Yesterday, I published my review of David W. Orr's new book, a compilation of essays from the past three decades. As a follow up, here's a Q&A; that I did with professor Orr, who was gracious enough to answer all my questions.

Bromberg, then a young lawyer working for an environmental NGO in Tel Aviv, was frustrated that environmental issues were not

In part one of this interview, Gidon discussed FoEME's work in promoting cross-border

Here's a frequent question asked by people wanting to create positive sustainable changes in the world: Is it more effective to work as a change agent from inside the current system or is it better to

Eco-architect extraordinaire Michelle Kaufmann speaks with Adam Werbach about coral bleaching and youth-powered activism in this TreeHugger exclusive from West Coast Green.

Eco-architect Michelle Kaufmann talks to Eric Corey Freed about his book Green Building for Dummies, disco balls and the death of Pergo floors in this TreeHugger exclusive from West Coast Green. Eric is the principal architect at organicARCHITECT, and

Eco-architect Michelle Kaufmann speaks with Prudence Ferreira about the three criteria for Passivhaus certification. Prudence is the founder of Integral Impact Inc, a green building firm with a strong focus on zero energy buildings. As the president of

Michelle Kaufmann speaks with Michael M. Wheeler about government messaging in this TreeHugger exclusive from West Coast Green. Michael is currently the Energy Adviser to California Commissioner Dian Grueneich, he has also worked for the EPA and the DOE

Eco-architect extraordinaire Michelle Kaufmann interviews Barry Hooper from SFEnvironment about government policy for new and existing buildings in San Francisco in this TreeHugger exclusive from West Coast Green. Barry Hooper collaborates with design

Eco-architect extraordinaire Michelle Kaufmann speaks with Peter Yost from BuildingGreen about working with Lawrence Berkeley National Labs on energy efficient window treatments in this TreeHugger exclusive from West Coast Green. Peter Yost has been

Eco-architect extraordinaire Michelle Kaufmann speaks with Hunter Lovins from Natural Capitalism Solutions in this TreeHugger exclusive from West Coast Green. Hunter is a professor, speaker and author on changing the conversation around business to

Tiny houses are a hot topic these days, but is working or living in a tiny home (or building one) for you? Dawn Higgins, of Full Moon Tiny Shelters, has some great advice.

If you've been following the world of architecture, you've probably feasted your eyes on the Metropol Parasol, which has been one of the most popular and talked about structures of 2011. Currently the world's largest wooden structure, the Parasol's

Interview Jean Jouzel, Président du jury

Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority interviews Tina Sinatra

Brad Hiranga, General Mills Business Unit Director, Pizza and Tacos Business Unit discusses the Bucking Couch and Bucking Couch Bowl.

Teams will be allowed to interview eligible draft candidates over the phone for no more than an hour.

Benn Steil, director of international economics and senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, talks interest rates and recession risks. With CNBC's Seema Mody.

The streaming service pulled the episode hours after CNBC brought it to the company's attention, but Apple is yet to pull the same podcast.

Kroger chairman and CEO Rodney McCullen joins "Squawk on the Street" to discuss reopening the economy, keeping store shelves stocked and more.

George Whitesides, CEO of Virgin Galactic, joins "Squawk Alley" to discuss the company's earnings and outlook for the business.

Kare Schultz, CEO of Teva Pharmaceuticals, joins "Squawk on the Street" to discuss the coronavirus pandemic and treatment.

Former staffer discusses allegation in in-depth interview with the former Fox News and NBC host

Tara Reade repeated her allegations of sexual assault against Joe Biden in an in-depth interview with Megyn Kelly released on Friday, answering questions on who she shared her story with and why she supported the former vice president publicly in the past.

Reade has accused Biden of sexually assaulting her in 1993, when she worked as an aide in his Senate office. She told Kelly, a former Fox News and NBC host who memorably sparred with Trump during the 2016 campaign over his treatment of women, that Biden pushed her against the wall in a Senate hallway and digitally penetrated her against her will.

Continue reading...

Parsley Energy CEO Matt Gallagher joins 'Power Lunch' to discuss Parsley Energy's positive quarterly earnings despite the Covid-19 pandemic. He also speaks on the company's production and the state of the oil industry.

