Posted by jpluimers on 2017/02/28
Flattening images of curled pages, as an optimization problem.
Source: Page dewarping [WayBack]
Great stuff what some day will be very useful as I’ve a truckload of books that need to be scanned someday.
via:
–jeroen
PS: via [WayBack] G+ Joseph Mitzen: [WayBack] Flameeyes’s Website — Unpaper (fork) repository at [WayBack] Flameeyes/unpaper: Forked unpaper repository
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/02/28
Great tip from Nelis Willers:
230 V safety on the work bench.Put your power supply in an old tablet container. The high voltage is safely encapsulated and will not accidentally touch something. Of course don’t do this for a kW supply, only where low heat is generated, otherwise you might set a fire!
Source: 230 V safety on the work bench. Put your power supply in an old tablet container…
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/02/28
This book covers Dependency Injection from A to Z. In it you’ll learn about Constructor Injection, Property Injection, and Method Injection. You’ll learn about the right and wrong way to use the Dependency Injection Container.
Source: Dependency Injection In Delphi by Nick Hodges [Leanpub PDF/iPad/Kindle]
This is the Chapter List:
- What is Dependency Injection
- Benefits of Dependency Injection
- Constructor Injection
- Property Injection
- Method Injection
- Using the Container
- A Simple Migration Example
- Advanced Uses of the Container
- Dependency Injection Anti-patterns
- A Full, Useful Example
- Final Thoughts
–jeroen
Source: New book by +Nick Hodges tech preview by +Stefan Glienke https://leanpub.com/…
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/02/27
This appeared a few days back: [WayBack] http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/apple/ssafe/Apple_SSAFE_Project.pdf
It’s about “Software and Security from Apple Friends and Enemies” an early exchange of ideas and possibilities for DRM in the Apple ][ and Apple III era.
I got it via my bitsavers.org RSS subscription, but it has been over the net in quite a few other places as well:
I think the most important quote is from the one on reddit, submitted 20170223 by vadermeer for which I added some WayBack/Archive.is links:
[WayBack] Found Internal Apple Memos about copy protection for Apple II, SARA, LISA(self.VintageApple)
The reddit thread is very nice reading as it explains how close we are now to this Level 1:
Level 1. Totally secure. Absolutely no method of stealing the software. 100% effective. Note that the ideal, level 1, is achievable only through disallowing any access of any kind to the software and the computer. Not very practical in our circumstances.
and this one from boingboing:
It’s so neatly packaged and well-documented it could be a Harvard Business Review case-study.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/02/27
Long read: well worth it. [WayBack] I Wrote The Fastest Hashtable | Probably Dance
github repository: skarupke/flat_hash_map: A very fast hashtable
source download: https://github.com/skarupke/flat_hash_map/blob/master/flat_hash_map.hpp
–jeroen
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