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I did it. And by it I mean sleeping in the box truck for the first time. I still have a corporate apartment until Sunday, but I wanted to try out living in the box truck, because at least I still have the flexibility of normal human housing, and this way, I could work out any potential kinks. A Whole New World Okay, maybe that’s a little bit dramatic, once I was in there, it really just felt like being home, in my own bed. ..
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Here's my talk for the node.js Boulder meetup group about 12-Factor apps in node.js. Slides are here
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After finishing yesterday’s post about generating images for user-combined substrate items I realized that I never really provided an explanation about how items work in general (or how they work for now, anyway).
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3.5/5 As a reader I scoffed at moments that Maria made decisions that were obviously for the detriment of herself, but having realised…
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Gradle is too slow, Ant is too basic. Buck is fast and super-configurable and I’d like to tell you how I use it for Android development. I own a pretty old thinkpad laptop so I don’t expect the builds to be too fast. Ant used to spend 10..40 seconds for each build on my laptop depending on how large the project is. Gradle takes about a minute in average and that’s too long for me - I just lose focus when I just sit and wait for the build re..
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Gradle is too slow, Ant is too basic. Buck is fast and super-configurable and I’d like to tell you how I use it for Android development. I own a pretty old thinkpad laptop so I don’t expect the builds to be too fast. Ant used to spend 10..40 seconds for each build on my laptop depending on how large the project is. Gradle takes about a minute in average and that’s too long for me - I just lose focus when I just sit and wait for the build re..
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The Laravel 5 migration is complete and I’m back to substrate mixing and brain bug fixing! Actually, I think now that basic mixing is done I’m going to do a few weeks of just bug fixing. The substrate has no effect on snails’ attributes or behaviour yet, but it will. For now you can just mix different substrate items together into new substrate items.
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Steven Lowe piece on Composition vs. Inheritance is a must read. Just to wet your appetite, let me quote the opening paragraph: In the beginning, there was no inheritance and no composition, only code. And the code was unwieldy, repetitive, blocky, unhappy, verbose, and tired. Copy and Paste were the primary mechanisms of code reuse. Procedures and functions were rare, newfangled gadgets viewed with suspicion. Calling a procedure was ..
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Rust has some powerful tricks to model properties of aggregate types via unsafe traits with default and negative implementations. These features motivated by offering flexible concurrency/parallelism, and allow powerful closure-based APIs without losing any thread-safety (or memory-safety) guarantees at all. I realised that my recent post on the low-level details of closures missed an important aspect: how they interact with threading. ....
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With the bed out of the way, I was ready to try bigger and better things. The next thing on my list was a place to hang my dress shirts and pants. In a real-world setting, this would be called a “clothes rack”. So I took another trip down to Home Depot , which is quickly becoming the most important place in my life, and I picked up some screws, a screwdriver, some clothes hangers, two mounting brackets, and a 6 foot long wooden rod. If I..
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With the bed out of the way, I was ready to try bigger and better things. The next thing on my list was a place to hang my dress shirts and pants. In a real-world setting, this would be called a “clothes rack”. So I took another trip down to Home Depot , which is quickly becoming the most important place in my life, and I picked up some screws, a screwdriver, some clothes hangers, two mounting brackets, and a 6 foot long wooden rod. If I..
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One important part of this whole process is turning the back of a truck into a livable, comfortable space. I have a number of plans and ideas on how to do that, and I’m going to chronicle my attempts at turning them into realities in this “Home Improvement” series. This one is a super basic one, but hey, baby steps. If I plan on living in this thing, I’ll need a place to sleep, naturally. So I wandered over to Craigslist, found the sketchie..
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One important part of this whole process is turning the back of a truck into a livable, comfortable space. I have a number of plans and ideas on how to do that, and I’m going to chronicle my attempts at turning them into realities in this “Home Improvement” series. This one is a super basic one, but hey, baby steps. If I plan on living in this thing, I’ll need a place to sleep, naturally. So I wandered over to Craigslist, found the sketchie..
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Hello fellow readers, This post is about a little adventure I had with maths. I'm currently reading a book called `clever algorithms`, I go along at my own pace doing researches on hard subjects or things I forgot from high school. Digging through the cross entropy algorithm I had to take a break and learn more about distribution. Namely, I wanted to refresh my mind about the normal/Gauss law.
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Bash conditional statement (Linux Hint) . Bash Echo Examples (Linux Hint) . Bash Error Handling (Linux Hint) . Bash for loop examples (Linux Hint) . Bash Reference Manual . Common shell script mistakes (Hacker News) . Defensive bash programming . HowTo: Use bash For Loop In One Line - nixCraft . Rich’s sh (POSIX shell) tricks . Safe ways to do things in bash . shellcheck: ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts . Str..
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10 things to do in Berlin . Berlin On A Budget: Our Slow Travel Guide . Perfect day in Berlin . The best of hidden Berlin .
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From Wikipedia , skeuomorph ˈskjuːəmɔrf is a derivative object that retains ornamental design cues from structures that were necessary in the original. Examples include pottery embellished with imitation rivets reminiscent of similar pots made of metal and a software calendar that imitates the appearance of binding on a paper desk calendar.
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So I’ve already laid out my pros and cons of why I’m actually doing this, but there’s another aspect to it that I didn’t really explore in that post, and it basically revolves around the idea of minimalism. Background We do things big in America. We love our malls, our big meals, our bigger televisions, and our huge trucks and SUVs. We live in a time of unprecedented opulence and convenience, but that doesn’t come without its o..
