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In programming, Booleans and Enumerates are common data types to represent the concept of “choice”. When there are several things to choose from, the Enumerate is the only one to support it, so that’s clear. But what about when you have two things to choose from? There might be some confusion between both data types since either of them supports handling binary choices. The confusion arrises in particular when you want to add the choice of a new behaviour, on top of an existing one....

We have all heard the common sense1 saying that “context is everything” at some point of our life. It’s a reminder to consider the circumstances before making judgments or decisions. Especially in consultancy, “context is everything” is a famous adage. What is true in one company, almost never applies directly to another. We always need to do major adjustments to the new context and the different realities. But what if I told you that we can take this idea even further?...

Comparison between different ways of doing enumerates, with scala.Enumeration, case object and Java’s Enum.

Análise do impacto do incêndio no Andanças, seguradoras envolvidas e nacionalidade das matrículas.

Best “bang for the buck”: @^(https?|ftp)://[^\s/$.?#].[^\s]*$@iS Best exhaustive solution: https://gist.github.com/dperini/729294 really impressed with @stephenhay 's REGEX solution (38 characters) to match damn well near all URL possibilities https://t.co/8wuyg4qYVD — Patrick Coombe ♒ (@patrickcoombe) August 7, 2015 Source: In search of the perfect URL validation regex TODO: Consider moving to snippets?

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(via Dan Ariely: Are we in control of our own decisions? | Video on TED.com) Behavioral economist Dan Ariely, the author of Predictably Irrational, uses classic visual illusions and his own counterintuitive (and sometimes shocking) research findings to show how we’re not as rational as we think when we make decisions. See also images from this talk in 6 Proven Ways to Boost the Conversion Rates of Your Call-to-Action Buttons

TodoMVC – A common learning application for popular JavaScript MV* frameworks (…) a project which offers the same Todo application implemented using MV* concepts in most of the popular JavaScript MV* frameworks of today. Solutions look and feel the same, have a common simple feature-set and make it easy for you to compare the syntax and structure of different frameworks so you can select the one you feel the most comfortable with....