The musical remake of the '80s cult classic is set to hit digital platforms on Friday!

The post CS Interview: Jessica Rothe on Remaking Valley Girl appeared first on ComingSoon.net.

The musical remake of the '80s cult classic is set to hit digital platforms on Friday!

The post CS Interview: Josh Whitehouse on Playing American in Valley Girl appeared first on ComingSoon.net.

Cathy Morrow Roberson, Founder & Head Analyst for Logistics Trends & Insights LLC – a boutique market research firm that specializes in global supply chains – recently shared her observations on the current state of the global and domestic Third-Party Logistics (3PL) industry in this exclusive interview.

Interview with Rani Baker, Goon Lurker and Internet Hero.

Marissa's not-for-profit organization sought a college graduate with the ability to code and create basic software solutions. Given their organization's financial limitations, they...

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware®

In a super-crowded, hyper-competitive marketplace, one of the main challenges for book authors is to stand out. And where there's a need, there are always unscrupulous operators waiting to take advantage. The internet is awash in worthless schemes and outright scams designed to profit from authors' hunger for publicity and exposure.

I've written about a number of these--Hollywood book-to-screen packages, the hugely marked-up PR options offered by Author Solutions, the plague of marketing scams originating in the Philippines. Others to watch out for include book fair display packages (publishing industry expert Jane Friedman has a good article on why these are not worth your money), pay-to-play book review services, and what I'm going to talk about in this post: vanity radio.

What's vanity radio? In the "writer beware" context, it's radio air time that you, the program guest, have to pay for. Such schemes have been around forever in various forms, aimed at experts and creatives of all kinds, from services that explicitly sell pay-to-play interviews, to show hosts that charge interview fees to defray the fees they themselves have to pay their platforms.

The main selling point is the promise that your interview will be heard by a large and eager audience, giving wide exposure to you and your book (see the pitches that I've pasted in below). But vanity radio is primarily online radio, delivered via platforms like Blog Talk Radio and Spreaker, and streaming services like iTunes, iHeart Radio, and SoundCloud. Online radio listenership is steadily rising, but unless there are subscriber lists (as on YouTube, for instance), there's usually no way to determine the audience for any given host or show--or to authenticate any listenership claims the show may make. Lots of people may be tuning in...or no one at all.

As a result, the only verifiable benefit authors may receive for their money is an audio or audio-and-video clip that they can post to their websites and social media accounts. Whether that's worth it when it costs $99 or $150 or $200 is debatable enough. But when the price tag is four figures?

As always in the realm of junk marketing aimed at writers, Author Solutions has been both the pioneer and the primary practitioner. All its imprints sell vanity radio in some form: here's AuthorHouse's offering, for instance (just $1,099!). iUniverse's is identical. Xlibris and Trafford currently sell teasers rather than interviews (for significantly more money), but through 2017 they too hawked interviews.

Recently, however, AS's leadership in the realm of predatory marketing services has been challenged by a flood of scammy imitators. These copycat ripoff factories have adopted vanity radio in a big way, and they aggressively hawk it to authors, both on its own and as part of costly publishing and marketing packages. Here, for instance, is an offer from Book Vine Press (cost: $1,500):

From Author Reputation Press (cost: £1,500):


From Parchment Global Publishing (cost: $1,499):


The copycats re-sell the services of a number of show hosts (there's a list below), but the three personalities noted above--Kate Delaney with America Tonight Radio, Ric Bratton with This Week in America, and Al Cole with People of Distinction--make the most frequent appearances on the copycats' websites and in their email solicitations. Delaney and Bratton have substantial, legit resumes in TV and radio; Cole is a bit harder to research, but he too seems to have a sizeable track record as a talk show host.

What, if anything, do they know of the reputation and tactics of the copycats that are re-selling their services? I contacted all three for comment last week. Cole's assistant responded in email that "Al Cole knew nothing about this....Our office will certainly look into this." As of this writing, I haven't heard back from Delaney or Bratton.

Given that the copycats routinely charge an enormous markup on products they re-sell (see, for instance, this warning from the Combined Book Exhibit, whose book fair exhibit packages many of the copycats re-sell for hugely inflated prices; the copycats also seriously jack up the fees for paid book reviews such as Kirkus Indie and BlueInk Reviews), it seems a fair bet that the interviews' hefty price tags are substantially inflated as well.

