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Reminds me of the old “I’m a Mac, and I’m a PC” days. Even though, as Ian Paul points out in his article, the commercial is laughably innacruate, I still had a good chuckle. Permalink.
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I wanted to send an email from my TraceLog package when a critical exception occurred. Fortunately Go’s standard library has a package called smpt which can be found inside the net package. When you look at the documentation you are left wanting. I spent 20 minutes researching how to use this package. After fighting through the parameters and bugs, I came up with this sample code:
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Apple has set fire to iOS. Everything’s in flux. Those with the least to lose have the most to gain, because this fall, hundreds of millions of people will start demanding apps for a platform with thousands of old, stale players and not many new, nimble alternatives. If you want to enter a category that’s crowded on iOS 6, and you’re one of the few that exclusively targets iOS 7, your app can look better, work better, and be faster and chea..
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Almost every time Apple releases a new version of iOS, someone has the Marco Arment “Well, shit” moment . The time, most prominently, it was 1Password’s turn, although other small, one-off app developers likely had similar reactions throughout the keynote. Permalink.
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The temptation certainly exists to criticize Satoru Iwata and his decision not to bring the company’s most popular titles to mobile gaming platforms like iOS; however, looking beyond our disappointment at being unable to play Pokemon and Mario Kart on the iPhone, we can look at the situation dispassionately and draw a number of parallels between Nintendo and Apple, Satoru Iwata and Steve Jobs: both men led (and lead) their respective corpor..
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Wonderfully worded and impressively well thought-out, Matt Gemmel’s article iOS 7 is easily the best piece on the topic I have read since the WWDC keynote address. In explaining the motivation behind Apple’s complete UI overhaul in iOS7, he began his one-two punch with this paragraph: “The thing is, we’ve grown up. We don’t require hand-holding to tell us what to click or tap. Interactivity is a matter of invitation, and physical cues....
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I try to, for the most part, stay positive when I write on here. Instead of taking a page out of Jim Dalrymple’s play book, not that there is anything wrong with his approach, and calling shenanigans and bullshit when I see shenanigans and bullshit, I try to “take the high road” and either ignore bad writing and poorly-formed opinions altogether, or criticize them generously. In the wake of the iOS 7 announcement though, many people have sa..
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I think of it much in the same way I do exercise — you just have to make yourself miserable for a finite period of time, to reap the benefits later.” Another Soylent story, this one, interestingly, less lauding than the others. Permalink.
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Announcing Our Acquisition of Data Analytics Startup, Bitdeli
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tech.nextroll.com
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13 years ago
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Over the last year, AdRoll’s mission of making retargeting easy and effective for everyone has really caught fire. Last month alone, we welcomed over 1,250 new advertisers to our platform. The secret to our success has always been layering the industry’s most intuitive tools over a powerful data backend to help companies collect, analyze and (most importantly) act on their customer data. Today, I’m excited to announce we’ve taken another ....
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Surrounded by Tweetbot on my iPhone, iMore’s live blog on one iPad and Apple’s keynote stream on another, and flanked by my inconveniently inoperable computer, I watched Tim Cook introduce iOS 7. Even now, I can’t quite quantify the feeling I had upon seeing iOS 7 for the first time: a mixture of surprise and relief at the departure from almost every previously-held design philosophy, amazement for reasons that anyone who watched the keynot..
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Although I make it a point not to spend much time talking about my personal life on this blog, it occasionally creeps in to my writing in the form of an anecdote, perhaps, or the inspiration for an entire article. A few weeks before Christmas last year, I linked to an article by Jason Snell titled Why I’m Writing on the iPad , in which he talked about a time when he was forced to write using a pen and paper rather than on a computer. In ..
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Tomorrow (Wednesday, June 12th) from 6:00-8:00pm, we’ll be hosting a group of Hadoop users and developers here at our SOMA headquarters, ShangRolla, for their monthly meetup . Hadoop is an “open-source software for reliable, scalable, distributed computing” used by top tech companies like Yahoo!, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft. According to a recent TDWI survey , three-quarters of respondents have either deployed or expect ....
