In 1994, my college roommates and I started playing the game Heroes Unlimited, published by Palladium Books. We’d been reading a lot of comic books and playing the Marvel Super Heroes RPG up until that point and made the jump to Heroes Unlimited after pouring through its catalog-like selection of super powers and gadgetry. It […]
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I have written a number of articles in the past speculating as to what an iPad Pro could do to differentiate itself from Apple’s two existing models and thus merit its addition to the lineup. In all those posts, my proposed device most closely tracked with Federico’s “Option B: A ‘Pro’ iPad With Substantial Software & Hardware Changes”. Like Federico, I find the case for the alternatives — his “Option A” and “Option C” — difficult to ..
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The past ten days have astounded me. I entered 2014 with low expectations , tentatively hoping to increase my readership by some small integer multiple year over year. Over the next two weeks, however, I surpassed traffic for the entirety of 2013 with fifteen days left in January. What’s more, these readers keep coming back: although pageviews decreased after the initial surge from Jim Dalrymple’s link faded, my readership has continued to..
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Many have called the blogging racket an echo chamber, wherein one popular writer says something mildly interesting and everyone else immediately links to that article with trite, nuanced comments tacked on after a paragraph or two taken in excerpt. Anyone following Joshua Ginter and I over the last few days would have seen us epitomize the circular nature of that stereotype in our recent exchanges, albeit sans popularity: first, I wrote ..
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This post was written by Nathan Beyer, Bryan Baugher and Jacob Williams.) The use of open source software has become nearly ubiquitous in contemporary software development and it is no different for us, here at Cerner. We have been using open source software, directly and indirectly, for decades. Over the past decade, we’ve grown in maturity both in our use of open source software as well as our participation in open source communities.
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This document is an attempt to be a fairly comprehensive guide to recovering from what you did not mean to do when using git. via On undoing, fixing, or removing commits in git .
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Gopher Academy announced a great program today. Today I’d like to announce the GopherCon Scholarship Program. It’s goal is to increase the visibility of women in the Go community through the most direct path I can imagine: sponsoring their attendance to GopherCon 2014. The program works by you purchasing one of these special tickets. There will be a selection/nomination process and those woman selected will be able to attend....
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Introduction In October 2013 I sent out a call to action to the Go community. I wanted to form a group of Gophers that would come together and help write a specification and build a working implementation of a package management tool. We are not there yet, but the group did accomplish a few things: We started a mailing list called Go package management [go-pm] where people could discuss ideas and get feedback on existing and new t....
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Spring 3.2 has some very nice features for scheduling tasks. The pure Java way of doing this looks something like private ScheduledExecutorService executor = Executors.newSingleThreadScheduledExecutor(); class ScheduledTask implements Runnable { @Override public void run() { System.out.println("Running scheduled task"); } } // Schedule a task every 5 seconds executor.scheduleAtFixedRate(new ScheduledTask(), 1, 5, TimeUnit.SECONDS)..
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Web 2.0 has had a massive impact for good on the lives of modern humans. Web 2.0 has also been complicit in ushering in the most advanced, pervasive and Orwellian surveillance state ever witnessed by humanity. You could say that Web 2.0 has morphed into Web 1.984.
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This document is an attempt to be a fairly comprehensive guide to recovering from what you did not mean to do when using git. via On undoing, fixing, or removing commits in git .
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I decided to start this article in response to a remark Linus Edwards made saying that although a tech blogger, he felt like a bad one given his lack of knowledge regarding the intricacies of RSS, which prevented him from keeping an accurate record of those subscribers. I faced a similar problem shortly after launching this site, but solved it soon afterwards. As they say though, every day someone comes into the world having never seen th..
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In my estimation, [the Nest] deal is not about getting more data to support Google’s advertising model; rather, this is Google’s first true attempt to diversify its business.” Ben Thompson once again, continuing his streak of great articles with this gem. I found his “Some additional notes” section particularly interesting, where he explained the implications of this move to the other major tech companies of today. Permalink.
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Nexus 5 or Moto X? Review and Comparisons from a Past iPhone User
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TL;DR — I was using an iPhone 4s for two years, an iPhone 5c for a few months, I really liked how fast and small
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In this post, you'll learn how to upload files to an Amazon S3 bucket from the browser without involving a server. Fine Uploader will be used as the primary tool to facilitate this workflow.
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Across our 29 offices in six countries, Thoughtworkers are embracing Rails Girls, a global non-profit, volunteer community. Rails Girls gives tools and provides a community for women to build their ideas. The events are driven by volunteers and typically include a day of sketching, prototyping, basic programming and an introduction to the world of technology. Thoughtworks offices in Chicago (USA), Porto Alegre (Brazil) and X'ian (China) rec..
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We encourage Thoughtworkers to go on their personal journeys, follow their passions and learn and contribute to social and economic justice. In this experience report, Pankaj Kanchankar from Pune, reminisces on his recent visit to Dr. Prakash Amte’s Lok Biradari - a community that includes a hospital, an animal orphanage, a school for adivasi children and a vocational and livelihood skills training center, all within one campus.
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Looking through my LLVM Jitted code, I noticed some calls to cos that looked like this: movabsq $cosf, %rax movaps %xmm6, %xmm0 callq *%rax Whereas as some usual non-jitted code calling cos looks like this: call cosf (0140C1E9F4h) It's unfortunate that the jitted code requires two instructions to do what the normal code can do in one, and that the call is now indirect. After asking on the LLVM IRC channel, I think I understand why. ....
