A Solution For Graphene Production

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Graphene is easy to acquire, at least in small amounts. The first scientists to isolate the strong, two-dimensional carbon material simply pressed a piece of Scotch tape to a chunk of graphite and peeled it off. But mass production of graphene for…

19 April 2014

Zsh history as it should be (per directory)

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zsh-directory-history is a zsh plugin giving you a history which is sensitive to the directory you are in. It implements forward/backward navigation as well as substring search in a directory sensitive manner. Since zsh-directory-history includes zsh…

18 April 2014

Write Better JavaScript with Promises

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You've probably heard the talk around the water cooler about how promises are the future. All of the cool kids are using them, but you don't see what makes them so special. Can't you just use a callback? What's the big deal? In this article, we'll look at…

18 April 2014

What does Docker add to just plain LXC?

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Let's take a look at the list of Docker's technical features, and check which ones are provided by LXC and which ones aren't. 2) Resource isolation: system resources like cpu and memory can be allocated differently to each process container, using…

16 April 2014