Monochrome #1, from the series La traversée, 2013 © Vasantha Yogananthan/SAGE Paris | Continue reading
Malmousque, 2013 © Erwan Morère/Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-BIOTEC-2014-2015Pillar: Industrial LeadershipOpening Date: Deadline: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015Latest information: The Flash Call Info can be found under Call Documents tab | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-MG-2014-2015Pillar: Societal ChallengesOpening Date: Deadline: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015Latest information: The submission session is now available for: MG-3.6b-2015(CSA), MG-5.5b-2015(CSA), MG-8.3-2015(CO … | Continue reading
The tranScriptorium team together with several new high level partners from Austria, Finland, France, Germany, and Switzerland will continue its work as an e-Infrastructure project funded by the EU Commission. The main objectives of the READ project (Recognition and Enrichment of … | Continue reading
Lately, I’ve seen so many rants about “why do you need to categorize music” and “genres don’t matter”. And to be honest, you don’t need to, and they don’t matter. But they help. And I’ll tell you why. Have you ever heard a song that is simply amazing, unlike anything you’ve exper … | Continue reading
OK. Coffee is pretty popular here in Finland. It’s actually so popular that Finland is ranked either as the first or second in terms of coffee consumption per capita depending on which stats you look at. We drink coffee, we depend on it. And as always these days, hipsters want to … | Continue reading
Ben and James discuss the decision by the California Labor Commission that at least one Uber driver is an employee: will this affect the company’s valuation? More broadly, is this a good or a bad thing for society, and why is it that people blame Uber for societal shortcomings? T … | Continue reading
There's a "startup" idea, I'm carrying with me for quite a while. This tweet by Tobias Tom convinced me to finally write a bit about it. I love audio books and I love podcasts. It's a rather young love. I'm a late-bloomer when it comes to audio content. Unfortunately I find very … | Continue reading
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My name is Luca Palmieri and I am an engineer, author and public speaker - with a focus on backend development, Cloud and the Rust programming language. I build technology products for a living. I am currently working at AWS as a Senior Engineer, driving AWS' efforts to offer a s … | Continue reading
A selection of software engineering practices, from notes I took at an XTC meetup many years ago. | Continue reading
tl;dr This is the tale of the truly collaborative effort behind "Sappu's Lost Memories", a project where every team member added a twist to the plot and helped to expand a simple idea into the complex storyscape we presented at btconf Düsseldorf 2015. Brief All stories, however b … | Continue reading
In the interests of illustrating the complicated programmer psyche for the benefit of anyone involved in recruitment, here’s the two things I look at in a job advert: | Continue reading
Un fresco pesto estivo con zucchine, mandorle e menta: uno sfizio per cene o aperitivi con gli amici! | Continue reading
If you’ve decided Sass is snazzy and want to learn more, I’ve gathered up some links I’ve found useful and hope you do, too. Reading & learning about Sass # While you might not start out reading the Sass documentation, sooner or later you’ll end up there in order to learn more ab … | Continue reading
The PNG file format has been around forever... sort of. Not really. | Continue reading
This is the first in a series of tutorials about persisting data in Go web applications. In this post we'll be looking at SQL databases. I'll explain the basics of the database/sql package, walk through building a working application, and explore a couple of options for cleanly … | Continue reading
In this week’s episode, Ben and James discuss Dick Costolo stepping down as CEO of Twitter, Apple’s seeming war on Google, and the concerning launch of Apple Music. Links Ben Thompson: Dick Costolo Out as Twitter CEO, Costolo’s Key Shortcoming, Twitter’s Next CEO — Stratechery Da … | Continue reading
If you’re like me, you’ve probably spent some time wondering (and Googling) about the differences between various popular format types commonly used for graphic design applications. So I decided I’d create a resource that’s hopefully a handy reference on the matter of discerning … | Continue reading
好想读《洛丽塔》，又好想读王小波的《黄金时代》（以及时代三部曲！）How long do I still have to wait? | Continue reading