Apart from the question of such interviews' value for book promotion, that seems like reason enough to avoid them.


Author Solutions copycats that sell interviews from the individuals mentioned above:

BookVenture, ReadersMagnet, Maple Leaf Publishing, Parchment Global Publishing, Rustic Haws, Branding Nemo, Creative Titles Media, Paradigm Print, Stampa Global, Books Scribe, Matchstick Literary, PageTurner Press, EC Publishing, WestPoint Print and Media: Ric Bratton

LitFire Publishing, Author Reputation Press, ReadersMagnet, BookTrail Agency, Book-Art Press, Box Office Media Creatives, IdeoPage Press, Book Agency Plus: Kate Delaney


ReadersMagnet, Author Reputation Press, Rustik Haws, URLink Print & Media, Workbook Press, Parchment Global Publishing, BookWhip: Al Cole


BookTrail Agency: David Serero

BookTrail Agency, Book Agency Plus: Angela Chester


UPDATE 1/9/19: Parchment Global has added the disclaimer in red to its solicitations for Al Cole interviews (it might want to do some proofreading):


I don't know if this was at Mr. Cole's behest (remember, he's the only vanity radio host who responded--if not very expansively--to my request for comment) or is just CYA by Parchment Global itself, but hey--it lets me know that the scammers are still reading my blog.

Do I believe Parchment Global has stopped taking a cut? What do you think?

Former director of national intelligence James Clapper in 2018 said that he hadn't seen evidence that the Trump presidential campaign colluded with Russia to win the 2016 general election.Clapper was responding to a query from then-representative Tom Rooney, a Florida Republican, during an interview before the House Intelligence Committee. The transcript of the interview was released on Thursday."I never saw any direct empirical evidence that the Trump campaign or someone in it was plotting [or] conspiring with the Russians to meddle with the election," Clapper said."That's not to say that there weren't concerns about the evidence we were seeing, anecdotal evidence…[redacted]," Clapper added. "But I do not recall any instance when I had direct evidence of the content of these meetings. It's just the frequency and prevalence of them was of concern."Rooney then asked Clapper, "At what time is collusion collusion, and at what time is it just people that may have an affiliation with the campaign meeting or talking with… the Russian ambassador or somebody that's of Russian origin, and when should that be taken as something that rises to the level of an Intelligence Community concern?""I really can't answer it other than the sort of visceral reaction to why all these meetings with the Russians," Clapper responded. Clapper admitted that it would be "legitimate" for incoming Trump administration officials to meet with representatives of Russia, "but I think there is a line…between that and violating the principle that in this country we traditionally have one President and one administration at a time."The interview was part of a set of 53 transcripts of interviews held by the House Intelligence Committee as part of the Russia investigation. Current committee chairman Adam Schiff had called for the release of the transcripts in 2018.However, after 43 transcripts had been reviewed and redacted by intelligence agencies as of June 2019, Schiff refused to relase the completed transcripts to the public. Current acting DNI head Richard Grenell informed Schiff on Wednesday that all the transcripts were ready for publication.

