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Re: Why Do I Have Only One Chrome Listed In My Devices Even Though I Have Multiple Computers | Pushbullet Help Central

Thomas Lockney — Mon, 17 Apr 2017 21:28:04 -0000

Ugh, is there really no resolution to this? This is a major frustration for me as, like others here, I use multiple browser profiles and can't easily push content to the right place. It's either all or nothing. My current "solution" (which is not a solution, but an acquiescence to the lack of this feature) is to simply use Pushbullet *only* with my personal profile. But that falls down when I want to send something such as a secured, login protected work item to myself for later reading on my work computer. It would show up in my personal browser session, fail the login and, in some cases, I'd actually lose the original link if the site in question doesn't save the redirect URL for post login.

This is really a major pain. Is there any chance of a resolution or am I going to have to give up on Pushbullet?

Re: Threading & Concurrency in Akka Streams Explained (part I) | Akka team blog

Thomas Lockney — Fri, 08 Jul 2016 01:13:43 -0000

Also, need 'import akka.NotUsed' in there somewhere. ;~)

Re: Threading & Concurrency in Akka Streams Explained (part I) | Akka team blog

Thomas Lockney — Fri, 08 Jul 2016 01:11:45 -0000

To ensure the examples are more readily executable, you might want to add an 'import system.dispatcher' (or similar, of course) to the examples where 'completion.onComplete(...)' appears, since onComplete is expecting an implicit ExecutionContext.

Re: The Honeymoon Is Over: Reflections after 1.5 years of Akka

Thomas Lockney — Tue, 19 May 2015 02:18:06 -0000

That's something I've been calling the delegate pattern, for lack of a better term, and one I encourage use of. I really need to write something up about it.

Re: Bryan Gilbert - Random.next()

Thomas Lockney — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 14:37:02 -0000

Definitely -- looking forward to the follow up posts!

Re: Bryan Gilbert - Random.next()

Thomas Lockney — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 13:24:40 -0000

Excellent write up, Bryan. I should note that the links to your repo are broken, though. It looks like you marked that as a TODO to fix later, but after poking around your GH account, I'm guessing you meant to link here: https://github.com/gilbertw.... :~)

Re: Explore JVM Libraries in a Quick sbt Session

Thomas Lockney — Sat, 02 Nov 2013 19:42:27 -0000

Great post -- I've been using this capability for a long time now. It's actually what turned me into an sbt acolyte in the first place, before I was even using Scala full-time. It works just as well for purely Java-based libraries, of course. The only additional thing I would have pointed out, just for those who really want to see how easy this can be, is that you can pass the dependency to sbt at start time, along with adding the imports, and starting the console. E.g.,

sbt ';set libraryDependencies += "net.databinder.dispatch" %% "dispatch-core" % "0.10.0"; set initialCommands := "import dispatch._, Defaults._"; console'

Though, seeing your shell and .sbtrc aliases gives me some ideas for making this even more succinct and, for lack of a better word, agile. One last thing that's useful to note is that if you don't start the console directly, as in my example, you can ':quit' out of it, and run 'session save' to persist your little test project.

Re: HOW TO BE AN ULTIMATE FIGHTER

Thomas Lockney — Sun, 25 Aug 2013 00:50:53 -0000

Um, no, that's not how caffeine works. It's a CNS stimulant. That is, it interacts directly with the nervous system stimulating production of a variety of neurotransmitters. Yes, there are negative health effects, but there are also quite a few positive effects when it's consumed at reasonable levels.

Re: JAX Magazine November - featuring JavaFX, Akka and Mihini

Thomas Lockney — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 19:30:43 -0000

Lovely to see the download form is STILL broken.

Re: http://iwearpants.com/post/25241364574

Thomas Lockney — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 19:47:41 -0000

Fair point and it is one I was aware of when writing my previous comment. But my attempts to word it to express that just made it awkward. Oh well.

And, yes, I agree about her version being far superior to any others.

Re: http://iwearpants.com/post/25241364574

Thomas Lockney — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 16:42:44 -0000

Not to be pedantic (ok, well, I am), but Delia didn't "create" the theme, she just crafted the form in which we now know it. It was actually composed by Ron Grainer. That said, there's no doubt in my mind that her work to turn it into what it would be is at least in part responsible for the success of that show. That theme and it's haunting sound sets the mood for what would become the greatest scifi TV show ever made.

Re: A reading list for JVM-based developers

Thomas Lockney — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 16:12:10 -0000

It turns out the free chapters from the Venners book are still available, I just didn't look hard enough: http://www.artima.com/insid...

