I was trying to find a report on industries by market size but I wasn’t able to find what I was looking for. But I did find Australian Industry reports from ABS and List of countries by GDP sector composition which were both interesting.
Author Archives: Jay Jay
Spreadsheet INDEX and MATCH
I don’t use spreadsheets much, and when I do it’s usually LibreOffice Calc, but today I came across Index and Match which described the INDEX and MATCH spreadsheet functions and that looked handy so I thought I might make a note!
Ontology, epistemology and research paradigm
A quick video explaining research paradigms: Ontology, epistemology and research paradigm. There is also a longer video on the same topic.
What Is A Paradigm?
I found this great video What Is A Paradigm? It talks about agent/victim paradigms and abundance/scarcity thinking.
The Internet in Real Time
Today while reading The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Compression I chanced upon The Internet in Real Time which is good fun. Not sure how up-to-date it is though…
Linux File Timestamps Explained: atime, mtime, and ctime
Today I discovered an article explaining Linux file system timestamps: Linux File Timestamps Explained: atime, mtime, and ctime; and a good thing too, because I always thought ‘ctime’ was ‘create time’, but not so! Turns out that ‘ctime’ is ‘change time’, similar to ‘mtime’ but apparently cannot be set from userspace. My investigations were prompted by my investigations info how `borg create` identified changed files.
Be Customer-Focused: 4 Basic Tactics
Today I came across this article: Be Customer-Focused: 4 Basic Tactics. An easy read and food for thought.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Compression
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Compression popped up on Hacker News today. I wish I had time to read it closely.
Full-Bleed Layout Using CSS Grid
Today I read about how to do a Full-Bleed Layout Using CSS Grid.
Connascence
I’ve been re-reading the Wikipedia page on Connascence. It references the famous talk by Jim Weirich in its references.