Tag: Mistakes

5 Big Mistakes C# Developers Often Make in Their Code

As C# continues to evolve, offering more features and tools for developers, it’s essential to reflect on common pitfalls and areas where we can improve. Here are five mistakes C# developers often make, along with tips to avoid them. Image by KamaranAydinov on freepik. 1. Neglect...

10 Common Mistakes in Angular Development

We will go through 10 common mistakes with code examples that developers may make when developing Angular applications. Here is a brief overview of the examples we will go through: Poor Component Design: One common mistake is not properly designing Angular components. This includes not adhe...

6 Pandas Mistakes That Silently Tell You Are a Rookie

Introduction We are all used to the big, fat, red error messages that frequently pop up while we code. Fortunately, people won’t spot it because we always fix those errors. But how about the mistakes that give no errors? These are the trickiest, but the pros could easily call them out. T...

Three mistakes when introducing embeddings and vector search

Representing unstructured data as embedding vectors and embedding-based retrieval (EBR) using vector search is more popular than ever. What are embeddings anyway? Roy Keyes explains it well in The shortest definition of embeddings? Embeddings are learned transformations to make data more u...

99% Chances Are That You Are Committing These 7 Mistakes As a Beginner Writer

Having done numerous consulting sessions, I have noticed these common traits that beginner writers do that hamper their writing career. And frankly, they are not to be blamed. With an impressionable mind like a child, they enter this vast arena of the content creation world, fascinated by the fam...

The Five Biggest Cap Table Mistakes and Ways to Avoid and Fix Them

Inthe exciting world of startups, we often get swept up in innovative ideas, growth strategies, and disruptive technologies. However, behind the scenes, there’s an unassuming document that quietly plays a crucial role in a startup’s journey: the capitalisation table, or “cap table&...

How to Use the AAR Method to Learn From Your Mistakes

Let’s do a quick exercise: Think of your last five mistakes. These could be in your personal or professional life — anything that went wrong due to an error on your end. How many of those mistakes have you made for the first time? If we’re honest, most of our mis...

Mistakes in setting goals

Before moving on to the goal-setting system, let’s analyze the main mistakes so that you know the enemy in person. They understood how to deal with it, and why exactly these tools are used. When you understand what mistakes, they help to exclude, you will understand the principles of their wor...

How to Use the AAR Method to Learn From Your Mistakes

Let’s do a quick exercise: Think of your last five mistakes. These could be in your personal or professional life — anything that went wrong due to an error on your end. How many of those mistakes have you made for the first time? If we’re honest, most of our mis...

Overcome Mistakes Like an Elite Athlete

As a perfectionist, I can think of absolutely nothing more stressful than making mistakes. My anxiety tricks me into thinking that making an error is the worst thing in the entire world. That making a mistake spells catastrophe. Elite athletes think differently. To play at peak level, you have to...

11 Dating Mistakes Keeping Men Single, Lonely, and Confused

Men everywhere face years-long bouts of frustration because they always seem to be pushing women away, but can’t understand why. I know this, because I used to be one of them. There were a slew of basic and simple mistakes I kept making over and over again but didn’t realize i...

I Worked with 3 companies in 3 years. Why? - My 3 mistakes.

Hi Reader!!! I guarantee that the story that will begin (after you read two short paragraphs below) will teach you things that are not limited to jobs. This story helps you in many aspects of life. Please go ahead. FYI, I would like to work in a company that provides, Good Work that help...

The 7 biggest mistakes to avoid as a young VP

You did it, you worked your ass off and you made it to that Vice President job you had on your vision board… Or; you accidentally got there through an obsession to learn and take on projects with bigger and bigger impact. If so, congrats! Or maybe that job is still on your vision board, if so...

3 Mistakes Young Leaders Must Avoid

Today, we are living in a world where many startups are being led by the youth. And many more people from this young generation will be assuming management and leadership positions in the coming years. Being a young leader can be an interesting and invigorating journey. It is an exciting time filled...

5 Common Recruitment Mistakes, and How to Fix Them

I’ve interviewed hundreds of people. From bartenders to managers, teachers to translators, I’ve had to come up with different questions to assess people’s suitability for diverse roles in various industries across multiple continents. As a result of this experience, I’v...

Common mistakes in portfolios for ARB Part 1 & 2 Prescribed Exam

To prepare your portfolio for the ARB Prescribed Exam, you must first understand how you will be evaluated and who be evaluating your work. ARB Prescribed Exams evaluate whether the applicant's overseas qualifications are equivalent to prescribed qualifications at the respective level in the UK....

Four Mistakes to Avoid with 401ks

Let’s first talk about what a 401k is. When you sign that offer letter from your employer, they provide you certain benefits. If you’re fresh out of college, you would usually brush aside the stacks of papers they give you explaining what these benefits are. However, those benefits are v...

Top 7 401k Investing Mistakes

Hey there, my financially savvy comrades and retirement rockstars! Today, we’re diving deep into the world of 401(k) investing and uncovering the top 7 mistakes that could derail your golden years. But fear not, because I’m here to arm you with knowledge and help you avoi...

Fixing Your 2 Biggest 401(k) Investing Mistakes

While stocks ended the year down about 18%, at their worst in 2022 they were down around 25%. Selling near the bottom would have caused you to underperform, possibly by more than the gap between -18% and -23% would indicate because your 401(k) may have owned bonds, and when you dollar cost average t...

4 Financial Mistakes You Must Avoid When Employed In The USA

I cannot emphasis on this mistake enough. Please opt in for 401K offered by your employer. If your employer is making an equal contribution, you are leaving money on the table. It would not take you more than 5 minutes to open the account and opt in with the AMC (Asset Management Company) ...

October 7th; 3 Deadly Mistakes.

99 percent of what you hear about the October 7th massacre revolves around the thousands of years of conflict, antisemitism, intelligence failures, and the possibility of a World War III. Yes, these and other reasons are indeed true, but the loss of life and unimaginable brutality on October 7th its...

Common mistakes our brain makes every day.

I was genuinely surprised by some of these subconscious thinking mistakes I make all too often. While none of them are earth-shattering, they are remarkably eye-opening, and avoiding them could lead to more rational, reasoned decisions. Especially as we continually strive for self-improvement whi...

Top 13 Statistics Mistakes Made by Data Scientists, Are You Doing These?

In the ever-evolving domain of data science, where statistics and programming converge, a world of possibilities emerges, but it’s also fraught with challenges. For data scientists, it’s vital to grasp that statistics extends beyond mere mathematical equations; it serves as a means to...

Common Mistakes During A/B Testing

During the last couple of years, I have witnessed a lot of mistakes that people make during A/B testing design and post-analysis. I would like to discuss here three of such mistakes and how to overcome them. Use Mann-Whitney for comparing medians The first mistake is not an appropriate use of ...

Are You Making These 5 Beauty Mistakes?

#1 — Not wearing the correct undergarments All undergarments should disappear under your clothes. Not only should straps be in the proper place, but none of the undergarments should be seen. I have two secrets to avoiding these mistakes. First is to avoid fabrics that are thin and would sho...