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At the moment I am having to get up to speed on a bunch of technologies relating to “DevOps”. This includes Kubernetes. I borrowed this book from a colleague and read it over the course of two days commuting. It provides a very good high level overview of all the main concepts of the platform.
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Part of my 2018 resolutions and goals this year was to read more books. So far, I think I’ve done okay. I only finished three books in the last month. That’s actually pretty good, considering I finished only five books in 2017 .
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R&D At Curalate: A Case Study of Deep Metric Embedding
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engineering.curalate.com
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8 years ago
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eng
At Curalate, we make social sell for hundreds of the world’s largest brands and retailers. Our Fanreel product is a good example of this; it empowers brands to collect, curate, and publish social user-generated photos to their e-commerce site. A vital step in this pipeline is connecting the user generated content (UGC) to the product on our client’s web site. Automating this process requires cutting edge computer vision techniques whose i....
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Some elements on thoughts on designing / building a company’s web portal. – is dependant on the internal business process – can help cut from 30% to 60% inefficiencies – Requires good collaboration between designers and client – is a thing since the 90’s – today you can basically integrate both and ERP / Mobile App / CRM / CMS to deliver a 360 integration of the business needs and customer needs
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Some elements on thoughts on designing / building a company’s web portal. – is dependant on the internal business process – can help cut from 30% to 60% inefficiencies – Requires good collaboration between designers and client – is a thing since the 90’s – today you can basically integrate both and ERP / Mobile App / CRM / CMS to deliver a 360 integration of the business needs and customer needs
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How to e.g. change Java package name, over all revisions, while preserving Git history
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www.databasesandlife.com
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8 years ago
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Recently a customer requested that a piece of software should “move companies” from company A to company B, henceforth appearing as if it’d always been created by company B, and never appear to have been produced by company A at all. (I would surprise you if I say this is not the first time I’ve received such a request.. or not?) The simplest way would have been to rename everything in the source code, copy it to a new directory, git init..
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Postgres has a rich set of features, even when working everyday with it you may not discover all it has to offer. In hopes of learning some new features that I didn’t know about myself as well as seeing what small gems people found joy in I tweeted out to see what people came back from. The response was impressive, and rather than have it lost into ether of twitter I’m capturing some of the responses here along with some resources many of t....
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Postgres has a rich set of features, even when working everyday with it you may not discover all it has to offer. In hopes of learning some new features that I didn’t know about myself as well as seeing what small gems people found joy in I tweeted out to see what people came back from. The response was impressive, and rather than have it lost into ether of twitter I’m capturing some of the responses here along with some resources many of t....
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When The Game Was Ours by Jackie MacMullan, Larry Bird, and Magic Johnson
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ilearnt.com
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8 years ago
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eng
On 12th June 1984 I was on a family holiday in the US. We had spent three weeks travelling around Florida and then up the east coast to finally end up in Boston. During the day we had a guided tour of the city and we were told that it was game seven of the NBA finals that night between the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers.
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When The Game Was Ours by Jackie MacMullan, Larry Bird, and Magic Johnson
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ilearnt.com
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8 years ago
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On 12th June 1984 I was on a family holiday in the US. We had spent three weeks travelling around Florida and then up the east coast to finally end up in Boston. During the day we had a guided tour of the city and we were told that it was game seven of the NBA finals that night between the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers.
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You can’t go to a security event nowadays without hearing at least a few speakers say the phrase "DevSecOps". The term has turned into a rallying cry for an approach that automates security throughout the development process. But in order for DevSecOps to succeed, it will first have to die.
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A new digital coin has been introduced in Hull to reward people who volunteer for things. Due to regulations the receiver can cash in their coin in the form of a discount when purchasing products at certain stores.
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I listen to a lot of podcasts (probably 500+ a year) and one I make an extra effort to listen to every episode is 99% Invisible . It is “about all the thought that goes into the things we don’t think about — the unnoticed architecture and design that shape our world.”
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This is a great article about a small business that is growing rapidly and run with a smile on their faces. John and his dad started a business to sell crazy, fun socks and it has gone from strength to strength. I also like the 5% of sales to the Special Olympics and the socks for charities (watch the video).
