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This blog is being powered by a static content generator called Hugo and hosted on GitHub Pages. Getting Hugo up and running was relatively easy. Download the relevant version and installation was just copying it to a folder.
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UPDATE: I’m leaving this series up for historical purposes, but please note that I no longer recommend Ubuntu Core or snaps for use in robotics. This is the second blog post in this series about creating your first robot with ROS and Ubuntu Core. In the previous post we walked through all the hardware necessary to follow this series, and introduced Ubuntu Core, the operating system for IoT devices. We installed it on our Raspberry Pi, and u..
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Although I mostly blog for myself, I’m curious as to how well my blog performs. So every month on the 20th this year I want to post a simple blog status report. These reports will include statistics for the previous month: from the 20th to the 19th. For instance, this blog report covers the time period of December 20, 2017, through January 19, 2017.
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This sequence is Eliezer's second attempt at The Great Canon of Modern Rationality. He took the insight-porn-style of the original and recast it into a sleeker (and quite frankly, more useful) theory-then-exercise format. Not unlike the original, however, he begins by digging beneath the idea of truth:The Sally-Anne False-Belief task is an experiment used to tell whether a child understands the difference between belief and reality. It goes..
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Around the holidays I start putting together my yearly review. These reviews are ways for me to reflect on how the year went.
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Cell phone addiction. Sugar addiction. Alcohol addiction. Social media. Cigarettes. Marijuana. Email. Drugs. Social media. Caffeine. I think these are bad when taken to the excessive. But when consumed in reasonable amounts all of the above can be beneficial. Hospitals use morphine as a pain killer in extreme situations. Alcohol, with all its toxic effects on the body, can still serve as a “social lubricant”, and a fast way to relax ....
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Google is working again on S2 a spatial library !!! And they even have created a website to communicate about it s2geometry. The C++ port contains a Python Swig interface. I’ve been using an unofficial Python port with Jupyter for years now things are way more simpler. If you are on Arch I’ve create a package, simply install AUR s2geometry-git First we want a clean Jupyter install from scratch: virtualenv3 ~/dev/venv3 source ~/dev/venv3/bin..
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Insights from SoundCloud’s DeveloperBridge Trainee Program
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developers.soundcloud.com
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8 years ago
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Back in 2016, the SoundCloud People Team collaborated with engineering management in an effort to bring more junior engineers into the…
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Insights from SoundCloud’s DeveloperBridge Trainee Program
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developers.soundcloud.com
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8 years ago
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eng
Back in 2016, the SoundCloud People Team collaborated with engineering management in an effort to bring more junior engineers into the…
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5 takeaways from the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona
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www.thoughtworks.com
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8 years ago
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Instead of thinking of digital cities as the final destination, leaders should think of how can they transform their cities into citizen-centric organisations. Digital cities are like live organisms. Those that will enable different parties to work together on top of a shared, secured infrastructure, will realise greater innovation that will hopefully create better, healthier lives, for generations to come.
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AWS Lambda Golang support is one of the most exciting announcements of 2018. Here's a quick template for using Go with the Serverless Framework!
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I have already described the "inside out" corporation. This idea was first evangelized by Google (who know a thing or two about infrastructure and security) and they called it "BeyondCorp". This post Turn Your Company Inside-Out for $3/mo first appeared on Dan Stroot's Blog
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link” Any improvement made anywhere besides the bottleneck is an illusion. Any improvement made after the bottleneck is useless because it will always remain starved waiting for work from the bottleneck. Any improvement made before the bottleneck merely results in more ‘work’ piling up at the bottleneck. Identify the system’s constraint(s) (that which prevents the organisation from ob....
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link” Any improvement made anywhere besides the bottleneck is an illusion. Any improvement made after the bottleneck is useless because it will always remain starved waiting for work from the bottleneck. Any improvement made before the bottleneck merely results in more ‘work’ piling up at the bottleneck. Identify the system’s constraint(s) (that which prevents the organisation from ob....
