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I commonly groan as a new product, service, protocol, or format is launched with one of my trigger words in the name. To save you the effort of truly considering whether this word is justified in the name of your thing, here's a ready-made list of words that do not belong in the name of your thing: simple lightweight easy standard universal permanent As a bonus, it is very likely that these words do not belong in the name of your thing,..
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I recently had an unexpectedly great support experience from a company that one does not usually associate with excellent customer support: Microsoft. I had been running Windows 10 as a VirtualBox VM on my Linux laptop for quite some time. I needed Windows for a few things like my accounting software (Quickbooks) and remote access to the office but the setup wasn’t working as cleanly as I’d like, particularly around support for external d..
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today got a late start. had a webinar in the morning. I’m hugely optimistic (hopeful? desperate?) when it comes to webinars, thinking I’m going to learn so much from them. most of the time I end up tuning them out. not sure what I’m doing wrong. picking something and implementing it? also, sidenote, I wonder if other people are this obsessed with making a business/freedom? I feel I have very little bandwidth to want to think about anyth..
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Jessica Hische is a lettering artist, designer and author. Her clients include Nike, NPR, New York Times, Samsung and many more.
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today was a bit on the light side. had a good conversation with p on whether (and how) to pursue stone vs software business. it’s not easy being in his position. he’s invested, both personally and professionally. I’m thinking I’ll set a definitive cutoff date e.g. 1 year to get this going (or not). found a new place to work - whole foods cafe. wonderful food, open early, open late, electrical outlets (some).
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What I learned since last time A while ago I wrote about Generating Read Models with Event Sourcing where I suggest adding derived…
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Monday started off with checking out of our old apartment. It was bitter-sweet. Had kind of gotten attached to the place, and hadn’t realized it. Had really enjoyed being close to the water. Went to Home Depot to get blinds after. The ones that R wanted were 10-15x the basic blinds! Didn’t know blinds did that! Decided on curtains instead. While the typical man might be bored (honestly, I thought I would be too), but instead I felt a ve..
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Woke up to go to Ikea…again. The drawers we didn’t get yesterday were supposed to be in stock today. We went in through the checkout area and were able to secure 2 units of the drawers (Oppland, if that means anything). Wooohoo. Brought them back, M arrived and we left for D and D’s. D was not happy when we got there. She was expecting us earlier, she said, near tears.
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In my previous post, I shared some tips on creating a production Flynn cluster. If you don’t know, Flynn is a an open-source self-hosted…
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Saturday was a late start. Woke up with a headache, no good. It was a yuuuge dissapointment. Went to Ikea again, to start buying stuff, ended up buying a kitchen island and deciding on a set of drawers (x2). Seems like this stuff will again be donated once we move, which seems like a waste. Had dinner with B and U - curry and naan. B went off to sleep after that, U, R and I talked for a bit. B and U have it tough, but seem to be doing well ..
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Friday was a relaxed but “feeling guilty” day. I lost a contract, didn’t feel so good. Ended up signing up for workify to build out a store. Decided to focus on Google Apps customization. R and I went to our old place to pick up stuff. Dropped off stuff at Goodwill and brought the rest back with a quick stop in Ikea.
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Recently at work I trained a neural network on a supercomputer that took just 3.9 minutes to learn to beat Atari Pong from pixels. Several people have asked for a step-by-step tutorial on this and one of those is on the way. But before that I wanted to write something else: I wanted to write about everything that didn’t work out along the way. Most of the posts and papers I read about deep learning make their author look like an insp....
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Must I say anything? Murakami once again dazzles with his stunning simplicity and expansive writing ability. The novels’ looming…
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In a previous post, I wrote that startups are collections of risks, and that the best way to make progress on a company (and to get higher valuations from investors) is to address the biggest risks as quickly and thoroughly as possible.
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I was recently invited to do the keynote at the Commercial Users of Functional Programming workshop, a 15-year-old gathering which is attached to ICFP, the primary academic functional programming conference.
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I was recently invited to do the keynote at the Commercial Users of Functional Programming workshop, a 15-year-old gathering which is attached to ICFP, the primary academic functional programming conference.
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I went to the meeting for MBE businesses in Oakland. Then Comcast to see how to move our internet to our new address: 723 Jackson St. Albany, CA They said try plugging in a new modem to see if there’s already a connection there. If not, they’ll send out a tech to take a look. Hope it doesn’t take a week to fix the internet. Cough is better. Ritika left early today, deadline on Friday.
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Earlier this year I started a new hobby - flipping things I find at garage sales, thrift stores, and even regular retail stores. Flipping essentially means I sell it elsewhere more than what I paid for. I sell most of these items on eBay, and some on Amazon, which means I need to ship these items. There are a few things I’ve found essential for shipping, and here’s a list of six of them:
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The varnishhist tool is one of the most underused varnish tools that come with your standard varnish install. Probably because of how it appears at first glance. In short, you want as many | symbols as possible and you want everything far toward the left hand side. The closer to the left the faster the responses are regardless if they are cached or not. The more | symbols then more items were served from cache.
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By design, Salt is not opinionated. That means that its flexibility allows you to create your own patterns and designs for concepts where it makes sense. The best practices outlined here are meant to be suggestions – not doctrine. Thus, this is a living document that evolves over time as your infrastructure’s needs change. For anything not covered under this guide, defer to Salt Best Practices . States are atomic and seldom change Stat....
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By design, Salt is not opinionated. That means that its flexibility allows you to create your own patterns and designs for concepts where it makes sense. The best practices outlined here are meant to be suggestions – not doctrine. Thus, this is a living document that evolves over time as your infrastructure’s needs change. For anything not covered under this guide, defer to Salt Best Practices . States are atomic and seldom change Stat....
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In the latest episode of “The Secure Developer”, I had the pleasure of interviewing Sabin Thomas, VP Engineering at Codiscope.
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Posted more for my personal use (I have to look it up every time) but here is how to run a mysqldump without impacting performance on the box. It sets the ionice and nice values to be as low as possible (but still run) and uses a single transaction and ups the max packet size for MySQL. ionice -c2 -n7 nice -n19 mysqldump -u root -p DATABASE --single-transaction --max_allowed_packet=512M > FILENAME
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