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I completely agree with Sid here: the growth of the internet as a widely-accepted medium through which to publish one’s thoughts and opinions as was once handled exclusively through corporate newspaporial publications with batteries of editors at their disposal has led to a net decline in literary quality over the last few years. The popularity of the link blog certainly did not help, perhaps it even compounded the already steady march, but..
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Back in January Linus Edwards started “The Podcasters”, a series of articles in which he interviews podcast producers from all walks of life around the world. Beginning with Ben Alexander of Fiat Lux , continuing with The Menu Bar and — more recently — Life and Code and Stuff’s Andrew Clark, Linus just posted the third installment wherein he spoke with Slovenian podcaster Anze Tomic about the shows he does on Apparatus . If you glosse..
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A few days ago Stefan Constantinescu of Tab Dump wrote an article titled Making Some Bets , where he announced his decision to go fully independent and rely on his writing to support himself. The latest in a string of similar resolutions, his decision gained a bit of attention, through which I came across February 04: 57 tabs earlier this morning. The broad range of topics he covers makes for very interesting reading and highli..
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Since I am pulling most of my content from other sites such as Mahalo and Quora I thought I would pull back some of my more interesting HN comments. Can anyone explain how this regex [- ~] matches ASCII characters? It’s pretty simple. Assuming you know regex. Im going to assume you don’t since you are asking. The bracket expression [ ] defines single characters to match, however you can have more then 1 character inside which al..
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Just last week the Kentucky Senate passed a bill by which computer programming classes would count towards a student’s foreign language requirement in high school. Although at first I wanted to see this as a boon for teenagers who would now have the ability to enter college or the workforce better technologically prepared, just as the bill’s proponents and Jim Dalrymple, who originally linked to this piece do, I’m not entirely sure this i..
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Around minute 44:33 of Cube’s latest episode, Ben Bajarin theorized that Google’s motivation in selling Motorola to Lenovo while Samsung simultaneously agreed to scale back their customization of Android could have come about as a result of Samsung desiring access to a concrete feature road map which they could build to in the future. In my last article, Retroactively Planning , I talked about how Samsung’s backwards strategy in which ra..
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Upon reaching a goal you cannot look back on the journey in search of the process that led you to success; you will invariably romanticize the past, shedding mediocre choices in a complimentary light, discounting difficult challenges, and misremembering strokes of genius in situations where there was none. In short, this exercise will ultimately only ensure that you never replicate any form of that success again. Rather than flying by the s..
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This is the second of a three-part series over Google's augmented reality game: Ingress. Part 1 can be found here . Our second part of this series takes us into the world of portals. These little guys make up the entire game from top to bottom. You need portals
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Yesterday I gave a talk at FOSDEM 2014 in Brussels. The conference itself was amazing, with over 5000 attendees literally swarming and taking over the ULB Campus. I was stoked at how smoothly everything was going on despite the incredible number of simultaneous sessions and the number of attendees continuously flowing between buildings and conference rooms. Everybody involved, volunteers and attendees, has been very welcoming, charming and..
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I can’t say I left the .NET Framework altogether as our main app was developed with .NET and we still maintain it on daily basis. Whenever applicable however, all the recent stuff is being done outside the walled garden. The following Jonathan Oliver totally resonates with my experience. The .NET Framework was good. Really good. Until it wasn’t. Why did I leave .NET? In short, it constrained our ability to choose (which is a huge deal..
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PostgreSQL is currently entering its final commit fest. While its still going, which means there could still be more great features to come, we can start to take a look at what you can expect from it now. This release seems to bring a lot of minor increments versus some bigger highlights of previous ones. At the same time there’s still a lot on the bubble that may or may not make it which could entirely change the shape of this one. For a ....
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PostgreSQL is currently entering its final commit fest. While its still going, which means there could still be more great features to come, we can start to take a look at what you can expect from it now. This release seems to bring a lot of minor increments versus some bigger highlights of previous ones. At the same time there’s still a lot on the bubble that may or may not make it which could entirely change the shape of this one. For a ....
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A few more of my favorite cabins alongside some great articles on related topics and stories. If you have any interest in checking out my previous collections, start here at the beginning, then continue with November and December’s lists. If not, read on. Permalink.
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I’m using a Lenovo X201 with 8GiB of RAM. Apart from some minor issues, I’ve been very satisfied with this laptop. It’s over four years old, and so I decided to see what’s available on the horizon. I did not buy an X240 because of the following reasons: The X240 has only one slot for RAM and thus supports a maximum of 8GiB. I think it’s pretty ridiculous for any successor to the X230 to support less RAM. In and of itself this is..
