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There is a story going around about data science that you’ve surely heard. It's the statement that 80% of the work a data scientist does is collecting, cleaning and organizing data and that only 20% is their real specialty: building models and making discoveries. Those who make this statement, often those selling something, usually claim what data science needs most of all is better tools for doing these so called data munging tasks to free..
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China's Brick and Mortar Revolution: From Soy Sauce Food Stamps to Experience Hubs
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www.thoughtworks.com
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11 years ago
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eng
I grew up in the planned economy of Communist China in the early 1980s. On my 5th birthday, my parents gave me my first food stamp and said “Boy, you’re old enough to go and buy soy sauce”. This might seem trivial, but in China it was a big deal—a coming of age of sorts. There’s a lot to learn from China’s speedy retail revolution. From the food stamps of the '80s to the mega lifestyle centers of today, retail trends that manifested over h..
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As a forewarning, this post doesn’t really provide tips on how to be invisible, it’s more of an observation of human nature. One of my biggest stressors when I was considering living in a van, as is undoubtedly evident from my earlier posts, was my unshakable fear that I was going to be caught, arrested, or otherwise reprimanded. I was worried that I wouldn’t be discreet enough, or I’d make some grave mistake one day, or anything but a ..
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As a forewarning, this post doesn’t really provide tips on how to be invisible, it’s more of an observation of human nature. One of my biggest stressors when I was considering living in a van, as is undoubtedly evident from my earlier posts, was my unshakable fear that I was going to be caught, arrested, or otherwise reprimanded. I was worried that I wouldn’t be discreet enough, or I’d make some grave mistake one day, or anything but a ..
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This white paper is written by Dan McClure (Innovation Design Practice Leader, Thoughtworks) and Ian Gray (Director, Gray Dot Catalyst). This is the third of four contributions on the subject of 'Innovation Scaling' submitted for the 'Transformation Through Innovation' theme for the World Humanitarian Summit.
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This tutorial is starting to get interesting…. In this section we’ll go deep into animations, special effects, search styling and extracting contacts. In the previous sections we built the first form of the app, logged in and now we need to show the actual login form. Even more importantly we need to show it with style like this: (notice that you should see an animated gif above naturally we reduced quality to make it smaller but ..
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Note: This is part of a series of posts about Rigel the Maine Coon kitten who was given a urinary infection by a veterinarian in Stockholm during a routine surgery and has been struggling with peeing since. You can read more in the Rigel section .
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I was interviewed for the CodeNewbie podcast, where I talk about life, IBM Design, open source, and personal goals.
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I’ve seen many articles and discussions online discussing the merits of merge and rebase when integrating parallel branches into the main branch. It seems there are two camps arguing “which is better” when in reality, both have their own use cases. The task we need to accomplish is to determine which workflow is right for your project. This article will attempt to provide an overview to the different workflows, and explain when merge and ....
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Offering free internet well almost and survive disaster, power outage, Internet blackout
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blog.nobugware.com
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11 years ago
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eng
In my neighborhood, I’m experimenting to give free access to some services, not the full internet but a full access to Wikipedia, maps… Here are some tips do to the same. Getting access to the internet may be crucial for our lives, but the commercial providers are here to make money out of it. They don’t event provide disasters nor minimum safety access. Sometimes even in normal condition, while traveling your roaming will cost you hundreds..
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I’ve recently published StatGo, it gives you access to your operating system metrics like free memory, used disk spaces … It’s a binding to the C library libstatgrab, a proven stable piece of code that works on many different systems, FreeBSD, Linux, OSX … It’s very simple to use: s := NewStat() c := s.CPUStats() fmt.Prinln(c.Idle) 98.2 Feel free to contribute, it may need some improvement but it’s working I’m using it in a small metrics we..
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SnailLife does a lot of logging for debugging purposes. Aside from the general laravel.log I have separate loggers for each snail and also write logs for stuff like deleted items etc in separate files.
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I’ve always developed my own blog system, that’s a good way to learn a new langage. But having to maintain a working server or hosting is no fun, there are some solutions like Jekyll or Hugo they generate static web pages based on some Markdown files you wrote. As it’s just basic html files, they can be served by Github gh-pages. It opens the door to blogging from anywhere without internet connection or your own laptop, just write some Mark..
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This blog is running Hugo with an auto deploy via Wercker and hosted on Github Page. Take #2 Previous blog was hosted on Google App Engine with a Python blog system, to get the previous articles, I had to run in a small data migration. Make a backup from GAE admin web interface: Go to Datastore admin and backup your entity mine was Post and then backup to blobstore, go to Blob Viewer and download your file named around datastore_backup_data..
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“So what do you do?” — How Idle Conversation Escalates Tensions in Class Inequality
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0xadada.pub
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11 years ago
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eng
When introduced to someone for the first time, I stay away from asking the cliché question “so what do you do?” This seemingly benign question is steeped in the cultural heritage of the New England colonial Puritan/ Protestant work-ethic . Hard work, frugality, perseverance in the face of hardship (without complaint) is the mark of Grace and this will allow you to achieve salvation. You are your work, and your value and place in the soci....
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Unit testing is more than a design tool, not just a practice that enhances quality, it is a tool for managing complexity.
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I'll be the first to admit that I'm definitely not the best developer around, not by a long shot. But being a web developer is a dream job to me. I really love…
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We’ve released a burst of small new features that piled up during the code freeze and release cycle, we also have a couple of interesting 3rd party efforts such as an independent Windows Phone port and websockets implementation. But first let’s start with Facebook’s “invite friends” feature. Historically with the Facebook API you could just use the Graph API to query Facebook for the list of friends. This will return an empty list now..
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The details and aftermath and lack of details surrounding Destiny's Temporary Restriction ban. A look into this experience.
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Hello fellow readers, In this post I'll discuss a subject that has been nagging me. Justification After Actions I usually write to clear my mind about a topic. These days I can't really keep up with all the things that bug me. This subject is a preparation to a broader subject that I'm preparing to write about.
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It is difficult to overstate the importance of data in today's economy. The tools we use and actions we take consume and generate a digital version of our world, all captured, waiting to be used. Data have become a real resource of interest across most industries and is rightly considered the gateway to competitive advantage and disruptive strategy.
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In this post , I mention that, upon my arrival, there were already several other vehicles that looked like they could be home to serial killers, the mentally-insane, or otherwise psychologically degenerate human beings. Some of the vehicles, namely a truck and a few RVs, move around occasionally, a sure sign of life. Others, like the hippie van pictured above on the far right, have not moved in the two months I’ve been here. However, despi..
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In this post , I mention that, upon my arrival, there were already several other vehicles that looked like they could be home to serial killers, the mentally-insane, or otherwise psychologically degenerate human beings. Some of the vehicles, namely a truck and a few RVs, move around occasionally, a sure sign of life. Others, like the hippie van pictured above on the far right, have not moved in the two months I’ve been here. However, despi..
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"Facebook Background Task Host" consuming 100% disk bandwidth
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www.databasesandlife.com
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11 years ago
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eng
The program “Facebook Background Task Host” was consuming the entirety of my disk bandwidth on my Windows 8.1 computer. Further, there seemed to be almost nothing written about this program on the internet according to Google. Rebooting the computer didn’t help: after the reboot it was there again. I did not remember downloading anything from Facebook to run on my computer. The solution was to go to the Windows 8 start screen, and find th..
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