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Nexus 5 or Moto X? Review and Comparisons from a Past iPhone User
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justingarrison.com
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12 years ago
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eng
TL;DR — I was using an iPhone 4s for two years, an iPhone 5c for a few months, I really liked how fast and small
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In this post, you'll learn how to upload files to an Amazon S3 bucket from the browser without involving a server. Fine Uploader will be used as the primary tool to facilitate this workflow.
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Across our 29 offices in six countries, Thoughtworkers are embracing Rails Girls, a global non-profit, volunteer community. Rails Girls gives tools and provides a community for women to build their ideas. The events are driven by volunteers and typically include a day of sketching, prototyping, basic programming and an introduction to the world of technology. Thoughtworks offices in Chicago (USA), Porto Alegre (Brazil) and X'ian (China) rec..
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We encourage Thoughtworkers to go on their personal journeys, follow their passions and learn and contribute to social and economic justice. In this experience report, Pankaj Kanchankar from Pune, reminisces on his recent visit to Dr. Prakash Amte’s Lok Biradari - a community that includes a hospital, an animal orphanage, a school for adivasi children and a vocational and livelihood skills training center, all within one campus.
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Looking through my LLVM Jitted code, I noticed some calls to cos that looked like this: movabsq $cosf, %rax movaps %xmm6, %xmm0 callq *%rax Whereas as some usual non-jitted code calling cos looks like this: call cosf (0140C1E9F4h) It's unfortunate that the jitted code requires two instructions to do what the normal code can do in one, and that the call is now indirect. After asking on the LLVM IRC channel, I think I understand why. ....
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A fascinating look at the current state of business models and their inevitable future from Ben Thompson over at Stretechery. An excellent article well worth the read going in to 2014. Especially in this coming year, I believe, this knowledge and a solid understanding of it will prove invaluable. Permalink.
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When I started this website, I had a number of misgivings. For example, every writer I looked up to had already done this for years or, in some cases, even decades; what could I possibly contribute to such a mature community? I had missed the boat, failed to get in on the ground floor — what hope could I have of rivaling the skill, insight, and popularity of folks like John Siracusa? I struggle similarly with my desire to build an app. But,..
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This is my first Android APK Teardown. The idea comes from Android Police . The general idea is to decode the application and generate a diff report between the previous version. Then inform the public what you found. So lets start. Seeing how this is my first one. I'll
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Native interfaces allow developers to invoke platform native methods/functions/libraries and even widgets directly from within Codename One without having to adapt your code to every platform. They are a very powerful tool when bridging between Codename One and OS specific features to access functionality that might not yet be exposed in the Codename One platform. Normally in Java we would use JNI to access “native” however, JNI is design..
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Yesterday, Josh Ginter responded to my article Doing Monetization Well with a very thoughtful post of his own . To no great surprise on my part, he questioned the viability of sponsorships at my low threshold of just 2,000 visitors per month. I expected someone would, and I can not fault Josh for doing so: I picked such low numbers on purpose because I wanted to have tangible, achievable goals I felt some confidence in my ability to ..
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I will not pretend to have some groundbreaking insight born of years watching Apple and scrutinizing its marketing tactics, but perhaps this inability to immediately evaluate, classify, and dismiss Your Verse works to my advantage in this case. In his article written shortly after the ad went live, Stephen Hackett conveyed his general disappointment in Apple at employing a tactic of engendering a powerful emotional response from its vie..
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Many teams that try to implement agile processes report that they often don’t observe the promised results. This may have many causes, but one often overlooked one, is that stories tend to get “inflated” as day-to-day pressures start to mount. I am not speaking about point estimates, but the story scope itself. Trying to do too much in a story compromises flow, increase cycle time and can frustrate the team. An agile team that strives for c..
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Imagine you are the CEO of a retailer. The economy is roaring, people are starting to shop more at your higher end shops, increasing margin. Quarter over quarter top line revenue growth is coming in, albeit at a slow, measured growth rate. You are even getting some level of margin growth by implementing some measures to remove excess cost out of the business. Things are going great!
