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Whereas Clay Shirky spoke to the benefits of online education, Mark Edmundson is a bit more skeptical in his 2012 (yet still just as relevant) 1 article for The New York Times, The Trouble With Online Education . I agree with most of the criticisms Clay made in his two articles I linked to yesterday , particularly with regards to the unsustainability of the current model upon which higher education runs. However, having spent three o..
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Update from the Kickstarter : I know it's only been 24 hours since the last update, but Lemma is now over 61% of the way to the top 100 games on Greenlight with well over 4,500 yes votes. Thank you all for being a part of this project! I realized that the 30 seconds of gameplay from the Kickstarter trailer is not enough to really see what's going on, so here's a more in-depth video explanation of the movement in Lemma. Skip to 2:15 ..
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I’ve been afraid of RPM and package maintaining [1] for years, but thanks to Kaleb Keithley , I have finally made some RPM’s that weren’t generated from a high level tool . Now that I have the boilerplate done, it’s a relatively painless process! In case you don’t know kkeithley , he is a wizard [2] who happens to also be especially cool and hardworking. If you meet him, be sure to buy him a $BEVERAGE . A photo of kk..
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I’ve been afraid of RPM and package maintaining [1] for years, but thanks to Kaleb Keithley , I have finally made some RPM’s that weren’t generated from a high level tool . Now that I have the boilerplate done, it’s a relatively painless process! In case you don’t know kkeithley , he is a wizard [2] who happens to also be especially cool and hardworking. If you meet him, be sure to buy him a $BEVERAGE . A photo of kk..
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Why the upgrade cycle means the "Apple tax" is lower than it seems
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9to5mac.com
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12 years ago
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I have written about this before, in an article titled Testing the Apple Tax , and Ben Lovejoy comes to the same conclusion I did in his piece over at 9to5 Mac: in reality, the proposed “Apple tax” is, frankly, nearly nonexistent. Taking into account overall build quality, form factor, fit and finish, power, and power consumption, Mac computers compete quite competitively with their PC “counterparts”; adding in other factors such as resa..
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Education is a topic near and dear to my heart, so whenever I can find an interesting, well-written article on the subject I tend to afford it slightly more attention than I might Business Insider’s terrible article explaining possible reasons behind Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus. Unfortunately, these articles often turn out mediocre at best; this piece by Clay Shirky, however, and its predecessor Napster, Udacity, and the Academy , a..
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Although I have touched on facets of this topic before — in articles I encourage you to read before continuing partly to have a bit of background to frame my subsequent words with , partly because I still feel quite proud of how well they turned out, but mostly because I still stand behind those sentiments — I have put off writing this for quite some time, for a whole host of reasons. After listening to last week’s episode of the Accide..
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Comment on A survey for writing your CV in LaTeX by Potpourri: LaTeX #5 – CV edition | Erik Gahner Larsen
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dimle.wordpress.com
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12 years ago
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Typesetting your academic CV in LaTeX - Using the LaTeX Resume Templates - A survey for writing your CV in LaTeX - ModernCV and Cover Letter - Stylish CV - A XeLaTeX CV class with flexible layout - Give your […]
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Oracle Memory Troubleshooting, Part 4: Drilling down into PGA memory usage with V$PROCESS_MEMORY_DETAIL
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tanelpoder.com
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12 years ago
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If you haven’t read them – here are the previous articles in Oracle memory troubleshooting series: Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 . Let’s say you have noticed that one of your Oracle processes is consuming a lot of private memory. The V$PROCESS has PGA_USED_MEM / PGA_ALLOC_MEM columns for this. Note that this view will tell you what Oracle thinks it’s using – how much of allocated/freed bytes it has kept track of. While this doesn’t usually ....
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Oracle Memory Troubleshooting, Part 4: Drilling down into PGA memory usage with V$PROCESS_MEMORY_DETAIL
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tanelpoder.com
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12 years ago
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If you haven’t read them – here are the previous articles in Oracle memory troubleshooting series: Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 . Let’s say you have noticed that one of your Oracle processes is consuming a lot of private memory. The V$PROCESS has PGA_USED_MEM / PGA_ALLOC_MEM columns for this. Note that this view will tell you what Oracle thinks it’s using – how much of allocated/freed bytes it has kept track of. While this doesn’t usually ....
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A couple years back I started more regularly blogging, though I’ve done this off and on before, this time I kept some regularity. A common theme started to emerge with some content on Postgres about once a month because most of what was out there was much more reference oriented. A bit after that I connected with petercooper , who runs quite a few weekly email newsletters. As someone thats been interested helping give others a good reason ....
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A couple years back I started more regularly blogging, though I’ve done this off and on before, this time I kept some regularity. A common theme started to emerge with some content on Postgres about once a month because most of what was out there was much more reference oriented. A bit after that I connected with petercooper , who runs quite a few weekly email newsletters. As someone thats been interested helping give others a good reason ....
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From the Kickstarter , a quick status update before I talk more about Lemma: At the current rate, we are just minutes away from 4,200 yes votes on Greenlight ! 56% of the way to the top 100. A big thank you to our new backers! There are now 174 of you lovely people (wow) and we're over 32% funded. Rock Paper Shotgun covered Lemma yesterday! And with that headline, we've added Bastion to the incredibly long and disparate list of gam..
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Now this makes sense: Mark Zuckerberg may not necessarily believe virtual reality is the future of computing, and thus a good reason to purchase Oculus, but with the scale Facebook is operating on it would be foolish to take any risks. For a company of Facebook’s size, with so much to lose should they make the wrong bet, two billion dollars really is nothing. Permalink.
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Interesting take on why Facebook elected to buy Oculus by Joe Rosenstee of Unauthoritative Pronouncements . I haven’t fully worked out the justification for this purchase in my own mind, but I will comment on something tangentially related to this deal: as Joe pointed out in his article, and Linus Edwards as well on Twitter earlier , for some reason many seem to have this mistaken notion that Oculus — or Facebook — owes its Kickstarter ba..
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It seems more and more these days, and especially over the last week or two in particular — perhaps in conjunction with the rise of the smartwatch as a general topic of discussion — people have begun yearning for the lifestyle of yesteryear when watches fulfilled the single, uncomplicated need of telling time , running errands entailed a trip to the local grocery store , and sometimes you just had to shovel through four feet of snow to g..
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Thanks to Dave Pell’s The Next Draft for the original link , I found this article from The Atlantic a few days ago, and it’s great — really great, actually; I would even go so far as to call it exceptional. For this piece, Hanna Rosin traveled to the United Kingdom to get some first-hand experience with a novel playground concept called The Land, where rather than the sanitized, boring playsets so common especially in America, kids get to ....
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Since I have been working on searchcode for a while and its getting close to being ready for release (a few weeks away at this point I predict) I thought I would post a teaser screenshot. The below shows how it looks for a sample search. The design is far cleaner then what is currently online which is a big win as the current design of searchcode is seriously ugly.
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Update 2019-01-17 : KSM recently redesigned their website in a way that removes the original blog. Because of this, I've taken some of what I wrote then for KSM and re-hosted it here. Thanks are due both to KSM Technology Partners for allowing me to do this and to the Wayback Machine for retaining the content. All the links below are updated to reflect the articles' new locations. Sorry for the radio silence, but recently I've been ....
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FireChat is a new iOS app that purportedly allows its users to send text messages and pictures between devices without the use of both a cellular and wifi connection, at ranges up to thirty feet, using a new iOS 7 networking feature. Although these days I would rarely have any reason to use such an app, I would have loved to have this ability on an airplane, for instance, or out of the country where carriers can charge exorbitant rates. Reg..
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