raisercostin's blog

Ghost In The Shell Movies/Anime Universe

2017-04-24T00:00:00+00:00

Ghost In The Shell all https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell_(disambiguation) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell_ Ghost in the Shell - 1995 1995 movie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell_(1995film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell_ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence - 2004 2004 movie - sequel to 1995 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell_2:_Innocence in 2032 Ghost in the Shell 2.0 - 2008 2008 movie - remastered re-release of Ghost in the Shell - 1995 o Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - 2002 2002-2003 tv series1 26 episodes 1-26 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell:_Stand_Alone_Complex OVA The Laughing Man - 2005 summary? means ova? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ghost_in_the_Shell:_Stand_Alone_Complex_episodes in 2030 Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG - 2004 2004-2005 tv series2 26 episodes 27-52 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell:_Stand_Alone_Complex OVA Individual Eleven - 2006 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ghost_in_the_Shell:_Stand_Alone_Complex_episodes#S.A.C._2nd_GIG in 2032 Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society - 2006 2006 movie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell:_Stand_Alone_Complex_-_Solid_State_Society in 2034 o Ghost in the Shell Arise (Border 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) 5 prequels or Mobile Armored Riot Police: Arise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell:_Arise 2013-2015 Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Alternative Architecture or Ghost in the Shell AAA Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie 2015 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell:_The_New_Movie Ghost in the Shell 2017 rerelease of 1995 one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell(1995_film)#Ghost_in_the_Shell_2.0_re-release https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell_

Palidul Albastru Punct

2017-04-18T00:00:00+00:00

_{^{Pale Blue Dot - Carl Sagan (1934-1996)}} _{^{traducere Costin Grigore (2017)}}

Din acest punct de vedere îndepărtat Pământul ar putea părea lipsit de orice interes deosebit. Dar pentru noi este altfel. Consideraţi din nou acel punct. Acela este aici. Aceea este acasă. Aceia suntem noi. Pe el, toţi cei pe care îi iubiţi, toţi cei pe care îi cunoaşteţi, toţi cei despre care aţi auzit vreodată, toate fiinţele umane ce au existat vreodată, şi-au trăit vieţile.

Amestecul bucuriilor și suferințelor noastre, miile de religii încrezătoare, ideologii și doctrine economice, fiecare vânător și culegator, fiecare erou și laș, fiecare creator și distrugător de civilizație, fiecare rege și țăran, fiecare tanar cuplu îndragostit, fiecare mamă și tată, copil plin de speranță, inventator și explorator, fiecare profesor de morală, fiecare politician corupt, fiecare “superstar”, fiecare “lider suprem”, fiecare sfânt și păcătos din istoria speciei noastre a trăit acolo - pe un fir de praf în suspensie sub o rază de soare.

Pământul este o foarte mică scena într-o vastă arenă cosmică. Gândiți-vă la râurile de sânge vărsat de către toți acei generali și împărați, pentru ca, în glorie și triumf, ei sa poata deveni stăpânii efemeri a unei fracțiuni dintr-un punct. Gândiți-vă la cruzimile nemărginite abătute de locuitorii unui colț al acestui pixel pe abia diferiţilor locuitori ai vreunui alt colţ, cât de dese neînțelegerile lor, cât de dornici sunt să se omoare unul pe altul, cat de pătimaşă ura lor.

Declamațiile noastre, imaginata auto-importanță, iluzia că avem o anumită poziție privilegiată în Univers, sunt contestate de acest punct de lumină palid. Planeta noastră este o scanteie singuratica învaluita de marele întuneric cosmic. In crepusculul nostru, în toată această vastitate, nu există nici un indiciu că va veni ajutor din altă parte pentru a ne salva de noi înșine. Pământul este singura lume cunoscută până în prezent care să zămisleasca viață. Nu există alt loc, cel puțin în viitorul apropiat, către care specia noastră ar putea migra. Locuri de vizitat? Da. De stabilit? Inca nu. Ne place sau nu, pentru moment, Pământul este scena noastra.

S-a spus că astronomia este o experiență ce inspira modestie și construieste caracterul. Probabil că nu există o demonstraţie mai bună a nebuniei trufiei umane decât această imagine îndepărtată a lumii noastre micuţe. Pentru mine, ea subliniază responsabilitatea noastră de a fi mai binevoitori unii cu alţii şi de a păstra şi preţui palidul albastru punct, singurul cămin pe care l-am ştiut vreodată.

Note

Acest fragment din Palidul Albastru Punct a fost inspirat de o imagine luată, la sugestia lui Carl Sagan, de Voyager 1 la 14 februarie 1990. Pe măsură ce nava a părăsit vecinătatea planetei noastre pentru periferia sistemului solar, inginerii au intors-o pentru o ultima privire spre planeta mama. Voyager 1 era la aproximativ 6,4 miliarde de kilometri (4 miliarde de mile) și la aproximativ 32 de grade deasupra planului eclipticii, atunci când a captat acest portret al lumii noastre. Prins în centrul razelor de lumină împrăștiate (urmare a captarii imaginii atât de aproape de Soare), Pământul apare ca un punct minuscul de lumină, o urma de doar 0,12 pixeli în dimensiune.

Credite

Muzica: Ludovico Einaudi cu o piesa intitulata, foarte potrivit, „Preludiul Pământului“
Colectare clip inițială: Levi Mills
Scena Final: Intro-ul de la „Contact“, filmul bazat pe romanul lui Carl Sagan cu același nume
Traducere romana: Costin Grigore
Nu am nici o contributie la acest film.
S-ar putea fi interesat de https://patrickmn.com/space/

Recomandari

Cartea Un palid punct albastru - Carl Sagan – editura Herald
Carl Sagan’s Cosmos
- Carl Sagan’s: Cosmos Part 1 - The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean
  - FARA SUNET pe youtube
  - CU SUNET pe dailymotion
- Carl Sagan’s: Cosmos Part 2 - One Voice in the Cosmic Fugue

The Principle of Least Astonishment is the One

2017-03-18T00:00:00+00:00

It could be that the Principle of Least Astonishment - POLA is governing our world.

Simptoms

You’re affected if you’ve been astonished by:

long debug session - A lot of WTF’s take some time.
long learning/rampup time
you get explanations like:
- It’s complicated because it is.
- You can’t simplify it.
- This library/framework needs a paradigm swift in your thinking: scala, playframework, scalaz.

Surprises

The surprises list is long and ranges from benign code smells, non-idioms to anti-patterns and violations of the conventions and common sense.

logs/exceptions are missing, are swallowed or reported at the wrong level
conventions are broken
default coventions/values/things are not intuitive or go against common sense
overdesign
- there are multiple concepts to learn when simple ones are enough
- you need to learn advanced topics to do simple stuff
scala
- implicits
- overdesign - It’s very easy to overdesign things in scala. Much easier than in java.
scalaz
- operator usage as replacement for good names
- speciality jargon is mandatory and not optional
compatibility surprises on the library upgrades: java wasn’t that surprising
global state exists and influences unkown, hard to know places
there are colateral effects
magic numbers are surprising

If you’re an genius in your field you will be able to explain it in simple words: take examples from Feynman, Eninstein, Russel.

Risk Takers or Safety Nets?

2017-02-08T00:00:00+00:00

There are giant entrepreneurs like Gates, Jobs, Musk that take risks. The mere mortals like us aren’t successful entrepreneurs because we’re risk averse. We are used to take it easy, measuring each option and gradually move step by step.

In the end they take risks because they have good, reliable safety nets. In worst case situation they know that it can’t be that bad. They can trade an survivable event for bigger rewards and acievements.

Needs and Safety Nets for them

Some people have safety nets on lodging, water, food, sleep. Others have better safety nets: they have a comfortable house, a comfortable passive income (why do the retired persons don’t take risks anymore?). Maslow came up with a sensible hierarchy of needs and according to these needs you have various safety nets: physiological safety net, safety safety net (sic!), love and belonging safety net, eestem safety net, self-actualization safety net, self-transcedence safety net.

If a person wrote a novel or discovered the relativity theory it got a good reliable Esteem Safety Net. Whatever it discoveres (or not) in the future, in worst case, he will not be in need for esteem. This net will enable Einstein to pursue line of thoughts/theories that others cannot because they must prove themself worthy before this.

About unconditional love I can say is a nice safety net for love and belonging need. And it works for long term partnerships: relation, parent-child, brothers-sisters. If is enabled the person can pursue higher goals and take more risks on the “love and belonging” related activities. It could become a Jobs of the relationships: a kind of a Dalai Lama or maybe Don Juan (#dontknowyet)?

Safety Net Timespan

There is something more on safety nets than a simple satisfaction of needs. A safety net should save your life in a worst case scenarion so it must be there for a long term, idealy for life. You cannot say, “thanks god I had a safety net for that day with my botle of water from the knapsack”. In that case you with luck you escaped but on the long term you’re doomed to fail. You’re saved if you have a strategy or a system that will save for most cases.

A safety net is a long term strategic way to satisfy a need. It is a long term solution that gives psychological confort and lower the ball for assuming risks. The safety net satisfies a rationalized need: “In the worse case scenario, my x,y,z need will be satisfied till the end of my life”. It’s a form of waranty/assurance. There are several patterns related to the safety nets:

Struggled Life - No assurance

There are communities that don't get any assurances. Usually are the states with a low life expectancy. Everyday is a struggle because every action might not be bearable. Of course by anyone other standards they are very risk averse. 

Assured Destruction

This situation might look like the previous but the risk averse behaviour transforms in a risk taking behavior because there is nothing to loose. in this case the safety net is given by the "anyway I will die, it cannot go worse than that". This makes a good case for a Minimum Waranted Income. That will transform the Assured Destruction and No Assurance (behaviours easily swappable) in a Stable Surviving Situation 

Stable Surviving Situation

This behaviour could be enabled by a Minimum Waranted Income. In this case you will know that in any circumstance your live will not end abruptly in misery and/or abuse. You will have your primary needs satisfied. 

Stable Income

There are ways to get a stable income: renta, renting, stable job, stable contracts. A stable income

might ensure a short term lodging/water/food/sleep safety net
might ensure a lifespan lodging/water/food/sleep safety net if pension is paid in a stable state

Non Stable Income

It’s simmilar with the previous situation but since is not stable it cannot be counted as a strategy. So is not an actual safety net.

Buying assurances

You can buy Safety Nets on various aspects of your life. With these the worse case scenario is still ok:

- health - accidents - cronic issues - expensive ills - accidents - cars - apartments - processes - education - life assurance

Lifetime lodggining

Lifetime utilities paid

Samples

Worse case scenario for Gates, Jobs, Musk would have been Esteem: they had a rich enough family to support their needs in case they couldn’t earn a dime.
A person that is concerned by putting a bread on the table would be much more risk averse since in the worst case scenario she doesn’t have a safety net.

Conclusion

A safety net is a long term strategic way to satisfy a need.
A safety net is an enabler of risk taking that could bring bigger acievements and rewards
Play the game on ^SafetyNets and not on ^ConfortGathering neither ^Consumerism

Connected Concepts: ToClarify

negociation and risk
circus artists
second best option, plan B
retired persons don’t take risks?
going to restaurants/vacations/night clubs/escourt/massage when you’re young
first timers in other cities/…
people with low expectations are not so stressed because they accepted the safety net.
dincolo de consumerism: towards a safety net stepped approach
hamburgers to quantify lifetime reserves

Fighting your safety net Where needs end and confort starts? Where is the luxury border?

ToRead

Articles by Guy Standing
- https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/11/precariat-global-class-rise-of-populism/
- https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/12/lies-of-global-capitalism-guy-standing
- https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/12/the-precariat-populism-and-robots-is-basic-income-a-political-imperative
- Summary in freemind
```
The 5 biggest lies of global capitalism <https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/11/precariat-global-class-rise-of-populism/> new classes elite / plutocracy rents salariat employment security pensions paid holidays medical leave proficians not seeking employment security making money...
```



Ordonanta Urgenta Modificare Cod Penal
2017-02-01T00:00:00+00:00


Identificare

  Monitorul Oficial nr. 0092 din 01 Februarie 2017 - Partea I
  Act nr. 13/31 Ianuarie 2017
  Ordonanţă de urgenţă pentru modificarea şi completarea Legii nr. 286/2009 privind Codul penal şi a Legii nr. 135/2010 privind Codul de procedură penală


Text










Linkuri

  vezi original
  vezi forma euroavocatura



Codul Penal
2017-02-01T00:00:00+00:00


Codul penal in varianta din 2015. 
 Linkuri:
  Istoric Codul Penal - Camera Deputatilor Legis - LEGE nr.286 din 17 iulie 2009
 Codul Penal Actualizat 2015
 Ordonanta Urgenta modificare cod penal 2017 original
 Ordonanta Urgenta modificare cod penal 2017 articol
 Codul Penal Actualizat 2017-feb-01 - vezi forma euroavocatura
 
 
 PARTEA I: PARTEA GENERALA
 TITLUL I: Legea penala si limitele ei de aplicare
 CAPITOLUL I: Principii generale
 Articolul 1: Legalitatea incriminarii
  Legea penala prevede faptele care constituie infractiuni.
 Nicio persoana nu poate fi sanctionata penal pentru o fapta care nu era prevazuta de legea penala la data cand a fost savarsita.
 
