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Previously in this series: Linear programming and healthy diets — Part 1 Linear programing and the simplex algorithm Foods of the Father My dad’s an interesting guy. Every so often he picks up a health trend and/or weight loss goal that would make many people’s jaw drop. For example, we once went on a 5-day, 50-mile backpacking trip in the Grand Tetons, and my dad brought one packet of Lipton’s Side Dishes noodle soup per day for dinner, an..

Previously in this series: Linear programming and healthy diets — Part 1 Linear programing and the simplex algorithm Foods of the Father My dad’s an interesting guy. Every so often he picks up a health trend and/or weight loss goal that would make many people’s jaw drop. For example, we once went on a 5-day, 50-mile backpacking trip in the Grand Tetons, and my dad brought one packet of Lipton’s Side Dishes noodle soup per day for dinner, an..

Previously in this series: Linear programming and healthy diets — Part 1 Linear programing and the simplex algorithm Foods of the Father My dad’s an interesting guy. Every so often he picks up a health trend and/or weight loss goal that would make many people’s jaw drop. For example, we once went on a 5-day, 50-mile backpacking trip in the Grand Tetons, and my dad brought one packet of Lipton’s Side Dishes noodle soup per day for dinner, an..

Data is to this century what oil was to the last one: a driver of growth and change. Flows of data have created new infrastructure, new businesses, new monopolies, new politics and—crucially—new economics.” - The Economist, May 2017

It’s been a busy week with 3.7.3 released and a lot of new things. Diamond made several PR’s over the past couple of weeks but one interesting PR is an “always on top” feature for the simulator which is exactly what it sounds…​ This is very useful for me personally as it will allow me to film coding while showing the simulator floating on top (thanks Diamond!) but it should be super useful for everyone. You can inspect the code/debugg..





A cautionary tale about statically-linked libraries , as generated by C/C++ build tools. As a project accumulates features, and complexity , it gets harder to understand exactly what's going on, and to find your way around the source code. You need to find some way to organise the code and try and keep things manageable. A common idea, in this situation, is to group some source files together to split out as a static library. I'm go....

Soon after Swift was initially open sourced, I wrote an article about how weak references are implemented . Time moves on and things change, and the implementation is different from what it once was. Today I'm going to talk about the current implementation and how it works compared to the old one, a topic suggested by Guillaume Lessard. (Read More)

Friday Q&A 2017-09-22: Swift 4 Weak References Friday Q&A 2017-09-22: Swift 4 Weak References Soon after Swift was initially open sourced, I wrote an article about how weak references are implemented . Time moves on and things change, and the implementation is different from what it once was. Today I'm going to talk about the current implementation and how it works compared to the old one, a topic suggested by Guillaume Lessard. ....

To Learn About ☒ Company-mode (completion framework for lots of stuff) ☒ YASnippets (templates) ☒ Auto-YASnippets (something like that—I installed it for temporary templates) ☒ Alchemist mode (integrates with company mode—tooling for Elixir) ☐ What do M-. and M-, do? ☐ font-lock-add-keywords would let me add new keywords to a language ☐ hi-lock ☐ highlight-phrase, unhighlight-regex ☒ Registers ☐ Auto-loading packages to make startup time....

To Learn About ☒ Company-mode (completion framework for lots of stuff) ☒ YASnippets (templates) ☒ Auto-YASnippets (something like that—I installed it for temporary templates) ☒ Alchemist mode (integrates with company mode—tooling for Elixir) ☐ What do M-. and M-, do? ☐ font-lock-add-keywords would let me add new keywords to a language ☐ hi-lock ☐ highlight-phrase, unhighlight-regex ☒ Registers ☐ Auto-loading packages to make startup time....

I have some thoughts about regret in life, which might be counterintuitive. You might have heard of Jeff Bezos making the decision to start Amazon as a part of regret-minimization decision making. For him, there would’ve been a certain regret of not attempting Amazon, but there wouldn’t be as much regret if he tried and it didn’t work out. From his point of view, minimizing the regret is to minimize the difference between the best he coul....

Return Of The RSS - smcleod.net - 9 years ago - eng
Of all the tools for reading news and subscribing to software releases, I still find RSS the most useful. I use Feedly to manage my rss subscriptions and keep all my devices in sync, but instead of using the Feedly’s own client, I use an app called Reeder as the client / reader itself. Link: My Feedly RSS Feed Feedly RSS feed subscription management Features: Keyword alerts. Browser plugins to subscribe to (current) url. Notat....

