May 13, 2017, 7 p.m.

"Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.'" - John Greenleaf Whittier

rendezvous with cassidoo

Hola friends!

You made it back, it's so good to see you. Or at least talk at you from my computer screen into the void that is The Internet. Anyway. You look really, really good.
 

Web links of the week

lists.design
Britecharts
Building a Full-Sphere 3D Image Gallery with React VR
The Ultimate Atom Editor Setup
Writing Tidy Code
 

Something that interested me this week

I watched the Microsoft Build live-stream this week (I promise this isn't an ad), and the one launch that really excited me was a PowerPoint feature that live-translated Spanish into both Chinese and English. And then a Chinese speaker spoke into his phone, and the presentation translated that into English right on the slide. It was incredible! Machine learning has so many great applications. I think a lot of people associate it with just making smarter recommendations and ads, but it's so much more. This live-translating technology, in the right hands, could have amazing power for teams, projects, and even whole countries. It's an exciting world we live in!
 

Interview question of the week

Write a function that takes in a string and returns the first duplicate character it finds.

Bonus points: write another function that takes in a string and removes all the duplicate characters.
 

Cool things from around the internet

Installing Hyperfuse GMK
The Photography of Alexander Riek
history of the entire world, I guess
A Soundtrack for City People Who Grew Up in Small Towns
 

Jokes

Share this with mom for Mother's Day!

What kind of dance do mothers like best?
The mom-ba!
 

There ya have it, hope you all have a marvelous end to your weekend. Be safe, make good choices, and dance a lot.

cassidoo

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