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The future of the Internet will be discussed at the NetMundial conference in São Paulo, Brazil 23-24 April 2014, which will bring together 800 participants, including representatives of 70 governments. The purpose of NetMundial is to craft a set of high-level global principles (a ‘Bill of Rights’ for the Internet) and a roadmap that will determine the future of global Internet governance systems.
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Have I got your attention? It's a sensationalist title, but this is important and developers/administrators still get it wrong. Both online and professionally, I encounter technical people still turning to traditional hashing algorithms like SHA or, Schneier forbid, MD5 when making decisions about scrambling user credentials. Even this recent question on Stack Overflow Exchange has yielded inaccurate answers. While choosing some....
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With the Kickstarter finished, it's back to our regularly scheduled programming! I am in the middle of a major graphics engine upgrade. This whole time I've been using fake HDR. Basically I divide every color by 2 when storing it in a texture, then multiply it by 2 whenever I read it from the texture. It works but you end up with lower color fidelity. Now everything is done in full 64-bit floating point textures. Here's an exaggerated b..
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Here we are folks, counting down the last remaining Kickstarter hours! I'm happy to announce that regardless of the Kickstarter outcome, production of Lemma will continue. To be honest, I originally planned to cancel everything if the campaign failed. I figured a failed Kickstarter would be a sign that people aren't interested, and that I should cut my losses (nearly 4 years of work) and move on. But in the past month I realized a few..
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This time I received an email from someone who had an Ingress version labeled 1.50.0 . I checked the validity (to make sure it was a valid Niantic build) and it came out correct. So lets dig in into this new version. New Levels (9 - 16) We first learned
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Josh Horwitz, writing for Tech in Asia, conducted a great interview with Ben Thompson about his decision to go solo, and his background as a writer in the tech sector. If you’re still on the fence as to whether you should become a member of Stratechery or not, both this interview and another article from The Next Web by Jon Russell on Ben’s transition to independent writer ought to convince you. Ben knows what he’s talking about: he has a..
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Until a few days ago, I was the cautionary tale; everyone told my story leading up to a punch line in which some unfortunate schmuck lost everything after a malevolent hacker gained access to one of his online services. Despite his best efforts, an obscure — or not so obscure, ahem Heartbleed — security breach had given an attacker access to one of this poor individual’s passwords, and although he had selected lengthy combinations and var..
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Voice of the Heart - The app that's given 6,000 people a voice It all began with a technology competition. Building an app that would have an impact in society got a few us thinking. We came up with ‘Voice of the Heart’ – an app that uses voice recognition to aid people in the speech and hearing-impaired community communicate better.
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As of yesterday, Ben Thompson has gone indie: after a three-part series examining the decline of newspapers and the role of individual writers in this new world order, he took his own words to heart in crafting an impressive business model consisting of three membership tiers, each chock-full of some very compelling offerings. Along with an excellent new weekly podcast called Stratechery.fm — whose first episode, Welcome to Stratechery..
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My relationship with RSS, while not exactly turbulent, has remained fairly amorphous over the last few years. In the Google Reader era, I used RSS occasionally to keep up with a handful of sites using Google’s now-defunct service, an iOS app called Feedler, and then, later, Feedler Pro — you could say I was moving on up in the world. Following Reader’s demise, however, I had to change things up a bit as I simultaneously lost my primary tool....
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Humanitarian Software Program: Redefining the Role of Technologists
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www.thoughtworks.com
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12 years ago
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Tina Vinod is the Operations Lead for the Social Impact Program and a mentor for the Humanitarian Software Program (HSP). In this blog, she shares details of the HSP program, it's goals and projects currently on this program.
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If you are developing an AngularJS application, use Protractor to test it! Why? Protractor is an end-to-end testing framework for AngularJS applications and works as a solution integrator - combining powerful tools and technologies such as NodeJS, Selenium, webDriver, Jasmine, Cucumber and Mocha. It has a bunch of customizations from Selenium to easily create tests for AngularJS applications.
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Thoughtworks Retail recently hosted a dinner in New York City for top retail executives in the local market. Our guests included a mix of IT, Digital, eComm and Customer Experience executives from major retail companies. We enjoyed a great evening of cocktails, dinner and engaging discussion around innovation and how retailers are innovating in an era of continual business disruption.
