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Another day another interview. I actually have been getting some good results from them so far. In particular the last two I have been on. I will discuss them briefly. The first had an interesting coding test. Rather then asking me to solve Fizzbuzz or implement a depth first algorithm over a binary tree (seriously, I have been programming for 10 years and never needed to do that. I can, but its something I did in uni and not really appli..
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These have to be some of the coolest vehicles I have ever seen. I could definitely go for one of these, so if anyone’s offering... You know how to get in touch. Permalink.
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After last month’s post, I feared for the future viability of this series as I continued an apparent trend of finding fewer and fewer cool links for each of these issues. After the last few weeks, however, I’m convinced that those slow months were flukes: this time around, boy have I got some great cabins to show you. Let’s start with The Tiny Project , then, a small house built on a trailer that features beautiful architecture and well th..
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The coursework set for my Distributed Systems involves reading new items from RSS feeds (such as the BBC News feed or the UK traffic incident feed). To help me build the system I developed a simple service that serves up RSS feeds that are regularly automatically updated with nonsense items, and it ...
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The coursework set for my Distributed Systems involves reading new items from RSS feeds (such as the BBC News feed or the UK traffic incident feed). To help me build the system I developed a simple service that serves up RSS feeds that are regularly automatically updated with nonsense items, and it ...
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Marketing is generally unexciting to a ton of engineers, until it brings eyeballs which bring feedback and dollars. Marketing doesn’t have to always be cheesy campaigns or ads, it can often just be surfacing the things your customers actually do want to care about. My favorite type of marketing is when a service sells me on something at the exact time I want it. Here’s a few short tips on some non-traditional marketing that won’t seem sleez....
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Marketing is generally unexciting to a ton of engineers, until it brings eyeballs which bring feedback and dollars. Marketing doesn’t have to always be cheesy campaigns or ads, it can often just be surfacing the things your customers actually do want to care about. My favorite type of marketing is when a service sells me on something at the exact time I want it. Here’s a few short tips on some non-traditional marketing that won’t seem sleez....
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So far in this series we’ve seen elliptic curves from many perspectives, including the elementary, algebraic, and programmatic ones. We implemented finite field arithmetic and connected it to our elliptic curve code. So we’re in a perfect position to feast on the main course: how do we use elliptic curves to actually do cryptography? History As the reader has heard countless times in this series, an elliptic curve is a geometric object whos..
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So far in this series we’ve seen elliptic curves from many perspectives, including the elementary, algebraic, and programmatic ones. We implemented finite field arithmetic and connected it to our elliptic curve code. So we’re in a perfect position to feast on the main course: how do we use elliptic curves to actually do cryptography? History As the reader has heard countless times in this series, an elliptic curve is a geometric object whos..
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So far in this series we’ve seen elliptic curves from many perspectives, including the elementary, algebraic, and programmatic ones. We implemented finite field arithmetic and connected it to our elliptic curve code. So we’re in a perfect position to feast on the main course: how do we use elliptic curves to actually do cryptography? History As the reader has heard countless times in this series, an elliptic curve is a geometric object whos..
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In 2004, Erick Evans coined the term Domain Driven Design in his book also called Domain Driven Design. Since then there has been lots of…
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In episode fifty-eight of the Accidental Tech Podcast, Marco, John, and Casey did some follow-up on their previous episode in which they discussed — among other topics — sexism. In response to the previous week’s show, ATP 57: Smorgasbord Of Pronunciation , I wrote the gruesomely-titled Hedge Yourself Before They Wreck Yourself — a poorly-executed play on the “check yourself before you wreck yourself” cliché — wherein I talked about ..
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Given my first link, I feel the need to state this explicitly just once more : although I call this series “This Week in Podcasts”, it may be helpful to think of it as a curated list of the best podcasts I listened to within the last week rather than a similar list consisting of only those released within the last seven days. After I published the first, I expanded my scope in this way so that I could include episodes from since-retired ..
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An update from the Kickstarter: One concern that pops up a lot on Greenlight is the low quality of the player model and animations in Lemma. The reason it's so bad is that I did all of it myself, and I'm not a character artist. People ask, "but couldn't you just try harder? What's so hard about modeling and animating a character anyway? Also, couldn't you just borrow an existing public domain model?"
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Sometimes, it’s easy to focus so much on the architecture of a system that the details of its implementation get lost. While it’s true that inattention to architectural concerns can cause a system to fail, it’s also true that poor attention to the details can undermine even the best overall system design. This post covers a few minor details of code structure that I’ve found to be useful in my work: It’s a small thing, but one of my favori....
