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Today was filled with boxes, furniture, moving, and being squished in a car. I loved it. Tiring, but awesome. Ellen and Baz were helping me move into the new place, which was amazing of them. After the first load was dropped off at the new house and we were back for the second we took a short break to relax. Naturally, the conversation drifted to games. It always does. Specifically, I expressed my frustration at being stuck on Gwen .
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LinkedIn is perhaps not known for their development efforts in the open source community. But to my surprise, they have released an open source data store, dubbed "Sensei DB" which I find really in...
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LinkedIn is perhaps not known for their development efforts in the open source community. But to my surprise, they have released an open source data store, dubbed "Sensei DB" which I find really in...
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It can be difficult to be Agile when working with 3rd party software framework. The vendor product may dictate many aspects of the software architecture thwarting your attempts at automated testing and continuous build. However there are steps you can take to make Agile easier. I’ll discuss a few of the options that have worked for me on my current project. Insulate yourself from static methods. Introduce wrappers (Facades) to vendor ..
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I have a hard time answering the question "where are you from?". I’ve lived in over 15 different homes in 8 cities. I was born in New…
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From: Ryan F ( ryanf@ggadget.org ) Date: Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:40 AM Subject: Featured Tech Site Award To: ------------- My name is Ryan, and I work at Green Gadget -- a PR6 technology and gadget review site located in Austin, Texas. The reason I'm emailing you today is because we’ve selected you as an exceptional technology site. We would like to highlight you on our site and present you with an official sidebar badge for your ....
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From: Ryan F ( ryanf@ggadget.org ) Date: Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:40 AM Subject: Featured Tech Site Award To: ------------- My name is Ryan, and I work at Green Gadget -- a PR6 technology and gadget review site located in Austin, Texas. The reason I'm emailing you today is because we’ve selected you as an exceptional technology site. We would like to highlight you on our site and present you with an official sidebar badge for your ....
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I kind of started this thing last night. First, I should probably think of some way to refer to this thing when I write about it in a way that doesn’t give away the entire concept. I have a feeling calling it “thing” or “project” or “it” is going to get very old very quickly. At the same time though, giving it a name is kind of like making a commitment. Seeing as I don’t actually know what I’m doing and have no clue how or when or if I’ll..
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I'm going to try and post smaller, more frequent articles. This whole "two months between massive walls of text and screenshots" thing is not working out. So, the alpha I promised is *still* inbound. I'm working as fast as I can! And I think it's paying off. For a while I was very worried about performance. In my last post I talked about how I optimized the renderer, but there were still issues with the physics engine. I was putting each ..
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After all the hoopla about node.js and Nerf guns yesterday I revisited the phidgets package and fixed a few bugs. Most importantly there…
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I have been with Rackspace for a while now and never had problems. The server has been fast and responsive and their prices are great. However, what happened yesterday blew my mind and totally made me change how I view server providers as a whole—including the likes of AWS and Heroku. Here is how it went down. 2:07pm CST I got an email from one of my administrators that the front end was unreachable. I immediately tried to visit the ....
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I have been with Rackspace for a while now and never had problems. The server has been fast and responsive and their prices are great. However, what happened yesterday blew my mind and totally made me change how I view server providers as a whole—including the likes of AWS and Heroku. Here is how it went down. 2:07pm CST I got an email from one of my administrators that the front end was unreachable. I immediately tried to visit the ....
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First of all: Yay for R18+ games in Australia ! Second of all: I slept for 12 about 10 hours last night. Ten hours . That’s like…ten hours more than I usually do. Just kidding…I do sleep, I’ve just been doing less of it lately. I’ve noticed myself getting a little worn out over the past couple of weeks, like the lack of rest has been catching up with me. It’s kind of to be expected with the amount of work that needs to get done around h..
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This past weekend, hundreds of hackers showed up at the TokBox HQ with a mission to build the future of music. The event started with pitches — giving sponsors a chance to show off their APIs — followed by in-depth workshops where attendees could learn more about each platform and ask questions related to their project. Once the hacking time started, people quickly broke off into groups and got to work.
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This past weekend, hundreds of hackers showed up at the TokBox HQ with a mission to build the future of music. The event started with pitches — giving sponsors a chance to show off their APIs — followed by in-depth workshops where attendees could learn more about each platform and ask questions related to their project. Once the hacking time started, people quickly broke off into groups and got to work.
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A quick update about the nodeSpider project (my first public node.js project!): It is now based on ActionHero.
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The University of Iowa Libraries is home to the Fluxus West Collection, a group of physical art objects made by artists Joseph Beuys, Yoko Ono, George Brecht, Alison Knowles, Ken Friedman, A-Yo, George Maciunas, and others. In early 2012, I developed this 3D visualization system based on curation from Stephen Voyce, assistant professor of […]
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For the last 2 months, we’ve been using ControlTier to automate deployments to our integration and QA environments. Our deployment is a little more complicated that most Java applications because it runs on a pseudo-grid. That is, there are 2 clustered JBoss servers, a database server, and 4+ Linux servers that each run about 8 Java processes. I was able to get ControlTier up and running in a few days, and defining the jobs was relati..
