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A file recently turned up from an external partner. Our software was having problems parsing it. I opened it up in TextPad (text editor for Windows) and everything looked fine. Obviously I consider our software to be perfect so I was a little perplexed as how this file could be causing problems… It turned out there were newline issues. Opening the file in a hex editor revealed the file used \n\n\r for newlines, i.e. 3 bytes.
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For some reason, Oracle blocked the installers to run only on a fixed OSX version range with a nice and explanatory error message. This range doesn’t include Yosemite, which makes sense, since nobody running Yosemite will ever want to write some Java. Anyway, here is how to fix it.
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As humans, we navigate our lives largely by the recognition of patterns. These patterns include the sound of a mother’s voice, the appearance of a dangerous animal or poisonous food, the familiarity of kin, and the attraction to potential mates. Accurate pattern recognition is key to an animal’s survival and progress, and has allowed humans to become the socially complex and advanced species we are today.
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We are often taught to see prejudice only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on the privileged groups. So one of the great privileges many of us have is to be oblivious to our own condition of privilege.
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Are you solving problems that don’t exist? It’s number two in our list of nine major risks to innovation. Being successful at innovation requires an understanding of the identified risks and having the ability to deal with them. Let’s take a look at Risk #2: Solving non-existent problems.
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I have decided to publish this a day early this week, as I leave for Canada in just a few hours and waiting any longer would make this impossible. Until I return on the sixteenth, then, enjoy this final installment of my ongoing series, This Week in Podcasts. I look forward to coming home and finding a host of shows awaiting my arrival almost as much as I anticipate writing this piece’s successor. Permalink.
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Once again, I’m back with some stellar cabins from around the world. This time, however, unlike past articles in this series and upon request by Gianfranco Lanzio , I have bundled images alongside the appropriate paragraphs in an effort at more easily conveying the beauty of these structures and their accompanying sceneries. I hope you all like the result just as much as I do, and maybe — just maybe — even more. Permalink.
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The other day, I accidentally printed a ton of binary data to my terminal. Upon doing so, my computer started to beep incessantly.
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The other day, I accidentally printed a ton of binary data to my terminal. Upon doing so, my computer started to beep incessantly.
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It seems like a stupid question – obviously, we read in order to process written material until we understand it.
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Hello friends. Yesterday I finished the 5th level! It took much longer than anticipated because it's actually 10 separate maps connected together. It includes some simple but hopefully interesting puzzle mechanics. It also advances the story through notes and several text conversations scattered throughout. It's hard to see in screenshots, but I added a subtle cloud shadow effect as well. It doesn't respond to the actual cloud..
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I’ve found that a lot of people don’t know how powerful the Chrome Developer Tools are, especially when paired with the Ember Inspector. I recorded this short screencast to show a handful of tricks you can use when debugging Ember.js applications: The source code to the Bug Tracker project is on github .
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JavaZone just released their traditional annual clip which is especially amusing for fans of the Song Of Ice & Fire series (or the Game Of Thrones TV adaptation). If you haven’t seen the clips from these guys before you MUST check them out here , including spoofs of house of cards and breaking bad (not to mention years of hilarious clips)! Very cool.
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As I followed along with the 9.4 release of Postgres I had a few posts of things that I was excited about, some things that missed, and a bit of a wrap-up. I thought this year (year in the sense of PG releases) I’d jump the gun and lay out areas I’d love to see addressed in PostgreSQL 9.5. And here it goes: Upsert Merge/Upsert/Insert or Update whatever you want to call it this is still a huge wart that it doesn’t exist. There’s be....
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As I followed along with the 9.4 release of Postgres I had a few posts of things that I was excited about, some things that missed, and a bit of a wrap-up. I thought this year (year in the sense of PG releases) I’d jump the gun and lay out areas I’d love to see addressed in PostgreSQL 9.5. And here it goes: Upsert Merge/Upsert/Insert or Update whatever you want to call it this is still a huge wart that it doesn’t exist. There’s be....
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Hi, This is similar to my post around Azure Storage Integration testing just with a mongo twist. I’ve been working with mongo and didn’t really like the debugging workflow: Do something, start mongovue and manually check the item changed in the way you thought it would. I’ve written a set of extensions to allow a nice set of declarative fluent assertions about the state of the MongoDB after an action has been performed.
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Comment on Redis Sentinel at Flickr by ObjectRocket Adds Fully-Managed Redis Service - Web Hosting Blog
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code.flickr.net
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12 years ago
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in the open source community. It is deployed at scale at several major companies, including Flickr, which uses automated Redis master failover for an important subsystem, and Pinterest, which uses Redis for its following model and interest […]
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The key abstraction of information in REST is a resource. Any information that can be named can be a resource: a document or image, a temporal service (e.g. "today's weather in Los Angeles"), a collection of other resources, a non-virtual object (e.g. a person), and so on. In other words, any concept that might be the target of an author's hypertext reference must fit within the definition of a resource.
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A few weeks ago at lunch I had the opportunity to catch up with a company in the current YC batch, building something very similar to dataclips. While we talked about a lot of things from what we’ve learned from dataclips, marketing, and other areas. One area we talked about was product and when to ship vs. when to kill things and I realized I hadn’t talked on my fairly simple but clear view on this publicly, so here it is. A large credi....
