Category Archives: programming

Conda gives error when doing “source activate” in cmder

Posted on February 15, 2019 by ordo tacitus

So I used Cmder, the rather awesome command lined emulator, instead of cmd.exe or powershell when doing command line development work. I also like powershell a lot but feel much more comfortable with Cmder which has the benefit of support … Continue reading →

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Atom disappears from screen even though its running on Windows

Posted on July 6, 2017 by ordo tacitus

  I had an odd issue recently. I was editing some code in Atom and ended up closing my laptop and setting up somewhere else. When I opened my laptop I could see Atom running but when I clicked on … Continue reading →

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Good article on UDP vs TCP

Posted on May 6, 2015 by ordo tacitus

I am currently working on a project that involves satellite based radios and digital data exchange. During a test of the project the system started having all sorts of problems that the main contractor and customer could not figure out. … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on trying to build services for so called smart clients

Posted on June 7, 2014 by ordo tacitus

Why I Hate HATEOAS http://www.jeffknupp.com/blog/2014/06/03/why-i-hate-hateoas

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Enabling Developer Options in Android 4.2 and Up

Posted on January 26, 2014 by ordo tacitus

Recently I was working on a project where I needed to build and push an .apk to a brand new Samsung Note 3 running Android 4.3. I was confused though in that while I am pretty experienced developing on Android … Continue reading →

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Using lego mindstorm to automate scanning

Posted on September 7, 2013 by ordo tacitus

Pretty amusing use of avilable items though I would not call it a hack “How a Man in Austria Used Legos to Hack Amazon’s Kindle E-Book Security” http://feedly.com/k/1ap1jQX

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In New Study, Entrepreneurs See the Glass Nearly Empty – NYTimes.com

Posted on September 5, 2013 by ordo tacitus

Coming back to the thesis that American Entrepreneurs tend to be hypomaniacs then this all makes sense. Then again it just be culture. From my limited perspective a lot of innovation in the US is driven by those people who … Continue reading →

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Overview of tracing-framework by Google

Posted on August 4, 2013 by ordo tacitus

The Web Tracing Framework is a collection of libraries, tools, and scripts aimed at web developers trying to write large, performance-sensitive Javascript applications. It’s designed to be used in conjunction with the built-in development tools of browsers but goes far … Continue reading →

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