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What to Watch for in 2014
Lots of people write prediction pieces heading into a new year. As a general fan of consumer internet / tech, aside from working at one such company, I can’t wait to observe a number of potential events in 2014. Rather than postulate about their outcome,...
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IMPORTANT note about my “patterns”
I’ve seen a lot of comments about the way I write my “patterns”. My intention is more to write design notes with instructions, often for original techniques like the no-hole corners. This seems to be confusing to those who only crochet following row-by-row...
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The Future of Programming
It seems to me that there have been two really clean, consistent models of programming so far: the C model and the Lisp model. These two seem points of high ground, with swampy lowlands between them. As computers have grown more powerful, the new languages...
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Les ravages de l'indignation sélective
(Texte initialement publié par le think tank EALI) En montant dans le métro qui m'emmenait au travail hier matin, je remarquais une affiche de “Save Darfur”, une alliance d'organisations non gouvernementales luttant pour la sensibilisation du public sur...
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Wisata Petik Apel Batu
Kusuma Agrowisata Petik Apel Kota Batu Jawa Timur Kusuma Agrowisata Petik Apel Kota Batu Malang Jawa Timur - Siapa yang tak pernah merasakan buah apel? Tahukah anda dimana kota Apel berada? Ya.. anda benar. Kota Batu di Jawa Timur memang dikenal sebagai...
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President Karzai’s Legacy
“Hamid Karzai with U.S. Special Forces Operational Detachment Alpha 574 during Operation Enduring Freedom in 2001.” President Karzais smiley face no longer covers up his politics of deception. His words do not sound promising, nor does his behavior seem...
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Boron Nitride Powder: Excellent Compound With Amazing Thermal Stability
boron nitride powder | Image Resource : kennametal.com style="text-align: justify;">Technology has limited the work of men and also constituted a lot towards the growth of mankind. The credit definitely goes to nano technology. With nano sized particles,...
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6 (or more) non-evil arguments against free higher education
I often enter in discussion with fellow European students on the question of free higher education. In most European countries, it is a standard that higher education is free for all citizens (at times up to the level of Ph.D. studies), and every questioning...
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Download Free Music
Almost everyone listens to music on a tablet or MP3 player these days. How does the music get into this equipment? Downloading music is the way to go. This article provides information about downloading music that will help if you have an interest in...
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Notes to Our Leaders by Decibully
Sidewalk chalk writers leave notes for our leaders who cover our eyes with candy and bubblegum They hear what were saying, but they choose not to listen at all So we choose a different voice we chew on our choices and swallow the knowledge and the experience...
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Why Vim
We survivalists, turned to consumers Just to get by, just to get by - Talib Kweli Cosumer Consider how much we take for granted when using technology. All the processes that translate our intentions into pulses of electricity and then into results are...
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Simpler Android APIs with AutoParcel
Simpler Android APIs with AutoParcel I have made a small change to one of the Android libraries I maintain and was quite happy with how it turned out, so I wanted to write a few words about it. Strings! Strings everywhere! One of the things I like the...
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Why Do You Read the News?
I used to read news, articles, and commentaries every day. I would wake up and read the Wall Street Journal each morning along with a variety of carefully cultivated online sources that I would browse through during lunch and after work. I used the internet...
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Visualizing Metrics in Storm using StatsD & Graphite
Storm Metrics API Jason Trost from Endgame has written a nice post on how to setup Storm to publish metrics using the Metrics API. Endgame has also open sourced a module storm-metrics-statsd for Storm that allows you to send messages to StatsD. Build...
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Good Reads: October 9th 2014
Mining of Massive Datasets - This is a very interesting book which covers many topics in Big Data including Map-Reduce, Recommendation Systems, Mining Social-Network Graphs, Dimensionality Reduction and Large-Scale Machine Learning. I am currently in...
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Her Name is Stella, Maybe
Because the night belongs to us. The jitters fit right into the equation. For I never had sisters, with a childhood growing up in a household with just a single female, so it’s a slightly different leap into the unknown. And staring at the abyss does...
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Implications of Open Source Swift
Apple is open sourcing Swift in late 2015 and is going to provide a compiler + libraries for iOS/OSX and Linux!!! This brings some interesting implications, given that: 1) Swift aims to be safe via static type inference and use of optionals 2) Swift aims...
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L'affaire Pérol en quatre questions
(Texte initialement publié sur Blogger) L'article 432-13 du Code pénal dispose, en son alinéa premier : Est puni de deux ans d'emprisonnement et de 30 000 Euros d'amende le fait, par une personne ayant été chargée, en tant que fonctionnaire ou agent d'une...
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Using Apache2 with Open Directory for Authentication
During the course of migrating directory services from OpenLDAP to Open Directory, I was tasked with finding alternate configurations for connecting a lot of different services to OD. Among these were gitlab, freeradius, a slew of Atlassian products,...
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Les ravages de l'indignation sélective
(Texte initialement publié par le think tank EALI) En montant dans le métro qui m'emmenait au travail hier matin, je remarquais une affiche de “Save Darfur”, une alliance d'organisations non gouvernementales luttant pour la sensibilisation du public sur...
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Architectural Photography: My Heroes
In recent posts, I have spoken of my heroes – there are five of them, in no particular order: Ezra Stoller, Balthazar Korab, Robert Polidori, Gabriele Basilico, and Eugene Atget. They all have in common the use of the large format view camera, the architectural...
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Blog Archive: Garbage In, Awesome Out
Note: The idea of developing text based interfaces that intelligently deal with idiosyncratic input & interpret structure from layout still appeals to me. A lot of natural language interfaces focus on voice input, but I think its equally worth thinking...
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On Writing
“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing about.” - Ben Franklin Writing is messy, it tends to have a mind of its own when not confined to strict, pre-determined boundaries. As with any discipline, the only way forward is to...
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A Cosmic Millimeter Away
Vi devas esti kuraĝa antaŭ ol vi povos esti bona. You have to be brave before you can be good. As Barr told Marko, I shall do my best to teach my son as well. … The things one does with time. They’re but just a cosmic millimeter away, yet the distance...