 Articolul 2: Legalitatea sanctiunilor de drept penal
  Legea penala prevede pedepsele aplicabile si masurile educative ce se pot lua fata de persoanele care au savarsit infractiuni, precum si masurile de siguranta ce se pot lua fata de persoanele care au comis fapte prevazute de legea penala.
 Nu se poate aplica o pedeapsa ori nu se poate lua o masura educativa sau o masura de siguranta daca aceasta nu era prevazuta de legea penala la data cand fapta a fost savarsita.
 Nicio pedeapsa nu poate fi stabilita si aplicata in afara limitelor generale ale acesteia.
 
 CAPITOLUL II: Aplicarea legii penale
 SECTIUNEA 1: Aplicarea legii penale in timp
 Articolul 3: Activitatea legii penale
 Legea penala se aplica infractiunilor savarsite in timpul cat ea se afla in vigoare.
 Articolul 4: Aplicarea legii penale de dezincriminare
 Legea penala nu se aplica faptelor savarsite sub legea veche, daca nu mai sunt prevazute de legea noua. in acest caz, executarea pedepselor, a masurilor educative si a masurilor de siguranta, pronuntate in baza legii vechi, precum si toate consecintele penale ale hotararilor judecatoresti privitoare la aceste fapte inceteaza prin intrarea in vigoare a legii noi.
 Articolul 5: Aplicarea legii penale mai favorabile pana la judecarea definitiva a cauzei
 Incepand cu 07-iul-2014 Art. 5 din partea I, titlul I, capitolul II, sectiunea 1 a se vedea referinte de aplicare din Decizia 10/2014
 Incepand cu 26-iun-2014 Art. 5 din partea I, titlul I, capitolul II, sectiunea 1 a se vedea referinte de aplicare din Decizia 5/2014
 Incepand cu 30-apr-2014 Art. 5 din partea I, titlul I, capitolul II, sectiunea 1 a se vedea referinte de aplicare din Decizia 2/2014
  In cazul in care de la savarsirea infractiunii pana la judecarea definitiva a cauzei au intervenit una sau mai multe legi penale, se aplica legea mai favorabila. Incepand cu 13-nov-2014 Art. 5, alin. (1) din partea I, titlul I, capitolul II, sectiunea 1 a se vedea referinte de aplicare din Decizia 21/2014
 Dispozitiile alin. (1) se aplica si actelor normative ori prevederilor din acestea declarate neconstitutionale, precum si ordonantelor de urgenta aprobate de Parlament cu modificari sau completari ori respinse, daca in timpul cand acestea s-au aflat in vigoare au cuprins dispozitii penale mai favorabile. *. Curtea Constitutionala admite exceptia de neconstitutionalitate si constata ca dispozitiile art. 5 din sunt constitutionale in masura in care nu permit combinarea prevederilor din legi succesive in stabilirea si aplicarea legii penale mai favorabile.
 Incepand cu 20-mai-2014 Art. 5 din partea I, titlul I, capitolul II, sectiunea 1 atacat de (exceptie admisa) Actul din Decizia 265/2014
 
 Articolul 6: Aplicarea legii penale mai favorabile dupa judecarea definitiva a cauzei
 Incepand cu 26-iun-2014 Art. 6 din partea I, titlul I, capitolul II, sectiunea 1 a se vedea referinte de aplicare din Decizia 7/2014
 Incepand cu 13-mai-2014 Art. 6 din partea I, titlul I, capitolul II, sectiunea 1 a se vedea referinte de aplicare din Decizia 1/2014
  Cand dupa ramanerea definitiva a hotararii de condamnare si pana la executarea completa a pedepsei inchisorii sau amenzii a intervenit o lege care prevede o pedeapsa mai usoara, sanctiunea aplicata, daca depaseste maximul special prevazut de legea noua pentru infractiunea savarsita, se reduce la acest maxim. Incepand cu 26-iun-2014 Art. 6, alin. (1) din partea I, titlul I, capitolul II, sectiunea 1 a se vedea referinte de aplicare din Decizia 6/2014
 Incepand cu 27-iun-2014 Art. 6, alin. (1) din partea I, titlul I, capitolul II, sectiunea 1 a se vedea referinte de aplicare din Decizia 8/2014
 Incepand cu 08-iul-2014 Art. 6, alin. (1) din partea I, titlul I, capitolul II, sectiunea 1 a se vedea referinte de aplicare din Decizia 13/2014
 Incepand cu 15-iul-2014 Art. 6, alin. (1) din partea I, titlul I, capitolul II, sectiunea 1 a se vedea referinte de aplicare din Decizia 14/2014
 *. Stabileste ca, in interpretarea dispozitiilor art. 6 alin. (1) din Codul penal, pentru ipoteza unei infractiuni comise in stare de recidiva postexecutorie judecata definitiv inainte de intrarea in vigoare a noului Cod penal, pedeapsa aplicata prin hotararea de condamnare se va compara cu maximul special prevazut in legea noua pentru infractiunea savarsita prin luarea in considerare a dispozitiilor art. 43 alin. (5) din Codul penal.
 Incepand cu 23-iul-2014 Art. 6, alin. (1) din partea I, titlul I, capitolul II, sectiunea 1 a se vedea referinte de aplicare din Actul din Decizia 15/2014
 Daca dupa ramanerea definitiva a hotararii de condamnare la detentiune pe viata si pana la executarea ei a intervenit o lege care prevede pentru aceeasi fapta numai pedeapsa inchisorii, pedeapsa detentiunii pe viata se inlocuieste cu maximul inchisorii prevazut pentru acea infractiune.
 Daca legea noua prevede in locul pedepsei inchisorii numai amenda, pedeapsa aplicata se inlocuieste cu amenda, fara a se putea depasi maximul special prevazut in legea noua. Tinandu-se seama de partea executata din pedeapsa inchisorii, se poate inlatura in totul sau in parte executarea amenzii.
 Masurile educative neexecutate si neprevazute in legea noua nu se mai executa, iar cele care au corespondent in legea noua se executa in continutul si limitele prevazute de aceasta, daca este mai favorabila.
 Cand legea noua este mai favorabila in conditiile alin. (1)-(4), pedepsele complementare si masurile de siguranta neexecutate si neprevazute in legea noua nu se...


Justitia in romania anul 2016
2017-01-25T00:00:00+00:00


A facut cineva calculul prejudiciului care nu se va mai recupera in urma ordonantei de gratiere?

«
Pun pariu ca suma este cel putin de 5 ori mai mare de 80 milioane. Dar inteleg ca oricum, si suma asta de 80 m este supra-evaluata.
http://www.hotnews.ro/stiri-esential-21555212-klaus-iohannis-consiliul-europei-nici-vorba-presiune-din-partea-cedo-nu-exista-niciun-fel-amenda-pentru-romania-pentru-situatia-din-penitenciare.htm

  

  


Gratierea nu e o solutie. Dar prejudiciul principal este cel imaterial.

Uite cat de bine stam la justitie in Romania:



  Inhuman or degrading treatment - 27
  Lack of effective investigation - 13
  Right to a fair trial - 13
  Length of proceedings - 7
  Protection of property - 7


Romania are 72 depasita doar de Turcia (79) si Rusia (109). Mai sunt cu multe Moldova - 18, Polonia - 29, Portugalia - 16, Ucraina - 50. Oricum toate celelalte state au sub 15. Clarifica asta cam cum e justitia in romania?

O analiza oficiala (ca pdf) de pe site-ul CEDO.


Export your OSQA articles and comments
2017-01-18T00:00:00+00:00




I had an osqa hosted solution. Unfortunately the project is deprecated now.
I created a solution to #ownyourarticles #ownyourcomments.


  osqa project: The old www.osqa.net OSQA was “deprecated” and now is redirected to www.dzonesoftware.com that sells AnswerHub.
  osqa downloads: Is hard to find any link to a downloadable archive with the osqa project.
  osqa on github: https://github.com/OSQA/osqa
  incomplete dockering:  https://github.com/vinomaster/osqa-docker


Export from mysql database to a single file

I created this query to “export” in a jekyll format all comments from an osqa exported database.

SELECT
	concat('---'
		,'\nslug: article',forum_node.id
		,'\ndate: ',added_at
		,'\ntitle: ',title
		,'\nauthor: ',username,'<',email,'>'
		,'\ntags: ',replace(tagnames,' ',',')
		,'\ntype: ',node_type
		,'\ntoslug: article',coalesce(parent_id,'')
		,'\n---'
		,'\n',body) AS `article`
FROM
	forum_node
		INNER JOIN auth_user
		ON forum_node.author_id = auth_user.id
WHERE
	(state_string <> '(deleted)')


The output is something like the following 2017-01-18--all.md

---
slug: 1
date: 2012-01-29 15:34:01
title: What is the best monetary system invented til now?
author: author1
tags: currency,monetary,system
type: question
toslug: 
---
<p>The current monetary systems have different problems.
What is the best monetary system for the entire planet?
One currency or multiple, gold or something else?
What is the best monetary system for a state, for a company, for a circle of friends?</p>
---
slug: 2
date: 2012-01-29 15:36:15
title: 
author: author2
tags: 
type: answer
toslug: 1
---
<p>Try bitcoins: <a href="http://www.weusecoins.com/">http://www.weusecoins.com/</a></p>
<p>In contrast, Bitcoins are like cash - seizing them requires access to your private keys, which could be placed on a USB stick, thereby enjoying the full legal and practical protections of physical property.</p>
---
slug: 3
date: 2012-01-29 15:48:11
title: How can a city reduce to zero the number of stray dogs on the streets?
author: author3
tags: city,animals,dogs,stray
type: question
toslug: 
---
<p>There are two problems with stray dogs:
 1. they might be aggresive and when they are the cost is huge, going to deaths of people
 2. without control, the usual case, they tend to have a growing population.</p>
<p>That's why the number of dogs on the streets must be reduced to zero to solve both problems.
If you solve only the second problem, the growing population you still might have for a period of time the first problem, which might be sufficient for people to ask for drastic solutions.</p>
<p>So, what is the perfect solution?</p>
---
slug: 4
date: 2012-01-29 18:20:22
title: What is the best election system that we have till now?
author: author3
tags: global,election,system
type: question
toslug: 
---
<p>We are the basic characteristics of an election system?
What are the usual trade-offs in such systems?
What are the tools, algorithms that solve such problems?</p>
---
slug: 5
date: 2012-01-30 08:16:21
title: 
author: author3
tags: 
type: answer
toslug: 1
---
<p>If i remember correctly, Bitcoin has been hacked:
<a href="http://www.dailytech.com/Inside+the+MegaHack+of+Bitcoin+the+Full+Story/article21942.htm">http://www.dailytech.com/Inside+the+MegaHack+of+Bitcoin+the+Full+Story/article21942.htm</a></p>
<p>However, i think first we need to ponder whether having anonymous money (such as cash or bitcoins) is the way to go. This is what money launderers are doing: obtaining money illegally, then use powerful feature of money's anonimity to become legit, and even respected, first class citizens.</p>
---
slug: 6
date: 2012-01-30 16:03:20
title: 
author: author4
tags: 
type: answer
toslug: 1
---
<p>Maybe we should first identify and define the problems of the current monetary system. </p>
<p>One idea would be to see where it all started: take the simplest possible monetary system and see what the problems were, how they were solved and retrospect if those solutions were correct or if a bigger problem was masked into said solution. A start in this direction would be this book: "Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary System (Second Edition)" by Barry Eichengreen.</p>
<p>More details here:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8753.html">Princeton Press</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Globalizing-Capital-History-International-Monetary/dp/0691139377/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1327957045&amp;sr=8-1">Amazon.com</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Upload sites are more and more cautious these days, so the pdf took a little digging. I am unaware if I am allowed to put a link to it here, but I will email it upon request.</p>
---
slug: 10
date: 2012-01-31 09:39:18
title: 
author: author3
tags: 
type: comment
toslug: 5
---
<p>It looks like was not hacked, but the some systems of some owners where hacked.</p>


Extract independent articles from file

csplit --prefix=2017-01-18--article --suffix-format=%02d.md 2017-01-18--all.md "/^slug:/-1" "{*}"


Test in jekyll

bundle exec jekyll serve


Then transform.sh file will help to split the articles in folders with their own comments.

