The most reliable way to evaluate programmer candidates is to hire them to do a bit of realistic work. This is widely understood, but not widely practiced. The biggest barrier is finding projects for them to work on. In most organizations, the overhead of getting a new person started is
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Liu Cixin's Death's End is a special set of books that puts as much Science as it can in Science Fiction.
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Liu Cixin's Death's End is a special set of books that puts as much Science as it can in Science Fiction.
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We try to space out plugin updates as much as reasonably possible but unfortunately we need to push out an update this week to fix a critical regression in the new GUI builder. Hopefully it is more stable now and we can go back to working on new features. Steve made a couple of very interesting posts this week and we have a few more from him in the coming weeks.
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I’ve noticed that on my social media feeds a lot of people are deeply upset that Donald Trump was elected President. Well, technically, he hasn’t been elected yet. The Electoral College will meet on Monday, December 12th, 2016 in their respective state capitals to cast their votes, but it’s highly unlikely anyone will be a faithless elector .
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woke up in a flight basically. landed drove back, moved tatami mats inside and went to vote. important important election - don’t think my vote will matter much in califoria. ran into gail, our landlord, at the voting booth, handed her the checks we owed them for rent.
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Cool Text Effects for Your Mobile App on iPhone (iOS), Android etc.
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www.codenameone.com
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9 years ago
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FontBox is a mature java library for loading, manipulating, and rendering fonts in Java. It gives you direct access to the font glyphs so that you can perform effects or transformations on them. A couple of years ago, I ported FontBox to Codename One, but since CN1 didn’t yet include support for drawing shapes, I made it dependent upon the CN1Pisces library , which did support drawing shapes. This was cool but it had some major limitations..
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Here's a snapshot of podcasts I'm checking out these days. Node Up for all things node.js The Changelog Open source in general. Great podcast. The Cognicast From Cognitect, the company behind Clojure and Datomic. I don't do any clojure work currently but this interview-style show is always full of enlightened discussion and highly interesting. JavaScript Air no longer active but lots of good episodes to review. I was a guest recen..
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Here's a snapshot of podcasts I'm checking out these days. Node Up for all things node.js The Changelog Open source in general. Great podcast. The Cognicast From Cognitect, the company behind Clojure and Datomic. I don't do any clojure work currently but this interview-style show is always full of enlightened discussion and highly interesting. JavaScript Air no longer active but lots of good episodes to review. I was a guest recen..
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Another ShipIt Day was held on September 8th-9th at the Realization Campus at Cerner. ShipIt is a 24-hour hackathon with the goal of building something awesome, usable, and value-adding within a single day. This fall marked our sixth ShipIt, which has has grown significantly since our first event. The event kicked off in the morning at the auditorium of our Realization campus. At this point, teams were already formed, instructions were giv..
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Ppx is a preprocessing system for OCaml where one maps over the OCaml abstract syntax tree (AST) to interpret some special syntax fragments to generate code.
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Ppx is a preprocessing system for OCaml where one maps over the OCaml abstract syntax tree (AST) to interpret some special syntax fragments to generate code.
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What is the best Net Promoter Score software? After spending time researching several NPS survey tools, we’ve got some answers.
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As the producer behind software conference QCon, C4Media regularly collects feedback from attendees to improve the quality of conference content. They came to Thoughtworks with an exciting challenge: How could they use custom hardware to collect more meaningful feedback in real-time? Our solution: a large number of interactive wearable devices, connected via a self-healing Bluetooth mesh network. Using Bluetooth gave us fast, flexible, and ..
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Partners, Demos, Custom GUI Component & iPhone-Old Deprecation
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www.codenameone.com
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9 years ago
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We are launching a partners page in the website that will refer to consultants that we recommend/approve. If you are a software development company that works with Codename One we’d like to feature you in our website and provide the following benefits: Do-follow link from us (we have good page rank for valuable industry keywords) Official reference – we will only feature companies that we recommend Work from Codename One – w..
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This is a continuation of my post about clean tea , except this time I analysed the offerings from Tealyra . Tealyra by the numbers: 490 teas (excluding kits and samplers) 175 contain sugar and/or flavourings 187 caffeine-free So I filtered the list to only show teas with: No caffeine No sugar No stevia No flavourings 86 teas on the Tealyra® menu pass my filter for what I would consider to be “clean” which makes Tealyra the best..