#352 — April 22, 2020 Read on the Web ???? We've got a neat bonus for you this week at the bottom of the issue ???? Postgres Weekly Postgres Explain Visualizer 2: A Vue.js Component to Show Execution Plans — Less a standalone tool and something you’d use when building your own Postgres tooling. There is, however, a demo here. The output is really nifty. Dalibo Insert-Only Tables To Be Autovacuumed in Postgres 13 (But Why?) — Autovacuuming clears up dead tuples that are often left when updating or deleting data from tables, so why is autovacuuming for append-only tables a big deal in Postgres 13? Laurenz explains. Laurenz Albe Faster CI/CD for All Your Software Projects Using Buildkite — See how Shopify scaled from 300 to 1800 engineers while keeping their build times under 5 minutes. Buildkite sponsor Full Text Search in Milliseconds with Rails and Postgres — If you’ve never played with full text search with Postgres and Rails, this is a fine place to start. It covers LIKE/ILIKE, trigrams, and ‘proper’ full text searching. We also get to see how Leigh took a query from taking 130ms down to 7ms. Leigh Halliday An Easy Postgres 12 and pgAdmin 4 Setup with Docker — Docker provides an easy and loosely coupled way to get things set up in a development environment. Jonathan S. Katz Is There a Limit on Number of Partitions Handled by Postgres? — Sort of, but you’d really have to be going at it to stretch Postgres 12’s capabilities in this area. Denish Patel Where Do My Postgres Settings Come From? — A nice visual look at how parameters and settings cascade or override each other. My DBA Notebook Identify Slow-Running PostgreSQL Queries Quickly in Datadog — Improve PostgreSQL performance by visualizing and identifying errors fast using granular, out-of-the-box dashboards in Datadog. Datadog sponsor Replicate Multiple Postgres Servers to a Single MongoDB Server using Logical Decoding Output Plugin David Zhang An Overview of the JOIN Methods in Postgres Kumar Rajeev Rastogi ???? A Q&A with… Luca Ferrari Postgres community organizer, author, adjunct professor, and open source advocate. Luca Ferrari has had a huge impact on the Postgres community in Italy, having been president of the Italian PostgreSQL Users Group in the past and having helped to organize the popular PGDay.it events. He also blogs frequently about Postgres and wrote PostgreSQL 11 Server Side Programming Quick Start Guide for Packt. Note: A more complete version of this interview is on the Web. We caught up with him to ask about server side Postgres use cases in particular: For those who use Postgres as a simple database and haven't touched the deeper elements, where do you think they should start? There's no single answer to this question, since Postgres is such a huge project with so many features and a rich community. I never found a project where it cannot fit in. Postgres is somehow like Unix: you cannot touch it as "just a database", you need to commit to its culture to benefit the most out of it. In my classes, I can see that people usually get fascinated by the capabilities of doing server side programming, and that is why I decided to write my book about this topic. Often, people do not expect to be able to embed their Perl, Java, or Python libraries directly into PostgreSQL without having to rewrite their business logic in an SQL-like language. Another great feature nowdays is the support to JSON within the database, thanks to which PostgreSQL can be used as both a relational database and a 'NoSQL' storage engine, providing a lot of flexibility in your infrastructure. One suggestion I always gave is to join the mailing lists: there are several that differ by topic and amount of traffic. Most are very active and have high quality contributors that take care in providing accuate replies to users' questions, that spend time in reproducing errors and edge-cases, and who will help you. That's a mandatory place where you have to start, in my opinion, to better learn about the project, its features and its culture. Where should the line be drawn between doing things in an external programming language versus within Postgres? Often the right choice is to place business logic near the data it refers to, that is within the database itself. However, there are several things to take into account including the developer's experience and the expressiveness of SQL-derived languages like pl/PgSQL. There's a habit of letting ORMs (Object Relational Mappers) do most of the database interaction nowadays, reducing the database to a "simple storage". Of course, databases can do a lot more, and PostgreSQL in particular can help you migrate and embed your own business logic into the database itself. I have helped a few companies embed their own Java libraries into Postgres resulting in a more robust and coherent way to access the data (the real value) without any regard of the application they were using. Because once you start having data, you will soon find that such data is required by multiple applications in different technologies and on different platforms, so that implementing the same business logic rules over and over becomes a huge effort; on the other hand, moving such logic within the database simplifies and keep uniform the way your data is manipulated. What one thing do you think people should learn? Stored procedures. They serve as a common base for triggers and are very similar to routines, therefore allowing you to build more complex pieces into your own cluster. Once you have learnt the common way of defining functions, you can go deeper and write your own native functions using other languages (e.g. C). This is more complex, but thanks to the extensibility of Postgres is not an impossible task and can help you migrating more and more code into the database. Once you have created a new feature, please do contribute it back so that other people can use it! ... Last, allow me to announce that I'm working on another book right now: me and a friend of mine are writing a more general book on Postgres that will try to answer your question by leading the reader through the main features that make Postgres unique and great. Be sure to check out Luca's book PostgreSQL 11 Server Side Programming Quick Start Guide to learn more about the topics covered in this interview. You can also find the code from the book in this GitHub repo. If you enjoyed this interview, Luca actually gave some more detailed answers in the full interview which you can read here.

