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PowerShell makes working with rest API's easy. In PowerShell version 3, the cmdlets and where introduced. These cmdlets are a huge…
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Australia’s Workplace Gender Equality Agency recently launched a campaign focused on fixing the pay gap between men and women. This is on the back of news in August 2014 that the gender pay gap in Australia increased to 18.2%, the highest it has been in 10 years.
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Securing SSH: Just because it has secure in the name doesn't mean that it's secure out of the box
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joshuarogers.net
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11 years ago
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My server had an unauthorized login attempt today. Really, it was more along the lines of 2,000 login attempts. Why is my server under attack? Simply because it is on the internet. See, this is actually a normal day for a small server. Last week, there were just over 12,000 attempts. So, business as usual for a server looks something like walking through a zombie filled wasteland armed only with a cowbell and a belt made of bacon.
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satellite One of the most interesting questions posed in the last thirty years of computer science is to ask how much “information” must be communicated between two parties in order for them to jointly compute something. One can imagine these two parties living on distant planets, so that the cost of communicating any amount of information is very expensive, but each person has an integral component of the answer that the other does not.
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satellite One of the most interesting questions posed in the last thirty years of computer science is to ask how much “information” must be communicated between two parties in order for them to jointly compute something. One can imagine these two parties living on distant planets, so that the cost of communicating any amount of information is very expensive, but each person has an integral component of the answer that the other does not.
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satellite One of the most interesting questions posed in the last thirty years of computer science is to ask how much “information” must be communicated between two parties in order for them to jointly compute something. One can imagine these two parties living on distant planets, so that the cost of communicating any amount of information is very expensive, but each person has an integral component of the answer that the other does not.
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I'm participating in 7dfps this year, which means I'm making an FPS game in 7 days. Here's what I've got so far: In Soviet Russia, you are bullet. In my 7dfps entry, moving and shooting are the same thing. Here's my favorite form of humor: physics glitches. Here's me getting killed: Here's a better shot of the city: Lots to do still.
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This post is a logical continuation of the Jon Skeet’s blog post “When is a string not a string?” . Jon showed very interesting things about behavior of ill-formed Unicode strings in .NET. I wondered about how similar examples will work on Mono. And I have got very interesting results. Experiment 1: Compilation Let’s take the Jon’s code with a small modification. We will just add text null check in DumpString: using System ; ....
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This post is a logical continuation of the Jon Skeet’s blog post “When is a string not a string?” . Jon showed very interesting things about behavior of ill-formed Unicode strings in .NET. I wondered about how similar examples will work on Mono. And I have got very interesting results. Experiment 1: Compilation Let’s take the Jon’s code with a small modification. We will just add text null check in DumpString: using System ; ....
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Introduction In part I of this post, we learned about the error interface and how the standard library provides support for creating error interface values via the errors package. We also learned how to work with error interface values and use them to identify when an error has occured. Finally, we saw how some packages in the standard library export error interface variables to help us identify specific errors.
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We were excited to contribute to San Francisco’s booming technology sphere with our bi-annual TechRadar event in the heart of the Financial District.
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Today President Barack Obama has come out in favor of net neutrality in very public way. He lays out in no uncertain terms that he believes no cable company or access provider should be able to put limits on access to the Internet. In addition, he’s suggesting that the FCC recognizes access to the Internet as a basic utility, and something that Americans have a basic right to. This means no blocking, no throttling, more transparency and no..
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I am going to try something new with Signal Tower. Wednesday night I was interviewing Justin Jackson, host of the awesome Product People podcast.
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A closer look at one of the reasons why designers don't participate in the open source community. (This links out to designopen.org)
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My step-dad is a cabinet-maker by trade. We chat about his work from time to time. I've often been struck by the similarities between building furniture and building software. Take tooling for example. Choosing high quality tools and learning how to use them correctly is of course a very important part of woodworking.
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The last time we talked about the EDT we covered some of the basic ideas, such as call serially etc. We left out two major concepts that are somewhat more advanced. ** Invoke And Block ** When we write typical code in Java we like that code to be in sequence as such: doOperationA(); doOperationB(); doOperationC(); This works well normally but on the EDT it might be a problem, if one of the operations is slow it m..
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I started writing this post on the 8th of November and have just now gotten around to finishing it. Figuring out what my snails are doing and why is getting close to impossible. I’ve got snails eating each other, or refusing to eat proper food, or for some reason not mating even though their sex drive should be pretty high. I used to print stuff out to one big default log file (laravel.log), but this soon became unmanageable because I was..
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Awesome Extensions for Visual Studio 2013 – Make life easy on yourself
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blog.gripdev.xyz
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11 years ago
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eng
I recently reinstalled my dev box to put on the shiny new Windows 10 Technical Preview. Once I had installed everything, check out https://chocolatey.org/ if you want to make life easy when rebuilding, I thought I was good to go. Alas my brand new install and Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 worked but, when I went to start working on a code review, I realised that I was missing loads of functionality I’d come to rely on. After a while of hu..
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This originally appeared on Quora and is well worth reading. Becoming a good programmer is incredibly difficult and it doesn’t happen quickly. We can’t expect to plant some trees and have 2000-year-old redwoods grow overnight, regardless of the demand for them. via Why Don’t More People Work As Programmers? – Forbes .
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Learning Angular: Gosh, my two-way binding doesn't seem to work properly!
