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I have now lived in Canada for over two years and there are some things that Canadians can’t seem to make up their mind on. Spelling Canadian spelling is stuck half way between British spelling and American spelling. Canadians will say: colour, favourite, honour (which are all British) program, realize (which are all American) Measuring units When you’re driving in Canada, everything is in kilometers. Snow fall is measured in centim..
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I have now lived in Canada for over two years and there are some things that Canadians can’t seem to make up their mind on. Spelling Canadian spelling is stuck half way between British spelling and American spelling. Canadians will say: colour, favourite, honour (which are all British) program, realize (which are all American) Measuring units When you’re driving in Canada, everything is in kilometers. Snow fall is measured in centim..
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Last weekend, we sponsored and attended our first PennApps, the world’s largest student run hackathon held at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Nearly 500 students participated from a variety of universities across the US and elsewhere. Students were given 36 hours to get into teams, hack on projects, then show them off to the judges. The results were astounding. In total, over 100 hacks were submitted. Here are some of my per..
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Last weekend, we sponsored and attended our first PennApps, the world’s largest student run hackathon held at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Nearly 500 students participated from a variety of universities across the US and elsewhere. Students were given 36 hours to get into teams, hack on projects, then show them off to the judges. The results were astounding. In total, over 100 hacks were submitted. Here are some of my per..
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A particularly astute observation from my favorite blog, Blogarach. “America is a nation of tantrum-throwing moral infants that’s been dragged bawling out of the crib of its own moral and ethical object impermanence, and even now it’s kicking and screaming on the floor of the department store, yelling that some black guy got into a California law school ahead of a deserving white.” Permalink.
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Another post from what is quickly becoming my favorite blog, and one of the few sites whose articles I consistent read. “For all the po-faced, high-church sentimentality and stentorian sententiousness of the quadrennial American coronation day, there’s something almost charmingly — and disarmingly — tacky about our great national junket jubilee, a certain plastic tablecloth, fire-hall wedding, warming-tray ziti trashiness that makes the..
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John Siracusa in an article from 2010, in which he briefly discusses the problem faced by those wishing to enter into blogging. “Of course, now I just spent 20 minutes futzing with Tumblr themes (before giving up when I realized that I won’t be happy with the results without investing many, many more hours) instead of writing the the post that motivated this little excursion in the first place.” For non-technical people, the problem..
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The graph is among the most common data structures in computer science, and it’s unsurprising that a staggeringly large amount of time has been dedicated to developing algorithms on graphs. Indeed, many problems in areas ranging from sociology, linguistics, to chemistry and artificial intelligence can be translated into questions about graphs. It’s no stretch to say that graphs are truly ubiquitous. Even more, common problems often concern ..
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The graph is among the most common data structures in computer science, and it’s unsurprising that a staggeringly large amount of time has been dedicated to developing algorithms on graphs. Indeed, many problems in areas ranging from sociology, linguistics, to chemistry and artificial intelligence can be translated into questions about graphs. It’s no stretch to say that graphs are truly ubiquitous. Even more, common problems often concern ..
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The graph is among the most common data structures in computer science, and it’s unsurprising that a staggeringly large amount of time has been dedicated to developing algorithms on graphs. Indeed, many problems in areas ranging from sociology, linguistics, to chemistry and artificial intelligence can be translated into questions about graphs. It’s no stretch to say that graphs are truly ubiquitous. Even more, common problems often concern ..
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Release includes, by popular demand: Improved the visuals - header space shrunk, overlaps fixed and nicer pics. The return of the small live tile - too small for me but people wanted it! Offline access - In testing at the moment. Swiping to move to next story. Minor Bug fixes. Clearer disclaimer .
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The following question was asked on Stack Overflow: I have heard some strong developers say that “inline SQL in and of itself is not evil”. I do not understand how inline SQL is acceptable. To me its just like hard coding. Many a developer would scoff in my face for putting a connection string in the code vs a config file. So why is it that “SELECT value1,value2 FROM TABLE” is perfectly acceptable in compiled code?