#499 — April 30, 2020 Read on the Web ???? Occasionally we run interviews in Ruby Weekly and we're back with another one.. with long time Rubyist and Kiba maintainer, Thibaut Barrère. Be sure to check out the bottom of this issue to read it, especially if you ever run ETL jobs with Ruby! ???? Ruby Weekly ▶  Let's Build a Twitter Clone in 10 Minutes with Rails, CableReady, and StimulusReflex — You know that cloning Twitter in 10 minutes is impossible, but what about the core mechanism of the idea? After a slow first minute, this video does a pretty good job of showing off some techniques you might not have used before. Nate Hopkins discuss.rubyonrails: The Rails Project Discussion Forum — Basically a Web version of the Rails mailing lists and a worthwhile place to head if you want to suggest features, ask questions, etc. Ruby on Rails Discussions Easy Rails Deployments — Deploy your Ruby, Rails, Sinatra, and Rack application to any cloud or server. Cloud 66 offers a scalable Heroku alternative that doesn't lock you in. Try it free and get extra $66 free credits with the code: 'Ruby-Weekly'. Cloud 66 sponsor sequel-activerecord-adapter: Allows Sequel to Reuse an ActiveRecord Connection — If you want to use more Sequel or migrate in that direction, this makes it easy. Janko Marohnić Ruby Adds Experimental Support for 'End-Less' Method Definitions — We’ve touched on this in a previous issue, but if you fancy a proper blog post with examples, this is more accessible than digging through feature tracker discussions. I’m not a fan of this syntax myself yet, but Prateek does a good job of selling it. Prateek Choudhary CableReady: Trigger Client-Side DOM Changes from Server-Side Ruby — If you skipped the video above because it’s a video (and I know many of you do ????) CableReady is still worth checking out. It aims to “complete the ActionCable story” by providing a way to directly interact with clients over ActionCable WebSockets. The docs will help you get the idea. Hopsoft ???? Jobs Find a Job Through Vettery — Vettery specializes in tech roles and is completely free for job seekers. Create a profile to get started. Vettery Security Engineer (Remote) — Are you an engineer with experience in Rails and/or Go? Join our team and help secure our apps and cloud infrastructure. Shogun ℹ️ Interested in running a job listing in Ruby Weekly? There's more info here. ???? Articles & Tutorials A Practical Use for PStore — PStore is one of the older parts of Ruby’s stdlib and lets you persist (and restore) a Ruby hash to disk. I haven’t seen it in Ruby code for years but Arkency have found a neat, modern use case. Paweł Pacana ▶  Drag and Drop Sortable Lists with Rails and Stimulus JS — How to wire up drag and drop lists with a Rails app using Sortable, Stimulus and acts_as_list. Go Rails Setting Up Multi-Factor Authentication for RubyGems.org — If you’re a registered user of the official Ruby Gems repository, you should have had an email this week about securing your account using 2FA. This is just my own reminder that this is a good idea especially if you publicly publish widely used gems! :-) Rubygems.org Let’s Explore Big-O Notation With Ruby ???? — Learn to use Big-O to look at an algorithm and easily discern its efficiency, without having to run a profiling tool. Honeybadger sponsor ▶  Discussing Docker and Kubernetes with Kelsey Hightower — A worthwhile show to listen to if Kubernetes and Docker intimidate you but you want to know a little more. Kelsey is good at breaking these things down into understandable pieces. Rails with Jason Podcast podcast Rails System Tests in Docker — We’re seeing an uptick in articles about system tests in Rails. Here’s how to integrate them into your development Docker setup. Hint.io The Difference Between System Specs and Feature Specs — If you’ve felt the difference between RSpec’s “feature specs” and “system specs” is quite subtle, this explanation will help. Jason Swett Why Rubyists Should Consider Learning Go — If you want compilation and a type