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iPad is three years old now, and many tech blogs are writing stories to reflect what has changed . More than 100 million of them have been sold, alongside other popular tablets like the Kindle Fire and Nexus 7. But originally the reception was quite sceptical. Many made the argument that the tablet was “ just a big iPod Touch or iPhone” : at the end of the day, the show’s centerpiece - the iPad – is just a big iPod Touch. Lots of f....
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iPad is three years old now, and many tech blogs are writing stories to reflect what has changed . More than 100 million of them have been sold, alongside other popular tablets like the Kindle Fire and Nexus 7. But originally the reception was quite sceptical. Many made the argument that the tablet was “ just a big iPod Touch or iPhone” : at the end of the day, the show’s centerpiece - the iPad – is just a big iPod Touch. Lots of f....
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As I was reading No to NoUI earlier, an article ostensibly regarding the state of user interfaces today, Timo Arnall’s description of “the cloud” stuck with me more than anything else from the article. That’s why, even though I should have picked a more representative sample, I ended up using that as my excerpt when I linked to the piece. Foolhardy or not, I chose this paragraph above all the others: Permalink.
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On the one hand, I worry that Pixar is making too many sequels. On the other, I’d love to see another Incredibles movie.” Someone, somewhere, once said something to the effect of the higher the number the less-good the sequel. Certainly there are some exceptions to that rule — Toy Story, for example — but by and large it has proved a valid hypothesis. Take Cars 2: as much as I wanted to love that movie after the first, I couldn’t do it. A..
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A few weeks ago I came across Zite after having it recommended to me as a great way to discover interesting news in an environment capable of intelligently determining the kinds of content to serve its users based on their reading habits. More interesting than the actual content though, which I found consistently uninteresting and commonplace, I grew especially attached to the gesture-based interface: on the main screen swiping to the right....
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At first I glossed over Timo Arnall’s piece No to NoUI , finding little interest in a discussion of user interfaces and its proponents’ nuances. After a steady climb towards the top spot on Hacker News though I added it to Instapaper, as I am wont to do for articles attracting this level of attention regardless of the topic. Rather than a meandering or pragmatic discussion regarding design in the most touchy-feely manner possible, though..
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Sometimes I do android apps development. I use terminal, tmux and vim - no Eclipse, no IntelliJ Idea or other IDEs. What I don’t like in android development is XMLs. It’s a lot of typing, and I don’t like to type a lot. So, here’s my attempt to make it easier for those who use minimal tools for android development. Maybe it would work for Eclipse, too. Goals Simple syntax: minimal punctuation, no closing tags Should suit for most XMLs: layo..
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Sometimes I do android apps development. I use terminal, tmux and vim - no Eclipse, no IntelliJ Idea or other IDEs. What I don’t like in android development is XMLs. It’s a lot of typing, and I don’t like to type a lot. So, here’s my attempt to make it easier for those who use minimal tools for android development. Maybe it would work for Eclipse, too. Goals Simple syntax: minimal punctuation, no closing tags Should suit for most XMLs: layo..
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Understanding what a hint affects using the V$SQL_FEATURE views
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tanelpoder.com
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13 years ago
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yue
You may have used the Oracle 11g V$SQL_HINT view already – it displays all the valid hints (both documented and undocumented ones) available in your Oracle version, for example: SQL> @ hint merge NAME VERSION VERSION_OUTLINE INVERSE ----------------------------------- ------------------------- ------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- MERGE_CONST_ON 8.0.0 MERGE_AJ 8.1.0 8.1.7 MERGE_....
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Understanding what a hint affects using the V$SQL_FEATURE views
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tanelpoder.com
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You may have used the Oracle 11g V$SQL_HINT view already – it displays all the valid hints (both documented and undocumented ones) available in your Oracle version, for example: SQL> @ hint merge NAME VERSION VERSION_OUTLINE INVERSE ----------------------------------- ------------------------- ------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- MERGE_CONST_ON 8.0.0 MERGE_AJ 8.1.0 8.1.7 MERGE_....
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Created in 2003, HandBrake was originally the brainchild of a single developer: titler . However, after his prolonged absence from the project beginning in May of 2006, Rodney Hester and Chris Long began developing a release of HandBrake supporting the H.264 video codec. Although they made significant advances in stability, interface design, and functionality, they were unable to submit their modified version of HandBrake without the con....
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People who know a little bit of statistics - enough to use statistical techniques, not enough to understand why or how they work - often end up horribly misusing them. Statistical tests are complicated mathematical techniques, and to work, they tend to make numerous assumptions. The problem is that if those assumptions are not valid, most statistical tests do not cleanly fail and produce obviously false results.” The first of what I belie..
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I blog because I’m lazy. There’s more too it though: In any given day I may explain something to someone, the first time I do this I make a bit of a mental note. The second time I do this, especially within a short time frame I make a physical note of this in the form of the title of a blog post. Once I’m already to a second time of doing this its almost inevitable I’ll continue repeating myself – and its valuable to others. Becoming re....
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I blog because I’m lazy. There’s more too it though: In any given day I may explain something to someone, the first time I do this I make a bit of a mental note. The second time I do this, especially within a short time frame I make a physical note of this in the form of the title of a blog post. Once I’m already to a second time of doing this its almost inevitable I’ll continue repeating myself – and its valuable to others. Becoming re....
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After three long years with an iPhone 4, I have finally upgraded to a Nexus 4. I had been bored of iOS for a while, having been using it since the iPhone 3G - aside from brief stint with Windows Phone 7 (we don’t talk about that).
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Developers often take for granted the level of flexibility and customization that is available within the software they use every day. Consumers of imaging software have traditionally been completely confined to interpret exams a specific way, and frequently in ways that are unintuitive. Every physician, specialist, technologist, med student, and others across the continuum of care has a preference as to not only how exams are laid out, but..
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Removal of the BBC News Applications for Windows Phone and Windows 8
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13 years ago
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Hi, These have been a labor of love for me since the launch of Windows Phone in 2010 and it is with great sadness today that I removed both applications from the store. I do not wish to comment any further on the matter except to thank the over half a million people who downloaded the application and all those who have supported, tested, rated and emailed over the years.
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One of the main areas of difficulty in elementary probability, and one that requires the highest levels of scrutiny and rigor, is conditional probability. The ideas are simple enough: that we assign probabilities relative to the occurrence of some event. But shrewd applications of conditional probability (and in particular, efficient ways to compute conditional probability) are key to successful applications of this subject. This is the bas..
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One of the main areas of difficulty in elementary probability, and one that requires the highest levels of scrutiny and rigor, is conditional probability. The ideas are simple enough: that we assign probabilities relative to the occurrence of some event. But shrewd applications of conditional probability (and in particular, efficient ways to compute conditional probability) are key to successful applications of this subject. This is the bas..
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One of the main areas of difficulty in elementary probability, and one that requires the highest levels of scrutiny and rigor, is conditional probability. The ideas are simple enough: that we assign probabilities relative to the occurrence of some event. But shrewd applications of conditional probability (and in particular, efficient ways to compute conditional probability) are key to successful applications of this subject. This is the bas..
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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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