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AdRoll — Part I As a high school math teacher, I never imagined that I would become a software engineer, but here I am. After teaching and running a math tutoring business for five years, I began to yearn for a new challenge and started to tackle Codecademy’s Python course . By the end of the section on for loops, I was hooked; the structured way of thinking that programming required jived with my math brain, and I knew that I needed to....
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Picture This It’s midnight and my flight has just landed in Boston, two hours behind schedule. I step out into a crisp September night; the air never tastes like this in California. It’s refreshing, but despite it only being 9 PM on the coast that I left from, I’m exhausted. It’s been a tiring few days of tying up loose ends before the trip, and staring at a dim screen on a dark plane wasn’t exactly conducive to sustaining my conscious..
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Picture This It’s midnight and my flight has just landed in Boston, two hours behind schedule. I step out into a crisp September night; the air never tastes like this in California. It’s refreshing, but despite it only being 9 PM on the coast that I left from, I’m exhausted. It’s been a tiring few days of tying up loose ends before the trip, and staring at a dim screen on a dark plane wasn’t exactly conducive to sustaining my conscious..
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Containers are not a new thing, but implementing them was always a little more complicated than it needed to be. Docker made great leaps in simplification of containers and set the world on fire from there. Let’s look at why.
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A new version of Eve , the REST API framework for Humans, has been released today. Following the 0.6 milestone released one month ago, v0.6.1 introduces some fixes and few new important features. Upgrade is strongly encouraged. As always, a changelog with full list of updates is available.
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Over the last few weeks, I’ve been plagued with an issue within the OSX El Capitan App Store, that resulted in me being unable to install any updates or install/purchase new applications. At first, I wondered if this was due to my hasty upgrade to the GM of OSX 10.11, which almost certainly was going have a few bugs and issues being the initial release of a new OS. After a few attempts at trying to fix the issue using Google, it seemed th..
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Imagine being able to step forward and backwards as code runs in your debugger. Imagine being able to do an test run multiple times with exactly the same sequence of instructions and values, right down to memory addresses and IO. Imagine being able to run an executable thousands of times and then do all that in the one execution that triggers the rare bug that’s draining you of life… The rr tool is amazing. A Debugger Skeptic I’ve n....
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I was recently an invited speaker in a series of STEM talks at Moraine Valley Community College. My talk was called “What can algorithms tell us about life, love, and happiness?” and it’s on Youtube now so you can go watch it. The central theme of the talk was the lens of computation, that algorithms and theoretical computer science can provide new and novel explanations for the natural phenomena we observe in the world.
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I was recently an invited speaker in a series of STEM talks at Moraine Valley Community College. My talk was called “What can algorithms tell us about life, love, and happiness?” and it’s on Youtube now so you can go watch it. The central theme of the talk was the lens of computation, that algorithms and theoretical computer science can provide new and novel explanations for the natural phenomena we observe in the world.
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I was recently an invited speaker in a series of STEM talks at Moraine Valley Community College. My talk was called “What can algorithms tell us about life, love, and happiness?” and it’s on Youtube now so you can go watch it. The central theme of the talk was the lens of computation, that algorithms and theoretical computer science can provide new and novel explanations for the natural phenomena we observe in the world.
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Real-world benchmarking of cloud storage providers: Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, and Azure Blob Storage
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I really wouldn’t mind moving from Dropbox to S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Storage, or any other provider Recently at work I’ve been using the fancy new 4K iMac , yet when I’m at home or out-and-about, I use my equivalently-sexy MacBook . I do the same stuff on both computers though, it just so happens that one is way faster and has a bigger screen, and the other is slower though portable and much more practical for my lifestyle. ....
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One of the perks of the truck that I always mention is its mobility. Regardless of where on the planet I put it, the box is still my room, and once I’m inside, the details of the surrounding world are reduced to nothing more than background noise. Theoretically, I can just park anywhere and make that my home for the night. In reality however, I very rarely spend the night anywhere other than a corporate parking lot, save a few digressions..
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One of the perks of the truck that I always mention is its mobility. Regardless of where on the planet I put it, the box is still my room, and once I’m inside, the details of the surrounding world are reduced to nothing more than background noise. Theoretically, I can just park anywhere and make that my home for the night. In reality however, I very rarely spend the night anywhere other than a corporate parking lot, save a few digressions..
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Not much training time for an under 50 minute 10k run, but here's an attempt (based on time-to-run's sub-50 ): Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Oct 26 Oct 27 Oct 28 Oct 29 Oct 30 Oct 31 Nov 1 60 min 30 min 2k @ 4.55/k rest 105 min 2 min rest ✔ (repeat x 3) Nov 2 Nov 3 Nov 4 Nov 5 Nov 6 Nov 7 Nov 8 30 min 30 min 1k @ 4.50/k 30 min 30 min rest 5k @ 4.55/k 90 sec rest (repeat x 5) Nov 9 Nov 10 ..
