I've been teaching a fair amount, which means I've been revisiting my 'class problems' regularly. When I chose the problems, I thought that I understood them completely (hubris, I know) but now that I've worked them repeatedly I'm seeing new and surprising things. These new thing … | Continue reading
Glen Maddern: This is one of the key benefits of this approach. The presence of an attribute, e.g. am-Button, can and should be styled. The particular values of each attribute then alter and adapt these base styles. A maioria dos estilos de escrita atuais, em especial a metodolog … | Continue reading
In this week’s episode we discuss James’ first ever trip to Burning Man, ugliness in modern culture and on the Internet, the new divide in politics, and ultimately why we have hope for the future. Links Grover Norquist: My First Burning Man: Confessions of a Conservative from Was … | Continue reading
Between the 1st and 5th of September, Lorenzo Porzi from FBK presented a paper on “Personalizing a Smartwatch-based Gesture Interface with Transfer Learning” at the European Signal Processing Conference. The paper was presented in the Signal Processing Applications poster session … | Continue reading
I’m starting to think that the ramp up in sapphire production from Apple isn’t about a screen, but TouchID sensors on every Apple product… | Continue reading
If you're using filamentgroup's grunticon to inline SVG icons in your workflow and you're minifying them with svgmin before you're running Grunticon (as you should), you may run into broken PNG fallback images that are output by Grunticon. The bug: the PNGs contain a big blob of … | Continue reading
On the occasion of The Best in Heritage event, the eCult Observatory organises its third Dialogue Day on 25 September 2014 in Dubrovnik. The aim of the eCult Dialogue Days is to foster the communic… | Continue reading
Sörby gård and Lärkstugan in the beginning and end of the summer. Have some thoughts? Send me an email. | Continue reading
In this week’s episode we discuss whether or not consoles will be disrupted. This episode was recorded a week ago (immediately after last week’s episode), before Ben wrote his pieces Games and Good Enough and Games and New Market Disruption. Links Ben Thompson: How Apple TV Might … | Continue reading
Popular microblogging services, such as Twitter, are engaging millions of users who constantly post and share information about news and current events each day, resulting in millions of messages discussing what is happening in the world. To help users obtain an overview of micro … | Continue reading
Popular microblogging services, such as Twitter, are engaging millions of users who constantly post and share information about news and current events each day, resulting in millions of messages discussing what is happening in the world. To help users obtain an overview of micro … | Continue reading
I saw the Mailbox beta launch the other day and felt this urge to get on board. I was excited like in the old days when new apps and services made me nervous like a little kid before christmas. But somewhere deep inside it didn't feel true anymore. I stopped my "early-adopter car … | Continue reading
It’s high time I wrote this post. I’ve been thinking about it for a long time. It was part of my first year expat resolutions. But of course I missed the appointment with my first year. | Continue reading
On the 28th August, Elisa Ricci presented a paper at the 22nd International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Stockholm (Sweden) ICPR is an international forum to discuss recent advances in the fields of Pattern Recog-nition; Machine Learning and Computer Vision and on applicati … | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-SMEInst-2014-2015Pillar: Industrial LeadershipOpening Date: Deadline: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014Latest information: Please note the release of the Flash Info on the 28th of August 2014. | Continue reading
I'm working on Kirby 2 for almost two years now. It started as a small wish to make the first version a bit better and has become a major personal effort, which takes all my time and concentration. It's no longer about iterating over the first version. I'm under constant pressure … | Continue reading
We introduce ReDites, a system for realtime event detection, tracking, monitoring and visualisation. It is designed to assist Information Analysts in understanding and exploring complex events as they unfold in the world. Events are automatically detected from the Twitter stream. … | Continue reading
We introduce ReDites, a system for realtime event detection, tracking, monitoring and visualisation. It is designed to assist Information Analysts in understanding and exploring complex events as they unfold in the world. Events are automatically detected from the Twitter stream. … | Continue reading
For entertainment, I’m learning assembler on Linux. | Continue reading
In this week’s episode we spend a good bit of time revisiting the native ads discussion, then dive into the different ways that Twitter and Facebook have handled the news this week. From there we discuss Twitter’s timeline changes, the realities of venture capital, and whether or … | Continue reading