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Huckberry takes us on a nostalgic trip to a bygone era I fear we will never experience again. Aspiration, decency, and pride are all vanishing from America at much too rapid a pace these days, and that rate has only continue to increase in recent years; Nicholas Pell is right to be saddened by their untimely and unfortunate passing, for once our society loses these values I doubt we will ever see them come back. Permalink.
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Colleen Kong wrote a guest post on one of the few websites I follow unrelated to technology, Financial Samurai, detailing how she measures success in her life outside of her wallet’s size, with some great advice for everyone regardless of their lot in life. I wish her the best of luck. Permalink.
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After Marco Arment posted his great article on fancy headphones and fussy coffee back in February, I strongly considered dropping $180 that I — to be brutally honest — didn’t have on a pair of Beyerdynamic DT-770-PRO 32ohm closed dynamic headphones . Whether fortunately or unfortunately, I still cannot say, sanity won out though, and I abstained from blowing a week’s salary on what I have no doubt would have been a fantastic listening ex..
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I think The Typist put it best when he posted a tweet linking to this piece by Matt Gemmell, where he said, “I am wary of superlatives but @mattgemmell’s latest is the best piece of text I’ve read in the last 5 years; at least”. This truly is a phenomenal work of prose, simultaneously remarkably sad, hopeful, and intensely inspirational; better words of advice than those at the end of Matt’s article have never been said. Permalink.
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In scene reminiscent of Steve Jobs’ dismissal from Apple at the behest of John Sculley, Brendan Eich lost his job as CEO of the Mozilla Corporation a few weeks ago over a political donation made roughly six years prior in support of California’s Proposition 8. A bill that sought to ban gay marriage in the state, it’s easy to see why Eich took such flack for that move in today’s hyper-sensitive political landscape permeated by the rantings o..
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It's one of the most confusing industry terms at the moment... 'big data' what does that really mean? Is there a classification model? What happens if it's big but not quite big enough...is that not-so-big-data?
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Ok, so what is it? It's a proximity system. It means that apps on your smartphone, tablet, wearable or other computing device can respond to fine-grained distance readings from 'beacons'. Beacons are small, cheap physical devices that you can place around some location to represent the things you want to read distance from.
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Internet Explorer Won't Save Cookies On Domains With Underscores In Them.
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daniellittle.dev
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12 years ago
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All versions of Internet Explorer (version 5.5 all the way to version 11) will discard all cookies if the domain has an underscore in it…
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Internet Explorer Won't Save Cookies On Domains With Underscores In Them.
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daniellittle.dev
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12 years ago
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All versions of Internet Explorer (version 5.5 all the way to version 11) will discard all cookies if the domain has an underscore in it…
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Impersonal, cold, and calculating, perhaps, but pragmatic, practical, and logically sound? Yes again. Milo Yiannopoulos has a very interesting approach to relationships. And today, in an age where anything less than four digits worth of Facebook “friends” has somehow become strange, it might not be such a bad idea. Food for thought, anyway. Permalink.
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Turns out you are not the only one battling with a lack of conviction in your own self worth and the value of the things you create, and struggling with the fear that at any moment someone might discover that you are, in fact, the fraud you so strongly believe yourself to be. In reality, we all struggle with these complicated feelings — you, me, and I would bet anything your role model does as well. In the somber words of Raymond Reddingto..
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I purchased nearly all Humble Indie Bundles from the HumbleBundle -guys. I also do not want to manually download and install the games from the site, because after all, I use Linux and a decent package-manager, pacman . Luckily, there’s the AUR and the hib-dlagent , which lets me install and update games via pacman. The hib-dlagent is a “Tool to download Humble Indie Bundle binaries by file name”. It is integrated with the packag....
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Fascinating article from Silviu Tantos of Iconfinder on developing an algorithm to detect duplicate images using just a few lines of Python. Having written the back-end for this site myself, completely in Python, I plan on using some of these tactics extensively in version 1.0 to streamline and improve my process for determining when and how often to re-build this site. Permalink.
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Following the BUILD conference, there has been a great deal of uncharacteristically positive talk within the Apple sphere with regards to the products and services Microsoft recently unveiled there, as well as the new direction these announcements seem to indicate. In particular, Myke Hurley, Stephen Hacket, and Federico Viticci of The Prompt had an interesting discussions on these topics in the forty-second episode of their podcast, Beaut..
