Monthly Archives: November 2015

Review of “Seventh Son”

Posted on 2015-11-30 by jimbelton

* * C Seventh Son, based on the book “The Spook’s Apprentice” by Joseph Delaney is the story of a boy, Tom, played by Ben “Prince Caspian” Barnes, who becomes the apprentice of an aging witch hunter played by Jeff … Continue reading →

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Review of “Man from U.N.C.L.E.”

Posted on 2015-11-28 by jimbelton

* * C Henry “Superman” Cavill and Armie “Lone Ranger” Hammer star as rival agents turned allies trying to find the nuclear scientist father of Gaby, played by Alicia Vikander (Ava in Ex Machina) before a couple of villains can … Continue reading →

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Hash Table Shootout Updated

Posted on 2015-11-27 by jimbelton

I spent today working on the Hash Table Shootout project. Check out the updated version on git hub: https://github.com/jimbelton/hash-table-shootout. I added a new fast benchmark that counts the number of unique words in the King James version of the bible … Continue reading →

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Answers to Questions for Atheists by Matt Slick

Posted on 2015-11-26 by jimbelton

These questions were posted by Matt Slick on the web site of the Christian Appologetics and Research Ministry. I’ve provided my answers. Matt writes: These questions are not meant to be show stoppers. They are only for research purposes so … Continue reading →

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Review of “The Nightmare”

Posted on 2015-11-25 by jimbelton

* * * B This docudrama on sleep paralysis is truly creepy. The film consists mainly of interviews with half a dozen or so people who suffer from the malady, with dramatizations of their experiences with shadow people, demons and … Continue reading →

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Review of “Ant Man”

Posted on 2015-11-24 by jimbelton

* * * B Ant Man exceeded my expectations. It was a good, entertaining film. Paul Rudd was excellent as the ant man, as was Michael Douglas as mentor and inventor Hank Pym. Evangeline Lilly (Tauriel in the Hobbit movies) … Continue reading →

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Review of “Spectre” (no spoilers)

Posted on 2015-11-15 by jimbelton

 * * C The fourth installment of the Daniel Craig Bond reboot fails to deliver. After the fantastic first installment, based on the last Ian Fleming James Bond novel never made into a serious film, the lackluster sequel, and the … Continue reading →

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Review of “The Prince”

Posted on 2015-11-11 by jimbelton

* D What would happen if John Wick had a daughter, and she was Taken? That’s the premise of this dull derivative action flick. The cinematography and fight choreography are bad and boring (unlike those in John Wick, which were … Continue reading →

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How To Use Heroku

Posted on 2015-11-07 by jimbelton

Heroku is a cloud based development platform, part of Salesforce, that allows you deploy web based applications in the cloud. I’ve been playing with it to see what it can do. To create a new Heroku app named app-name in … Continue reading →

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Python virtualenv How To

Posted on 2015-11-07 by jimbelton

To install the virtualenv command, run: pip install virtualenv If that fails and you have root priviledges, run: sudo pip install virtualenv To create a python virtualenv called venv, run: virtualenv venv To activate that environment, run: source venv/bin/activate You … Continue reading →

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