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This post originally started out like this: I’ve made a few more shell patterns for the snails! I then started to descibe how the basic genetics work in the simulation (limited to pattern color). While doing so, I began to realize that it is all wrong . I went back and ripped apart some of the breeding system to get it to a slightly more realistic state. Needless to say it’s still not really correct, but at least it’s a bit close..
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Fascinating story by Hampton Sides for Outside Online. As I have said before , Russia has always held a great deal of interest for me; with this article, Hampton lifts that near-impermeable veil — even if only a little bit. Permalink.
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Pop quiz: What will be the output of this little program? public class DateFun { public static void main(String[] args) { long hours = getHoursOfDay(LocalDate.now(), ZoneId.systemDefault()); System.out.println(hours); } private static long getHoursOfDay(LocalDate date, ZoneId zoneId) { ZonedDateTime startOfDay = date.atStartOfDay(zoneId); Duration duration = Duration.between(startOfDay, startOfDay.plusDays(1)); return duration.toHours(); } ..
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When Adam and Nathan talked about this article during episode seventeen of their podcast Five More Things , 50 Cent is Actually Brilliant , I recognized its potential value but dismissed it as largely uninteresting, and sent it away to Instapaper. Now, however, a few weeks later, I wish I had sat down and read it as soon as it came to my attention. My only complaint is that I wish it were longer: 50 Cent had some fantastic advice and shar..
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My experience at Startup Weekend Adelaide building Lend A Skilled Hand, a platform matching skilled volunteers with organisations
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My experience at Startup Weekend Adelaide building Lend A Skilled Hand, a platform matching skilled volunteers with organisations
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My experience at Startup Weekend Adelaide building Lend A Skilled Hand, a platform matching skilled volunteers with organisations
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There are no two ways about it, retailers must innovate in order to compete and succeed in today’s competitive environment. Innovation can mean the difference between being a market superstar or being forced to close up shop. Author Peter Drucker once said, “If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.” For retailers, this is a crucial motto to live by.
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Typically, distributed teams have constraints in collaborating face-to-face. I’ve been part of a distributed agile team for quite some time now. My project is distributed across two countries - India and the US. We have a small team onshore and a larger team offshore. Despite the constraints, there’s a lot that I have learnt as a project manager on the team and I would like to share my takeaways from it.
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The first commit auto-tweeted from the @gastropoda_ twitter account yesterday was actually the last commit dedicated to the Laravel port reimplementation:
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Beautiful pictures from a remarkable place; I would love to take a long trip out here someday. Permalink.
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About a month ago searchcode.com managed to sit on the front page of Hacker News (HN) for most of a day and produced a lot of useful feedback for me to act on. You can read the full details here searchcode: A source code search engine Between the HN feedback, some I received via tweets and from republished articles I got a list of things I needed to work on. The first and main change requested was over the way searchcode was matching ..
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APRS is a tactical digital communications system used between amateurs radio, to exchange positions & messages, here I blog my experience decoding/encoding APRS with a small Arduino as it may help some of you too. Some transceivers are incorporating this functionalities but most of them don’t, a lot of new technicians start with cheap Baofeng radios (30$) which don’t provide advanced functionnalities but here is a way to solve that.
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Getting to Know Fiddler: Part II: Simulate client side requests without needing the client side
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Last week we started looking at the web proxy Fiddler, or the “Fiddler Web Debugger” as it unfortunately bills itself. While the name is accurate, I can't help but feel that it is a bit of an understatement, much like calling the Hulk “somewhat tempermental”1, or MacGyver “good at assembling things”. Sure, Fiddler is a debugger, but it's less of a simple tool and more the web equivalent of a swiss army knife that contains an entire Home Dep..
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A more apropos title, I feel, might read something along the lines of “Entitlement in the Age of Abundance”. Between that, and Ben’s actual title, I’m sure you can get a fair idea as to the subject matter of his article. And his closing point: the cliched “you never know what you’ve got ’till it’s gone”. I find it remarkable how many love to hate companies like Google, yet have no problem crawling back to them when they finally realize how ..