#!/bin/bash
regextractor () {
	perl -E 'undef$/;$_=<>;($v1)= $_ =~ /'$1'/m;print "$v1";' <$2
}

for i in *.md
do
	mydate=`regextractor "^date:\s*(\S{10}).*$" $i`
	mytitle=`regextractor "^title:\w*(.*)\s*$" $i`
	myslug=`regextractor "^slug:\s*(\S*)\s*$" $i`
	toslug=`regextractor "^toslug:\s*(\S*)\s*$" $i`
	type=`regextractor "^type:\s*(\S*)\s*$" $i`
	#echo found "mydate $mydate-type $type-toslug $toslug-myslug $myslug"
	#echo found "mydate$mydate -date"
	#echo found "type$type -type"
	#echo found "toslug$toslug -toslug"
	#echo found "myslug$myslug -myslug"
	if [ $type == "question" ]; then
		article=$myslug
		echo "mv $i $article/$mydate-$toslug.md"
		mkdir $article
		mv $i $article/$mydate-$article.md
	else
		article=$toslug
		echo "mv $i $article/$mydate-$type-$myslug.md"
		mv $i $article/$type-$myslug.md
		echo "{% include_relative $type-$myslug.md %}" | tee -a $article/*-$article.md
	fi
done



Release versioning
2016-03-08T00:00:00+00:00


A set of practices related to versioning, branching and release strategy that worked for me in the past in several projects.

Versioning


  The convention for version numbers is major.minor.build.
  major is incremented when the public interface changes incompatibly. For example, a method is removed, or its signature changes. Clients using your library need to take care when using a library with a different major version, because things may break.
  minor is incremented when the public interface changes in a compatible way. For example, a method is added. Clients do not need to worry about about using the new version, as all the functions they are used to seeing will still be there and act the same.
  build is incremented when the implementation of a function changes, but no signatures are added or removed. For example, you found a bug and fixed it. Clients should probably update to the new version, but if it doesn’t work because they depended on the broken behavior, they can easily downgrade.


Semantic versioning


  The “manifest” for semantic versioning — http://semver.org/
  How to use semantic versioning — http://www.jvandemo.com/a-simple-guide-to-semantic-versioning/
  More arguments about what it means and why to use semantic versioning can be found here http://www.sitepoint.com/semantic-versioning-why-you-should-using/
  Some arguments against it or why is bad to be pedantic about it — https://gist.github.com/jashkenas/cbd2b088e20279ae2c8e


Branching

A very good resource on the branching strategy is http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/

We have the following branches


  master — the develop branch in article. We try to stabilize it from time to time to be able to “release” informally for some external stakeholders. In the “stabilization” period we freeze the merging between various feature branches
  feature/XXX-feature — feature branches around specific feature described by a JIRA ticket in general
  dev — a branch that could integrate various features that are might not be ready for a integration in master but still are needed to release a version through merge in releases.
  releases — Could also be called candidate branch. A branch where we try to keep it stable since we will mvn release:prepare from it. This means that the major and minor tags will be marked only on this branch.
  with this branch in place we can use the master branch as a development one where we try to integrate all features as soon as possible.
  stable — a branch needed by qa maintained through merges from release branch


Releasing from maven

How to release from mvn


  The maven-release-plugin tool will be used to release artifacts.
  In order to prepare a release, please use command : mvn release:prepare -DautoVersionSubmodules=true -Dusername=username -Dpassword=password -Prelease. Read more here. 

At this step, the user should input the version for release, the name of the tag branch that will be created and the new SNAPSHOT version. By specifying -DautoVersionSubmodules=true, we instruct the parent version to be inherited by children projects.
  In order to perform a release(upload artifacts to repository), please use the command : mvn release:perform -Prelease. Read more here.
  The process can be automated using Jenkins, read more here.


How it works

Let’s see how this might work.

There is a need for releasing uumds-pdp-0.1.1 for two reasons, for example:


  I needed a pdp that is dependent on a fixed version of uumds-admin:-ejb-persistence--data-0.1.1 that was released several days ago.
  I added an assembly that bundles together the components needed to be deployed on taxud-cas. This is necessary for docker.


All the current changes are internal releases (internal builds or “maven releases” how are called by Adrian). Internal releases are needed because we need several iterations (tries) with multiple candidate releases till we have one “good for external audience”. We could keep the major.minor version for the external audience where we clearly document what is expected to be delivered in them.

The current situation for pdp is:


  Two internal releases uumds-pdp-0.1.0 and uumds-pdp-0.1.1 that prepare the path for an official release: uumds-pdp-0.1.X
  We can’t say that the official release will be uumds-pdp-0.1 because we might need again to amend that next day.
  Is safer to assume that out of 20 internal releases: pdp-0.1.1 … pdp-0.1.20 some of them will be declared good for external audience: pdp-0.1.13 , pdp-0.1.17, pdp-0.1.19 and pdp-0.1.20
  After this(or in parallel) we could start working on pdp-0.2.X release.




GitSemantic VersioningMaven


Own Your Media
2015-02-04T00:00:00+00:00


This is an windows application that will automatically analyse all your images and videos in a folder and propose several other folders with all of them organized.

Features:

Current features are:


  the analysis is fast (100G in minutes) and will be improved
  the images content is not modified
  the given origin folder structure or content is not modified in any way
  the proposed folders contain all the files from the origin folder only structured and renamed differently
  any of the original folder or the proposals can be SAFELY deleted to keep only the best view
  the “copy” is “smart” (using hard links) and is very fast and doesn’t consume additional disk space
  more view proposals will be added (started with 5 now there are 10)
  the application doesn’t need manual work to be done except choosing the folder with images (this step could be also removed in next versions)




Download & Install


  Download the application organize.jar


Windows


  Java should be installed.
  Now double click on organize.jar and the application will ask for a folder to be organized.




Windows Command Line - For tech savy users


  Java should be installed.
  Download the application.


From command line you can run

:::shell
java -jar organize.jar "d:\photos1"


Linux-Ubuntu shell

Java should be installed.

:::shell
sudo apt-cache search java7
sudo apt-get install default-jre


Exiftool should be installed.

:::shell
sudo apt-get install libimage-exiftool-perl


Download the application

:::shell 
wget https://bintray.com/raisercostin/maven/download_file?file_path=org%2Fraisercostin%2Fownit_2.11%2F0.10%2Fownit_2.11-0.10-one-jar.jar -O organize.jar


From command line you can run

:::shell
java -jar -Dexiftool.path=exiftool organize.jar test1/


Usage

For example on request to organize folder d:\personal\photos-tofix\2006 you will get 6 proposals of organization in 6 folders each of them containing all files from the original folder:


  flat - all files are renamed but existing subfolder structure is removed
  standard - all files but keeping already existing structure
  byYear - the files are organized in subfolders specific to the year
  byYearMonth - the files are organized in subfolders specific to the year and month
  byCounter - the files are organized by using the camera image counter and all files in a single folder (useful to detect duplicates)


Now your media files are organized using the important exif information interpreted with a lot of smartness and awesomeness.
After this you can keep all proposals or remove some of them, or remove the original folder.

Sample

:::sample
> java -jar organize.jar d:\personal\photos-tofix\2006

organize d:\personal\photos-tofix\2006

analyze d:\personal\photos-tofix\2006\2006-06-16--11-38-58+XXXX---100-IMG_0817---at-XXX--Fairyland.JPG ...
	detected format	${exifDateTimeOriginal+yyyy}-${exifDateTimeOriginal+MM}-${exifDateTimeOriginal+dd}--${exifDateTimeOriginal+HH}-${exifDateTimeOriginal+mm}-${exifDateTimeOriginal+ss}${const:+XXXX}---${exifFileNumberMajor}-${const:IMG}_${exifFileNumberMinor}${const:---at-XXX--}Fairyland.${fileExtension}
	flat                          -> 	-flat\2006-06-16--11-38-58+XXXX---100-IMG_0817---at-XXX--Fairyland.JPG
	standard                      -> 	-standard\2006-06-16--11-38-58+XXXX---100-IMG_0817---at-XXX--Fairyland.JPG
	byYear                        -> 	-byYear\2006\2006-06-16--11-38-58+XXXX---100-IMG_0817---at-XXX--Fairyland.JPG
	byYearMonth                   -> 	-byYearMonth\2006-06-June\2006-06-16--11-38-58+XXXX---100-IMG_0817---at-XXX--Fairyland.JPG
	byCounter                     -> 	-byCounter\100-0817-Fairyland.JPG
	byCounterKeepStructure        -> 	-byCounterKeepStructure\100-0817-Fairyland.JPG

analyze d:\personal\photos-tofix\2006\2006-06-16--11-43-42+XXXX---100-IMG_0818---at-XXX--Catching.JPG ...
	detected format	${exifDateTimeOriginal+yyyy}-${exifDateTimeOriginal+MM}-${exifDateTimeOriginal+dd}--${exifDateTimeOriginal+HH}-${exifDateTimeOriginal+mm}-${exifDateTimeOriginal+ss}${const:+XXXX}---${exifFileNumberMajor}-${const:IMG}_${exifFileNumberMinor}${const:---at-XXX--}Catching.${fileExtension}
	flat                          -> 	-flat\2006-06-16--11-43-42+XXXX---100-IMG_0818---at-XXX--Catching.JPG
	standard                      -> 	-standard\2006-06-16--11-43-42+XXXX---100-IMG_0818---at-XXX--Catching.JPG
	byYear                        -> 	-byYear\2006\2006-06-16--11-43-42+XXXX---100-IMG_0818---at-XXX--Catching.JPG
	byYearMonth                   -> 	-byYearMonth\2006-06-June\2006-06-16--11-43-42+XXXX---100-IMG_0818---at-XXX--Catching.JPG
	byCounter                     -> 	-byCounter\100-0818-Catching.JPG
	byCounterKeepStructure        -> 	-byCounterKeepStructure\100-0818-Catching.JPG

analyze d:\personal\photos-tofix\2006\2006-06-17--16-15-23+XXXX---XXX-IMG_XXXX---at-XXX--What beautiful Taiwan is.jpg ...
	detected format	${exifDateTimeOriginal+yyyy}-${exifDateTimeOriginal+MM}-${exifDateTimeOriginal+dd}--${exifDateTimeOriginal+HH}-${exifDateTimeOriginal+mm}-${exifDateTimeOriginal+ss}${const:+XXXX}${const:---XXX-IMG_XXXX}${const:---at-XXX--}What beautiful Taiwan is.${fileExtension}
	flat                          -> 	-flat\2006-06-17--16-15-23+XXXX---XXX-IMG_XXXX---at-XXX--What beautiful Taiwan is.jpg
	standard                      -> 	-standard\2006-06-17--16-15-23+XXXX---XXX-IMG_XXXX---at-XXX--What beautiful Taiwan is.jpg
	byYear                        -> 	-byYear\2006\2006-06-17--16-15-23+XXXX---XXX-IMG_XXXX---at-XXX--What beautiful Taiwan is.jpg
	byYearMonth                   -> 	-byYearMonth\2006-06-June\2006-06-17--16-15-23+XXXX---XXX-IMG_XXXX---at-XXX--What beautiful Taiwan is.jpg
	byCounter                     -> 	-byCounter\XXX-XXXX-What beautiful Taiwan is.jpg
	byCounterKeepStructure        -> 	-byCounterKeepStructure\XXX-XXXX-What beautiful Taiwan is.jpg

analyze d:\personal\photos-tofix\2006\2006-07-09--15-16-15+XXXX---XXX-IMG_XXXX---at-XXX--Lotus.jpg ...
	detected format	${exifDateTimeOriginal+yyyy}-${exifDateTimeOriginal+MM}-${exifDateTimeOriginal+dd}--${exifDateTimeOriginal+HH}-${exifDateTimeOriginal+mm}-${exifDateTimeOriginal+ss}${const:+XXXX}${const:---XXX-IMG_XXXX}${const:---at-XXX--}Lotus.${fileExtension}
	flat                          -> 	-flat\2006-07-09--15-16-15+XXXX---XXX-IMG_XXXX---at-XXX--Lotus.jpg
	standard                      -> 	-standard\2006-07-09--15-16-15+XXXX---XXX-IMG_XXXX---at-XXX--Lotus.jpg
	byYear                        -> 	-byYear\2006\2006-07-09--15-16-15+XXXX---XXX-IMG_XXXX---at-XXX--Lotus.jpg
	byYearMonth                   -> 	-byYearMonth\2006-07-July\2006-07-09--15-16-15+XXXX---XXX-IMG_XXXX---at-XXX--Lotus.jpg
	byCounter                     -> 	-byCounter\XXX-XXXX-Lotus.jpg
	byCounterKeepStructure        -> 	-byCounterKeepStructure\XXX-XXXX-Lotus.jpg



