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A website I'm working on allows the user to choose passwords, and also can suggest passwords for the user. I'm fully in control of this program and its password generation and checking strategies, I started to think about what would make the best strategies. Here are some constraints which I’ve seen on various systems: Passwords must have at least one lower-case, one upper-case, one digit character Some passwords must also include..
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After a while using Jekyll Bootstrap , I just realized that it was so much bloated. Then, few days ago, I forked the old Zach Holman’s blog , and started to tweak my own theme based on theirs (that now is opensource ). At first, I like it, but after a while, I just start thinking that it had a “old style” design.
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So, I just compiled a little list of things that, I believe, make me dislike Java everyday a little more.
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When a software architect gets a good idea or learns something new, he has a problem. The main job of the architect is to ensure that the right information in present inside the heads of the people who should build the application. Every new piece of information in the architect’s head represents a broader gap between his brain and that of the rest of the team. The classical ways of adressing this gap is for the architect to write huge docu..
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As I wrote BuzzFeed, Meet The Oatmeal Tuesday night, I came across Shawn Blanc’s short post regarding Vemedio’s latest release in a bout of procrastination as I pursued Twitter. My excitement over a new major release of my favorite podcast client was tinged with confusion though as I attempted to update the app, and was instead presented with the option to purchase it once again. Curious, I began digging around until finally, after a ..
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Here is the full text of a recruiter email I received today. Dear Pete, Wouldn't it feel great to wake up each day knowing that you're part of a dynamic organization that's on the cutting edge of innovation web products? That’s what the team experiences and you could too! What you will find challenging about this job is to develop revolutionary and challenging web applications using object oriented javascript frameworks like backbone.j....
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In Java, there is the great SVNKit which I have used for many a customer project successfully. You can do all Subversion operations in a few lines of Java, with a great object-oriented interface, exceptions, and so on. It’s easy to use, and it just works. Today I had to produce certain XML files programmatically based on “svn info –xml” information. I was glad to see there was a SVNXMLInfoHandler which allows you to write the XML into..
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For the last few weeks we’ve been working on Mountain (Formerly Dashboardly), an analytics platform built specifically for Tumblr.
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Last night just before I went to bed I was scrolling through my Twitter stream — as you do — when I came across Jim Dalrymple’s post titled after a line from Mathew Inman’s article Dear Jack Stuef , “You bitter, uninspired, bottom-feeding ass” . All the more curious once I discovered Jim’s link was to an article written by one of my favorite webcomic authors, I spent the next half hour reading in varying degrees of disbelief and disappo..
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Google has search appliances available for enterprise customers to house in their data centers to take
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In my previous article I talked about how I have begun to use my iPad increasingly often as a device to not only consume content, but also to generate it. I mentioned that I read almost every article in Instapaper and that I use Simplenote to write, but I did not delve any deeper into my iPad setup, nor did I go into too much detail in explaining the toolset I employ increasingly infrequently on my computer in the colophon. Taking after Jo..
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Lemma has been radio silent recently, but that does NOT mean things aren't happening! I've been able to do a ton of work almost every day these past few weeks. Here's what's going on: Did some massive surgery on the very first tutorial section after getting some feedback from a limited alpha release. It introduces, jumping, climbing, vertical wall-running, and rolling/crouching. Added a second, underground section that introduces horizont....
