rauschma

Apple’s bugs

I still enjoy using Apple products and prefer them over alternatives, but in recent years, an increasing number of small bugs has made using them less pleasant. No single bug is fatal, but they add up. I wanted to document them to make it more likely that they will be fixed.

There are two main topics:

• Many small unnecessary bugs
• Strategy tax

Small unnecessary bugs

singe

FROM alpine:latest as builder
LABEL maintainer="@singe at SensePost <research@sensepost.com>"

RUN apk update && apk --no-cache add \
    build-base \
  && rm -rf /var/cache/apk/*
WORKDIR /
COPY yellow.c canary32.c canary32.h /
RUN gcc -o yellow yellow.c canary32.c

swlaschin

#The Functional Programmers Cheat Sheet for NDC Oslo 2014

This year NDC Oslo has a full three-day functional programming track with an amazing lineup. If you agree that the future of programming is FP, use this as your "auto pilot" guide on what sessions to attend.

Cheer for sessions on Twitter using the #ndcoslo and #fptrack hashtags.

[The full agenda (including non-fp sessions) is here].

ShigeoTejima

package org.test.demo;

import com.amazonaws.regions.Region;
import com.amazonaws.regions.Regions;
import com.amazonaws.services.simpleemail.AmazonSimpleEmailService;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;

@Configuration
public class AppConfig {

self_mod_code.c

//  Self Modifying Code - Just for fun
//
//  Created by Osman Azam on 3/22/14.
//  Copyright (c) 2014 Osman Azam. All rights reserved.
//
//  This code was tested on OSX.  It will probably work in most *NIX systems.
//  For windows you will need to find the win32 equivalent of mprotect and
//  use a different method of putting the addTwoNumbers function into a data
//  section.  Also you will need to convert the inline assemblye from AT&T style

ptaoussanis

(comment ; Fun with transducers, v2

  ;; Still haven't found a brief + approachable overview of Clojure 1.7's new
  ;; transducers in the particular way I would have preferred myself - so here goes:

  ;;;; Definitions
  ;; Looking at the `reduce` docstring, we can define a 'reducing-fn' as:
  (fn reducing-fn ([]) ([accumulation next-input])) -> new-accumulation
  ;; (The `[]` arity is actually optional; it's only used when calling
  ;; `reduce` w/o an init-accumulator).

dixson3

#!/bin/bash

# where to store the sparse-image
WORKSPACE=~/Documents/workspace.dmg.sparseimage

create() {
    hdiutil create -type SPARSE -fs 'Case-sensitive Journaled HFS+' -size 60g -volname workspace ${WORKSPACE}
}

detach() {

datagrok

This article is now published on my website: Prefer Subshells for Context.

tomchristie

Visa requirements for UK conferences.

First you'll want to check if you need a visa to enter the UK.

• Nationals of the EU, Switzerland, and EEA countries will not need a visa, and are free to work and conduct business in the UK.
• Nationals from some designated countries such as USA may travel for tourist or business purposes under a visa exemption. The link above will detail what documents you need to provide in order to travel under a visa exemption.
• Other nationals will need a visa.

The rules for allowable business travel under a visa exemption are covered by the same rules as those travelling under a vistor visa. If you will be travelling under a visa-exemption and the conference is covering your costs in any way you should make sure to read the relevant section below.

atduskgreg

Interactive Machine Learning

Taught by Brad Knox at the MIT Media Lab in 2014. Course website. Lecture and visiting speaker notes.

• Power to the People: The Role of Humans in Interactive Machine Learning by Knox, Cakmak, Kulesza, Amershi, and Lau
• A Few Useful Things to Know about Machine Learning by Domingos
• Machine Learning that Matters by Wagstaff
• Beyond Concise and Colorful: Learning Intelligible Rules by Pazzani et al.
• [Designing Games with a Purpose] (https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~biglou/GWAP_CACM.pdf) by von Ahn and Dabbish
• [Human Model Evaluation in Interactive Supervised