Languages
2014-12-09T00:00:00+00:00


#Thesis
 
 We need a higher level human language
 I will first review the history of communication artifacts. I will show what is the problem with the current verbal communication tools that we devised. Then I will move to hints to a possible solution.
 In a second article I will present ways developed in computer science to conquer complexity through language, abstractization levels, paradigms, general and domain specific languages. Then I will try to construct a solution for the 100 year future human language.
 History
 Spoken language
 The history of biology, humans and then our civilization documents that we started to communicate using various non-verbal stimuli. Did they ever dream about where we will be today, to our current state of culture and language? I imagine (so I didn’t study this) that they started with naming objects, than naming actions and then adding more details to this backbone. You would consume it in realtime.
 Written language
 At some moment next step came: the written word. Now the knowledge can be preserved and passed to further generations. The knowledge can accumulate on different directions, at different moments of time. The problem was that communication in written was dependent on scribes. Knowledge transfer came with the huge costs of permanently copying the manuscripts.
 Printed language
 Then through print technology everybody could read, few could write thoughts, ideas. It was a slightly uni-directional, broadcasted, mass communication. This lowered the cost of consuming information, while still only the chosen ones where capable of writing and disseminate their artifacts. The language used was polished, the ideas trimmed, the message more often formal and with a specific purpose.
 Normal people still had bi-directional communication with the local ones.
 Media language
 Radio, TV didn’t change the game but just prepared the road for internet. With them the communication reached more people but still in an uni-directional way. Moreover there was a drawback compared to printed language: the knowledge consumed a fixed amount of time and an experienced person could not consume the knowledge faster than a novice. Even more, initially this kind of information couldn’t be stored. It was similar in drawbacks to the spoken language: real time consuming.
 Internet language
 After 200 years a new technological breakthrough came: Internet. With this most people could have bi-directional communication, in written, in their own peace. The knowledge can accumulate from multiple sources given birth to crowd sourcing: wikipedia, blogging beeing the most known.
 Problem
 Just words and expressions
 Then we stopped. Words are enough to transmit anything. Given time we learn how to encode feelings, thoughts, great ideas, knowledge.
 While the communication improved: from unidirectional to bidirectional or broadcasted, from volatile in spoken form to permanent in written form, from time consuming (spoken, video, audio) to time independent (written, internet) the basic language form remained the same.
 Price on write
 With every utterance that we create we pay the price for the costly grammar, syntax, ancient semantics, phrase structure. We must always focus on all these aspects. We lack a higher abstraction level language where we should focus on content, essence, ideas. We learned to respect the grammar rules and we do it automatically. Still the price is paid once when we write and many times when we read.
 Price on read
 We learn to extract meaning from any message that is thrown at us. We train on this. There are verbal reasoning tests designed to test this capability, there are special methods of fast reading, we read sumarries, movies, listen to blinkist summaries and in the end we migth decide not to read at all the books/articles/productions that are too decorated or full of noise. We take notes to keep and remember the essence of what is heard or read.
 Price on trivial mistakes
 Still we make mistakes. And they are penalized by the grammar nazis that live between us. The idea is lost and the focus is moved on the grammar topic. Educated people learned how to play this uninteresting and boring game of following grammar rules. Is not important (since usually the semantics are not affected) but it might consume energy in a boring and uninteresting direction if not done well. As a sidenote we don’t have syntax nazi, we don’t have idea nazi since we don’t have clear rules that must be followed when we create sentences and ideas. Actually we have the logical rules but …
 Price on diversity per’se
 We also pay a high price for not having a common language globally. The grammar and syntax price is multiplied by having thousands of languages. While some languages could be better in specific forms of communication most of them are able to create meaning and feelings in the communication partner. There is no reason to believe that at some moment a single language cannot do this, after it borrows a lot from all the other languages the inefable and undescriptable words.
 In the past this wasn’t a problem: people interacted with the closed ones using the same language and the cost of communication with the outside world was bigger and paid only by commerciants. Now the old physical islands separating communities are replaced by artificial (language based) islands. The total cost of global communication is bigger nowadays.
 Hints for a solution
 If I didn’t convinced you that the problem exists and is real I have one more example.
 We have other non-verbal languages. While I’m not proficient in any of them I had enough experience to understand that is more than the superficial form. I experienced write-expression in aikido, tango, chemistry, programming. I experienced read-expression in jazz, vocal, dance, gymnasts, foreign languages.
 Write expressions are expressions where we communicate to others, we emit information regarding what we feel or know. Read expressions are the ones where we consume information: feelings, knowledge.
 What these communications have in common is that they are not expressed verbally. Still after...


Life Patterns 1
2014-09-17T00:00:00+00:00
#De ce ne luptam cu altii?
Sunt necesare pentru inceput cateva clarificari asupra limbajului.

#Ce actiuni putem face
Actiunea este definita de actorii


  Subiect - cel ce face actiunea
  Obiect - cel asupra caruia se face actiunea


Actiunea urmareste transformarea realitatii conform cu o intentie initiala.

Pentru un actor rezultatul poate fi


  L
  (rau / lose)
      atunci cand rezultatul nu e dorit
  W
  (bun / win)
      atunci cand rezultatul e dorit
  C
  (constant)
      atunci cand rezultatul nu e nici dorit nici nedorit (rezultat indiferent)


Rezultatul interactiei intre subiect si obiect e de tipurile


  W
  win-win
      succes total
          ambii au castigat
  w
  win-con
      succes
          subiect a castigat, obiectul nu a pierdut (constant)
  S
  win-lose
      subiect win
          succes
              nu e total din moment ce obiectul a pierdut
  o
  con-win
      obiect win, indiferent pentru subiect
  C
  con-con
      subiect and obiect indiferent
          dar macar obiectul a castigat
  s
  con-lose
      subiect and obiect indiferent
          dar macar obiectul a castigat
  O
  lose-win
      obiect win, esec pentru subiect
          dar macar obiectul a castigat
  c
  lose-con
      subiect and obiect indiferent
          dar macar obiectul a castigat
  L
  lose-lose
      esec total
          ambii au pierdut
  X,Y,Z,W
  specific values
  +
  not important value


Subiectul intentioneaza obtinerea unui rezultat (rezultat intentionat). Actiunile lui duc la un rezultat real. Cu toate astea evaluarea subiectului si a obiectului poate sa difere de rezultatul real: avem rezultat perceput de subiect si obiect.

Vom califica fiecare combinatie in ordine pentru urmatoarele rezultate


  rezultat intentionat
  rezultatul real
  rezultatul perceput de subiect
  rezultatul perceput de obiect


In total sunt 9x9x9x9=6561 combinatii de rezultate intentionate, reale si percepute de obiect si subiect.

Diferenta intre win si lose poate fi foarte mare, si in general e asimetrica:


  pentru un actor
   de exemplu win aduce avantaje mari, lose aduce pierderi mici
  intre actori
   un win al subiectului e mai mare decat un win al obiectului


De exemplu
    Puteam avea situatia in care intentia si realitatea sunt win-win, perceptie subiect:win-win, perceptie obiect: lose-lose.
        In traducere: subiectul percepe corect realitatea conform caruia actiunea e win-win asa cum s-a intentionat pe cand obiectul o percepe ca o pierdere: triburile amazoniene.

ToDo
    desen cu cele 4 rezultate pentru intersectia intre toate astea


  intentie
  realitate
  perceptie subiect
  perceptie obiect


#Tipuri de actiuni

In urma definirii tipurilor de actiuni si tipurile de rezultate ale lor putem avea variate tipuri ce reflecta diverse realitati de interactiune intre un subiect si obiect.

Patterns1

  X+++
  intentia X
  +X++
  realitatea X
  ++X+
  perceptia subiectului X asupra realitatii
  +++X
  perceptia obiectului X asupra realitatii
  XX++
  scop atins
      intentia e identica cu realitatea X
  WW++
     scop win-win atins
  SS++
     scop subiect win atins
  XXX+
  scop atins si recunoscut(evaluat corect, constientizat, acknowledged) ca fiind atins
  XXXX
  scop atins si recunoscut de subiect si obiect ca fiind atins
  WWWW
  scop win-win intentionat si atins recunoscut de actori
  XY++
  scop ratat pentru ca intentia e diferita de realitatea finala
  XYX+
  scop ratat dar perceput ca atins de catre subiect
  XYXY
  scop ratat dar perceput ca atins de subiect, obiectul insa percepand corect realitatea
  XXX+
  scop atins
      perceptia subiectului conforma cu realitatea
  SSSS
  scop atins si recunoscut de actori ca find win-lose pentru subiect
  OOOO
  scop atins si recunoscut de actori ca fiind win pt obiect si lose pentru subiect. subiectul s-a sacrificat si sacrificiul e recunoscut
  LLLL
  razboi total/total warfare
      scop atins si recunoscut de actori ca fiind lose-lose


Patterns2

  O+++
  bine din sacrificiu
      cel mai rar
      martirajul
    
      OX++
  bine din sacrificiu nereusit
      OO++
  bine din sacrificiu reusit
      OO+X
  bine din sacrificiu reusit dar nerecunoscut de obiect
    
  
  o+++
  bine gratuit
      subiectul nu are nici un castig in a face bine dar totusi il face
  s+++
  rau gratuit
      subiectul nu are nici un castig in a face rau dar totusi il face
      cel mai blamabil
  W+++
  bine din interes
     - superficial
     - profund
        -  cel mai perfid: poate deveni rau din interes?
        -  totusi are efecte pozitive. macar pe termen scurt
  w+++
  oprtunism, subiect win, obiect constant
  C+++
  intentia e indiferenta, nici un actor nu are de castigat sau de pierdut ceva
  S+++
  rau din interes
     - profund
          victima a santajului
     - superficial
          imi rupeam unghia


Uneltele definite: rezultatul actiunii, tipurile de rezultate/evaluari precum si definirea patternurilor pot ajuta la intelegerea/analiza sistematica a diverse situatii de interactiune.



In partea a 2-a voi incerca sa raspund la intrebari precum:


  De ce actionam?
  Ce scopuri avem?
  Ce vrem de la o persoana?
  Vrem lucruri doar de la persoane?



How To Convert Sourceforge To Github
2014-07-16T00:00:00+00:00
Steps

import entire project from cvs repository in sourceforge
mkdir ~/quickrex
cd ~/quickrex
rsync -av rsync://quickrex.cvs.sourceforge.net/cvsroot/quickrex/ ~/quickrex

use git cvsimport to extract modules from local cvs repository
mkdir ~/quickrex-application
cd ~/quickrex-application/
git cvsimport -p x -v -d ~/quickrex I18N

update local repository from remote github project (that was already created)
cd ~/quickrex-application/
git remote add origin https://github.com/raisercostin/quickrex-i18n.git
git pull origin master

submit merged sources
git push origin master

PS. Based on http://ghantoos.org/2010/11/11/migrating-sourceforge-cvs-source-repository-to-github/


Children Brainteasers
2014-06-20T00:00:00+00:00
Games

If you want to let your child exercise his/her brain you could try these games


  Blokus
  Blokus junior
  Tangram
  Thinkfun
  Spacerails
  Bricklink - an unofficial LEGO Marketplace
  Shapescapes
  Lego
    
      http://education.lego.com/en-gb/preschool-and-school/lower-primary/7plus-education-wedo
      Duplo trains
    
  
  Knex
    
      knex ball machine
      Thrill rides
    
  


Universe
They can get a sense of big distances with these websites:

  Scale of universe in pictures
  Scale of universe in drawings
  Scale of universe in pictures2


#Math

Teach math

  euclid the game - geometry online
  khan academy
  coursera
  geogebra
    Math contests
  


Teach programming

Learn programming resources/games/classes for everyone.


  kids
    
      scratch
      [alice[(http://www.alice.org)
      code one hour
        
          light boot
          learn code
        
      
      khan academy
      tynker - theguardian article
    
  
  adult
    
      codeacademy (html, css, javascript, jquery, php, ruby?, python, APIs) - code academy
      sqlzoo (SQL)
      coursera
    
  
  other lists - 12 games that teach kids to code
    
      lightbot
      code monkey island
      kodable
      robozzle
      cargo-bot
      spaceChem
      RobotTurtles
      CodeCombat
      Ludos
      Codemancer
      Machineers
      Bee-Bot
    
  


Programming contests

  project euler
  topcoder


Teach everything

  MMOC
    
      khan academy
      coursera
      edx
      udacity
      P2PU
      Udemy
    
  


PS. Most of the kid games are recommended by Mihai S.

Games Box









Resurseateism2
2014-03-15T00:00:00+00:00
Sursa: http://resurseateism.wikispaces.com/ Discutii pe facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/resurseAtei/
 toc
 Descriere
 Asta e un index al altor grupuri atee din Romania. code Grupul se vrea un index al altor grupuri atee din Romania.
 Scopuri 1. Creearea unei comunitati atee in Romania 2. Valoarea grupului este data doar de lista catre resurse (daca grupul e sters poate fi creeat rapid cu aceleasi reguli)
 Regulile sunt simple: 1. Nu sunt acceptate mesje pro/contra legate de ateism/religii 2. Mesajele membrilor trebuie sa aiba legatura cu propunerea de linkuri catre alte resurse (gen grupuri, forumuri)
 Sfaturi 1. E de preferat ca resursele referite aici sa ofere un link back pentru a oferi alternative la propriul grup, din moment ce aspira la sprijinirea mesajelor atee in Romania. 2. In caz de suspendare a acestui grup un nou grup asemanator va fi ales (cu aceeasi membrii si cu aceleasi detalii) urmand ca resursele sa updateze referinta.
 code
 Ce pot face
  Ora de religie  Pagina facebook ora de religie - https://www.facebook.com/ora.de.religie
 Brosura renuntare la ora de religie - http://tinyurl.com/OraDeReligie
 Formular retragere de la ora de religie - http://www.asur.ro/noutati/ora-de-religie
 
 
 
 Surse de informare
  Rational Wiki - http://rationalwiki.org/ - (Analyzing and refuting pseudoscience and the anti-science movement. Documenting the full range of crank ideas. Explorations of authoritarianism and fundamentalism. Analysis and criticism of how these subjects are handled in the media.)
 