Return Of The RSS - smcleod.net - 9 years ago - eng
Of all the tools for reading news and subscribing to software releases, I still find RSS the most useful. I use Feedly to manage my rss subscriptions and keep all my devices in sync, but instead of using the Feedly’s own client, I use an app called Reeder as the client / reader itself. Link: My Feedly RSS Feed Feedly RSS feed subscription management Features: Keyword alerts. Browser plugins to subscribe to (current) url. Notat....

Return Of The RSS - smcleod.net - 9 years ago - eng
Of all the tools for reading news and subscribing to software releases, I still find RSS the most useful. I use Feedly to manage my rss subscriptions and keep all my devices in sync, but instead of using the Feedly’s own client, I use an app called Reeder as the client / reader itself. Link: My Feedly RSS Feed Feedly RSS feed subscription management Features: Keyword alerts. Browser plugins to subscribe to (current) url. Notat....

Return Of The RSS - smcleod.net - 9 years ago - eng
Of all the tools for reading news and subscribing to software releases, I still find RSS the most useful. I use Feedly to manage my rss subscriptions and keep all my devices in sync, but instead of using the Feedly’s own client, I use an app called Reeder as the client / reader itself. Link: My Feedly RSS Feed Feedly RSS feed subscription management Features: Keyword alerts. Browser plugins to subscribe to (current) url. Notat....

Shipping a bug-free feature is always important in every release. To ensure this, we do quality analysis(QA) at various points of the…

In the first article of this series, we looked at the background the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), as well as some its implications. In this follow-up, we’ll concentrate on how to understand all the data in your possession and what that means for your organization.


In a previous post, we discussed the need to provide education around our ecosystem and implementation of the FHIRⓇ and SMARTⓇ standards for developers and how we did so at our annual Cerner Health Conference. That same week, we were also a part of FHIR DevDays, which included a track entitled “Apps in the EHR.” We worked alongside track participants who were seeking to integrate their apps in a variety of EHRs, including Cerner.

The 80s and 90s was a period of intense development in the computer hardware and software worlds. On the hardware side, processors started to become much more powerful, and the word on the streets was that RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computing) was going to be the way of the future. Powerful RISC platforms emerged during this time, including Sun Microsystems SPARC, HP PA-RISC, SGI MIPS, IBM PowerPC, and the DEC Alpha - these platforms w..

The 80s and 90s was a period of intense development in the computer hardware and software worlds. On the hardware side, processors started to become much more powerful, and the word on the streets was that RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computing) was going to be the way of the future. Powerful RISC platforms emerged during this time, including Sun Microsystems SPARC, HP PA-RISC, SGI MIPS, IBM PowerPC, and the DEC Alpha - these platforms w..

This is almost a live recap of my tour of South-east Asia (and Hong Kong) this month (September 2017) and will be updated as things chug along. There's also a…

Eliminate cold starts and get from zero to deploy in under 3 minutes with the Auth0 Webtasks provider integration

In this post we will understand what it means to say “this song has a lot of high frequencies”, then hunt and capture the waveform that allows us to say this! Some Python code will be used, but understanding it is not necessary. Footnotes are more technically advanced. The x coordinate of the circle… is frequency?! […]



I was lucky enough to attend my first meetup in Poland this month: Agile Poznan . The talk was on Systems Thinking , a topic that bored me in college but fascinated me when I entered the real world. Applying systems thinking can reveal the origins behind events and behaviors we see every day. Using this clarity can make you a better software developer, and a better asset to your organisation in general. Here are some of my insights from....

Tech Retail Week assembled some of the Consumer Industry’s leading thinkers to discuss the future of the industry over 2 days at Here East in London’s Olympic Park. Industry luminaries were joined by an eclectic mix of challengers, start-ups, and organizations, who in the past might not have been considered as part of the Retail community. This led to a dynamic, thought-provoking two days.


I’m all about consistency, particularly when it comes to my daily routine . To confirm my own biases, I found some research that agrees with the idea that consistency is good. For example, one study suggests that people with regular routines tend to sleep better, and another study of young children found that regular bedtimes contributed to less obesity and better “emotional self-regulation”. I generally like the idea of sleeping..

I’m all about consistency, particularly when it comes to my daily routine . To confirm my own biases, I found some research that agrees with the idea that consistency is good. For example, one study suggests that people with regular routines tend to sleep better, and another study of young children found that regular bedtimes contributed to less obesity and better “emotional self-regulation”. I generally like the idea of sleeping..



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