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A sample from Kona Part 2's comments: 2.5 w/u to 4x(1.25@11.5 w/0.25R@7) to 3x(3.75@10.5 w/0.5R@7) to 2.5 c/d. Is read from left to right as: 2.5 mile warm up to four times through 1.25 miles at 11.5 miles per hour with 0.25 miles recovery at 7 miles per hour to three times through 3.75 miles at 10.5 miles per hour with 0.5 miles recovery at 7 miles per hour to 2.5 miles cool down.
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CSSgram is a tiny (<1kb gzipped) library for recreating Instagram filters with CSS filters, gradients, and blend modes.
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I recently released version 0.3 of my simple_parallel crate, which builds on Aaron Turon’s crossbeam to resolve the stability and safety difficulties : the crate now works with Rust 1.3.0 stable, and offers safe data-parallel for loops and maps. I still don’t recommend it for general use, but I think it’s a neat demonstration of what Rust’s type system allows, and hopefully inspiration for something awesome. simple_parallel ....
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In my consulting work, I encounter a pretty high quantity and diversity of codebases as client projects flow in and out. For many reasons, it is very common for a project to get increasingly messy with time, and often by the time it drops in my lap, it's a certifiable mess. Dealing with a mess can be a huge drag and productivity drain as even the simplest debugging investigation is rife with confusion, duplication, misdirection, etc. Here....
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The world of javascript code linters is a fertile breeding ground for vociferous debate over unimportant details. It's easy to stray into the bad patterns of arguing with colleagues, playing "curly brace police", and other variants. However, used well with the right mindset and team communication, good code linters and autoformatters can be truly valuable additions to your development workflow and tool chain. If you haven't yet discovered....
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Parallel programming is a very difficult, but sometimes a necessary task. Modern computers contain multiple cores and any complex algorithm that is not performing parallel processing is not exploiting the full potential of the hardware. In this Java 8 Streams tutorial we will show you how to convert a Stream to List using parallelStream(), filter() and collect(), how to convert an Iterator to Stream and count strings. The Streams API in..
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Wow, that was intense. This blog used to just be for my family and friends to check in and make sure I hadn’t died in some horrific truck-related accident, but since I made the highly questionable call to share my story publicly, it’s been a whole different story all together. It’s been a crazy few days, and I have a ton of thoughts on it. This is going to be my longest post by far, and I apologize in advance if it reads like one long rambl..
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Wow, that was intense. This blog used to just be for my family and friends to check in and make sure I hadn’t died in some horrific truck-related accident, but since I made the highly questionable call to share my story publicly, it’s been a whole different story all together. It’s been a crazy few days, and I have a ton of thoughts on it. This is going to be my longest post by far, and I apologize in advance if it reads like one long rambl..
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Getting the list of the AD groups if nice and easy in PowerShell. All the CmdLets are located in the module which you might not have…
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Borobudur . Hiking Padar Island in Komodo National Park (Indonesia) | The Backpack Almanac . Rumah Gadang .
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Beyond the dunes: road-tripping Mongolia's Gobi Desert . Terra cotta warriors at Mount Khan, Inner Mongolia .
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10k in under 50 mins — Runner's World UK Forum . Garmin Forerunner 230 & 235 In-Depth Review (DC Rainmaker) . Harvard's Running barefoot or in minimal footwear FAQ . How to run a sub-50 10K - The Running Bug . Is Running Good Or Bad For Your Health? . Mornington Chasers running club . Open track: Race Management System . Review : Newton Gravity IV & Motion IV | Ramblings of an IronRose . The Race Organiser . Training towards a sub ..
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cmus, a small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like OS . mps-youtube . mpv (a fork of mplayer2 and MPlayer) . Multimedia on Linux Command Line: wget, PdfTK, ffmpeg, flac, SoX . PLEX (stream your media everywhere). Soul – A language and IDE for audio coding .
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Eating My Way Through Nishiki Market, Kyoto | Ever In Transit . Fushimi Inari Temple : 4KM mountain trail lined with bright orange shinto gates. Golden Pavillion (macha and biscuits at tea house). Hakone (day trip for hot baths), see Yuryo spa. Also the pirate boat. Kibune . Kinkakuji Temple . Kiyomizu Temple . Kuramadera Temple & Kibune Shrine: More peaceful shrine. Kyoto itineraries . Kyoto travel tips (doc) . Kyoto walking maps . ..
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SICP in Clojure - Chapter 5 In one of the previous blog posts I have announced that I would like to start a new series of posts. It is a persistent journal from my journey through aforementioned book. I hope that you will enjoy it and find it useful - the main goal is to make this series a place where we can return in future, recall ideas and thoughts that accompanied reading process. Introduction We are heading to the end of the book. I....
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If you haven’t read the first post on fairness, I suggest you go back and read it because it motivates why we’re talking about fairness for algorithms in the first place. In this post I’ll describe one of the existing mathematical definitions of “fairness,” its origin, and discuss its strengths and shortcomings. Before jumping in I should remark that nobody has found a definition which is widely agreed as a good definition of fairness in th..
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