 Grupuri atee romane
  Altele  Yahoo - Forumul Ateilor din Romania - https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Forumul_Ateilor_din_Romania/conversations/messages
 Forum - Forumul Ateilor din Romania - http://forum.atei.ro/
 Blog - Blog comun - http://ateiagnosticiromani.net/
 
 
 Google plus  Atei & Agnostici Romani - https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/103073434539789584701
 
 
 Facebook  Atei ?i Agnostici Români - Closed Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/1380230485551814/ (Cip Pruteanu, Adrian Avaravei, Freija Vanir - 3776 membri/2014-03-15)
 Atei & Agnostici Romani - Open Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/ateiagnosticiromani/ (5167membri/2014-03-15 - grup initial, inchis temporar, acum redeschis)
 Elevi si studenti Atei si Agnostici - https://www.facebook.com/groups/elevi.studenti.atei.si.agnostici/
 Grup de suport pentru pagina Iisus Hristos - https://www.facebook.com/groups/733240940022373/
 Grup de Atei cu Pacanele si Parasute - https://www.facebook.com/groups/336993053070165/
 Rational Squad - https://www.facebook.com/groups/rationalsquad/
 Gameri atei sau agnostici - https://www.facebook.com/groups/365699340198654/
 Biserica Tepei - https://www.facebook.com/groups/biserica.tepei/
 Moaste - https://www.facebook.com/groups/344658649007007/
 Viata Altfel - https://www.facebook.com/groups/viataAltfel/
 Atei Necenzurati Romania - https://www.facebook.com/groups/141383299293894/
 Trollaj scabros, off-topic, ad-hominem, etc. - https://www.facebook.com/groups/244951898960695/
 Agnostici/ateisti românofoni - https://www.facebook.com/groups/163108423746218/
 
 
 
 Pagini atee romane
  Atei ?i Umani?ti Români - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Atei-%C8%99i-Umani%C8%99ti-Rom%C3%A2ni/453500528079223 (1340likes/2014-01-26)
 Iisus Hristos Mântuitorul - https://www.facebook.com/iisushristosul
 DuhulSfant - https://www.facebook.com/DuhulSfant
 Dracu’ - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dracu/135387509968912
 Dumnezeu’ - https://www.facebook.com/EuSuntDumnezeuOfficial
 Preafericitul Daniel - https://www.facebook.com/DanielCamPreaFericit
 Gandesc sunt Ateu - https://www.facebook.com/GandescSuntATEU
 Contradictiile Bibliei - https://www.facebook.com/ContradictiileBibliei
 Religie pe paine - https://www.facebook.com/ReligiePePaine
 Opriti finantarea cultelor religioase - https://www.facebook.com/OFCR.Romania
 Comunitatea ateistilor - https://www.facebook.com/ComunitateaAteistilor
 Atei in Romania - https://www.facebook.com/AteiInRomania
 
 Conturi personale
  Atei Agnostici Romani - https://www.facebook.com/atei.agnostici.ro
 
 Grupuri Atei, Agnostici, etc
  Alba  Grup: https://www.facebook.com/groups/189340907765724/
 Pagina:
 
 
 Arad  Grup: https://www.facebook.com/groups/atei.arad/
 Pagina:
 
 
 Arges  Grup: https://www.facebook.com/groups/181413478568096/?fref=ts
 Grup: Atei ?i Ra?ionali?ti Pite?ti - https://www.facebook.com/groups/245061118985341/
 
 
 Bacau  Grup: https://www.facebook.com/groups/113200222090802/?ref=ts&fref=ts
 Pagina:
 
 
 Bihor  Grup: https://www.facebook.com/groups/152563761477525/?fref=ts
 Pagina:
 
 
 Bistri?a-Nasaud  Grup: https://www.facebook.com/groups/211179975568084/?fref=ts
 Pagina:
 
 
 Boto?ani  Grup: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ateiagnosticibotosani/
 Pagina:
 
 
 Bra?ov  Grup:https://www.facebook.com/groups/216275298384116/?ref=ts&fref=ts
 Pagina: https://www.facebook.com/AteiAgnosticiBrasov?fref=ts
 
 
 Braila  Grup: https://www.facebook.com/groups/195966277114309/?fref=ts
 Pagina:
 
 
 Bucuresti  Grup: https://www.facebook.com/groups/202982126382980/?fref=ts
 Pagina:
 
 
 Buzau  Grup: https://www.facebook.com/groups/197984133570879/?fref=ts
 Pagina:
 
 
 Calara?i  Grup: https://www.facebook.com/groups/104235012998861/?fref=ts
 Pagina:
 
 
 Cara?-Severin  Grup: https://www.facebook.com/groups/142132902525295/?fref=ts
 Pagina:
 
 
 Cluj  Grup: https://www.facebook.com/groups/atei.cluj/?fref=ts
 Pagina:
 
 
 Constan?a  Grup: https://www.facebook.com/groups/127169554025357/?ref=ts&fref=ts
 Pagina:
 
 
 Covasna  Grup: https://www.facebook.com/groups/221690027847317/?fref=ts
 Pagina:
 
 
 Dâmbovi?a  Grup:https://www.facebook.com/groups/221500904531818/?fref=ts
 Pagina:
 
 
 Dolj  Grup:https://www.facebook.com/groups/150573308342482/?fref=ts
 Pagina:
 
 
 Gala?i  Grup:https://www.facebook.com/groups/218262968186178/?fref=ts
 Pagina:
 
 
 Giurgiu  Grup: https://www.facebook.com/groups/162847153775671/?fref=ts
 Pagina:
 
 
 Gorj  Grup:https://www.facebook.com/groups/163386653720809/?fref=ts
 Pagina:
 
 
 Harghita  Grup:https://www.facebook.com/groups/221036337910258/?fref=ts
 Pagina:
 
 
 Hunedoara  Grup:https://www.facebook.com/groups/105471269540484/?fref=ts
 Pagina:
 
 
 Ialomi?a  Grup:https://www.facebook.com/groups/220271307990353/?fref=ts
 Pagina:
 
 
 Ia?i  Grup: https://www.facebook.com/groups/145380102192211/?ref=ts&fref=ts
 https://www.facebook.com/groups/164778363565798/?fref=ts
 Pagina:
 
 
 Ilfov  Grup:https://www.facebook.com/groups/142921292445710/?fref=ts
 Pagina:
 
 
 Maramure?  Grup: https://www.facebook.com/groups/212108558809137/?fref=ts
 Pagina:
 
 
 Mehedin?i  Grup: https://www.facebook.com/groups/207324245967591/?fref=ts
 Pagina:
 
 
 Mure?  Grup:https://www.facebook.com/groups/199877053382338/?fref=ts
 Pagina:
 
 
 Neam?  Grup:https://www.facebook.com/groups/112136952204541/?fref=ts
 Pagina:
 
 
 Olt  Grup:https://www.facebook.com/groups/211421595544471/
 Pagina:https://www.facebook.com/pages/Atei-Olteni/208896699163182
 
 
 Prahova  Grup:https://www.facebook.com/groups/195124713864929/
 Pagina:
 
 
 Satu Mare  Grup:https://www.facebook.com/groups/171055912947496/?fref=ts
 Pagina:
 
 
 Salaj  Grup:https://www.facebook.com/groups/126782617399798/?fref=ts
 Pagina:
 
 
 Sibiu  Grup:https://www.facebook.com/groups/268822699896899/?ref=ts&fref=ts
 https://www.facebook.com/groups/199230636779537/?ref=ts&fref=ts
 Pagina:
 
 
 Suceava  Grup:https://www.facebook.com/groups/208301199192745/?fref=ts
 Pagina:
 
 
 Teleorman  Grup:https://www.facebook.com/groups/181365005244700/?fref=ts
 Pagina:
 
 
 Timi?  Grup:https://www.facebook.com/groups/127603293981987/?ref=ts&fref=ts
 *exista si un grup secret, utilizat de catre cei care participa la intalnirile din Timisoara, ii puteti contacta prin pagina de mai jos
 Pagina: https://www.facebook.com/ateitm?ref=ts&fref=ts
 
 
 Tulcea  Grup:https://www.facebook.com/groups/215956078433391/?fref=ts
 Pagina:
 
 
 Vaslui  Grup: https://www.facebook.com/groups/215561238471176/?fref=ts
 Pagina:
 
 
 Vâlcea  Grup: https://www.facebook.com/groups/164050696988484/?fref=ts
 Pagina:
 
 
 Vrancea  Grup: https://www.facebook.com/groups/162810300445683/?fref=ts
 Pagina:
 
 
 
 Grupuri compatibile cu ateismul si agnosticismul
  BisericaJedi - https://www.facebook.com/BisericaJedi
 Monstrul Zburator de Spaghete - https://www.facebook.com/MonstrulZburatorDinSpaghete
 
 Acoperire media
  http://renne.ro/social/inchizitie-2-0-facebook-a-blocat-mai-multe-grupuri-si-pagini-de-atei-din-romania/234
 http://www.gandul.info/it-c/controversa-in-romania-dupa-ce-facebook-a-suspendat-mai-multe-pagini-ateiste-11966089
 
 Grupuri straine
  debate sanatos credinciosi-necredinciosi - https://www.facebook.com/groups/debatetheexistenceofgod/
 debate sanatos credinciosi-necredinciosi - https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheGodDebate
 
 Resurse vechi
    Ce s-a întâmplat cu AAR? - Closing (folosit pentru repornirea noului AAR) - https://www.facebook.com/groups/348829858589242/
 Atei & Agnostici Romani - Open Group Temporar - https://www.facebook.com/groups/ateiagnostici.ro (Alin Corneliu Andries - 1578 membri/2014-03-15 - grup backup)
 
 
 
 Resurse invalide
  Suspendate de facebook  Grupuri AAR  Botosani: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ateism.botosani/?fref=ts
 
 
 Grupuri AAR  
 
 
 
 
 
 La gramada - De sortat
  https://www.facebook.com/AteismRo
 https://www.facebook.com/AtheistJesusx
 https://www.facebook.com/atheus1
 https://www.facebook.com/Bibliapentrusceptici
 https://www.facebook.com/Bisericamatii
 https://www.facebook.com/BisericaParadoxaRomana
 https://www.facebook.com/CitateAteiste
 https://www.facebook.com/ContradictiileBibliei
 https://www.facebook.com/DraculSuntEu
 https://www.facebook.com/DuhulSfant
 https://www.facebook.com/eusuntdumnezeu
 https://www.facebook.com/gandesc
 https://www.facebook.com/GandescSuntATEU
 https://www.facebook.com/gandeste.rational
 https://www.facebook.com/Humanism.Romania...


Health Debugging  Engineer Style
2014-03-11T00:00:00+00:00
What all these tags have in common: health, cold, flu, allergy, engineering, debugging, Oscars, attendee list, algorithms, binary search, divide and conquer? What do I know till now (2014-03-11 - 36 years old):
 Health issues
 Catching cold, flu or allergy
 There are a lot of symptoms that are connected and usually people don’t bother to differentiate between them. Several links follow, maybe I will have time to make a synthesis.
  cold flu allergies
 http://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/cold-guide/flu-cold-symptoms
 http://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/qa/coldflu.htm
 
 How you get it
 Traditional explanations
 You might find different explanations for this starting from older people like we have in Romania (and it seems that Greeks also have them) like:
  You genuinely believe in the curse of the evil eye
 Walking barefoot on marble floors means you’ll get a sore throat.
 If you eat ice-cream you will get a sore throat.
 If you open multiple windows you will get sick.
 If you run you will sweat and guess what you will get sick.
 If you are a girl and stay on the ground you will get sick.
 Not enough sleep
 
 Rest assured in a lot of countries you don’t get a flu like this.
 Scientific explanations
 You get
  flu from flu viruses
 cold from cold viruses
 allergy from allergens
 
 The general answer is that you’ve got an infection that triggered your defense system: viruses(life forms) or allergens(inmate objects)
 How often
 If you find yourself that you catch cold more than one time per year you should realize that that is not normal.
 Software Engineering
 Debugging 1
 Now that you acknowledged that is not normal you may want to understand what is happening. Are you having a cold, flu or an allergy?
 In software we have a process called debugging through which we find errors in the program. A program is a complex beast, could be written by a lot of people, days, months or even years ago and the mistake could be a simple character that triggers major problems. We must find that simple mistake and the process of finding it is called debugging.
 How do we debug our health issue?
 Searching algorithms 1
 In computer science one of the first things that you might learn is about algorithms. Algorithms are very clear lists of steps to be applied (automatically) on some initial data to get some final data as a result. One of the first such algorithm is one for searching a number in a sorted list. So the initial data is a number and a list of numbers that go from the smallest to the biggest. The final data is a response like yes, the number is in the list, no the number is not in the list.
 Oscars invitation list
 Since the “searching a number in a sorted list” might sound too technical or geekish and by all means I want to be cool lets find a similar but more important problem.
 At Oscars 2014 your job will be to filter people at the entrance. Since nobody will trust your gut on this a long list is compiled before and you will need just to be sure that only the people on the list will be accepted. Due to Oscars popularity you realize that this list will have hundreds of attendees.
 What you will do?
 Search in the importance list
 Some might think that a good solution is to filter them by importance. With this Leonardo DiCaprioMatthew McConaughey will be found very fast at the beginning where is searched first while the others will be found later. The least important one will have to wait till is found the last on the final page after a full scan of the entire list.
 This solution has the disadvantage that for each person you must screen out all the names before. In medium you will search for half of the list (considering that the least important ones still want to participate to the Oscar night with the same probability as the important ones). The advantage is that the ones at the beginning of the list will be satisfied that they don’t need to wait too long.
 Search in the alphabetical list
 Most of us know that searching in alphabetical lists is much faster. In this case you should order all the Oscars attendees by their name and you should search each of them doing a binary search. This means that in order to find Leonardo you will not need to full scan all the persons that have the name starting with A to M because you could directly jump to letter M. How do you directly jump to letter M? By finding a page in the middle of the list. Let’s say you find H. Then you clearly know that Leo cannot have his name before H, so you immediately discard the searching need in the initial pages from A to H without scanning them at all. This is a huge gain and everyone will be happy to be found very fast.
 Software Engineering 2
 Binary search 2
 In computer science the search in the alphabetical list has a name. The algorithm is called the binary search algorithm. Is called like that because at each step you split in two(so binary) the searching space(the entire list at the beginning) according to a pivot(the name you find in the middle page).
 What you might not realize when you are taught the binary search algorithm is that this algorithm is used in a lot of other places:
  the game of guessing a number between 1 and 100 - where you should “guess” always with the number in the middle of the remaining interval)
 finding a page with a specific number in a book
 find a bug in a software system
 
 So, how do you find a bug in your system?
 Debugging 2
 You can safely not read this...


