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As soon as I lose pride in something, I stop caring about it being good. Its only value to me is as something that I one day won’t have to do anymore. It always starts with the cutting of one small corner, but that’s all it takes. Pandora’s Box is open and the feature is infected. I cut the next corner with only a faint pang of remorse, and after that I don’t even notice the corners anymore.” A great article and an astute observation not ..
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Find The Thing You're Most Passionate About, Then Do It On Nights And Weekends For The Rest Of Your Life
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onion.com
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13 years ago
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I can’t stress this enough: Do what you love...in between work commitments, and family commitments, and commitments that tend to pop up and take immediate precedence over doing the thing you love. Because the bottom line is that life is short, and you owe it to yourself to spend the majority of it giving yourself wholly and completely to something you absolutely hate, and 20 minutes here and there doing what you feel you were put on this ea..
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Less Wrong is an online community for discussion of rationality. Topics of interest include decision theory, philosophy, self-improvement, cognitive science, psychology, artificial intelligence, game theory, metamathematics, logic, evolutionary psychology, economics, and the far future.” I linked to an interesting article from Less Wrong earlier today that made its rounds on Hacker News yesterday, and spent some time browsing the site thr..
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There is nothing inherent in a set of words that makes them offensive or inoffensive — your reaction is an internal, personal process. ... What type of reaction you have is largely up to you, and if you don’t like your current reactions you can train better ones — this is a core principle of the extremely useful philosophy known as Stoicism.” An interesting article posted to the community blog Less Wrong. Perhaps even more interesting a..
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Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace.” After listening to the fifty-ninth episode of Roderick on the Line, I found the speech written for the president should astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become stranded on the moon. It would be a lonely way to go, sitting on the moon, staring at Earth a few hundred thousand miles away as their oxygen slowly depleted an..
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The iPad Mini, like the original iPad, launched to the tune of naysayers questioning the usefulness of a tablet in general, and especially one in such a form factor. After all, who could use the iPad for actual work? It was obviously a content-consumption device rather than a device capable of creating new and interesting things. Obviously. But now we have the iPad 4, and now we have the iPad Mini. And now we have two new ways to create whe..
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Paul Miller occasionally sends out dispatches, as The Verge calls them, articles about one thing or another penned by a writer who has forsaken the internet for an entire year. His last piece I read, Offline: Love, Loss, and Dating Without Facebook , was interesting only insofar as a story about an anticlimactic love endeavor can be; his latest article, linked at the top of this post, is much, much better. As Paul chronicled his difficul..
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A few days ago I linked to Marco Arment’s response to MG Siegler’s post What If The Google Reader Readers Just Don’t Come Back? without actually reading MG’s article. I got around to reading it this morning though, and he made a few interesting — albeit tired — points that merit some discussion. Permalink.
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Introduction Tycho is a build tool for integration between PDE and Maven. Cerner has a long history of working with Eclipse RCP but P2 integration is something of a more recent phenomenon. This post is going to talk about how Cerner is using Tycho, what prompted our transition to Tycho and how we accomplished moving our build to using Tycho. Why we use Tycho The first question when evaluating any tool is asking yourself: “why would I use th..
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I recently encountered the following error in Sonar 3.5 [ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.codehaus.mojo:sonar-maven-plugin:2.0:sonar (default-cli) on project smartfx: Can not execute Sonar: Missing column:period in DB.ALERTS -> [Help 1] org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: Failed to execute goal org.codehaus.mojo:sonar-maven-plugin:2.0:sonar (default-cli) on project myproject: Can not execute Sonar at org.apache.mave..
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Something I found in a note almost lost in the sea that is the host of half-baked ideas begging to be honed to a comprehensible piece: Permalink.
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I have devoted a lot of time to thinking about this, curious as to my motivations behind writing. In the past I said I wrote because I wanted to share my knowledge with others. How noble of me, I suppose. At other times, simply because I love the writer’s craft. This was closer to the real reason, but neither, while true on some level, accurately represented the actual drive that has pushed me to come home after a long day and sit down to w..
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Sometimes distractions are good. At the end of a long day spent working on homework, for example, being productive is the last thing I want to do: I would much rather relax and watch a movie than write. Other days, though, during the summer or over break, those are the days I should spend in Instapaper, reading, and in Drafts, writing. But more often than not, those two different types of days that for all intents and purposes should remain..
