup company working to put our name out in the market for our audience to recognize, we place significance in communication well not just on the external faces of our product but as well as on the internal - meetings, discussions, deliberations - all of which help us hone our skills, understanding, and perspective as distinct individuals working as a team for this project.

For this week’s activity, we interviewed three individuals to gain insights into their viewpoints as users of a navigation application. We presented them with our MVP and asked what their opinions and feedback were about it. We also had the chance to ask about the following:

Frustrations when going to malls

The time it takes for them to find their desired store/facility in the mall

Their thoughts on having a portable navigation application

Their desired features on a navigation app

Their views on using the application in the future

Overall, it was an excellent method to help us better understand our valued potential market and assess which parts of our navigation application’s features we can include, improve, or omit to cater to our target market's needs, desires, and preferences.

[tech-vikas]

May your Cup Overflow with Peace, Love and Joy. 💐Good Morning 💐 . . . #tecvikas #techvikas #techthoughts #techmorning #good #morning #Delhi #style #thoughts #black #techlearner (at Delhi, India) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQpmckIgPlp/?utm_medium=tumblr

[techthought]

Get hands-on experience at drone making. Learn about individual components, their functionality, and how to connect them.

[ajenstory]

Sure, I think there are some really big misconceptions surrounding hacking. Our society has attached a negative connotation to the word hacker that has just seemed to have stuck around forever. I would like to separate hackers from criminals. Many people believe that hackers are these evil misfits that operate individually in dark basements and are all motivated by money or a desire to cause unnecessary evil. In reality, hackers are often simply very smart people that work in groups to bring change. Sometimes they are misguided and inappropriate, but they often use their skills to expose hidden details of governments and corporations. Obviously this crosses the line of overexposure often, but most hackers believe that their actions are justified.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/abigailtracy/2015/07/08/mr-robots-cyber-crime-expert-talks-accuracy-hacking-misconceptions-and-what-other-shows-get-wrong

[abouie]

Interview trials

The tech job market is a frenzy, and growing place. Which can be great on plenty of fronts except when it comes to getting a job. 

That's not to say there aren't any jobs out there. There are and gobs of them thank goodness. The problem lies in the job interview process in tech. I have a lot of friends looking for jobs right now and the best description I have for their experiences is a game of gauntlet with random generated maps and enemies. Wait! Let's make this contemporary and call it the tech hunger games! (YEAH!)

Since tech is a daily growing industry and there's a new framework, preprocessor, or cool build process being created right....now...and now....and now, it makes being on top of everything hard for both interviewers and interviewees. It appears while the tech is growing the interview process is not at least for front-end development.

There's no coherent thread to technical interviews for front-end developers or tech leads.

It can be:

JavaScript Jeopardy (What is JavaScript method chaining for $1000? Alex) *Answer at the bottom of the post*

White boarding code (This can be effective but it depends on the situation given)

Assignments and code review (In office on a unknown computer or take home and work on.)

I'm not even counting the phone tech screen which can be something as simple as (What's get and post?) to (Build me a quiz app in angular).

One other approach to hiring is two-four week trail contracts. Companies get a dev, see if their work is solid, and if they're a good fit for the team. The dev gets a new job, get to work with some awesome people and gets to prove their mettle without having to go through the tech interviews TRIALS BY FIRE. Yeah I like that name best too.  

I know there are negatives to giving someone a trail period as well. What if they don't work out? You've already spend time and money getting onto the team and going. I expect that those moments are rarer than you would think. You would still interview the candidate beforehand and should hopefully have seen their code. Usually you'll be able to tell within a week if the person going to work out. Though I would advise not trying this process out if you're hiring for a major project that needs to get done in a short period of time. 

I don't have a solution for this process but I have some opinions and worked as a H.R manager so hopefully they will fall on kind ears. 

1. Don't ambush you candidate with the technical interview. 

Please always inform your candidate when the technical interview will happen and have it timed.

No, an ambush technical doesn't represent the pressure of the really life development process. 

