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I wish I’d thought of that. Operation Starbucks.

I should have thought of it first. I walked into Starbucks one afternoon. Ok. Ok. I do this every afternoon, but something was different this time. Something really neat was going on.At a large wooden...

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Scientists Back Kiera Wilmot by Tweeting About All the Stuff They've Blown Up

As the tale of Kiera Wilmot -- the Bartow, Florida student expelled and charged with two felonies over a science project gone wrong -- went viral yesterday, a wide movement to support the 16-year-old...

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Google ToS rated: “keeps your searches and logs for an undefined period of time”

We are a user rights initiative to rate and label website terms & privacy policies, from very good Class A to very bad Class E. Learn more…Terms of service are often too long to read, but it's...

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In 1897, a Bicycle Superhighway Was the Future of California Transit

Image: Wikimedia CommonsIn 1897, a wealthy American businessman named Horace Dobbins began construction on a private, for-profit bicycle superhighway from Pasadena to downtown Los Angeles. It may seem...

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Big-O Algorithm Complexity Cheat Sheet

Hi there!  This webpage covers the space and time Big-O complexities of common algorithms used in Computer Science.  When preparing for technical interviews in the past, I found myself spending hours...

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Experiment in paying villagers in India an unconditional basic income

The village of Panthbadodiya lies 30km south of Indore, in Madhya Pradesh. Known as the “Heart of India”, this central state has the country’s highest levels of malnutrition and largest tribal...

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ClojureC, a compiler for Clojure that targets C as a backend

README.mdThis is compiler for the Clojure programming language that targets C as a backend. It is based on ClojureScript and was started off ClojureScript's commit...

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A determined 'hacker' decrypts RDS-TMC

As told in a previous post, I like to watch the RDS-TMC traffic messages every now and then, just for fun. Even though I've never had a car. Actually I haven't done it for years now, but thought I'd...

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Why I Develop For The Mac

By Evan MillerMay 4, 2013I develop two desktop titles for Mac (1 and 2, if you're curious). When I show either of them to a web developer, the first question the developer usually asks is:Why isn't...

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“SNL” Parodies Google Glass

AllThingsD.com is a Web site devoted to news, analysis and opinion on technology, the Internet and media. But it is different from other sites in this space. It is a fusion of different media styles,...

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Bitcoin will soon block small transaction outputs

Mergedgavinandresen merged 3 commits into bitcoin:master from gavinandresen:fee_bandaid 1 day agoShowing 3 unique commits by 1 author.This page is out of date. Refresh to see the latest.Tip: You can...

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The N=1 Guide to Grad School: Advice for Aspiring PhDs

Last August, I finished my Ph.D. with the help of a bunch of amazing people. I submitted my thesis, and on a bus in Turkey during my post-gradutation vacation, I put together a list of practices and...

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Jekyll 1.0 Released

Today, I’m proud to announce the release of Jekyll 1.0. There are a million goodies and fixes to enjoy, and we’re (the still-active Jekyll core team members: Tom, Matt and I) really excited to share...

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Lenticular Photo Used To Secretly Convey Hot Line Number To Abused Kids

The ANAR Foundation is a Spanish organization which helps kids in risk. They Operate a unique phone number - 116 111 - where minors at risk can get aid and consultation.Anar did a campaign advertizing...

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DBX

Dropbox - DBXFort Mason • SF, CAPeople create more than a billion memories, thoughts, and moments in Dropbox every day.On July 9th, 2013, we're bringing together our community of developers and...

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Facebook rejects ad criticizing actions of Zuckerberg political group

Facebook has rejected an advertisement from a group criticizing the actions of Fwd.us, the political group started by Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg and several other prominent members of the...

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American Dialect Map

The small map below is the same as the Full-Scale Dialect Map that follows, but shows the entire width of the map (on most monitors).24-Aug.-2010Click on any part of this map to move to the equivalent...

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Senate Backs Bill to Force Tax Collection on Internet Sales

Christopher Gregory/The New York TimesGrover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform, which wields great influence in the House, opposes the measure.WASHINGTON — A bipartisan coalition in the Senate easily...

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Linux is not about choice (2008)

Linux is not about choice [was Re: Fedora too cutting edge?][Date Prev][Date Next]   [Thread Prev][Thread Next]   [Thread Index] [Date Index] [Author Index] From: Adam Jackson <ajackson redhat...

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Hacking Google's HVAC Systems

Tridium vulnerability exposes companies to outsider threats.At Cylance, we have an ongoing project to identify vulnerable Internet facing Industrial Control Systems (ICS) at scale. Our project is far...

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