Recollect Engineering: Solving Instagram's Unshredder with Mechanical Turk and $0.50

recollectcode:

By now you’ve probably seen the Instagram Engineering Challenge: The Unshredder and a few solutions including one written purely in Canvas and Javascript. I don’t know any company code blogs that solve other company code blogs’ engineering challenges but that sounds meta enough to be awesome, so…

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Valletta Ventures: The price of a messy codebase: No LaTeX for the iPad

vallettaventures:

Any LaTeX user with an iPad has had the same thought: I want to use my favourite document creation system on my favourite device. Despite everything I am about to say about the LaTeX codebase, there is nothing like it for composing beautiful documents, and the iPad is the most beautiful platform…

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Privileged to have had dinner in the British Science Museum last night with global tech leaders. Thanks SVC2UK!
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Privileged to have had dinner in the British Science Museum last night with global tech leaders. Thanks SVC2UK!

The Internet is not a technology, it’s a fundamental belief system
Joi Ito (Director, MIT Media Lab)

Harvard referencing style - how add it to Microsoft Word

For some unknown reason Microsoft have not included the Harvard referencing style into their Office packages. If you’re like me, and sometimes need to include references in your document for one reason or another such as university, then the below should help you.

Go here and download the file styles.zip

Once downloaded, unzip styles.zip.

To Install on Mac OS X, copy the files to this directory
/Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Microsoft Word.app/Contents/Resources/Style/

To Install on Windows, copy the files to this directory
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\Bibliography\Style

Then restart Microsoft Word, and you should have the Harvard referencing style appear as an option.

If you don’t know how to create a bibliography in Word, you’ll find this link useful.

Meet Alexander Ljung explain how he made Soundcloud a success

Rather nice sunset on the heath
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Rather nice sunset on the heath

jamesgill:

“While ideas ultimately can be so powerful, they begin as fragile, barely formed thoughts, so easily missed so easily compromised, so easily just squished.”

Lately, when I’ve been needing inspiration, I’ve watched this.

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Rails new vs build

@article = Article.new

Creates a new instance of a Model.

@comment = @article.comments.build

Just like the new method, but by assocation proxies (not for Models). It automatically sets the foreign_key.

The other thing is that when you are doing a “has_one” the build looks like this:

@comment = @article.build_comment