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Book Review: Unnatural Selection: Why the Geeks will Inherit the Earth – Mark Roeder

  • Book Review: Unnatural Selection: Why the Geeks will Inherit the Earth – Mark Roeder

    Jason Whatson
    Mar 30, 2014
    Evolution, Intelligence, Neuroscience, Science, The brain
    7
    Unnatural Selection: Why the Geeks will Inherit the Earth is a fascinating read and a great entry point into what intelligence is (and how it works in relation to evolution) and overviews of the emerging areas of science around it.
  • Incremental backups to Amazon S3 on CentOS using duplicity

    Jason Whatson
    Feb 13, 2014
    backup, Centos
    23
    Introduction Today I implemented a automated backup system for my CentOS server using Duplicity and Amazon S3. After I recently launched my smartphone app Positive thinking, which uses MongoDB as the database/datastore I started to concern myself that I was responsible for my users data and it was no longer just my personal loss if...
  • An example of how Golang makes concurrent programming easy and awesome

    Jason Whatson
    Jan 16, 2014
    Golang
    10
    With todays multicore processors writing concurrent code is very beneficial and the designers of Golang have made the concurrency model in Golang extremely easy and simple to implement in your code, as we will now see in a example
  • Installing NGINX + PHP 5.5 with opcache + MySql on CentOS 6 (LEMP)

    Jason Whatson
    Nov 26, 2013
    Centos, PHP, Wordpress
    6
    Ive been using CentOS since CentOS 4 and it is my Linux flavour of choice because a) its what I know, and b) it has compatibility with Red Hat Enterprise. So when I moved from AWS to Digital Ocean for this blog it was my go to choice. The following is a guide on...
  • Basic software engineering principles – Don’t Repeat Yourself (DRY)

    Jason Whatson
    Jun 5, 2013
    Don't Repeat Yourself
    14
    In this post we are going explore 5 different ways to achieve the DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) principle when building software and systems.
  • Golang vs JAVA vs PHP: Comparing productivity

    Jason Whatson
    Apr 14, 2013
    Golang, JAVA, PHP, Productivity
    33
    I compare Googles new programming language Golang with 2 different types of languages and analyse the productivity of each.
  • FPS – Fancy Programming Syndrome

    Jason Whatson
    May 3, 2010
    3
    Today I was reading a blog post from Mike Caro who on top of other things is a professional poker player and computer programmer who’s achievements include writing a poker bot. In this particular post Mike talks about a situation in poker that he calls Fancy Play Syndrome (FPS). Upon reading this it become...

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  • Incremental backups to Amazon S3 on CentOS using duplicity
  • An example of how Golang makes concurrent programming easy and awesome
  • Installing NGINX + PHP 5.5 with opcache + MySql on CentOS 6 (LEMP)
  • Basic software engineering principles – Don’t Repeat Yourself (DRY)

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About me

I am a software developer from Sydney Australia who loves to write software to build great products and help businesses succeed with their goals.

I am an aspiring entrepreneur who subscribes to the lean startup ideology and creator of “positive affirmations”, a app for Android and iPhone.

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Phone: 0439372293
Email: jason@mindfsck.net

Random Quote

The Matrix is a system Neo, and that System is our enemy. You look around and you see business men, teachers, lawyers, carpenters… The very minds of the people we are trying to save…

You have to understand, that most of these people, are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inert; so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it..
— Morpheus

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