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Each person has multiple talents but only gets to develop few of them in their lifetime, based on the environment and the situation they are in. For example, I bet there were many people in the past who would have been great programmers, but since computers didn’t exist, and the theory wasn’t developed, they never got to see how good they were. Some of them possessed a mind that would come up with genius ideas in computer science, but inste....
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I removed social media buttons from my site in 2014 after noticing they got near-zero clicks. Here's what I learned—and why the share-button era ended.
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The reality is that AngularJS is winning the frontend framework war. It’s not to say there aren’t great, high quality alternatives out there, but few have gained so much developer mindshare that slow and conservative companies see it as a wonderful investment. And it’s all the better that normal developers actually love developing with it! via Why AngularJS Will Be Huge .
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If you are using Python and the awesome Boto library to access Amazon S3, make sure you don’t miss How to Save 90% on Your S3 Bill .
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Think of the times you've planned to leave work and go to a restaurant, pub, or the like with a few of your colleagues. I'll use the metaphor of the after work drinks, since I'm most familiar with that one. What often happens is something like the following: Thirsty worker #1: "I'll send an email to everyone asking who wants to go to the pub after work" Thirsty workers #2 to #6 all reply that they do. Thirsty worker #7 says, "I just need to..
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If you are using Python and the awesome Boto library to access Amazon S3, make sure you don’t miss How to Save 90% on Your S3 Bill .
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This morning I saw a post on LinkedIn by Bob Sutton who is a Stanford Professor and Co-author of Scaling up Excellence. He discusses Adobe's move to abolish it's employee stack ranking system. After the system was eliminated, one Adobe employee noted that a feeling of relief spread throughout the company because the old annual review system was “a soul-less and soul crushing exercise.” This post A Soul Crushing Exercise first appeare..
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A few days ago my girlfriend told me about the “lunk alarm”, a gimmick Planet Fitness uses to make its facilities more attractive to those who rarely go to the gym. Marketed as a judgment-free workout zone, Planet Fitness sets this alarm off whenever a patron makes too much noise during their workout; upon repeat transgressions, the gym’s managers will ask these people to leave in order to foster a less intimidating atmosphere — or so the r..
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Why is storing, tracking and managing billions of tiny files directly on a file system a nightmare?
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Its a real pain when you want to inspect the files, delete or copy them. Try taking 300,000 files and copy them somewhere. Then copy 1 file which has the size of the 300,000 combined. The single file is MUCH faster (its also why we usually do a tar operation before copying stuff if its already compressed). Any database that’s not a toy will usually lay the 300,000 records out in a single file (depending on settings, sizes and filesystem l..
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The idea of Full-Stack Development is quite popular at the moment — building things that run both the browser and the server side of web development, usually utilizing similar languages and frameworks. With Flow-Based Programming and the emerging Flowhub ecosystem, we can take this even further. Thanks to the FBP network protocol we can build and monitor graphs spanning multiple devices and flow-based environments. Jon Nordby ga....
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Refactoring is one of the techniques that allows us to be agile and apply an evolutionary approach to our design. A core XP practice and one of TDD's pillars, constant refactoring keeps the evil design upfront at bay and maintain our codebases in a healthy state. One of the few things I think most developers agree on is that refactorings are helpful and should be done at some point in any project, preferably in a continuous manner.
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The idea of Full-Stack Development is quite popular at the moment — building things that run both the browser and the server side of web development, usually utilizing similar languages and frameworks. With Flow-Based Programming and the emerging Flowhub ecosystem, we can take this even further. Thanks to the FBP network protocol we can build and monitor graphs spanning multiple devices and flow-based environments. Jon Nordby ga....
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When I sat down to write this yesterday afternoon, two of the top five articles on Hacker News were not actually articles at all: the first pointed to a Microsoft page extolling the virtues of their new CEO Satya Nadella, below which the fifth “story” linked to Firefox 27’s release notes. In no universe would any person categorize either of these pages as something that “gratifies one’s intellectual curiosity.” In fact, I would say we can l..
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The following is taken from my response to a Hacker News comment. The comment follows (quoted) and my response below. “I will start doing TDD when, 1. It is faster than developing without it. 2. It doesn’t result in a ton of brittle tests that can’t survive an upgrade or massive change in the API that is already enough trouble to manage on the implementation-side- even though there may be no functional changes!
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You just learned how to create a simple WordPress plugin, and now you hear people talking about how WordPress is becoming more object-oriented. What does that mean? Lets take a step back and start with the basics. Most simple WordPress plugins are written using procedural programming. This means that your code excited from top to bottom; calling functions and setting variables along the way. A prime example of this is the default WordPres..
