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One feature I miss from my Perl days, which I’ve never seen in another language. I am writing a test loop and I want it to run 10k times. So I write, in Java: for (int i = 0; i < 10000; i++) { ... } Nothing surprising about that. But in Perl I could write: for (my $i = 0; $i < 10_000; $i++) { ... } You can put underscores anywhere when writing number literals, and they will get ignored by Perl. So you can make such large numbers a lot..
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Overview In this primer we’ll get a first taste of the mathematics that goes into the analysis of sound and images. In the next few primers, we’ll be building the foundation for a number of projects in this domain: extracting features of music for classification, constructing so-called hybrid images, and other image manipulations for machine vision problems (for instance, for use in neural networks or support vector machines; we’re planning..
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Overview In this primer we’ll get a first taste of the mathematics that goes into the analysis of sound and images. In the next few primers, we’ll be building the foundation for a number of projects in this domain: extracting features of music for classification, constructing so-called hybrid images, and other image manipulations for machine vision problems (for instance, for use in neural networks or support vector machines; we’re planning..
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Overview In this primer we’ll get a first taste of the mathematics that goes into the analysis of sound and images. In the next few primers, we’ll be building the foundation for a number of projects in this domain: extracting features of music for classification, constructing so-called hybrid images, and other image manipulations for machine vision problems (for instance, for use in neural networks or support vector machines; we’re planning..
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The nostalgia of serial console servers, kvm’s and switched PDU’s is hopefully no longer visible in your server room. If not, you must definitely start playing catch up. Please forgive my ignorance, but these things might still be common for big windows shops, however if that’s the case, you’ve got an entirely different set of problems ;) IPMI is an IP based protocol that allows you to talk directly to a little computer, usually built in ..
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The nostalgia of serial console servers, kvm’s and switched PDU’s is hopefully no longer visible in your server room. If not, you must definitely start playing catch up. Please forgive my ignorance, but these things might still be common for big windows shops, however if that’s the case, you’ve got an entirely different set of problems ;) IPMI is an IP based protocol that allows you to talk directly to a little computer, usually built in ..
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So you’ve learned screen, ssh and vim. Time to take your skills to level two. Day one: You’ve logged in to your server remotely via ssh. You run “screen -xRR”, and two minutes later you’re busy chatting away in irssi and vim is running in the other window, because, you know, real sysadmins don’t use emacs. Lunch time: You grab your laptop and head off for lunch. When you open the lid and look at your terminals, they’re all frozen, becau..
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So you’ve learned screen, ssh and vim. Time to take your skills to level two. Day one: You’ve logged in to your server remotely via ssh. You run “screen -xRR”, and two minutes later you’re busy chatting away in irssi and vim is running in the other window, because, you know, real sysadmins don’t use emacs. Lunch time: You grab your laptop and head off for lunch. When you open the lid and look at your terminals, they’re all frozen, becau..
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I have recently switched jobs and had to set up a home office. I have heard a lot of good things about standing desks and thought this was the perfect opportunity to try one. I had looked for one online but those things aren’t cheap (~ $800). Instead of dropping some serious cash, I stacked up some bins and made a poorman’s standing desk. I have a laptop stand and a second monitor. Nothing special, really. I have been standing while....
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I have recently switched jobs and had to set up a home office. I have heard a lot of good things about standing desks and thought this was the perfect opportunity to try one. I had looked for one online but those things aren’t cheap (~ $800). Instead of dropping some serious cash, I stacked up some bins and made a poorman’s standing desk. I have a laptop stand and a second monitor. Nothing special, really. I have been standing while....
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On Friday my iPhone 4 took its dying breath and stopped receiving calls while rebooting itself repeatedly. For the record, this is what my iPhone 4 looks like. Its death is probably my fault. It’s seen two major falls - the first after being placed on top of thin air instead of the bathroom counter after a long night of DXHR and the second during a spider incident.
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[Webinar] Reduce Your IT Risks by Using Continuous Delivery
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www.thoughtworks.com
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14 years ago
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9 in the Continuous Delivery webinar series Continuous Delivery practices are natural fit for organizations who want to manage risks in the delivery of IT services. If this contradicts what you may have been told during painful conversations with compliance teams, this session is for you. Joanne Molesky explains how Continuous Delivery can reduce IT uncertainty and shares an approach that will help convince auditors of the benefits of frequ..