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Marco Arment and MG Siegler on potential reader loss due to Google Reader’s impending demise: “I’m a little worried about this possibility. Short-term, it will definitely be a problem. Long-term is the question.” Permalink.
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While one session is doing a “delete then insert”, and another session doing an “update”, the update waits until the “delete then insert” is finished. But does the “update” then affect the “inserted” row or the “deleted” row? Create a table foo(id) and insert one row with id=5 into it. Then: Session A
Session B | START TRANSACTION START TRANSACTION | DELETE FROM..
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I recently encountered an issue with cloning a Mercurial repository where it would fail with an obtuse error stating that “[command returned code 255 Mon Mar 25 11:39:55 2013]”. My initial Googling implied that this was caused by a server timeout but the problem persisted even after increasing the timeout on our Apache web server. The clone was always failing on one particular file - a 600Mb binary. (Don’t ask…)
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In the past few months I have written many essays necessitating the use of citations as a manner through which to lend credence to some datum or another. As you may have surmised from this article’s title though, I believe the current model for determining credible citations to be broken. Take, for example, XKCD comic #976, Citogenesis . In this comic, Randal Munroe once again displays brilliance by showing where citations come from . ..
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A friend said this to me today: it’s really odd, why do fans of dynamic languages often have this cult-like approach? It’s an interesting thought. I know many people who love dynamic typing and reject static typing without knowing much about it. (Of course there are many people who love dynamic typing but who do know lots about static typing.) It got me to thinking, I reckon if you only know X and know nothing about non-X, you mig..
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A smorgasbord of anecdotes carefully compiled just for you, dear reader. This is #2 in a series of three posts which were originally one, before I decided I just had too dang much to say. OpenStack I spent a few weeks at work building a fully operational death star OpenStack cluster. What does that mean? Basically, we have our own little private version of Amazon Web Services. We can create virtual machines, virtual hard drives, even vi..
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Update May 26, 2014 The concepts in this article are still true, but I’ve recorded a screencast showing how to use ember without ember data using ember-cli and the latest version of Ember. It goes beyond the contents of this article, showing how to create an adapter, store and even your own identity map. Check it out ! Ember Data is a persistence layer for Ember.Js . Unlike Ember, which currently has a candidate for a 1.0 releas..
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I do a lot of my work in a terminal. For the unfamiliar, this might seem strange, however once you’re comfortable with your shell, this is the best place to be. I don’t restrict myself to it though. I often want to spawn a file manager, or a graphical text editor. When I run nautilus, I usually see something like this: james@computer:~/some/awesome/directory$ nautilus . Initializing nautilus-open-terminal extension Shutting down..
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I do a lot of my work in a terminal. For the unfamiliar, this might seem strange, however once you’re comfortable with your shell, this is the best place to be. I don’t restrict myself to it though. I often want to spawn a file manager, or a graphical text editor. When I run nautilus, I usually see something like this: james@computer:~/some/awesome/directory$ nautilus . Initializing nautilus-open-terminal extension Shutting down..
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Speaking of New Google , Marco talks about what it could mean for the future of Android. Particularly interesting to me were his final thoughts at the end of the piece: “Old Google made Android. New Google is much more strategic, cold, and focused. Let’s see what they do to it.” Permalink.
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James Whittaker on Google’s metamorphosis from a tech company to the machine that churned out Google+: “The Google I was passionate about was a technology company that empowered its employees to innovate. The Google I left was an advertising company with a single corporate-mandated focus.” It’s too bad, too: Google has given us some of the best web services since the dawn of the internet. For the past decade or so, Google has remain..
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As I mentioned in my previous post, I started experimenting with object pooling. To start off with I didn’t worry about performance at all - I just wanted to have a functional way to use entities without repeatedly creating or destroying them. It took a couple of days, but I finally have a working version that (so far) does what I need.
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Soylent’s story got picked up by The Verge the other day. Great to see it getting some traction. Permalink.
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John Siracusa explaining Apple’s aversion to outsourcing: “Like a lover who’s been betrayed one too many times, Apple has hardened its corporate heart against any form of true partnership. If it’s important, Apple wants to own and control it. When Apple does work with others, it insists on having the upper hand. iOS developers serve at the pleasure of Apple. Manufacturing partners must fight for the privilege of building Apple’s product..
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Marco Arment in Your favorite Thursday sandwich , where he argued against Om Malik’s decision not to use Google Keep : Permalink.
