duncanwilcox.com
Touch Content Creation — Cocoa Therapy
http://duncanwilcox.com/2010/touch-content-creation
Written by Duncan Wilcox. On June 9, 2010. I’m very interested in iPad used for content creation, you might call it casual content creation . With iWork for iPad, Apple sent a clear message: the iPad is more than a content consumption device. I believe content creation apps are going to be key to the iPad as a platform. The platform strategy angle is that content creation apps complete the iOS platform and, in the context of the laid back/feet on the table target, make it general purpose. To a novice use...
putanumonit.com
Tails of Great Soccer Players – Put A Number On It!
https://putanumonit.com/2015/11/10/003-soccer1
Put A Number On It! Upon a globe of math, a blog of math and puns. Tails of Great Soccer Players. Isn’t it strange that the Chinese aren’t world champions in every single team sport? Or from any other country. Somewhat surprising seeing the top 5 superior servers and strikers of soft springy spheres with swings of stringed racquets all come from sovereign states that start with “S”, but that’s a separate story. And yet, the Chinese team is not good at soccer, and I’m putting that milder than some. Chines...
slatestarcodex.com
Top Posts | Slate Star Codex
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Open threads at the Open Thread tab every Sunday and Wednesday. My most popular posts are very long and dense, but if you’re up for that kind of thing, you can read:. The Control Group Is Out Of Control. On the weakness of a lot of modern scientific research and statistics. I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup. On a general framework for thinking about tolerance vs prejudice. On how the media works and why stupid topics keep coming up again and again. On…um…it’s hard to explain. On pharmaceutical ...
slatestarcodex.com
SSC Gives A Graduation Speech | Slate Star Codex
http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/05/23/ssc-gives-a-graduation-speech
Open threads at the Open Thread tab every Sunday and Wednesday. SSC Gives A Graduation Speech. May 23, 2014. Trigger warning for deliberately provoking horror about graduates’ real-world post-college prospects]. Epistemic status: intended as persuasive speech, may somewhat overstate case]. Ladies and gentlemen, I am honored to have been invited to speak here at the great University of [mumble]. Go Wildcats, Spartans, or Eagles, as the case may be! Well, I come here before you to explain that there is now...
african-heart.blogspot.com
African Heart: Fixing invalid node structure in a Mac OSX (w/o having to buy software!)
http://african-heart.blogspot.com/2010/07/fixing-invalid-node-structure-in-mac.html
Fixing invalid node structure in a Mac OSX (w/o having to buy software! However - you don't need to erase your disk or buy Disk Warrior to fix it. I was in a perilous situation, where I had not backed up anything on my disk and, well, was not really in the mood to fork out money on Disk Warrior or a technician. With the help of Simon at Devlab. The problem was solved! Now, as I mentioned the fsck command won't work on its own. However, this command does;. Fsck hfs -rf /dev/diskxsy - where x and y are.
andrewbrookins.com
An Epic Review of PyCharm 3 from a Vim User’s Perspective
https://andrewbrookins.com/tech/one-year-later-an-epic-review-of-pycharm-2-7-from-a-vim-users-perspective
Software engineering, the nature of good and evil, etc. An Epic Review of PyCharm 3 from a Vim User’s Perspective. February 1, 2014. An Epic Review of PyCharm 3 from a Vim User’s Perspective. This review is for the Professional Edition of PyCharm 3. It includes screenshots and sound-free video demos of PyCharm features. I will try to cut straight to the point while offering some tips from my experience. Vim emulation with IdeaVim. File that can have key mappings (. And a limited number. So, thats a drag,...
blog.quickpeople.co.uk
Useful GitHub patterns | Quick People Blog
https://blog.quickpeople.co.uk/2013/07/10/useful-github-patterns
July 10, 2013. Middot; by Jake Benilov. Middot; in Programming. Middot; 18 Comments. Both my day job. And my open-source work. Involve constant use of git and GitHub. These are some useful patterns that I’ve found myself using regularly. From this point onwards, I shall abbreviate a “pull request”. 1 the peel-off PR. When do I use it? I am working on a feature branch. Park my work-in-progress (by either committing or stashing). Create a new branch. Fix the injustice, open a PR. 2 the optimistic branch.
