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5 Unique Tourist Spots in the Philippines - RachFeed . 7 first-timer fails . Palawan (island) . The best beaches of the Philippines .
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Traffic is a strange beast. Sometimes it comes from nowhere at all, wreaking unspeakable havoc on your itinerary, eviscerating your plans with startling efficiency. Other times it’s entirely expected, and entirely unavoidable. In any case, nobody particular enjoys traffic (I certainly don’t), it’s an environmental tragedy, and it’s ruthlessly wasteful. By all accounts, traffic is a Bad Thing™. Call it schadenfreude if you want, but on day....
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Traffic is a strange beast. Sometimes it comes from nowhere at all, wreaking unspeakable havoc on your itinerary, eviscerating your plans with startling efficiency. Other times it’s entirely expected, and entirely unavoidable. In any case, nobody particular enjoys traffic (I certainly don’t), it’s an environmental tragedy, and it’s ruthlessly wasteful. By all accounts, traffic is a Bad Thing™. Call it schadenfreude if you want, but on day....
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Ideally, user research and testing is conducted in person at a location where a person performs an action or task. There are multiple factors that affect user behavior. As a user researcher, you need to read and understand your user’s body language, and know where it is appropriate to probe and when. How is this research impacted when it’s not possible to be physically located with your test audience? With the rapid pace of innovation and i..
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Our initial implementation of asynchronous offline messaging in Bleep[1] used an encryption scheme which provided authentication and confidentiality, but not forward secrecy[2]. This meant that if the private key of Alice or Bob was compromised, Eve could use the key to decrypt any of their offline messages she had previously captured. Providing forward secrecy for […]
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It’s about time we got back to computational topology. Previously in this series we endured a lightning tour of the fundamental group and homology, then we saw how to compute the homology of a simplicial complex using linear algebra. What we really want to do is talk about the inherent shape of data. Homology allows us to compute some qualitative features of a given shape, i.e., find and count the number of connected components or a given s..
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It’s about time we got back to computational topology. Previously in this series we endured a lightning tour of the fundamental group and homology, then we saw how to compute the homology of a simplicial complex using linear algebra. What we really want to do is talk about the inherent shape of data. Homology allows us to compute some qualitative features of a given shape, i.e., find and count the number of connected components or a given s..
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It’s about time we got back to computational topology. Previously in this series we endured a lightning tour of the fundamental group and homology, then we saw how to compute the homology of a simplicial complex using linear algebra. What we really want to do is talk about the inherent shape of data. Homology allows us to compute some qualitative features of a given shape, i.e., find and count the number of connected components or a given s..
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Palette is an open source lightweight color picker for the most famous color schemes, like Material Design, Flat UI, iOS, Windows Phone etc. Despite being color blind, I like apps and websites with the right selection of colors. And sometimes when starting a new project it’s easier to pick a color palette from the existing ones. Or, if you want to meet the guidelines for the certain platform - you’d better use the colors they offer.
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Palette is an open source lightweight color picker for the most famous color schemes, like Material Design, Flat UI, iOS, Windows Phone etc. Despite being color blind, I like apps and websites with the right selection of colors. And sometimes when starting a new project it’s easier to pick a color palette from the existing ones. Or, if you want to meet the guidelines for the certain platform - you’d better use the colors they offer.
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Winter now has proper runtime support for first class functions, and anonymous functions (lambda expressions) with lexical closures. A simple example: def main() float : let f = \(float x) : x*x in f(2.0) returns 4.0. In this example an anonymous function (that computes the square of its argument) is created and assigned to f. It is then called with the argument 2.0. Since functions are 'first class', they can be returne....
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The more I use C# as a language for writing things the more I am convinced that its approach really is the best language approach out there. The unit test support is excellent which allows development speed to be just as fast as any dynamic language (Python, PHP, Perl). The static typing catches so many issues before you get to runtime and allows sweeping changes without breaking things. Unlike Java it has the var keyword (saves time ..
