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3 Facebook Ads Case Studies for Improving Conversion Rate

Having trouble converting on your Facebook Ad campaigns? See how these companies do it.To effectively increase conversions with digital advertising, it takes more than a little trial and error.You probably know by now that there is more to high-ROI Facebook campaigns than a pretty image and catchy …

Marketing

You Should Avoid VC Money at All Costs, According to This Top Investor

Gil Penchina, one of the top angel investors in the Silicon Valley, explains why you should not take venture capital money to grow your business.I recently had the chance to sit down with Gil Penchina - one of the top investors and operators in the Silicon Valley. Gil is known for being critical to …

Venture Capital

A Roadmap To Building A Delightful Onboarding Experience For Mobile App Users

But once the user logs into the app, they’re often left alone. They start drowning instead of swimming towards their goal.For users to give your app …

Anti-Patterns in Python Programming

Constantine Lignos | Last updated: July 09, 2014This page is a collection of the most unfortunate but occasionally subtle issues I’ve seen in code …

Connecting Asia's startup ecosystem

Asia

Introduction to the Python Interpreter, Part 2: Code Objects - Allison Kaptur

[Edit: A significantly expanded version of this series appears as a chapter in The Architecture of Open Source Applications, volume 4, as A Python …

Introduction to the Python Interpreter, Part 1: Function Objects - Allison Kaptur

[Edit: A significantly expanded version of this series appears as a chapter in The Architecture of Open Source Applications, volume 4, as A Python …

Making GIFs from Video Files with Python - del( self )

Sometimes producing a good animated GIF requires a few advanced tweaks, for which scripting can help. So I added a GIF export feature to MoviePy, a …

Python programming language squeezes out JavaScript, C as best for beginners

Earlier this month, ITworld blogger Matthew Mombrea wrote an interesting post about which programming language is the best one to learn first (his …

30 Python Language Features and Tricks You May Not Know About

1 IntroductionSince I started learning Python, I decided to maintain an often visited list of "tricks". Any time I saw a piece of code (in an …

Detecting duplicate images using Python

With thousands of icons being uploaded to Iconfinder.com every month, the risk of pirated content also increases. To keep out the swindlers we have …

Python Programming

Parallelising Python with Threading and Multiprocessing

One aspect of coding in Python that we have yet to discuss in any great detail is how to optimise the execution performance of our simulations. While …

Why Python is Slow: Looking Under the Hood | Pythonic Perambulations

1. Python is Dynamically Typed rather than Statically Typed.¶What this means is that at the time the program executes, the interpreter doesn't know …

Jessica Livingston: Why Startups Need to Focus on Sales, Not Marketing

JESSICA LIVINGSTON: The most important thing an early-stage startup should know about marketing is rather counterintuitive: that you probably shouldn’t be doing anything you’d use the term “marketing” to describe. Sales and marketing are two ends of a continuum. At the sales end your outreach is …

Should non-technical founders learn how to code?

Elisha Tan is the founder of Learnemy, a web application that finds you instructors for anything you want to learn. Find her on Twitter as @elishatan.…

On why learning to program is hard

The first mention of ‘Objects’ with regard to some non-tangible thing was in the late 1950s. Before that, ‘Objects’ didn’t exist. Once you realize …

Super Planet Crash - Can you feel the gravity?

Introduction to A*

The unit is initially at the bottom of the map and wants to get to the top. There is nothing in the area it scans (shown in pink) to indicate that …

Stanford University

Website Interactions Without Code

Everything you see on this page was built visually in Webflow.Now you can design interactions and animations for your website without writing a line …

A nonprofit in Queens taught people to write iPhone apps — and their incomes jumped from $15k to $72k

There's a booming tech scene in New York City with over 70,000 open jobs, but it's always been somewhat insulated from the city itself — a problem that's led to only one in four of those jobs getting filled.That situation led the non-profit Coalition for Queens to start Access Code, a unique …