No, your candidate doesn't want to be there for 3 hours and neither do you.

Yes, they would like to work on their own computer so make sure to tell them to bring it.

2. Be prepared to interview the person. 

Don't pull up random questions on a cell phone during the interview.

Make sure your questions or assignments are in consideration of real life scenarios for your company or project.

If giving an assignment or white boarding problem make it something that you know and can build yourself.

3. Nope you don't need to add to the pressure. 

There's no need to ramp up the pressure for an interview it's already there.

Give your candidate time to think.

If they're stuck but on the right track give a hint to see if they figure it out. It doesn't hurt you to help them along if you like what you've seen so far.

4. I lied

Yes, I lied! When all is said and done there is one thread that all interviews have which is. (Do I want to have coffee or a beer with this person?)

This is a the most important thing in my opinion. I've worked with brilliant people that have the personality of a grumpy grandpa yelling at the kids. Only the kids are their co-workers and stakeholders. Not usually the best fit for a team.

What do you think? Should technical interviews be more coherent? Are my thoughts those of a madman!

Let me know.

* Here's your answer. WOOT $1000 Points!

Chaining is a way to return an object from a method call that allows for further methods to be called. The typical way to enable method chaining is to return the current object at the end of every function.

Kitten.prototype.setName = function(name) {

  this.name = name;

  return this;

}; 

*

[techthoughts]

[Week 06 - Techthoughts]

Week 6: MVP and Wireframing

MVP and Wireframing are crucial aspects that a startup company should consider. Based on my learnings from Ms. Rhea Suzette Haguisan, a development technique in which a new product is introduced in the market with basic features but enough to get the consumers' attention. 

In our Minimum Viable Product, we presented the most fundamental features that our application includes, which cover the following:

User-generated

Route tracking and optimization

Location marking

Powerful search and discovery

Accurate Mapping

We also included the most robust features that could be included in the build-up of NavigaTour. In this part, we ensured to enlist the following features that we best believe our market is looking forward to:

Voice Assistance

Shop Categorization

Display of Real-time and Updated Operating Hours 

These features will help generate sufficient value for our early users to buy our application (NavigaTour). 

We also created a wireframe to help us gauge what we want our application to look like for the users. While a wireframe doesn't entirely represent the complete design of the app, it gives a guide or insight into the key screens and interfaces elements that we would like to include in our application. 

This week was quite insightful, and we gained an in-depth perspective of how we want our application, NavigaTour, to come to life and how we want our future users to perceive the application we wish to provide them.

[techthoughts]

[Week 05 - Techthoughts]

Week 5: Customer Segmentation

In my understanding of how customer segmentation works, it is dividing a customer base into groups of individuals similar in specific ways relevant to marketing, such as age, gender, interests, and spending habits.

For ATOM, we did our customer segmentation for NavigaTour by conducting in-depth interviews with three individuals who represent our customer persona. We purposely interviewed individuals who represent our intended market from distinct age groups. Hence, we have one elderly, one teen, and mall personnel to represent the mall management at large. If we had one more room for an interviewee, we would also love to interview a visually-challenged person to understand their demands more intently when it comes to the usage of navigation applications.

The interview went well; we learned about their backgrounds and how they perceive the use of a navigation application such as NavigaTour for accurate indoor mall mapping. We got to ask them questions about their frustrations and motives when going to malls. We also learned their viewpoint regarding the features that they think would be beneficial to users as offered by a navigation application, aside from its main navigation feature.

After that, we created the customer workflow, which was quite technical, and we somehow had a hard time attaining it. But we were able to discern how to do it. We realized it should be significantly based on the information gathered from our interviews with our customer persona. As a startup company, we understand that a customer journey flowchart will help us increase our customer engagement and provide a holistic view of interaction with customers across different contact points of our application (NavigaTour). Besides, it also helps create comprehensive customer profiles based on customer engagement through multiple channels.

With all these learnings, we feel like we are now equipped and ready to go on to the other processes as we aim to establish NavigaTour and make it come to life.