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I’m using a Lenovo X201 with 8GiB of RAM. Apart from some minor issues, I’ve been very satisfied with this laptop. It’s over four years old, and so I decided to see what’s available on the horizon. I did not buy an X240 because of the following reasons: The X240 has only one slot for RAM and thus supports a maximum of 8GiB. I think it’s pretty ridiculous for any successor to the X230 to support less RAM. In and of itself this is..
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In his article Horizontal Reuse: An Alternative to Inheritance Toby Inkster compares how to implement multiple inheritance or mixins in Java, Perl, PHP and Ruby. It’s a very interesting comparison of programming languages features and well worth the read. Toby writes: In class-based object-oriented programming, when there are classes that appear to share some functionality, this is often a time when people will refactor them into two subcla..
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I struck out to see if I could make use of the Microsoft ASP.NET Web Optimization Framework (version 1.1.2) in my self hosted OWIN Nancy…
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This article discusses the portrayal of chess in pop culture and whether intelligence is necessary to play the game well.
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This is really worth you time if you’re looking to learn C language (you should). This article attempts to give a sort of ‘orientation tour’ for people whose previous programming background is in high (ish) level languages such as Java or Python, and who now find that they need or want to learn C. via The Descent to C .
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This article discusses the portrayal of chess in pop culture and whether intelligence is necessary to play the game well.
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After buying my first Mac a few months ago , I soon grew quite fond of it as the most powerful computer I have owned to date. It zips through every task I can think to throw at it, and I can spend an entire day working without needing an outlet. Even better, it takes up so little space and ads such insignificant weight to my backpack that I regularly reach behind me just to make sure I didn’t forget it somewhere. My 15" Retina MacBook Pr..
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Several years ago, I was new to my specific group at work. I was working on a combination of image processing and a GUI for keeping track of specific objects in the camera’s view. I started on the GUI first, writing a server that received object locations and handed them off to the GUI which displayed them in a nifty way. I was using Qt and QML, which I have used in numerous personal projects, so I was pretty familiar and confident with wha..
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FreeBSD images for arm are now built from the FreeBSD Foundation ! So it’s an easy process to get it on your Pi. Download your image from the ftp repository Insert a 4Gb or more SD card in your PC and copy the FreeBSD image into it, here are the commands for a Mac: sudo diskutil list sudo diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk1 sudo dd if=/Users/akh/Downloads/FreeBSD-10.0-STABLE-arm- armv6-RPI-B-20140127-r261200.img of=/dev/rdisk1 bs=1m sudo dis..
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Another great post I found during my WordPress escapade. Seems like she’s coming back to writing for all the right reasons. Keep up the good work, Annie, and never stop improving. Permalink.
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Having emptied my Instapaper queue last night and early this morning, I went back to my old stomping ground, WordPress, in search of some interesting articles on topics outside of Apple and, possibly, technology as well. I try to do this ever so often, looking to break the Apple-centric trend so many link blogs invariably fall in to these days. Today, pursuant of that goal, I found this great piece by a high school English teacher on tangen..
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In 2012, Shawn Blanc marked the fifth anniversary of starting his site by publishing an article titled 50 Things I’ve Learned About Publishing a Weblog . Filled with some of the best advice I have ever read on the subject, I return to this article every few months, gleaning just a little bit more each time. When I look back on the years since I started following Shawn, this piece stands out in my mind as his best work. And so, given how ..
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Our current difficulties are not the result of current problems. They are the bill coming due for 40 years of trying to preserve a set of practices that have outlived the economics that made them possible.” Thanks to John Siracusa for the link , as a college student I found this excellent article on the problems facing higher education especially interesting and well worth the time it will take you to read through once or, maybe, even ..
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Inspired by an exchange Zac Cichy and I had on Twitter earlier today , and further prompted when Zac made another series of very pointed remarks earlier this evening, I decided now was as good a time as any to step away from the Apple sphere and talk about Twitter for a little bit. Permalink.
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As an update to my earlier article , a friend gave me an idea of how to make my $PS1 even better… First, the relevant part of my ~/.bashrc: ps1_prompt () { local ps1_exit = $? if [ $ps1_exit -eq 0 ] ; then #ps1_status=`echo -e "\[\033[32m\]"'\$'"\[\033[0m\]"` ps1_status = '\$' else ps1_status = ` echo -e "\[\033[1;31m\]" '\$' "\[�....
