In July 2016, a bomb disposal robot was used for the first time to remotely kill a suspect. This sparked some debate about the use of machines to kill humans (amidst drone usage and all of that), and tapped into our Robocop-and-Terminator-induced dystopian fears. Inspired by all this, Scott Brown wrote “You had one job”,… Continue reading You had one job
Author: Daniel Pradilla
I'm an Engineer and my main objective is to help people solve real world problems using readily available technologies. I've been doing it since I was a kid.
How to tidy up and organize music on your PC o Mac
Do you have a lot of Untitled / Without Artist / Without Album songs? All music players allow you to sort and catalog the songs, as long as you know the titles and names of the artists. But what happens when many of your songs are unidentified? There are some tools out there like Tune… Continue reading How to tidy up and organize music on your PC o Mac
How to Connect Pentaho Data Integration to SAP HANA
Recently I had to connect Pentaho Data Integration to SAP HANA and I made some notes along the way: The first step is to get the SAP HANA JDBC driver, a file called ngdbc.jar. The quickest way is to download and install the SAP HANA client from the SAP Software Download Center, and then extract the… Continue reading How to Connect Pentaho Data Integration to SAP HANA
The incredible rarity of falsifying data about changing your mind
Episode 555 of This American Life has a very cool story about a study on how a group of canvassers were able to influence people who were against gay marriage to change their mind: Curious, but kinda logically, people appeared to change their mind once the canvasser, a member of the LGBT community, told their… Continue reading The incredible rarity of falsifying data about changing your mind
A swiss railway clock in D3.js
The other day I saw this cool JavaScript+CSS clock and I immediately thought that I wanted to create an analog clock in D3.js. First of all as an exercise, but also with the aim –perhaps– of smuggling it in to a future dashboard 😉 It seemed straightforward: just paint the clock and re-paint it… Continue reading A swiss railway clock in D3.js