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Week 10 [17.12-23.12.18] Amateur rocketry

I would like to introduce you Joe Barand – the amateur rocketry who left his background in music production and started his YouTube channel where he talks and shares about building the rockets. So far, his channel has 33 thousand subscribers. The first time I watch the following video, I was extremely inspired by his passion. I hope you will have similar feelings. Enjoy watching. 1.          Do you have a hobby/passion, as Joe does? Can you describe it shortly? 2.          Do you think, people like Joe can change the space industry? 3.          Do you share any interests with your parents, especially dad?

Week 10 [17.12-23.12.18] How to use a paper towel

You use paper towels to dry your hands every day, but chances are, you're doing it wrong. In this enlightening and funny short talk, Joe Smith reveals the trick to perfect paper towel technique. ddad What do you think about presented ways in which you can reduce your paper use? Do you know any other methods of saving paper? Did you enjoy the talk? Was it interesting to you?

Week 10 [17.12-23.12.18] How the fitness brands use social media and influencers to promote their products

Nowadays everyone can share everything and anyone can become someone, which explains a massive rise of fitness influencers and personal trainers in social media. It seems we no longer need education and certificates to instruct others and tell them how to workout. All we need is a popular fitness account with daily updates and videos or information about nutrition and diet to get attention of the social media users and fitness brands. In this article I will analyze how fitness brands use social media and influencers to promote their products. To understand the phenomenon of fitness brands and their influencers, we first need to look upon the social media platforms they work on. Snapchat and Instagram seem to experience the biggest popularity, though marketing and advertising on them wasn’t that popular few years back. According to Lev Manovich, since Instagram was launched in 2010 it has reached almost 400 mil l ion of users, mostly young people who wish to communicate ...

Week 10 [17.12-23.12.18] Plugins/Libraries

Plugins / Libraries People who are involved in the creation of new application probably used at least one library to facilitate some activity or improve the appearance. The name of the library is the one question, but the other is the version of your liability you are using. And this is very important. This raises the question - do I need the current version of the library? In the end, it cannot be so different from the latest version . In the majority of cases the differences are marginal, then in general if we will use not the latest one, the problem seems to be very small. But it is only the imagination of someone who is not the IT guy. But in reality, the problem I huge. When it comes to differences, it's always worth answering the changelog - one file that should encourage you to always use the latest version. When creating a library, the current version of the components used is very important. Often such solutions have their own dependencies relating to other librari...

Week 10 [17.12-23.12.18] How to Fix the Patent System

The world of patents is complicated, everyone knows about it. We can often hear that one company is suing the other for violating them. But did you know that the software also has those problems? And probably even more than classical. In the following video, this is a well-explained and proposed solution how to get rid of those problem and push our world of IT forward. Have you tried or any of your friends tried to obtain a patent? Do you agree with the solution proposed by the film's creator? Do you have any other ideas on how to solve the problem of patents in software?