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For example, imagine you have a white piece of paper. If you hold this outside in the midday light, your brain will perceive it as white. If you were then to come inside and view it under indoor lighting conditions, which vary dramatically, your brain would adjust so it still appears “white”. However, in reality, it is likely one of a variety of whites, ranging from a warmer, yellowish white, through to a cooler, blueish white.

It is important to know what color space you are working in, and what color space you are targeting. If you are using a wide gamut monitor, you will likely be working in Adobe RGB, or another wide gamut color space.

0 means none of that color, 255 means all of that color.

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Ensure that you have long periods of uninterrupted time for any creative work.

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Then try to eliminate the latter category by hiring, delegating, and redistributing work.

Russia has approximately 6,000 nuclear warheads – the largest stockpile of nuclear weapons in the world. In an interview on Saturday, Medvedev said Russia’s nuclear doctrine did not require an enemy state to use such weapons first.He said: “We have a special document on nuclear deterrence. This document clearly indicates the grounds on which the Russian Federation is entitled to use nuclear weapons. There are a few of them, let me remind them to you:“Number one is the situation, when Russia is struck by a nuclear missile. The second case is any use of other nuclear weapons against Russia or its allies.“The third is an attack on a critical infrastructure that will have paralysed our nuclear deterrent forces.“And the fourth case is when an act of aggression is committed against Russia and its allies, which jeopardised the existence of the country itself, even without the use of nuclear weapons, that is, with the use of conventional weapons.”Medvedev added that there was a “determination to defend the independence, sovereignty of our country, not to give anyone a reason to doubt even the slightest that we are ready to give a worthy response to any infringement on our country, on its independence”.

the benefits of using such proxy are: Caching - selected responses can be cached to improve the performance significantly. While it's possible to do caching in the browser, each customer would have to make at least one request to a given endpoint. Lower cost - when responses are cached, fewer requests are sent to the e-commerce platform. Depending on the provider, it might reduce the cost. Smaller bundle - with all the clients installed and configured on the server, the final bundle sent to the browsers can be much smaller. This is especially true for APIs based on GraphQL. Security - API configuration, secrets, and keys are stored on the server and are not sent to the browser.

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Inheritance is this cute little thing where we can take properties of one class and transfer it to others. But what if you want to mix the properties of two different classes?

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”-Dr. Seuss

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Cloud Computing Deployment Models Cloud A cloud-based application is fully deployed in the cloud and all parts of the application run in the cloud. Applications in the cloud have either been created in the cloud or have been migrated from an existing infrastructure to take advantage of the benefits of cloud computing. Cloud-based applications can be built on low-level infrastructure pieces or can use higher level services that provide abstraction from the management, architecting, and scaling requirements of core infrastructure. Hybrid A hybrid deployment is a way to connect infrastructure and applications between cloud-based resources and existing resources that are not located in the cloud. The most common method of hybrid deployment is between the cloud and existing on-premises infrastructure to extend, and grow, an organization's infrastructure into the cloud while connecting cloud resources to the internal system. For more information on how AWS can help you with your hybrid deployment, visit our Hybrid Cloud with AWS page. On-premises The deployment of resources on-premises, using virtualization and resource management tools, is sometimes called the “private cloud.” On-premises deployment doesn’t provide many of the benefits of cloud computing but is sometimes sought for its ability to provide dedicated resources. In most cases this deployment model is the same as legacy IT infrastructure while using application management and virtualization technologies to try and increase resource utilization. For more information on how AWS can help, see Use case: Cloud services on-premises.

Cloud Computing Models Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) contains the basic building blocks for cloud IT and typically provides access to networking features, computers (virtual or on dedicated hardware), and data storage space. IaaS provides you with the highest level of flexibility and management control over your IT resources and is most similar to existing IT resources that many IT departments and developers are familiar with today. Platform as a Service (PaaS) Platform as a Service (PaaS) removes the need for your organization to manage the underlying infrastructure (usually hardware and operating systems) and allows you to focus on the deployment and management of your applications. This helps you be more efficient as you don’t need to worry about resource procurement, capacity planning, software maintenance, patching, or any of the other undifferentiated heavy lifting involved in running your application. Software as a Service (SaaS) Software as a Service (SaaS) provides you with a completed product that is run and managed by the service provider. In most cases, people referring to Software as a Service are referring to end-user applications. With a SaaS offering you do not have to think about how the service is maintained or how the underlying infrastructure is managed; you only need to think about how you will use that particular piece of software. A common example of a SaaS application is web-based email which you can use to send and receive email without having to manage feature additions to the email product or maintain the servers and operating systems that the email program is running on.