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Microbenchmarks are often derided in the Java community with some good reason, they show edge cases that either present the JIT in a bad light or show it as ridiculously (unrealistically) fast. However, with static compilers and translation tools microbenchmarks can give us insight into performance problems that normal profilers might not provide insight into. We’ve been tracking performance issues with the new iOS VM for the past couple ..
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It’s no secret that I harbor a strong dislike of The Verge: perpetually vying with public radio for the title of my most hated news institution, I make no bones about sharing this disgust with others. And so, because of that, when the news first broke that Josh Topolsky — a writer I have no great love for — was leaving Vox for Bloomberg, I barely took notice; however, a lot of other people have, and this has since become quite the new..
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This week, thanks to Carl Holscher and Daniel Ignacio, I have discovered two great new podcasts. Alongside these two shows, I once again present my list of the best podcasts I have had the privilege to hear over the past seven days. These are the best of the best, folks, and as such I hope you will spend some time checkout out each and every one of them. I promise: it will be worth your time. Permalink.
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To forgive Is not to forget. To forgive Is really to remember That nobody is perfect That each of us stumbles When we want so much to stay upright That each of us says things We wish we had never said That we can all forget that love Is more important than being right. To forgive Is really to remember That we are so much more Than our mistakes That we are often more kind and caring That accepting another’s fl..
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I’m still on the Laravel migration. It’s going pretty well, except for last night. Last night I was porting racing.
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This article is dedicated to the ExileOffice team - revolutionizing the way we run our business in Exilesoft. As applications move more and more of their business logic to the client side, it falls upon us to simplify what’s left on the server to avoid distractions. My previous article shows how I get rid of lot of the boring and noisy code. There is one thing that the server will always be responsible for: Security.
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What's that you say? You didn't even notice the absence of Screenshot Saturday last week? How convenient. Let's pretend it never happened. Or rather, pretend that it did. Whatever. MGDS was a huge success! There was almost always a line to play the game, and I got a ton of useful feedback. Here are some pictures: Most of the feedback was related to level design. I came home with a phone full of "todo" items. Here are some sc..
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I just released XCat 0.7 , the companion tool to this paper. XCat is a command line tool to automate the exploitation of Blind XPath Injection Vulnerabilities , utilizing some pretty cool techniques. The most interesting technique is that xcat can automate out of band attacks to massively speed up e...
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I just released XCat 0.7 , the companion tool to this paper. XCat is a command line tool to automate the exploitation of Blind XPath Injection Vulnerabilities , utilizing some pretty cool techniques. The most interesting technique is that xcat can automate out of band attacks to massively speed up e...
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Sam Dogen had another thought-provoking post over at Financial Samurai recently, this time looking at the very interesting difference between the way that Americans and Europeans in particular view money. I encourage you to read the entire thing: How Europeans See Money Differently From Americans . Most interesting out of this entire piece, though, and definitely the most impactful statement for me, was that of his conclusion: “Remember th..
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Over forty members of the San Francisco developer community headed to Thoughtworks’ SF office on July 8 for an unusual task -- hacking the World Cup.
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It all started with a cool little PHP script that someone posted on /r/gamedev this morning to publish completed Trello tasks easily to a change log of sorts.
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Worth linking to again, courtesy of Dave Pell’s The Next Draft this time around on the forty-fifth anniversary of Apollo 11’s historic mission: the speech President Nixon plan to give in the event of a moon disaster. Incredible, and remarkable chilling: “Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace.” Permalink.
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Enlarging an LVM partition on a linux machine is trivial. You only need one command to do it and it can even be done when the partition is mounted. lvresize -r -L +20G /vg1/lvm1 This command enlarges the LVM lvm1 to 20GB . Assuming you use an ext, ReiserFS or XFS filesystem on the LVM -layer it gets enlarged, too (with the -r -switch. But if you need to shrink an existing partition it can get ugly. It is possible to shrin....