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Large scale DDoS are not rare occasions anymore. What we need to help protect the Internet is to make home routers
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If you hadn't realised by now, I am Chinese. I was born in Malaysia, then studied and now work in Singapore. Like many others with similar backgrounds, we…
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Associating Your App with File Extension/Mime Type on iPhone (iOS), Android & Windows
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www.codenameone.com
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9 years ago
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One of the compelling reasons to go native (vs say a web app) is to better integrate with the platform. One form of integration that is frequently handy is the ability register your app to handle certain file types so that it is listed as one of the options when a user tries to view a file of that type. Codename One supports this use case via the “AppArg” display property – the same, simple mechanism used for handling custom link types in y..
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From Google's physical web project to the emergence of more affordable virtual reality and augmented reality systems, it's time to take a serious look at how the web is changing, and the exciting possibilities for its application outside of screens.
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woke up feeling quite terrible. headache,fever, weakness and stomach issues. slept most of the day, woke up to eat and drink a little.
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In 2011 I wrote : Travel opens my mind to new perspectives and allows me to recontextualize existing systems of thought. While true for me at that time, for that trip; there is nothing magical about travel itself that opens the mind to new perspectives nor helps to “recontextualize existing systems of thought”. One must be ready and “in the mood” to open ones mind and experience life from a new perspective. The distance travelled ....
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For most of the '90s and the beginning of the '00s, I was the CTO of a small training and consulting company. When I started there, the primary platform was Clipper, which was a rapid-application development tool for building DOS applications atop dBASE files. Clipper was object-based; we leveraged an extension library called Class(y) to make it fully object-oriented and promptly bludgeoned our competitors because we built an extensive obje..
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This is inspired by this post that covers the process of creating different icons for different OS builds. But here I’d like to discuss the lowest common denominator and how we got it wrong! On Android an icon can have any shape and often does, on iOS we usually expect a rounded corner look and on Windows we expect square icons. The thing is that iOS automatically crops the icon with round corners, so if you provide a completely s..
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How to pass variables to a Docker container when building a Node app
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blog.fedecarg.com
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9 years ago
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Environment variables are declared with the ENV statement and are notated in the Dockerfile either with $VARIABLE_NAME or ${VARIABLE_NAME}. Passing variables at build-time The ENV instruction sets the environment variable to the value. The environment variables set using ENV will persist when a container is run from the resulting image. For example: The Dockerfile allows you to specify arguments […]
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don’t remember much of this day, woke up late, n uncle arrived in the day time. hung out with everyone at home, got a feel for what’s next with regards to nani’s condition. p,m and r went to a party, we stayed home and relaxed. m looked happy, and seemed to be distracted for the moment.
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TL;DR by learning internals a gotcha is a valid construct in a system, program or programming language that works as documented but is counter-intuitive and almost invites mistakes because it is both easy to invoke and unexpected or unreasonable in its outcome (source: wikipedia ) Go programming language has some gotchas and there is a number of good articles explaining them. I find those articles very important, especially f..
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TL;DR by learning internals a gotcha is a valid construct in a system, program or programming language that works as documented but is counter-intuitive and almost invites mistakes because it is both easy to invoke and unexpected or unreasonable in its outcome (source: wikipedia ) Go programming language has some gotchas and there is a number of good articles explaining them. I find those articles very important, especially f..
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Did some work, but mostly prepped to leave for stl. feeling guilty, that I’m not putting in the amount of work I should. reached stl late, seemed normal, saw s after many years, a fine man.
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E and Z Notation For Alkenes Unlike C–C single bonds, C–C double bonds can’t undergo rotation without breaking the pi bond One consequence of this
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For fixed integers $ r > 0$, and odd $ g$, a Moore graph is an $ r$-regular graph of girth $ g$ which has the minimum number of vertices $ n$ among all such graphs with the same regularity and girth. (Recall, A the girth of a graph is the length of its shortest cycle, and it’s regular if all its vertices have the same degree) Problem (Hoffman-Singleton): Find a useful constraint on the relationship between $ n$ and $ r$ for Moore graphs of ..
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For fixed integers $ r > 0$, and odd $ g$, a Moore graph is an $ r$-regular graph of girth $ g$ which has the minimum number of vertices $ n$ among all such graphs with the same regularity and girth. (Recall, A the girth of a graph is the length of its shortest cycle, and it’s regular if all its vertices have the same degree) Problem (Hoffman-Singleton): Find a useful constraint on the relationship between $ n$ and $ r$ for Moore graphs of ..
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For fixed integers $ r > 0$, and odd $ g$, a Moore graph is an $ r$-regular graph of girth $ g$ which has the minimum number of vertices $ n$ among all such graphs with the same regularity and girth. (Recall, A the girth of a graph is the length of its shortest cycle, and it’s regular if all its vertices have the same degree) Problem (Hoffman-Singleton): Find a useful constraint on the relationship between $ n$ and $ r$ for Moore graphs of ..
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