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Couple of days ago there was an interesting post on the Dire State of WordPress , talking about the issues developers have when working with this hugely popular content management system: When you learn PHP from WordPress as I (and probably many other people) did, you just assume that all the idiosyncrasies and illogicalities are par for the course when building a CMS-driven site. It’s taken me several years to realise that it doesn’....
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Google Glass is coming this year, a wearable display that can keep you connected at all the times and supply information and instructions when you need them. And it can record video or take pictures of whatever you see, when you want it to. The privacy scare Much of the Glass marketing focuses on the camera aspect, as does the criticism and fearmongering around it. Some feel that the device would bring about an era of ubiquitous sur....
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Google Glass is coming this year, a wearable display that can keep you connected at all the times and supply information and instructions when you need them. And it can record video or take pictures of whatever you see, when you want it to. The privacy scare Much of the Glass marketing focuses on the camera aspect, as does the criticism and fearmongering around it. Some feel that the device would bring about an era of ubiquitous sur....
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Couple of days ago there was an interesting post on the Dire State of WordPress , talking about the issues developers have when working with this hugely popular content management system: When you learn PHP from WordPress as I (and probably many other people) did, you just assume that all the idiosyncrasies and illogicalities are par for the course when building a CMS-driven site. It’s taken me several years to realise that it doesn’....
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Listing Exadata storage cells and their configuration info from V$CELL_CONFIG
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tanelpoder.com
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13 years ago
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If you attended my Exadata hacking session today, you saw me using the cellver.sql script which lists some basic configuration info about the currently connected storage cells: SQL> @ exadata / cellver Show Exadata cell versions from V$CELL_CONFIG.... CELLNAME CELLSRV_VERSION FLASH_CACHE_MODE CPU_COUNT UPTIME KERNEL_VERSION MAKE_MODEL -------------------- -------------------- -------------------- ---------- -------------------- --....
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Listing Exadata storage cells and their configuration info from V$CELL_CONFIG
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tanelpoder.com
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13 years ago
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If you attended my Exadata hacking session today, you saw me using the cellver.sql script which lists some basic configuration info about the currently connected storage cells: SQL> @ exadata / cellver Show Exadata cell versions from V$CELL_CONFIG.... CELLNAME CELLSRV_VERSION FLASH_CACHE_MODE CPU_COUNT UPTIME KERNEL_VERSION MAKE_MODEL -------------------- -------------------- -------------------- ---------- -------------------- --....
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A humorous observation by Ben Brooks that belies its actual profundity. I’ll leave it to you to read and discover it’s meaning though. Enjoy. Permalink.
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In this final post on the basic four methods of proof (but perhaps not our last post on proof methods), we consider the proof by induction. Proving Statements About All Natural Numbers Induction comes in many flavors, but the goal never changes. We use induction when we want to prove something is true about all natural numbers. These statements will look something like this: For all natural numbers n, $ 1 + 2 + \dots + n = n(n+1)/2$.
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In this final post on the basic four methods of proof (but perhaps not our last post on proof methods), we consider the proof by induction. Proving Statements About All Natural Numbers Induction comes in many flavors, but the goal never changes. We use induction when we want to prove something is true about all natural numbers. These statements will look something like this: For all natural numbers n, $ 1 + 2 + \dots + n = n(n+1)/2$.
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In this final post on the basic four methods of proof (but perhaps not our last post on proof methods), we consider the proof by induction. Proving Statements About All Natural Numbers Induction comes in many flavors, but the goal never changes. We use induction when we want to prove something is true about all natural numbers. These statements will look something like this: For all natural numbers n, $ 1 + 2 + \dots + n = n(n+1)/2$.
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After finishing the backlog of Critical Path episodes early yesterday afternoon, I scrolled down through my extensive list of podcasts until I came to The Talk Show With John Gruber . After my initial impressions of John Gruber’s latest work, I did not expect to particularly enjoy the next hour and a half. Like my previous encounters with John Gruber’s work, however, where it took a number of tries to discover the value of The Talk Sho..
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Since John Gruber abruptly announced that The Talk Show would move from 5by5 to the Mule Radio Syndicate a few months ago, many have speculated as to the reasons behind this sudden and unexpected split while both John and Dan remained, for the most part, silent. Twitter exploded with questions, theories, and, in some cases, anger; bloggers wrote long articles filled with speculation; Philip Elmer-DeWitt, writing for CNN Money, even entered ....
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