"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
http://n4gm.com/kim-dotcom-just-saved-xbox-live-psn/
Going to be interesting to see how this pans out in the long term.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
Snow, finally
"Wer Visionen hat, sollte zum Arzt gehen." - Helmut Schmidt
So, I'm currently in the process of developing an electronic course book to keep track of my pupils. The ones already existing are either for a different platform (iOS) or lack essential functionality (like, seating plans for different classes and rooms) or are simply very cumbersome to use.
Since I'm owning both a Windows tablet and a desktop PC, I want my entries to be synced between both devices. As a result, I've been through quite an odyssey because existing solutions for syncing are limited in several ways. For instance, PouchDB in an HTML5 app is easy to use - but it stores the offline data in the browser storage. Which is limited to 200 MB for universal apps. Couple that with the fact that one single virgin entry already takes up 1 kB, and, due to versioning, may increase to 20 kB easily and you'll see why I'm concerned about running out of storage.
Other solutions simply don't work at all or are bugged to hell and gone.
Finally found a solution in form of Microsoft's Azure Mobile Solution. It supports offline sync out of the box (storing the data in a SQlite flatfile, thus increasing storage space massively), takes care of syncing conflicts and so on.
However, one small snag remained: My future plans for this app involve selling it and for that I definitely don't want plain text in the online database. Which means encryption. The best solution would be to encrypt the whole thing on the client - but here I ran into a problem due to the way the syncing works. The data model classes don't like it very much when I try to define two different getters and setters for the same property (one set would be needed for encrypting/decrypting and one set for getting/setting plaintext - don't ask).
But since the whole synchronization runs over https anyway and the Azure service supports server scripts, I could let the encryption and decryption happen on the server. Only problem now: I'd have to send the password as a parameter alongside the requests.
For pulling the data, that was relatively easy - they provided an overload method through which I could send additional parameters.
Pushing the data, however, was a different matter. No overload, anywhere. So I finally had to resort to an ugly hack where every data table that needed encryption would get an additional field named "password" which then would be pushed upstream. The server would then read this field, encrypt the other fields as needed and then strip the password field before committing it to the online database.
But it works now.
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
All I saw was
and my first thought was "Khen's gonna need encryption"Originally Posted by Khendraja'aro
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
Best boxing day ever. Got blind drunk, danced to shitty music at crappy bars, and it started to snow.
Keep on keepin' the beat alive!
Get your mind out of the gutter!All I saw was
and my first thought was "Khen's gonna need encryption"
And I found a way to include the password in every connection to the Azure API. No more mucking about with tables/fields and so on!
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
So, only 3 days until I'm finally rid of this blasted DJ-catheter!
Though, once again, I was met with the surprise that they don't simply pull it - no, first they pull it, then they examine the ureter and the renal pelvis endoscopically to make sure that they did not overlook another stone. And then they'll reinsert another, albeit smaller DJ-catheter which is then tied with a string to a "common" catheter.
And when they jank this catheter, the small one will be pulled out as well.
Sounds like loads of fun!
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
I love working in lab on the holidays. No one is around to bother me for advice, reagents, protocols, or troubleshooting. I can use any piece of equipment I want whenever I want it, and I get uninterrupted hours to focus on experimental planning, reading, and writing. Ahhhh.
Switched my monitor setup from 3x1 portrait to 3x1 landscape. I can see all the colors again!
When I move up to 4k or 5k, I'm going back to just one monitor.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
Dear happy thread,
It's time for an update. Many nice things have happened since the last one. I got some shit done and feel lighter than a feather now that I don't have as much hanging over me.
We've finished almost all the renovation and the apartment looks incredible. Had it appraised yesterday and the lowball estimate is in line with what we've seen, while the upper limit is very difficult to estimate because it's a pretty unique apartment for this area. We're probably moving soon, which is both exciting and terrifyingI'm going to miss this apartment very very much, but it'll be nice to move to a larger better-planned and undervalued apartment that's almost as close to work and costs less than the one we have now. No mortgage, booyah
The weather her has been incredibly crappy but I've finally decided to abandon my dignity and now wear much warmer hats and gloves that make me look like a Scandinavian caricature. We did have a couple of wonderful days around Christmas, though, when there was a lot of snow. At the time we were house-sitting for my in-laws and I discovered the joy of living in a cosy house, living in a quiet place and running in the snow with a crazy dog. I've spent most of my life in cities and been kinda reluctant to embrace these things but this time it felt great. I also discovered that I like cars, esp. cars that keep your butt toasty warm
Both the wife and I got a little sick of our silliness and decided to get more organised and active. It's gone fairly well so far. I'm almost on top of my paperwork and I've discovered the perfect digital to-do-list for me (Any.do, which we both now use). The list was incredibly long at first and refused to shrink but it's slowly been tamed over the past couple of weeks and now it seems manageable. It's also become a habit, which is nice because I've never been good at maintaining that sort of habit before
I've had a great deal of time off these past couple of weeks, far more than I thought I would. I worked Christmas eve (during the day) and that was great. Discovered that I really do love working the day and also discovered that it's very nice to be able to determine the menu and eat everything with the Ginger, on the couch, while watching '80s/'90s action movies. I don't know if I'll ever want to do Christmas with either of our families again
After Christmas I had a week off and it felt like a MONTH, in the best possible way. Went to sthlm for the first time in AGES and it was incredible hanging out with my family. My sisters are SO BIG! I get shocked every single time. One of them is applying for some sort of artsy track in highschool and I think that it may actually be a good idea for her. I got along better with my dad than ever before. My mum went a little crazy with the whole packing thing but it worked out all right and she and my sis made it to my stupid home country safe and sound. They'll be attending a ridiculously large wedding that I'm honestly a little happy I'm missing.
