Hello, let’s talk technology.
It’s been a busy week. We’ve published stories analyzing what industries blockchain will see the most adoption, how engineering managers can become more efficient, how investors & founders should communicate with each other, what it’s like to work with tech icons, how to make notifications you don’t hate, why cryptocurrencies continue to baffle seesawing law makers, and more below.
Before getting all “most-read-tech-story-listicle” on you… want to know more about how Hacker Noon works? Check out the newest episode of Crypto Disrupted, where I’m a guest. This new podcast is hosted by ReNu Coin’s Trent Lapinski & Greg Kerr. We discussed getting ahead of technology news cycles, AI’s expected impact on truck drivers, how the AMI network started, how commanding officers listening to NPR leads to their troops listening to NPR, how reality can be shaped by the observer, the different ways communities create editorial lines, the challenges facing Wikipedia editors, the importance of taking less meetings, the effect of re-reading your old stories, the risks in creating rules on the blockchain, and how money is fiat. Listen on Youtube or iTunes.
Lets dive into what people are reading on Hacker Noon. As always, can sort by most read posts by visiting our archive (February 2018)
A Real Book
The Book Every Programmer Should Read by Vinicius Brasil
An illusion
‘99.9999%’ uptime by Mianya Ong
Against the Grain
A surprising way to win in a crashing crypto market by Coin and Crypto
Avoid Leaky Abstraction
“Guys, we’re doing pagination wrong…” by Yan Cui
Blockchain for Good
Can Blockchains Reduce Social Inequality? by Val Repsys
Blockchain Investment Profiling
Four ways to invest in blockchain ranked from riskiest to safest by Joe Procopio
Blockchain Naturale
Better Blockchains Built by Nature by Matt Ward
Building Blocks of Functional Programming
How Immutable Data Structures (E.g. Immutable.js) are Optimized by Dumindu Buddhika
Competition Can Grow Anywhere
How To Beat Silicon Valley Competitors by Alex Crompton
Continuous
CI/CD Is Not A Progression by Stride
Crypto Geo Politics
Fear not, China is not banning cryptocurrency by Wei Chun Chew
Crypto Hacking
17m XRB ‘stolen’ and what this means for the beleaguered cryptocurrency… by Orphan Blocks
Every Guide is a Hitchhiker’s Guide
A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Consensus Algorithms by Zane Witherspoon
Founder Interview
How Mayank Pratap built EngineerBabu- A Profitable IT service company staying bootstrapped by Neeraj Joshi
Gig Economy
Can the blockchain really disrupt the middleman freelance platform market? by Kirill Shilov
Investment Discussions
20 things founders say and what investors think by Trace Cohen
Long Read of the Week
What I Learned from Working for Both Bill Gates and Steve Jobs by Ben Fathi
Logic is FUNdamental
5 points to improve your programming logic by Germán Cutraro
Looking Back on a Year of Making More Money
50 Things I Learned About Investing Over The Last Year by Stefan Cheplick
Marketing Tech Legal Battles
Why AdTrader is Suing Google and Why Most Advertisers Might Never Get that Chance Again by AdTrader
My Workplace
🖥️ Desktop apps for Front-end development. by Alexander Buzin
Mythical Man-Month Hinted
The Decision Hypothesis by Doug Arcuri
New Python
5 speed improvements in Python 3.7 by Anthony Shaw
Other Cryptocurrencies
Diversifying Bitcoin? Take a Look at These Four Cryptocurrencies by Kenny Li
Product Management
Why You Should Build a Minimum Delight-able Product (MDP) by Misbah Ashraf
Secrets to Survival
19 pros share their advice on crypto trading by Coin and Crypto
Sleep More
You Need More Than 6 Hours of Sleep by Greg Yeutter
Storytelling in the Decentralized World
Building Trust & Security in Our Future by Erik P.M. Vermeulen
Three More Blockchain Things
3 Popular Types Of Blockchains You Need To Know by Febin John James
To Whip It
WIP It Real Good by John Cutler
Ugh, Facebook
Your Facebook data is creepy as hell by Georges Abi-Heila
What’s Next in Machine Learning
The New Neural Internet is Coming by Oleksandr Kaleniuk
Work on Them Soft Skills
You Are Not Paid to Write Code by Vinicius Brasil
You’ve Got Mail
How To Build A Notification That You Won’t Hate by Burke H✪lland
WTF is the Internet Becoming?
This Tangled Web — Intelligence, Technology and Fiction by Lochlan Bloom
Until next time, don’t take the realities of the world for granted.
Kind Regards,