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I have been struggling with using the Time package that comes in the Go standard library. My struggles have come from two pieces of functionality. First, trying to capture the number of milliseconds between two different time periods. Second, comparing that duration in milliseconds against a pre-defined time span. It sounds like a no brainier but like I said, I have been struggling. In the Time package there is a custom type called D..
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Why Theoretical Computer Scientists Aren't Worried About Privacy
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www.jeremykun.com
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13 years ago
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There has been a lot of news recently on government surveillance of its citizens. The biggest two that have pervaded my news feeds are the protests in Turkey, which in particular have resulted in particular oppression of social media users, and the recent light on the US National Security Agency’s widespread “backdoor” in industry databases at Google, Verizon, Facebook, and others. It appears that the facts are in flux, as some companies ha..
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Why Theoretical Computer Scientists Aren't Worried About Privacy
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www.jeremykun.com
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13 years ago
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There has been a lot of news recently on government surveillance of its citizens. The biggest two that have pervaded my news feeds are the protests in Turkey, which in particular have resulted in particular oppression of social media users, and the recent light on the US National Security Agency’s widespread “backdoor” in industry databases at Google, Verizon, Facebook, and others. It appears that the facts are in flux, as some companies ha..
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Why Theoretical Computer Scientists Aren't Worried About Privacy
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www.jeremykun.com
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13 years ago
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There has been a lot of news recently on government surveillance of its citizens. The biggest two that have pervaded my news feeds are the protests in Turkey, which in particular have resulted in particular oppression of social media users, and the recent light on the US National Security Agency’s widespread “backdoor” in industry databases at Google, Verizon, Facebook, and others. It appears that the facts are in flux, as some companies ha..
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This weekend I’ve been having a lot of fun working the Bioinformatics problems from Rosalind . Most people work them in Python, but so far they have been very amenable to Clojure except where BioPython libraries are used for access to online databases. The problems have been straightforward so far but I have enjoyed the elegance and brevity that Clojure lends the solutions. In particular, I like this short translator from RNA sequences....
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This weekend I’ve been having a lot of fun working the Bioinformatics problems from Rosalind . Most people work them in Python, but so far they have been very amenable to Clojure except where BioPython libraries are used for access to online databases. The problems have been straightforward so far but I have enjoyed the elegance and brevity that Clojure lends the solutions. In particular, I like this short translator from RNA sequences....
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This weekend I’ve been having a lot of fun working the Bioinformatics problems from Rosalind . Most people work them in Python, but so far they have been very amenable to Clojure except where BioPython libraries are used for access to online databases. The problems have been straightforward so far but I have enjoyed the elegance and brevity that Clojure lends the solutions. In particular, I like this short translator from RNA sequences....
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Hi, So I’ve been working on a generic news reader to hopefully put the BBC News Mobile code base to a good use. Have a play and let me know what you think. It’s no where near finished yet so lots of room for tweaking, new features and changes. Let me know what you want via comments, @lawrencegripper on twitter or email phonesupport[at]grippers.co.uk and I’ll try and make it happen.
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I am building my TraceLog package and it is really important that the package logs any internal exceptions and prevents panics from shutting down the application. The TraceLog package must never be responsible for shutting down an application. I also have internal go routines that must never terminate until the application is shut down gracefully. Understanding how to use Defer and Recover in your application can be a bit tricky at f....
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How to switch to Compton for beautiful tear free compositing in XFCE
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duncanlock.net
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13 years ago
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I switched my XFCE machines over to use Compton for window compositing today - and it’s a noticeable improvement. A compositor glues your stacks of windows together to form the final image that you see on screen. It’s responsible for any fancy effects like drop-shadows, as well drawing windows while dragging, resizing and minimizing or maximizing them. [1] Compton does this beautifully . It does one thing and it does it well. It pr....
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The growth of mobile web users is staggering. While some of us have been browsing the web on mobile devices for nearly ten years, most of the world population is only now getting there. The number of mobile web users is already at 1.5 billion, which happens to be quite close to the total number of Internet users back in 2009. And it is growing rapidly . In 2015 there will be an estimated 2 billion smartphone users which is quit....