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I was reading up on the "MEAN" stack: Mongo, Express, Angular and Node and came across a blog post from [Francesca Krihely](http://francescak.me/blog/2013/04/09/fintech-hackathon-recap/) about the FinTech hackathon in NY from back in April, 2013. This interested me because as a former "insider" in a large financial services company I can see clearly how open source code and tooling is replacing more proprietry code and tooling (for example ..
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Today marks the first installment of my brand new newsletter, awkwardly titled “The Neat and Out of Scope Newsletter”, in which I talk about an alternative to MailChimp, shaking a device to trigger Javascript actions, speedy scrolling, House of Cards’s second season, the latest foray into podcast clients, and the just-launched clipboard utility Command-C. In case you missed it, you can subscribe here or by clicking the “Newsletter” menu i..
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Prompted by a question from Shibel early this morning wondering how I determine where to publish a given article, to my site or my new newsletter, I decide what content goes where and when to release it based on a relatively simple heuristic: when I write for my website I strive to do so in service of furthering the overarching narrative with regards to topics I currently have some degree of interest in. Pursuant of this goal, I write lon..
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This is a very good ebook, and is free for reading online. This book is for new developers, experienced developers, and everyone in between who wants to master Unix and Linux commands. This book was designed to showcase some of the most useful commands that a developer can know to help them in their daily tasks. via Softcover | Conquering the Command Line .
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and a Great Person in general. Empathy is your most important skill. Practice it with everyone you interact with, and everyone who interacts with your work. Humility goes hand in hand with empathy. Be open to the possibility (likelihood, even) that you are wrong. Know that you will always be learning and improving. accept and own up to mistakes immediately. The less you fear being wrong, the more confident you can be. You are wrong ..
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This is seriously good collection of resources for web designers and the likes, don’t miss it. I’ll let you in on a little secret: beautiful websites aren’t made, they’re found. Smart designers know where to find that perfect photo, subtle pattern or that unique icon. Here’s where the best designers go to find photos, graphics, icons, and more. via Where the best designers go to find photos and graphics | Blog .
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This is a very good ebook, and is free for reading online. This book is for new developers, experienced developers, and everyone in between who wants to master Unix and Linux commands. This book was designed to showcase some of the most useful commands that a developer can know to help them in their daily tasks. via Softcover | Conquering the Command Line .
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This is a very good ebook, and is free for reading online. This book is for new developers, experienced developers, and everyone in between who wants to master Unix and Linux commands. This book was designed to showcase some of the most useful commands that a developer can know to help them in their daily tasks. via Softcover | Conquering the Command Line .
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and a Great Person in general. Empathy is your most important skill. Practice it with everyone you interact with, and everyone who interacts with your work. Humility goes hand in hand with empathy. Be open to the possibility (likelihood, even) that you are wrong. Know that you will always be learning and improving. accept and own up to mistakes immediately. The less you fear being wrong, the more confident you can be. You are wrong ..
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The next plugin update will finally include the support for building desktop applications with Codename One and to celebrate this we added a How Do I video on this subject . Notice that this is a pro only feature so if you don’t have a pro account this will fail on the build server. The end result should be pretty similar to what you get in the simulator, I assume we will make some improvements as we move along to refine the u..
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Although still waiting for the dust to settle after Jim Dalrymple linked to my article Doing Monetization Well , I believe I will cross the twenty readers per day line once my traffic returns to normal. As promised, I started a newsletter tentatively titled The Neat and Out of Scope Newsletter . Unfortunately, more than the title needs work; however, I have done the vast majority of the heavy lifting today, so from here on out I can f..
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Markets can sustain more than one company or product. There doesn’t have to be an ultimate winner in everything, and most of the time the market is fragmented into various successful companies and products. You can have Android with a huge market share and still have iOS be successful and profitable; neither side has to kill the other to survive. Markets are endlessly complex things filled with shades of gray, and while it’s nice to try and....
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On the topic of writers I have only just recently discovered, The Typist wrote a great article about his conversion to a Mac: the motivations that preluded it and the software that facilitated his switch. I learned a few new tricks and found some cool new software here, so while I may disagree with his statements that one could purchase a PC approximately 150% faster than a MacBook Pro for slightly less, I enjoyed his article and look f..
