Charles Edge · Fade it in annnnnnd…
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Bootstrappers Blog: Let’s Not Forget To Take Care Of Ourselves
As we start to re-open offices and get back to normal (or find a new normal), there’s going to be a lot of new pressure applied here and there. Everyone in an early stage startup is already constantly busy. We bounce between so many different roles. We have what seems like thousands of things going on in life and work. We have to get sales and marketing running. We have to get that new feature committed. We have to raise money to keep the lights on. We have to get a better process to merge code. We have to… Ugh. It just never ends. On top of that maybe we…
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Bootstrappers Blog: Content Creation for Early Stage Startups
There’s no doubt that content is a great way to attract potential customers to our sites. There’s also no doubt that the right kind of content can drive the right kind of customers. But really, most any content is good content. It can be challenging for early stage startups to take the time to focus on generating content. There are so many things pulling at us. Many a founder will already be well versed in talking to the audience that our products are targeted at. So we’re going to be able to communicate with our customers at their level and with depth, sincerity, and in a way that resonates. With…
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The History Of Computing: Netflix
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Episode 154 of the MacAdmins Podcast: Roundtable for Beta Season
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The History Of Computing Podcast: IETF, Guardians of the Internets
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12+ Machine Learning Libraries For Java Projects
It seems like a lot of people are using micro services that are hosted by a third party vendor to process various bits of natural language processing and other tasks that typically get lumped into the “Machine Learning” bucket. But there are a lot of environments that need self-contained systems. Especially when it’s simple to build a small project to do a task using something like Python’s nltk, but when you start hammering those microservices you build with those tools you start to feel how their ease-of-use can make them a bit more sluggish than purpose-built tooling (I guess that’s true for everything in software development). So let’s look at…
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Can’t wait for #JNUCF
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The History Of Computing: Apple in the late 80s, The Blue Meanies, Pink, Taligent, and IBM
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Scripting the Temp and Cache Directories on a Mac
Ever see a weird folder like /var/folders/g0/lr10g_wx4t75s2hd5129qhkc0000gn/T/ and wonder why it’s there? Those are usually Darwin or shell temporary or cache directories. They are where those weird temp directories you need to access are written to and read from. Apple uses these to host volatile sql databases and a number of scripts use them to house a file and protobuffs prior to processing. You too can access them in your scripts when needed. The most common is a built-in shell temp that you can easily access just by echoing out the contents of $TMPDIR: echo $TMPDIR Darwin has some as well; most notably in DARWIN_USER_CACHE_DIR and DARWIN_USER_TEMP_DIR where each can…