30 MOST READ Tech Stories of Q1, 2019

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Thomas Guieu is a Tech Enthusiast with innovative ideas, who is tuning his career to become a VC. Avinash Reddy Desireddy is the Founder of software development and design firm Greg Hausheer Lightmatter . Here are the 30 MOST READ tech stories on Hacker Noon in 2019, so far: tagged/ software-development Startup engineering is different from any other type of software engineering. It demands short- and medium-term productivity, relative to the “right way” of building systems. It values people who are able to iterate quickly and are comfortable with hacky code. It rewards pragmatism in technology choices versus picking the most hyped — or most stable — technology. Four Startup Engineering Killers by Nemil Dalal You don’t have to have a “Product Owner” to be Agile. There’s a complaint about Agile development which is: “Scrum is so well known and so widely used, that people often mistake Scrum for Agile development.” It’s a fair criticism. The prime example of this is the “Product Owner” role. The Product Owner — Scrum’s great Success and Failure by Sunil Jolly The Stories Behind , , , and by . Not long ago I started a series of articles on women in technology at our corporate blog, at . And so far I’ve managed to publish just that featured five outstanding women who were promoting coding education among children, teenage girls, mothers who recently delivered babies, and different other minority groups. I am passionate about promoting equality and diversity in various fields, be it science or creative writing. Interviews with Three Amazing Female Web Developers Who Promote Diversity and Inclusion in Tech . BlackTechPipeline @WomenTechBot @React_India @WomenCoders01 Marina Vorontsova soshace.com one The growth of every industry majorly depends on the innovations introduced in that field. No static industry can see such remarkable results and this is the hard work of full-stack developers that we can view some awesome changing trends in this industry. Top Software Development Trends in 2019 by Ryan Roy tagged/ bitcoin I write this article because I’m sick of being confronted by people, even others in crypto, about crypto allegedly being an environmental disaster. It isn’t. That is an egregious lie. The reports of bitcoin environmental damage are garbage by Robert Sharratt tagged/ cybersecurity Whats the recipe for a public Wi-Fi network? 1. Use absolutely no encryption at all, or 2. Use a pre-shared key and tell everyone (no different than #1). Public Wi-Fi is intentionally insecure and susceptible to several modes of attack. A hacker intercepted your Wi-Fi traffic and stole your contacts, passwords, and financial data. Here’s how. by Patrick F. Wilbur An overview of the two most popular operating systems used by most of the security professionals. Operating System for Penetration Testing in a Nutshell; Kali Linux vs Parrot Security OS by PALAKOLLU SRI MANIKANTA tagged/ statistics Each week for the last 6 years (2012–2018), I was playing the lottery to win. Not just hoping to win — playing with a ‘positive expected value’ (a mathematical expectation to win rather than lose, on average, over time). In June 2018 this particular window of opportunity closed, so I’ve decided to share more about the winning model and reveal some closely guarded secrets from the clandestine world of professional gambling. Gaming the lottery: How one winner used math to overcome the odds by Bryn Solomon tagged/ programming A simple tale of a programmer yet a good intro read to the world of tech for regular readers. The story shows the importance of believing in your dreams and significance of strong family relations. How I learned 15 programming languages, and why your kids will too by Crypterium Some of the major programming trends to prepare for to help you stay at the top of your game in 2019 — as well as a look back at the key programming themes of 2018. Major Programming Trends to Prepare for in 2019 by Constantin If you are new to the coding world, I recommend these languages. 3 Programming Languages to Learn in 2019 by Tim Han This post is about my experience learning Rust by solving every CtCI problem live on Twitch, an unfinished project. Programming in Rust: the good, the bad, the ugly. By Brenden Matthews From a developer’s perspective, a programming language is a tool and choosing the right one will influence one’s career, economic prospects, and future happiness. Best Coding Languages to Learn in 2019 by Rafi Zikavashvili tagged/ python A quick overview of trending frameworks in python and what you should need to learn if you want to start your career in web development using python. Top Python Web Development Frameworks to Learn in 2019 by PALAKOLLU SRI MANIKANTA The challenge under ten categories. R vs Python: What’s The Difference? by Muammer Hüseyinoğlu We all know that Python is much slower than statically-typed programming languages like C, C++, Java and some dynamic languages too like JavaScript and PHP. Let’s look at the reasons why Python is much slower compared to these languages and what can we do to increase its execution speed. Are your Python programs running slow? Here’s how you can make them 7x faster by Rishabh Agrawal tagged/ javascript Handtrack.js library allows you track a user’s hand (bounding box) from an image in any orientation, in 3 lines of code. Handtrack.js: Hand Tracking Interactions in the Browser using Tensorflow.js and 3 lines of code by Victor Dibia Are many of the modern frontend tools and practices just technical debt in disguise? The “Backendification” of Frontend Development by Mike Taylor #1: Value vs. Reference Variable Assignment: Understanding how JavaScript assigns to variables is foundational to writing bug-free JavaScript. If you don’t understand this, you could easily write code that unintentionally changes values. 