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My contract with my previous shared hosting contractor is coming to a close, and as they seem to have all but abandoned their business, I decided it was time to move away. I looked at using Amazon’s EC2, but ultimately decided to go with Bhost, with which I’m fairly happy so far. To get some decent performance out of it, I planned to use Nginx as my web server Keep using Apache as usual All my websites are configured to work with apache, ....
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My contract with my previous shared hosting contractor is coming to a close, and as they seem to have all but abandoned their business, I decided it was time to move away. I looked at using Amazon’s EC2, but ultimately decided to go with Bhost, with which I’m fairly happy so far. To get some decent performance out of it, I planned to use Nginx as my web server Keep using Apache as usual All my websites are configured to work with apache, ....
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There was a question in Oracle-L about where is the LOB data actually stored (in the row or the LOB segments) and what are the exact conditions when a switch from one to another may happen. The documentation isn’t fully clear about this and the “4000 bytes” number may mislead people to think that you can store 4000 bytes of your data in a LOB item before it must move out-of-line. I clarified this in my post in Oracle-L, but will pos..
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There was a question in Oracle-L about where is the LOB data actually stored (in the row or the LOB segments) and what are the exact conditions when a switch from one to another may happen. The documentation isn’t fully clear about this and the “4000 bytes” number may mislead people to think that you can store 4000 bytes of your data in a LOB item before it must move out-of-line. I clarified this in my post in Oracle-L, but will pos..
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The Complexity of Things Previously on this blog (quite a while ago), we’ve investigated some simple ideas of using randomness in artistic design (psychedelic art, and earlier randomized css designs). Here we intend to give a more thorough and rigorous introduction to the study of the complexity of strings. This naturally falls into the realm of computability theory and complexity theory, and so we refer the novice reader to our other prime..
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The Complexity of Things Previously on this blog (quite a while ago), we’ve investigated some simple ideas of using randomness in artistic design (psychedelic art, and earlier randomized css designs). Here we intend to give a more thorough and rigorous introduction to the study of the complexity of strings. This naturally falls into the realm of computability theory and complexity theory, and so we refer the novice reader to our other prime..
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The Complexity of Things Previously on this blog (quite a while ago), we’ve investigated some simple ideas of using randomness in artistic design (psychedelic art, and earlier randomized css designs). Here we intend to give a more thorough and rigorous introduction to the study of the complexity of strings. This naturally falls into the realm of computability theory and complexity theory, and so we refer the novice reader to our other prime..
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View it live here or get the code here The first URL shortening site I saw was several years ago and was called TinyURL. Soon after Twitter gained popularity a whole slew of them popped up ( bitly , tiny.cc , is.gd ) to cater for the masses constrained by Twitters 140 character limit, but a lot shut...
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View it live here or get the code here The first URL shortening site I saw was several years ago and was called TinyURL. Soon after Twitter gained popularity a whole slew of them popped up ( bitly , tiny.cc , is.gd ) to cater for the masses constrained by Twitters 140 character limit, but a lot shut...
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Potentially Malicious Fake Advertiser using Wordpress Plugin (adv.zip)
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kevinohashi.com
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14 years ago
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It starts with an innocuous email: Hi, I am sorry I have to write you to e-mail from whois information of the domain. But I could not find contact e-mail or feedback form on your site. We are looking for new advertisement platforms and we are interested in your site %DOMAIN% Is it possible to place banner on your site on a fee basis? Best regards, Nicolas Gauthier But it quickly turned strange: Hi! Thanks for reply t..
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A while ago I wrote this , which summarised my frustration with cookie cutter quests in MMORPGs. Later I mentioned here that playing SWTOR and seeing how they tied an interesting storyline with traditional quest mechanics made it more enjoyable while reiterating that while I don’t think traditional quests need to be eliminated completely and can be made fun, quests still need to evolve.
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NASA Space Shuttle Discovery Flys over Washington DC (Photos)
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kevinohashi.com
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14 years ago
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I took these from The Kennedy Center Rooftop. This work by Kevin Ohashi is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License . read more
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NASA Space Shuttle Discovery Flys over Washington DC (Photos)
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kevinohashi.com
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14 years ago
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I took these from The Kennedy Center Rooftop. This work by Kevin Ohashi is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License . read more
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On Saturday, I joined over a hundred other hackers at HackTO. This has become a regular event in the Toronto tech scene, thanks to excellent organizing by Leila Boujnane and Corey Reid. SoundCloud joined several other API providers, including Atomic Reach, Context.IO, FreshBooks, Shopify, TinEye, Twilio, Trendspottr, WordPress and YellowAPI. The idea behind the event is simple: find a team (or go solo) and build an app using one or more of ..
