Indoor positioning using LEDs can help stores engage and sell to brick-and-mortar customers as if they were online. At first glance it looks like an ordinary announcement: A technology company is teaming with Microsoft to help industry collect, analyze, and use data in a manner that optimizes sales. Only this time, the partner is not … Continue reading Acuity, Microsoft to jointly show lighting-based IoT services for retail trade at New York confab
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Web crawler and more
Definition of crawler 1: one that crawls 2: a vehicle (as a crane) that travels on endless chain belts Crawfish - you know what it means... A Web crawler is an Internet bot which systematically browses the World Wide Web, typically for the purpose of Web indexing. Web search engines and some other sites … Continue reading Web crawler and more
Why use Node.js?
Source: https://www.toptal.com/nodejs/why-the-hell-would-i-use-node-js JavaScript’s rising popularity has brought with it a lot of changes, and the face of web development today is dramatically different. The things that we can do on the web nowadays with JavaScript running on the server, as well as in the browser, were hard to imagine just several years ago, or were … Continue reading Why use Node.js?
A few useful JavaScript and CSS framework
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Some interesting reading on VC
This is from https://www.bvp.com/portfolio/anti-portfolio HONORING THOSE WE MISSED The Anti-Portfolio Bessemer Venture Partners is perhaps the nation's oldest venture capital firm, tracing our roots back to the Carnegie Steel empire. This long and storied history has afforded our firm an unparalleled number of opportunities to completely screw up. Over the course of our history, we did invest … Continue reading Some interesting reading on VC
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Scan for available WIFI access points on Linux
$sudo iwlist wlan0 scanning | egrep 'Cell |Encryption|Quality|Last beacon|ESSID' It's the combination of sudo (run as root, do privileged operations), iwlist wlan0 scanning (produce some output on STDOUT), the pipe symbol "|" (connecting STDOUT of the command(s) to the left to the STDIN of the process on the right), and an egrep command with a … Continue reading Scan for available WIFI access points on Linux
How to find you ip address on Linux
There are quite a few ways to do this. $ ifconfig ---------------------------- $ _IP=$(hostname -I) $ echo $_IP ---------------------------- $ ip addr | grep inet
Switch back and forth between Wifi and AP on Raspberry Pi
Source: http://sirlagz.net/2013/01/22/script-starting-hostapd-when-wifi-goes-down/ Source: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=38323 I’ve had issues with my WiFi in the past, and with my Pi running headless it’s sometimes a pain to get it connected back up to WiFi, so I’ve created this little script to start hostapd and dnsmasq whenever the WiFi connection went down, which allowed me to SSH into the … Continue reading Switch back and forth between Wifi and AP on Raspberry Pi
How effective are social media?
https://www.shopify.com/infographics/social-commerce o better understand how social media is impacting the ecommerce industry, we analyzed data from 37 million social media visits that led to 529,000 orders. Here's some interesting data points we uncovered: Facebook dominates as a source of social traffic and sales. Nearly two thirds of all social media visits to Shopify stores come … Continue reading How effective are social media?
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