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2025-04-13

Tired of Digging Through Long PDFs? You Can Build a Bot That Can Quickly Answer Questions for You

Tired of digging through long PDFs? This guide walks you through building a basic "Ask My Book" bot using a RAG pipeline — where your questions are answered based on...

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Confession: I Used to Think Specs Were Everything. Agile Broke Me (and Made Me Better)

When I started out as a BA, we were taught to treat documentation like gospel. But in an Agile world, usefulness doesn’t come from a polished doc. What they needed...

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Make Your Vaadin App Smarter, Prettier, and Faster With These Advanced Styling Hacks

Styling in Vaadin goes beyond simple theme definitions.

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Lumo Who? Build Your Own Theme in Vaadin and Rule the UI

While Vaadin offers built-in themes like Lumo, customizing themes is often necessary to align the application’s appearance with branding requirements.

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This One Line of Code Can Change Your Entire Vaadin App’s Look

Theming is a fundamental aspect of any Vaadin application, allowing developers to define the look and feel of their UI.

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Sunday Rewind: Why you need quantitative AND qualitative data

This week’s Sunday Rewind is a 2018 post from Glenn Block and Timo Hilhorst on the differences and respective merits of quantitative and qualitative data and why it’s important for...

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Before You Burn Millions on Ads, Try Talking to People

Business development can be used as a blueprint for market validation. Instead of asking, “How can we sell here?’ — we asked, ‘What can we learn here?' The KPIs weren’t...

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Your Marketing Team Doesn’t Need Another Meeting—It Needs a Better Data Stack

In fast-scaling tech companies, misalignment between product, sales, and marketing isn’t just inconvenient — it’s expensive. Teams operate on different metrics, tools, and timelines. Disconnected strategies, delayed feedback loops, and...

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AI is Changing the DNA of Sales Enablement

Sales enablement was synonymous with static PDFs, battlecards, and quarterly workshops. From hyper-personalized coaching to real-time intelligence, artificial intelligence is moving sales enablement from the realm of support to a...

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Bitcoin Promised to Help Tonga After Disaster—But the Blockchain Tells a Murkier Story

What happened to Bitcoin donations sent to Tonga after the January 2022 Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai volcanic eruption and tsunami?

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Keep Your Happy Path Flowing, Not Nesting

Arrange your code so the main logic flows along the left margin, handling edge cases early with guard clauses.

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How I switched careers from software engineer to AI policy operations

Published on April 13, 2025 6:37 AM GMTThanks to Linda Linsefors for encouraging me to write my story. Although it might not generalize to anyone else, I hope it will...

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The TechBeat: Google A2A - a First Look at Another Agent-agent Protocol (4/13/2025)

How are you, hacker? 🪐Want to know what's trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set...

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A new limited edition of Doom comes in a box that runs Doom

...and includes a little Cacodemon toy that runs Doom.

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Marvel's Spider-Man 2 was Steam Deck Verified, but now it's not

Downgraded to "playable" over a month later.

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This shooter is billing itself as 'the Battlefield Heroes you can actually play'

Heroes of Valor will step into the decade-empty spot left by Battlefield Heroes' demise.

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3 months ago

Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, April 13

Help with solving Sunday's puzzle.

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Nicky Katt, the voice of Atton Rand in Knights of the Old Republic 2, has died aged 54

Katt also appeared in movies including Dazed and Confused and Boiler Room.

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3 months ago

Startup Exercise: What can't be solved with money?

What can't be solved with money, are the most valuable things.

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