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So I’ve already laid out my pros and cons of why I’m actually doing this, but there’s another aspect to it that I didn’t really explore in that post, and it basically revolves around the idea of minimalism. Background We do things big in America. We love our malls, our big meals, our bigger televisions, and our huge trucks and SUVs. We live in a time of unprecedented opulence and convenience, but that doesn’t come without its o..
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I’ve released a redesign of my HtmlToWord library, specifically it now supports Markdown and multiple different ways to interact with Word. It’s now also been renamed to WordInserter to reflect this. Originally HtmlToWord was designed to take HTML input, process it and then insert a representation o...
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I’ve released a redesign of my HtmlToWord library, specifically it now supports Markdown and multiple different ways to interact with Word. It’s now also been renamed to WordInserter to reflect this. Originally HtmlToWord was designed to take HTML input, process it and then insert a representation o...
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When you move into a new home, a trip or two to Home Depot isn’t just likely, it’s inevitable. Turns out that holds true even when your new home is a box truck. Below, I’ve detailed the unfocused and wide-ranging list of items I found myself purchasing. Graffiti Remover. I didn’t quite find the truck in the most perfect condition. One tire was gouged pretty badly and the left side had been tagged up pretty good. The tire is all fixed, a....
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When you move into a new home, a trip or two to Home Depot isn’t just likely, it’s inevitable. Turns out that holds true even when your new home is a box truck. Below, I’ve detailed the unfocused and wide-ranging list of items I found myself purchasing. Graffiti Remover. I didn’t quite find the truck in the most perfect condition. One tire was gouged pretty badly and the left side had been tagged up pretty good. The tire is all fixed, a....
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I have reached an interesting milestone in our functional programming language Winter - Winter now can do auto-parallelisation, auto-vectorisation, and even both at the same time :) Auto-parallelisation means that code is automatically executed in parallel in multiple threads. Auto-vectorisation means that vector (SIMD) instructions are automatically used instead of scalar instructions. This means that e.g. 4 or 8 multiplications can ....
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I recently began a new position at Canonical. I joined this company in particular to give myself more opportunities for growth. Now, when I say that, people tend to assume I’m talking about a managerial track. I’m not sure why they tend to jump there, but it’s not what I’m referring to here. I’m talking about technical growth. I feel at the top of my game when I’m learning something brand new, and I needed a company that facilitated that.
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So here we are, almost a week into living in California. How have things progressed, you ask? Well allow me to tell you! Second Thoughts Arriving in California was comforting, but also a little overwhelming, and my roommate’s words kept echoing around in my head, haunting me. Don’t live in a van. Don’t do it. -Zach B, Roommate for Life I started to second guess myself. Was this really what I wanted? Was I actually....
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So here we are, almost a week into living in California. How have things progressed, you ask? Well allow me to tell you! Second Thoughts Arriving in California was comforting, but also a little overwhelming, and my roommate’s words kept echoing around in my head, haunting me. Don’t live in a van. Don’t do it. -Zach B, Roommate for Life I started to second guess myself. Was this really what I wanted? Was I actually....
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And here is where things start to get interesting. Since my internship last summer, when I realized the only thing I needed was a place to sleep, and company perks could provide the rest, I’ve done a little bit of research into how exactly this whole van situation would play out. In my search, the most encouraging thing I found was this: Google Security came by very early on, but once they determined that the guy in the mysteriously..
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And here is where things start to get interesting. Since my internship last summer, when I realized the only thing I needed was a place to sleep, and company perks could provide the rest, I’ve done a little bit of research into how exactly this whole van situation would play out. In my search, the most encouraging thing I found was this: Google Security came by very early on, but once they determined that the guy in the mysteriously..
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Graduation The weeks leading up to my inevitable departure from UMass Amherst are but a blur at this point, a torrent of papers, finals, and tough goodbyes. I remember having to check the “One Way” box when purchasing my flight, which at the time seemed like exile, or even a death sentence. I remember sitting in Marcus Hall for the last time, frantically typing away at my Machine Learning final, wondering when I’d next see any of the p..
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Graduation The weeks leading up to my inevitable departure from UMass Amherst are but a blur at this point, a torrent of papers, finals, and tough goodbyes. I remember having to check the “One Way” box when purchasing my flight, which at the time seemed like exile, or even a death sentence. I remember sitting in Marcus Hall for the last time, frantically typing away at my Machine Learning final, wondering when I’d next see any of the p..
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It took me a few days to code up this blog, so I’m going to write a couple of posts back to back just to catch the site up to speed with my life. I don’t know exactly when I had the idea to live in a van, or where I first read about people who had done it. What I do remember, distinctly, is finding out how outrageously expensive it was to live in the Bay area.
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It took me a few days to code up this blog, so I’m going to write a couple of posts back to back just to catch the site up to speed with my life. I don’t know exactly when I had the idea to live in a van, or where I first read about people who had done it. What I do remember, distinctly, is finding out how outrageously expensive it was to live in the Bay area.
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In this tutorial I’ll explain how to set a local gerrit server that hosts Android source code. After completing the tutorial you’ll have a fully runnable local AOSP mirror with local Gerrit server. First thing first. we need a Linux server. if you don’t have one available, you can use a pre-installed Ubuntu 15.04 Server I […]
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Emacs: Text Pattern Matching (regex) tutorial . Regex Cheat Sheet (DEV Community) . Regex quick reference : From regexrenamer. RegExr, see hacker news comments for other suggestions . RegExr: A website for interactive regex prototyping with syntax highlighting .
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I recently left my job in Advertising to move back to Atlanta and build a fantasy sports company. The guy I was going to room with had a month left on his lease.
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