Today in the Sunlab a student ran into a problem. His program ran faster in Eclipse than on the command line. Actually, to clarify the program initially didn't run at all on the command line. Only after increasing the heap size did it run (this should give you a hint …
more ...Ok, you have a spare computer. You want to setup SSH. Maybe this is because your laptop is Windows and WSL doesn't yet support the Go compiler (or Elm compiler for that matter. Edit: It does now). So you want a Linux box always on in your dorm.
Problem: The …
more ...Today Matt Perault visited the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. Matt has been the head of Facebook's Global Policy Division for the past five years. Here I provide some commentary on his comments today.
Snowden
Perault claims that the Snowden revelations were wrong. Specifically he pointed to an …
more ...If you're curious about how Typescript implements 'extends' for classes in vanilla Javascript code, check out this tutorial.
more ...more ...First, That the idea or belief of a word of God existing in print, or in writing, or in speech is inconsistent in itself for the reasons already assigned. These reasons, among many others, are the want of an universal language; the mutability of language; the errors to which translations …
When defining the interface between two sections of an application, don't forget to specify how errors are conveyed and how the receiving party can detect and handle them. Of course you should specify what errors might occur.
Notes from my mistakes...
(Note: Of course this sounds obvious, but I'll just …
more ...Install fortune on your mac with Homebrew.
brew install fortune
You can go ahead and start using it now, but if you want to customize your fortune files you need to know the following:
Fortune files are found in /usr/local/share/games/fortunes.
To add a new fortune file …
more ...Automator is handy. It's a visual replacement for stringing together commands with pipes. Suppose you have an exposed REST endpoint which provides JSON data and you want to get some of this information into your clipboard. You can create an automator workflow which does this. All you have to do …
more ...Puzzle: You have an infinite grid in the first quadrant. It extends infinitely as X and Y increase. You begin with a pebble in the 0-0 grid in the bottom left hand position. You can perform moves by removing a pebble and placing two new pebbles, one above and one …
more ...This week I've run into two bugs of note. The first comes from a classmate of
mine. His python scraping script terminated with an out of memory error. He
determined the error came from a call to the subprocess module, specifically
subprocess.check_output.
From …
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