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The recently launched swisstopo maps are now available for commercial use from MapTiler’s global infrastructure with guaranteed SLA, seamlessly blended with global maps, as raster tiles, on mobile devices, with dark and gray styles, and much more!
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Internet: Medium For Communication, Medium For Narrative Control The Artifacts And Spaces: Defining and Understanding Propaganda, Influence, And Persuasion
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venam.net
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5 years ago
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eng
Our journey begins with three terms, propaganda, influence, and persuasion. To most, they sound like synonyms but each convey a different concept. Like any form of communication the internet can be used as a channel for them. What does communication consist of? The very broad domain of communication studies — with multiple sub-disciplines such as journalism, film critic, public relation, and political science — often use a simple reductioni..
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Introduction When the pandemic the world became obsessed with numbers. Back then it was new infections, eventually deaths and now…
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Following a phone screen, we typically ask candidates to complete some coding tasks. The idea is that we want to see their code and asking a candidate to program during an interview… does not go well. I had a candidate some years ago that was provided with a machine, IDE and internet connection and walked out after failing for 30 minutes to reverse a string. Given that his CV said that he has 8 years of experience, I consider myself very lu....
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Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko is a tale that lasts generations and sweeps us through Japan during the 20th century. It is a tale of…
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The always brilliant Hynek recently posted Semantic Versioning Will Not Save You . Primarily targeted at consumers of SemVer-versioned packages, it is full of insightful advice. From my perspective as an open-source maintainer, I can tell you that versioning is hard. Judging when a new release is going to break backward compatibility is not as simple as it might seem on the surface, and Hynek does a great job explaining why. Sometimes ..
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Joel Goodman of Bravery Media on the current state of HigherEd homepages. Regardless, it’s an agency’s responsibility to do as much as possible to make that website a success when it goes live. Do no harm. Slow websites only do harm. Code needs to be optimized, frameworks need to be ditched, images need to be properly sized and deferred, CSS and JavaScript need to be used with efficiency in mind. Indeed
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also because until you sell, and you have the money on your bank account, your are not making any profit. The story behind my psychologic limitation is quite short and common, on the “cryptos hype” I was involved with mtGox “puff/disappeared” exchange, with some dollars (well euros since I’m italian) so I promised myself to “don’t fall again in the crypto black hole”. But every temptation that is made to be broken, so I have fallen in it ..
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also because until you sell, and you have the money on your bank account, your are not making any profit. The story behind my psychologic limitation is quite short and common, on the “cryptos hype” I was involved with mtGox “puff/disappeared” exchange, with some dollars (well euros since I’m italian) so I promised myself to “don’t fall again in the crypto black hole”. But every temptation that is made to be broken, so I have fallen in it ..
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Grouparoo works with both SQLite and Postgres databases. This post shares what we've learned about the differences.
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In this video I will present a case study of a complex performance issue where the initial symptoms pointed somewhere else than the root cause. Only when systematically following through the troubleshooting evidence, we get to the root cause of the problem. This session aims to help you understand (and reason about) the Oracle’s multi-process & multi-layer system behavior, preparing you for independent troubleshooting of such complex perfor..
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This article is part 3 of Snyk API Wednesdays - our new blog series covering different Snyk API use cases and customer stories. Part 1 covered the Snyk-Watcher by Twilio, and part 2 covered a new integration with Opsgenie using custom webhooks.
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Last night I was playing Maquette and I got stuck on the final level (called “The Exchange”) for a really long time. I was at a place with some towers with crystals above them and I had opened the doors to the first tower; Inside was a switch. Flipping the switch made a bunch of … Continue reading Stuck on the final Maquette level
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WFH Day 353 I didn’t sleep too bad last night. I got up at around 7:15 am, made myself a coffee, and continued to read my current book Gerta . I’m a slow reader, and if I don’t put time aside for reading, I will never finish any longer book in a finite amount of time. Reading in bed at night is something that doesn’t work for me. I usually fall asleep pretty quickly, and then my Kindle, or even worse, my iPad, falls to my face. If I start..