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As an update to my earlier article , a friend gave me an idea of how to make my $PS1 even better… First, the relevant part of my ~/.bashrc: ps1_prompt () { local ps1_exit = $? if [ $ps1_exit -eq 0 ] ; then #ps1_status=`echo -e "\[\033[32m\]"'\$'"\[\033[0m\]"` ps1_status = '\$' else ps1_status = ` echo -e "\[\033[1;31m\]" '\$' "\[�....
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If you scrolled past Linus Edwards’s latest article for some reason , disinterested in the topic of music and his thoughts on the subject, 1) you’re wrong, go read it anyway; it’s great, and b) after you have read through it once, go back, replace “music” with “idea”, and it suddenly becomes even more impactful. Permalink.
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Apple to close down, because the company is just so sick of analysts
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Absolutely hilarious fictitious recount of the Apple quarterly earnings call, all the funnier because Peter Oppenheimer and Apple’s other C-level executives would be perfectly justified in responding this way. Permalink.
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Of course, most of these challenges are going to also impact Apple’s competitors in the higher-end device space — they aren’t unique to Apple. Plus, Apple has proven over and over again that they’re able to innovate in way that its competitors can only dream about. So, don’t get me wrong, I’m not worried about Apple’s long-term fate in the least. However, that doesn’t mean we won’t see a bumpy road over the next few quarters and that’s an A..
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An interesting article from MG Siegler explaining the importance of the iPhone to today’s Apple and Apple years down the road as the smartphone market approaches saturation and mobile phone sales, inevitably, begin to decline. Permalink.
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I recently gave a talk at UKNOF relating to Segment Routing/SPRING and the operational challenges that we are trying to resolve through it. You can see it on YouTube below - or the slides are on this site - SPRING Forward(ing) - UKNOF27
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I recently gave a talk at UKNOF relating to Segment Routing/SPRING and the operational challenges that we are trying to resolve through it. You can see it on YouTube below - or the slides are on this site - SPRING Forward(ing) - UKNOF27
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Introduction When new people join the Go-Miami group they always write that they want to learn more about Go’s concurrency model. Concurrency seems to be the big buzz word around the language. It was for me when I first started hearing about Go. It was Rob Pike’s Go Concurrency Patterns video that finally convinced me I needed to learn this language. To understand how Go makes writing concurrent programs easier and less prone t....
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Jacob Hinmon is a filmmaker and entrepreneur. He is the director of Four + One Productions and founder of Collected Works.
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Last week I wrote up some initial steps for getting started with marketing a developer focused product. The short of it was quite trying to do “marketing” and just start putting out interesting material. A big part of this is sourcing material from your company’s developers. From there you want to gradually shift it from simply interesting technical posts to things that align with your core beliefs and add value to your customers. Perha....
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Last week I wrote up some initial steps for getting started with marketing a developer focused product. The short of it was quite trying to do “marketing” and just start putting out interesting material. A big part of this is sourcing material from your company’s developers. From there you want to gradually shift it from simply interesting technical posts to things that align with your core beliefs and add value to your customers. Perha....
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Almost a year ago today I linked to Penny Arcade’s coverage of the famed Battle of Asakai, a war that occurred in the popular game Eve Online and consisted of roughly 3,000 players. As if to commemorate the massive battle’s anniversary, several coalitions are currently in the process of finishing the largest fight in the game’s history even as I write this. I said it before and I will say it again: “I still can’t quite wrap my head around..
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A few days ago Lorraine Luk, Eva Dou, and Daisuke Wakabayashi wrote an article for The Wall Street Journal conservatively titled — the hallmark of this upstanding publication — Apple iPhones to Come Out With Bigger Screens . It sparked a great deal of primarily confirmatory discussion over the next few days, during which Ben Thompson spoke out in favor of this rumor. Citing the Asian market’s desire for large devices, Ben made a compel..
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I have been tracking my sleep for almost two years now using my Fitbit. I started with the Fitbit Ultra and then moved on the the Fitbit One after it came out. In October 2013 I found out about the Sleep Cycle (Link) app for the iPhone. For weeks, Sleep Cycle was listed as the best-selling health app in Germany, where currently (as of January 2014) it is in second place.
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Open source plays an integral role within engineering at Cerner. In addition to using open source software throughout our architecture, we recently released a few projects back to the community via our Github organization. Today, we’re happy to announce that Cerner is now a sponsor of the non-profit Apache Software Foundation (ASF). The ASF is home to several projects that are essential components in many of our systems. We’ve blogged previ..
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