system, Crystal is probably a better fit for Rubyists, but Go is undoubtedly a neat language and ecosystem (and if you do end up in the Go world, check out our Go weekly! ????) Ayooluwa Isaiah Building a Ruby CLI with Thor Daniel Gómez ???? Code and Tools git curate: Peruse and Delete git Branches Ergonomically — Got a repo cluttered with branches here and there? git curate aims to cure the pains of getting those branches back under control. Matt Harvey MessageBus: A Reliable and Robust Messaging Bus for Ruby and Rack Sam Saffron Are You Spending Too Much on Heroku? Rails Autoscale sponsor bootstrap_form: A Rails Form Builder for Bootstrap v4-Style Forms Bootstrap Ruby ActiveModelAttributes: The Active Record Attributes API, but for Active Model — Brings some of the goodies of the Rails 5 Active Record attributes API to ActiveModel too. 1.6.0 just dropped. Karol Galanciak ???? A Q&A with… Thibaut Barrère Creator of Kiba ETL Thibaut Barrère is a long-time Rubyist and data engineer who built and maintains the popular Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) framework Kiba. We asked him some questions about his work: What inspired you to create Kiba? A lot of my work since ~2005 has been focused on data integration (making systems speak together), data aggregation etc. I sometimes used GUI-based tools like Microsoft SSIS which, while powerful, are quite far from the coding experience. I was already using Ruby at that time, and was happy to discover activewarehouse-etl (maintained by Anthony Eden, who runs DNSimple now) providing a Ruby DSL to declare data pipelines. I used it for a while with very good success to implement data extractions and business intelligence ETL, and ultimately took over the maintenance. In the long run, though (as I explained in a recent Paris.rb talk), the balance between the the cost of OSS maintenance and the usability for my billable and non-billable use-cases proved to be not good enough, which made me decide to stop the maintenance, sadly. I still wanted to use Ruby to write data pipelines, but I needed to cover more use-cases and reduce the OSS maintenance burden at the same time. This ultimately led me to write and share (in 2015) Kiba ETL, a focused DSL for declarative processing, matching those criterias. Do you find yourself adding more features while in quarantine? Before the quarantine, I directed my Kiba bandwith and focus on finalizing Kiba v3 and rewriting the documentation from scratch, to properly encourage best practices I’ve been discovering. I also created experimental branches for Ruby 2.7/2.8 keywords. During the quarantine, I've reduced client work and OSS work too, to focus on shipping Kiba Pro v2 (which I’ll announce shortly officially). I’ve extracted and generalized (from real-life projects) very useful components, such as a “batch SQL lookup” (useful when replacing relationships keys during data migrations and datawarehouses sync code, in batch rather than row by row), a “file lock” to ensure a single job runs at once, and a “parallel transform” to achieve easy concurrency for things like HTTP queries. What's the wildest ETL that you've encountered? Getting the data out of a system which is actively not acting in that direction is always a bit wild.. One can see all types of fancy stuff on the field. For instance, it is not uncommon to have an ETL process start a headless browser, jump through pages, just to get to the CSV/PDF/Excel file that you will then use as your data source! You can also end up having to figure out ways to read or write very old file formats at times. Recently I wrote a Kiba component to generate a COBOL delimited file, for instance. In large companies, a very widely used I/O is good old SFTP, far away from modern APIs and formats. Can you tell us how to say your last name? ???? I had to deploy a page to my blog to answer that question properly ????. You’ll find out how to say my name here. Merci Thibaut! You can read some of Thibaut's posts on his blog and find out more about Kiba ETL here.