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Software is constantly changing. Bugs are fixed, features are added, performance is increased, and finally binaries are built. With this constant cycle of change come people wanting to know exactly what the changes are. Between major versions, and minor versions, we normally have release notes to give us this information. However, between release builds the list of items is in constant flux with no let up in the people wanting to know what ..
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Yes. Earlier this week, I posted a link to Ben Thompson’s three-part series on the future of newspapers and journalism. Riffing off of that theme, Josh Ginter shares some thoughts along those lines. He’s very hopeful about the future of the blogging industry, and rightly so. Permalink.
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I really, really like this. To put it in the context of writing, how about taking your best day — whether you measure that by number of articles posted or page views gained — and make that your goal every single day? It would be hard, and many would say impractical, but maintaining the same waistline for fifteen years is hard too. In both cases, though, they are worthwhile pursuits. Permalink.
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Whereas Clay Shirky spoke to the benefits of online education, Mark Edmundson is a bit more skeptical in his 2012 (yet still just as relevant) 1 article for The New York Times, The Trouble With Online Education . I agree with most of the criticisms Clay made in his two articles I linked to yesterday , particularly with regards to the unsustainability of the current model upon which higher education runs. However, having spent three o..
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Update from the Kickstarter : I know it's only been 24 hours since the last update, but Lemma is now over 61% of the way to the top 100 games on Greenlight with well over 4,500 yes votes. Thank you all for being a part of this project! I realized that the 30 seconds of gameplay from the Kickstarter trailer is not enough to really see what's going on, so here's a more in-depth video explanation of the movement in Lemma. Skip to 2:15 ..
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I’ve been afraid of RPM and package maintaining [1] for years, but thanks to Kaleb Keithley , I have finally made some RPM’s that weren’t generated from a high level tool . Now that I have the boilerplate done, it’s a relatively painless process! In case you don’t know kkeithley , he is a wizard [2] who happens to also be especially cool and hardworking. If you meet him, be sure to buy him a $BEVERAGE . A photo of kk..
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I’ve been afraid of RPM and package maintaining [1] for years, but thanks to Kaleb Keithley , I have finally made some RPM’s that weren’t generated from a high level tool . Now that I have the boilerplate done, it’s a relatively painless process! In case you don’t know kkeithley , he is a wizard [2] who happens to also be especially cool and hardworking. If you meet him, be sure to buy him a $BEVERAGE . A photo of kk..
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Why the upgrade cycle means the "Apple tax" is lower than it seems
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9to5mac.com
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12 years ago
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I have written about this before, in an article titled Testing the Apple Tax , and Ben Lovejoy comes to the same conclusion I did in his piece over at 9to5 Mac: in reality, the proposed “Apple tax” is, frankly, nearly nonexistent. Taking into account overall build quality, form factor, fit and finish, power, and power consumption, Mac computers compete quite competitively with their PC “counterparts”; adding in other factors such as resa..
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Education is a topic near and dear to my heart, so whenever I can find an interesting, well-written article on the subject I tend to afford it slightly more attention than I might Business Insider’s terrible article explaining possible reasons behind Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus. Unfortunately, these articles often turn out mediocre at best; this piece by Clay Shirky, however, and its predecessor Napster, Udacity, and the Academy , a..
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Although I have touched on facets of this topic before — in articles I encourage you to read before continuing partly to have a bit of background to frame my subsequent words with , partly because I still feel quite proud of how well they turned out, but mostly because I still stand behind those sentiments — I have put off writing this for quite some time, for a whole host of reasons. After listening to last week’s episode of the Accide..
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Comment on A survey for writing your CV in LaTeX by Potpourri: LaTeX #5 – CV edition | Erik Gahner Larsen
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dimle.wordpress.com
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12 years ago
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Typesetting your academic CV in LaTeX - Using the LaTeX Resume Templates - A survey for writing your CV in LaTeX - ModernCV and Cover Letter - Stylish CV - A XeLaTeX CV class with flexible layout - Give your […]
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Oracle Memory Troubleshooting, Part 4: Drilling down into PGA memory usage with V$PROCESS_MEMORY_DETAIL
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If you haven’t read them – here are the previous articles in Oracle memory troubleshooting series: Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 . Let’s say you have noticed that one of your Oracle processes is consuming a lot of private memory. The V$PROCESS has PGA_USED_MEM / PGA_ALLOC_MEM columns for this. Note that this view will tell you what Oracle thinks it’s using – how much of allocated/freed bytes it has kept track of. While this doesn’t usually ....
