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On a recent episode of what I believe was Back to Work, Dan and Merlin mentioned in passing a great page on the MacRumors website offering buying advice for Apple products. Based on average product cycles and current rumors, the editors at MacRumors decide whether to give the green-light to purchasing a new Apple device, whether to caution against it in the case of a yellow light, or give a product the red light signifying their advice agai..
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Possessing the ability to write a CMS and code a website is great — don’t get me wrong — but it’s neat little scripts like this one that make me glad I learned to program. Permalink.
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Considering Huangshan’s extreme beauty, it’s not surprising that the area derives much of its significance from Chinese art and literature. It has inspired poets such as Li Bai, many Chinese ink paintings, and more recently, photography. According to Wikipedia, over 20,000 poems were written about the mountains between the Tang Dynasty (618-906) and the end of the Qing Dynasty (1614 to 1911). They’ve also inspired modern works, lending to t..
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His paintings show a universe much like our own, but beside the everyday humans carrying out everyday activities are massive buildings and machines running on technologies currently unknown.” This is exactly the sort of article I subscribed to Visual News for. Very impressive. Permalink.
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Warning: long-winded tech post. If you don’t want to improve your debugging skills or don’t have lots of free time, don’t read this. I decided to do some pro-bono debugging, and as I was diving in I thought that some of you might be interested in a glimpse of how I work. I find that […]
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Yesterday I took part in Bellmanstafetten - a 5km relay race - with other runners from DICE. We had three teams, one of which was aiming to beat last year’s company record for the race (I wasn’t on that one). We got shirts and everything!
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Skelette, Totenschädel, oder Geister: Wovor fürchtest du dich? Kannst du Gruselgeschichten erzählen? Das Bandtagebuch macht diesmal eine unheimliche Reise.
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Spielst du gerne Fußball? Hast du einen Lieblingsverein? In welcher Liga spielt er? Welche Begriffe haben mit dem beliebtesten Sport der Deutschen zu tun?
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Hast du schon mal ein Klavier von innen gesehen? Wie wird es gestimmt? Was muss ein Klavierbauer alles wissen? Mehr über dieses Handwerk lernst du hier.
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Wo bereiten die Jungs von EINSHOCH6 ihre Konzerte und Choreographien vor? Wie sieht ein Proberaum aus? Wie wird geprobt? Auf geht’s mit dem Bandtagebuch!
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Jedes Jahr feiern Millionen von Menschen das Oktoberfest in München. Was kann man auf der Wiesn sehen und tun? Welche bairischen Ausdrücke kennst du? Prost!
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Kennst du die Geschichte der Berliner Mauer, die die Stadt teilte? Wie wurde der Eiserne Vorhang bewacht? Mehr über die deutsche Teilung erfährst du hier.
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Du bist unterwegs und hast Hunger? Bestell dir doch eine Currywurst. Mit Pommes und Mayo? Was isst man an einer Imbissbude? Das lernst du in diesem Video.
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Scalar Subqueries in Oracle SQL WHERE clauses (and a little bit of Exadata stuff too)
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tanelpoder.com
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13 years ago
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My previous post was about Oracle 12c SQL Scalar Subquery transformations . Actually I need to clarify its scope a bit: the previous post was about scalar subqueries inside a SELECT projection list only (meaning that for populating a field in the query resultset, a subquery gets executed once for each row returned back to the caller, instead of returning a “real” column value passed up from a child rowsource). I did not cover an other ....
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Scalar Subqueries in Oracle SQL WHERE clauses (and a little bit of Exadata stuff too)
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tanelpoder.com
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13 years ago
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My previous post was about Oracle 12c SQL Scalar Subquery transformations . Actually I need to clarify its scope a bit: the previous post was about scalar subqueries inside a SELECT projection list only (meaning that for populating a field in the query resultset, a subquery gets executed once for each row returned back to the caller, instead of returning a “real” column value passed up from a child rowsource). I did not cover an other ....
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During the 1950’s the famous mathematician Paul Erdős and Alfred Rényi put forth the concept of a random graph and in the subsequent years of study transformed the world of combinatorics. The random graph is the perfect example of a good mathematical definition: it’s simple, has surprisingly intricate structure, and yields many applications. In this post we’ll explore basic facts about random graphs, slowly detail a proof on their applicati..
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During the 1950’s the famous mathematician Paul Erdős and Alfred Rényi put forth the concept of a random graph and in the subsequent years of study transformed the world of combinatorics. The random graph is the perfect example of a good mathematical definition: it’s simple, has surprisingly intricate structure, and yields many applications. In this post we’ll explore basic facts about random graphs, slowly detail a proof on their applicati..
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During the 1950’s the famous mathematician Paul Erdős and Alfred Rényi put forth the concept of a random graph and in the subsequent years of study transformed the world of combinatorics. The random graph is the perfect example of a good mathematical definition: it’s simple, has surprisingly intricate structure, and yields many applications. In this post we’ll explore basic facts about random graphs, slowly detail a proof on their applicati..