How To Procrastinate Efficiently
2014-01-29T00:00:00+00:00
A perfect procrastinate performer should employ as much as possible tactics from the following list.
They are split on several situations.


  Real time communication
    
      Never give a clear answer on the spot. Use “Let me look into this”.
      Clarify that there is a special place to have discussions about work: workplace.
      Is fine to have discussions about hobbies at workplace: they improve the cohesion factor.
      Master small talk.
      Be prepared to discuss about the topics that have higher probability to be of interest for your target:
 	* Others
 		* Networks and who’s who
 		* Colleagues
 		* Children
 		* Opposite sex

 	* Events
 		* Concerts
 		* Social gatherings

 		* Sports
  	* Traveling
  	* Shopping
 	* Ideas
 		* Cars
  	* Philosophy
      Combine this with
        
          Smoking breaks
          Coffee breaks
          Gym breaks
          Shopping breaks
        
      
      Use hot reading of your managers/colleagues
    
  
  Emails
    
      You should communicate through email.
      Make email address mistakes.
  The email should be written manually to increase the probability of making mistakes. The recovery can be made only when the destination realizes that he doesn’t have the email (if he realizes) followed by a recovery of discussion by email as well.
      Never use distribution lists to communicate. This might enable proactive work.
      Nobody should be informed of what you’re doing except if they specifically ask it by email and several times verbally.
      Reply selectively to your emails. Better: reply randomly to your emails.
    
  
  Meetings
    
      Create meetings:
        
          clarification meetings
          status report meetings
        
      
      Better: create meetings that can’t be classified.
      The meetings shouldn’t have an agenda.
      Invite as many as possible people to meetings.
    
  
  Investigations
    
      Report the problem with as few as possible problems.
      Report the problem giving hints of possible cause in the wrong directions.
    
  
  Situations
    
      Ignore bad situations. Let them fall unnoticed.
      For an added efficiency: talk about bad situations like they are great victories.
    
  
  Responsibility
    
      Elude responsibility by delegating work and responsibility and not recognition.
      Complain about insufficient time. Bonus for better words “I don’t have enough bandwidth.”
      Delegate on the spot - The persons on vacation are the ones that are essential to your continuation.
    
  
  Choose moments
    
      Take vacation/fall ill one week before important events
        
          evict more work
          you can maintain independent position and choose the winner
          in case of later failure you weren’t consulted
        
      
    
  
  Risk management
    
      Risk of failure
        
          Inflate complexity of your work.
          Lower expectations of achievement.
          Complain that your work is hard.
        
      
    
  



Ateism Goals
2014-01-28T00:00:00+00:00
Care e scopul in sine al asociatiilor/grupurilor de atei/agnostici in Romania/Lume?


  Acceptarea de catre oameni ca religia (ca orice idee) poate fi criticata.
  Impotrivirea fatza de “educatia” dogmatica si inlocuirea ei cu gandirea critica.
  Diminuarea puterii bisericii (BOR) care isi foloseste puterea(scutiri de taxe, donatii, retea, educatie) pentru acumularea de mai multa putere(biserici, educatie).


Ce nu e de dorit sa se intample


  Discutii elitiste in cerc restrans - pentru ca discutiile in turn de fildes  nu produc schimbari.
  Mistoul, atacul la persoana - pentru ca radicalizeaza discutia deci sunt inutile sau chiar distrugatoare.
  Mistoul, atacul gratuit al religiei - pentru ca radicalizeaza discutia deci sunt inutile sau chiar distrugatoare.


Cum


  Cautarea unui grup de discutii unde te poti simti comfortabil. In timp ele vor avea scopuri mai clar definite. 
http://resurseateism.wikispaces.com/


Dialog Declansator
Articolul a fost declansat de un dialog avut cu un prieten (deocamdata anonim).

  R: Am si eu o intrebare. Nu c-as avea ceva impotriva sau ceva de criticat. Doar nu inteleg ideea generala: care este scopul in sine al asocatiilor/grupurilor de atei/agnostici?
  
    C: Obisnuirea oamenilor cu ideea ca religia poate fi criticata.
  

  R: Eu gandesc asa: Exista microbisti, ei sint impartiti in rapidisti, stelisti, etc. Nu-mi iesea la calcul de ce e nevoie de asociatia oamenilor care nu se uita la fotbal
  
    C: Obisnuirea oamenilor cu ideea ca religia ca orice idee e criticabila si ca nu e sfanta.
  

  R: Ahaa! Deci urmeaza sa militeze cumva.

  
    C: pai e ok sa nu-ti pese de microbisti si e ok sa iei la misto echipa altuiaDa exista agenda politicaal doilea scop e eliberarea copiilor de spalatul creierelor din scoli.
  

  R: Inteleg. Deci pe sistemul “du-te la meci” dar nu-mi intra in sufragerie sa-mi schimbi canalu la televizor pe gsp.tv. OK, are sens
  
    C: al treilea eliminarea puterilor BOR (bani si putere de control al populatiei)
  

  R: si pe sistemul. “esti dinamovist. dar nu te lua de steaua mea”
R: ok
  
    C: orice zici de rau de steaua e blasfemie si este condamnabilsau de partide politiceo intrebare buna
  

  R: Pai daca reusiti sa si faceti ceva e buna treaba, va sustin!  Daca va balaciti in discutii intre voi in cerc restrans gen “ce destepti sintem noi, ce prosti sint crestinii si ia uite ce lol am mai gasit in biblie” e plictisitor si inutil.

  R: N-am urmarit “miscarea”. Unde ar trebui sa intru?
  
    C: Pai aici e problema ca sunt miliarde de grupurifiecare cu politica lor de a face astaunii agresivi, altii open, altii trolleaza la greusi de curand forumul principal de 5000 de membrii a fost suspendat de facebooksi acum am zis sa incep sa mentin o lista ca nu merge cu un singur grup. ramane ca tu sa vezi care din grupuri iti placsi iti alegi de aici http://resurseateism.wikispaces.com/
  

  R: aha
  
    C: Acum sunt doua mai babane Atei SI agnostici romani 2. atei & agnostici romani dar am incercat sa ma tin departe de jocurile de culise. selectia evolutionista va avea grija sa le filtreze
  

  R: in offline exista o asociatie mare ca-n state?
  
    C: exista cele mici AAR locale unde oamenii ies la beri blasfemice.mai exista unele asociatii oficiale in offlineASUR e una din elesi mai fac uneori evenimente
  




Working for europeean comission
2014-01-24T00:00:00+00:00
Notice period and handover
In the 20 working days notice period, after you’re fired, the unit manager, the project manager and development team manager all agree that your job for the rest of the days in the project should be:

  read about a technology that they want to use it as a replacement of what you did
  understand it
  build and deliver a prof of concept based on that


To detail

  Firing process



Tourism
2014-01-15T00:00:00+00:00
Why not virtual tourism?

  google earth
  street view
  panoramio
  google images



Best dev books
2014-01-05T00:00:00+00:00
Books that I wish to be written or recommended to me earlier:
 Principles, Practices
  all Joel Spolsky Smart and Gets Things Done
 all Andrew Hunt, David Thomas The Pragmatic Programmer 1999
 all Frederick Brooks The Mythical Man-Month Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition
 all Joel Sposky Joel on Software
 all Jon Bentley programming-pearls-2nd-edition.9780201657883.23633
 all Kent Beck addison-wesley test-driven development by example
 all Kent Beck Extreme Programming Explained Addison Wesley (1999)
 all Kent Beck Test Driven Development By Example (2002)
 all Robert Martin Clean Code A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship (2008)
 all Ron Jeffries Extreme Programming
 all Steve Krug Don’t Make Me Think A Common Sense Approach To Web Usability (Second Edition) (2006)
 all Tom DeMarco The Deadline
 design Code Complete 2nd edition 2004
 design Cooper Java Design Patterns 2
 design GOF Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides Design Patterns
 design James Cooper The Design Patterns Java Companion (1998).PDF
 design Joshua Kerievsky refactoring-to-patterns-the-addison-wesley-signature-series.9780321213358.26918
 design Martin Fowler Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (2002)
 design Martin Fowler Refactoring Improving the Design of Existing Code (2002)
 design Martin Fowler UML Distilled 2nd Edition(2000)
 design Robert Martin Design Principles and Design Patterns (2000)
 design Robert Martin The Open-Closed Principle
 design Robert Martin UML for Java Programmers
 Design William Brown and co Antipatterns Refactoring Software, Architectures, and Projects in Crisis Wiley (1998)
 Design Patterns Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides
 Extreme Programming/Ron Jeffries Extreme Programming
 
 Design
 Algorithms
  Cormen - Introduction to Algorithms - third edition
 
 Tools(Language included) related
  Better Builds With Maven 2 - Merger (2006)
 Bruce Eckel - Thinking In Java 4th Edition
 
