All work
Business
Creating these user experiences is in our DNA at Bitraptors, and always
at the
front of our minds. Whether you are a user, a client, or one of us, we want our apps
to
create
smiles. We’re always searching for new ways to make our apps fun and satisfying to
build,
manage, and, most importantly, use.
Eight years ago we set out to create a culture and environment where
we,
personally, would want to work. Now, with 100+ dedicated teams already built and 500
amazing
Beets on board in Ukraine and Sweden, we are more confident than ever in our
decision to
approach everything with a people-centered culture in mind.
You’re an owner, founder, CEO, assistant researching the market for
Python
developers and Python development companies. But you’re not sure. Where should you
start
looking? Is it better to in-house or outsource? Do you use freelancers or find a
good
development agency? And, of course, how much will it all cost?
More and more companies are trying to implement self-management. But
not
everyone
succeeds. What does it take to make it work? Andreas Flodström and Gustav Henman,
founders
of
the Swedish-Ukrainian software development company Beetroot and Beetroot Academy IT
education,
share their experience creating an organization of 500 people based entirely on
trust and
self-management.
Distributed teams come in all shapes and sizes, bringing with them
great
heterogeneity, flexibility, cultural diversity, and capacity for innovation. Each
one is
different, and, consequently, there’s no universal template for building top-tier
remote
team
communication. There are, however, ways to avoid making the most common
mistakes.
In just one year of collaboration with Beetroot, e-learning platform
PromoteR
has
grown from an
exclusively internal solution to a full-fledged product. A Beetroot team of Angular,
Django,
PostgreSQL, and Python developers extended the client’s tech capacity, helping them
achieve
an
updated, sellable platform with advanced features, including guided social learning,
customizable
design, and impact measurement.
Outsourcing has become nothing less than the new normal, an
increasingly
mandatory
commodity for businesses of every size in every industry. The digital world has
turned the
talent pool into an ocean, providing access to world-class professionals from all
reaches of
the
globe...
Technical / Science
Fraudsters are able to bypass the velocity checks because obfuscated
addresses
are
not always normalized to the same address, and Ekata customers rely on the address
digest of
the normalized address to measure velocity. We explored solutions that calculate an
alternate
velocity-like signal which is resilient to any form of obfuscation.
In this talk, I discuss how we met these challenges by building a Spark-
and
XGBoost-based training and experimentation pipeline that delivers our models as a
custom predictor library, to allow seamless integration with the production
environment. Our embeddable library enables super-fast predictions real-time.
Creative
A non-fungible token is the ultimate signifier, at once a decentralized
currency,
direct sale from artist to patron, proof of relationship, certificate of
authenticity,
property
right in blockchain, status signal, piece of code, image, speculative edge in a
volatile
buy-sell market, and, last but not least, saleable news-byte.
Not pets. Punks. 10 of them. Hand-drawn.
Why? Because Punk
Rocks!
From
the
creators of 24pxRocks
Not affiliated with Ether Rock NFT or Larva Labs
Still, speech between early American citizens could easily become
impolite,
manipulative, insulting and lead to violence. Often it did. For the first hundred
years
after
the American Revolution, dueling was still considered a legitimate way of answering
perceived
incivility, libel or slander... even Abraham Lincoln, early in his political career,
got as
far
as the dueling ground before third parties intervened to interrupt the combat.
A mammoth, nocturnal, vertical marathon is underway. And
it will happen again tomorrow night, and the next, just as it has since prehistory,
dwarfing
all
other earthly migrations in longevity and scale.
