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This ques­tion was posed on cross​val​i​dated​.com: Preview Text:  I’ve come across this prob­lem before in my con­sult­ing work, although I don’t think I’ve ever pub­lished my solu­tion. So here it is. If x is your monthly time series, then you can con­struct annual totals as follows... Legacy ...

This week-end, I wrote a post since I had some trouble to generate a sample random sample with R, to reproduce one obtained by a co-author, with SAS (generated using Fishman and Moore (1982) used in function Preview Text:  Is it possible to reproduce the random generator? Yes, we can. And it is quite simple, if you use the...

Pieter Hintjens, a maintainer of ZeroMQ: The Definitive Guide, discusses the patterns, the code, and the community behind this message-passing library. Preview Text:  Pieter Hintjens, a maintainer of ZeroMQ: The Definitive Guide, discusses the patterns, the code, and the community behind this message-passing library. Legacy ...

For Java users, NuoDB provides a Hibernate dialect that supports both version 3.6.6 and 4.1.x of Hibernate.A sample application that makes use of Hibernate and the NuoDB Hibernate dialect can be found in the samples directory of the NuoDB installation:%NUODB_HOME%\samples\hibernate (Windows)$NUODB_HOME/samples/hibernate (UNIX)The sample application is built using Maven, so both the NuoDB dialect...

A week ago I wrote about Perrin numbers, numbers Pn defined by a recurrence relation similar to Fibonacci numbers. If n is prime, Pn mod n = 0, and the converse is nearly always true. Preview Text:  A week ago I wrote about Perrin numbers, numbers Pn defined by a recurrence relation similar to Fibonacci...

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Storage and Archive offerings are now exploding on the market. From end-user mobile devices to company tactical level, the cloud has become a black hole for every kind of data. But what are the risks, and what are the real needs? In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Alexandre Morel, Cloud Product Manager & Evangelist at OVH.com, will answer questions such as: How to develop a strategy to use those offers as a base to develop mid and long-term value? Should companies trust the cloud (Dedicated or Public) or rely on some other solutions? How to select the right solution for the right internal need? Which best of breed approaches can be used?

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A simple (and misunderstood) way people think of their change initiative like this: Preview Text:  A simple (and misunderstood) way people think of their change initiative like this: Their organization is just sitting there, ready to change in wonderful ways. We just have to tell people how great our new initiative is and they will be lining up to...

The most interesting post read those past days is, without any doubt, Preview Text:  Arthur Charpentier's regular data link roundup explores the paradox of the proof, the sex in economics, the long wait for natural language processing, and much more. Legacy Sponsored:  ...

Curator's Note: The content of this article was written by Trek Palmer over at the NuoDB tech blog.  Preview Text:  Greetings oh-so-persistent nuonians! Your faithful consistency nerd is here to continue the discussion of MVCC. Legacy Sponsored:  unsponsored ...

Many developers fell like double' rounding and representation errors and random errors which are wild and uncontrollable.   This exercise is intended to help understand what double is really doing. Write a method to convert double into text in a direct ByteBuffer which starts Preview Text:  Many developers fell like double'...

Summer typically brings lots of vacation time for people. Instead of sitting around and being lazy, why not take the time to learn a new programming language? I am not recommending a specific language over others at this time, but providing a long list of languages based on GitHub and TIOBE. I have not tried to categorize or validate this list of languages in any way, so please do not complain...

For episode 20, we tackle the topic of tooling proficiency on your release engineering, ops, and development teams, specifically through the lens of version control tools. Version control is becoming a ubiquitous part of the “DevOps movement,” and we talk through what level of understanding should be expected, what level of training should be provided, and whether those are different for...

I heard someone mention the other day that they have forgotten more programming languages than most developers have learned and it made me remember all the suggestions to learn a new language every year.  I have probably even made this suggestion before.  As I thought about it I realized that it isn’t important for it to be a language that you learn, it is just important that you...

Full-Text, Client-Side Search in CSS3 This is a pretty simple and straightforward trick you should try out if you just want to search for items on one page.  Sure you can also use Ctrl+F, but this looks a lot nicer. Preview Text:  Today: A full-text client-side search in CSS3, Georgia Tech's online MS in Computer Science for $7,000, 3 new...

I’ve flipped my blog from one theme to another, while keeping it within GitHub Pages. On the way, I’ve been deleting and updating cruft. But what should I do about my historical links to http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com though? Clicking through to www.nosoftwarepatents.com leads me to believe that it’s ‘parked’ at some moment in 2007. The style’s archaic, and the logos are unusable,...

There’s more and more buzz around estimates and #noestimates in software development. People like to write bold statements and go extreme about things in blogs. Usually, personal dialogues are much more balanced. Some hate estimates and believe it’s a useless activity. Some defend it with arguments of arguable truth. I want to dig into intrinsic estimates complications, what people mean by...

Facebook showed a slide apparently at a conference, about what HTML is lacking for building apps (see it here). To me, this could have been the first of a series of 20 or so slides. Preview Text:  A week or so ago, the Typesafe guys released a new version of their website, and a product they are calling Activator ...

Is one of your New Year Resolutions to re-skill? Thinking about re-training for a new career (or even just a new hobby) in tech? Preview Text:  Is one of your New Year Resolutions to re-skill? Thinking about re-training for a new career (or even just a new hobby) in tech? Then you're in luck! Legacy Sponsored:  ...

This is the third part in my little series about dependency anti-patterns. Preview Text:  When you have two slices with lots of parallel connections as in the image on the side, you found this pattern. Just as with real clotheslines there might be some crossing in the lines, but the majority is parallel. Legacy ...