Now that everyone else has to work from home let me share my tips from 5 happy years of this way of life: Get some exercise! Measure your steps and make sure you do a healthy amount every day. Super important. With no incidental walking your fitness can really drop. Music! Music is crucial for me and maybe for you too. I bought a spotify subscription after a few months, just to get rid of the ads. You need a lot of playlists to....
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Introduction As COVID-19 continues to spread and cause anxiety, many tech companies have begun encouraging or mandating that employees work from home . For the time being, NextRoll is among these companies. Fortunately, NextRoll engineering has long had a remote-friendly work culture; I myself have been working remotely for the last three years after two years at our San Francisco office. In this post, I’ll share my thoughts on the benefi....
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TL;DR; simply run docker pull akhenakh/kvtiles:planet-9-latest for a self hosted free performant world map (more maps and levels available see kvtiles docker tags). I’ve blogged in the past to describe how to generate and serves your own map tiles server, but I wanted an easier solution. KVTiles kvtiles is a map tiles self hosted solution written in Go, it’s using Mapbox vector format but rather than using the regular sqlite3 database it’s ..
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Investigating the use of Dynamic Time Warping to test correlation between time series - Introduction This is a cautionary tale of using Dynamic Time Warping (DTW). We often see examples of successful applications of algorithms and models; however, this is an example when things do not go according to plan. Although we all enjoy talking about our success, I think we should take more...
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Investigating the use of Dynamic Time Warping to test correlation between time series - Introduction This is a cautionary tale of using Dynamic Time Warping (DTW). We often see examples of successful applications of algorithms and models; however, this is an example when things do not go according to plan. Although we all enjoy talking about our success, I think we should take more...
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When I first wrote my post on Situation Report #6 of nCov-19. I had no idea a few weeks later it would be a pandemic.
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Given the number of people who are avoid gluten these days, I thought I'd write up a few basic tips and pointers to some of my favorite gluten free recipes. General Gluten Free Banking Tips From Years of Experience Use a 1:1 flour replacement. My current favorite is Krusteaz . If you are baking gluten free, don't taste the batter! A lot of gluten free flours are based on bean flours and bean flour, before it is baked, takes like crap. ....
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Assembly Line Workers and COVID-19 - What Does An Employer Do About Touching Your Face?
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fuzzyblog.io
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6 years ago
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I have a number of friends who work on assembly lines and all of them are: Terrified of getting sick Have no option of working from home Want to work Need to work Once upon a time my father used to own a manufacturing operation and this is the advice that I'd give him - buy these for all your line workers: In the picture above, I am wearing my face shield that I use when I cut wood on my table saw. It: Isn't a mask (and that's o..
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Periskop is an exception monitoring service that we built here at SoundCloud. It was designed with microservice environments in mind, but it…
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Periskop is an exception monitoring service that we built here at SoundCloud. It was designed with microservice environments in mind, but it…
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Table of Contents The Problem The Solution Within Debezium , the project I’m working on at Red Hat, we recently encountered an "interesting" situation where we had to resolve a rather difficult merge conflict. As others where interested in how we addressed the issue, and also for our own future reference, I’m going to give a quick run down of the problem we encountered and how we solved it.
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Table of Contents The Problem The Solution Within Debezium , the project I’m working on at Red Hat, we recently encountered an "interesting" situation where we had to resolve a rather difficult merge conflict. As others where interested in how we addressed the issue, and also for our own future reference, I’m going to give a quick run down of the problem we encountered and how we solved it.
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The impacts of COVID-19 are really not upon us yet. But some of them are hitting, and I thought I’d jot some notes about how it’s hitting us here in SF.
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The impacts of COVID-19 are really not upon us yet. But some of them are hitting, and I thought I’d jot some notes about how it’s hitting us here in SF.
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In this article, we benchmark various methods to write data to MS SQL Server from pandas DataFrames to see which is the fastest. We compare multi, fast_executemany and turbodbc, and find the best candidate.
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A central issue of contestation is elasticity versus discipline , elasticity for me and discipline for you, alchemy of banking and money funding for me, austerity and borrowing/payment for you. Like 2009, the (coming/arriving) financial collapse of 2020 will reveal the asymmetry of power between the financial sector and the rest of the economy, and it’ll especially highlight how the financial sector is continually privatizing profits....
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Making Urls Paste with Metadata Preview In Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Twitter, Apple Messages
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fuzzyblog.io
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6 years ago
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I am an old tech guy. I was at the conference where TBL announced the web and I wrote my first HTML snippet just a few years later. But I pretty quickly moved from front end HTML onto back end web development and there are techniques that, while common today, I have never learned. An example of this is making urls appear, with metadata, when they are pasted into a messaging tool like: Facebook Messenger Apple Messages Facebook itself ....
