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'Born a Crime' by Trevor Noah is a hilarious and thought-provoking memoir about his childhood in South Africa.
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Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy. (R. Anthony) Certainty is cool. We love when we can feel confident. It makes our world emotionaly safer. Also – we hate it when we have to issue a correction about a statement we made that turned out wrong. Certainty is a certain form of safety. Complexity leads to mistakes – which leads to lack of certainty…
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On October 5th the PostgreSQL Global Development Group announced the release of PostgreSQL 10. It comes with tremendous amount of new features like Table partitioning Logical replication Improved parallel queries Stronger password hashing Durable Hash Indexes and more. A nice list, including explanations can be found on Robert Haas’ blog. This post explains how to upgrade to the latest version of PostgreSQL on macOS using Homebrew. At the..
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Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy. (R. Anthony) Certainty is cool. We love when we can feel confident. It makes our world emotionaly safer. Also – we hate it when we have to issue a correction about a statement we made that turned out wrong. Certainty is a certain form of safety. Complexity leads to mistakes – which leads to lack of certainty…
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Were you busy today? Did you forget that Ubuntu 17.10 was released today (no way)? Perhaps you agree that Thursdays are lame for a party anyway? Walla Walla University’s ACM club is having their kick-off event, a joint retro video game and Ubuntu 17.10 release party, on Sunday, October 22nd from 3pm to 5pm! This event will be taking place in room 348 of Kretschmar Hall on the Walla Walla University campus in Walla Walla, WA.
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'Born a Crime' by Trevor Noah is a hilarious and thought-provoking memoir about his childhood in South Africa.
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Developers running their apps on tsuru can choose plans based on memory and cpu usage. We were looking at adding I/O usage as one of the plan’s features, so one could choose how many I/O operations per second or bytes per second a container may be able to read/write. Being able to limit I/O is particulary important when running a diverse cloud, where applications with different workloads and needs are running together sharing multiple r..
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As you may have noticed, we recently re-licensed mgmt from the AGPL ( Affero General Public License) to the regular GPL . This is a post explaining the decision and which hopefully includes some insights at the intersection of technology and legal issues. Disclaimer : I am not a lawyer, and these are not necessarily the opinions of my employer. I think I’m knowledgeable in this area, but I’m happy to be corrected in the comments...
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As you may have noticed, we recently re-licensed mgmt from the AGPL ( Affero General Public License) to the regular GPL . This is a post explaining the decision and which hopefully includes some insights at the intersection of technology and legal issues. Disclaimer : I am not a lawyer, and these are not necessarily the opinions of my employer. I think I’m knowledgeable in this area, but I’m happy to be corrected in the comments...
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So a few weeks back I received an interesting email that at first thought looked like a scam. In short I was being invited to a BBQ at the Consul General’s residence in Sydney to meet an ICT/start up delegation from the Netherlands. Let me straight up say I have no idea why I would receive something like this. I am not dutch, have no dutch ancestry (that I am aware of) and while searchcode.com somehow is listed on the top startups in S..
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The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
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nindalf.com
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8 years ago
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Discover the truth about the Crusades and why invoking them today is misguided, in this well-researched and engaging book.
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Right, so this is probably not for everyone – but I just wanted to share. Vim plugin – not this time Before you just say – “hey there is a plugin for that” – (If you don’t know, Vim as a bunch of plugin and I would advise you check VimAwesome to get an idea of how many things you can do with this tiny piece of software.) So obviously among all the plugins, there are a few dedicated to manage your WordPress blog directly in VIM.
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Right, so this is probably not for everyone – but I just wanted to share. Vim plugin – not this time Before you just say – “hey there is a plugin for that” – (If you don’t know, Vim as a bunch of plugin and I would advise you check VimAwesome to get an idea of how many things you can do with this tiny piece of software.) So obviously among all the plugins, there are a few dedicated to manage your WordPress blog directly in VIM.
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The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
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nindalf.com
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8 years ago
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eng
Discover the truth about the Crusades and why invoking them today is misguided, in this well-researched and engaging book.
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Mira Hirtz has a good write-up on how abstractions and representations of things become the things they meant to represent . With regards to representations, one phenomenon that I particularly like is what I call interference . It happens when something, through its idiosyncratic existence, leaves traces in the outside world. Traces that show some of the object’s properties in a concise way. Just look at these photographs: Take....
