How to obtain the coordinates of the JTable cell a mouse is hovering over,...
public String getToolTipText(MouseEvent event) { /* * This is a Java Swing lesson on how to obtain the coordinates of the current cell * as you hover with the mouse on a JTable. * * You cannot use the...
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Finally my genome tells me where I’m from
Sequencing my DNA in 2013 just cost me $100, exponential technological advancements in effect. Maybe in 2 years it’ll only cost $10, and in 4 years only $1. 23andme.com rocks, I highly recommend you...
View ArticleVIDEO: Coding the FrostWire search filters UI
Get in the zone with me for a good 15 minutes, maybe you’ll catch a few eclipse tricks and you’ll learn a little bit about how I think (and make mistakes along the way of fixing something on FrostWire)
View ArticleGoogle Glass to enrich Google Maps/Earth with fine grained 3D Models of reality
I was imagining a world maybe 5 years from now, where there’s an insane amount of Google-Glass-like devices out there. If Google was bold enough to map the streets with cars equipped with GPS and...
View ArticleLong Tail Pre-Filters vs Post Filters
For my reference, this is a nice categorization of filters for content in Long Tails as expressed by Chris Anderson on his book The Long Tail Pre-Filters (Old School Business Models based on Top 10s,...
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18 Reasons to switch to eBooks/eReaders
So I’m tired of evangelizing eBooks/eReaders in person and I guess I’ll do a lot more good by writing this so that you can share it next time you want to convince a friend to live in the year 2013 and...
View ArticleWhat will you do with an internet and devices millions of times more powerful?
I keep thinking about the inevitable exponential growth of technology and how it relates to CPU Processing power, Storage capabilities and Data transmission speeds, and then I ask myself what would I...
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[SOLVED] Java7 SMTP Issue (Caused by:...
So you had your little program that would use AWS to send emails, and all of a sudden after a Java 7 update you get a stack trace like this: javax.mail.MessagingException: Could not connect to SMTP...
View ArticleThe Paleo Argument against 100% vegetarian diets
Here’s a quote from the book The Paleo Diet “The notion that human beings were meant to be vegetarians runs contrary to every shred of evolutionary evidence from the fossil and anthropological record....
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How I finally started losing weight
On January 1st 2013, like so many people all over the world I took that pledge of getting back to my healthy weight. Ever since I’ve not missed a single week of weight lifting, running and swimming....
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can’t ssh to ec2 ubuntu instance, /etc/fstab breaks bootup due to missing ebs...
So the /etc/fstab file on your root volume looked like this LABEL=cloudimg-rootfs / ext4 defaults 0 0 /dev/xvdf /mnt/backups auto defaults,comment=cloudconfig 0 2 by mistake you deleted the ebs volume...
View ArticleHow much electricity does the Facebook app consume everyday by making phones...
My silly little goal is to convince Facebook to pre-configure its mobile apps so they don’t make phones vibrate by default and push silent notifications to mobile users. Help me make an estimate, we...
View ArticleHow to make a Mean Green Juice. #Juicing #Paleo
Green juices are a great complement to the Paleo Diet. Some of us are not that fond of vegetables and while still training our palate to enjoy vegetables, these green juices are loaded with lots of...
View ArticleHow to add an existing GIT repository to github.
Most of the times, it makes more sense to start working on something that slowly transforms into the beginning of a project that deserves to be on github. This post is about creating a local repository...
View ArticleHow can we all own a robotic workforce?
As people become useless, how can capitalism survive? As technology advances exponentially the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence will start taking over our jobs. More and more people...
View ArticleHow to have a Play framework app autostart during boot on Elastic Beanstalk...
So you’ve created an Elastic Beanstalk environment, you have a play framework distribution which you’ve created using play dist (either on your local environment, or right there on the server, whatever...
View Article#IWasThinking About the future of society #S02E01
How do you see things unfolding in a world where technological advancements replace every major sector of the economy in which human beings play a major role? No more humans necessary for...
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