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01/02/05 – 14/01/05 Well I figured I may as well add an end of the story, I believe that anyone who reads this deserves and end to the story and hence I am writing this for you all. Anyways what to say….. Here is my description of New Years Eve for you all. IT WAS LIKE THE APOCALYPSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Gunpowder smoke everywhere (making it hard to see), fires burning in the street, fireworks launching in the sky, enough small ban..
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3/11/04 – 5/11/04 Let me recap the conversation I had with Tiff on the 5th over the phone. “Hello?” “Tiff Sorry about waking you. Have a look out the window” “Ok if I have to… OH MY GOD!!! SNOW!!!! I NEED TO CALL MY MUM!” Yes that’s correct. On the 5th I awoke to a winter wonderland outside. Not much snow apparently but it was enough to get Tiff and I excited. We had a snowball fight in the trees outside her and Susan’s room before clas....
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Everything below is from when I was in University and went on exchange to Heilongjiang University in Harbin China. Please excuse the spelling and whatever is below as I did write it quite a while ago. This content is taken from http://silica.csu.edu.au/depot/dapeng/harbin/ as I want to preserve a copy just in case it is lost. I will be making a copy of the photos available at some point as there is a lot of content in there I would also l..
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It has only been a few days since Dogemate was released, but dogeapi.com has made a slight change to their API that broke the USD price checker. Yesterday I submitted version 1.1.0 for an expedited review so hopefully it will be available soon. The new version adds both currency conversion and two new Bitcoin exchange... Read more » The post Dogemate Bugfix & Features Update first appeared on Swift Fox Software LLC .
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I completely agree with Sid here: the growth of the internet as a widely-accepted medium through which to publish one’s thoughts and opinions as was once handled exclusively through corporate newspaporial publications with batteries of editors at their disposal has led to a net decline in literary quality over the last few years. The popularity of the link blog certainly did not help, perhaps it even compounded the already steady march, but..
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Back in January Linus Edwards started “The Podcasters”, a series of articles in which he interviews podcast producers from all walks of life around the world. Beginning with Ben Alexander of Fiat Lux , continuing with The Menu Bar and — more recently — Life and Code and Stuff’s Andrew Clark, Linus just posted the third installment wherein he spoke with Slovenian podcaster Anze Tomic about the shows he does on Apparatus . If you glosse..
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A few days ago Stefan Constantinescu of Tab Dump wrote an article titled Making Some Bets , where he announced his decision to go fully independent and rely on his writing to support himself. The latest in a string of similar resolutions, his decision gained a bit of attention, through which I came across February 04: 57 tabs earlier this morning. The broad range of topics he covers makes for very interesting reading and highli..
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Since I am pulling most of my content from other sites such as Mahalo and Quora I thought I would pull back some of my more interesting HN comments. Can anyone explain how this regex [- ~] matches ASCII characters? It’s pretty simple. Assuming you know regex. Im going to assume you don’t since you are asking. The bracket expression [ ] defines single characters to match, however you can have more then 1 character inside which al..
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In Part 1 of this post, we explained where you might be misled by your A/B testing result, and how to interpret your A/B testing result. In this second part, we’ll give an example to show you how to A/B test step by step. How to apply this in practice? Here I would like to give an example of how we do A/B testing.
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Vision mobile just released their new developer economics study, you can check it out here . We toggled the new pipeline mode for windows phone to be the default, it’s clearly the way to go forward in the long run since we just don’t have any other choice. All feedback on the new pipeline found it to improve performance significantly and generally reduces some of the paint issues that we run into with Windows Pho..
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Just last week the Kentucky Senate passed a bill by which computer programming classes would count towards a student’s foreign language requirement in high school. Although at first I wanted to see this as a boon for teenagers who would now have the ability to enter college or the workforce better technologically prepared, just as the bill’s proponents and Jim Dalrymple, who originally linked to this piece do, I’m not entirely sure this i..
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Around minute 44:33 of Cube’s latest episode, Ben Bajarin theorized that Google’s motivation in selling Motorola to Lenovo while Samsung simultaneously agreed to scale back their customization of Android could have come about as a result of Samsung desiring access to a concrete feature road map which they could build to in the future. In my last article, Retroactively Planning , I talked about how Samsung’s backwards strategy in which ra..
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Upon reaching a goal you cannot look back on the journey in search of the process that led you to success; you will invariably romanticize the past, shedding mediocre choices in a complimentary light, discounting difficult challenges, and misremembering strokes of genius in situations where there was none. In short, this exercise will ultimately only ensure that you never replicate any form of that success again. Rather than flying by the s..
