Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The difference between open source and open governance
What is important when choosing between open source and closed source. Is it open governance or just momentum? This article explains and serves as a guide.
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Advanced Multimedia on the Linux Command Line
There was a time that Apple macOS was the best platform to handle multimedia (audio, image, video). This might be still true in the GUI space. But Linux presents a much wider range of possibilities when you go to the command line.
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Docker on Bluemix with automated full-stack deploys and delivery pipelines
How to use Docker on Bluemix, complete with full-stack deployments, delivery pipeline, VCAP_SERVICES etc.
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Receita de Pimentões Assados
Eis uma receita simples e de poucos ingredientes, diretamente do Bálcãs e do Oriente Médio, que valoriza todo o sabor do pimentão. Não deixe que a pele indigesta do pimentão te prive de todo o seu sabor.
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Ambiente Perfeito de Trabalho
O mercado de trabalho tende a dar menos valor a conhecimento acumulado (técnico ou em forma de aptidão) e mais valor à capacidade de assumir responsabilidades e entregar. O ideal é ter um bom equilibro entre esses 2 pilares: conhecimento e responsabilidade. A contratação é geralmente feita com base na experiência, conhecimento demonstrados, mas a…
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US bank account for non-US citizens
I’ve searched for a long time and finally found a US regular bank that will let me open a free checking account. It is BBVA Compass bank. All these services are free: ATM withdraw and deposit (BBVA’s and AllPoint ATMs), full featured Internet banking, full featured mobile banking, Visa debit card, Apple Pay and more. The non-free services are…
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WordPress on Fedora with RPM, DNF/YUM
WordPress is packaged for Fedora and can be installed as a regular RPM (with DNF/YUM). The benefits of this method are that you don’t need to mess around with configuration files, filesystem permissions and since everything is pre-packaged to work together, additional configurations are minimal. At the end of this 3 minutes tutorial, you’ll get a…
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Is Open Source Swift a good thing ?
On December 3 Apple has open sourced the Swift programming language on Swift.org. The language was first released (not Open Source yet) about the same time as iOS 8 and was created by Apple to make Mac and iOS app development an easier task. Swift is welcome as one more Open Source language and project but is…
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A Bunch of Passbook Tickets
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Cloud: Enabling innovation in the third platform era
Is the IT department in your organization overwhelmed with infrastructure plumbing that crowds out the work that can bring real value to the business?
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