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Entity Framework and Foreign key constraint may cause cycles or multiple cascade paths
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daniellittle.dev
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13 years ago
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Today I ran into the issue for the first time. The first thing to note is the error isn't actually from Entity Framework it's from SQL…
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Another article I glossed by a few weeks ago only to come back to it as the clock strikes midnight. “The changes to my working (and sleeping) routine have forced me to write when it’s time to write, not when I feel inspired.” At the time I didn’t understand the concept of writing when it was time to write rather than when I felt inspired, which is why I didn’t pay a great deal of attention to this article when Shawn Blanc first rele..
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When I first saw this tweet roll by in my feeds either earlier this week I didn’t pay much attention to it. As I sit here and it’s nearly midnight, however, John Gruber’s excerpt came to mind: “Midnight: Hunter ready to write.” These days I have very small windows in which to write in: between homework and class during the day, and after I return home from FRC practice at 9:30 (at the earliest) each night. Outside of those small windows, wh..
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Certainly one of the most interesting comparison I have seen to a closed nation like Korea scrolled into view in my news feed as an article from The Verge titled Eric Schmidt’s daughter reports on creepy North Korea trip, says the country is like ‘The Truman Show’ . Permalink.
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A few days ago in preparation for posting We Have Lost One of Our Own , a short article I wrote eulogizing Aaron Swartz in response to the news that he had committed suicide, I spent some time perusing his work. This article, Take a Step Back, is one of the many I saved to Instapaper, and the one in which I found this interesting tidbit: “There are the blogs on ‘life hacks,’ which are full of gadgets and gizmos that seem to cause mor..
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The title reworked for this article, Reginald Braithwaite’s article Why the Fuck? posted earlier today not only made it to the Hacker News front page, but to the top spot. He makes an interesting point to begin with, and then anticlimactically ended the piece with a call to arms in the fight against diabetes and obesity. But that’s his point: today the glamorous projects aren’t the ones helping people. The greatest technical minds of th..
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I saw a similar post to this one a few days ago about Microsoft called Fail Fail Fail iPad on Gravitational Pull, using preductions from years long past that coincidentally fit current events to predict the eventual demise of Microsoft. Both articles were wrong. Permalink.
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Tea Club was cancelled on Wednesday, so an impromptu belated meeting was held today instead, as all members were conveniently present thanks to a film night. This gave us the perfect opportunity for subjecting unaware participants to a very (un)scientific study.
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Tea Club was cancelled on Wednesday, so an impromptu belated meeting was held today instead, as all members were conveniently present thanks to a film night. This gave us the perfect opportunity for subjecting unaware participants to a very (un)scientific study.
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Ryota Watabe has translated some of my articles into Japanese and intends to translate more in the future (thanks for that! :) I have added a little “translations” section to the left sidebar of the blog (scroll down). Or just go to this link: http://www.csus4.net/d/japanese_translations_of_tanel_poder_s_posts_and_articles/ You might also want to follow Watabe-san on Twitter to get notified of any new Japanese translations that ..
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Ryota Watabe has translated some of my articles into Japanese and intends to translate more in the future (thanks for that! :) I have added a little “translations” section to the left sidebar of the blog (scroll down). Or just go to this link: http://www.csus4.net/d/japanese_translations_of_tanel_poder_s_posts_and_articles/ You might also want to follow Watabe-san on Twitter to get notified of any new Japanese translations that ..
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Earlier this morning Dan Ryan posted The Problem with Kickstarter over on Xconomy. Joshua Beckman of SthgNw commented on the piece, saying, “The problem really is that people sell ideas and are expected to deliver hard products.” I would take Josh’s opinion one step further: the problem is that people sell hard ideas and are expected to deliver hard products. Permalink.
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So hiera wasn’t working when used through my puppetmaster. It worked perfectly when I was running my scripts manually with: puppet apply site.pp but the moment I switched over to regular puppetmasterd usage, everything went dead. I realized a while back, that I could always expect some hiera failures from time to time. Whether this is hiera’s fault or not is irrelevant, the relevant part is that I quickly added:
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So hiera wasn’t working when used through my puppetmaster. It worked perfectly when I was running my scripts manually with: puppet apply site.pp but the moment I switched over to regular puppetmasterd usage, everything went dead. I realized a while back, that I could always expect some hiera failures from time to time. Whether this is hiera’s fault or not is irrelevant, the relevant part is that I quickly added:
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What the heck is the INTERNAL_FUNCTION in execution plan predicate section?