Re: A reading list for JVM-based developers

Thomas Lockney — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 14:55:34 -0000

Yeah, those are both great resources. I'd also add the Akka mailing list and probably a few others (I'd have to think about this a bit, but some of the OpenJDK lists come to mind: http://mail.openjdk.java.ne.... My only issue is that I personally find that my productivity and time for reading mailing lists seem to be somewhat inversely proportional, though not always so. For some reason, other reading doesn't seem to fall into that trap so much. Perhaps it's because I do most of that reading away from the computer.

Re: A reading list for JVM-based developers

Thomas Lockney — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 14:24:11 -0000

Ah, I knew about that book, but didn't realize it covered so much of the general JVM internals. It's going immediately onto my wishlist for future purchase. Thanks!

Re: A reading list for JVM-based developers

Thomas Lockney — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 14:23:29 -0000

Definitely good stuff there, Staffan. My first thought was, "wow, these must be out of date!" But after I bit more thinking, I realized how little has changed at the byte code level. Of course, the JVM implementation side has changed a lot, but with the addition of the resources I cited above, I'm sure it's possible to pieces together which parts are still relevant. And, of course, it's always useful to understand how we got to where we are now.

I'll definitely be adding some of those books to my personal reading list. I've already read portions of the Venners book (by way of the free, online chapters that used to be on the Artima website) and learned a lot of what I know from there.

Re: A reading list for JVM-based developers

Thomas Lockney — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 17:19:07 -0000

I just posted an alternate link to the non-PDF version of the article. http://lwn.net/Articles/250...

Re: A reading list for JVM-based developers

Thomas Lockney — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 16:26:54 -0000

I wish there were other resources available that covered the material there, but I have yet to find any good ones. Perhaps this is an opportunity for someone to take that on (sadly, I am neither qualified nor do I have the time, otherwise I'd do it myself). It should perhaps go in the second list, but it's important enough information that I felt compelled to keep it in the top 4 reads.

Re: http://iwearpants.com/post/10508471227

Thomas Lockney — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 23:38:35 -0000

I think the MJ one is the scariest. That and the weird way it keeps stretching things out.

Re: The Advantages of Green Fields: Taming Effectful Programming

Thomas Lockney — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 15:53:31 -0000

Scala has a similar structure available by way of case classes (http://www.scala-lang.org/n..., but the problem is that here we're creating objects that are already defined via Java (by way of code generation from a SOAP definition). Sure, we could create a set of case classes and then write all the code to map them to the Java classes, but this is currently more work then we want to support for our needs.

Re: The Advantages of Green Fields: Taming Effectful Programming

Thomas Lockney — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 03:06:39 -0000

I'm not sure the clone would really buy us much here other than added runtime cost. Given that the structure Dave came up with is intended to allow constructing a single object within one thread, it's unlikely to have any threading issues -- unless a reference is added in one of the setters to an existing object which might be modified by another thread. Granted, that is a possibility and one you need to watch out for, but in our use case where this need arose, that's unlike to be the case.

Re: RESTful Java With JAX-RS Review

Thomas Lockney — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 17:02:19 -0000

Testing!

Re: Upcoming Scala Meetups, on Earth

Thomas Lockney — Fri, 28 May 2010 16:52:28 -0000

Interesting that it's not reporting the June PDXScala meetup I added. Only shows the July meeting.

Re: SAM SIG: Applied Lean Startup Ideas: Continuous Deployment at kaChing

Thomas Lockney — Fri, 21 May 2010 12:12:09 -0000

Your posts about the platform and techniques you're using are really great stuff. I'm looking forward to more. I'd particularly like to know how you're using ZooKeeper to redirect traffic. Is this being done at the HTTP server level or through a Java front-end? I've been considering writing an Nginx module that would talk to ZooKeeper to do something like this, but I'm worried it's a bit beyond my C skills level at this point. But it seems like it would be extremely useful for something like this.

Re: Running Cloudera Hadoop VM on VirtualBox

Thomas Lockney — Sun, 03 May 2009 21:45:33 -0000

Perhaps they changed the way it's set up in 0.2.1. I haven't worked with that one yet, but I'll download it soon and give it a try. I'm hoping to rewrite this anyway with screenshots, so that will be a good opportunity to do so.

Re: Installing Adobe Air on Ubuntu Jaunty 64-bit

Thomas Lockney — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:56:00 -0000

Thanks for the helpful info. I had to use a mix of your instructions and those from the Adobe page, but finally managed to get it working. I did encounter another error that seems to have been mentioned here and there. Basically, when I started up Tweetdeck, it ran, but didn't really do anything. I noticed when I tried running it from the shell that I got this error:

Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module": /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libcanberra-gtk-module.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64

However, after much digging, I was able to get it working by prefixing the shell command with 'GTK_PATH=/usr/lib32/gtk-2.0'. I then went into my menu editor and changed the command so that it would be prefixed by that bit. Thought I'd post that here just in case it helps anyone else. ;~)