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By now, it's no secret that making mobile products has a unique set of design challenges. All companies and individuals making mobile products struggle with this. Finding the right balance between power and ease of use on a 3" - 4" screen is hard. It really all boils down to the natural rule of features: **More features => harder to understand, more useful.** **Fewer features => easier to understand, less useful.** So if you just add more f..
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As developers we can tend to be a fickle bunch; especially in certain open source communities. We like to see intelligence and systems applied to things, hope for a better world through making things open, and appreciate when others relate to our world as we often attempt to relate to theirs. Marketing is often a loaded word when it comes to developers – leaving mixed feelings about webinars, email campaigns, and the like. A quick clarif....
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As developers we can tend to be a fickle bunch; especially in certain open source communities. We like to see intelligence and systems applied to things, hope for a better world through making things open, and appreciate when others relate to our world as we often attempt to relate to theirs. Marketing is often a loaded word when it comes to developers – leaving mixed feelings about webinars, email campaigns, and the like. A quick clarif....
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Yesterday morning I came across a video made by Duncan Elms called “Bitcoin Explained” . Curious, I decided to check it out. Rather than the information contined within it, it was instead the actual video that greatly impressed me. Not only informative but also extremely well done, Duncan Elms’ videos are all very impressive. Permalink.
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Almost three months ago today, I titled an article We Have Lost One of Our Own and posted it to this site. I gathered some of the more salient and insightful pieces posted in the wake of Aaron Swartz’s death, and wrote an article about unjust punishment and piracy. I try not to do this very often, but I will make an exception here and include an excerpt from one of my own posts: Permalink.
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Yesterday afternoon Marco Arment, Casey Liss, and John Siracusa recorded the final episode of their casual car podcast, Neutral. Episode twelve, Vomit Ruins Everything , runs for just under two hours and chronicles Marco and Tiff’s joint vacation with Casey and his wife Erin to pick up Marco’s brand new BMW M5 in Germany. I lamented the end of Hypercritical and Build & Analyze, and felt equally as sad — if not even more so — to hear the ..
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tl;dr Never trust user input. Note: Before I published this I contacted the owner of the site and he has since replaced it with a new and more secure version When I browse the net I often see the hallmarks of a security issue with websites that I visit, and little alarm bells go off in my head. I wa...
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tl;dr Never trust user input. Note: Before I published this I contacted the owner of the site and he has since replaced it with a new and more secure version When I browse the net I often see the hallmarks of a security issue with websites that I visit, and little alarm bells go off in my head. I wa...
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Fedora did a lovely job of updating me to the latest version (v. 20) of Firefox . One problem I found, was that scrolling on certain pages was quite jerky. Performance was worse (or more likely) on pages with a frameset, and pages which were long. Pages with many images made this problem worse. It turns out that the workaround is to disable hardware acceleration: After you’ve unchecked this box, restart Firefox, and scrolling is now..
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Fedora did a lovely job of updating me to the latest version (v. 20) of Firefox . One problem I found, was that scrolling on certain pages was quite jerky. Performance was worse (or more likely) on pages with a frameset, and pages which were long. Pages with many images made this problem worse. It turns out that the workaround is to disable hardware acceleration: After you’ve unchecked this box, restart Firefox, and scrolling is now..
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If you are overclocking your Raspberry Pi or you just curious how hot this little guy gets, there are two ways to get the internal temperature. Assuming you are running Raspbian as your operating system. Method 1: $ /opt/vc/bin/vcgencmd measure_temp This gives you the temperate in in degrees Celsius: temp=54.1'C Method 2: If you need the temperature to be more precise (e.g. storing it in an database or for further processing) use the follo..
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I’m currently in the process of porting the NoFlo Flow-Based Programming environment to run also in the browser. While there are some obvious differences in things like filesystem interaction and component loading, the goal here is to reuse as much of the same code as possible between these two platforms. Many of the building blocks are already in place, and so the port should be complete still this week. You can track the work in issu....
