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from google.cloud import notebooks_v1
from google.cloud.notebooks_v1.types import (
    ContainerImage,
    CreateInstanceRequest,
    CreateRuntimeRequest,
    Instance,
    LocalDisk,
    LocalDiskInitializeParams,
    Runtime,
    RuntimeAcceleratorConfig,

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Greasing the Skids: Building Remote Teams

In the wake of the virus that-must-not-be-named (which most people misname anyway), it seems like everyone and their cat has posted some sort of opinion or how-to on making remote work, work. This is a good thing! Working remotely, particularly full-time, is hard! I've done it for my entire career (aside from an odd 14 month office period in the middle that we shall not speak of), but more relevantly, for the past two years I've been responsible for building, managing, and enabling an entirely remote team, distributed across nine timezones. Remote teams don't just happen by installing Slack and telling everyone to work on their couch: they require a lot of effort to do correctly and efficiently. But, done right, it can be a massive multiplier on your team efficiency and flexibility.

Here's how we do it. I'm going to attempt to structure this post more towards management than engineering, and so I apologize in advance if I assume terminology or knowledge which

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I've designed a lot of RPC protocols in my career. One pattern that's worked well basically goes as follows:

// Client calls: print('Hello World\n')
-> [1, "print", "Hello World!\n"]
// Server sends return value (or lack of return vvalue)
<- [-1]

// Client calls: add(1, 2)
-> [2, "add", 1, 2]

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trait Subscriber[A] {
  def send(message: A)
}

def dispatch(message: T) = F.start(subscriber.send(message)

def chunkProcessor(messages: Chunk[CommittableMessage[F, K, V]]): F[Chunk[CommittableOffset[F]]] =
    messages.map { message =>
        deserializer(message).flatMap {
          case Some(m) => dispatch(m) >> F.delay(message.committableOffset)

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Programming Achievements: How to Level Up as a Developer

This gist is part of a blog post. Check it out at:

http://jasonrudolph.com/blog/2011/08/09/programming-achievements-how-to-level-up-as-a-developer

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Direct links to free Springer books (pdf versions)

Graduate texts in mathematics

duplicates = multiple editions

A Classical Introduction to Modern Number Theory, Kenneth Ireland Michael Rosen

A Classical Introduction to Modern Number Theory, Kenneth Ireland Michael Rosen

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Introduction to scalaz-stream

Every application ever written can be viewed as some sort of transformation on data. Data can come from different sources, such as a network or a file or user input or the Large Hadron Collider. It can come from many sources all at once to be merged and aggregated in interesting ways, and it can be produced into many different output sinks, such as a network or files or graphical user interfaces. You might produce your output all at once, as a big data dump at the end of the world (right before your program shuts down), or you might produce it more incrementally. Every application fits into this model.

The scalaz-stream project is an attempt to make it easy to construct, test and scale programs that fit within this model (which is to say, everything). It does this by providing an abstraction around a "stream" of data, which is really just this notion of some number of data being sequentially pulled out of some unspecified data source. On top of this abstraction, sca

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// The "classic" Repository interface
trait BoatRepository {
    def find(uid: String): Future[Boat]
}

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#!/bin/bash -e
if [ -f /etc/cron.d/initialrunner ]; then
    rm /etc/cron.d/initialrunner
fi
echo "10.181.8.179  salt salt.fffflash.com" >> /etc/hosts
mkdir -p /srv/src && cd /srv/src && wget -O - http://bootstrap.saltstack.org | sudo sh
reboot

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# to install the latest stable version:
brew install play

# to install play-2.1-RC1:
brew install https://raw.github.com/gist/4528959/play.rb

# to switch versions (from https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/External-Commands):
brew switch play 2.0.4
brew switch play 2.1-RC1