The name was a play on the mathematical expression for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros and aptly reflected Larry and Sergey's mission “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”

As you forge ahead, and things get tough, remember that your most significant ally lies inside you: your mind. So take care if it — for your own health and the health of others, too.

Whether you have a diagnosed anxiety disorder or are having your first dance with this intense emotion, you can still be an effective leader. But I’ll be blunt: If you don’t look your anxiety in the face at some point, it will take you down. This isn’t easy, but doing it will change your life and your ability to lead others for the better.

An important thing I told people is how they themselves own their career progression - they should be coming up with the goals as well as executing on it. As a manager, my role is to help and support with this process - but they will own driving it.

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Using Your Signature Strengths to Enhance Your Life and Resiliency

Please consider only the last three iterations to calculate the average. It is rare for a team to have a consistent velocity or performance across long periods. If the team was rocking it the first few iterations of the project, but the last few it was not, then you are better off forecasting using the current or recent performance.

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Your second task is to “articulate a sense of possibility and hope.”

“Task one is transparency,” she says. Explain to your team, “here’s what we do know, here’s what we don’t know, and this is what we are doing to close that gap.”

“People are freaking out and wondering, ‘What does this mean for my company, my job, and my future?’” Your role as a manager is to “project confidence and strength.” Even though the situation is fast-moving and you don’t have perfect information, you need to be honest about what you know

So we can’t change the A. But we can change the B, which will lead to a new C. It’s not adversity itself that creates our reactions, but our beliefs about our adversity.

Whenever faced with an ABC, practice disputing your beliefs; have a knock down drag out fight with yourself and figure out what’s really going on. It may be beneficial to journal it, as writing can help you sort through why you’re feeling the way you are, and whether your beliefs are distorting what is really going on. It can also be helpful to have a spouse or trusted friend do the disputing for you. Tell them what you’re upset about and have them challenge you on your beliefs, asking you questions to figure out just how accurate your beliefs actually are.

A common measurement of an agile team is whether team members finish everything they planned in the iteration.

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In his book “When,” Dan Pink writes about evidence that your circadian rhythm can help you figure out the right time to do your productive and creative work. If you’re a morning person, you should do your analytical work early when you’re at peak alertness; your routine tasks around lunchtime in your trough; and your creative work in the late afternoon or evening when you’re more likely to do nonlinear thinking. If you’re more of a night owl, you might be better off flipping creative projects to your fuzzy mornings and analytical tasks to your clearest-eyed late afternoon and evening moments.

Being prolific is not about time management. There are a limited number of hours in the day, and focusing on time management just makes us more aware of how many of those hours we waste.

Students for whom performance is paramount want to look smart even if it means not learning a thing in the process. For them, each task is a challenge to their self-image, and each setback becomes a personal threat. So they pursue only activities at which they’re sure to shine — and avoid the sorts of experiences necessary to grow and flourish in any endeavor. Students with learning goals, on the other hand, take necessary risks and don’t worry about failure because each mistake becomes a chance to learn. Dweck’s insight launched a new field of educational psychology — achievement goal theory.

at the end of each day to write down 5 things you are grateful for, or if you really want to incorporate this practice into your life you can create a gratitude journal.

Attitudes rub off and if you’re surrounded by a bunch of scarcity minded individuals during the work day you will need to counteract that

if your belief is “I can’t do it” or “it’s impossible” then any other thoughts contradicting that will get thrown out.  Start training your mind to loosen its focus and create an expanded awareness.

listening without judgement or censorship, fully understanding what a win-win means for both of you, and brainstorming solutions until you find one that satisfies both parties.

turn those around to thoughts like: “Wow, I have 25 years of marketing experience and this will be hugely beneficial in any business I decide to start” or “Over the last 10 years, I’ve made great contacts which will be really useful when I launch my new business”. 