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tanelpoder.com
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13 years ago
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eng
Sometimes you see something like this in an execution plan: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Id | Operation | Name | Rows | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | | | 2 (100)| | |* 1 | TABLE ACCESS FULL| T | 1 | 22 | 2 (0)| 00:00:01 | -------------------------------------------------------..
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What the heck is the INTERNAL_FUNCTION in execution plan predicate section?
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tanelpoder.com
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13 years ago
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eng
Sometimes you see something like this in an execution plan: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Id | Operation | Name | Rows | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | | | 2 (100)| | |* 1 | TABLE ACCESS FULL| T | 1 | 22 | 2 (0)| 00:00:01 | -------------------------------------------------------..
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Interesting and apparently very lucrative application of a business practice all too prevalent throughout this nation by an individual. Permalink.
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Speaking of talking about other writers’ tools and processes, here’s Shawn Blanc searching for a replacement to an integral part of his workflow as a writer, Simplenote. Not a day goes by that I don’t use Simplenote, and unfortunately I’ve noticed some of the synching problems he has. Nevertheless Simplenote remains the best on the market, and for that single reason I will continue to keep all my notes, to write all my articles, and to stor..
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Always interesting to read about another writer’s tools and setup, and Matt Gemmell’s style makes this piece all the more pleasurable to read. “What you’re seeing through the window is Outside. Now, I’m not a massive fan of Outside, generally speaking - I’m of the belief that we coped with Outside for a long time, until we finally invented Inside, and then breathed a huge sigh of relief - but it can really clear your head and restore so..
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Kas Thomas on how to write an opening sentence, drawing on his extensive writing career as well as a number of books on the subject. I particularly liked how he pointed out the openers prominent writers use over and over again. Definitely something to keep in mind when writing. “These aren’t all the possible ways to start a piece, but if you’re completely stuck, one of them should work. If not? Surprise the world with something outlandi..
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Why We're Raising the Signature Threshold for We the People
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www.whitehouse.gov
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13 years ago
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eng
After the petition to build a Death Star and the petition to remove Ortiz from her position at the Department of Injustice (oops, a typo) all garnered the required 25,000 signatures, I suppose it’s not surprising. Sam Byford has more on this in his post After Death Star and deportation petitions, White House raises signature threshold to 100,000 on The Verge. Permalink.
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The Days When We Had Rest, O Soul, for They Were Long
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jacobbacharach.wordpress.com
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13 years ago
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eng
An interesting article posted over on Blogarach in response to Aaron Swartz’s death. Even more impressive is that it’s a single, extremely well-written sentence. Worth the read even if you are not following the tragedy that is Aaron Swartz’s suicide. Permalink.
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Thirty-eight minutes and eleven seconds in to the eighteenth episode of The B&B Podcast , Shawn Blanc, in response to Ben Brooks talking about the salient point of his Lion review, said, “If you can’t boil down your whole article into a tweet, what are you doing writing the article in the first place?” Amidst a discussion regarding Ben and Shanw’s recent Lion and Web OS reviews, respectively, this humble observation is easy to miss as it..
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An article from Ben Brooks posted in November of last year I had near the middle of my Simplenote list, burried beneath a slew of notes, ideas, and half-baked articles. I’m not interested in writing when it’s not about the writing. iBooks Author is neat, but I don’t want to learn it - instead I’ll just “publish” the book here as a series of posts, where I know what I am doing (somewhat) and where writing is about writing and not layout,..
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As you might already know, I like pushing the boundaries of what puppet is able to do. Today, I realized that I needed to include a class by variable name. A simple way to do this is possible with: $foo = 'world' class { "hello::${foo}::params": } I then realized that you could also do this with the standard include keyword: $foo = 'world' include "hello::${foo}::params" If you’re really insane enough to need t..
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