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Oracle Memory Troubleshooting, Part 4: Drilling down into PGA memory usage with V$PROCESS_MEMORY_DETAIL
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tanelpoder.com
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12 years ago
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If you haven’t read them – here are the previous articles in Oracle memory troubleshooting series: Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 . Let’s say you have noticed that one of your Oracle processes is consuming a lot of private memory. The V$PROCESS has PGA_USED_MEM / PGA_ALLOC_MEM columns for this. Note that this view will tell you what Oracle thinks it’s using – how much of allocated/freed bytes it has kept track of. While this doesn’t usually ....
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A couple years back I started more regularly blogging, though I’ve done this off and on before, this time I kept some regularity. A common theme started to emerge with some content on Postgres about once a month because most of what was out there was much more reference oriented. A bit after that I connected with petercooper , who runs quite a few weekly email newsletters. As someone thats been interested helping give others a good reason ....
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A couple years back I started more regularly blogging, though I’ve done this off and on before, this time I kept some regularity. A common theme started to emerge with some content on Postgres about once a month because most of what was out there was much more reference oriented. A bit after that I connected with petercooper , who runs quite a few weekly email newsletters. As someone thats been interested helping give others a good reason ....
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From the Kickstarter , a quick status update before I talk more about Lemma: At the current rate, we are just minutes away from 4,200 yes votes on Greenlight ! 56% of the way to the top 100. A big thank you to our new backers! There are now 174 of you lovely people (wow) and we're over 32% funded. Rock Paper Shotgun covered Lemma yesterday! And with that headline, we've added Bastion to the incredibly long and disparate list of gam..
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Now this makes sense: Mark Zuckerberg may not necessarily believe virtual reality is the future of computing, and thus a good reason to purchase Oculus, but with the scale Facebook is operating on it would be foolish to take any risks. For a company of Facebook’s size, with so much to lose should they make the wrong bet, two billion dollars really is nothing. Permalink.
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Interesting take on why Facebook elected to buy Oculus by Joe Rosenstee of Unauthoritative Pronouncements . I haven’t fully worked out the justification for this purchase in my own mind, but I will comment on something tangentially related to this deal: as Joe pointed out in his article, and Linus Edwards as well on Twitter earlier , for some reason many seem to have this mistaken notion that Oculus — or Facebook — owes its Kickstarter ba..
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It seems more and more these days, and especially over the last week or two in particular — perhaps in conjunction with the rise of the smartwatch as a general topic of discussion — people have begun yearning for the lifestyle of yesteryear when watches fulfilled the single, uncomplicated need of telling time , running errands entailed a trip to the local grocery store , and sometimes you just had to shovel through four feet of snow to g..
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Thanks to Dave Pell’s The Next Draft for the original link , I found this article from The Atlantic a few days ago, and it’s great — really great, actually; I would even go so far as to call it exceptional. For this piece, Hanna Rosin traveled to the United Kingdom to get some first-hand experience with a novel playground concept called The Land, where rather than the sanitized, boring playsets so common especially in America, kids get to ....
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Since I have been working on searchcode for a while and its getting close to being ready for release (a few weeks away at this point I predict) I thought I would post a teaser screenshot. The below shows how it looks for a sample search. The design is far cleaner then what is currently online which is a big win as the current design of searchcode is seriously ugly.
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Update 2019-01-17 : KSM recently redesigned their website in a way that removes the original blog. Because of this, I've taken some of what I wrote then for KSM and re-hosted it here. Thanks are due both to KSM Technology Partners for allowing me to do this and to the Wayback Machine for retaining the content. All the links below are updated to reflect the articles' new locations. Sorry for the radio silence, but recently I've been ....
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FireChat is a new iOS app that purportedly allows its users to send text messages and pictures between devices without the use of both a cellular and wifi connection, at ranges up to thirty feet, using a new iOS 7 networking feature. Although these days I would rarely have any reason to use such an app, I would have loved to have this ability on an airplane, for instance, or out of the country where carriers can charge exorbitant rates. Reg..
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Take a break from the tech news racket and spend some time reading something else — this article from the BBC on rare earth elements, perhaps; very interesting. Permalink.
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In the past, I have linked to tales of grandiose exploits in the world of Eve Online . Outside of those short articles and a few videos though, the game has remained a black box, of sorts, whose inner-workings I failed to understand. With this great article from Polygon, however, Tracey Lien gives us an in-depth and fascinating look at the mechanics, politics, and strategy behind this truly massive multilayer online role playing game, an..
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