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Driving towards Honoka'a from Hilo on Hawaii Belt Road, it is at the main entrance to Papaikou. Take a left on Silverton Camp Mill Road and immediately pull into the parking lot on the right. Baker Tom's is right there. Another good place for malassadas is Crivellos Place off of Kaumana Drive. if you are in downtown Hilo, drive in the Hamakua direction until you get to Waianuenue Ave. Follow that road Mauka until it forks off to Kaumana Drive and Waianuenue Ave. stay left on Kaumana Drive. keep driving past the 7-11 and 76 gas station until you see a little green building with a yellow sign on the roof reading "Hawaii Smoke Meat" or something like that. Thats Crivellos Place, their malassadas are the best I've had, other than the old ladies that sell at the St. Joseph Country Fair. Hope you can make it to either place, I dont think you will be disappointed. - Devin Dawson

Implementation notes on a sql->mongo conversion. - Devin Dawson

"No time like the present." - Devin Dawson

Maybe this is the last time I need to ship 3000 books? - Devin Dawson

"I have those in my queue, but keep bouncing off the beginning." - Devin Dawson

Progress. - Devin Dawson

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"To address this directory structure (or any other directory structure), we would have to add the <relativePath> element to our parent section" - Devin Dawson

"Displays or modifies discretionary access control lists (DACLs) on specified files, and applies stored DACLs to files in specified directories." - Devin Dawson

real-time search and indexing system built on Apache Lucene - Devin Dawson

Canonical correlation analysis (CCA) is a way of measuring the linear relationship between two multidimensional variables. It finds two bases, one for each variable, that are optimal with respect to correlations and, at the same time, it finds the corresponding correlations. In other words, it finds the two bases in which the correlation matrix between the variables is diagonal and the correlations on the diagonal are maximized. The dimensionality of these new bases is equal to or less than the smallest dimensionality of the two variabl - Devin Dawson

Easy to use web server for Windows and UNIX. Mongoose provides simple and clean API for embedding it into existing programs. Targeting Web application developers, embedded system developers, and people who need to setup file sharing quickly. - Devin Dawson

That two explanation marks is going to bite you in the ass when you are overwhelmed with mutant fireants. - Devin Dawson

"tircd presents twitter as an irc channel. You can connect to tircd with any irc client, and twitter as if you were on irc " - Devin Dawson

The caret package (short for Classification And REgression Training) is a set of functions that attempt to streamline the process for creating predictive models. - Devin Dawson

Sprockets is a Ruby library that preprocesses and concatenates JavaScript source files. It takes any number of source files and preprocesses them line-by-line in order to build a single concatenation. Specially formatted lines act as directives to the Sprockets preprocessor, telling it to require the contents of another file or library first or to provide a set of asset files (such as images or stylesheets) to the document root. Sprockets attempts to fulfill required dependencies by searching a set of directories called the load path. - Devin Dawson

"Can you expand or point to an explanation of the statement "Boxee is also an RSS reader optimized for the 10 ft experience"? I'm an RSS advocate since scriptingnews was #1, and a boxee/appletv user for around a month... but I have no idea what that might mean. It must be a feature that I'm missing, and that is unacceptable. If boxee has/is something that is as fundamental a shift in media consumption as rss was to my information consumption..." - Devin Dawson

j keeps track of where you’ve been, and how much time you spend there. Source it into your .bashrc, and then you can say j foo to jump to the most used directory that has the substring (actually regex) foo in it, or j foo bar for the directory that has both foo and bar ... It tab completes out of its file ($HOME/.j), and tries a case sensitive match first, then tries to match without case sensitivity. - Devin Dawson

"When we started the ccMixter project, it was obvious that liberally licensed source material would provide musicians a way to interact that was simply prohibited by an All Rights Reserved model. For all the benefits of participating in the sharing economy that has been touted by free culture advocates, including myself, the surprising result of ccMixter is that it provides evidence indicating the most compelling argument yet: free-wheeling participation in a commons makes the art better." - Devin Dawson

