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2015 was an interesting year, and one that I really enjoyed! I spent a lot of time getting/restoring/playing the last few arcade machines that I’ve wanted in my arcade collection - I just love the retro arcade hobby! As a result, I won’t be getting or restoring any more in 2016 at all (I have a few arcades that I want to work on to upgrade, but that’s about it). I’ll be spending most of my time playing them!
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2015 was an interesting year, and one that I really enjoyed! I spent a lot of time getting/restoring/playing the last few arcade machines that I’ve wanted in my arcade collection - I just love the retro arcade hobby! As a result, I won’t be getting or restoring any more in 2016 at all (I have a few arcades that I want to work on to upgrade, but that’s about it). I’ll be spending most of my time playing them!
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I typically use which to figure out the first binary found in $PATH: which -a emacsclient /Users/user/homebrew/bin/emacsclient /usr/bin/emacsclient I always forget about type though: type -a emacsclient emacsclient is /Users/user/homebrew/bin/emacsclient emacsclient is /usr/bin/emacsclient
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Global vs local package installation location {prefix}/lib/node_modules vs path/to/project/node_modules View npm config npm config list ; cli configs user-agent = "npm/2.14.2 node/v4.0.0 darwin x64" ; node bin location = /Users/user/.nvm/versions/node/v4.0.0/bin/node ; cwd = /Users/user/stuff/active/blog ; HOME = /Users/user ; 'npm config ls -l' to show all defaults. Get config value npm config get prefix /Users/user/.nvm/v....
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Earlier this week, we compared the iPhone and Android in a knockdown showdown of features that matter to us.
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It’s New Years again! We are excited to announce the most popular articles on Thoughtworks Insights, as well as the editors’ picks for 2015.
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I find during the holiday season many pick up new books , learn a new language , or brush up on some other skill in general. Here’s my contribution to hopefully giving you a few new things to learn about Postgres and ideally utilize in the new year. It’s not in a top 10 list as much as 10 tips and tricks you should be aware of as when you need them they become incredibly handy. But, first a shameless plug if you find any of the following ....
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I find during the holiday season many pick up new books , learn a new language , or brush up on some other skill in general. Here’s my contribution to hopefully giving you a few new things to learn about Postgres and ideally utilize in the new year. It’s not in a top 10 list as much as 10 tips and tricks you should be aware of as when you need them they become incredibly handy. But, first a shameless plug if you find any of the following ....
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A month or so ago I started collection emails on searchcode.com to determine if there was enough interest in a downloadable version of searchcode. The results were overwhelmingly positive. The email list grew far beyond what I would have expected, and this was in the first month. As such I have been working in this downloadable version of searchcode which will probably be called searchcode server. Progress has been reasonably straight for..
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How Sustainable Development Goals Change Humanitarian Innovation
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www.thoughtworks.com
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10 years ago
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In closing remarks at the Global Humanitarian Policy Forum in New York, Hansjoerg Strohmeyer, Chief of the Policy Development and Studies Branch of the Office of Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), challenged the current humanitarian model where extended displacements can run for 10 years using the same mode of operation.
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Analysis: Google Moving to OpenJDK, What That Really Means
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www.codenameone.com
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10 years ago
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I’ve been following the news breaking since yesterday as a hacker news post highlighted that an Android commit included OpenJDK files. This is amazing news and a huge step forward for Java, it’s still unclear if this is just another move or the inkling of a settlement between Google and Oracle but I’m very hopeful that this is indeed a settlement. So far Google wouldn’t comment on the court case and whether it was settled si..
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Friday 21:15 Fifteen minutes after the theme announcement, my friend Ben Homan walks through my front door. Not really my front door, I'm just a subletter. But this is a first. Normally he ignores our instructions to walk in without knocking. The first time, he texted me from the driveway. 21:30 Jesse Kooner walks in, also unannounced, bearing frozen pizza. Before he can even kick his shoes off, I loudly explain the theme: a never-b..
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Daniel P. Berrangé wrote about trying out a single node ceph cluster. I decided to take his article and turn it into an Oh-My-Vagrant omv.yaml file. It took me about two minutes to do so, and two hours to debug a problem caused by something I had broken on my laptop. If you’d like to replicate his article in less than 5 minutes, pull down the omv.yaml file that I’ve just published and run omv up. Here’s the full terminal output of my s..
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Daniel P. Berrangé wrote about trying out a single node ceph cluster. I decided to take his article and turn it into an Oh-My-Vagrant omv.yaml file. It took me about two minutes to do so, and two hours to debug a problem caused by something I had broken on my laptop. If you’d like to replicate his article in less than 5 minutes, pull down the omv.yaml file that I’ve just published and run omv up. Here’s the full terminal output of my s..
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Chordion is a combination arpeggiator / drum sequencer that supposedly “is a fun new way to make music on the iPad.” I think I’ve proven their “never hit a wrong note!” wrong. Maybe a few more practice runs will help. Listen on Soundcloud
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Here’s a bit of folklore I often hear (and retell) that’s somewhere between a joke and deep wisdom: if you’re doing a software interview that involves some algorithms problem that seems hard, your best bet is to use hash tables. More succinctly put: Google loves hash tables. As someone with a passion for math and theoretical CS, it’s kind of silly and reductionist. But if you actually work with terabytes of data that can’t fit on a single m..
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Here’s a bit of folklore I often hear (and retell) that’s somewhere between a joke and deep wisdom: if you’re doing a software interview that involves some algorithms problem that seems hard, your best bet is to use hash tables. More succinctly put: Google loves hash tables. As someone with a passion for math and theoretical CS, it’s kind of silly and reductionist. But if you actually work with terabytes of data that can’t fit on a single m..