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How to convert FLAC files from 24/48 bit to 16 bit on Ubuntu Linux
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duncanlock.net
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13 years ago
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I recently needed to convert some FLAC music files from the increasingly common 48 bit encoding, down to 16 bit at 44100 kHz, so that they’ll play on my Sonos. Here’s how to do it: If you don’t already have sox installed, do this to install it: $ sudo apt-get install sox Then run this to do the conversion, in the folder with music in: $ mkdir resampled $ for flac in * .flac ; do sox -S " ${ flac } ..
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My son and I were having fun last weekend building a console based game in Go. I was recreating a game from my youth, back when I was programming on a Kaypro II. I loved this computer. I would write games in BASIC on it all day and night. Did I mention it was portable. The keyboard would strap in and you could carry it around. LOL. But I digress, back to my Go program. I figured out a way to use the VT100 escape ....
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There’s a great movie to be made about the life of Steve Jobs, but Jobs is not it. The primary challenge in making a film about the co-founder of Apple is finding an actor who can play an overtly cerebral, egomaniacal dick, but a dick for whom you want to root. Besides a striking resemblance to the young Steve Jobs, Ashton Kutcher is a terrible choice: There’s nothing about his character that makes you want to root for him, and all of his a..
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Although the first movie adaptation of Christopher Paolini’s Eragon could have passed as a mildly successful yet unremarkable summer movie, it falls far short when compared to the original series from which it borrowed little besides character names and basic plotlines, only to discard the latter whenever the “director” deemed it convenient. Anyone who has ever seen a book-turned-movie undoubtedly read that without any surprise; the book ..
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ShowMOS: How to get rid of the annoying “The Page has Expired” dialog in My Oracle Support
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tanelpoder.com
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13 years ago
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So, how many of you do hate the dialog below? Good news – there is a fix! (or well, a hack around it ;) Before showing the fix, you can vote & give your opinion here: Do you love or hate the MOS “page expired” dialog? The fix is actually super-simple. The page expiration dialog that grays out the browser screen is just a HTML DIV with ID DhtmlZOrderManagerLayerContainer , overlaying the useful content. If you want it to disa..
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ShowMOS: How to get rid of the annoying “The Page has Expired” dialog in My Oracle Support
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tanelpoder.com
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13 years ago
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So, how many of you do hate the dialog below? Good news – there is a fix! (or well, a hack around it ;) Before showing the fix, you can vote & give your opinion here: Do you love or hate the MOS “page expired” dialog? The fix is actually super-simple. The page expiration dialog that grays out the browser screen is just a HTML DIV with ID DhtmlZOrderManagerLayerContainer , overlaying the useful content. If you want it to disa..
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Remember the Poker app we teased a couple of weeks ago ? Now you can read all about it in SDJ, the entire article is in the downloadable PDF (please buy the magazine!). We’ll try to post the full source code into SVN and get into more details about it here. If you have any questions/comments related to the article feel free to ask in the comments section right here.
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Machine learning is broadly split into two camps, statistical learning and non-statistical learning. The latter we’ve started to get a good picture of on this blog; we approached Perceptrons, decision trees, and neural networks from a non-statistical perspective. And generally “statistical” learning is just that, a perspective. Data is phrased in terms of independent and dependent variables, and statistical techniques are leveraged against ..
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Machine learning is broadly split into two camps, statistical learning and non-statistical learning. The latter we’ve started to get a good picture of on this blog; we approached Perceptrons, decision trees, and neural networks from a non-statistical perspective. And generally “statistical” learning is just that, a perspective. Data is phrased in terms of independent and dependent variables, and statistical techniques are leveraged against ..
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Machine learning is broadly split into two camps, statistical learning and non-statistical learning. The latter we’ve started to get a good picture of on this blog; we approached Perceptrons, decision trees, and neural networks from a non-statistical perspective. And generally “statistical” learning is just that, a perspective. Data is phrased in terms of independent and dependent variables, and statistical techniques are leveraged against ..
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Midnattsloppet is a yearly night-time 10km race in Sweden, taking place in multiple cities including Stockholm. I’ve been signed up for months. It was yesterday. Let me tell you about it.
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Note: this post was going to have pictures. Unfortunately my SD card is MIA. I’ll add them here when I can find it)
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GridBag that is. So GridBagLayout is one of the most notorious of the layout managers in Java in fact for many developers it symbolizes the failure of the layout manager concept. That is the main reason why we never added it. Last week I had a very interesting conversation with a very prominent Swing developer and he asked me whether we had gridbag support. I answered that we do not and repeated the regular “no one likes it”..
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Skelette, Totenschädel, oder Geister: Wovor fürchtest du dich? Kannst du Gruselgeschichten erzählen? Das Bandtagebuch macht diesmal eine unheimliche Reise.
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