Photographs, reflections, and notes from my learning journey.
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You Can’t Hide Behind the Trees…
Taken with my little Sony point-and-shoot with the polarized lens of my sunglasses as a makeshift filter for the hazy sunlight…
Battling with Django Inheritance: Subclass Casting
For a day or so now I’ve been battling with Django’s model inheritance, which has a particularly frustrating approach to dynamic polymorphism. The problem is that when one is implementing…
RIP eeePC 701
It is with great sadness that I inform you all that my Asus eeePC 701 has finally exhaled it’s last 7-inch breath, wheezing under the weight of the many superfluous…
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Excellent study into potential benefits of regular glucosamine supplementation, with broad range of confounding covariates considered. TLDR: take glucosamine!
Everybody I have spoken to with direct experience of Amazon’s corporate culture is impressed with the level of productivity it unlocks.
The author has only anecdotal support for his assertion, but I have the same experience: “Configuration bugs are a disturbingly large portion of engineering decisions which cause outages”
Disappointed to come back to SketchUp after several years to find it costs hundreds of dollars to use on my desktop?!
Reddit is awesome – check out this response to my query about the translation of some Japanese text on a garment I have
Having often intuitively leaned towards a “version control” mental paradigm for spreadsheets, documents, designs, photos, etc. this project is super interesting – version control for everything
Some important reflections on the culture of geography in the tech community from Maggie Appleton here.