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Here’s a bit of folklore I often hear (and retell) that’s somewhere between a joke and deep wisdom: if you’re doing a software interview that involves some algorithms problem that seems hard, your best bet is to use hash tables. More succinctly put: Google loves hash tables. As someone with a passion for math and theoretical CS, it’s kind of silly and reductionist. But if you actually work with terabytes of data that can’t fit on a single m..
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Volatile and atomic variables are an important feature in Java language. Especially when dealing with multi threading . A simple incrementation algorithm works fine in a single threaded program, but won’t work as expected in a multi threaded system: private int counter = 0; public int increment(int i) { return i++; } This code will work correctly in a single threaded program, but will give incorrect results in case of a multi threaded ..
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The headline of Postgres 9.5 is undoubtedly: Insert… on conflict do nothing/update or more commonly known as Upsert or Merge. This removes one of the last remaining features which other databases had over Postgres. Sure we’ll take a look at it, but first let’s browse through some of the other features you can look forward to when Postgres 9.5 lands: Grouping sets, cube, rollup Pivoting in Postgres has sort of been possible as has ....
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The headline of Postgres 9.5 is undoubtedly: Insert… on conflict do nothing/update or more commonly known as Upsert or Merge. This removes one of the last remaining features which other databases had over Postgres. Sure we’ll take a look at it, but first let’s browse through some of the other features you can look forward to when Postgres 9.5 lands: Grouping sets, cube, rollup Pivoting in Postgres has sort of been possible as has ....
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I’ve been wanting to write this for a long time, just to clarify my thoughts on the subject. Now, on vacations, I took a couple of days and finally did it. This is a personal opinion based on my personal experience and tons of books I have read, and I am not, by any means, the supreme holder of the truth, so you will probably disagree with me at some point.
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We released a new version of the introducing Codename One video almost a month ago but we just neglected to highlight it in the blog. Our old videos are pretty dated by now and we use far better toolchains for video production today, so we are in the process of redoing all our old videos. This is a long and tedious process that we do while producing newer content, fixes and moving forward. So the timeline of such updates is quite vola..
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I recall extremely early stage where you’d build a feature, realize it was awesome, then the next day write a blog post for it. At some point you start to move from that to more coordinated launches. A larger coordinated launch allows you to reach a bigger audience, can lead to bigger deals, and help expand your overall market. But perhaps more importantly by the time you hit full launch you’ve message tested and ensured it’s going to reson....
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I recall extremely early stage where you’d build a feature, realize it was awesome, then the next day write a blog post for it. At some point you start to move from that to more coordinated launches. A larger coordinated launch allows you to reach a bigger audience, can lead to bigger deals, and help expand your overall market. But perhaps more importantly by the time you hit full launch you’ve message tested and ensured it’s going to reson....
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A quick noodle with Keezy Drummer recorded into the Zoom H4n, exported to Fission, then piped through Audio Hijack with the right channel duplicated into the left before saving to MP3. Listen on Soundcloud
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And a partridge in a pear tree. Signed up for Janathon (updates will probably be here). Signed up for Dryathlon (Sponsor me!). Decided to do an ad-hoc Jamathon (“Make and upload some musical output every day using one or two mobile apps”). (Yes, I’m going to be insufferable all month.)
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Not strictly a music-making app, [Audioshare] gets used for almost all of the things I upload to Soundcloud. But since I managed to accidentally make some “music” with it, I might as well blog about it (and steal the description from Soundcloud). There I was, playing something I’d just made in Soundscaper through Audioshare via Audiobus into Gliderverb when I had the urge to record what was happening since it was sounding ok.
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Like a 2D theremin on acid, TC-Performer has a bunch of instruments (all digitally synthed by TC-11 - which is on the wishlist) controlled by multi-touch, movement, etc. Bit tricky to do coherent tunes but excellent for making this kind of swoopy droney chimey kind of space music. Listen on Soundcloud
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Some learning-curve twiddling with Poly. Should be good for generating driving rhythms as underlying texture. Listen on Soundcloud
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Recorded 1:45 of tap filling a bath using Fieldscaper. Chopped out a decent 45s segment and mangled it three different ways to make a kind of weird Dr Who 1970s sci-fi noisefest. Listen on Soundcloud
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Or “half an hour spent twiddling with various graphics apps on an iPhone whilst unable to sleep”. (Lots of 512x512 images make this a big post.) The original image Southwark Park, 2015-12-19, near the south-east gate, looking south-west. Waterlogue “Vibrant, medium, Auto”. BLACK “P400, Tura expired 2002” BLACK plus Waterlogue Combination of the last two. Decim8 These were all done via the random settings button. Etchings plus Union plus Pix..
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Because of the fact that I personally work for an ad supported company and that searchcode.com is currently supported via third party advertising I tend to keep an eye on the state of ad blockers on the web. Most people probably know about adblockplus and other browser extensions however there are other ways to block ad’s on ones network. One that I had previously read about was setting up your own Bind9 server on a server and adding cust..
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The Indian startup ecosystem has taken shape and exploded in the last few years, and so have the countless stories surrounding them. Unsurprisingly, lessons of unsuccessful ideas and attempts haven’t gotten as much precedence as successful counterparts.
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The Indian startup ecosystem has taken shape and exploded in the last few years, and so have the countless stories surrounding them. Unsurprisingly, lessons of unsuccessful ideas and attempts haven’t gotten as much precedence as successful counterparts.
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Clojure in Emacs from absolute zero . 2015 in review . A call for Clojure stacks · Clojure Stacks . GitHub - nrepl/nrepl: A Clojure network REPL that provides a server and client, along with some common APIs of use to IDEs and other tools that may need to evaluate Clojure code in remote environments . Getting Started with Cider for Clojure Programming - Blog .
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