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In practice, rejecting a risk may involve not bidding for a new contract (e.g. companies wishing to avoid corruption risks may choose not to do business in countries with a high risk on the corruption perceptions index). Certain companies may exit entire countries or industries in a bid to avoid certain types of risks.

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The acronym for Strategic Review Analysis

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So what is needed for a successful remote team? You will find it is similar to a co-located team except possibly the emphasis is a little more on clarity to compensate for the less-optimal communication.

Happiness, although important, does not seem to be the most useful metric for a team. As an alternative, I presented Team Morale as an alternative. Team Morale is focussed on the team and the tasks at hand, and tells us if a team is working smoothly and feeling well.

Measuring team morale puts a focus on the task at hand, and how the team feels about it’s capabilities to deal with it.

Because happiness metrics are so subjective, they are bad metrics in a scientific and statistical sense. In addition, the metric usually includes only one question about happiness. A single item is usually not a good idea. If you are serious about measuring team well-being, take a measure that is statistically (and preferably scientifically) sound.

Post Sprint Meetings

What is true of storms in the North Sea may be no less true of enemies at the office. Their aggression can be terrifying, like the giant waves off Den Helder, and yet in reality – with deft emotional skill and internal reorganisation – can prove eminently manageable. The storms are not really about us and we can survive them by refusing to let the verdicts of others become our verdicts on ourselves. We should keep in mind a confident distinction between the hater and the critic, aim to correct our genuine flaws – and otherwise forgive the injured, roaring winds that seek to punish us for pressures that have nothing to do with us. The storms will die down, we will be battered, a few things will be ripped, but we will eventually – as the sun rises over the spires of Alkmaar – return to safer shores.

In the days following the phone call, I learned from multiple U.S. officials that senior White House officials had intervened to “lock down” all records of the phone call, especially the official word-for-word transcript of the call that was produced—as is customary—by the White House Situation Room.

The White House officials who told me this information were deeply disturbed by what had transpired in the phone call

More disturbing is ample evidence that implementing Rand's philosophy in industry and government typically leads to resounding failures. There is a reason why even toddlers show a preference for those who help rather than hinder others, and why adults as well as children show such a strong propensity to cooperate rather than defect in economic games. When people behave this way, they are not behaving foolishly. They are giving researchers a glimpse of the prosocial tendencies that made it possible for our species to survive and thrive in the ancestral past as well as today.

Work through your emotions and then start a virtuous cycle by celebrating the departing employee, seeking their candid feedback in an exit interview, forming and testing hypotheses about how to improve your workplace, and making meaningful changes that make your team feel heard and valued. Losing one team member might end up being a relatively low price to pay if it leads to better morale all around.

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1. Explore the current situation. Paint a picture in words by including the “presenting problem,” the impact it is having, the consequences of not solving the problem, and the emotions the problem is creating for those involved.

For large-scale software systems, Van Roy believes we need to embrace a self-sufficient style of system design in which systems become self-configuring, healing, adapting, etc.. The system has components as first class entities (specified by closures), that can be manipulated through higher-order programming. Components communicate through message-passing. Named state and transactions support system configuration and maintenance. On top of this, the system itself should be designed as a set of interlocking feedback loops.

The last word Each paradigm has its own “soul” that can only be understood by actually using the paradigm. We recommend that you explore the paradigms by actually programming in them…

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If one object is part of another object, then we use a diamond at the start of the arrow (next to the containing object), and a normal arrow at the end.

Coming back to the two ‘FreeSync’ settings in the monitor OSD, they differ in the variable refresh rate range that they support. ‘Standard Engine’ supports 90 – 144Hz (90 – 119Hz via HDMI) whilst ‘Ultimate Engine’ gives a broader variable refresh rate range of 70 – 144Hz (62 – 119Hz via HDMI). We didn’t notice any adverse effects when using ‘Ultimate Engine’, so we’d suggest users simply stick to that option.

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Divergent thinking (creating choices) and convergent thinking (making choices) are both essential for creative thinking to succeed

Thin and Thick Thinking help us get to better questions and better thinking

You don't have to be a creative thinker to be able to think outside the box, you just need to do more stuff that stimulates creative thinking. Even the most creative people need help getting inspired.