Fastest MEAN Stack Install on Ubuntu If you’re looking for a server stack that’s more JavaScript-friendly than your everyday LAMP stack, MEAN (MongoDB, Express.js, AngularJS, and Node.js) is a great option to consider. This stack is mostly written in JS and integrates nicely with … | Continue reading
The CSS Image Values Spec allows you to cleanly blow up pixel art on the web. | Continue reading
In this week’s episode, Ben and James briefly discuss Jony Ive’s promotion, the future of Apple, Google I/O, and Tim Cook’s speech on privacy. Links Ben Thompson: The Apple Car and Jony Ive — Stratechery Daily Update Ben Thompson: Google IO: Android and Serving the World; Photos, … | Continue reading
Finding a mentor isn't always as explicit as it seems. | Continue reading
开始收看动画版《阿尔斯兰战记》，似乎进度会比漫画单行本快一点的样子？ 入新坑《食戟之灵》。 购入当日在力源家看到的Decision Maker……然而并不是很好玩。以及Levitron的Anti-gravity top，目前仍然没有研究出要怎么玩orz。 基本确定六月底去日本玩——希望最后能成行！ | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-OpticalPrize-2015Pillar: Industrial LeadershipOpening Date: Deadline: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2015Latest information: Opening of registration and entry submission is postponed to 2nd of July 2015, aligned wit … | Continue reading
tl;dr: My team was tasked to convert a client’s white label platform from a desktop-first, fixed width layout to a fully responsive one and also to improve frontend code quality throughout the project. A living styleguide and automated visual regression tests helped us to meet ou … | Continue reading
Using variables for colors is awesome; naming those variables can be…complicated. I’ve worked through a few different methodologies and wanted to share a bit about what I’ve learned along the way. Need an into to WHY colors and Sass are awesome? I wrote about this and gave some e … | Continue reading
Expensive, heavy, non-functioning and a little scary looking, the doll created by America's hero-inventor was a commercial flop | Continue reading
在Milpitas找到一家不错的书店——有许多漫画！购入了荒川弘X田中芳树的《阿尔斯兰战记》漫画台版前三卷（即目前全部出版的单行本）。题材上毫无新意，但期待剧情上和人物上能有突破。 早先订购的初音未来-Tell Your World（与Chrome合作的广告中出现的形象）手办已到，颇为满意。择日上图。 重温《中国合伙人》。Despite all the controversy, it’s still a memorable movie to me, and probably the best gift of my college graduation, … | Continue reading
This is your very first post. Click the Edit link to modify or delete it, or start a new post. If you like, use this post to tell readers why you started this blog and what you plan to do with it. Happy blogging! | Continue reading
All hands on deck! Older versions of Picturefill can net you broken images in both Microsoft Edge and Webkit Nightly. There’s already an issue logged for the problem. Why is that an issue? The community is afraid that browser vendors like Microsoft will renege on their pledge to … | Continue reading
Much to their detriment, Americans like to ignore the world. Accordingly, they do not appreciate reminders that, like it or not, the rest of the world is out there. Worse, some of its “leading leaders” have rabies and “bite”. Aware of the provocation, Duly Noted has often indulge … | Continue reading
This post is an accompaniment to my Metrics-driven development talk at Open Data Science Conference in Boston in May 2015. Slides here and video here.At Spotify, data is quite important. We track user-generated data, like sign ups, logins, activity within the application, even tw … | Continue reading
This post is an accompaniment to my Metrics-driven development talk at Open Data Science Conference in Boston in May 2015. Slides here and video here.At Spotify, data is quite important. We track user-generated data, like sign ups, logins, activity within the application, even tw … | Continue reading
See webinar about tranScriptorium and Transkribus at this link. See additional information at this link. | Continue reading
Go’s empty interface{} is the interface that everything implements. | Continue reading
Not long ago I set up a Bitcoin node on a Debian Wheezy VPS to teach myself about Bitcoin and the blockchain in general. It was a great learning experience but the memory requirements of the Bitcoin software kept causing my VPS instance to run out of memory. So the… | Continue reading
Not long ago I setup up a Bitcoin node on a Debian Wheezy VPS to teach myself about Bitcoin and the blockchain in general. It was a great learning experience but the memory requirements of the Bitcoin software kept causing my VPS instance to run out of memory so the… | Continue reading
Des Traynor, co-founder of Intercom, talks with us about how they make difficult product decisions in respect to adding and removing features, changing pricing, and packaging the product. He talks about how he sees others struggle with weighing feedback, data, and instinct to mak … | Continue reading