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In conservative Christian circles, the English Standard Version seems to be the Bible translation of choice. Many Calvinistic and Reformed leaders endorse this translation, and use it in their books and articles. I have personally used this translation for many years, and have enjoyed it. However, no translation is perfect. This isn’t a superficial comment meant to appease those who prefer other translations. Every translation of the S....
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In conservative Christian circles, the English Standard Version seems to be the Bible translation of choice. Many Calvinistic and Reformed leaders endorse this translation, and use it in their books and articles. I have personally used this translation for many years, and have enjoyed it. However, no translation is perfect. This isn’t a superficial comment meant to appease those who prefer other translations. Every translation of the S....
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Leveraging frameworks to speed up our development on iOS - Part 1
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developers.soundcloud.com
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8 years ago
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Growth in code bases come with exciting scalability challenges. As the size of our iOS codebase and team at SoundCloud grew, we faced challenges: long compile times and conflicts. Our productivity started to suffer as a result. We took inspiration from the work done in the backend (Building Products at SoundCloud) and applied it to mobile development. The main goal was to get back to a state where development is fun, fast, and would scale a..
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When I joined trivago a year ago we had problems with our releases. Read how we were able to switch from our bash release process to a new one.
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Time for another Remacs update: lots of contributions, a wide range of features, and even a logo! Contributing Since the last update , we’ve seen contributions from lots of new people. We’ve added @brotzeit and @shanavas786, bringing us to seven wonderful people who can approve your PRs. Speaking of PRs, we’ve merged an amazing 64 pull requests since the last update! If you’re looking for a good feature for your first contribution, @....
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When I joined trivago a year ago we had problems with our releases. Read how we were able to switch from our bash release process to a new one.
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Leveraging frameworks to speed up our development on iOS - Part 1
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developers.soundcloud.com
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8 years ago
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eng
Growth in code bases come with exciting scalability challenges. As the size of our iOS codebase and team at SoundCloud grew, we faced challenges: long compile times and conflicts. Our productivity started to suffer as a result. We took inspiration from the work done in the backend (Building Products at SoundCloud) and applied it to mobile development. The main goal was to get back to a state where development is fun, fast, and would scale a..
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Earlier this week we started the process to upgrade one of our hypervisor compute clusters when we encountered a rather painful bug with HP’s Broadcom NIC chipsets. We were part way through a routine rolling pool upgrade of our hypervisor (XenServer) cluster when we observed unexpected and intermittent loss of connectivity between several VMs, then entire XenServer hosts. The problems appeared to impact hosts that hadn’t yet upgraded to..
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From boiling lead and black art: An essay on the history of mathematical typography
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www.practicallyefficient.com
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8 years ago
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Math fonts from six different type systems, courtesy Chalkdust I’ve always felt like constructing printed math was much more of an art form than regular typesetting. Someone typesetting mathematics is less a “typist” and more an artist attempting to render abstract data on a two-dimensional surface. Mathematical symbols are themselves a language, but they are fundamentally a visual representation of human-conceived knowledge—knowledg....
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Earlier this week we started the process to upgrade one of our hypervisor compute clusters when we encountered a rather painful bug with HP’s Broadcom NIC chipsets. We were part way through a routine rolling pool upgrade of our hypervisor (XenServer) cluster when we observed unexpected and intermittent loss of connectivity between several VMs, then entire XenServer hosts. The problems appeared to impact hosts that hadn’t yet upgraded to..
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Dear Postgres, I’ve always felt an affinity for you in my 9 years of working with you. I know others have known you longer, but that doesn’t mean they love you more. Years ago when others complained about your rigidness or that you weren’t as accommodating as others I found solace in your steadfast values: Don’t lose data Adhere to standards Move forward with a balancing act between new fads of the day while still continuously improving....
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Dear Postgres, I’ve always felt an affinity for you in my 9 years of working with you. I know others have known you longer, but that doesn’t mean they love you more. Years ago when others complained about your rigidness or that you weren’t as accommodating as others I found solace in your steadfast values: Don’t lose data Adhere to standards Move forward with a balancing act between new fads of the day while still continuously improving....
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1600 words, 8 minutes. You’ve suffered a breach. Your security was circumvented. Data was lost and the public, shareholders, media, and perhaps regulator must soon be informed. A chain of events has begun. What you do next will determine in large part where that chain leads. In this post I’m going to talk about a tactic I’ve seen used to successfully re-frame a bad situation and nudge the narrative in your favour.
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