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A new digital coin has been introduced in Hull to reward people who volunteer for things. Due to regulations the receiver can cash in their coin in the form of a discount when purchasing products at certain stores.
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I listen to a lot of podcasts (probably 500+ a year) and one I make an extra effort to listen to every episode is 99% Invisible . It is “about all the thought that goes into the things we don’t think about — the unnoticed architecture and design that shape our world.”
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This is a great article about a small business that is growing rapidly and run with a smile on their faces. John and his dad started a business to sell crazy, fun socks and it has gone from strength to strength. I also like the 5% of sales to the Special Olympics and the socks for charities (watch the video).
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Yesterday I had a conversation with a designer who made a career change to become a real-estate sales person. yep – you heard well. From panda-hat pencil-in-hand graphic artist and logo designer, he went to sell cinderblocks lots… What happened? well, unsurprisingly – he got sick of clients – he got tired of not getting paid – and he got tired of having the very people who hired him for a job starting to tell him how he should do his job..
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Yesterday I had a conversation with a designer who made a career change to become a real-estate sales person. yep – you heard well. From panda-hat pencil-in-hand graphic artist and logo designer, he went to sell cinderblocks lots… What happened? well, unsurprisingly – he got sick of clients – he got tired of not getting paid – and he got tired of having the very people who hired him for a job starting to tell him how he should do his job..
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Mondays don’t have to suck but sometime they do… which I guess is fine and was to be expected. Yet – when you didn’t sleep overnight and still have to break your head over tons of things… some days are just not easy. The secret – is to zoom out. When I manage to zoom out on the scale of a decade – then the fact the tramway was late or that I couldnt get a coffee in the morning, or this bug in the code is become such a tiny ridicule element ..
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Mondays don’t have to suck but sometime they do… which I guess is fine and was to be expected. Yet – when you didn’t sleep overnight and still have to break your head over tons of things… some days are just not easy. The secret – is to zoom out. When I manage to zoom out on the scale of a decade – then the fact the tramway was late or that I couldnt get a coffee in the morning, or this bug in the code is become such a tiny ridicule element ..
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Derek Sivers highlights an interesting pricing approach in this article . He was asked to perform at a distant location. When the customer couldn’t afford the price they suggested reducing the performance time, hoping to reduce the price. Instead of doing the expected he raised his price. His reason was that they were paying for him to get to the location and then do the work where the work was the fun bit. By reducing the time on the fun ..
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Derek Sivers highlights an interesting pricing approach in this article . He was asked to perform at a distant location. When the customer couldn’t afford the price they suggested reducing the performance time, hoping to reduce the price. Instead of doing the expected he raised his price. His reason was that they were paying for him to get to the location and then do the work where the work was the fun bit. By reducing the time on the fun ..
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Research notes / Watchlist for later review on infosec and privacy and anonymity – note that these two are different. #Tor Developer Isis Lovecruft lectures on anonymity systems at Radboud Universiteit https://youtu.be/xGIE7KTJiBY #Browsing with Tor: Online Anonymity to Outsmart the NSA – Tom Lowenthal #DEFCON 14: How to Create an Anonymous Identity #DEFCON 20: Can You Track Me Now? Government And Corporate Surveillance Of Mobile Geo-Loc..
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Research notes / Watchlist for later review on infosec and privacy and anonymity – note that these two are different. #Tor Developer Isis Lovecruft lectures on anonymity systems at Radboud Universiteit https://youtu.be/xGIE7KTJiBY #Browsing with Tor: Online Anonymity to Outsmart the NSA – Tom Lowenthal #DEFCON 14: How to Create an Anonymous Identity #DEFCON 20: Can You Track Me Now? Government And Corporate Surveillance Of Mobile Geo-Loc..
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The Matrix series of movies can be confusing to understand what is going on, no longer with a random interpretation of the events!
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I am very good at starting things. It wasn’t always true – I used to waste a lot of time to ponder and get to work – now in the past decade I think I have brought my capacity to set up a new project to a real good level – and kickstarting things into motions. Now – I need to move to the next level – which is perfecting the finish.
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