#310 — May 1, 2020 Unsubscribe  :  Read on the Web Golang Weekly An Interview with Go's Rob Pike — Go’s co-creator answers some big picture questions about Go’s status, history, and future. “Go has indeed become the language of cloud infrastructure,” says Rob. Evrone ???? What's Coming in Go 1.15 — This presentation covers all the major sections: tooling, performance, API changes, and the Big Ones, like the aforementioned smaller binaries. Fingers crossed for a final release in August. Daniel Martí slidedeck Troubleshoot Golang App Issues with End-To-End Distributed Tracing — Trace requests across service boundaries to optimize bottlenecks by drilling into individual traces end-to-end with flame graphs. Correlate Golang traces with related logs and metrics for fast troubleshooting. Enhance performance with a free Datadog APM trial. Datadog APM sponsor Debugging Go Programs using Delve — The recent Go community survey showed that most Go developers use text-based logging (e.g. with fmt.Print()) to debug, but if you want to step things up a notch, this is a gentle intro to Delve. Naveen Ramanathan My Journey Optimizing The Go Compiler — Assel explains how a simple task evolved into a legitimate compiler optimization (aimed at 1.15) and proves we should all have a curious mind. Assel Meher The 'Ultimate' Go Study Guide — A large repository of code examples with comments and notes from Hoanh’s attempt at learning the language. If you pick up concepts well from straightforward examples, this is worth a look. Hoanh An ???? Jobs Software Engineer at HiPeople (Remote/Berlin) — Fast-moving startup (backed by top tier VCs) shaping the future of modern recruiting is looking for engineers who love working with Go. HiPeople Find a Job Through Vettery — Vettery specializes in tech roles and is completely free for job seekers. Create a profile to get started. Vettery ???? Articles & Tutorials Making a Multiplayer Game with Go and gRPC — Started as a (somewhat ambitious) project to learn Go, Sam walks us through the algorithms, design decisions, mistakes, and where Go helped and hurt the game. Samuel Mortenson Documenting a Go GitHub Repo — Or, “How to Keep the README in Your GitHub Repo in Sync with Your Go Doc.” Eyal Posener The 5 Crucial PDF & Office Features For Corporate Apps in Pure Go — UniDoc develops pure Go libraries for managing PDF and Office files since 2016. Here are the features developers use the most. UniDoc sponsor ▶  Discussing Building Immediate Mode GUIs in Go — Elias Naur, creator of Gio, joins the popular Go podcast to discuss building GUI apps with Go, the pros and cons of immediate vs retained mode and examples of each. Go Time Podcast podcast The Creation of a Realtime Patient Monitoring System with Go and Vue in 3 Days — This is the Go content I am here for. Connecting with monitoring devices and leveraging Go’s strengths to create a helpful, distributed application. Great work. Kasun Vithanage Add It Up: Azure’s Go Problem — Here’s one takeaway from the Go Developer Survey. Of the major clouds, Azure is the one Go developers seem least enamored by. Lawrence E Hecht Why You Should Generally Be using the Latest Version of Go — No surprising arguments here. Chris Siebenmann ???? Code & Tools XLSX: A Library for Reading and Writing XLSX (Excel) Files — Got spreadsheets? Want to make spreadsheets? There’s a lot you can do with them here. Geoffrey J. Teale SQLBoiler: Generate a Go ORM Tailored to Your Database Schema — A long standing library that has now switched to modules. Volatile Technologies Inc. Decimal: Arbitrary-Precision Fixed-Point Decimal Numbers for Go — The library laments that it can only support decimal numbers with up to 2^38 digits after the decimal point so take care ???? Spring Engineering Beta Launch: Code Performance Profiling - Find & Fix Bottlenecks Blackfire sponsor Redigo: A Go Client for Redis — In related news, Redis 6.0 has just been released. Gary Burd ntp: Facebook's NTP Libraries — NTP stands for “Network Time Protocol”, if you were wondering. Basically, clock synchronization. Facebook Incubator grobotstxt: A Native Go Port of Google's Robots.txt Parser and Matcher Library — Now you can crawl your own site, just like Google does. Jim Smart A Compiler for a Small Custom Language Into x86-64 Assembly — One of those ‘labor of love’ type projects that you might enjoy poking around in. You won’t use this project directly, but you might be intrigued how to create a similar compiler for your own thing. Maurice Tollmien MIDAS: Microcluster-Based Detector of Anomalies in Edge Streams — A Go reimplementation of this C++ version. Steve Tan Liftbridge 1.0: Lightweight, Fault-Tolerant Message Streams — A server that implements a durable, replicated message log for the NATS messaging system. Liftbridge

