Yesterday I had a conversation with a designer who made a career change to become a real-estate sales person. yep – you heard well. From panda-hat pencil-in-hand graphic artist and logo designer, he went to sell cinderblocks lots… What happened? well, unsurprisingly – he got sick of clients – he got tired of not getting paid – and he got tired of having the very people who hired him for a job starting to tell him how he should do his job..
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Yesterday I had a conversation with a designer who made a career change to become a real-estate sales person. yep – you heard well. From panda-hat pencil-in-hand graphic artist and logo designer, he went to sell cinderblocks lots… What happened? well, unsurprisingly – he got sick of clients – he got tired of not getting paid – and he got tired of having the very people who hired him for a job starting to tell him how he should do his job..
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Mondays don’t have to suck but sometime they do… which I guess is fine and was to be expected. Yet – when you didn’t sleep overnight and still have to break your head over tons of things… some days are just not easy. The secret – is to zoom out. When I manage to zoom out on the scale of a decade – then the fact the tramway was late or that I couldnt get a coffee in the morning, or this bug in the code is become such a tiny ridicule element ..
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Mondays don’t have to suck but sometime they do… which I guess is fine and was to be expected. Yet – when you didn’t sleep overnight and still have to break your head over tons of things… some days are just not easy. The secret – is to zoom out. When I manage to zoom out on the scale of a decade – then the fact the tramway was late or that I couldnt get a coffee in the morning, or this bug in the code is become such a tiny ridicule element ..
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Derek Sivers highlights an interesting pricing approach in this article . He was asked to perform at a distant location. When the customer couldn’t afford the price they suggested reducing the performance time, hoping to reduce the price. Instead of doing the expected he raised his price. His reason was that they were paying for him to get to the location and then do the work where the work was the fun bit. By reducing the time on the fun ..
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Derek Sivers highlights an interesting pricing approach in this article . He was asked to perform at a distant location. When the customer couldn’t afford the price they suggested reducing the performance time, hoping to reduce the price. Instead of doing the expected he raised his price. His reason was that they were paying for him to get to the location and then do the work where the work was the fun bit. By reducing the time on the fun ..
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Research notes / Watchlist for later review on infosec and privacy and anonymity – note that these two are different. #Tor Developer Isis Lovecruft lectures on anonymity systems at Radboud Universiteit https://youtu.be/xGIE7KTJiBY #Browsing with Tor: Online Anonymity to Outsmart the NSA – Tom Lowenthal #DEFCON 14: How to Create an Anonymous Identity #DEFCON 20: Can You Track Me Now? Government And Corporate Surveillance Of Mobile Geo-Loc..
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Research notes / Watchlist for later review on infosec and privacy and anonymity – note that these two are different. #Tor Developer Isis Lovecruft lectures on anonymity systems at Radboud Universiteit https://youtu.be/xGIE7KTJiBY #Browsing with Tor: Online Anonymity to Outsmart the NSA – Tom Lowenthal #DEFCON 14: How to Create an Anonymous Identity #DEFCON 20: Can You Track Me Now? Government And Corporate Surveillance Of Mobile Geo-Loc..
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The Matrix series of movies can be confusing to understand what is going on, no longer with a random interpretation of the events!
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I am very good at starting things. It wasn’t always true – I used to waste a lot of time to ponder and get to work – now in the past decade I think I have brought my capacity to set up a new project to a real good level – and kickstarting things into motions. Now – I need to move to the next level – which is perfecting the finish.
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I am very good at starting things. It wasn’t always true – I used to waste a lot of time to ponder and get to work – now in the past decade I think I have brought my capacity to set up a new project to a real good level – and kickstarting things into motions. Now – I need to move to the next level – which is perfecting the finish.
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Increasing size of an EXT3 formatted LVM Volume (BASH)
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snippets.bentasker.co.uk
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8 years ago
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eng
This details the steps required to unmount and resize an ext3 formatted logical volume (LVM) on Linux. The steps listed are performed on Debian, but should be more or less the same for any distro. The basic approach is more or less the same for any filesystem, though some of the tools used for resizing may vary Read more…
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Resistance and friction is what make the daily grind hard. Let your creativity flow more easily by removing all the block from the roads so you can focus on the journey and not on perpetually cleaning up the mess that getting in your way. Writing : How I write I use Notational Velocity (Windows / Linux equivalent) – Publishing – DeskPM but also setting up a place like /var/log on my site has remove a bunch of psychological road blocks that ..
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Resistance and friction is what make the daily grind hard. Let your creativity flow more easily by removing all the block from the roads so you can focus on the journey and not on perpetually cleaning up the mess that getting in your way. Writing : How I write I use Notational Velocity (Windows / Linux equivalent) – Publishing – DeskPM but also setting up a place like /var/log on my site has remove a bunch of psychological road blocks that ..
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Automatic Stubbing of Network Requests to Deflakify Automation Testing
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developers.soundcloud.com
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8 years ago
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eng
Apple introduced automated UI testing in Xcode 7. This was a great addition for developers because this native support promised, among other things, an improvement in the flakiness notoriously associated with automation tests. As many of us developers have experienced, tests can sometimes fail even when there has been no modification to the test or underlying feature code.
