Internet is for many the symbol of freedom. So were books. Tools are just that tools. This doesn’t mean we shouldn’t strive for freedom. But realize that self-education is the real freedom. Because the fuel to self-education is the search for truth. Without truth there is no Freedom Just non-obvious choices between various lies.
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Internet is for many the symbol of freedom. So were books. Tools are just that tools. This doesn’t mean we shouldn’t strive for freedom. But realize that self-education is the real freedom. Because the fuel to self-education is the search for truth. Without truth there is no Freedom Just non-obvious choices between various lies.
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A screencast where we build an app that loads real data, lazily loads Highcharts on demand, and plots the data using Highcharts.
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I have worked with various flavours of “Agile” over numerous years. These have ranged from the very formal where everything is done by the book to more ad-hoc versions where different parts are cherry picked or in most cases done because people think they should be done.
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I have never been a fan of performance reviews. It may have been down to the way they were implemented at the places I worked however they never seemed to achieve what they were set out to do. The review would usually consist of going over the “achievements” for the past period and then setting a bunch of artificial goals for the next period. The only time these new goals were actually consulted was in the run up to the next review.
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I have worked with various flavours of “Agile” over numerous years. These have ranged from the very formal where everything is done by the book to more ad-hoc versions where different parts are cherry picked or in most cases done because people think they should be done.
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I have never been a fan of performance reviews. It may have been down to the way they were implemented at the places I worked however they never seemed to achieve what they were set out to do. The review would usually consist of going over the “achievements” for the past period and then setting a bunch of artificial goals for the next period. The only time these new goals were actually consulted was in the run up to the next review.
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Starting this Spring when I changed OSes from mac to linux, I decided to experiment with using docker containers to isolate dangerous development tools from my local system. Given the npm malware attack yesterday, this seems like a good time to write up my results so far. Motivation OK I'll try not to get overly long-winded here, but let me just state broadly that I think the core fundamental idea in linux that you log in to your system w....
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We built a reactive pipeline to move almost a quarter billion database records to AWS and to build a reactive and serverless pipeline. This is the story of the lessons we learned along the way working with Kinesis and Lambdas
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We built a reactive pipeline to move almost a quarter billion database records to AWS and to build a reactive and serverless pipeline. This is the story of the lessons we learned along the way working with Kinesis and Lambdas
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I have recently been very interested in Truth as a value premise. Not True in a boolean sense of it being opposite of False, but true in the sense that it is counter to fake. What is true? What is fake? Can something or someone be true and fake simultaneously? I created this app (based […]
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I've recently been helping a client get their node.js mobile back end API server ready to launch a new service. In this post I'll outline the guidelines I use when I'm brought in to true-up a problematic node.js codebase. First, triage and repair server basics Before any real rescue efforts can happen, I need to work through the fundamental issues and get up to a bare minimum of a working project and service. Is the code even in a git ....
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Retook running recently. Took the dust off my aria scale and used the opportunity to check out fitbit's API. First register your app at dev.fitbit.com/apps/new and get a client_id=AABBCC. You'll also need your USER_ID, from your Fitbitx user profile. We'll also need a token. I used the implicit grant flow URL in my browser and extracted access_token=TOKEN. Now let's wire up two org source blocks to fetch the data and subse....
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You may have heard that, if you’re investing in stocks, you need to have a diversified stock portfolio. But what does that even mean? It means to own a variety of multiple stocks.
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My daughter is 3¼ years old now. About the time that she was born, I decided that I needed to make a small change in my language. Whenever I felt the urge to curse, I would say a food’s name. For example, after being puked on, my reaction would be some variant of: “PASTA”, “PASTA BOLOGNESE” or other pasta’s favorites. As time went by, I got better and better at expressing emotion through increasingly disturbing food references. My current....
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From @saruspete 's tweet , ${PIPESTATUS[@]} gives ya all piped commands' return codes: echo foo | grep bar | tr z a | cat echo ${PIPESTATUS[@]}
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Augmenting Long-term Memory (Michael Nielsen) . Ludism's memory techniques . Using Anki to remember what you read | Hacker News . Using Anki to remember what you read | Hacker News .
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As much for you as for myself, here is a list of tools you might want to have in mind : Software you can install to avoid issues ClamAv(Antivirus) chkrootkit(Check for Root kits) Maldet or LMD(Linux Malware Detection) Ispprotect (commercial 90$ a year) Commands you can run to check for issues netstat –an Displays the network connections and generic statistics ps –ef Lists every currently running process
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