I've updated my Jekyll + Heroku + Unicorn sample app to the latest version of Jekyll available (2.3.0). It now have all the latest features from Jekyll! I also added a Heroku Button. So you can deploy your own version of the Jekyll site to a new app on your Heroku account with ju … | Continue reading
In this week’s episode we discuss feedback about Ben’s Android criticism, then dive into Andreessen Horowitz’s $50 million investment into BuzzFeed. Is there a real business here? We also discuss native advertising: Ben is quite a bit more optimistic than James. Links Ben Thompso … | Continue reading
Just like the ebb and flow, trends in webdesign come and go. Some of them set the foundation for future trends, some are just one-hit wonders. Butterflies following the mouse, scroll effects, textures, shadows, rounded corners, bubbly buttons, bouncy animations, cards, material d … | Continue reading
This post explains how to get project-specific Vim settings. | Continue reading
As a programmer on a way to technical excellency, you should teach yourself to constantly spot and reduce waste. | Continue reading
When I started learning how to write code, I always wondered why there are thousands of books on how to get started or being a master, but nothing in between. It's a bit like those two-step How to draw… jokes, which start with a circle and end with an entire hand in step two. It … | Continue reading
I had my first hackathon experience as a Venmo employee this past weekend, and boy was it fun! | Continue reading
In this week’s episode we discuss how the Internet is enabling not only big winners, but also small, focused niche players, and why that’s exciting. We also discuss the impact this transition will have on society, follow up on last week’s integrated/modular discussion, and in a s … | Continue reading
For years I’ve had a single task on my TO-DO list: backup photos. I had an awful solution years ago, and only recently did a permanent, proper solution. Doing backups the right way means taking several items into consideration, and should not be done lightly. Trusting poor backup … | Continue reading
Internet security is hard. TLS is almost impossible. Implementing TLS correctly in Java is Nightmare! While the higher-level HttpsURLConnection and Apache's DefaultHttpClient do it (mostly) right, direct users of Java SSL sockets (SSLSocket/ SSLEngine, SSLSocketFactory) are left … | Continue reading
I recently discovered cedit, which provides some structural commands for editing c-like languages. (See this Emacs Rocks! episode if you're not familiar with the concept: it introduces paredit, a structural editing mode for lisps). So, it deals with curly braces and semicolons, k … | Continue reading
In this episode we discuss this tweet of Ben’s: Apple has a monopoly on the iOS market. And monopolies are profitable. — Ben Thompson (@monkbent) July 25, 2014 We also discuss the news that OKCupid and Facebook are running tests on their users. Links Fabian Giesen: What I mean wh … | Continue reading
2014-07-30 22:35 Update: I’ve updated the post with the link to netlink RFC. I’ve also replaced references to golang with Go programming language on majority of mentions in the article. I do agree with the people in discussions on the topic of Go/golang, but I’ve adpoted golang i … | Continue reading
“For me, it’s just very hard to be in the world. Whether it’s cooking or writing, you trudge along and it’s hard. You spend most of your time in any...Categories: Libations Sweet TeaTags: LycheePistachiosRoseTea(Read more...) | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-BG-2014-2015Pillar: Societal ChallengesOpening Date: Deadline: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014Latest information: The submission session is now available for: BG-01-2015(RIA), BG-02-2015(RIA), BG-07-2015(RIA) | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-SFS-2014-2015Pillar: Societal ChallengesOpening Date: Deadline: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014Latest information: The submission session is now available for: SFS-01c-2015(RIA), SFS-02b-2015(RIA), SFS-05-2015(RI … | Continue reading
See TOSCA-MP results at IBC 2014. Mike Matton from VRT will present a paper in the session “Advanced content production in an automated world” on Monday Sept. 15, 11.30. Demos will also be on show at the Future Zone, hosted by VRT at their booth 8.F02. | Continue reading
In this episode we discuss feedback about Uber and pricing, then discuss Ben’s recent articles on Microsoft and Apple/IBM. Ben Thompson: It’s Time to Split Up Microsoft – Stratechery Ben Thompson: Big Blue and Apple’s Soul – Stratechery (Note: We recorded this show before this pi … | Continue reading
The European Commission published a Communication: “Towards an integrated approach to cultural heritage for Europe”. It points out the challenges that cultural heritage is currently fac… | Continue reading
On the occasion of the Best in Heritage event, eCultValue organises its third Dialogue Day on 25 September 2014 in Dubrovnik. The first Dialogue Day, held at the same occasion, was a success and To… | Continue reading