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When looking for a more stable hosting solution for my Magic: The Gathering Api , I stumbled across Google’s App Engine. If you have not read up on this solution, I would recommend it. To get Laravel’s Lumen running correctly on Google App Engine, there are a few questions that we need to answer. Lets take these one at a time. How does the application know it is running on Google App Engine? One of the easiest ways to figure out if the..
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Part 1: Exploding The World of Retail Opportunity - It's Time to Have a Crisis
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Retail never stands still. When A&P invented the modern grocery store in the 1950’s, its rapid rise to prominence was eclipsed thirty years later by discount empires such as Kmart and Walmart, who themselves are now threatened by online players like Amazon, who churlishly refuse to stay solely online.
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The concept of threads in the Javascript community is a controversial one. The founders and leaders are dogmatically against threads, and have been from very early on. This 2007 article by Brendan Eich reveals his feeling on threads (they suck!) and the advancements in subsequent years seem to have followed this sentiment by vigorously avoiding anything thread-like. Countless “solutions” and workarounds have been developed by clever pro..
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20 min morning meditations. A better way to tie your shoes . Cold showers (all of them!). Keys, wallet, phone, badge, and headphones live together. Listen to audio books. Morning runs. Nightly flossing.
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Best places to seek silence . Opening to life @ Dhanakosa Buddhist Retreat Centre . Samye Ling (Tibetan- buddhist monastery) . Vipassana Meditation (centers across world) .
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10% Happier: Mindfulness Meditation Courses with Dan Harris and Joseph Goldstein . Aimless Wandering . Are You in Despair? That’s Good (NY Times) . Beating procrastination . Best 10 life changes . Breathing Exercise: Three To Try | 4-7-8 Breath (Andrew Weil, M.D.) . Contemplative Practice That Isn’t Meditating . Day One - The award-winning journal app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. . Developing Lotus Flexibility - Preparing Yoga Padmasa....
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Best YouTube channels for learning (Quora) . Effective learning: Twenty rules of formulating knowledge . HN's comments on learning languages . HN's comments on memory . How to Finally Play the Guitar: 80/20 Guitar and Minimalist Music . Learn Difficult Concepts with the ADEPT Method . Learning to learn . Learning to Learn: Intuition Isn’t Optional | BetterExplained . Scientific Speed Reading: How to Read 300% Faster in 20 Minutes .
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Bundi Haveli (accomodation). Hadoti Palace (accomodation). Haveli Braj Bhushan Ji ki (accomodation). Haveli Katkoun Guest House (accomodation). Kasera Paradise (accomodation).
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Where do the boundaries of retail lie? This question has been on my mind a lot lately. With the proliferation of customer touch points and the transient nature of online buying behavior things are a little hazy!
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I’ve previously written about Snappy and Unity 8’s Snappy Scope, back when I was first getting started on it. Since then, both the scope and Ubuntu Core itself have come a long way, so I thought it was time for an update and a quick demo. When I was working on Snappy back when I wrote the other post I was running Ubuntu Core virtually, since I was using my embedded devices for other tasks.
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James Michener was a better writer than Ernest Hemingway because his books are longer. James Michener was a better writer than Ernest Hemingway because he could type 20 words-per-minute faster. Makes sense—right? Assessing the effectiveness of writers based on productivity measures makes absolutely no sense. If your job is to write code “words” rather than English (or French or Spanish) words, judging your work based on productivity makes ..
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You are not a train, so don’t live your life running along tracks laid by others. Explore the world freely and discover as many possibilities as you can.
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When StartApp first launched a few years ago, they were a unique innovative new monetization channel to make money on Android. The Android developer bundled their SDK and once the app was installed a new search shortcut would appear on the user’s device, this allowed them to monetize on the search functionality. We had a smart integration with StartApp, where the developer checked a CheckBox on the plugin and the SDK got bundled on th..
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Even before I got tenure, folks have told me they’re “looking forward to an academic advice post on tenure.” From how to get a Ph.D. to monthly resolutions for grad students , I’ve found it easy to write academic posts on just about every topic. Except this one. I got tenure over a year ago, yet every time I tried to sum up my views on tenure, I froze. Every path to tenure is inherently unique and non-repeatable. How could I p....
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Recently the very cool hard working developers working on Stripe released a post about how they modified their build/test pipeline to reduce their test suite runtime from 3 hours to about 3 minutes. The article is very much worth reading , as is the discussions that have come around it including those on Hacker News . A few key takeaways, For dynamic languages such as Ruby or Python consider forking to run tests in parallel
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Hi there. This is the last post in the series of a local AOSP gerrit server setup. In this post, We’ll finalize the configuration of Gerrit, add new branches for development and see how to maintain the setup. In the last post, we’ve finished creating the project in Gerrit. When we develop locally, we should […]
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The Oh-My-Vagrant project became public about one year ago and at the time it was more of a fancy template than a robust project, but 188 commits (and counting) later, it has gotten surprisingly useful and mature. james@computer:~/code/oh-my-vagrant$ git rev-list HEAD --count 188 james@computer:~/code/oh-my-vagrant$ git log $(git log --pretty=format:%H|tail -1) commit 4faa6c89cce01c62130ef5a6d5fa0fff833da371 Author: Ja....
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The Oh-My-Vagrant project became public about one year ago and at the time it was more of a fancy template than a robust project, but 188 commits (and counting) later, it has gotten surprisingly useful and mature. james@computer:~/code/oh-my-vagrant$ git rev-list HEAD --count 188 james@computer:~/code/oh-my-vagrant$ git log $(git log --pretty=format:%H|tail -1) commit 4faa6c89cce01c62130ef5a6d5fa0fff833da371 Author: Ja....
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Written in a time when scientific exploration was pushing the bounds of reality, Jules Verne conjures up the unfathomable of ideas…
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This piece is about making choices for software design. Particularly about larger systems which could potentially be separated into multiple deployables in the form of service endpoints. I won’t be talking particularly about service endpoint design, but I would like to discuss the ideation phase for creating multiple service applications.
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A few weeks ago, in cooperation with Simon Fraser University’s School for Interactive Arts and Technology COOP office , I held a java mobile development workshop. This was a bit of an experiment to find out whether there was interest – plus it got me out of the code dungeon for a few hours :). As it turns out, SFU students do indeed have an appetite for learning, or for mobile development, or both. The workshop “sold” out within days of ..
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Gnat nightmares, spider sadness, moth madness, ant anxiety, bug barrage—ok I’ll stop now. I’m not a fan of bugs. Generally speaking, unless you’re an entomologist or earthy-crunchy type, you probably aren’t either. I’m not terrified of them by any means, I’m not liable to stop what I’m doing if a bug decides to drop by and say hey, but I’m still likely to exterminate them all with extreme prejudice before going to sleep. After all, nobody..
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Gnat nightmares, spider sadness, moth madness, ant anxiety, bug barrage—ok I’ll stop now. I’m not a fan of bugs. Generally speaking, unless you’re an entomologist or earthy-crunchy type, you probably aren’t either. I’m not terrified of them by any means, I’m not liable to stop what I’m doing if a bug decides to drop by and say hey, but I’m still likely to exterminate them all with extreme prejudice before going to sleep. After all, nobody..
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