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Recently I won a Kindle Fire in a Hacker Buddy give away, sponsored by Tokbox. (Hacker Buddy is a site that connects hackers to other hackers with the goal of helping each other out, you should check it out) I wanted to write up a summary of my experience using the device. I'm not going to bore anybody with specs, information or detail. Enough information can be found online, eg. on the Amazon Kindle store.
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Recently I won a Kindle Fire in a Hacker Buddy give away, sponsored by Tokbox. (Hacker Buddy is a site that connects hackers to other hackers with the goal of helping each other out, you should check it out) I wanted to write up a summary of my experience using the device. I'm not going to bore anybody with specs, information or detail. Enough information can be found online, eg. on the Amazon Kindle store.
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Why Node.js is awesome: A short history of web applications
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Finding Bigger Numbers, a Measure of Human Intellectual Progress Before we get into the nitty gritty mathematics, I’d like to mirror the philosophical and historical insights that one can draw from the study of large numbers. That may seem odd at first. What does one even mean by “studying” a large number? Of course, I don’t mean we stare at the number 1,000,000,000,000, which is quite large, and wonder how mankind can benefit from its elus..
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Finding Bigger Numbers, a Measure of Human Intellectual Progress Before we get into the nitty gritty mathematics, I’d like to mirror the philosophical and historical insights that one can draw from the study of large numbers. That may seem odd at first. What does one even mean by “studying” a large number? Of course, I don’t mean we stare at the number 1,000,000,000,000, which is quite large, and wonder how mankind can benefit from its elus..
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Finding Bigger Numbers, a Measure of Human Intellectual Progress Before we get into the nitty gritty mathematics, I’d like to mirror the philosophical and historical insights that one can draw from the study of large numbers. That may seem odd at first. What does one even mean by “studying” a large number? Of course, I don’t mean we stare at the number 1,000,000,000,000, which is quite large, and wonder how mankind can benefit from its elus..
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I’ve just registed for five Saturday (early Sunday in Perth) sessions of the AltDevConf online conference. Four from the Design and Production track and one from the Programming track. I haven’t been following AltDevBlogADay for too long so not sure what to expect, but I’m sure I’ll learn some awesome stuff along the way.
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I’ve recently set something aside for a scheduled “breather”. It wasn’t anything related to anything I’ve talked about here before, but has been taking up a lot of my time - I’ve been forcing myself to not think about anything else (in terms of out of work things) too much until it’s done to not get distracted. It’s been easier than I thought - usually I can’t stop thinking about all the potential things I’d love to learn to make, but tunne..
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Fundamental Theorem of Algebra (With Picard's Little Theorem)
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14 years ago
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This post assumes familiarity with some basic concepts in complex analysis, including continuity and entire (everywhere complex-differentiable) functions. This is likely the simplest proof of the theorem (at least, among those that this author has seen), although it stands on the shoulders of a highly nontrivial theorem. The fundamental theorem of algebra has quite a few number of proofs (enough to fill a book!). In fact, it seems a new too..
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Fundamental Theorem of Algebra (With Picard's Little Theorem)
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www.jeremykun.com
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14 years ago
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This post assumes familiarity with some basic concepts in complex analysis, including continuity and entire (everywhere complex-differentiable) functions. This is likely the simplest proof of the theorem (at least, among those that this author has seen), although it stands on the shoulders of a highly nontrivial theorem. The fundamental theorem of algebra has quite a few number of proofs (enough to fill a book!). In fact, it seems a new too..
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Fundamental Theorem of Algebra (With Picard's Little Theorem)
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www.jeremykun.com
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14 years ago
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eng
This post assumes familiarity with some basic concepts in complex analysis, including continuity and entire (everywhere complex-differentiable) functions. This is likely the simplest proof of the theorem (at least, among those that this author has seen), although it stands on the shoulders of a highly nontrivial theorem. The fundamental theorem of algebra has quite a few number of proofs (enough to fill a book!). In fact, it seems a new too..
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I had so much pain to make it work so here is how to have a ZFS root with a raidz pool on 5 disks, specially with OVH without any console or kvm to debug the boot process. The server has 5 disks that I put in raidz and boot on it, but this should apply to most installation. gpart destroy -F ada0 gpart destroy -F ada1 gpart destroy -F ada2 gpart destroy -F ada3 gpart destroy -F ada4 gpart create -s gpt ada0 gpart create -s gpt ada1 gpart cre....
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Arguably, CapsLock is the most useless key on your keyboard. I honestly can’t remember the last time I had a real use for it. If are a programmer, you should remap it to something more useful. The rest of this post will describe how to remap your CapsLock on a Mac OSX installation. What we are going to do I’m a heavy vim user and reaching for the Esc key all the is a pain. We will remap the CapsLock to Esc. However, I want to be able to....
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