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4 apps, one weekend
I recently held a one man “hackathon” where it was my goal to release as many iOS apps to as I could in one long weekend. These were apps that I’ve already had the ideas for but never had the...
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Google Destroys Rap Genius’ Search Result Rankings As Punishment For SEO Spam
Google hit back hard today after it learned lyrics site Rap Genius had been using dubious SEO tricks to attain top spots in search results. Now RapGenius.com doesn’t appear on the first page of results...
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Ruby 2.1 Released
Index of /pub/ruby/2.1/../ruby-2.1.0-preview1.tar.bz2 22-Sep-2013 06:29 11475553 ruby-2.1.0-preview1.tar.gz 22-Sep-2013 06:29 14449544 ruby-2.1.0-preview1.zip 22-Sep-2013 06:29 16124069...
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Google Has Officially Penalized Rap Genius For Link Schemes
Google has penalized Rap Genius for link schemes this morning. If you go to Google and search for [rap genius], rapgenius.com will not be found on the first page. Instead you will find links to their...
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What languages fix
Kevin Kelleher suggested an interesting way to compare programming languages: to describe each in terms of the problem it fixes. The surprising thing is how many, and how well, languages can be...
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What is it like to be a geek in a prison?
Before prison, I worked in IT consulting, so I definitely felt like a geek in prison. What's it like to be a geek in prison? I can only speak to how it was for me. It was scary, since I hadn't...
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Boardinghouses: where the city was born
Adam Simpson for The Boston GlobeLate in the 1860s novel “Little Women,” heroine Jo March, dreading her friend Laurie’s budding romantic feelings for her, tells her mother she feels “restless and...
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Professor admits faking AIDS vaccine to get $19M in grants
An Iowa State University professor resigned after admitting he falsely claimed rabbit blood could be turned into a vaccine for the AIDS virus.Dr. Dong-Pyou Han spiked a clinical test sample with...
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Chicago makes Computer Science a core subject
For so long, K–12 education has focused on the basic humanities and sciences. That usually meant that core subjects were English, history, math and a laboratory science of some kind. Computer science,...
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Good News You Might Have Missed in 2013
December 23, 2013 | By Bill GatesYou’re probably seeing a lot of people’s year-end lists right now, going through the best movies, books, YouTube clips, grumpy cat memes, etc.I thought I would share a...
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Why some people respond to stress by falling asleep
carianoff/flickr Last month, my wife and I found ourselves in a disagreement about whether or not our apartment was clean enough for guests—the type of medium-sized disagreement that likely plagues all...
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Activists crowdsource escape from North Korea
HealthOf the 3.6 million women who needed treatment for drug or alcohol addiction in 2010, only about 6 percent received helpBy using his Kool-Aid stand profits to buy toys for less fortunate kids,...
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Trolling homework questions - sorting
First of all, dear GiMmEtHaCoDeZ, let's try to break down your task:Read the numbersSort themOutput the sorted numbers.As "Divide and conquer" is very important strategy when working with software...
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T * sin (t) ≈ Christmas tree
README.mdI found animated Christmas tree on reddit:Was curious to make it in js. This is work in progress. Current results are here: Merry Christmas!How it's built?The tree is built of two spirals....
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Analysis of SSD Reliability during power outages
Analysis of SSD Reliability during power-outagesAnalysis of SSD Reliability during power-outages This report was originally commissioned due to the remote deployment of over 200 32gb OCZ SSDs resulting...
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Immutability, MVCC, and garbage collection
Not too long ago I attended a talk about a database called Datomic. My overall impressions of Datomic were pretty negative, but this blog post isn’t about that. This is about one of the things the...
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ARIN migrated from Oracle to PostgreSQL
[arin-announce] ARIN Database Migration CompletedFrom: ARIN (info at arin.net)Date: Sat Dec 14 17:15:41 EST 2013Next message: [arin-announce] Seeking Network Sponsor for Spring 2015 ARIN...
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The Valley Is Fucked
The Valley is FuckedI left SF at the start of 2012. Here's why.I'd just left Saint Francis Fountain, where I'd had some French toast and coffee. As I was coming out of SFF, I happened to see a man who...
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How Expedia Buys Its Way To The Top Of Google
Welcome to Nenad SEO.This will be the first among numerous reports, SEO case studies and articles that you’re going to read on our blog.*After receiving a manual penalty by Google for 2 small sites...
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The Rust standard library no longer has any scheduling baked into it
[rust-dev] Using libgreen/libnativeAlex Crichtonalex at crichton.coSat Dec 28 10:37:25 PST 2013Previous message: [rust-dev] Auto-borrow/deref (again, sorry)Messages sorted by:[ date ][ thread ][...
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