In addition to this we hung out with some of my closest friends and, for the first time in years, I began to feel like I might want to move back to sthlm. I hope this desire dies soon
I'll be in charge of the ward for a couple of weeks in spring and that's kinda like (O.O) but I'll have a lot of support and it's a sign of confidence so that's kinda nice. Have some ideas for the clinical education of our students as well as for the education of our new colleagues and I hope they work out.
These past few weeks have been pretty good tech-wise as well. Switching to Lollipop cost me a ton of open tabs and other goodies, but it's a great OS. I've upgraded my old Touchpad and it's still frickin' fantastic, best purchase I ever made. I've figured out a good setup for the NAS. I've upgraded my mum's computer, replaced her gigantic CRT-TV with a flatscreen (and sprained my by back-muscles in the process of getting that hulk out of the apartment), gotten some stuff for the ginger, found a portable battery charger (that's when you know you have an addiction I guess) and finally ordered a Google Cardboard kit. I'm just ridiculously excited about the last one, it's basically my favourite kind of invention and the possiblities are endless
I've just now stuffed myself with membrillo, cheese and crackers and been notified that a present is on the way:
And another:
Very happy. That'll do for now
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
Driving a car for the first time can be a happy moment, indeed. Why that's taken you so long I have no clue.
Getting shit done, and organizing, can be happy-inducing, too. I'm old enough that purging is part of those processes, but I'd been procrastinating way too long. I began the process by sorting decades of family stuff stored in boxes (and moved several times) with new vigor....and couldn't believe it when I found tax records dating back to 1914.
So many things, so much stuff! I found family pictures with people no one knows, but someone hung onto them because any photos were "special" at that time, but not special enough to write names on the back.
I also found gifts I'd bought for friends or family years ago, but had never mailed or given them, probably because I intended to write a special note, or wrap in a special way. Whether it's a genetic or familial trait, or a learned behavior....it doesn't make me feel happy to have all this stuff sitting around.
The purge is slow and methodical. But it makes me feel good every time I empty a box, and decide if something is beautiful, important, or useful -- and not just taking up space.
New M235i is awesome. V happy with it so far, 100 miles in.
"Wer Visionen hat, sollte zum Arzt gehen." - Helmut Schmidt
Got a new 500gb harddrive for my xbox 360. Now to spend all night getting it to work.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
Aww, one hand escaping from the foldy sleeve and everything...
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
Is that your baby, wiggin? If so--congratulations!
Love that innocent, inquisitive facial expression.
took two bloody days, but I finally got it formatted, partitioned, and everything copied over. woot for 160gb of more space!
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
Dude! Congrats
I'm sorry to say my first impulse was to create memes using that pic and texts like "Got a new 500gb harddrive for my xbox 360" and "NO WAI"
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
Got €65 refunded by my bank today; balances that were on the chip of a total of 11 cards I have used and lost over the last 8 years.
Congratulations America
North is freaking out over some snow, and I'm just sitting here healing from a weekend sunburn.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
Got some heavy snowfall here as well. Hopefully some sun after that, I want to get some tan while skiing
"Wer Visionen hat, sollte zum Arzt gehen." - Helmut Schmidt
Woohoo! Our apartment's up for sale
http://www.maklarcity.se/objekt/bost...AwMDA0MHw2Nw..
(Scroll)
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
Woo!
Not that I'm in the market for an apartment in Sweden, but it looks comfortable.
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
That is one squeaky clean apartment.
Hope is the denial of reality
But they haven't managed to get the ceran stove completely cleanThat is one squeaky clean apartment.
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
We had to clear out half of our stuff to give people an idea of what it might look like when only one person lives there, so it looks a lot less homey and also they didn't show by favorite part
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
It's impossible, we have triedBut they haven't managed to get the ceran stove completely clean
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
Getting paid WAY more than I was expecting to scare the shit out of a bunch of parents to new high schoolers concerning all the different social media platforms tweens/teens use and about how little control the parents have concerning their babies growing into adults online.
While doing my research I've also found a shit ton of pot dealers on tinder.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
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