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When I first heard about the so-called UK Challenger Banks like Monzo and Atom , I was amazed that there wasn’t a similar offering in Canada. The Canadian retail banking sector desperately needs new players bring compelling products to the market but nobody was doing it. There are some options like PC Financial and Tangerine but they’re both backed by one of the Big Banks (CIBC and Scotiabank, respectively). Nobody was attempting a..
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Serverless v1.24 - Alexa Smart Home event source, Print content of resolved serverless config file
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www.serverless.com
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8 years ago
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Alexa Smart Home event source, update checker, enhancements, bug fixes and more added in the Serverless Framework v1.24 release.
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Matthew Lancaster - using even-driven architecture to transform core banking
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8 years ago
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We're posting the full videos and transcripts from Emit 2017! Here's Matthew from Accenture on transforming core banking with event-driven architectures.
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We had a lot of posts covering images, multi-image and density. It’s one of the more challenging concepts to explain to developers coming from a desktop development background. Density is a simple concept to explain but the implications of it are sometimes counter-intuitive e.g. which device has higher density: Your phone or your 4k TV? The answer is your phone and I explain why in the video. I also discuss the need to adapt UI’s for ta..
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Postgres is an interesting open source project. It’s truly one of a kind, it has its own license to prove it as opposed to falling under something like Apache or GPL. The Postgres community structure is something that is pretty well defined if you’re involved in the community, but to those outside it’s likely a little less clear. In case you’re curious to learn more about the community here’s a rundown of a few various aspects of it: Po....
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Postgres is an interesting open source project. It’s truly one of a kind, it has its own license to prove it as opposed to falling under something like Apache or GPL. The Postgres community structure is something that is pretty well defined if you’re involved in the community, but to those outside it’s likely a little less clear. In case you’re curious to learn more about the community here’s a rundown of a few various aspects of it: Po....
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My conclusion Based on my testing and the advantages of PDO (info) I recommend the following: Use PDO with PDO::ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES set to TRUE and use the charset=utf8mb4 in the dsn (to be equally safe as if emulation was turned off). The speed increase is around 80% and this is not the default with for example [...]
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My conclusion Based on my testing and the advantages of PDO (info) I recommend the following: Use PDO with PDO::ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES set to TRUE and use the charset=utf8mb4 in the dsn (to be equally safe as if emulation was turned off). The speed increase is around 80% and this is not the default with for example [...]
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My conclusion Based on my testing and the advantages of PDO (info) I recommend the following: Use PDO with PDO::ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES set to TRUE and use the charset=utf8mb4 in the dsn (to be equally safe as if emulation was turned off). The speed increase is around 80% and this is not the default with for example [...]
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My conclusion Based on my testing and the advantages of PDO (info) I recommend the following: Use PDO with PDO::ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES set to TRUE and use the charset=utf8mb4 in the dsn (to be equally safe as if emulation was turned off). The speed increase is around 80% and this is not the default with for example [...]
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This post is aimed at readers who are already familiar with stochastic gradient descent (SGD) and terms like “batch size”. For an introduction to these ideas, I recommend Goodfellow et al.’s Deep Learning , in particular the introduction and, for more about SGD, Chapter 8. The relevance of SGD is that it has made it feasible to work with much more complex models than was formerly possible.
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This post is aimed at readers who are already familiar with stochastic gradient descent (SGD) and terms like “batch size”. For an introduction to these ideas, I recommend Goodfellow et al.’s Deep Learning , in particular the introduction and, for more about SGD, Chapter 8. The relevance of SGD is that it has made it feasible to work with much more complex models than was formerly possible.
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Born to Run is a low-quality pseudo-science book that pushes the agenda of barefoot running without disclosing the lack of conclusive evidence.
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In continuation from my previous blogs (Parts 1 and 2), I write about the direction we intend to take with Workspaces. In this part, I offer my thoughts on the perennial debate around what is BAU and what is innovation.
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We're posting the full videos and transcripts from Emit 2017! Here's Ajay from AWS on being a good citizen in an event-driven world.
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Born to Run is a low-quality pseudo-science book that pushes the agenda of barefoot running without disclosing the lack of conclusive evidence.
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Anyone who knows me will know that the gym is a fairly big part of my life. While my goal certainly isn't to become the next Eddie Hall or Phil Heath, during the last 3 years the gym has been a valuable source of discipline and improvement for me.
