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A Discovery, and its activities, allows an organisation the chance to explore a problem space in more detail. Typically, this is to identify new product or market opportunities that may deliver customer value and rapidly test these opportunities for their effectiveness. For those new to the process, particularly those of us who don’t come from an Experience Design background, Discovery can appear as an amorphous beast, with no easy connecti..
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This has been a very busy week with huge changes and new features to the code base. Because of that we will shift the Friday release this week to Sunday so we’ll be able to revert the deployment if build issues occur without affecting too many people. Besides the big changes and new plugin versions we’re also including a major overhaul of the Android background processes that should improve the behavior of Codename One apps for back..
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The investment management industry—and particularly, the advisory business model—is under siege. The combined forces of regulatory pressures, changing customer expectations and startups have put downward pressure on fees, increased the cost to serve and slowed down the growth.
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We hoped to get the xcode 7 migration on the build servers out before version 3.5 but the change had problems and we chose to revert . We postponed the change so we can get 3.5 out of the door… This Sunday we’ll deploy a server update that should be the first step in the migration. Because of this deployment we will skip the Friday release and shift it to Sunday which has lower traffic/builds.
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We finished the final major piece of the offline build offering that we announced in July ! This Sunday we will update the plugins to include this ability as an option. Once installed you can use the instructions below to install the offline build service. In this post I’ll explain the process and then follow up with some expected questions/answers. If you have questions/comments about this process please use the comment section below.
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I usually attend quite a few meetups in Melbourne, in the areas of entrepreneurship and software development, but recently all planets aligned perfectly and I was fortunate enough to go to NDC Sydney – my first attendance at an International The post Observations from NDC Sydney 2016 appeared first on FullStack - Ofer Zelig's Blog .
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Undoubtedly the face of transgression; this spectacle of the inner workings of Humbert Humbert divulge humanity’s own insecurities…
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My work setup requires a non-administrator account for normal login. I have sudo access set up for my normal user. For some reason, Atom's autoupdate feature can't seem to deal with this and gets stuck in a loop trying to install updates. So I just scripted it as below: update_atom() { local atom="${HOME}Downloads/atom.zip" echo -n "downloading…" curl --silent --fail --location 'https://atom.io/download/mac' > "${atom}" echo "✓" local..
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My work setup requires a non-administrator account for normal login. I have sudo access set up for my normal user. For some reason, Atom's autoupdate feature can't seem to deal with this and gets stuck in a loop trying to install updates. So I just scripted it as below: update_atom() { local atom="${HOME}Downloads/atom.zip" echo -n "downloading…" curl --silent --fail --location 'https://atom.io/download/mac' > "${atom}" echo "✓" local..
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Aarron Walter is the VP of Design Education at InVision and is the author of Designing for Emotion. Previously he founded the UX practice at Mailchimp.
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You probably recently received the “Next Steps from the Parse Team” newsletter in your inbox in which you were urged to take immediate action as it pertains to migrating your Parse.com-hosted apps. Or at least, you’re aware of the ultimate January 28, 2017 deadline for migrating your apps. While you should take such reminders seriously, there’s no need to panic. In this article, I share my experience with different Parse Server hosting back..
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In the Visual Studio 2015 standard library, the implementation of std::map::find is unnecessarily slow. The underlying reason seems to be similar to that for bug #2 - using operations on a generic tree class that doesn't take advantage of the restrictions places on std::map - that entry keys are unique. The issue in detail: std::map::find() calls std::_Tree::lower_bound, which calls _Lbound, which looks like _Nodeptr _Lbound(const _Oth....
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I recently joined Sense Labs and having setup a static analysis build server a little while ago with Jenkins and Infer I decided to do the…
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std::map and std::unordered_map performance bug #2 - slow count
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How do you tell if an entry with a specific key has been inserted in a std::map and std::unordered_map? Historically the way was to call find and compare against end , e.g. if(m.find(x) != m.end()) // If present: // do something With the introduction of C++11, there is another technique - calling count . if(m.count(x) != 0) // If present: // do something Count returns the number of entries with the given key. Note also that....
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I really enjoyed Felipe Hoffa’s post on Analyzing GitHub issues and comments with BigQuery . Which got me wondering about my favorite subject ever, The Art of Closing . I wonder what the stats are for the top 15 projects on GitHub in terms of pull requests opened vs. pull requests closed. This post will use the GitHub Archive dataset . Top 15 repositories with the most pull requests First let’s find the top 15 repos with the most p....
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A quick note to say that ActionHero has reached version 15. You can read the full release notes here.
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I’ve got a new project. I’ll be hosting DN FM, which is the Designer News Podcast. Designer News is one of my favorite online communities.
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I’ve lost a considerable amount of time trying to bind those things together, so I decided to write this quick post about it, so others could also benefit from it.
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One of our enterprise customers needed help with file upload from the desktop. E.g. in his Codename One app running in the browser or desktop he wanted the ability to drag a file. Somewhat like we can drag a file into gmail’s compose window. This doesn’t make sense within Codename One as something like that doesn’t exist on mobile devices or even tablets. Creating a cn1lib that implements this functionality does make sense, so Steve di..
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Lazer Having a fish tank is supposed to be about stress relief. — Steven D Marlow (@sd_marlow) August 4, 2016 Zhora the fairground goldfish I had a goldfish as a kid in elementary school in Alabama, obtained for free when I won it at a school fair. My family and I knew nothing about proper care of any fish - poor Zhora spent two years in a small round bowl with no filter and no heater, us not knowing any better than to change the wate..
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An apparent performance bug with some std::map and std::unordered_map implementations
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A few days ago my colleague Yves mentioned a perplexing finding to me - It was significantly faster to call find on a std::unordered_map, and then insert a item into the map only if the find call indicates it is not present, than to just attempt to insert an item directly with an insert call. This is strange, because the semantics of std::unordered_map::insert are that if an item with a matching key is already in the map, then the i....
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Email might be one of the most often overlooked pieces of any web application. Usually the biggest discussion around it in a project begins and ends with “and we’ll send them an email when this happens…”. A little thought and some minor adjustments can help us avoid some problems that will grow as your project does. Let’s talk about email as a microservice.
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Email might be one of the most often overlooked pieces of any web application. Usually the biggest discussion around it in a project begins and ends with “and we’ll send them an email when this happens…”. A little thought and some minor adjustments can help us avoid some problems that will grow as your project does. Let’s talk about email as a microservice.
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Why is it so hard to think about something that I’ve been deprived of? Maybe because unless I’ve experienced the new perspective, I don’t realize I’ve been missing it? What have I been missing? Well, for one part - I was not exposed to much education about how to be successful in life and how to negotiate. I’ve been living with the impression that I simply need to do a good job. The way I’ve always imagined achieving success is to work ha....
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You can even do a little shorter than Garry Taylor’s solution, by giving main’s argument a shorter name:
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I really don’t like rebates for some reason. I suppose they’re better than nothing, but I’d rather have a coupon or just reduce the price. Here are four reasons I hate rebates:
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Recently it came up to perform a slight integration piece between a on premises Stash/BitBucket install and a searchcode server install. Thankfully both have an API and very thankfully there is a nice Python library for talking to Stash/BitBucket. Below is the code used. It pulls out all of the repositories from every project, checks if it exists in searchcode and if not adds it as a repository to be indexed. You need to install stashy (p..
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A focus on the engineering team goal of getting things shipped, and what helps us achieve this at Snyk. There are several practices we observe in our development cycle that bind well and keep us shipping all the time; this post outlines the philosophy behind our approach and the continuous delivery practices we use.
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