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juri.dev
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11 years ago
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eng
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For the past four weeks, I've been keeping a very public and open version of my personal goals on Github. Its definitely made me a lot more productive, and you should give it a try.
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This originally appeared on Quora and is well worth reading. Becoming a good programmer is incredibly difficult and it doesn’t happen quickly. We can’t expect to plant some trees and have 2000-year-old redwoods grow overnight, regardless of the demand for them. via Why Don’t More People Work As Programmers? – Forbes .
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This little Nosgoth strategy and tactics guide offers a way to improve at the game quickly enough to enjoy the surprising depth of play at mid and high levels. Update: Nosgoth is now in Open Beta - if you’re not playing yet then you should! You can start with a free booster using my friend referral link - see you in the game! As a new player Nosgoth is pretty punishing. I still remember the confusion and slaughter of my very first....
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Much has been said and written about how the world is moving towards online retail and the imminent demise of ‘brick and mortar’. With the forecast of online retail to reach $306 billion in the US alone this year, this prophecy is not entirely surprising. But while it may be true for exclusive ‘brick and mortar’ players, for retailers having both online and offline presence the future might not be that bleak.
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The fact that we manage the switches in our data centres differently than any other server is patently absurd, but we do so because we want to harness the power of a tiny bit of silicon which happens to be able to dramatically speed up the switching bandwidth. beware of proprietary silicon, it's absurd! That tiny bit of silicon is known as an ASIC , or an application specific integrated circuit , and one particularly well perfo..
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The fact that we manage the switches in our data centres differently than any other server is patently absurd, but we do so because we want to harness the power of a tiny bit of silicon which happens to be able to dramatically speed up the switching bandwidth. beware of proprietary silicon, it's absurd! That tiny bit of silicon is known as an ASIC , or an application specific integrated circuit , and one particularly well perfo..
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Chen’s been busy with some customers on a feature that is often requested: mailbox like swipes. This effectively allows you to swipe a component to the side in order to reveal capabilities underneath e.g. edit, delete etc. Using this capability is really trivial just use something like a MultiButton and place it in a SwipeableContainer with the bottom Container which includes the various actions as such:
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Launching Remote GUIs over SSH: SSH provides a CLI, but sometimes you just need a GUI too
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joshuarogers.net
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11 years ago
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eng
One of the things that I love about living in a Unix environment is that 99% of the time, remote administration only means a quick trip to the console. That's 99% of the time where my desktop can look something like this: Of course, 99% doesn't quite make a whole. There's the matter of the other 1% of the time where a GUI is required. Earlier on in my journey with Linux, I would have tried to setup a VNC server or to work around the need fo..
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Organisational agility has been a hot topic for a long time. In the South African context, financial institutions have made enormous strides in improving banking, in spite of a very strictly governed environment, taking into consideration compliance with the regulatory requirements imposed by the South African Reserve Bank.
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Thoughtworks Appears at Australian Senate Inquiry into Surveillance
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www.thoughtworks.com
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11 years ago
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eng
The Australian Senate Inquiry into the comprehensive revision of the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979 is the only public Inquiry to have been held in Australia since revelations about mass surveillance.
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This Week in Podcasts may have ended , but I have no intention of ending my monthly Cabin Porn Roundups. For October, then, check out these neat little structures from across the world. Permalink.
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From Ray Wenderlich's tech talk And supercharging Your Xcode Efficiency (by Jack Wu) . Shortcuts ⌘⇧o Fuzzy file search. ⌘⌥j Fuzzy file search (showing in Xcode project hierarchy). ⌘⇧j Show file in Xcode project hierarchy. ⌘⌥0 Show/hide utility area (right panel). ⌘0 Show/hide navigation area (left panel). ⇧⌘Y Show/hide debug area (bottom panel). Ctrli Indent selection. ⌘\ Toggle breakpoint on line. ⌘/ Toggle comment. ⌘[1-8] Select tabs..
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The existing package for the elementary Dark theme , aptly named elementary-dark-theme , is... really bad. It downloads the source archive over HTTP instead of HTTPS, doesn't use checksums to verify the download, gives the wrong source URL and license... So I put up elementary-dark , and filed a request to replace ("merge") the old package with the new one. After doing a lot of work with Debian packaging in the past, I was pleasantly sur..
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This past weekend I exhibited Lemma at the Ohio Game Dev Expo . It was an awesome time. Extra Life raised over $9,000 for charity (yes, it is in fact over 9000). The Oculus Rift was a huge hit! I worked on various improvements right up to the expo. First, some new textures for moving platforms and doors: This is the first texture I've created that has any kind of directional meaning. The reason is that until this week, I ..
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I know it’s been a while since I’ve blogged last….I’ve just been incredibly busy. This past month, I’ve been teaching a video game class at the college, writing the 4th edition of my Linux+ book for Cengage on an accelerated schedule, and managing four technology faculties……all at the same time! But today, I got a new computer: A Mac Pro (the higher end 6-core Xeon model with dual AMD FirePro D500s). I simply connect it via HDMI to my Al..
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I know it’s been a while since I’ve blogged last….I’ve just been incredibly busy. This past month, I’ve been teaching a video game class at the college, writing the 4th edition of my Linux+ book for Cengage on an accelerated schedule, and managing four technology faculties……all at the same time! But today, I got a new computer: A Mac Pro (the higher end 6-core Xeon model with dual AMD FirePro D500s). I simply connect it via HDMI to my Al..
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