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Automatic Stubbing of Network Requests to Deflakify Automation Testing
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developers.soundcloud.com
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8 years ago
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eng
Apple introduced automated UI testing in Xcode 7. This was a great addition for developers because this native support promised, among other things, an improvement in the flakiness notoriously associated with automation tests. As many of us developers have experienced, tests can sometimes fail even when there has been no modification to the test or underlying feature code.
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Lately I was experimenting with GTK and its Ruby bindings and I decided to write a tutorial introducing this functionality. In this post we are going to create a simple ToDo application (something like what we created here with Ruby on Rails) using the gtk3 gem a.k.a. the GTK+ Ruby bindings. Note: The code of the tutorial is available at GitHub . What is GTK+ Quoting the toolkit’s page : GTK+, or the GIMP Toolkit, is a multi-p....
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Lately I was experimenting with GTK and its Ruby bindings and I decided to write a tutorial introducing this functionality. In this post we are going to create a simple ToDo application (something like what we created here with Ruby on Rails) using the gtk3 gem a.k.a. the GTK+ Ruby bindings. Note: The code of the tutorial is available at GitHub . What is GTK+ Quoting the toolkit’s page : GTK+, or the GIMP Toolkit, is a multi-p....
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Lately I was experimenting with GTK and its Ruby bindings and I decided to write a tutorial introducing this functionality. In this post we are going to create a simple ToDo application (something like what we created here with Ruby on Rails) using the gtk3 gem a.k.a. the GTK+ Ruby bindings. Note: The code of the tutorial is available at GitHub . What is GTK+ Quoting the toolkit’s page : GTK+, or the GIMP Toolkit, is a multi-p....
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Lately I was experimenting with GTK and its Ruby bindings and I decided to write a tutorial introducing this functionality. In this post we are going to create a simple ToDo application (something like what we created here with Ruby on Rails) using the gtk3 gem a.k.a. the GTK+ Ruby bindings. Note: The code of the tutorial is available at GitHub . What is GTK+ Quoting the toolkit’s page : GTK+, or the GIMP Toolkit, is a multi-p....
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Introducing Exploranda, a set of tools for exploring complex systems.
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eng.localytics.com
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8 years ago
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eng
At Localytics, data is central to our mission. One of our core principles is to "lead with data." When I envision that, I often think of an analyst using graphs to make a case for a business decision, or a principal engineer using benchmarks to advocate for a
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Originally appeared on Opsgenie Engineering Blog We have been using AWS Lambda for over two years at OpsGenie. Our primary programming language for our Lambda functions is Java. Although Java tends to use more memory compared to other languages such as Node.js and Python, we still allocate more memory than we need for our functions. There are two primary reasons. Sometimes depending on the traffic, there can be unexpected spikes in usage.
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The best solution for known vulnerabilities is to upgrade your software. But sometimes there’s not a security update immediately available. The next best solution is to patch your software. In this post, we go through four ways to find security patches for open source software.
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Video: Oracle X$TRACE, Wait Event Internals and Background Process Communication
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tanelpoder.com
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8 years ago
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eng
I have uploaded the the video of my Secret Hacking Session: Oracle X$TRACE, Wait Event Internals and Background Process Communication to my Oracle performance & troubleshooting Youtube channel . The slides are in Slideshare . Enjoy!
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Video: Oracle X$TRACE, Wait Event Internals and Background Process Communication
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tanelpoder.com
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8 years ago
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eng
I have uploaded the the video of my Secret Hacking Session: Oracle X$TRACE, Wait Event Internals and Background Process Communication to my Oracle performance & troubleshooting Youtube channel . The slides are in Slideshare . Enjoy!
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I’ve heard the phrase “hungry artist”. It describes people, who’s goal in life is to produce art, but don’t make enough money out of selling their art to sustain comfortable lifestyle. Now, there are a spectrum of reasons why someone would make art. I’d bet most artists, deep down want to be commercially successful. They want their art to be number one on the charts, to be in museum exhibits, and to bring them millions of dollars. They wa....
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This is an excellent article that touches on some many areas including Amazon (again) and their structure. However the most interesting part for me is the section on the way to view knowledge workers in business:
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I have never formally made a bucket list. Sure, there are things I would love to do and some more than others but I have never written anything down.
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This is an excellent article that touches on some many areas including Amazon (again) and their structure. However the most interesting part for me is the section on the way to view knowledge workers in business:
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I have never formally made a bucket list. Sure, there are things I would love to do and some more than others but I have never written anything down.
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ok, inspired by a friend, I have decided to make some changes in the way i organise my content on this blog. Separating pure content (in depth article, how-tos, reference post) from the blog in a more casual sense of word. In a follow up to post “We have stopped blogging” – I want to get back to some regular writing. Less formal, more personal, maybe informative maybe not – I don’t know yet, what I know is I want it to be place where I can ..
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