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Our comprehensive guide to CSS flexbox layout. This complete guide explains everything about flexbox, focusing on all the different possible properties for the parent element (the flex container) and the child elements (the flex items). It also includes history, demos, patterns, and a browser support chart.
Some of us find the process of learning easier with graphics. Here is a link to understand how Flexbox works simple and fast.
Not so long ago we depended on specialized people to obtain certain products. However, this began to change since the “Do it yourself” era. Therefore, we can all be writers, journalists, and promote ourselves with just a few simple steps. Now also the possibility of creating websites is available to everyone. While I started my HTML and CSS learning for the development of web pages and understanding the learning effort involved, I heard the comment of a platform that does this work with a few simple steps. Being more traditional and skeptical in these matters I wanted to investigate the negative aspects of this platform called Wix. 1-The free design alternatives are basic and simple with a lack of identity. If the user wants something more sophisticated, expenses are added, reaching similar figures to what a specialized professional would charge. 2- For being a free platform and also the most popular, the hosting becomes deficient since all the servers keep the sites in there producing the system to fail. 3-The pages are slow because their optimization is low in terms of the code, therefore, the times to load the page increase affecting the user experience. 4- Another important negative factor is the risk of losing your project. If at any time the decision to change the platform arises, all the work will be lost and you will have to start from scratch. 5-Finally, even though many aesthetic results can be obtained, there will always be more impersonal and will never be compared with the more personal work of a professional.
Another example of the existence of bias in the algorithms that govern different software is the facial recognition system. This type of software is used today to detect a target in social networks for a specific product or advertising. However, it is also used for more transcendental issues such as the selection of personnel, criminality or loans. A final study carried out by Joy Buolamwini, an African-American researcher at the MIT Media Lab, concluded that this software is 99% effective when it comes to recognizing white men. But when the skins darken the effectiveness decreases to 35% in black women. After experiencing the new software and obtaining negative results with the recognition of her face, Joy Buolamwini decided to go deeper into this system and investigate what the performance of this software is in leading companies such as Microsoft, IBM, and Megvii of China. The reason for selecting these companies was because the three of them offer gender classification features in their facial recognition software. For the testing of this software, she created a data system with 1270 faces that were obtained from law firms (including African and Nordic countries) where there was a high percentage of women. The results of testing the software in the three leading companies showed that the margin of error for the recognition of dark-skinned women at Microsoft was 21 percent. In the case of IBM and Megvii, the percentage increased to 35. However, the errors for the recognition of light-skinned males were less than 1 percent. To sum up, the facial recognition software can increase social inequalities if it is not designed and developed with transparency and social awareness resulting in the exclusion of women or minority groups.
Throughout history, and yet this can still be seen today, there was a clear division of tasks in the workplace that defined which jobs were for men and which jobs were for women. This division of tasks was founded on gender theories (the masculine, the feminine), placing men in a position of power, dominating the field of science, engineering, and technology. During the period 1980-2010, 88% of the patents in the technological industries were made by men, while 2% of the inventions in this field were carried out by female only teams. The graphs above were taken from the report: Women in Tech (2016), expose the numbers of women in the area of computation. By 2015, women occupied 25% of the positions. Breaking this percentage down, 16% corresponds to white women, decreasing to 5% to Asian women, 3% for Latina women and 1% for black women. It is also important to highlight what type of jobs are being represented in the 25 percent of female occupation. The reality is that this percentage is more representative of administrative work, marketing or related to communication skills within the company. Therefore job positions such as software development, leadership in technology, or other key roles that are involved with future innovation are occupied mostly by men. The truth is that to change this reality it is important that companies commit to demonstrating greater gender equality regarding jobs focused more on software design, leadership, and innovation. One of the fundamental issues that must be addressed is the paradigm shift in the education of children. In order to accomplish this, it is necessary to break with the old established models, therefore, undoing the current gender roles.
To check more:
http://www.ncwit.org/sites/default/files/resources/womenintech_facts_fullreport_05132016.pdf
When I first began to explore in the new brutalist trend in web design the feeling was to have no limitations. Contrary to what has been seen so far and improving the first websites of the ’90s, this trend comes to bring what I think has to do with more freedom in conceptual design and visual impact on users. My passion for brutalist design began before the Internet era and it was through the observation of architectural examples from Le Corbusier and Carlo Scarpa. Conceptually the brutalist architecture has several points in common with the new web design trend. One of the characteristics that can be highlighted in both is the idea of visual impact through a large scale. In the case of websites, it can be seen, for example, in the oversized typography. Also in both cases is not common the overuse of decorative elements purely to embellish. It is worth to point out that the context in which this movement resurfaces is affected by the melancholy of the past that can also be seen in the revival of movies, music bands and, clothing styles. While the return of the brutalist style is based on the first websites of the 90s, this new version embraces the new technologies creating a product with a more free and innovative structure. Although it can not be predicted if this visual aesthetic will last, I consider that this trend leaves an opening, giving rise to a new and more diverse concept of design.
We live in the age of the algorithm - mathematical models are sorting our job applications, curating our online worlds, influencing our elections, and even d...