 To Read
  Eric Evans in his book Domain Driven Design
 
 Others
  Addison.Wesley.The.Java.EE.6.Tutorial.Basic.Concepts.4th.Edition.Aug.2010
 Algorithms/David Salomon Data Compression The Complete Reference Fourth Edition
 Algorithms/Mark Nelson The Data Compression Book 2nd Edition
 Algorithms/Steven Skiena The.Algorithm.Design.Manual.2nd.Edition
 Algorithms/Thomas H. Cormen Introduction to Algorithms Instructors Manual
 Algorithms/Thomas H. Cormen Introduction to Algorithms, 3nd Ed
 Algorithms/Thomas H. Cormen Introduction to Algorithms, 3nd Ed_Solutions
 all John Mongan and Co programming-interviews-exposed-secrets-to-landing-your-next-job-programmer-to-programmer.9780470121672.28076
 all Planning Extreme Programming Addison Wesley (2000)
 all William Wake Extreme Programming Explored Addison Wesley (2001)
 Antipatterns Refactoring Software, Architectures, and Projects in Crisis Wiley (1998)
 Begining Android 2 Apress (2010)
 Brian Tracy How to get Anything You Want
 Bruce Eckel Thinking in Enterprise Java 1.1
 Bruce Eckel Thinking in Java 3rd edition
 Bruce Eckel Thinking In Java 4th Edition-Dec.2007.eBook-BBL
 Bruce.Eckel.Thinking.In.Java.4th.Edition.Dec.2007.eBook-BBL
 Chapel Language Specification
 Cilk Reference Manual
 cloud/Enterprise_Cloud_Computing__Technology__Architecture__Applications
 Cooper Java Design Patterns 2
 Cooper Java Design Patterns.PDF
 Cormen Introduction to Algorithms Instructors Manual
 data/data Anand Rajaraman -Mining of Massive Datasets
 data/data Introduction to Information Retrieval
 data/papers/04.surveys.cattell
 data/papers/FlavorNetworkAndThePrinciplesOfFoodPairing
 data/papers/mapreduce-osdi04
 data/papers/p72-dean
 data/papers/stonebraker-cacm2010
 data/papers/The Expression of Emotions in 20th Century Books
 data/reports/MGI.PDF
 data/reports/MGI_big_data_full_report
 data/reports/SAS_Economist
 data/reports/What_Is_Data_Science_
 data/technologies/Hadoop The Definitive Guide 2nd Edition
 data Anand Rajaraman -Mining of Massive Datasets
 Data Compression/Dzung Tien Hoang Fast and Efficient Algorithms for Video Compression and Rate Control
 Data Compression/Greg Roelofs PNG The Definitive Guide
 Data Compression/Iain E. G. Richardson H.264 and MPEG-4 Video Compression Video Coding for Next Generation Multimedia
 Data Compression/Iain Richardson Video Codec Design Developing Image and Video Compression Systems
 Data Compression/John Miano Compressed Image File Formats (1999)
 Data Compression/Mark Nelson The Data Compression Book 2nd Edition
 Data Compression/Tinku Acharya JPEG2000 Standard for Image Compression Concepts Algorithms and VLSI_Architectures
 Data Compression The Complete Reference Fourth Edition
 Dependency Injection in .NET Mark Seemann
 Fortress Language Specification
 frameworks David Winterfeldt SpringByExample
 Friederick Brooks The Mythical Man Month 20th anniversary edition
 functional Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman Structure and interpretation of Computer Programs sicp
 Giumale Introducere in Analiza Algoritmilor
 GraphDatabases
 Groovy/Pragmatic.Grails.A.Quick.Start.Guide.Oct.2009
 Groovy/Pragmatic.Groovy.Recipes.Mar.2008
 Hardware Computer Architecture A Quantitative Approach
 Haskell/The Haskell Road to Logic, Maths and Programming (2004)
 HPC Computing Techniques for Optimizing Applications
 Hpc Profiling
 Introducere-in-sisteme-de-operare-By-Rughini?-R-Deaconescu-R-Milescu-G-Bardac-M
 Introduction to Algorithms, 3nd Ed Thomas H. Cormen
 Jack Shirazi Java Performance Tuning 2nd edition (2003)
 James Cooper The Design Patterns Java Companion (1998).PDF
 Java/Certification/SCJP_Sun_Certified_Programmer_for_Java_6_Exam_310-065
 Java/Joshua Bloch Effective Java 2nd Edition (2008)
 Java/Joshua Bloch, Neal Gafter Java Puzzlers, Traps, Pitfalls and Corner Cases (2005)
 Java/Steve Wilson, Jeff Kesselman Java Platform Performance
 Joel Sposky Joel on Software
 Kent Beck addison-wesley test-driven development by example
 Kent Beck Extreme Programming Explained Addison Wesley (1999)
 Kent Beck Test Driven Development by Example (2002)
 Kent Beck Test Driven Development By Example (2002)
 languages Bruce Eckel Thinking in Enterprise Java 1.1
 languages Bruce Eckel Thinking in Java 3rd edition
 languages Bruce Eckel Thinking In Java 4th Edition-Dec.2007.eBook-BBL
 languages Bruce Eckel Thinking In Java 4th Edition
 languages graham hutton programming-in-haskell.9780521692694.33359
 languages Jack Shirazi Java Performance Tuning 2nd edition (2003)
 languages Joshua Bloch Effective Java 2nd Edition (2008)
 languages Joshua Bloch, Neal Gafter Java Puzzlers, Traps, Pitfalls and Corner Cases (2005)
 languages Manning.GWT.in.Action.Easy.Ajax.with.the.Google.Web.Toolkit.Jun.2007.eBook-NoGRP
 languages Mark Lutz Learning Python 3rd edition (2007)
 languages Pragmatic.Grails.A.Quick.Start.Guide.Oct.2009
 languages Pragmatic.Groovy.Recipes.Mar.2008
 languages Programming in Scala 2nd Edition Martin Odersky
 languages Programming Scala (2009)
 languages Steve Wilson, Jeff Kesselman Java Platform Performance
 languages The Haskell Road to Logic, Maths and Programming (2004)
 Managementul Marketingului
 Manning.ASP.NET.MVC.2.in.Action.Jun.2010
 Manning.GWT.in.Action.Easy.Ajax.with.the.Google.Web.Toolkit.Jun.2007.eBook-NoGRP
 Manning.JUnit.in.Action.2nd.Edition.Jul.2010
 Mark Lutz Learning Python 3rd edition (2007)
 Mark Nelson The Data Compression Book 2nd Edition
 Marketing International
 Martin Fowler Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (2002)
 Martin Fowler Refactoring Improving the Design of Existing Code (2002)
 Martin Fowler UML Distilled 2nd Edition(2000)
 Maven/Better Builds With Maven 2 Merger (2006)
 Military Surviving Manual
 Mystery Method The Venusian Arts Handbook
 others/algorithms compression Iain E. G. Richardson H.264 and MPEG-4 Video Compression Video Coding for Next Generation Multimedia
 others/algorithms compression Iain Richardson Video Codec Design Developing Image and Video Compression Systems
 others/algorithms compression John Miano Compressed Image File Formats (1999)
 others/algorithms compression Tinku Acharya JPEG2000 Standard for Image Compression Concepts Algorithms and VLSI_Architectures
 others/algorithms Dzung Tien Hoang Fast and Efficient Algorithms for Video Compression and Rate Control
 others/algorithms ro Giumale Introducere in Analiza Algoritmilor
 others/business Marketing International
 others/business The Art of Profitability
 others/certifications SCJP_Sun_Certified_Programmer_for_Java_6_Exam_310-065
 others/languages Chapel Language Specification
 others/languages Cilk Reference Manual
 others/languages Fortress Language Specification
 others/life I_Moved_Your_Cheese
 others/management Brian Tracy How to get Anything You Want
 others/management ro Valerica Olteanu Managementul Marketingului
 others/management Strategic Management for Senior Leaders A Handbook for Implementation
 others/management Strategy...


Image Size
2013-12-08T00:00:00+00:00
Problem
Question
If you are to create digital content what should be the resolution that should be used in photoshop for example?
Answer
2560x1600

Details
Concepts

  Density-independent pixel (dp) - The conversion of dp units to screen pixels is simple: px = dp * (dpi / 160). For example, on a 240 dpi screen, 1 dp equals 1.5 physical pixels.
  Others to investigate
    
      resolution (width, height)
      diagonal
      dpi
      colours
      transparency
      reflection (mirror - maximum, black - minimum?, metallic colours: gold, silver ….)
    
  


Ratio


  
    
      Width
      Height
      R=W/H
      desc
    
    
      17
      9
      1.888
      -
    
    
      16
      9
      1.775
      =
    
    
      5
      3
      1.666
      = 15/9
    
    
      8
      5
      1.6
      =  16/10
    
    
      3
      2
      1.5
      = 15/10
    
    
      4
      3
      1.3
      = 12/9
    
    
      5
      4
      1.25
      = 10/8
    
  


Image sizes


  
    
      Device
      Width
      Height
      R=W/H
      Screen
      Density (PPI)
      DPI (dots per inch)
    
    
      generic 4:3
      4
      3
      1.3
      -
      -
       
    
    
      generic 16:9
      16
      9
      1.775
      -
      -
       
    
    
      Amazon Kindle Fire HDX 8.9”
      2560
      1600
      1.6
      8.9
      339
       
    
    
      Google/Samsung Nexus 10
      2560
      1600
      1.6
      10.1
      299
       
    
    
      Apple iPad Mini 2013
      2048
      1536
      1.3
      -
      326
       
    
    
      Apple iPad Air
      2048
      1536
      1.3
      -
      326
       
    
    
      iphone 5
      1136
      640
      1.775
      4
      -
       
    
  



  display resolutions

  various sizes
  Linus Torvalds - make 2560x1600 the new standard
  android screen resolutions



Subtitles
2013-11-30T00:00:00+00:00
The tool to use is called aegisub
A nice tutorial is here


Ro Legi
2013-11-22T00:00:00+00:00
Cunoaste-ti legile

Orincine ar trebui sa aiba cunostinte minime despre legile din tara sa (si poate mai putine cunostinte de trigonometrie si analiza matematica)


  constitutia
  codul civil pdf



Blogging
2013-11-22T00:00:00+00:00
Blogging tools


  blogger.com
  [calepin.co] - hosted by pelican with help from dropbox
  scriptogr.am
  octopress
  evernote


Ideally should have the following features:


  CNAME
  own your data (own your content by having files locally)
  versioning support (ideally through scm tools and automatic extraction of changes presented in a history part)
  custom tags (presented in a special section details)
  automatic rss support



Projects
2013-11-20T00:00:00+00:00
Projects that I might never create


  An personal assistant that will provide the same feeling of completion when you read a book but for websites. It should compute the total website size and how many “pages”/”sentences” were read. For example … what percentage from the content here I read? This should also answer to the question: Do people read nowadays?



Ro Agileism
2013-11-14T00:00:00+00:00
Liberarianism Issues (romanian)
O vreme credeam destul de mult in libertarianism ca la ceva viabil.
Acum am ceva mixed feelings. Cred ca exista niste proprietati emergente din libertarianism pe care nu le putem vedea pt ca nu exista destula practica.
De exemplu mi-e teama de explele de sectoare private din sua (care teoretic sunt influentate doar de piata):

  drept (armate, mafii de juristi)
  asigurari sanatate (cartel de asigurari de sanatate care vad ca nu e spart de nimeni desi domeniul e privat)
  telefonie (cartel de servicii de date, telefonie care e greu de spart)


Se pare ca domeniile astea nu sunt controlate de stat prin regularizari puternice si totusi nu sunt distruse de piata libera. Teoria libertarianilor este ca monopolurile exista ca sunt ajutate de stat prin regularizarea pietei si creearea unei bariere mari de intrare in domeniu. Dar eu cred ca sahul asta poate fi jucat bine de un cartel si fara ajutorul statului pt ca toti isi stiu interesul economic.

Nu am apucat sa vorbesc cu un libertarian care sa-mi aduca contraargumente. Stii vre-unul?

Resources

  romanian libertarian manifest
  qa on agileism



Intellectual Property Rights
2013-11-14T00:00:00+00:00
Liberarianism Issues (romanian)

www.intellectualprivilege.com/book.html


Distributed State
2013-11-13T00:00:00+00:00
State vs Events
It will be nice to always perceive the status of a flow at two levels:

  Raw Flow (Raw/Low Level Flow) - is just the simple ordered list of all FlowChanges. All the information is there.
  Flow (Business/High Level Flow) - is the high level state of the flow described in business terms. This state is inferred from the Raw Flow.


In general is good to decouple those since they are very useful in different circumstances and good to support different responsibilities:
Raw Flow is good for


  synchronizing all the details,
  to ensure parallelism,
  to detect conflicting changes,
  to export/import data to other systems,
  to visualize the flow changes as a list of papers in a folder.


Flow is good/is easy to be used for


  get the active list of participants
  get the list of seds
  get the owners of seds
  get the list of responsibilities to send seds to others
  get the active/canceled seds
  get the following rules (what sed followed what sed)


Is important to always think of them as they are equivalent and that any of them represents properly the Flow State. In our case we always compute the Flow from the RawFlow

Issues

Regarding adding data in the header of the messages which can be seen as flow amendments to the SED layer there are several drawbacks that prevents this:


  If state (and not events) are exchanged in parallel between counter parties you will observe in-transit problems. The simplest system that I can imagine is this.
    
      Let’s assume you have a central state machine.
      You have two operations on it: getCurrentState() and setCurrentState(x)
      If you have only one process that want to change the state it can always cal getCurrentState(), based on this computes a new state y that then is passed with setCurrentState(y)
      In case you want to have parallel changes to the state machine you need to ensure that nobody modifies the state from the moment you get the current state and compute the new state. You can do this by having a lock on the central state machine. If you will not have this you could end up having an inconsistent state.
      In a parallel system you will have additional problems on creating such a distributed lock.
      The proper solution to interact with the state machine is for each process to generate events, and a single process will deliver these events to the state machine. The state machine changes consistently the state based on the events and not by directly changing the state by an external system.
      The pattern is described by several terms out of which on hype are the actor systems. Clarifications you can also found in the way link state routing protocol is implemented
    
  
  A second way to describe the system in more business terms is the following:
    
      A decision is shared between two clerks. Any of them could decide who will pay an ammount.
      In parallel each of them communicate a state: the payer will be x (decides the first clerk) the payer will be y (decides the second clerk).
      Based on these local decisions money are sent to a person from both institutions.
 -First problem is to detect that the state decided by X is conflicted with state decided by Y. They could be legitimate if state decided by Y was taken in full knowledge of state decided by X. To solve this problem in terms of states is hard.
      In case you solve first you have a second problem how do you “revert” all the state changes that happened on an invalid state? This problem is even harder.
    
  
  The problem becomes extremely simple if you attempt to solve it in terms of events. Each clerk want to change the state according to an event. The event might be accepted or rejected. Any successive event will be tried and only the ones that have meaning(don’t introduce conflicts) will be applied.
  In our case the state that we are talking about is the participant list. The full participant list if is attempt to be exchanged in the messages might be inconsistent. We need a full participant list (as a state of flow) that is constructed from parallel events.


Solution


  In our case the Flow State is a complex/combined state that can be always computed from the Flow Changes (events) and never computed from partial state communicated through various messages.



