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Since I was in college, I have spent a lot of unstructured time to study programming through a wide range of online resources, such as MOOCs, technology conference videos and blogs of software developers. I also have several side projects, which enable me to experiment with new technologies, such as a realtime chat room service built with WebSocket and a Python client for a bitcoin exchange. In addition, I have actively attended offline technology conferences, hackathons and meetups, such as PyCon (the most famous Python conference in the world), Hadoop Conference Japan, Tokyo Bitcoin Meetup and Yahoo Open Hack Day. However, those efforts can never replace the experience I could get at Stanford…

“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.” Words mentioned by the writer Jonathan Swift in his book called Gulliver’s Travels. However, this is going to be focused on his other popular handiwork called A Modest Proposal, in which we can observe how he is able to see the unseen and critiques the wealthy through it. Swift was born in Ireland in 1667, and thanks to his job as private secretary to Sir William Temple, a retired Whig diplomat, at Moor Park in southern England he…

Facebook provides an incredible opportunity for dining establishments, such as Philadelphia’s Bar and Grille, to connect with their clientele. This is a social media outlet that is known for being a place where people go to catch up with friends, share photos, update statuses, and check-in to different locations. Key reasons for using Facebook: • Strengthens a restaurant’s online presence • Gain potential consumers and develop relationships with existing customers o Ability to interact with…

Overcoming the Fears of Being Tiny In a Giant World In “Gulliver’s Travels: Into Several Remote Nations of The World” by Johnathan Swift, several ways are shown as to how Gulliver’s interaction with Glumdalclitch and the queen develop a theme of overcoming fear. First, Gulliver is not frightened of Glumdalclitch. Secondly, he continues to dine with the queen despite his fear of their knives. Lastly, Gulliver begins to fight back against the massive flies by cutting them with his knife. First,…

Native advertising Native advertising came about a few years ago as a way for advertisers to get around ad blocking software that is used my many people. With the increase use of services that block ads advertisers came up with a form of advertisement that is forced on consumers. Native ads are so interworked with the design and functionality of the page. (Dictionary.com) If you want to view the page it is often a requirement for a person to turn off the ad blocker software to be able to view…

Introduction Yahoo Inc. is one of the largest multinationals whose headquarters is located in Sunnyvale, California in the United States. Jerry Yang and David Filo founded the multinational in January 1994 and it got its incorporated status on the second day of March 1995. Generally, the company has been viewed to be one of the earliest pioneers of the early Internet era in the 90’s. Presently, the president of the company is the former Google executive by the name Marissa Mayer. The company…

On May 4, 1699, on a journey to the South Seas, Gulliver is on board a ship by the name of Antelope leaving Bristol, England. As the ship begins to sail, it encounters a violent storm that sinks the ship. Gulliver swims to an island of the Lilliputs and falls asleep. As Gulliver begins to awaken, he finds himself strapped down and cannot move as the people of Lilliputians are all across his body. The Lilliputians stand about about six inches in stature. Gulliver struggles to get loose and…

Before the wave of search engines we know today, navigating through the world wide web was chaotic. Two friends from Stanford University, Jerry Yang and David Filo, in their boredom, set out to develop a means of indexing and cataloging their favorite websites. (Clark) Little did they know this would lead to bigger and better things. What started out as a fun project for sharing websites, soon turned into a money making giant. A giant that would become what we now know as Yahoo, paving the way…

. This represent the government in England at that time who have considered and removed from their people and unconcerned of the needs of the common man. The Houyhnhnms represent a successful society which benefits all of the Houyhnhnms and considers them all equal. The Houynhnms are logical and have honest principles; however, they are not human. On the other hand the Yahoos symbolize all that is bad with human beings as they are uncivilized, greedy and…

Animal Farm was written by George Orwell in 1945. His real name is Eric Arthur Blair who was born in Motihari, Bengal, India, in 1903. George Orwell is an English novelist, essayist and critic. He is best known for his novels Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four which were published in 1945 and 1949 respectively. Orwell formed many strong opinions about major political movements during his time including imperialism and communism. Most of his strong political opinions were influenced when he…