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Device Form Factor & Social Cues
There are features of smartphones that come from their form factor. They weren’t necessarily designed to be there, but patterns of use have emerged around them. The most obvious example is when we turn our phones face down on the table whilst having coffee...
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What I learned from building the same website three times
In college, I built a website called Grouptale, which I described as a tool to “make deliberations easy”. I was part of many student organizations in college where membership was selective. In a lengthy “deliberations” process, current members of the...
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Sunday confessions
While I am not of the Catholic faith by any means (I am a very liberal (for the most part) Protestant/ Presbyterian) I do like the idea of confessing in general. I feel like it allows us to get rid of things have been weighing us down and release ourselves...
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Quitting, and My Occupational Phantom Limb
When I quit my job two weeks ago, the array of sentiments that followed was predictable, but also complex, in one very specific and intriguing way. Reducing my responsibilities substantially, in an instant, was of course relieving, but it’s been complicated...
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Fixing Core Data Concurrency Violations
With iOS 8.0 Apple gave us access to a tool for tracking down code that violates Core Data concurrency rules. This post outlines how to setup Xcode so that you can identify and fix the faulty code. Background According to the Core Data concurrency rule,...
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Array Indices
We have all encountered a very awkward situation during our coding session. When we were hastily trying to convert some algorithm to code and bam.. the index problem throws up right in our face. The algorithm uses array index from 1 to n. But the programming...
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Rowing a steamer
Notice I have shifted this blog to http://lepisma.github.io/blog. This place is no longer maintained. The link for current article is http://lepisma.github.io/blog/articles/rowing-a-steamer Many of us who do calculus using computers know the alternatives...
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Random Acts of Cookies
Who doesn’t love chocolate chip cookies? As a part of the “Random Acts of Cookies” initiative that I found on Pinterest, I decided to bake some chocolate chip cookies, put them in cute little boxes, and give them to friends and family. Such an easy, unexpected...
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Another take on HS Hackers
Why does scale cause failure in Facebook groups? On September 5th, 2013, heads of government from six continents gathered in Saint Petersburg for the 2013 G-20 summit. Meanwhile, in Pennsylvania, a High School Senior almost three thousand miles from where...
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Architectural Photography: Tilt-Shift
I’ll admit it. How shall I say it? I’m obsessed with the notion that perspective must be accurately rendered in architectural photography. For years I watched the architectural magazines featuring the work of my heroes: Balthazar Korab, Ezra Stoller,...
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Love Walks Between Us (Birthday Wishes to the Mother of My Wife)
She’s been through a lot. But she still has that charm, grace, confidence and beauty that inspired the people she grew up with. And she still continues to inspire love. … Although, we weren’t really that close. Panic attacks often happened when I’m with...
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Most Common Mistakes On Legacy Rails Apps
Lately I’ve been supporting several legacy projects. As many of you may know, working on legacy projects sucks most of the time, usually because most of the code is ugly and difficult to understand or read. I decided to make a list of common bad practices,...
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Watch Revolution Season 2 Episode 22 Online and Free
Watch Revolution Season 2 Episode 22 Online and Free Revolution Season 2 Episode 22 Online titled “Declaration of Independence” airs 5/21/2014. So, do not miss to watch Revolution Season 2 Episode 22 Online and free streaming in high quality video version!...
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Indian Wedding Invitation: Things To Look At While Choosing
Handmade Indian Wedding Invitation | Image Resource : rubiesandribbon.com Indian Wedding is well known across the world for their traditions and rituals. This tradition has been in practice since ages. Earlier Kings and Nawabs used to invite their guest...
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Wedding Cards Bombay For A Dream Wedding In The Dream City
style="text-align: justify;">Mumbai also known as Bombay is the capital city of Maharashtra. Also known as the film city of India, as well as a dream city where every person wants to visit, always have a festive look! Its culture is a blend of traditional...
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Configure Spring to turn Quartz scheduler on/off
This is a way to use Spring’s PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer to turn Quartz Scheduler on and off based on a properties file. This way an application can be configurable using only the properties file exclusive of changing xml documents. XML File:
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Immutable Swift
Swift is a new language designed to work on a powerful, mature, established platform—a new soul in a strange world. This causes tension in the design, as well as some concern due to the feeling that the power of Cocoa is inextricably tied to Objective-C’s...
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Why Mobile WON’T Be King
To paraphrase what seems to be old news by now, analysts say decreasing PC sales mark the end of the desktop reign, and with it the traditional paradigm of how we understand technology. Even five years ago, you would have been on the fringes to hypothesize...