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Docker Sucks
I just want to put it out there that docker is a VERY buggy product, even after so many years. The number of filesystem related bugs (deadlocks, improper disk space cleanup, improper inode usage) is enormous. Just go to the github docker issues page and look at it. “no space...
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Smart Image Resizing Using Seam Carving
Seam carving is a fascinating technique to scale up/down an image (or a video frame). Demo Caution: It is slow. I will optimize it to work in real-time when I get time to work on it again. [dead!] http://seam.ashishchaudhary.in:8080/ The code is available at: tocttou/smartresizing The algorithm implementation is available...
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Better Error Handling In Kotlin With Either Type
Note: This is not an authoritative article on how to handle errors in Kotlin/Java, but it is accurate. This is something that I wanted to try out for a long time. I would suggest you to look at Try from Arrow lib after reading this blog post. I use the...
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Implementing C-Style For-Loops In Kotlin
Kotlin does not have C-style for-loops. This is fine because I prefer using the idiomatic for-loops (built to use iterators) anyway. But there is a big problem: Kotlin does not allow dynamic limiting conditions in its for-loops (See this thread). This can sometimes get very annoying. To achieve the same...
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Extending An Object's API With Delegation In Kotlin
Task: Expose extra API methods for an object. Methods: Derive a new class from the class of that object, implement the extra functionality, make a new object from that new class. This method is suitable in cases where the new class has an “is-a” relationship with the actual class. In...