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As I was working through my seemingly immutable Instapaper queue this morning I came across Jason Snell’s article from earlier this month titled Writing on the iPad ; it was as if I had written the article myself. Over the past six months I made it a point to keep a journal. Not so that I could reflect on my feelings twenty years from now, but so that I could give it to someone very dear to me as a Christmas gift. Rather than keep the ....
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I’ve been slowly working on my January game for One Game a Month. So far only two of my ~20 animals are actually drawn and the code ( GitHub ) is very far from finished, but I’m getting there. Also considering joining the Stockholm Global Game Jam, which takes place in January, but have to check some things before committing.
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The other day I wrote a short, single paragraph post titled Christmas Break . The gist of the very short article was to say that it’s okay to take a break from working, that your holiday break shouldn’t necessarily be spent catching up on overdue work; taking a break is not a bad thing, and in the grand scheme of things is unlikely to negatively impact your future success. I released the article early in the afternoon of Christmas Eve with..
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The tendency to choose the path of least resistance has always been one of the most annoying personality traits I possess. Often manifested as a calm, easygoing attitude it has, however, served me quite well over the years. A double-edged sword if ever there was a more appropriate time to use the phrase, on the one hand the ability to discern and choose the course of action most agreeable to the largest number of dissidents has proven extre....
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To close his article Inbox Intentions posted early today, Shawn Blanc made a statement that presently found it’s way to Ben Brooks’s site, where I came across it earlier this evening: “Intentions are dandy, but real men get to work.” After two full days spent celebrating Christmas, this evening found me tired and wanting nothing more than to lay back on my bed and do some light reading. And then I came across Ben Brooks’s quote of the d..
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If necessity is the mother of invention, then clients are the source for interesting programming problems, and the need to solve those problems are a never-ending source of discovery for programmers. Such was the case for a recent project in which a lot of data had to be entered quickly and efficiently into an HTML form. The customer was accustomed to using spreadsheets, and wanted, most specifically, for the form to replicate the action ....
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If necessity is the mother of invention, then clients are the source for interesting programming problems, and the need to solve those problems are a never-ending source of discovery for programmers. Such was the case for a recent project in which a lot of data had to be entered quickly and efficiently into an HTML form. The customer was accustomed to using spreadsheets, and wanted, most specifically, for the form to replicate the action ....
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If necessity is the mother of invention, then clients are the source for interesting programming problems, and the need to solve those problems are a never-ending source of discovery for programmers. Such was the case for a recent project in which a lot of data had to be entered quickly and efficiently into an HTML form. The customer was accustomed to using spreadsheets, and wanted, most specifically, for the form to replicate the action ....
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Since starting Christmas Break a few days ago I’ve had a lot of time on my hands. I intended to spend a lot of this time catching up on some reading, writing, coding, and working on a new project, but unfortunately as of yet that hasn’t happened. During what relatively little reading I did do over the three days since Christmas Break started though, I’ve noticed that I’m not the only one to step back, take a bit of a break from working, and..
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At Offer-Ready , we allow companies to find their optimal mobile phone tariff. We’ve developed a bunch of proprietary algorithms to search over millions of potential combinations of base tariffs and optional packs in under a tenth of a second. We need to store which tariffs are available, and what they cost, in a format that’s easy for us to maintain. However, the calculation process needs it in a format which makes the calculation as qu..
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I have again been slacking on updating the blog. I have also been slacking on JavaScript. Since starting work and jumping back into learning C++ I’ve been busy and distracted with other things. I guess if I’m honest with myself part of it is also a lack of motivation or urgency to work on my own projects now that I get to work with/on games at work. It’s like that part of what I want to do now gets fulfilled during the day, so when I get ho..
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The First Isomorphism Theorem The meat of our last primer was a proof that quotient groups are well-defined. One important result that helps us compute groups is a very easy consequence of this well-definition. Recall that if $ G,H$ are groups and $ \varphi: G \to H$ is a group homomorphism, then the image of $ \varphi$ is a subgroup of $ H$. Also the kernel of $ \varphi$ is the normal subgroup of $ G$ consisting of the elements which are m..
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The First Isomorphism Theorem The meat of our last primer was a proof that quotient groups are well-defined. One important result that helps us compute groups is a very easy consequence of this well-definition. Recall that if $ G,H$ are groups and $ \varphi: G \to H$ is a group homomorphism, then the image of $ \varphi$ is a subgroup of $ H$. Also the kernel of $ \varphi$ is the normal subgroup of $ G$ consisting of the elements which are m..
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The First Isomorphism Theorem The meat of our last primer was a proof that quotient groups are well-defined. One important result that helps us compute groups is a very easy consequence of this well-definition. Recall that if $ G,H$ are groups and $ \varphi: G \to H$ is a group homomorphism, then the image of $ \varphi$ is a subgroup of $ H$. Also the kernel of $ \varphi$ is the normal subgroup of $ G$ consisting of the elements which are m..
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After about 6 months of work we took the new design for mobilreport online a week or two ago. This software is used by a number of big-name Austrian companies such as Austrian Gaming Industries, Stihl, GlobeAir, Blum, Fohrenburger, Stiegl, neudoerfler, and various others we’re not at liberty to name. I have been working for mobilreport from its beginning. Onestop Concept..
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Back in last July – when choosing photos to use in the epic The Dreams of the MeeGo Diaspora post – I noticed that it is quite fascinating to look at the various tablets and mobile phones we’ve been using over the years. Back then they all were so new, shiny, and exciting, and yet hardware moves so fast that something from a year or two ago would look quite dated now. And so I thought it might be interesting to keep some sort of record ....