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Ever needed a simple leader election mechanism on something that will run on a Kubernetes cluster? There’s an easy way to do that!
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This is a short summary of some of the terminology used in machine learning, with an emphasis on neural networks. I’ve put it together primarily to help my own understanding, phrasing it largely in non-mathematical terms. As such it may be of use to others who come from more of a programming than a mathematical background. Note that there are some overlapping or even slightly different meanings of some words or expressions depending on the ..
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This is a short summary of some of the terminology used in machine learning, with an emphasis on neural networks. I’ve put it together primarily to help my own understanding, phrasing it largely in non-mathematical terms. As such it may be of use to others who come from more of a programming than a mathematical background. Note that there are some overlapping or even slightly different meanings of some words or expressions depending on the ..
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So I just dropped a pill on the ground as I took my daily vitamins and I picked it it up and said "5 second rule" before popping it in my mouth. And then it struck me: In the age of covid, the 5 second rule no longer applies. Covid can live on surfaces for up to 3 days. MIT Technology Review
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Note : This is from a real world thing that I'm about to release. Like a lot of database apps in the world, mine generally tend to use auto incrementing ids for object identifiers. An object identifier is a value in a system which uniquely identifies something. Let's say you have a url like this: http://localhost:3169/locations?country_id=91 What that is saying, under the hood, is "Get the data from the locations store and give ....
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I'd like to say that I'm happy to announce: https://www.covidnearme.org/ but I'm not. Like a lot of us, nay, most of us, I find the current COVID-19 / Corona virus bothersome if not scary. But the world is what it is and we are better off knowing more about COVID-19 rather than less so I made a tool. What is covidnearme.org? Covnearme.org is a web site which lets you: Easily drill down to where you live. Bookmark a location ....
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WebSockets offer duplex communication from a non-trusted source to a server that we own across a TCP socket connection.
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Square Closed My Cash App After I Received Over 1,600 Referrals in One Weekend
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www.joehxblog.com
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6 years ago
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eng
It started innocently enough on Monday, March 2nd. I simply received a $10 referral for referring someone to the Cash App.
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Alex Gaynor recently asked this question in an IRC channel I hang out in (a channel which contains several software engineers nearly as obsessed with software testing as I am): uhh, so I’m writing some code to handle an econnreset… how do I test this? This is a good question! Testing ECONNRESET is one of those fiddly problems that exists at the interface between systems — in his case, with S3, not even a system under his control — that can ..
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Alex Gaynor recently asked this question in an IRC channel I hang out in (a channel which contains several software engineers nearly as obsessed with software testing as I am): uhh, so I’m writing some code to handle an econnreset… how do I test this? This is a good question! Testing ECONNRESET is one of those fiddly problems that exists at the interface between systems — in his case, with S3, not even a system under his control — that can ..
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Hey all, just a quick post about di-tui , my new di.fm terminal UI player. I’ve been playing hours of music with this player over the past two weeks and have to say that I really love it and am proud of its ease of use and simplicity. Most people who know me know that I work almost exclusively in the terminal: tmux, mutt, slack-term , vim, and now di-tui and many more. Now I finally have great music in the terminal! I hope someone e..
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So I just signed up a new service, SimpleAnalytics because, well, if I never look again at Google Analytics then I'll be happy as hell. I can't say enough bad things about Google Analytics – and I've been using it since it was Urchin . Simple Analytics appears to be an impressive tool and I want to launching something, well, TODAY so when they offered a simple signup and easy to use workflow, I bit. I even gave them a credit card. ....
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On Transitioning from Software Developer to Architect
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www.databasesandlife.com
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6 years ago
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Around 2003 I changed companies and accepted the title “Software Architect” at the new company. Before that, I’d been working as a developer, then lead developer, then development team lead for a B2C startup. If I had a time machine and could go back in time to give myself advice, this is what I would say. Caveat: Unlike “Software Developer” or “Software Engineer”, pretty much each company has its own definition of what a “Software ....
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Hey all, just a quick post about di-tui , my new di.fm terminal UI player. I’ve been playing hours of music with this player over the past two weeks and have to say that I really love it and am proud of its ease of use and simplicity. Most people who know me know that I work almost exclusively in the terminal: tmux, mutt, slack-term , vim, and now di-tui and many more. Now I finally have great music in the terminal! I hope someone e..
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Hey all, just a quick post about di-tui , my new di.fm terminal UI player. I’ve been playing hours of music with this player over the past two weeks and have to say that I really love it and am proud of its ease of use and simplicity. Most people who know me know that I work almost exclusively in the terminal: tmux, mutt, slack-term , vim, and now di-tui and many more. Now I finally have great music in the terminal! I hope someone e..
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