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Oracle released Java 7 on July 28, 2011. This is nearly 5 years after the release of Java 6 in December 2006. The release received a lot of bad press, both because it is very meager on features, and because it shipped with a severe bug. Nevertheless, once the most serious bugs have been fixed, you might think about starting to use Java 7. What will this mean? New language features Java 7 has a few new language features.
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On July the 27th I went down to Christchurch for the South Island Chess Championship and and the South Island Rapid Championship at the Canterbury Chess Club. The events were 2 games a day for 4 days (Wednesday to Saturday) for the Champs and then 6 games on the Sunday for the rapid. I flew … Continue reading 2011 South Island Champs
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So far on this blog we’ve assumed familiarity with the programming languages used (at the time of this writing, this is Mathematica and Java). This is unfair for the mathematicians who have little to no programming experience, and we admit that some readers tend to skim those technical sections with source code. As our work on this blog progresses, we recognize that the mathematical elegance is sometimes inherently manifested within the cod..
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So far on this blog we’ve assumed familiarity with the programming languages used (at the time of this writing, this is Mathematica and Java). This is unfair for the mathematicians who have little to no programming experience, and we admit that some readers tend to skim those technical sections with source code. As our work on this blog progresses, we recognize that the mathematical elegance is sometimes inherently manifested within the cod..
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So far on this blog we’ve assumed familiarity with the programming languages used (at the time of this writing, this is Mathematica and Java). This is unfair for the mathematicians who have little to no programming experience, and we admit that some readers tend to skim those technical sections with source code. As our work on this blog progresses, we recognize that the mathematical elegance is sometimes inherently manifested within the cod..
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To me, some of the most fascinating problems are the ones that are only visible in hindsight. The angled measuring cup might be the best example of this. With a standard measuring cup, you have to bend over or lift the cup to see how much of a substance you've measured. On the other hand, the angled measuring cup can be read while standing upright. Yet when asked, most people didn't realize the problem with a normal measuring cup until afte..
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I got a Wacom Intuos4 yesterday. Upon getting home that night, I excitedly unpacked it, installed the drivers, plugged it in, and tried to draw.
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Xamarin, la compagnia che ha preso in mano il Progetto Mono dopo l’addio di Novell, ha appena rilasciato Mono 2.10.3. Ne da annuncio lo stesso Manuel de Icaza, storico deux-ex-machina del progetto e fondatore di Xamarin. Si tratta per lo più di una versione di manutenzione che risolve numerosi problemi, primo fra tutti l’instabilità di Mono sull’ultima versione di MacOS X Lion.
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Thought I would quickly post some hard numbers showing the number of searches since searchco.de launched. The results surprised me somewhat actually. 2011-7 13636 2011-6 8154 2011-5 6183 2011-4 8532 2011-3 10886 2011-2 6476 2011-1 948 I could dig into the results more closely since a lot of those could be the ajax firing off events like “a” and the like but I do like the upwardish trend.
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Just a quick post, I’ve made some changes to the live tile images. Hopefully it now looks a bit better, let me know what you think. Thanks in advance for any feedback.
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It's been quite a while since I updated this blog, very lax of me, sorry! The lack of updates appears more indicative of how busy I appear to have been since presenting the error handling draft work at NANOG (which looks to be the last post!). Since January, I've presented at the IETF in Prague, and then again in Qu�bec City - particularly on a number of aspects of the work that I've been documenting here for some time!
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It's been quite a while since I updated this blog, very lax of me, sorry! The lack of updates appears more indicative of how busy I appear to have been since presenting the error handling draft work at NANOG (which looks to be the last post!). Since January, I've presented at the IETF in Prague, and then again in Qu�bec City - particularly on a number of aspects of the work that I've been documenting here for some time!
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Per qualche giorno non si pensa al codice e si sta alla larga, per quanto possibile, dal computer. Buone vacanze a chi ci va, e buon lavoro a chi non va. Per i più curiosi. La foto è stata scattata la settimana scorsa durante la salita della classica via Maria al Sass Pordoi (2950mt, Gruppo del Sella, Dolomiti orientali). Se proprio volete annoiarvi date una occhiata alle altre.
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I just saw a post in my tweet stream by Derek Neighbors in which he asserts that todays Rubyists are a “drone army”: The leaders have disappeared. The second and third wave are just implementors. They are not idealistic. The Merb team emerged full of new ideas and a swagger of yesterday but all that died when they merged back into Rails. It used to be about changing the world. Now it’s just about tools. Workflows are broken an....
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When adding a people picker to a custom Html page I encountered an interesting error. When submitting the page the content would return…
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Building the SoundCloud mobile site using backbone.js
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developers.soundcloud.com
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14 years ago
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Until early this year, there was a gap. A gap between the desktop-targeted main SoundCloud site, what we call the ‘mothership’, and the…
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Building the SoundCloud mobile site using backbone.js
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developers.soundcloud.com
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14 years ago
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Until early this year, there was a gap. A gap between the desktop-targeted main SoundCloud site, what we call the ‘mothership’, and the…
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Scheduling a daily Cron task in Debian to check external IP
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thomashunter.name
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14 years ago
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I just pushed out a new release of . There is no longer any need to have an "Organize your links" button. You can always organize you categories by dragging them around by their name. You can always organize your links by dragging them by a little crosshairs icon that is displayed to the right of each link when you mouse over it. The commands to edit or delete items are now in a little pop-up context menu to the right of each link and..