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Over the weekend I went to a talk on Scala. The speaker said variety of harsh , inflammatory, and mostly wrong things about PHP and the PHP community. One such example: The PHP community doesn't care about things like lambdas, they just care about getting a site up as fast as possible. This is just rubbish. PHP got the lambda treatment in 2009, while Java received it only months ago . The speaker is a Java developer who walked....
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Over the weekend I went to a talk on Scala. The speaker said variety of harsh , inflammatory, and mostly wrong things about PHP and the PHP community. One such example: The PHP community doesn't care about things like lambdas, they just care about getting a site up as fast as possible. This is just rubbish. PHP got the lambda treatment in 2009, while Java received it only months ago . The speaker is a Java developer who walked....
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@Value not resolved when using @PropertySource annotation.
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www.craigpardey.com
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12 years ago
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Spring’s gotcha-of-the-day is around using @Value to resolve property placeholders in combination with @PropertySource. I had the following Spring Java configuration: @Configuration @PropertySource("classpath:/test.properties") public class TestAppConfig { @Value("${queue.name}") private String queue; @Bean(name="queue") public String getQueue() { return queue; } } But the value in “queue” was not resolving - it returned “${q..
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At the beginning of Thoughtworks University we were told to establish four goals. One of my goals was to find out how Thoughtworks can be so different from other IT and software development companies, yet still be able to maintain a very successful business. The purpose of this blog is to answer that question. I will, as briefly as possible, describe how I arrived at my conclusion.
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If continuous delivery and Lean enterprise practices are going to be adopted in the large, then we need to bring those techniques to all parts of our enterprise footprint, not just the greenfield systems.
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I’m sure this situation sounds familiar. Well-known bank has to replace your cash card. They don’t schedule the delivery, despite giving clear instructions repeatedly to the customer support representative. Thus you miss the delivery and have to make a fresh request that takes 4 working days to process. You then try the IVR (Interactive Voice Response) system to change the PIN. After entering all your personal information, card information,..
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Our Thoughtworks San Francisco office kicked off a series of quarterly Technology Radar events to bring together technologists, decision makers, and practitioners. The Technology Radar San Francisco Events are an informal conference for professional software developers, technologists, and practitioners organized by key leadership within Thoughtworks.
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At the Thoughtworks San Francisco office, we have a deep commitment to support humanitarian causes and be a force for good in the Social Justice arena. We hosted the first Hack for Democracy hackathon to support technologists who seek openly to build technology for nonpartisan political oriented projects and initiatives.
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If you run a Linux server alongside Windows servers long enough, you'll eventually have the need (or request) to add that machine to a Windows domain. Thankfully, it's a rather easy process. Assuming you run Ubuntu, you can simply run the following commands, substituting the domain and a domain admin in place of EXAMPLE.COM and jsmith, respectively. sudo apt-get install likewise-open sudo domainjoin-cli join EXAMPLE.COM jsmith sudo lwconfig..
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Last time we saw the Diffie-Hellman key exchange protocol, and discussed the discrete logarithm problem and the related Diffie-Hellman problem, which form the foundation for the security of most protocols that use elliptic curves. Let’s continue our journey to investigate some more protocols. Just as a reminder, the Python implementations of these protocols are not at all meant for practical use, but for learning purposes. We provide the co..
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Last time we saw the Diffie-Hellman key exchange protocol, and discussed the discrete logarithm problem and the related Diffie-Hellman problem, which form the foundation for the security of most protocols that use elliptic curves. Let’s continue our journey to investigate some more protocols. Just as a reminder, the Python implementations of these protocols are not at all meant for practical use, but for learning purposes. We provide the co..
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Last time we saw the Diffie-Hellman key exchange protocol, and discussed the discrete logarithm problem and the related Diffie-Hellman problem, which form the foundation for the security of most protocols that use elliptic curves. Let’s continue our journey to investigate some more protocols. Just as a reminder, the Python implementations of these protocols are not at all meant for practical use, but for learning purposes. We provide the co..
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Unfortunately, the past week was relatively light in terms of new podcasts, and even more sparse with regards to great episodes. There are always a few, though, and this week was no different. Permalink.
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Overview This last week I was lucky enough to step onto Facebook’s campus for their first ever Hack Developer Day. Throughout the day developers and project managers gave talks about HHVM and Hack. From overviews to the nitty gritty details, each talk brought more insight into why this language was created. Below are a few of the talks that I thought were the best of the bunch. Hack Language and Library Features This talk walks thro..
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