Once again, Cathy O’Neil explains why algorithms are not objective and most of the time beneficial to the builders of those algorithms. This time with graphics and in a more synthetic way.
MIND THE GAP
Although figures are slowly changing, there is a still male domination in technological industries. The popular belief so far conceives that the affinities of women and men are innate. That is, issues such as men are more skillful for science and women for social activities or care are taken as part of our nature. The reality is that these concepts are learned since an early age when for example girls should play at being princesses and boys at being astronauts. In this way the interests are in some way, driven by established social paradigms. Within this context, a survey made by The Guardian, relay that 73% of people consider that the software industry is sexist. 52% are aware that women earn less for the same work and 45% of women are more likely to leave work due to a hostile environment or isolation. The balance in the spaces occupied in the technology industry is important, but it is also important to generate quality for women in these jobs: equal opportunity for growth, same wages for the same types of work, protection for women in situations of abuse to name but a few. As the COO of Facebook Sheryl Sanberg said “No industry or country can reach its full potential until women rich their own potential. This is especially true of science and technology, where women with a surplus of talent still face a deficit of opportunity”. Nowadays there are some organizations that are dedicated to promote and encourage girls towards the study of programming and STEM subjects. Girls who code is a US non-profit organisation that runs summer programmes teaching programming skills to high school girls. Another example is I WISH. This one is an Irish initiative that hopes to encourage female students to study STEM careers. All in all, I strongly believe that the change of cultural and educational paradigms will help to a more egalitarian society.
Women in tech Dublin was created to inspire, celebrate and connect women working in technology - 15th November 2018: The Convention Centre, Dublin.
Dublin will be one of the venues of Women in Tech. In some way, the idea of this event is to promote women's empowerment in the area of programming. Several exponents with different positions in important technology companies such as Accenture, Vodafone, Lenovo, Google, will be the source of inspiration for many women who are beginning their journey in the world of coding.
Tech it out
After checking one more time who were the creators, founders, developers of the most popular apps and platforms(Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Spotify, Netflix, Whatsapp, Netflix, LinkedIn) disappointment is predictable and unavoidable. Instead of explaining further why I believe that if there are no more women in technology it is not because "nature" has given us different interests, I prefer to share an article and some thoughts about the seven new apps created by women.
Starting with the two I consider the least interesting regarding their concept, Beautified was made by Hannah Bronfman and Cast Beauty by Sian A. Morson. The first one allows women booking beauty services in fancy spas and salons. The second one gives beauty recommendations according to the weather: for example, it could prevent your hair from frizzing caused by the humid air. A topic that, unfortunately, worries to more than one woman.
From my personal perspective, the five following apps have more original ideas. One of them is On Second Though by Maci Petersont. This one enables to delete messages within 60 seconds in case the person regrets or confused after send it (the so-called drunk text). Hey! Vina It could be a good way to promote sorority between us. It helps women to make new female friends in the case, for example, they move to a new city and they do not know anyone there.
Buy Up Index founded by Amy-Wlillard Cross, allows people to check information about companies regarding their treatment on women, focusing on facts such as women’s employment and women’s leadership.
Another remarkable example is Hopscotch. Developed by Jocelyn Leavitt and Samantha John, this app has the aim to encourage young girls to get to know the world of coding by creating virtual games. Through this way, the idea that only men should be in the world of codification is vanishing.
Finally, and probably my favorite between the seven, another necessary and clever app that could save women from an awkward or dangerous situation. bSafe was created by Silje Vallestad and it has a few features such as: receive a fake call, tracking friends to know where they are and an SOS button that sends an alert to your contacts if the user is living a dangerous situation.
Continuing with the TED talk, in this article, Cathy O'Neil is critical with the "big boys of tech": Jack Dorsey from Twitter, Mark Zuckerberg from Facebook. Once again, invoking responsibility and ethics in coding.
Algorithms decide who gets a loan, who gets a job interview, who gets insurance and much more -- but they don't automatically make things fair. Mathematician and data scientist Cathy O'Neil coined a term for algorithms that are secret, important and harmful: "weapons of math destruction." Learn more about the hidden agendas behind the formulas.
Cathy O’Neil is a mathematician from the U.S. and has worked as a professor and as a data scientist. She is also the author of the blog mathbabe.org and writer of several books such as Weapons of Math Destruction. She founded ORCAA, which is a company that it mission is to develop methodologies and tools and set rigorous parameters in order to audit the new field of algorithms. In this Ted talk, she explains what is behind the world of algorithms. As these are not objectives, they can be affected by the opinions or cultural values of their data scientist or developers.
Giving examples of how algorithms can be used to evaluate teachers, measure the success of employees in a company or help to find criminals, she points out how algorithms, that are badly designed or in a non-ethic way, could work for a long time creating a silent disaster. As coding is developed by people and people have biases, therefore, data scientists are transferring their opinions causing sometimes damage and unfairness to societies.
Cathy O'Neil proposes that developers should not be the arbiters of true but they should be the translator of current social values to their work. She also claims that auditing is crucial to prevent biases affecting algorithms so they could be fixed and improved. As regards the rest of the people, the nonscientists, she strongly believes that this is a political fight and that we all should demand more responsibility to the kings of big data.