On July 7 UNESCO announced this year's additions to the list of World Heritage sites. Among the newly added locations we find the mountain range of Qinghai Hoh Xil
Qinghai is a large province in western China.
Hoh Xil means "Blue Ridge" in Mongolian. (A friend tells …
more ...I discovered a new subreddit today. Take a look at r/AccidentalWesAnderson. Wes Anderson directed the award winning Grand Budapest Hotel as well as Moonrise Kingdom. Both of these films are among my favorites.
So what makes a Wes Anderson film?
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 …
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