Monday, December 23

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Crowdfunding Platform DesiredWings Acquires Catapooolt
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Crowdfunding Platform DesiredWings Acquires Catapooolt

Promoters of crowdfunding platform Desiredwings.com have acquired Catapooolt.com for an undisclosed sum. Both the brands will stay in the market post this acquisition, focusing on different segments of the crowdfunding industry. By virtue of this acquisition, together Desired Wings and Catapooolt "stand as leaders and the largest crowdfunding platform" with various diversified successfully funded campaigns to its portfolio, a company release said. "Post this acquisition, we have secured the leadership position in the industry and now with the combined strength of both the brands, we can grow faster and also help shape this industry," Shabir Momin, co-founder, DesiredWings, said. DesiredWings facilitates business idea validation and development, helps start-ups prefund their future pro...
A programmer wrote scripts to secretly automate his job, including to automatically email his wife and make himself a coffee
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A programmer wrote scripts to secretly automate his job, including to automatically email his wife and make himself a coffee

There’s a hilarious project that’s popular on Github, the website that hosts all kinds of software that programmers want to share with each other. The project was shared by a programmer named Nihad Abbasov (known as “Narkoz” on GitHub). It consists of a bunch of software scripts with some funny names. Narkoz says that the scripts came from one of his coworkers who left for another company, the type of guy that, “if something — anything — requires more than 90 seconds of his time, he writes a script to automate that.” After the guy left for a new job, his former co-workers were looking through his work and discovered that the guy had automated all sorts of crazy things, including parts of his job, his relationships and making coffee. The guy wrote one script that sends a text messa...