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link” Any improvement made anywhere besides the bottleneck is an illusion. Any improvement made after the bottleneck is useless because it will always remain starved waiting for work from the bottleneck. Any improvement made before the bottleneck merely results in more ‘work’ piling up at the bottleneck. Identify the system’s constraint(s) (that which prevents the organisation from ob....
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link” Any improvement made anywhere besides the bottleneck is an illusion. Any improvement made after the bottleneck is useless because it will always remain starved waiting for work from the bottleneck. Any improvement made before the bottleneck merely results in more ‘work’ piling up at the bottleneck. Identify the system’s constraint(s) (that which prevents the organisation from ob....
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Last November, my wife and I joined our local Toastmasters club. Toastmasters, for those who are unfamiliar, is a public-speaking development group. I’m not sure how good a speaker I am, but I know regardless of how good or bad I am, I want to improve. In fact, one of my new year’s resolutions for 2018 is professional a personal development. So Toastmasters just makes sense.
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We have stopped blogging Once blogging was a thing Not a thing to talk about business But a place where people would share ideas thoughts moments emotions stories with each others. I think we should do more of that We should start blogging again. We should bring this conversation back. We left to the Facebooks and the Twitters take the control of the conversations (and no, I am not ranting against these platforms, for a change… see, I actua..
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We have stopped blogging Once blogging was a thing Not a thing to talk about business But a place where people would share ideas thoughts moments emotions stories with each others. I think we should do more of that We should start blogging again. We should bring this conversation back. We left to the Facebooks and the Twitters take the control of the conversations (and no, I am not ranting against these platforms, for a change… see, I actua..
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Open source maintainers give up their own time to create great pieces of free software, which we then use to create business value. In our State of Open Source Security Report, open source consumers and maintainers were asked about their security expertise, actions and sense of ownership — and the results were very mixed.
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Many years ago, inspired by a blogging platform called Svbtle , I built a clone called Simple. It was pretty simple - just a minimal Flask app backed by a Sqlite database, but had some cool features. You could log in with Mozilla’s Persona (RIP), edit posts using an in-browser editor and drag ‘n’ dr...
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Many years ago, inspired by a blogging platform called Svbtle , I built a clone called Simple. It was pretty simple - just a minimal Flask app backed by a Sqlite database, but had some cool features. You could log in with Mozilla’s Persona (RIP), edit posts using an in-browser editor and drag ‘n’ dr...
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Get the basics on Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) and how to avoid problems with your Serverless web APIs on Lambda.
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I’ve been so busy I just don’t have time to blog as much as I should. I do hope next month will be better in this regard (more on that below) but right now I have to make an important announcement. There are new chip vulnerabilities I’m sure you heard a lot about specifically Meltdown & Spectre . Thankfully we are at a layer that shouldn’t be impacted by these issues but we need to update our servers and will be doing so over the course of..
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This article is about nothing surprising but may act as a reminder to anyone that wanders online or that manages a community. There's too much already written about the subject of echo chambers so what I'll do is list ideas that I find interesting but that aren't mentioned enough.
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I finally got GitLab CI up and running for the SnailLife Go port. The CI just runs the bash scripts I already had to test and build client and server. I had to make some changes for the tests to be able to run without the auth config files (which I obviously don’t want to submit to a public repo). Now, if an auth config file is not available I look for environment variables to get the Auth0 client ID and secret. Gitlab lets you set secret e..
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BenchmarkDotNet v0.10.12 has been released! This release includes: Improved DisassemblyDiagnoser: BenchmarkDotNet contains an embedded disassembler so that it can print assembly code for all benchmarks; it’s not easy, but the disassembler evolves in every release. Improved MemoryDiagnoser: it has a better precision level, and it takes less time to evaluate memory allocations in a benchmark. New TailCallDiagnoser: now you get notific....
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BenchmarkDotNet v0.10.12 has been released! This release includes: Improved DisassemblyDiagnoser: BenchmarkDotNet contains an embedded disassembler so that it can print assembly code for all benchmarks; it’s not easy, but the disassembler evolves in every release. Improved MemoryDiagnoser: it has a better precision level, and it takes less time to evaluate memory allocations in a benchmark. New TailCallDiagnoser: now you get notific....
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