The book is really good for people who are skeptical of the startup scene, both from the side of starting one (i.e. despising startup creation just for the sake of creating a startup) as well as for those in a managerial position in established companies, thinking that they produce by all means a superior product. While both of them are seemingly right, the market forces might decide otherwise.
So …
I really enjoyed the book, it was very refreshing to read about the life of a top athlete outside the training ground. Usually they brag about super special training schedule and top teams supporting them, but this book was about everything except that.
“Sitting in a tiny living room […], I watched Pete Sampras win the Wimbledon and I knew: one day that would be me” (p. xvi)
To test if …
I read a handful of self-help books in the past years. Due to a number of reasons, I didn’t have a chance to apply many of the techniques that seemed useful at a time, so I want to catalogue them in 2017 for my future reference. This is the second summary in the series after HBR Guide to Getting the Right Work Done.
My apologies in advance if you …
Ubuntu has quite old packages in the default repositories. It is especially important for web development, where version compatibility may break often.
ownCloud requires a modern version of Redis to use it as a cache and to keep track of the file locks.
PPAs that provide Redis packages do not build for the ARM arch, however. Therefore, with my new Scaleway server, I’ll have to do it by hand …
I learned about resin.io long time ago (thanks to my friend Shaun Mulligan from resin.io) but didn’t dare to try it out for a long time. Maybe, because most of the examples were in Node.js and targeted Raspberry Pi. At the time, I was doing a project in ad-hoc and wireless sensor networks and implemented it using the Beaglebone Black, Arduino, an LWIR camera (in my …
UPD 2016-05-14: Arduino Nano with CH340 ships from Aliexpress for less than $2 – I recommend you buy it instead (unless you know what you’re doing).
Do you really need to pay $25 for an Arduino? Many of my friends have the original Arduino and they work great, but I wanted to see how cheap I can go. Initially, I purchased the SunFounder Starter Kit and it worked 100% as …
New guide from HBR doesn’t sell you on a new technique, but instead opens with a chapter titled “You can’t get it all done”. The book presents a reader with two main ideas that seem rather obvious. First idea suggests that to get more time for our tasks, we must stop doing things we’re not supposed to. and that unswerving commitment to daily “rituals” forms the foundation …
cvBlob installation looked like an easy task but took me a little while to figure out.
First, there are no libcv4 libcvaux4 libraries in Debian (at least in Wheezy). I installed libopencv-dev instead.
Next, there was a very strange problem that persisted after cvBlob installation:
$ ./red_object_tracking
./red_object_tracking: error while loading shared libraries: libcvblob.so:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
The solution was to run sudo …
Add the following repository to the sources.list:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/git-core/ppa/ubuntu precise main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/git-core/ppa/ubuntu precise main
Now, run sudo apt-get update and get the following output:
W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net precise Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY A1715D88E1DF1F24
And fix it by running
sudo apt-key adv …
In the morning I decided to try building the json11 library. I almost submitted a github issue but then understood that the error quite silly and was probably originating from my broken setup:
$ make test clang++ -O -std=c++11 -stdlib=libc++ json11.cpp test.cpp -o test -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions In file included from json11.cpp:22: ./json11.hpp:53:10: fatal error: 'string' file not found #include <string> ^ 1 …