Factor is a concatenative programming language. Factor is innovative, expressive, fast, and has a full-featured library. Factor applications are portable and the Factor implementation runs on all common platforms. Factor can deploy stand-alone applications on all platforms. Full source code is available under the BSD license. - Devin Dawson

The 6.370 BattleCode programming competition is a unique challenge that combines battle strategy, software engineering and artificial intelligence. In short, the objective is to write the best player program for the computer game BattleCode. - Devin Dawson

'"Blau space consists of the multidimensional coordinate system, created by considering the set of socio-demographic variables as dimensions. All socio-demographic characteristics are potential elements of Blau space, including continuous characteristics such as age, years of education, income, occupational prestige, geographic location, and so forth. In addition, categorical measures of socio-demographic characteristics such as race, sex, religion, birthplace, and others are Blau dimensions. "Blau space" is a theoretical construct, named after Peter Blau, first presented in McPherson's "Ecology of Affiliation" in American Sociological Review Vol. 48 (1983), pp. 519-532. However, a more sophisticated version is presented in McPherson and Ranger-Moore's "Evolution on a Dancing Landscape: Organizations and Networks in Dynamic Blau Space" in Social Forces Vol. 70 (1991), pp. 19−42." - Devin Dawson

"This blog post is about ruby’s callbacks(hooks): what are the available ones,and how practically we can use them? " - Devin Dawson

"This course teaches simple reasoning techniques for complex phenomena: divide and conquer, dimensional analysis, extreme cases, continuity, scaling, successive approximation, balancing, cheap calculus, and symmetry. Applications are drawn from the physical and biological sciences, mathematics, and engineering. Examples include bird and machine flight, neuron biophysics, weather, prime numbers, and animal locomotion. Emphasis is on low-cost experiments to test ideas and on fostering curiosity about phenomena in the world." - Devin Dawson

"Abit, once leading-edge maker of computer mainboards and other components, will cease to exist starting the first of January, 2009, as the owner of the legendary brand – Universal Scientific Industrial – is in the process of restructuring and cutting down the costs." - Devin Dawson

"This undergraduate subject on "The Art of Counting" features a comprehensive set of 233 problems for students to solve. The course is structured with one lecture session per week, and student presentations to report on their work in one problem session per week. " - Devin Dawson

1. Developer makes some changes in their Subversion workspace. 2. Developer uploads a patch in the form of svn diff output to Rietveld, using a small script named upload.py. This creates a new issue for them on the Rietveld website. 3. Developer goes to the issue that was just created on the Rietveld site, adds the email addresses of one or more reviewers, and causes Rietveld to send an email to the reviewer(s). 4. Reviewer navigates to the issue on the Rietveld site, browses the side-by-side diffs linked from there. A side-by-side diff shows the old and new version of the source code side by side, with deleted text on the left marked with a light red background, and inserted text on the right marked with a light green background. (Two different shades of red and green each are used, to highlight the differences at a finer-grain level than blocks of lines. This helps find one-character changes and clarifies diffs that just reflow a lot of text.) ........ - Devin Dawson

"XRI is an identifer and resolution infrastructure just like DNS, except that it operates at a higher abstraction layer, just like DNS operates at a higher abstraction layer than IP addressing. XRI is to URI addressing (of any kind) what DNS is to IP addressing." - Devin Dawson

"Trollop is YAFCLAP --- yet another fine commandline argument processing library for Ruby. Trollop is designed to provide the maximal amount of GNU-style argument processing in the minimum number of lines of code (for you, the programmer)." - Devin Dawson

" Ditz is a simple, light-weight distributed issue tracker designed to work with distributed version control systems like git, darcs, Mercurial, and Bazaar. It can also be used with centralized systems like SVN. Ditz features a simple, clean commandline interface, a robust plugin architecture which allows for adding commands and extending model fields and ditz output, a human-editable file format, and an active developer community. " - Devin Dawson