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Back in last July – when choosing photos to use in the epic The Dreams of the MeeGo Diaspora post – I noticed that it is quite fascinating to look at the various tablets and mobile phones we’ve been using over the years. Back then they all were so new, shiny, and exciting, and yet hardware moves so fast that something from a year or two ago would look quite dated now. And so I thought it might be interesting to keep some sort of record ....
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Back in last July – when choosing photos to use in the epic The Dreams of the MeeGo Diaspora post – I noticed that it is quite fascinating to look at the various tablets and mobile phones we’ve been using over the years. Back then they all were so new, shiny, and exciting, and yet hardware moves so fast that something from a year or two ago would look quite dated now. And so I thought it might be interesting to keep some sort of record ....
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Back in last July – when choosing photos to use in the epic The Dreams of the MeeGo Diaspora post – I noticed that it is quite fascinating to look at the various tablets and mobile phones we’ve been using over the years. Back then they all were so new, shiny, and exciting, and yet hardware moves so fast that something from a year or two ago would look quite dated now. And so I thought it might be interesting to keep some sort of record ....
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Double Encoding Issue Building complex websites with Drupal will undoubtedly require you to use the Entity Reference module. Overall, this is a great module with a lot of power and flexibility. It does have one fault, however, and that is that Entity titles are double-encoded when being shown in select boxes, as you can see here. This is nothing more than a small annoyance for experienced users, but show this to a customer and they wil....
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Double Encoding Issue Building complex websites with Drupal will undoubtedly require you to use the Entity Reference module. Overall, this is a great module with a lot of power and flexibility. It does have one fault, however, and that is that Entity titles are double-encoded when being shown in select boxes, as you can see here. This is nothing more than a small annoyance for experienced users, but show this to a customer and they wil....
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In a recent sermon at our church, a pastor student said to us that we are no longer able to say that Jesus will make his disciples fishers of men . Rather, she suggested, we should use the politically correct phrase fishers of people . There is always talk of gender-inclusive language when it comes to Bible translation. But this one seems a little too far. Or it doesn’t feel right. As I have been thinking about this, I came across....
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In a recent sermon at our church, a pastor student said to us that we are no longer able to say that Jesus will make his disciples fishers of men . Rather, she suggested, we should use the politically correct phrase fishers of people . There is always talk of gender-inclusive language when it comes to Bible translation. But this one seems a little too far. Or it doesn’t feel right. As I have been thinking about this, I came across....
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Here’s the latest version of my Oracle session level performance Snapper tool: https://github.com/tanelpoder/tpt-oracle/blob/master/snapper.sql I’m going to add more stuff to Snapper in coming days, but thought to release something for testing already :) There are some cosmetic changes, like printing empty lines and header lines for better readability (still controllable by the pagesize parameter, look into the scripts). I..
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Here’s the latest version of my Oracle session level performance Snapper tool: https://github.com/tanelpoder/tpt-oracle/blob/master/snapper.sql I’m going to add more stuff to Snapper in coming days, but thought to release something for testing already :) There are some cosmetic changes, like printing empty lines and header lines for better readability (still controllable by the pagesize parameter, look into the scripts). I..
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There are some really useful subreddits hidden away on Reddit and it can be a great place to get questions answered. AskScience is my favourite example. There are also a few more technical, narrowly focused sub-forums, so I wondered if there was one for ImageJ or Image Analysis. Sadly, neither exists. So I did what Reddit is meant to enable individuals to do: I created a subreddit, r/ImageJ. So far I’m the only one posting in it, but I hope..
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One of the biggest mistakes that I feel that Drupal has made is that it is difficult for non-administrators to create accounts for other users. While at first blush this seems appropriate, there are many, many valid reasons that users should be able to create accounts on behalf of other people. The problem is that, in all versions of Drupal (at least 5-8) there is a call to drupal_goto() inside the form generation function that is execu....
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One of the biggest mistakes that I feel that Drupal has made is that it is difficult for non-administrators to create accounts for other users. While at first blush this seems appropriate, there are many, many valid reasons that users should be able to create accounts on behalf of other people. The problem is that, in all versions of Drupal (at least 5-8) there is a call to drupal_goto() inside the form generation function that is execu....
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A sci-fi short story inspired by Isaac Asimov’s “ The Last Question ”. Munic hurried along the dimly lit corridors of the C-wing of the Neutrino lab. It was past midnight, and he had received an alert on his phone sent by one of the monitoring terminals. His palms and brows were trickling sweat despite the unusually cold night. His off-white Oxford shirt was unevenly buttoned and lazily tucked in, but he didn’t seem to notice, or for tha..
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A sci-fi short story inspired by Isaac Asimov’s “ The Last Question ”. Munic hurried along the dimly lit corridors of the C-wing of the Neutrino lab. It was past midnight, and he had received an alert on his phone sent by one of the monitoring terminals. His palms and brows were trickling sweat despite the unusually cold night. His off-white Oxford shirt was unevenly buttoned and lazily tucked in, but he didn’t seem to notice, or for tha..
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Our Tumblr analytics product, Mountain Metrics, made it’s official launch at The Starter League Demo Day in Chicago Friday!
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So, I just bought “Seven Languages in Seven Weeks” . I’ve read the Ruby chapter, not a big deal at all, so I skipped it. I also skip Io, Prolog and Scala (for now), and then, fall in Erlang!
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This was a cool project I implemented Summer 2011, I can now talk about it, now that my customer has taken it online. Update: In the meantime it’s offline again :( Anyway, it looked like this: The requirements were thus: The task was to have a logo in the browser. The user should be able to alter the colors in various parts of the logo. The user should also be able to add gradients as opposed to just flat colors. ..
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