12 Concepts That Will Level Up Your JavaScript Skills by Nick Scialli tagged/ crypto Welcome to part three of the Surviving Crypto Winter series. This time, I profile the an entire category of projects: privacy coins. Surviving Crypto Winter — Part Three: Why Privacy Coins Will Rule the Next Bull Run by Daniel Jeffries When the bubble finally popped last year, the “market cap” of all crypto fell over $700B, an 85% drop from its peak in January — steeper than the dotcom bubble’s 78% crash. The media gawked at this collapse, and as usual, proclaimed this was the nail in the coffin for cryptocurrencies. 3 Moments in History that Explain the ICO Bubble by Haseeb Qureshi As the end of Q1 2019 approaches, Shelley’s progress marches on relentlessly. But for the uninitiated, navigating the shift into a new phase of Cardano’s development may appear overwhelming. Here are three key areas you’ll need to know about Shelley, ahead of its release. As Cardano Gears up for Shelley, here’s Three Things You Need to Know by Elliot Hill tagged/ science Einstein and Bohr had a great debate at The Solvay Conference in Belgium in 1927. Here was a gathering of some of the most intelligent people on Earth. Quantum Entanglement & Simulated Reality by Rob Adamson tagged/ data-science Seeing the (Random) Forest Through the (Decision) Trees. How It Feels to Learn Data Science in 2019 by Thomas Nield tagged/ software-architecture If you look at books, blog posts and tweets about microservices architecture (there are already millions of them), you’ll see that everyone declares nearly the same idea — microservices must be independent. That completely makes sense. In words. In reality? Not so much. Is a Shared Database in Microservices Actually an Anti-pattern? By Roman Krivtsov tagged/ machine-learning I’m a self-taught Machine Learning Engineer; here’s what I’d tell myself if I started again. Thinking of Self-Studying Machine Learning? Remind yourself of these 6 things by Daniel Bourke tagged/ education “Hey, you’re Elon’s best friend now, huh?” I asked my friend, who has been interning at Tesla for the past 3 months. “You have no idea. For a few hours, my desk was like five meters from Elon’s.” “No fucking way” I shouted. “It’s true. The first day they were like ‘here is your desk’. I literally freaked out. I think Elon could have read my code if he wanted.” How my Friend Got an Internship at Tesla After Only 8 Months of Coding by Michaël Trazzi tagged/ startups Like almost everyone else in tech, we were excited to see drop. The rideshare industry has fundamentally changed how millions of people (including us!) get around on a daily basis, which is an incredible accomplishment given that Lyft and Uber have been around for less than a decade. It’s rare to see a product reach near ubiquity over a relatively short period of time, and this feels like a unique opportunity to watch a transformational consumer tech company debut on the public market. Five Surprising Things in Lyft’s S-1 by Justine and Oliva Moore. Lyft’s S-1 One thing I’ve clearly learned over the years building marketplaces like eBay, Luxe and Pared is that not all marketplaces are created equal. Marketplaces have evolved over time. Not All Marketplaces are Created Equal: Tales of a Marketplace Founder by Dave Lu tagged/ indian-startups This could be the first time you are coming across the term Zoho Mafia, but it’s an entity that creates more than 6,000 jobs in Chennai alone and earns more than $500 million in revenue. Zoho Mafia: 22 Companies Founded by Former Zoho Employees by Naveen DA tagged/ product-management Let me tell you a secret that the product management industry is hiding from you, or maybe not saying it out loud — we don’t care ‘too’ much about the hard skills. And what hard skills? Writing a PRD? Doing user interviews? Understanding UX? Knowing business and tech? Product Management skills NO ONE talks about ;) by Taruna Manchanda tagged/ management Chaos isn’t a ladder to climb. It’s unwise to manage your career through the randomness of the universe, decisions made by other people, and org chart Brownian motion. Even when your manager, company, and peers have your best wishes in mind, you still must manage your own career with intent. The worst career advice I ever received by Nick Caldwell ’Til Next Time,Hacker Noon Tech P.S. Get your tech story reviewed and edited by a real human today.