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A few weeks ago at lunch I had the opportunity to catch up with a company in the current YC batch, building something very similar to dataclips. While we talked about a lot of things from what we’ve learned from dataclips, marketing, and other areas. One area we talked about was product and when to ship vs. when to kill things and I realized I hadn’t talked on my fairly simple but clear view on this publicly, so here it is. A large credi....
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Most software development teams break work down into four distinct phases: Analyze → Develop → Test → Release. As projects grow in scale, traditional development teams grow each of these phases without changing the sequence or frequency. Each phase happens once and only after the previous one is completed. This model has worked for generations for building physical goods and people just assumed it would work for software as well. It didn’t.
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Articles are written, communities have been started, forums have been organized, and organizations have taken steps to bring women into the technology space. But there is always more to do. When a woman is asked what was your motivation to take on a career in technology, the answers you hear sound like this. “I like to solve problems using machines.” “Making a machine do what you want and break the monotony.”“There is always something new ..
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Agile Testers are often known as Quality Analysts (QA), Software Engineers in Test, Test Engineers and QA Leads, among other variances. I've been working as an Agile QA for a while and I would like to share my point of view about how QAs work in an agile team. In this article, I will use the term QA to represent an "Agile Tester". Most people, even in agile teams, treat QAs as a sub-role or a separate role in the team. I believe this is an ..
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The White House announced on Monday, August 11th 2014, that it is formally launching a new U.S. Digital Service and that it has hired Mikey Dickerson to lead it. Mickey Dickerson is an engineer widely credited with playing a central role in salvaging HealthCare.gov. The idea behind the USDS is institutionalizing the approach that saved the US health care website. This post USA's Digital Playbook first appeared on Dan Stroot's Blog
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Found the following comment in some code I had modified a few years ago. Just to set this up, its an existing application I had no hand in creating, and is a totally atrocity of 180,000 lines of untested code (and pretty much un-testable) which through the abuse of extension methods lives in a single class spread out across multiple files. /* This is evil but necessary. For some reason people have put validation rules here rather then in....
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It was a chilly summer evening when Valeros the valiant fighter and Merisiel the super cool rogue walked through the gates of a tiny abandoned farmhouse. They were heroes, you see, and here to rescue the people of the land from a gang of notorious thieving wanderers - the Sczarni - who have been terrorizing Sandpoint under the leadership of a punk named Jubrayl Vhiski.
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Getting to Know Fiddler: Part III: Use breakpoints to edit live requests
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joshuarogers.net
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12 years ago
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One of the great things about using an API is that it implies that I can use functionality that I don't have to write myself. I can write an app that live tweets driving directions between two random Yelp reviews without ever having to directly know how the tweeting or directing is taking place. As long as I stick to the API, I can pretty much accept that the API's functionality should usually “just work”.
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It's been about four years since we last took on a new project as a company. Work continued for existing clients for a long time after that, but the company itself was basically dead from that point. I was on vacation with my family last week and somewhat reflecting on exactly how I got there after ending up in a hospital bed in the middle of the night four years ago trying to keep it going. Here's how it happened. NOTE: I still personally ..
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It's been about four years since we last took on a new project as a company. Work continued for existing clients for a long time after that, but the company itself was basically dead from that point. I was on vacation with my family last week and somewhat reflecting on exactly how I got there after ending up in a hospital bed in the middle of the night four years ago trying to keep it going. Here's how it happened. NOTE: I still personally ..
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Today I tell you a story about one tricky bug. The bug is a tricky one because it doesn’t allow me to debug my application on Mondays. I’m serious right now: the debug mode doesn’t work every Monday. Furthermore, the bug literally tell me: “Happy Monday!”. So, the story. It was a wonderful Sunday evening, no signs of trouble. We planned to release a new version of our software (a minor one, but it includes some useful features). Midnight ..
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Today I tell you a story about one tricky bug. The bug is a tricky one because it doesn’t allow me to debug my application on Mondays. I’m serious right now: the debug mode doesn’t work every Monday. Furthermore, the bug literally tell me: “Happy Monday!”. So, the story. It was a wonderful Sunday evening, no signs of trouble. We planned to release a new version of our software (a minor one, but it includes some useful features). Midnight ..
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DOM Comparator is a JavaScript library that analyzes and compares two HTML strings, and returns back a diff object. It returns an output…
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Delivery 2.0: Blurring the Lines Between Retail & Delivery
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www.thoughtworks.com
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12 years ago
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Retail has already been transfigured as an industry. Since the early 2000s with the growth in online and e-commerce, to the current state-of-play with both online and offline now merging towards a seamless omni-channel experience, it’s a new age of consumerism.
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Technovation Challenge encourages girls who are in primary, secondary and higher education to create, develop and launch a mobile application that can solve problems related to their communities. The girls have 12 weeks to develop a prototype of the application, going through the whole process, from the identification of the problem, the creation of ideas to solve it, the elaboration of a business plan and development a real digital product..
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Thoughtworks Joins Dozens of Groups, Companies Praising President Obama's Net Neutrality Statement Dozens of advocacy organizations and companies, released a letter on August 8, 2014, to President Barack Obama, in response to his recent vocal support for fair and meaningful net neutrality rules. Find the full text of the letter below. Subject: Thank you for protecting the Internet, Mr. President Mr. President:
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