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I've asked to ignore files that start with a sharp sign. That usually mark the comment

Gradle Cookbook has a one liner to produce a fat jar. But what you want to make it just a bit more slim?

I love Scala, but there are bits that upset me.

It is possible to have hidden configuration properties in Gradle

Yesterday I was fighting a bug which should have never existed in the first place

It is possible to change JVM command line flag values in runtime. With just a bit of Unsafe magic, of course.

I was preparing a presentation on git I am about to deliver to a group of bioscientists. While doing so I learned couple of things myself. Here are the bits and pieces

All the years working in Linux I did not know how to debug in Linux. GDB is simply too scary for me... And now I needed to debug R. And you know what, it is that simple:

sudo apt-get install nemiver
./R -d nemiver

And that's it!

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