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This primer exists for the background necessary to read our post on RSA encryption, but it also serves as a general primer to number theory. Oh, Numbers, Numbers, Numbers We start with some easy definitions. Definition: The set of integers, denoted $ \mathbb{Z}$, is the set $ \left \{ \dots -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, \dots \right \}$. Definition: Let $ a,b$ be integers, then $ a$ divides $ b$, denoted $ a \mid b$, if there exists an integer $ n$ such..
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This primer exists for the background necessary to read our post on RSA encryption, but it also serves as a general primer to number theory. Oh, Numbers, Numbers, Numbers We start with some easy definitions. Definition: The set of integers, denoted $ \mathbb{Z}$, is the set $ \left \{ \dots -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, \dots \right \}$. Definition: Let $ a,b$ be integers, then $ a$ divides $ b$, denoted $ a \mid b$, if there exists an integer $ n$ such..
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This primer exists for the background necessary to read our post on RSA encryption, but it also serves as a general primer to number theory. Oh, Numbers, Numbers, Numbers We start with some easy definitions. Definition: The set of integers, denoted $ \mathbb{Z}$, is the set $ \left \{ \dots -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, \dots \right \}$. Definition: Let $ a,b$ be integers, then $ a$ divides $ b$, denoted $ a \mid b$, if there exists an integer $ n$ such..
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This post assumes working knowledge of elementary number theory. Luckily for the non-mathematicians, we cover all required knowledge and notation in our number theory primer. So Three Thousand Years of Number Theory Wasn’t Pointless It’s often tough to come up with concrete applications of pure mathematics. In fact, before computers came along mathematics was used mostly for navigation, astronomy, and war. In the real world it almost always..
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This post assumes working knowledge of elementary number theory. Luckily for the non-mathematicians, we cover all required knowledge and notation in our number theory primer. So Three Thousand Years of Number Theory Wasn’t Pointless It’s often tough to come up with concrete applications of pure mathematics. In fact, before computers came along mathematics was used mostly for navigation, astronomy, and war. In the real world it almost always..
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This post assumes working knowledge of elementary number theory. Luckily for the non-mathematicians, we cover all required knowledge and notation in our number theory primer. So Three Thousand Years of Number Theory Wasn’t Pointless It’s often tough to come up with concrete applications of pure mathematics. In fact, before computers came along mathematics was used mostly for navigation, astronomy, and war. In the real world it almost always..
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The venerable O’Reilly Velocity Conference is coming to Berlin on the 8th and 9th of November. SoundCloud is doing what we can to help…
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The venerable O’Reilly Velocity Conference is coming to Berlin on the 8th and 9th of November. SoundCloud is doing what we can to help…
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Thanks to Jon at ISO50 (Scott Hansen’s beautiful Web site/blog) for mentioning / highlighting my Antarctic photography !
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Thanks to Jon at ISO50 (Scott Hansen’s beautiful Web site/blog) for mentioning / highlighting my Antarctic photography !
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Thanks to Jon at ISO50 (Scott Hansen’s beautiful Web site/blog) for mentioning / highlighting my Antarctic photography !
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When I was a kid, our family used to travel a lot. I grew up in central Europe and over the years, we visited most of continental Europe. This was in the early ’90s. Usually, Mom would have a map on her lap and she would tell Dad where to go. To keep me and my little brother entertained, they gave us another map and we would follow along. We had fun trying to pronounce funny city names and calculating distances that we had travelled that ..
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When I was a kid, our family used to travel a lot. I grew up in central Europe and over the years, we visited most of continental Europe. This was in the early ’90s. Usually, Mom would have a map on her lap and she would tell Dad where to go. To keep me and my little brother entertained, they gave us another map and we would follow along. We had fun trying to pronounce funny city names and calculating distances that we had travelled that ..
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False Proof—All Numbers are Describable in at Most Twenty Words
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www.jeremykun.com
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14 years ago
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Problem: Show that every natural number can be unambiguously described in fewer than twenty words. “Solution”: Suppose to the contrary that not every natural number can be so described. Let $ S$ be the set of all natural numbers which are describable in fewer than twenty words. Consider $ R = \mathbb{N}-S$, the set of all words which cannot be described in fewer than twenty words. Since $ R$ is a subset of the natural numbers, which is well..
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False Proof—All Numbers are Describable in at Most Twenty Words
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www.jeremykun.com
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14 years ago
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eng
Problem: Show that every natural number can be unambiguously described in fewer than twenty words. “Solution”: Suppose to the contrary that not every natural number can be so described. Let $ S$ be the set of all natural numbers which are describable in fewer than twenty words. Consider $ R = \mathbb{N}-S$, the set of all words which cannot be described in fewer than twenty words. Since $ R$ is a subset of the natural numbers, which is well..
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False Proof—All Numbers are Describable in at Most Twenty Words
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www.jeremykun.com
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14 years ago
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eng
Problem: Show that every natural number can be unambiguously described in fewer than twenty words. “Solution”: Suppose to the contrary that not every natural number can be so described. Let $ S$ be the set of all natural numbers which are describable in fewer than twenty words. Consider $ R = \mathbb{N}-S$, the set of all words which cannot be described in fewer than twenty words. Since $ R$ is a subset of the natural numbers, which is well..
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