Elon and the Twitter quitters

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You’ve never heard of him, but Mike was one of Twitter’s best-case scenarios. Mike — a high school teacher in Ontario, Canada, who has asked me not to use his last name — signed up for Twitter in 2007, shortly…

Adding Custom GitHub Badges to Your Repo

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If you’ve spent time looking at open-source repos on GitHub, you’ve probably noticed that most of them use badges in their README files. Take the official React repository, for instance. There are GitHub badges all over the README file that communicate important dynamic info, like the latest released…

5 reasons companies fail in outsourcing

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Outsourcing has been globally recognized for its beneficial effect on business efficiency and competitive position. This process implies contracting part of business functions such as customer support, administrative tasks, and accounting to a third-party firm. Even though through outsourcing business…