Tradeoffs
2013-11-11T00:00:00+00:00
Question

  Monday, November 4, 2013:
AZ - 10:10 PM



  Today at work I started a conversation with another developer. Maybe I am too affected by what I am reading
and I follow them religiously. The conversation was about returning or passing nulls and I was saying that is always bad and people should throw exceptions or follow the null object design pattern. The counterargument was that there are simple cases that returning null is valid and the solutions I am suggesting add complexity. Now I am confused.


General Answer
In engineering is always about trade-offs. There is no room for religiousness.

Solution
In that case is bad because the convention is not communicated well. They don’t have your background and don’t see so clearly why would you make such a statement “is always bad” when they don’t even think about how this can be improved.

You could show them how the code looks in case you use an Optional (in guava for example) or your own Null Object. You could replace

:::java
void doSomething(@Nullable String value){
   ....
}


with

:::java
void doSomething(@Nullable String value){
     doSomething(Optional.fromNullable(value));
}
void doSomething(Optional<String> value){
 ....
}


It is hard to debate that the second version is worse than first, but prepares the ground to showcase the improvements.


Tools for startup
2013-11-11T00:00:00+00:00
Tools

  share a video presentation/pitch - http://bambuser.com/v/4087268
  create a facebook group for the development to interact with the team
  create a facebook group to interact with users
  create a survey on google forms?
  add to the survey an email contact (for newsletters)
  share with users
  video presentation
  ppt sharepoint


Inspired by startupweekends events in London, Amsterdam, Bruxelles, Luxemburg


Android overview
2013-11-07T00:00:00+00:00
Goals
 I need a clear criteria of success so I should have a very simple problem to solve.
  (done) Local - I should have an application on my phone
 (done) Pages - Display 10 pages with images of a fairy tale.
 (done) Voice - Play audio romanian voice on each page.
 (done) Autoplay - After the current page audio finishes move to next page.
 (done to test) No hide while listening
 (done) read pages/images from assets uris
 (done) Hide at the end
 (done) single track: skip when image is changed
 (done) single track: automatically change image when markers are reached
 (done) pause/resume on click
 (done) one thumbnail
 (done) rename project to zdreanta
 (done) Online - I should have an application on google play Zdreanta - v1
 (done) smaller size pics (png=>jpg)
 (done) remove permissions for USB and network
 (done) remove clear caches menu
 (done) on volume up a red flash was displayed. now is removed
 (done) menu with readByMyself, readToMe, readAutoplay
 (done) jump to tale with the menu
 (done) published on appsurfer that runs android applications on cloud and display them in browser
 (done) force landscape
 (done) higher resolution pics
  (done) better sync between sound and slides
 
 page counter - to show progress (for parents not childrens)
 replay current page on click anywhere
 special visible button to go to menu to exit
 recitator
 Search Engine Optimization: poveste, poezie, basm, versuri, culcare, copii, invatam, diapozitiv, diafilm, romania, regimul, ceausescu, comunism
 translate in english - zdreanta - rig rig2 rig3
 Pause/Resume Autoplay - After the current page audio finishes move to next page.
 Captions - Captions in romanian can be present.
 Spelled captions - Captions and spelled voice.
 Karaoke - Captions in romanian will show the current syllable (karaoke style).
 Reuse diapozitive
 The application is like a power point presentation engine. It has  content
 
  images
 audio
 text
 subtitles
 animations
 video - tools
 autoplay
 progress bar
 play/resume
 crowd content  record audio
 record video
 take pictures
 draw
 share
 
 
 rewind 5/10/15 seconds to learn poetry
 multitrack: images/audio/text
 repeat tale/section/verse/word/syllables
 split by sillabs
 playlist
 games?
 
 
 display progress bar
 
 Process
  Find a good book (see resources)
 Prepare tools
 Install on Local Phone
 Find a sample similar with this on internet and tweak it.
 
 Install
  java
 eclipse
 android sdk
 kies (drivers for the phone)
 
 
 Resources
 Tools
  development console
 android asset studio
 beginners: app inventor - generates a simple application
 
 Samples & Demos
  googleit
 flipper1
 flipper2
 flipper3
 http://www.androidhive.info/2013/09/android-fullscreen-image-slider-with-swipe-and-pinch-zoom-gestures/
 
 Prior knowledge
 Since I have various level of understanding on different topics the evaluation of the utility of the resources/books is purely subjective. Probably the selection is influenced by my current level: Beginner, Junior, Senior, Expert on several topics:
  general software development
 java
 mobile
 android
 
 In my case I’m an experienced java developer with no experience on mobile/device development.
 Compiled resources
  goodreads popular books
 official android
 stackoverflow android tag
 faq at coderanch
 top 5 android books
 other top
 top on stackoverflow
 
 Various books
 Not evaluated
  Professional Android 4 Development - By Reto Meier
 Best to start with the official documentation
 Pro Android 4 - By Satya Komatineni, Dave MacLean
 Programming Android: Java Programming for the New Generation of Mobile Devices - By Zigurd Mednieks, Laird Dornin, G. Blake Meike, Masumi Nakamura
 Android Apps for Absolute Beginners
 Beginning Android Application Development
 Programming Android: Java Programming for the New Generation of Mobile Devices
 Learn Java for Android Development
 Android Wireless Application Development Volume II: Advanced Topics
 The Busy Coder’s Guide to Advanced Android Development
 
 Not recommended
  Beginning Android 4 Development - By Wei-Ming Lee - all the code is doubled (Once in the solution once in why it works so the book is doubled by this. Doesn’t provide explanations to why and what is happening but only you could copy paste this and you will see it works because of these low level details that you can’t understand).
 
 Hands-on
 Settings
  Was important to get eclipse going to set ANDROID_SDK_HOME to c:\personal (it will create a .android\ folder where devices are stored)
 
 Decide supported version
  Android versions can be identified by from source
 name (2.x, 3.x, 4.x)
 product code (Froyo, Gingerbread, Ice Cream Sandwich, JellyBean)
 version (api level)
 check here to see the
 decide what android version you want to support
 2.x - mobile & tv?
 Android 2.2–2.2.3 Froyo (API level 8)
 Android 2.3–2.3.2 Gingerbread (API level 9/10)
 3.x - tablets
 4.x - mobile&tablets integrated
 Android 4.0–4.0.2 Ice Cream Sandwich (API level 14/15)
 Android 4.1 Jelly Bean (API level 16/17/18)
 
 Things I learned
  APNG is the animated PNG but is not standardized (more here http://www.instantfundas.com/2009/07/4-free-tools-to-create-animated-png.html, http://irfanview-forum.de/archive/index.php/t-129.html)
 animations might be better with http://developer.android.com/reference/android/graphics/drawable/AnimationDrawable.html
 folder structure http://developer.android.com/tools/projects/index.html#ApplicationProjects
 you can’t directly show images since the memory constraints are very high: you shoud read this official tutorial
 The most important concepts in android are the following
 The entry point into an android application (an application being a zip with apk extension) is the AndroidManifest.xml. This manifest (simillar to the MANIFEST.MF in normal jars, web.xml in war files, plugin.xml in OSGI/eclipse) specifies declaratively application details like: main class, permissions needed. Like in osgi/war this allows to the container (android in this case) to know details about application without instatiation and/or execution.
 An application has at least one type of action:  Activity - an UI that can do things
 Service - collection of batch actions that can happen in background with lower priority
 BroadcastReceiver - a task as a reaction to a signal/event coming from outside
 ContentProvider - provide data to an external request
 
 
 Applications interact easily through Intents - An intent is a concept similar to a combination...


Configure Wifi
2013-11-06T00:00:00+00:00


Problem
How to debug/configure wifi connection.

Investigation
Glossary
What are these


  wifi protocols: 8012.11 a/b/g/n
  data speeds
  n150, 300mbps
  band
  SSID
  channel: 1-9 (for 300mbps), 1-13(for 150mbps)
  channel bandwidth
  security WPA2


Tools


  InSSIDer3 (windows)
  inSSIDer Office (windows)
  speedtest.net (browser)
  wifi analyser (android)
  ping (windows)
  tracert (windows)
  tcp optimizer
  DNSBench.exe (windows) - https://www.grc.com/DNS/BENCHMARK.HTM


Debugging

  divide and conquer


Solution


Do & Don’t


  Don’t use Channel 13 (not compatible with my withing scale and with my samsung galaxy tab 2.0)
  Don’t use other channels than 1, 7 and 11 (it seems that they are not standard - as explained in the InSSIDer3 help).
  Do try to use Channel Bandwidth: 20/40 MHz (to have dual channel like: 7+11).
  Do try to use only Band 2.4GHz (802.11n) and not 802.11b/g/n which is good for maximum compatibility but will generate drops in performance if one device is using b or g.



Thank you team
2013-10-16T00:00:00+00:00
As you know we are in a period of time when our work is reviewed and analysed to decide the future of the EESSI project.

I would like to say that independent of the final result (Rinis, MS, IBM and internal) the internal release was a success according to any standard that might exist or will be invented. We delivered on time, on budget, ALL features that were requested on both milestones: GTM and BL. I’m pleased with what this team has accomplished. If somebody will offer me the opportunity to go back in time to fix something on the internal prototype, I will need to reject the offer because from a technical point of view I don’t see major improvements to be made.

Everyone should acknowledge that without several people the internal project would have not existed. I want to say a big thanks to all these people. Without any of your contribution and with a lower level of involvement we would have failed.


  Alex Zotos helped through design discussions, huge code contributions to the GTM release, deep discussions that improved the team. Thank you.
  C.T. helped through cleaning up the path for delivery, clarified through high level and in-deep analysis of the solution, with contributions on BL code that improved the quality of the delivery to a production level. Thank you for documentation and communication of the solution, thank you for your overtime daily and in weekends. Thank you for your patience.
  Joao Silva helped through graphical interface and also with the general environment. Thank you for giving “a face” to the solution. Thank you for your willingness to adapt to all our strange requests for the solution and thank you for delivering them surprisingly always in much better form that we dreamed. Thank you for providing for us and testing team with an environment that worked smoothly. Thank you for having state of the art continuous integration and delivery servers .
  Marcos Villabla helped through design discussions, and independent work on persistence GTM code. Thank you.
  Michail Georgiopoulos helped through very in-deep design discussions on GTM, security on GTM (that successfully passed the security audit of DIGIT on a prototype system that wasn’t focused on this audit at all), with in-deep analysis of ALL BL business stated and unstated requirements, with huge contributions to the final design of the BL layer solution that remained unchanged from february 2013, with (again) huge contributions on BL code that was delivered on time. Thank you for your overtime, work in weekends and focus on delivery in spite of all issues that sometimes pulled us back. Thank you for having patience with me. Thank you for always pushing back and correct me when I wasn’t right This helped me getting confidence that we are in the right direction when we agreed.
  Violeta Popescu helped through in-deep understanding of the solution that was under test. Thank you for not stopping on the minor and trivial issues of the solution and for the focus on the important issues. Thank you for providing early and cooperative feedback of the prototype. Without you (and I saw that happening multiple times) we would have discovered critical and blocking issues in the last moment. You helped in building up confidence that we converge towards a stable and trustworthy release. Thank you for your additional testing and for your suggestions for improvements on top of the test plan. You understood perfectly that the solution will succeed if we focus on critical and quality related issues and not on trivial and minor matters. Thank you for seeing the wood before you focused on testing the trees.



  Congratulations!!!!

  You delivered a stable, reliable, usable, complete first pilot that can support a sustainable piloting growth of the EESSI project!

  I know that I will enjoy working and deliver with any of you in any future project that we might be involved.


I would also like to thank to the other people that helped through discussions and partial solutions.


  Thank you Arne Bo Sorensen for helping us communicate and manage all the aspects related to jira and documents. Thank you for your openness to adapt the tools for our processes (I know that we should not take this for granted) and letting us use them to enhance our work through tools. Thank you for your patience.
  Thank you Iulian Costache for your help in delivering the ICD3 interface on time, on budget by managing specifications of the ICD3 interface.
  Thank you F.C., C.P., Cummings Philip, M.D., O.G., Taslitchi Cristian for the good profitable discussions that we had on various topics pertaining methodology, analysis, communication, business. In some cases we talked a lot these years in some cases we talked just several times and in both cases the value confirmed our current path or pinpointed risks.
  Thank you Niko Tsatsalmas and M.S. for your good will, adaptability, learning openness and willingness to contribute to the EESSI project.


So, thank you all again.

,costin -  2013-10-16

Width	Height	R=W/H	desc
17	9	1.888	-
16	9	1.775	=
5	3	1.666	= 15/9
8	5	1.6	= 16/10
3	2	1.5	= 15/10
4	3	1.3	= 12/9
5	4	1.25	= 10/8

Device	Width	Height	R=W/H	Screen	Density (PPI)	DPI (dots per inch)
generic 4:3	4	3	1.3	-	-
generic 16:9	16	9	1.775	-	-
Amazon Kindle Fire HDX 8.9”	2560	1600	1.6	8.9	339
Google/Samsung Nexus 10	2560	1600	1.6	10.1	299
Apple iPad Mini 2013	2048	1536	1.3	-	326
Apple iPad Air	2048	1536	1.3	-	326
iphone 5	1136	640	1.775	4	-