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Microsoft rescues XP users with emergency browser fix
BOSTON - Microsoft is helping the estimated hundreds of millions of customers still running Windows XP, which it stopped supporting earlier this month, by providing an emergency update to fix a...
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Gimli Glider
Air Canada Flight 143Flight 143 after landing at Gimli, Manitoba.Accident summaryDateJuly 23, 1983SummaryFuel exhaustion due to maintenance errorSiteEmergency landing at Gimli Industrial Park Airport,...
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An Opinionated Guide to Modern Java Development, Part 1
May 01, 2014 More working, useful code has been written in the Java programming language than in any other in history, with the possible exceptions of C and COBOL. When Java was released almost 20...
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Here’s the Agreement Oculus Broke, According to ZeniMax
Game publisher ZeniMax said Thursday morning that Facebook-owned Oculus VR violated an intellectual property agreement regarding its forthcoming virtual reality headset, the Oculus Rift. Oculus denies...
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It's Different for Girls
Early in T/Maker’s life, I was working on a company-defining deal with a major PC manufacturer. We were on track to do about a million in revenue that year: This deal had the potential to bring in...
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‘~’ is being removed from Rust
RFC: Remove `~` in favor of `box` and `Box` by pcwalton · Pull Request #59 · rust-lang/rfcs · GitHubSkip to content Something went wrong with that request. Please try again.
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A new book compiles knowledge necessary for society to recover after disaster
YES! Send me a free issue of Scientific American with no obligation to continue the subscription. If I like it, I will be billed for the one-year subscription.Scientific American is a trademark of...
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Washington state sues Kickstarted game creator who failed to deliver
The Washington State Office of the Attorney General announced yesterday that it has filed what it believes to be America's first consumer protection lawsuit involving crowdfunding -- specifically, a...
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Global heatmap of cycling and running routes
What's this: This dataset includes 77,688,848 rides and 19,660,163 runs representing about 220 billion total data points.A Strava Labs project, learn more. Contact maps -at- strava.com
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Micro Python – a lean and efficient implementation of Python 3
Micro Python -- a lean and efficient implementation of Python 3Damien Georgedamien.p.george at gmail.comTue Jun 3 14:27:11 CEST 2014Previous message: hashing strings to integersNext message: Micro...
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Why Startups Need to Focus on Sales, Not Marketing
JESSICA LIVINGSTON: The most important thing an early-stage startup should know about marketing is rather counterintuitive: that you probably shouldn’t be doing anything you’d use the term “marketing”...
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Camlistore – open-source personal storage system for life
Camlistore is a set of open source formats, protocols, and software for modeling, storing, searching, sharing and synchronizing data in the post-PC era. Data may be files or objects, tweets or 5TB...
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Chris Lattner on Swift
I have worked for Apple since 2005, holding a number of different positions over the years (a partial history is available in the Apple section of my résumé). These days, I run the Developer Tools...
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A first-person engine in 265 lines of JS
A first-person engine in 265 lines3 June 2014Today, let's drop into a world you can reach out and touch. In this article, we'll compose a first-person exploration from scratch, quickly and without...
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End-To-End – OpenPGP Chrome extension from Google
End-To-End is a Chrome extension that helps you encrypt, decrypt, digital sign, and verify signed messages within the browser using OpenPGP.This is the source code for the alpha release of the...
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The security hole I found on Amazon.com
I found a security hole on Amazon last August. While looking at their HTTP headers, I happened to notice that the entire amazon.com domain was susceptible to clickjacking attacks. If I could trick you...
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The Red Hourglass: Self-Experimentation with Black Widow Bites
lair had been keeping widows in his laboratory for experiments on animals. (One of his experiments proved even the widow's eggs are toxic to mice.) He and his colleagues and assistants had collected...
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I Sold My Startup for $25.5 Million
It turns out that closing is actually really hard to do.Photo illustration by SlateI sold my startup for $25.5 million on Monday just after 2:23 p.m. Pacific Time.Selling the company, Perfect Audience,...
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HippyVM
Relative speedup vs PHP, lower is better, normalized to Zend PHP 5.5.0HippyVM is an implementation of the PHP language using PyPy technology. It started off as a research project by Maciej Fijałkowski...
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How to write an iOS app purely in C
Damn, it took me a while but I got it:main.c:#include <CoreFoundation/CoreFoundation.h> #include <objc/runtime.h> #include <objc/message.h> // This is a hack. because we are writing...
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