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I’m currently in the process of porting the NoFlo Flow-Based Programming environment to run also in the browser. While there are some obvious differences in things like filesystem interaction and component loading, the goal here is to reuse as much of the same code as possible between these two platforms. Many of the building blocks are already in place, and so the port should be complete still this week. You can track the work in issu....
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I’m currently in the process of porting the NoFlo Flow-Based Programming environment to run also in the browser. While there are some obvious differences in things like filesystem interaction and component loading, the goal here is to reuse as much of the same code as possible between these two platforms. Many of the building blocks are already in place, and so the port should be complete still this week. You can track the work in issu....
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I’m currently in the process of porting the NoFlo Flow-Based Programming environment to run also in the browser. While there are some obvious differences in things like filesystem interaction and component loading, the goal here is to reuse as much of the same code as possible between these two platforms. Many of the building blocks are already in place, and so the port should be complete still this week. You can track the work in issu....
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I’m currently in the process of porting the NoFlo Flow-Based Programming environment to run also in the browser. While there are some obvious differences in things like filesystem interaction and component loading, the goal here is to reuse as much of the same code as possible between these two platforms. Many of the building blocks are already in place, and so the port should be complete still this week. You can track the work in issu....
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I’m from the Czech republic. My wife is from Canada. We got married in Canada. Our son was born in the United Kingdom. Our daughter was born in Canada. Both of our children are by birth Czech and Canadian at the same time. We want our children to be able to prove both of those citizenships and the following is the process. Our son Our son Wyatt was born in the UK. He has a British birth certificate but is not a British citizen. I....
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I’m from the Czech republic. My wife is from Canada. We got married in Canada. Our son was born in the United Kingdom. Our daughter was born in Canada. Both of our children are by birth Czech and Canadian at the same time. We want our children to be able to prove both of those citizenships and the following is the process. Our son Our son Wyatt was born in the UK. He has a British birth certificate but is not a British citizen. I....
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Update: the mistakes made in the code posted here are fixed and explained in a subsequent post (one minor code bug was fixed here, and a less minor conceptual bug is fixed in the linked post). In our last post in this series on topology, we defined the homology group. Specifically, we built up a topological space as a simplicial complex (a mess of triangles glued together), we defined an algebraic way to represent collections of simplices c..
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Update: the mistakes made in the code posted here are fixed and explained in a subsequent post (one minor code bug was fixed here, and a less minor conceptual bug is fixed in the linked post). In our last post in this series on topology, we defined the homology group. Specifically, we built up a topological space as a simplicial complex (a mess of triangles glued together), we defined an algebraic way to represent collections of simplices c..
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Update: the mistakes made in the code posted here are fixed and explained in a subsequent post (one minor code bug was fixed here, and a less minor conceptual bug is fixed in the linked post). In our last post in this series on topology, we defined the homology group. Specifically, we built up a topological space as a simplicial complex (a mess of triangles glued together), we defined an algebraic way to represent collections of simplices c..
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If you've ever wanted to setup a wildcard entry in your hosts file so you don't have to add an entry for every IIS binding you'll be happy…
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Will Richman is the co-founder of Bitmaker Labs, an intensive web development school located in Toronto.
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How to find words by their prefix, which can be mistyped, and sort them by frequency stored with the word.
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I have always had an interesting — if not unique — mentality when it comes to money. Rather than a thing to be desired, I have always considered money merely a means to an end. The physical thing is only worth possessing inasmuch as it allows me to do fun and enjoyable things with people I like. When I take my girlfriend out for dinner, I don’t see the twenty dollars I spend on a meal as the loss of that money; I see that twenty dollars as ....
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Hi, can I axe you a question? Ever made a blog at WordPress, Blogger? How about Tumblr or Squarespace? Before you answer, Hi. Permalink.
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Knowing when to release and deploy your code (...and a mini script)
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purpleidea.com
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13 years ago
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Knowing when to release and deploy your code can turn into a complicated discussion. In general, In general, I tend to support releasing early and often , for some value of $early and $often . I’ve decided to keep this simple and introduce you to one metric that I use… I think that I am fairly diligent in adding plenty of comments to my source code. I might even sometimes add too many. I create plenty of XXX, FIXME, or TODO tagged com..