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Note: this hybrid management technique is being demonstrated in the puppet-ipa module for FreeIPA , but the idea could be used for other modules and scenarios too. See below for some use cases…) The error message that puppet hackers are probably most familiar is: Error: Duplicate declaration: Thing[/foo/bar] is already declared in file /tmp/baz.pp:2; cannot redeclare at /tmp/baz.pp:4 on node computer.example.com Typically..
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Note: this hybrid management technique is being demonstrated in the puppet-ipa module for FreeIPA , but the idea could be used for other modules and scenarios too. See below for some use cases…) The error message that puppet hackers are probably most familiar is: Error: Duplicate declaration: Thing[/foo/bar] is already declared in file /tmp/baz.pp:2; cannot redeclare at /tmp/baz.pp:4 on node computer.example.com Typically..
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Rust is an in-development 0 systems programming language with a strong focus on no-overhead memory safety. This is achieved through a powerful type system (with similarities to Haskell), and careful tracking of ownership and pointers, guaranteeing safety. However, this is too restrictive for a low-level systems language, an escape hatch is occasionally required. Enter the unsafe keyword. Poking holes in memory safety Rust aims to be m....
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It happens to the best of us - one minute you're happily coding away at your app, and then the next, for some reason, you now have to run your app's functional tests with Internet Explorer (IE)! Normally IE is not the preferred browser platform to support, but once in a while a client will come with valid business reasons that necessitate such support. This is the sort of unfamiliar situation my team found itself in a little while ago.
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I don’t do this often, but for all the help Tuts+ gave me as I worked to expand the functionality of this design over the past few weeks, I can’t let it slip by without note. When I build a site, I prefer to do everything humanely possible with CSS rather than outsourcing it to JavaScript. Due to this perhaps irrational desire, everything — including device detection — but the ability to enter dark mode and save that preference across mul..
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Throwing somebody under the bus ( ref ) is a cowardly act, and one that particularly irks me. Nobody likes to be humiliated in front of others. I’ve seen this happen countless time when a developer will point out a bug or error of another developer and use it as an excuse for not delivering on their own work. “I couldn’t load the data because of a bug in Johnny’s code”. Bullshit. If you were a team player then you would have pulled up ..
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We, at Wingify, handle not just our own traffic, but also the traffic of major websites such as Microsoft, AMD, Groupon, and WWF that…
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More than 160 Australian executives attended Thoughtworks Live 2014 in Sydney and Melbourne on the theme ‘Customer engagement’. Speakers from leading organisations, including Woolworths, Vodafone and realestate.com.au, shared insights into how they build customer-centric organisations using smart analytics, wearable technology, in-store innovation labs, lean enterprise techniques, and more.
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Hi, [Update 03/21: Azureite local emulator is a good one to look at in this space too. More details here. ] I recently set about writing a solution that’s heavily reliant on Azure Blob storage. I found my debugging cycle wasn’t nice, I’d spin up the code then spend ages in Azure Storage Explorer to work out what had happened. I also new I’d want some integration tests for the future. So I did some research set about writing a quick..
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July is when Sweden goes on holidays. Businesses are closed for the summer (quite a few of them, anyway), people take time off work, the weather doesn’t suck. Usually people tend to go away to other countries, which to me is ludicrous because after all that snow and cold these months are finally when Sweden gets warm and sunny. I guess I’m kind of fibbing - I get it. You want to get out and see other places during your vacation.
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Regardless of your own personal opinions regarding Christianity and religion in general, I think we can all get behind Sid’s overarching sentiment: it is important to remain true to yourself even when doing so means standing alone alongside an unpopular opinion. For in the end, with what will we find ourselves left? It is to these convictions we hold and must hold strongly that we will return; without them, we have nothing. Stick to your ..
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