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On Saturday, I joined over a hundred other hackers at HackTO. This has become a regular event in the Toronto tech scene, thanks to excellent organizing by Leila Boujnane and Corey Reid. SoundCloud joined several other API providers, including Atomic Reach, Context.IO, FreshBooks, Shopify, TinEye, Twilio, Trendspottr, WordPress and YellowAPI. The idea behind the event is simple: find a team (or go solo) and build an app using one or more of ..
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Redirect all Pages from Old Domain to New Domain Using .htaccess
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thomashunter.name
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14 years ago
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Hi All, Just submitted an update for the BBC News Mobile app, this fixes the issues around live tiles. I’m going to hold my hand up to this one, it was a fault when moving between SVN and TFS. The backgroundscheduler code in the last version was actually from an older release and this caused the issues. I’ve also added in a beta feature for related articles, this is to shut up my housemate - Dan, who has been hassling me to make this ha..
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Update the talk for this is now viewable on YouTube here When I first came across Django I was an immediate fan. It featured: Good documentation Steady but stable progress Community around apps which encouraged DRY I’ve been a user off and on depending on my needs for nearly four years since discovering it, and throughout that time all of the above have remained true. However, as I’ve worked on and encountered more complex applic....
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Update the talk for this is now viewable on YouTube here When I first came across Django I was an immediate fan. It featured: Good documentation Steady but stable progress Community around apps which encouraged DRY I’ve been a user off and on depending on my needs for nearly four years since discovering it, and throughout that time all of the above have remained true. However, as I’ve worked on and encountered more complex applic....
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I really dislike Django’s ORM. For my job I have written (and continue to maintain) a large internal project that uses Django’s ORM, templating language and MVC framework to serve requests, and I made the unfortunate mistake of sticking with Django’s ORM instead of using the much more powerful SQLAl...
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I really dislike Django’s ORM. For my job I have written (and continue to maintain) a large internal project that uses Django’s ORM, templating language and MVC framework to serve requests, and I made the unfortunate mistake of sticking with Django’s ORM instead of using the much more powerful SQLAl...
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There was a question in the twitter-sphere about whether using sequences (sequence.NEXTVAL) in your select query’s projection list would somehow disable smart scans happening? The answer is no, sequence use with smart scans works just fine. The smart scan offloading applies to data retrieval row sources (and filtering) only and nothing else. So, what you have in the query’s projection list (the sequence use for example), does not direct..
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There was a question in the twitter-sphere about whether using sequences (sequence.NEXTVAL) in your select query’s projection list would somehow disable smart scans happening? The answer is no, sequence use with smart scans works just fine. The smart scan offloading applies to data retrieval row sources (and filtering) only and nothing else. So, what you have in the query’s projection list (the sequence use for example), does not direct..
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Happy to announce that the searchco.de code index is growing nicely. Even as you read this blog (assuming anyone does read it) thousands of new files are being added to the index. I suspect in time the code index will be one of the larger ones on the web. At last count it was well over 2 billion lines of code but I suspect this has grown quite a lot.
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UPDATE, Tue Apr 17: I followed the advice of an EB rep on the EB Games Facebook page and called the store to check on my CE key today, which still has not arrived. Then I called the EB Games CSR line (13 39 30) as the rep suggested. They sent my key out to me via email straight away. I registered it on the GW2 site using my old GW1 account. Quick and painless :) Now I just hope they did indeed give me a CE and not standard or DD key as the....
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Just a quick blog post to point out that some speed improvements have been implemented. I have a few more tricks to roll out soon but on the whole things are much more snappy now. I have also been modifying my indexers and can now update the index ad-hoc rather then in large batches. I have some more stuff coming soon including search restricted to languages EG Java / C++ and an updated code view.
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My universities student network is pretty restricted. I just finished coding a few changes to Simple and realised I couldn’t push any changes to GitHub due to port restrictions. It appears that they block almost all ports bar 80 and 445 via TCP, which is fine for most users but is quite annoying for...
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