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This is the second of a three-part series over Google's augmented reality game: Ingress. Part 1 can be found here . Our second part of this series takes us into the world of portals. These little guys make up the entire game from top to bottom. You need
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Yesterday I gave a talk at FOSDEM 2014 in Brussels. The conference itself was amazing, with over 5000 attendees literally swarming and taking over the ULB Campus. I was stoked at how smoothly everything was going on despite the incredible number of simultaneous sessions and the number of attendees continuously flowing between buildings and conference rooms. Everybody involved, volunteers and attendees, has been very welcoming, charming and..
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I can’t say I left the .NET Framework altogether as our main app was developed with .NET and we still maintain it on daily basis. Whenever applicable however, all the recent stuff is being done outside the walled garden. The following Jonathan Oliver totally resonates with my experience. The .NET Framework was good. Really good. Until it wasn’t. Why did I leave .NET? In short, it constrained our ability to choose (which is a huge deal..
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Yesterday I gave a talk at FOSDEM 2014 in Brussels. The conference itself was amazing, with over 5000 attendees literally swarming and taking over the ULB Campus. I was stoked at how smoothly everything was going on despite the incredible number of simultaneous sessions and the number of attendees continuously flowing between buildings and conference rooms. Everybody involved, volunteers and attendees, has been very welcoming, charming and..
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Yesterday I gave a talk at FOSDEM 2014 in Brussels. The conference itself was amazing, with over 5000 attendees literally swarming and taking over the ULB Campus. I was stoked at how smoothly everything was going on despite the incredible number of simultaneous sessions and the number of attendees continuously flowing between buildings and conference rooms. Everybody involved, volunteers and attendees, has been very welcoming, charming and..
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In religious worship following ceremonies and rules by the book is known as liturgy. Often, these rules of ritual performance persist over time and culture, even when the original context that created them no longer exists or is misinterpreted. It becomes a cult to the form over the content, a reactionary adherence to the practices even though the foundational values that originated them are long gone.
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Yesterday I gave a talk at FOSDEM 2014 in Brussels. The conference itself was amazing, with over 5000 attendees literally swarming and taking over the ULB Campus. I was stoked at how smoothly everything was going on despite the incredible number of simultaneous sessions and the number of attendees continuously flowing between buildings and conference rooms. Everybody involved, volunteers and attendees, has been very welcoming, charming and..
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PostgreSQL is currently entering its final commit fest. While its still going, which means there could still be more great features to come, we can start to take a look at what you can expect from it now. This release seems to bring a lot of minor increments versus some bigger highlights of previous ones. At the same time there’s still a lot on the bubble that may or may not make it which could entirely change the shape of this one. For a ....
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PostgreSQL is currently entering its final commit fest. While its still going, which means there could still be more great features to come, we can start to take a look at what you can expect from it now. This release seems to bring a lot of minor increments versus some bigger highlights of previous ones. At the same time there’s still a lot on the bubble that may or may not make it which could entirely change the shape of this one. For a ....
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A few more of my favorite cabins alongside some great articles on related topics and stories. If you have any interest in checking out my previous collections, start here at the beginning, then continue with November and December’s lists. If not, read on. Permalink.
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I’m using a Lenovo X201 with 8GiB of RAM. Apart from some minor issues, I’ve been very satisfied with this laptop. It’s over four years old, and so I decided to see what’s available on the horizon. I did not buy an X240 because of the following reasons: The X240 has only one slot for RAM and thus supports a maximum of 8GiB. I think it’s pretty ridiculous for any successor to the X230 to support less RAM. In and of itself this is..
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I’m using a Lenovo X201 with 8GiB of RAM. Apart from some minor issues, I’ve been very satisfied with this laptop. It’s over four years old, and so I decided to see what’s available on the horizon. I did not buy an X240 because of the following reasons: The X240 has only one slot for RAM and thus supports a maximum of 8GiB. I think it’s pretty ridiculous for any successor to the X230 to support less RAM. In and of itself this is..
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The Windows Phone port is one of our most painful ports, the platforms is so fragmented, volatile and rigid its remarkably hard to extract a common porting layer that will satisfy our requirements. We’ve just updated our servers with the 3rd port we did for Windows Phone, its experimental so its off by default, to activate it just use win.newPipeline=true in your build arguments. As you may recall our first port targeted Windows Phone 7.5..
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In his article Horizontal Reuse: An Alternative to Inheritance Toby Inkster compares how to implement multiple inheritance or mixins in Java, Perl, PHP and Ruby. It’s a very interesting comparison of programming languages features and well worth the read. Toby writes: In class-based object-oriented programming, when there are classes that appear to share some functionality, this is often a time when people will refactor them into two subcla..
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I struck out to see if I could make use of the Microsoft ASP.NET Web Optimization Framework (version 1.1.2) in my self hosted OWIN Nancy…
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