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Snyk’s new vulnerability cards - fix issues fast with a new look and feel
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snyk.io
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5 years ago
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eng
We're excited to announce that we’ve redesigned Snyk's issue cards to significantly improve its usability and value. It’s more than a fresh coat of paint and we haven’t taken anything out, but we’ve added value and feng shui’d the card considerably.
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Using Sitemap to write efficient web scrapers A step by step guide writing web scrapers without using extra resources.
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blog.adnansiddiqi.me
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5 years ago
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eng
This post is the part of Scraping Series. Usually, when you start developing a scraper to scrape loads of records, your first step is usually to go to the page where all listings are available. You go to the page by page, fetch individual URLs, store in DB or in a file and then start parsing. Nothing wrong with it. The only issue is the wastage of resources. Say there are 100 records in a certain category. Each page has 10 records. Ideally,....
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Reverse engineering an obfuscated codebase and fixing it in the process
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nicolaiarocci.com
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5 years ago
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eng
Today’s mandatory reading is How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70% . As someone who’s been fighting the protection/obfuscation cat & mouse game for twenty+ years, let me tell you one thing. The way this guy reverse-engineered parts of the GTA5 codebase and then proceeded to single-handly triage and fix a long-standing (7+ years) performance issue is simply mindblowing. All he had to work with were heavily obfuscated dlls. This also ..
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I’m really interested in privacy and how my data are collected, used, stored and just in general exists. While I think of my data as mine, the more I think about it, the hazier I am. I think defining ownership more clearly will help me think of what’s possible and then what’s also appropriate and reasonable to do with data. Limits to using my data I was reading about how Google is changing Chromium to remove and restructure some features....
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The Harrell-Davis quantile estimator is one of my favorite quantile estimators because of its efficiency . It has a small mean square error which allows getting accurate estimations. However, it has a severe drawback: it’s not robust. Indeed, since the estimator includes all sample elements with positive weights, its breakdown point is zero. In this post, I want to suggest modifications of the Harrell-Davis quantile estimator which inc..
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The Harrell-Davis quantile estimator is one of my favorite quantile estimators because of its efficiency . It has a small mean square error which allows getting accurate estimations. However, it has a severe drawback: it’s not robust. Indeed, since the estimator includes all sample elements with positive weights, its breakdown point is zero. In this post, I want to suggest modifications of the Harrell-Davis quantile estimator which inc..
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A vision for the "small web", small software, and small architectures. Also, a bonus rant about microservices.
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Early access to works-in-progress The Carrot is where I share drafts before they’re ready, half-formed ideas worth discussing, and the occasional exclusive piece that won’t appear on the main site. What you’ll get: First looks at essays and projects while they’re still malleable Behind-the-scenes notes on process, failures, and pivots Exclusive content that stays newsletter-only Puzzle previews before public release No fixed schedu..
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Last weekend’s reading list also included Taking Back Our Privacy , yet another 1 New Yorker piece but this time signed by Anna Wiener. This article is a long-read on Moxie Marlinspike, co-founder and CEO of Signal. Moxie is a childhood nickname. That alone signals (pun intended) an original personality. I mean, how many times have you heard of a CEO going by his childhood nickname? Indeed the personal story of Marlinspike, along with..
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Another historic project I produced in early 2011. This was ReachStuff to provide analytics for Halo Reach.
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Von Neumann architecture This basic model of a computer as a processing unit that receives input, communicates with a memory and produces output is known as the von Nuemann architecture named after the first computer scientist John von Neumann. In this architecture, the processor itself consists of several specialized parts: The arithmetic logic unit (ALU)-the central processing unit capable of performing mathematical and logical operations..
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When most people think of three dimensions, they think of three positional (spatial) dimensions. Up & down, left & right, forward & back. I was thinking - instead of a positional dimension, what if we used something else that we can perceive such as color?
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