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Knowing when to release and deploy your code (...and a mini script)
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purpleidea.com
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13 years ago
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Knowing when to release and deploy your code can turn into a complicated discussion. In general, In general, I tend to support releasing early and often , for some value of $early and $often . I’ve decided to keep this simple and introduce you to one metric that I use… I think that I am fairly diligent in adding plenty of comments to my source code. I might even sometimes add too many. I create plenty of XXX, FIXME, or TODO tagged com..
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When I wrote my first article about Reeder, Changing my Workflow with Drafts and Reeder , I highlighted its lack of reliance on Google Reader as one of the main reasons I chose to go with the RSS app. That was a factually incorrect statement; however, with this announcement , Reeder’s creator Silvio Rizzi announced that the popular iOS RSS reader would add Feedbin support in the very near future, thus ending its reliance on Google Reade..
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But percentages can be deceiving and they tell only half the tale of IDC’s predictions. Peering ahead to the future, IDC’s numbers suggest that while the overall market share for PCs will decline, shipments will still increase, if only by a hair. In other words, the demand for PCs isn’t dying down — it’s just that the thirst for mobile devices is exploding.” Permalink.
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Imagine a future society that flees into a vast underground network of caverns and seals the entrances. We shall not specify whether they flee disease, war, or radiation; we shall suppose the first Undergrounders manage to grow food, find water, recycle air, make light, and survive, and that their descendants thrive and eventually form cities. Of the world above, there are only legends written on scraps of paper; and one of these scraps o..
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Oz Teacher Magazine featured the ASMS website after spotting it online, leading to an interview with the team behind it
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Oz Teacher Magazine featured the ASMS website after spotting it online, leading to an interview with the team behind it
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Oz Teacher Magazine featured the ASMS website after spotting it online, leading to an interview with the team behind it
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During the recent panel debate in Colombo Agile Meetup my colleague Lasantha Bandara asked the following question: How do you start an agile project and ensure room for future enhancements? How can we achieve flexibity at the beginning? This is my answer: Flexibility is about having an acceptable cost of change. Sometimes, the best cost of change is to create something and throw it away early to try something else if it doesn’t work out.
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I have always had a bad relationship with wallets. It was just one more thing I had to carry because there
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A Sample of Standard ML, the TreeSort Algorithm, and Monoids
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www.jeremykun.com
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13 years ago
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In this post we will assume the reader has a passing familiarity with some of the basic concepts of functional programming (the map, fold, and filter functions). We introduce these topics in our Racket primer, but the average reader will understand the majority of this primer without expertise in functional programming. Follow-ups to this post can be found in the Computational Category Theory section of the Main Content page. Preface: ML fo..
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A Sample of Standard ML, the TreeSort Algorithm, and Monoids
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www.jeremykun.com
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13 years ago
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eng
In this post we will assume the reader has a passing familiarity with some of the basic concepts of functional programming (the map, fold, and filter functions). We introduce these topics in our Racket primer, but the average reader will understand the majority of this primer without expertise in functional programming. Follow-ups to this post can be found in the Computational Category Theory section of the Main Content page. Preface: ML fo..
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A Sample of Standard ML, the TreeSort Algorithm, and Monoids
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www.jeremykun.com
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13 years ago
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eng
In this post we will assume the reader has a passing familiarity with some of the basic concepts of functional programming (the map, fold, and filter functions). We introduce these topics in our Racket primer, but the average reader will understand the majority of this primer without expertise in functional programming. Follow-ups to this post can be found in the Computational Category Theory section of the Main Content page. Preface: ML fo..
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As I suspected, I have an almost insurmountable case of coder's block after a full day at work. Nevertheless, things are getting done. In fact, this might be the best thing that's happened for Lemma because it's forced me to cut a lot out of the design and focus on core things. It's the only way I'll ever finish. Screenshot below gives an idea of the new direction. I've dropped any pretense that the game occurs in our world as we know it...
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I was going to do a blog post about my trip to GDC, but to be honest the whole thing was such a whirlwind that now I can’t even decide where to start. In the meantime, I’ll write about my April One Game a Month submission.
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