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In Medicine, Falling for Fake Innovation
THE sleek, four-armed “da Vinci” robot has been called a breakthrough technology for procedures like prostate surgery. “Imagine,” the manufacturer says, “having the benefits of a definitive treatment…
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The Enigma 1,800 Miles Below Us
DEEP THOUGHTS Jules Verne's classic "A Journey to the Center of the Earth" has inspired several film versions, including one in 2008. As if the inside story of our planet weren’t already the ultimate…
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1 hour ago
Shots Fired, Pinpointed and Argued Over
Employees of ShotSpotter monitored for gunfire from a control room in Mountain View, Calif. MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — At 7:22:07 p.m. on a recent Thursday evening, an electronic alarm went off in the…
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9 hours ago
Smart domready
May 11, 2012 ⁂ Etienne Concatenating and minifying JavaScript files into a single one is a pretty common doing among web developers. A tool like the Rails Asset pipeline makes it even more…
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11 hours ago
It’s about the content stupid
Here’s a revolutionary idea. What if all sites were lightweight? Seriously. Wouldn’t the world be a much better place? Oh but sorry, I forgot. Users want interactivity. (We know…
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19 hours ago
Eliminating Web Development Waste
The concept of waste within web development might seem reasonably clear to most managers and developers, however in my experience it is something that most teams need help to identify. I’ve…
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19 hours ago
Where to Draw the Line
The most important thing a product manager does is decide where their product stops and someone else’s product takes over. If an app does too little then it isn’t be worth the cost of…
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21 hours ago
Show How, Don't Tell What - A Management Style
One of the things I'm most excited about working at GitHub is the opportunity to take our time and think through organization and process problems from first principle instead of blindly copying…
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yesterday
Untitled (http://shauninman.com/assets/downloads/failure-omtconf.zip)
Just posted my slides as both a .key and individual 1920x1080 .pngs/.gifs:
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3 days ago
API Driven Applications with Rails - Ninjas on a Penny Farthing
API Driven Applications with Rails
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3 days ago
A changing tide
(Some half-thoughts based on hunches and radar blips. Go easy.) I’m starting to feel that we’ve reached an inflection point in digital design. Specialisation and consultancy were the…
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3 days ago
After Pinging SpaceX Software, Review Team Softens Stance
SpaceX technicians prepare the Dragon spacecraft for thermal vacuum chamber testing in the clean room at the company's facility in Hawthorne, Calif. Credit: Space News photo by Roger Gilbertson
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3 days ago
How good is it?
Commercial and US Government Launch Vehicles > SpaceX (Falcon and Dragon) SpaceX Flight Software: How good is it? (1/4) > >> oldAtlas_Eguy: The ASAP initial pushback against…
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3 days ago
Destroy Today / 10 reasons why I switched to Spine.js
In the past year, I shifted interests from the desktop to the web. I’m really drawn to apps that can be accessed from any device with a browser. I have a history with HTML, CSS, Flash and PHP,…
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3 days ago
My collected opinions on responsive web design - Journal
I find myself tweeting occasional opinions about responsive web design without painting a bigger picture of my actual view on the current state of responsive design. Usually crossed-wires ensue,…
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5 days ago
How Apple Could Play the Bigger-Display iPhone Thing at WWDC, Which I Swear, I’m Still Not Convinced Is for Real But We’re Getting to the Point Where There’s an Awful Lot of Smoke for There Not to Be a Fire So Let’s Run With It
For the sake of argument let’s take it as a given that the next iPhone will sport an 1136 × 640 display, with the same 326 pixels-per-inch resolution as the iPhone 4…
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5 days ago
A Standard Future
This is the second part in a two-part essay about digital publishing. You can read part 1, “The Fragmented Present,” here. It’s never been a better time to be a reader.…
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5 days ago
The Fragmented Present
Since technically we all work in publishing, it makes sense to turn our collective attention to the technical and logistic challenges of ebooks. They are a new frontier, but it looks a lot like the…
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5 days ago
Le Québec vibre
Le Québec tranquille c'est fini. La belle province se rebelle avec force, dans la rue et sur les réseaux, contre des articles de loi digne d'un État policier. Avec Twitter comme point…
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5 days ago
Self-updating scripts | High Performance Web Sites
Analyzing your site using Page Speed or YSlow often produces lower scores than you might expect due to 3rd party resources with short cache times. 3rd party snippet owners use short cache times so…
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5 days ago
Automation as Motivation
For the past two weeks, I've been having some serious programming motivation issues. Despite the fact that I know what's causing the motivation issues, I haven't been able to propel myself out of…
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7 days ago
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Je ne savais pas que Deauville était en dehors du territoire français..