Russia's Sergey Abramov broke one of his superstitions and gave FIFA.com an interview ahead of his country's big final against Argentina at the FIFA Futsal World Cup Colombia 2016.

Hear from Australia midfielder Aaron Mooy after his side's 3-2 defeat against Germany at the FIFA Confederations Cup 2017.

Hear from Russia midfielder Yuri Zhirkov after his sides 1-0 defeat against Portugal at the FIFA Confederations Cup 2017.

Hear from the Chilean forward, Eduardo VARGAS, after his side drew 1-1 over Germany at the FIFA Confederations Cup 2017.

Hear from Chile goalscorer Martin Rodriguez, after his side drew 1-1 with Australia at the FIFA Confederations Cup 2017.

Hear from Germany midfielder Emre Can, after his sides 3-1 win over Cameroon at the FIFA Confederations Cup 2017.

Hear from Portugal defender Pepe after his side beat Mexico to finish in third place at the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup.

Hear from Germany goalkeeper and FIFA Man of the Match Marc-Andre Ter Stegen, after his side beat Chile 1-0 to win the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup.

Hear from Chile midfielder Arturo Vidal after his side lost 1-0 to Germany in the Final of the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup.

Hear from Chile goalkeeper and Golden Glove winner Claudio Bravo after his side lost 1-0 to Germany in the Final of the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup.

Taimur Ali Khan keeps giving us reasons to find his utterly cute. The toddler is the apple of his parents' eyes, and now that the lockdown has put the three together indoors for a long time, the kiddo seems to be making the most of it!

Recently, Tim made a cameo appearance in papa Saif Ali Khan's interview once again. The little one came in asking about some photo, confusing Saif as well!

Saif Ali Khan was in conversation with Rajeev Masand when this incident occurred. Speaking about the lockdown and how he and Kareena have been keeping Taimur occupied, Saif said, "Kareena tries to have an arts and crafts class with him in the afternoon, there's some online education going on in the morning, we play some sport like cricket or football in the corridor, we read to him at night... so we've managed to form a kind of a routine."

The Tanhaji actor also spoke about how he doesn't feel inclined towards joining social media, but his mum, veteran actress Sharmila Tagore, wants to join Instagram! He shared, "I told her that she would have to share pictures (on Instagram). She said she needs to get to Pataudi and her roses and she could share that. So I said if she gets on Instagram, I might get on it as well."

Well, we sure would love to have both Sharmila Tagore and Saif Ali Khan on the 'gram!

On the work front, Saif was last seen in the historical drama Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior, in which he played the character of Uday Bhan Singh opposite Ajay Devgn's Tanhaji Malusare.

Catch up on all the latest entertainment news and gossip here. Also, download the new mid-day Android and iOS apps.

Mid-Day is now on Telegram. Click here to join our channel (@middayinfomedialtd) and stay updated with the latest news

Filmmaker-producer Farah Khan has been spending a lot of time at home with her husband and three kids - Anya, Diva and Czar - thanks to the coronavirus lockdown. In a recent video that has gone viral on the internet, we can see Farah's kids interviewing her, and it's quite fun!

Farah shared the video on Instagram and wrote, "Tables have turned. My lovely kids are interviewing me! And looks like they are quite embarrassed by answers. Here's a snippet of our #BachFUNMoment and all our masti!"

 

 

 

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Farah Khan Kunder (@farahkhankunder) onMay 4, 2020 at 6:34am PDT

Farah Khan's children ask her about things like if she likes rap songs, to which she says that she likes the song 'Rail Gadi, Rail Gadi'. They also ask her if she liked puppies when she was growing up, and what is the answer to 37 multiplied by 12.

Several of Farah's fans found the video very cute and funny. One Instagram user commented, "soo cute god bless u all" while another said, "Love you Farah... don't tell anyone but you're my favourite" and yet another Insta user wrote, "This is a wonderful way to keep your children entertained. Being a teacher, I know how hard it is to teach online and be with my own kids trying to help them understand school work but nothing beats making time with your own kids and just doing something out of the ordinary..."

Well, seems like Farah Khan sure has got her kids' attention!

Catch up on all the latest entertainment news and gossip here. Also, download the new mid-day Android and iOS apps.

Mid-Day is now on Telegram. Click here to join our channel (@middayinfomedialtd) and stay updated with the latest news

Highlights: On behalf of ISPEN 2019, Medindia interviewed Dr. BS Ramakrishna to throw light on the evolving ro

Highlights: On behalf of ISPEN 2019, Medindia interviewed Dr. Esther Myers on her work in the implementation o

Highlights: On behalf of ISPEN 2019, Medindia interviewed Dr. Usha Sriram on her talk on Metabolic syndrome D