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A fascinating look at the current state of business models and their inevitable future from Ben Thompson over at Stretechery. An excellent article well worth the read going in to 2014. Especially in this coming year, I believe, this knowledge and a solid understanding of it will prove invaluable. Permalink.
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When I started this website, I had a number of misgivings. For example, every writer I looked up to had already done this for years or, in some cases, even decades; what could I possibly contribute to such a mature community? I had missed the boat, failed to get in on the ground floor — what hope could I have of rivaling the skill, insight, and popularity of folks like John Siracusa? I struggle similarly with my desire to build an app. But,..
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This is my first Android APK Teardown. The idea comes from Android Police . The general idea is to decode the application and generate a diff report between the previous version. Then inform the public what you found. So lets start. Seeing how this is my first one. I'll
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Native interfaces allow developers to invoke platform native methods/functions/libraries and even widgets directly from within Codename One without having to adapt your code to every platform. They are a very powerful tool when bridging between Codename One and OS specific features to access functionality that might not yet be exposed in the Codename One platform. Normally in Java we would use JNI to access “native” however, JNI is design..
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Yesterday, Josh Ginter responded to my article Doing Monetization Well with a very thoughtful post of his own . To no great surprise on my part, he questioned the viability of sponsorships at my low threshold of just 2,000 visitors per month. I expected someone would, and I can not fault Josh for doing so: I picked such low numbers on purpose because I wanted to have tangible, achievable goals I felt some confidence in my ability to ..
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I will not pretend to have some groundbreaking insight born of years watching Apple and scrutinizing its marketing tactics, but perhaps this inability to immediately evaluate, classify, and dismiss Your Verse works to my advantage in this case. In his article written shortly after the ad went live, Stephen Hackett conveyed his general disappointment in Apple at employing a tactic of engendering a powerful emotional response from its vie..
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Many teams that try to implement agile processes report that they often don’t observe the promised results. This may have many causes, but one often overlooked one, is that stories tend to get “inflated” as day-to-day pressures start to mount. I am not speaking about point estimates, but the story scope itself. Trying to do too much in a story compromises flow, increase cycle time and can frustrate the team. An agile team that strives for c..
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Imagine you are the CEO of a retailer. The economy is roaring, people are starting to shop more at your higher end shops, increasing margin. Quarter over quarter top line revenue growth is coming in, albeit at a slow, measured growth rate. You are even getting some level of margin growth by implementing some measures to remove excess cost out of the business. Things are going great!
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I was reading up on the "MEAN" stack: Mongo, Express, Angular and Node and came across a blog post from [Francesca Krihely](http://francescak.me/blog/2013/04/09/fintech-hackathon-recap/) about the FinTech hackathon in NY from back in April, 2013. This interested me because as a former "insider" in a large financial services company I can see clearly how open source code and tooling is replacing more proprietry code and tooling (for example ..
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Today marks the first installment of my brand new newsletter, awkwardly titled “The Neat and Out of Scope Newsletter”, in which I talk about an alternative to MailChimp, shaking a device to trigger Javascript actions, speedy scrolling, House of Cards’s second season, the latest foray into podcast clients, and the just-launched clipboard utility Command-C. In case you missed it, you can subscribe here or by clicking the “Newsletter” menu i..
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Prompted by a question from Shibel early this morning wondering how I determine where to publish a given article, to my site or my new newsletter, I decide what content goes where and when to release it based on a relatively simple heuristic: when I write for my website I strive to do so in service of furthering the overarching narrative with regards to topics I currently have some degree of interest in. Pursuant of this goal, I write lon..
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This is a very good ebook, and is free for reading online. This book is for new developers, experienced developers, and everyone in between who wants to master Unix and Linux commands. This book was designed to showcase some of the most useful commands that a developer can know to help them in their daily tasks. via Softcover | Conquering the Command Line .
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and a Great Person in general. Empathy is your most important skill. Practice it with everyone you interact with, and everyone who interacts with your work. Humility goes hand in hand with empathy. Be open to the possibility (likelihood, even) that you are wrong. Know that you will always be learning and improving. accept and own up to mistakes immediately. The less you fear being wrong, the more confident you can be. You are wrong ..
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This is seriously good collection of resources for web designers and the likes, don’t miss it. I’ll let you in on a little secret: beautiful websites aren’t made, they’re found. Smart designers know where to find that perfect photo, subtle pattern or that unique icon. Here’s where the best designers go to find photos, graphics, icons, and more. via Where the best designers go to find photos and graphics | Blog .
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This is a very good ebook, and is free for reading online. This book is for new developers, experienced developers, and everyone in between who wants to master Unix and Linux commands. This book was designed to showcase some of the most useful commands that a developer can know to help them in their daily tasks. via Softcover | Conquering the Command Line .
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This is a very good ebook, and is free for reading online. This book is for new developers, experienced developers, and everyone in between who wants to master Unix and Linux commands. This book was designed to showcase some of the most useful commands that a developer can know to help them in their daily tasks. via Softcover | Conquering the Command Line .
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and a Great Person in general. Empathy is your most important skill. Practice it with everyone you interact with, and everyone who interacts with your work. Humility goes hand in hand with empathy. Be open to the possibility (likelihood, even) that you are wrong. Know that you will always be learning and improving. accept and own up to mistakes immediately. The less you fear being wrong, the more confident you can be. You are wrong ..
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