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It has been a long time outstanding, “to do item”, to start collecting feedback and net promoter scores from the tens of thousands of customers that AdRoll has. Once at scale, it becomes surprisingly challenging to ensure that feedback from users is sent to Product, Engineering and SMB teams. Last month we turned Satismeter on via our Segment dashboard. Satismeter injects a prompt at the bottom of our Dashboard asking how likely you a....
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Those of us that do Test Driven Development have heard about doubles, mocks, stubs, fakes and spies multiple times.
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Those of us that do Test Driven Development have heard about doubles, mocks, stubs, fakes and spies multiple times.
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Imagine you are in a line at an airport, waiting to go through immigration. The line ahead of you is huge and there's only one (not very excited) agent serving that line. You're sweating, because the air-conditioning is being fixed at this moment, so it's as hot as it gets.
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There is a story going around about data science that you’ve surely heard. It's the statement that 80% of the work a data scientist does is collecting, cleaning and organizing data and that only 20% is their real specialty: building models and making discoveries. Those who make this statement, often those selling something, usually claim what data science needs most of all is better tools for doing these so called data munging tasks to free..
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China's Brick and Mortar Revolution: From Soy Sauce Food Stamps to Experience Hubs
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www.thoughtworks.com
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11 years ago
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I grew up in the planned economy of Communist China in the early 1980s. On my 5th birthday, my parents gave me my first food stamp and said “Boy, you’re old enough to go and buy soy sauce”. This might seem trivial, but in China it was a big deal—a coming of age of sorts. There’s a lot to learn from China’s speedy retail revolution. From the food stamps of the '80s to the mega lifestyle centers of today, retail trends that manifested over h..
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As a forewarning, this post doesn’t really provide tips on how to be invisible, it’s more of an observation of human nature. One of my biggest stressors when I was considering living in a van, as is undoubtedly evident from my earlier posts, was my unshakable fear that I was going to be caught, arrested, or otherwise reprimanded. I was worried that I wouldn’t be discreet enough, or I’d make some grave mistake one day, or anything but a ..
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As a forewarning, this post doesn’t really provide tips on how to be invisible, it’s more of an observation of human nature. One of my biggest stressors when I was considering living in a van, as is undoubtedly evident from my earlier posts, was my unshakable fear that I was going to be caught, arrested, or otherwise reprimanded. I was worried that I wouldn’t be discreet enough, or I’d make some grave mistake one day, or anything but a ..
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This white paper is written by Dan McClure (Innovation Design Practice Leader, Thoughtworks) and Ian Gray (Director, Gray Dot Catalyst). This is the third of four contributions on the subject of 'Innovation Scaling' submitted for the 'Transformation Through Innovation' theme for the World Humanitarian Summit.
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This tutorial is starting to get interesting…. In this section we’ll go deep into animations, special effects, search styling and extracting contacts. In the previous sections we built the first form of the app, logged in and now we need to show the actual login form. Even more importantly we need to show it with style like this: (notice that you should see an animated gif above naturally we reduced quality to make it smaller but ..
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Note: This is part of a series of posts about Rigel the Maine Coon kitten who was given a urinary infection by a veterinarian in Stockholm during a routine surgery and has been struggling with peeing since. You can read more in the Rigel section .
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I was interviewed for the CodeNewbie podcast, where I talk about life, IBM Design, open source, and personal goals.
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I’ve seen many articles and discussions online discussing the merits of merge and rebase when integrating parallel branches into the main branch. It seems there are two camps arguing “which is better” when in reality, both have their own use cases. The task we need to accomplish is to determine which workflow is right for your project. This article will attempt to provide an overview to the different workflows, and explain when merge and ....
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Offering free internet well almost and survive disaster, power outage, Internet blackout
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blog.nobugware.com
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11 years ago
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In my neighborhood, I’m experimenting to give free access to some services, not the full internet but a full access to Wikipedia, maps… Here are some tips do to the same. Getting access to the internet may be crucial for our lives, but the commercial providers are here to make money out of it. They don’t event provide disasters nor minimum safety access. Sometimes even in normal condition, while traveling your roaming will cost you hundreds..
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