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The growth of mobile web users is staggering. While some of us have been browsing the web on mobile devices for nearly ten years, most of the world population is only now getting there. The number of mobile web users is already at 1.5 billion, which happens to be quite close to the total number of Internet users back in 2009. And it is growing rapidly . In 2015 there will be an estimated 2 billion smartphone users which is quit....
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The growth of mobile web users is staggering. While some of us have been browsing the web on mobile devices for nearly ten years, most of the world population is only now getting there. The number of mobile web users is already at 1.5 billion, which happens to be quite close to the total number of Internet users back in 2009. And it is growing rapidly . In 2015 there will be an estimated 2 billion smartphone users which is quit....
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The growth of mobile web users is staggering. While some of us have been browsing the web on mobile devices for nearly ten years, most of the world population is only now getting there. The number of mobile web users is already at 1.5 billion, which happens to be quite close to the total number of Internet users back in 2009. And it is growing rapidly . In 2015 there will be an estimated 2 billion smartphone users which is quit....
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The growth of mobile web users is staggering. While some of us have been browsing the web on mobile devices for nearly ten years, most of the world population is only now getting there. The number of mobile web users is already at 1.5 billion, which happens to be quite close to the total number of Internet users back in 2009. And it is growing rapidly . In 2015 there will be an estimated 2 billion smartphone users which is quit....
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Repository: @knadh/simplemysql GitHub release page: v0.2.0 Full Changelog : https://github.com/knadh/simplemysql/commits/v0.2.0
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A quick post to say that a new version of actionHero is out tonight: v4.1.0 This update contains some breaking changes to the Tasks and…
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Just a little reminder – next week (10-11th June) I’ll be delivering my last training session before autumn – a short 1-day (2 x 0.5 days actually) seminar about Getting the Most Out of Oracle’s Active Session History . In the future it will act as sort of a prequel (or preparation) for my Advanced Oracle Troubleshooting class, as the latter one deliberately goes very deep. The ASH seminar’s 1st half is actually mostly about the GUI way of..
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Just a little reminder – next week (10-11th June) I’ll be delivering my last training session before autumn – a short 1-day (2 x 0.5 days actually) seminar about Getting the Most Out of Oracle’s Active Session History . In the future it will act as sort of a prequel (or preparation) for my Advanced Oracle Troubleshooting class, as the latter one deliberately goes very deep. The ASH seminar’s 1st half is actually mostly about the GUI way of..
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As you know if you read my blog, I have been building a set of new utility packages so I can start developing an application server I need for a new project. I am brand new to Go and the Mac OS. Needless to say it has been one hell of an education over the past month. But I don’t miss Windows or C# at all. I made some progress in my coding and wanted to build documentation for the code. I have been using the documentation viewer in L....
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NoFlo — the flow-based programming system I started — is now two years old. I pushed the first commits to GitHub on June 5th 2011 from Hacker Dojo in Mountain View. To get us started with the story, I’ll let Wikipedia summarize : Flow-based programming (FBP) is a programming paradigm that defines applications as networks of “black box” processes, which exchange data across predefined connections by message passing, where the conne....
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NoFlo — the flow-based programming system I started — is now two years old. I pushed the first commits to GitHub on June 5th 2011 from Hacker Dojo in Mountain View. To get us started with the story, I’ll let Wikipedia summarize : Flow-based programming (FBP) is a programming paradigm that defines applications as networks of “black box” processes, which exchange data across predefined connections by message passing, where the conne....
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After a long journey with Django, you come to a place where you feel the need to get some tasks done asynchronously without any supervision of human. Some tasks need to be scheduled to run once at a particular time or after some time and some tasks have to be run periodically like crontab . One of the tasks is sending emails on specific triggers. Here at HackerEarth , one of the major chunk of emails is sent to recruiters and participa....
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NoFlo — the flow-based programming system I started — is now two years old. I pushed the first commits to GitHub on June 5th 2011 from Hacker Dojo in Mountain View. To get us started with the story, I’ll let Wikipedia summarize : Flow-based programming (FBP) is a programming paradigm that defines applications as networks of “black box” processes, which exchange data across predefined connections by message passing, where the conne....
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