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Cognitive Match — The Reunion

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I’ve mentioned Cognitive Match got acquired by Magnetic recently — which, along with a whole lot of other interesting developments, gave the old Cognitive Match team finally the chance to get reunited under one roof. And here’s the photos — which I’m sure will make history 😉

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New Blog Layout and New Intrepidity Theme Changes

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So I’ve bitten the bullet finally, and changed my blog layout. For those of you repeated visitors I’m sure you noticed, for the rest of you who are new to my site, it’s worth saying that the old theme has been on my blog since its inception — which is a few good years back, […]

Java Strings vs Ropes

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Recently, in my news feeds I stumbled across this implementation of Ropes in Java (http://ahmadsoft.org/ropes/) and it captured my attention right away as it boasts a faster (better?) alternative for dealing with characters in Java. Unfortunately the website doesn’t offer any comparative information regarding how much faster a Rope implementation is than the standard String […]

Samsung, Darling, Please Fix Your Galaxy Gear S…t!

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OK so I’ve got myself a while back a Samsung Galaxy Gear watch and set it all up to connect to my Samsung Galaxy S3 and all that stuff — and as you recall, I’ve actually published a post about software upgrades and what-not needed to actually get to install the right stuff and get […]

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About the Play! Framework and Their Thread Pooling

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This is a rather interesting find and I’m still looking into it — so hopefully will come back with more insights on it — but I thought I’d publish these things as I find them. So bear with me as I unravel this mistery — as of right now, unless I’m looking in the wrong […]

Coming To America

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This is something that really I ought to have posted about 2 years ago when I landed in the Bay Area, however it’s only recently that talking to a friend who’s just thinking of moving over here that I realised it’s actually useful advice and not many people know about this. First of all this […]

New Year Fireworks — London 2013/2014

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While I wasn’t there myself this time, I have received these from a friend and crappy as they might be it did bring back some memories about The Big Smoke, so I thought I’d share these — apologies to those of you who have seen them live from Westminster, I’m sure these photos don’t do […]

Heavenly Village, Tahoe, 14/Dec/2013

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First session of the season — still suffering from it 🙂 The motel we stayed in, clean and convenient as it might be had a TV though that has us wonder at first whether it requires a crankshaft… To our surprise, it didn’t — and even more, it was a colour TV one too! Here […]