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Alternatives of Microsoft Project with the highest review ratings

Alternatives of Microsoft Project with the highest review ratings

When it comes to project management, the first name that will cross your mind is none other than Microsoft Project. It is powerful and offers a diversity of features, making it a great tool. However, it is not the only one to take the top spot. There are several alternatives to this tool in the market, and you will read about them further in detail. Ganttpro Cloud-based project-handling tools are rising in popularity, and the top one among them is Ganttpro. This tool is known for its incredible features and intuitive interface. As per both Capterra and G2, it has…
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The Morning After: The US Treasury finalizes tax rules for crypto

The Morning After: The US Treasury finalizes tax rules for crypto

Welcome to the first day of July. Summer is here in earnest, but let me keep you, briefly, indoors with tales of finalized rules for crypto in the US, and how Lego is making bricks from stardust.A new rule finalized by the US Treasury Department will ensure that people that dipped their toes into crypto (and crypto trading) are paying the proper amount on their sales. The new rule will require cryptocurrency platforms like exchanges and payment processors to report their users' transactions to the IRS. Brokers will have to start reporting sales proceeds on digital assets in 2026 for…
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Text I/O vs. Binary I/O

Text I/O vs. Binary I/O

Binary I/O does not involve encoding or decoding and thus is more efficient than text I/O. Computers do not differentiate between binary files and text files. All files are stored in binary format, and thus all files are essentially binary files. Text I/O is built upon binary I/O to provide a level of abstraction for character encoding and decoding, as shown in Figure below (a). Encoding and decoding are automatically performed for text I/O. The JVM converts Unicode to a file-specific encoding when writing a character, and it converts a file-specific encoding to Unicode when reading a character. For example,…
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How I Befriended Segment Trees

How I Befriended Segment Trees

Last time, I talked about one advanced data structure that is useful for handling frequent range queries – Fenwick Tree. However, it's not very versatile as it is mostly used for sum queries, and I personally never used it for any other kind of problem. However, there is another player on the field, which has many more hats. Ladies and gentlemen, meet the Segment Tree, one of the most useful, yet often overlooked data structure. Why I decided to learn it So, what was my motivation behind learning Segment Trees? The answer is quite simple, actually. I got tired of…
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The best Wi-Fi extenders in 2024

The best Wi-Fi extenders in 2024

The best Wi-Fi range extenders do what they say on the box - extend your home’s Wi-Fi signal, eliminating dead spots around your home. With so many of us working from home, it’s important that your wireless network is robust, and that means being able to get a Wi-Fi signal in all areas of your home, including your basement or backyard. You don’t necessarily need to invest in a new wireless router or modem either, since Wi-Fi extenders connect to your existing home network and are often quite affordable. We tested out a number of Wi-Fi extenders to find out…
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26 Icon datasets and more frontend resources

26 Icon datasets and more frontend resources

Under the Hood The story begins when I want to find the icon library.  Frontend Roadmap Template || Ultimate Frontend Toolkit GPT helps me to get the list, but again some links won’t work and not all good resources are covered by GPT itself. Here we go with 20 icon libraries and links I’ve added the same list in the Frontend roadmap template this will certainly help a lot of developers, it has made 100+ sales in 50 countries. Frontend roadmap template || Ultimate Frontend Toolkit This same template has other resources as mentioned below, so give it a shot.…
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Microsoft’s Weather app now shows more ads – gHacks Tech News

Microsoft’s Weather app now shows more ads – gHacks Tech News

It's raining ads in Windows 11. The Microsoft Weather app in the operating system now displays more ads. You may recall that a year ago, Microsoft had actually removed the ads from the app, and it appeared that the company had finally listened to feedback from users. But the annoying banners are back, and there's two of them now on the Forecast page. For those unaware, the old version of Microsoft Weather was a UWP app, but the company replaced it with an Edge WebView, which is a container that uses the Edge Engine. In other words, the Weather app…
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Split & Group Text and Perform Distinct on Each Group

Split & Group Text and Perform Distinct on Each Group

Problem description & analysis: Below is an irregularly categorized detail table. Column A and column B are categories and both have duplicate values. Column C contains detailed data consisting of strings separated by "comma+space", and there are duplicates among the string values. Task: Split detail data in each category, group them by category, get unique values of each group, and concatenate them using "comma+space". Solution: Use SPL XLL to enter the following formula: =spl("=E@b(?.group(~1,~2;~.conj(~3.split@ct()).id().concat("","")))",A2:C12) Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode As shown in the picture below: Explanation: group()function groups rows and handles data in each group; ~1 represents the first…
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Once a Maintainer: Sofie Van Landeghem

Once a Maintainer: Sofie Van Landeghem

Welcome to Once a Maintainer, where we interview open source maintainers and tell their story.This week we’re talking to Sofie Van Landeghem, core maintainer of the advanced NLP library spaCy. Sofie has been working in machine learning and NLP since 2006, and has worked on practical use cases in the pharmaceutical and food industries. She spoke with us from her home in Belgium. Once a Maintainer is written by the team at Infield, a platform for managing open source dependency upgrades.How did you get into software development?It was a long time ago. I had always loved mathematics in high school,…
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