wkjagt

#How I built an audio book reader for my nearly blind grandfather

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Last year, when visiting my family back home in Holland, I also stopped by my grand-parents. My grand-father, now 93 years old, had always been a very active man. However, during the presceding couple of months, he'd gone almost completely blind and now spent his days sitting in a chair. Trying to think of something for him to do, I suggested he try out audio books. After finally convincing him -- he said audio books were for sad old people -- that listening to a well performed recording is actually a wonderful experience, I realized the problem of this idea.

####The problem with audio devices and the newly blind. After my first impulse to jump up and go buy him an

alabid

The installation directions for marvel -- a plugin for elastic search -- is very scant and unnecessarily indirect. The clearest instructions I found on how to install the marvel plugin through homebrew was on Twitter! Twitter! Why?! Anyways, to install marvel via brew, you can do this:

brew update
brew upgrade elasticsearch
cd /usr/local/Cellar/elasticsearch/<whatever version>
bin/plugin -i elasticsearch/marvel/latest

nocturnalgeek

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mpasternacki

FreeBSD on a MacBook Pro

Since 2008 or 2009 I work on Apple hardware and OS: back then I grew tired of Linux desktop (which is going to be MASSIVE NEXT YEAR, at least since 2001), and switched to something that Just Works. Six years later, it less and less Just Works, started turning into spyware and nagware, and doesn't need much less maintenance than Linux desktop — at least for my work, which is system administration and software development, probably it is better for the mythical End User person. Work needed to get software I need running is not less obscure than work I'd need to do on Linux or othe Unix-like system. I am finding myself turning away from GUI programs that I used to appreciate, and most of the time I use OSX to just run a terminal, Firefox, and Emacs. GUI that used to be nice and unintrusive, got annoying. Either I came full circle in the last 15 years of my computer usage, or the OSX experience degraded in last 5 years. Again, this is from a sysadmin/developer ki

mannodermaus

package retrofit.converter;

import com.bluelinelabs.logansquare.LoganSquare;

import java.lang.reflect.ParameterizedType;
import java.lang.reflect.Type;
import java.util.List;

import retrofit.converter.ConversionException;
import retrofit.converter.Converter;

mcginty

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <color name="material_red50">#ffffebee</color>
    <color name="material_red100">#ffffcdd2</color>
    <color name="material_red200">#ffef9a9a</color>
    <color name="material_red300">#ffe57373</color>
    <color name="material_red400">#ffef5350</color>
    <color name="material_red500">#fff44336</color>
    <color name="material_red600">#ffe53935</color>
    <color name="material_red700">#ffd32f2f</color>

jt-gilkeson

/*
 * Copyright (C) 2015 J.T. Gilkeson
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software

lopspower

Proguard Configuration

1) Enable Proguard in your build.gradle module :

android {
    //...
 buildTypes {

rauchg

require-from-twitter

Since Twitter doesn't have an edit button, it's a suitable host for JavaScript modules.

How to use

Source tweet: https://twitter.com/rauchg/status/712799807073419264

const leftPad = await requireFromTwitter('712799807073419264');

avafloww

/*<?php
//*/public class PhpJava { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.printf("/*%s",
//\u000A\u002F\u002A
class PhpJava {
    static function main() {
        echo(//\u000A\u002A\u002F
        "Hello World!");
}}
//\u000A\u002F\u002A
PhpJava::main();