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As an academic, I spend a lot of time reading papers. I generally hate the idea of printing out a paper for a one-time read since it feels wasteful, but I also don’t enjoy the reading experience of viewing papers on a desktop screen. I’ve always liked the look of the Sony Digital Paper that my advisor uses but it’s rather expensive and not easy to find. I used a Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 for several years which freed me from my desk and made....
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Last week we discussed the first part of working with text components and left some big tasks for this week. This week we’ll try to address the remaining issues with text input and make it easier to construct UI’s. This is crucial as we’ll be going into code freeze soon and we need enough time to iron out the issues in the text input. Last week I ended the post with this set of tasks:
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When You Pry It From My Cold, Dead Hands... I've been a die hard VIM user since the days of co-founding the Kalamazoo Linux Users Group back in 1998. It's a clean command line editor with a simple user interface and once you've mastered the admittedly steep learning curve of its robust keyboard shortcuts, I haven't found any substitutes that measure up for raw horsepower coding. But... Relatively recently there's been a lot of advancement a..
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While it’s not an outright lie to say I have a car, it’s probably a bit disingenuous. As recently discussed , calling it a two-seater with some generous trunk space is definitely pushing it (but technically correct). More accurately, I have an eleven-and-a-half foot tall, four-to-five ton, screaming metal death trap on wheels. From that description (and my past ramblings ), it’s not particularly shocking that I try not to drive it, but ..
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While it’s not an outright lie to say I have a car, it’s probably a bit disingenuous. As recently discussed , calling it a two-seater with some generous trunk space is definitely pushing it (but technically correct). More accurately, I have an eleven-and-a-half foot tall, four-to-five ton, screaming metal death trap on wheels. From that description (and my past ramblings ), it’s not particularly shocking that I try not to drive it, but ..
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Please note that this post won’t go over the basics of Cuckoo, as the README provides a great introduction to the library. Do you write unit tests? You should. Writing mocks for my tests seemed to be a lot easier in Objective-C. OCMock makes great use of Objective-C’s dynamic nature and it makes mocking a breeze. However, the OCMock website has this to say : Disappointing. Accurate. Alright, off to find an alternative. The be....
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How you can avoid parking tickets with a Serverless reminder
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www.serverless.com
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8 years ago
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How to build a simple Serverless app that reminds you about street sweeping days in your neighborhood. Never get a parking ticket again!
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We will enter code freeze for Codename One 3.8 next week and have a lot of things to clear off the table in order to get there! The first order of business is that there will be no Codename One 3.9… Instead we will go right to 4.0 and switch to major version number update scheme only. This will align us better with industry standards. We spent ages in 3.x and far less in 1.x or 2.x numbering. That doesn’t make sense. It’s hard to tell ..
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Do you want to become invincible? I mean “rock solid”; impenetrable; bullet-proof? The answer is simple: strive to **be the truth**. This post How to Become Invincible first appeared on Dan Stroot's Blog
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I have found that software engineers tend to divide themselves into 2 broad categories: Builders (selfish) Maintainers (selfless) This is of course an oversimplification. Most of the time we do a bit of both, but in my experience engineers tend to lean towards one or the other. The beef I have with this is that maintainers rarely do this consciously. They also enjoy building, it’s just that they typically have some trait (perfectionism, h..
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Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. Over the last year, a lot has happened in the Raspberry Pi and Docker communities, there are Docker Captains helping lead the charge, one of those, Dieter Reuter really has been pushing the cause for ARM64 support with both Raspberry Pi 3 and LinuxKit. He isn’t a single man army, the rest of the Docker Pirates over at Hypriot have been doing some awes....
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It’s time for our next Jane Street Tech Talk . When we’ve solicited suggestions for topics, one common request has been to talk about our internal development process. Our next talk, How Jane Street Does Code Review , should fit the bill. The talk is being given by our own Ian Henry, and discusses how we approach code review, and in particular how Iron, the code review system we’ve been using and improving for some years now, fits in to t..
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It’s time for our next Jane Street Tech Talk . When we’ve solicited suggestions for topics, one common request has been to talk about our internal development process. Our next talk, How Jane Street Does Code Review , should fit the bill. The talk is being given by our own Ian Henry, and discusses how we approach code review, and in particular how Iron, the code review system we’ve been using and improving for some years now, fits in to t..
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