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Neurons, as an Extension of the Perceptron Model In a previous post in this series we investigated the Perceptron model for determining whether some data was linearly separable. That is, given a data set where the points are labelled in one of two classes, we were interested in finding a hyperplane that separates the classes. In the case of points in the plane, this just reduced to finding lines which separated the points like this:
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Neurons, as an Extension of the Perceptron Model In a previous post in this series we investigated the Perceptron model for determining whether some data was linearly separable. That is, given a data set where the points are labelled in one of two classes, we were interested in finding a hyperplane that separates the classes. In the case of points in the plane, this just reduced to finding lines which separated the points like this:
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Neurons, as an Extension of the Perceptron Model In a previous post in this series we investigated the Perceptron model for determining whether some data was linearly separable. That is, given a data set where the points are labelled in one of two classes, we were interested in finding a hyperplane that separates the classes. In the case of points in the plane, this just reduced to finding lines which separated the points like this:
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We concocted our own blend of tea, combining the planty goodness of nettle tea with the vibrant flavour of Moroccan Mint tea. Brewing was a two stage process, since the nettle requires 5 minutes whereas the mint requires a measly 2 minutes. To compensate for the adjusted loose leaf tea ratios, we brewed two tea spoons of nettle tea for 2.5 minutes, then added two tea spoons of mint tea and brewed for a further 2 minutes.
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We concocted our own blend of tea, combining the planty goodness of nettle tea with the vibrant flavour of Moroccan Mint tea. Brewing was a two stage process, since the nettle requires 5 minutes whereas the mint requires a measly 2 minutes. To compensate for the adjusted loose leaf tea ratios, we brewed two tea spoons of nettle tea for 2.5 minutes, then added two tea spoons of mint tea and brewed for a further 2 minutes.
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A friend recently asserted that he doesn't bother with security updates on his computer and for his software. This is wrong. Security updates are important and should always be installed. This sort of thing will happen to you if you don’t update your computer. (Not that this attack was directly related to lack of updates, but the principle is the same..) To which he replied: I don’t believe that updates play that much a roll. So i w..
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The study of groups is often one’s first foray into advanced mathematics. In the naivete of set theory one develops tools for describing basic objects, and through a first run at analysis one develops a certain dexterity for manipulating symbols and definitions. But it is not until the study of groups that one must step back and inspect the larger picture. The main point of that picture (and indeed the main point of a group) is that algebra..
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The study of groups is often one’s first foray into advanced mathematics. In the naivete of set theory one develops tools for describing basic objects, and through a first run at analysis one develops a certain dexterity for manipulating symbols and definitions. But it is not until the study of groups that one must step back and inspect the larger picture. The main point of that picture (and indeed the main point of a group) is that algebra..
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The study of groups is often one’s first foray into advanced mathematics. In the naivete of set theory one develops tools for describing basic objects, and through a first run at analysis one develops a certain dexterity for manipulating symbols and definitions. But it is not until the study of groups that one must step back and inspect the larger picture. The main point of that picture (and indeed the main point of a group) is that algebra..
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Over the past two weeks my usage of the iPad as a device for both content consumption and creation has exploded: whereas before I had used the iPad primarily to read textbooks with the occasional deviation into other forms of reading, I now use the iPad as my primary computing device. Despite the occasional inconvenience this approach presents, forcing me to return to my computer for one thing or another from time to time, I have done so le..
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Hi All, Think this is very nearly there, if you see anything that you don’t like/is a bug/shouldn’t happen let me know! Looking to publish in the next couple of days. What’s Changed: Voice. I made it chatty - say “BBC News read top news” and it will. Get the XAP here. Fixes: Settings page failed to save - Fixed - Thanks @ mrlacey NEW - Settings page font size setting @mrlacey Live tile update issue - Fixed - Meee NEW - livetile ..
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Creo que la mejor forma de iniciar este post es felicitando a los organizadores ( @borillo , @xaviuzz , hay que reconocer que os lo habéis currado) y dando las gracias a peerTransfer por hacer de host para este evento de forma totalmente altruista. Una pena para aquellos que no hayan podido asistir: ha resultado ser un evento muy dinámico, con opiniones y puntos de vista muy variados e interesantes y, sobretodo, divertido. El problem....
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At work, a large part of my focus is stereo vision. Well, a coworker and I needed to attend a three day training seminar, which we expected would be quite boring. So, we grabbed a pair of cameras, secured their baseline by attaching them to a small metal beam, zip tied the beam to a 12V power supply, and shoved the whole thing into a pelican case so we could continue working on interesting things while we were there.
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