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Finally getting around to a few blogs I have wanted to check out for almost a week now, earlier this morning I read Harshil Shah’s third blog post since starting his new site. I enjoyed his refreshing honesty, and his new approach seems like a great middle ground between pushing so hard he burns out once again and posting two articles for the entirety of 2013. I look forward to reading more of his excellent writing very soon , and you shou..
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After catching up on the latest episode of White Collar 1 and clearing my Instapaper queue, I spent the rest of my morning going through a few gear websites. While not all carry wares with the vintage feel that almost every item on Huckberry’s store has, each site picks out the best product for its respective category, whether styled to match this century or not. Personally, I prefer the former: I love gear and apparel that could have ..
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Torquie: The European hacking community and 'scene' DEFCON 2 was July 22-24, 1994 at the Sahara Hotel & Casino (Since Blown-up)
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Torquie: The European hacking community and 'scene' DEFCON 2 was July 22-24, 1994 at the Sahara Hotel & Casino (Since Blown-up)
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A few days ago I tweeted: Now the project is out in the wild and I’m very excited about it. It’s all italian yes, but do know that CoderDojo is a global movement , and starting a kids coding club in your own town would probably be great idea. Come meet me next week . I will be giving a short talk about CoderDojo Ravenna and, most importantly, we’ll have a good pizza afterwards. Oh, and we’re looking for mentors to join us.
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A few days ago I tweeted: Now the project is out in the wild and I’m very excited about it. It’s all italian yes, but do know that CoderDojo is a global movement , and starting a kids coding club in your own town would probably be great idea. Come meet me next week . I will be giving a short talk about CoderDojo Ravenna and, most importantly, we’ll have a good pizza afterwards. Oh, and we’re looking for mentors to join us.
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Oracle X$ tables – Part 1 – Where do they get their data from?
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tanelpoder.com
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12 years ago
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eng
It’s long-time public knowledge that X$ fixed tables in Oracle are just “windows” into Oracle’s memory. So whenever you query an X$ table, the FIXED TABLE rowsource function in your SQL execution plan will just read some memory structure, parse its output and show you the results in tabular form. This is correct, but not the whole truth. Check this example. Let’s query the X$KSUSE table, which is used by V$SESSION: SQL> SELECT addr, indx....
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Oracle X$ tables – Part 1 – Where do they get their data from?
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tanelpoder.com
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12 years ago
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eng
It’s long-time public knowledge that X$ fixed tables in Oracle are just “windows” into Oracle’s memory. So whenever you query an X$ table, the FIXED TABLE rowsource function in your SQL execution plan will just read some memory structure, parse its output and show you the results in tabular form. This is correct, but not the whole truth. Check this example. Let’s query the X$KSUSE table, which is used by V$SESSION: SQL> SELECT addr, indx....
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Over the last few days I have received a ton of great feedback on both a number of my articles and my site’s design as well. While the former has remained consistently positive, the latter refrain almost invariably included the same two criticisms: that I had set the font too small, and that every line contained too many words spread much too far across the screen for a comfortable reading experience. Others recommended that I find a way to..
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I was inspired by Paul Graham’s essay How to Lose Time and Money . In it, he talks about things that seem like work (they are not fun, you do them at the office) but which are actually a waste of time. Because they’re not so obviously a waste of time like sitting in front of the TV all day during a weekday, one needs to take extra care of them.
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In this blog I detail visual design workflow deltas from Waterfall to Landslide to Agile and then to Lean. Let's start with the Waterfall process A seemingly simple process? If you’ve designed in a waterfall workflow, you know that it actually looks more like this:
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The Information Technology Act and Internet Censorship in India
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www.thoughtworks.com
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12 years ago
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India, like all countries, is increasingly facing a situation where legal frameworks that made sense before the explosive growth of the internet are proving incomplete or in some cases being re-purposed as blunt instruments of state power. Reforms are urgently needed, and the pressure for reform begins with awareness. This is the first in a series of posts seeking to raise popular understanding of issues of Indian law.
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