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We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate how curiosity (intrinsic motivation to learn) influences memory. In both immediate and one-day-delayed memory tests, participants showed improved memory for information that they were curious about and for incidental material learned during states of high curiosity. Functional magnetic resonance imaging results revealed that activity in the midbrain and the nucleus accumbens was enhanced during states of high curiosity.

Curiosity Is as Important as Intelligence

“Why are some people more able to manage complexity?”

Although IQ is hard to coach, EQ and CQ can be developed.

But fear is not failure, it’s just information – and very, very normal.

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Writing is selection. Just to start a piece of writing you have to choose one word and only one from more than a million in the language. Now keep going. What is your next word? Your next sentence, paragraph, section, chapter? Your next ball of fact. You select what goes in and you decide what stays out. At base you have only one criterion: If something interests you, it goes in—if not, it stays out. That’s a crude way to assess things, but it’s all you’ve got. Forget market research. Never market-research your writing. Write on subjects in which you have enough interest on your own to see you through all the stops, starts, hesitations, and other impediments along the way.

a simple tip to help you remember to add clarity to your own communication.

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Emotional Intelligence Needs a Rewrite

Science, after all, is merely our best understanding of how things work, given the evidence at hand. In the face of new discoveries, explanations change, sometimes significantly.

The idea that you can increase your emotional intelligence by broadening your emotion vocabulary is solid neuroscience.

Even though your brain is always guessing, when it has more options to guess with, the odds are better it will guess appropriately.

This constant storm of predictions—which occur automatically and completely outside of your awareness—forms the basis for everything you think, feel, see, smell, or otherwise experience in any way. That’s how emotions, thoughts, and perceptions are made.

Decades of neuroscience research now show that

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We need a common understanding of this topic in order to build better tools, make better decisions, and simplify communication with each other.

in limited circumstances that are easily identified and avoided.

Because of widespread poor tracking, people think they’re at risk from Brooks’ Law for significantly longer periods than they really are.

But six months later we wish that we had added the new staff, because six months would have been more than enough time for them to become productive.

the one iteration for all 500 people ends, and the product could be shipped.

Brooks’ Law, which states “adding manpower to a late software project makes it later”

If you have more than one lens that have different sized filter-mounts, you may have to buy more than one filter.

The only thing you can predict is that they will always try to undermine your profitability by asking for expensive tools and seminars.

Socratic questioning (or Socratic maieutics)[1] is disciplined questioning that can be used to pursue thought in many directions and for many purposes, including: to explore complex ideas, to get to the truth of things, to open up issues and problems, to uncover assumptions, to analyze concepts, to distinguish what we know from what we don't know, to follow out logical implications of thought or to control the discussion. The key to distinguishing Socratic questioning from questioning per se is that Socratic questioning is systematic, disciplined, deep and usually focuses on fundamental concepts, principles, theories, issues or problems.

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The proposition is that prices reflect all available information, which in simple terms means since prices reflect all available information, there’s no way to beat the market. Now, that’s an extreme statement of the hypothesis, and the difficult part is actually developing tests of it because you have to say something about what the market is trying to do in setting prices.

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Why bother with front-facing speakers when the iPhone does just as well with a bottom-firing speaker?

Fundamentally, JSX just provides syntactic sugar for the React.createElement(component, props, ...children) function.

Test first development, also known as Test Driven Development (TDD) is a development style in which you write the unit tests before you write the code to test.

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but the true technology of Java is not in the language, but the virtual machine itself. The JVM as it stands today, is a fast, abstract machine that you can plug any languages into, and is able to operate at speeds comparable to natively compiled binaries.

Refer to 17.4 of the Java Language Specification for an explicit answer to why

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“All your sorrows have been wasted on you if you have not yet learned how to be wretched.”

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Dynamic Programming

Should I use tabulation or memoization?

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In this solution, we used memoization to recursively calculate the solutions for subproblems which we then used to calculate the solutions to larger problems. Alternatively, tabulation could have been used to build up solutions from the bottom up.

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The maintenance of self-esteem is a continuous task that taxes all of the individual’s power and inner resources. We have to prove our worth and justify our existence anew each day.

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So now it’s time to act.

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