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7 days ago
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Picture of the day - the solar eclipse from space:
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7 days ago
Switching Our Corporate Version Control System to GitHub
Moving our VCS to GitHub is the best decision we’ve made in the last year. The benefits are huge, the drawbacks are minor. We now have 16 closed-source repositories hosted on our GitHub…
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7 days ago
Creating the Windows 8 user experience
Creating the Windows 8 user experience Steven Sinofsky This blog often focuses on the bits and features and less on the “philosophy” or “context” of the product. Given the level of brand new…
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7 days ago
I'm sorry to inform you that Earth is about to be been e... on Twitpic
Guess God really does use Lisp.
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8 days ago
Amanda Cox and countrymen chart the Facebook I.P.O.
Amanda Cox and countrymen chart the Facebook I.P.O. On Thursday Facebook had the third-largest I.P.O. ever. In the week leading up it, my colleague Amanda Cox spent some time thinking how to best…
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8 days ago
La Cantine
Vous reprendrez bien un peu de PyCON, en ce début de semaine:
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9 days ago
`bundle install` Y U SO SLOW
here are the my slides for my talk: . Thanks to everyone who came! /cc
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10 days ago
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10 days ago
Web Design Manifesto 2012 – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
THANK YOU for the screen shot. I was actually already aware that the type on my site is big. I designed it that way. And while I’m grateful for your kind desire to help me, I actually do know…
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10 days ago
Naïve, label musical très subventionné et pas très cool - Rue89
D’anciens salariés du label indépendant dénoncent les conditions de travail au sein de l’entreprise. Des accusations que réfute son patron, Patrick Zelnik. Carla…
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10 days ago
Depuis l'arrivée des namespaces dans PHP, nous assistons à une explosion des contributions
Optimisation des performances, qualité du code, nouveaux frameworks... Le président de l'AFUP détaille le programme du Forum PHP 2012 qui se tiendra les 5 et 6 juin prochain à…
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10 days ago
Les 20 règles élémentaires du journalisme musical
Règle élémentaire #1 : Ne JAMAIS se faire la moindre illusion sur ce métier. Il ne vous rendra pas plus sexy. Il ne vous rendra pas plus crédible. Il ne vous rendra pas plus…
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10 days ago
Buffett to buy 63 newspapers
BUFFETT'S NEW DAILY NEWSPAPERS VIRGINIA: • Richmond Times-Dispatch, Richmond (114,000 subscribers)• The News & Advance, Lynchburg (27,000)• Bristol Herald Courier, Bristol…
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10 days ago
Researchers Glean Deep UI Lessons From A Haptic Steering Wheel
We’re not supposed to text while driving. That makes sense--it diverts your eyes and mental attention elsewhere. But what about your average turn-by-turn GPS screen? It’s sort of the…
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11 days ago
Man Up, Bieber
I have been told specifically that I will be able to punch Justin Bieber in the face. It is mid-March, and I am standing on the patio outside Conway Studios in Hollywood, where Bieber is recording…
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12 days ago
Please Learn to Write
There’s been lots of buzz on the topic of whether or not you should learn to code. As an engineer, I don’t have unbiased thoughts on the matter. I tweeted Jeff Atwood’s piece because, well, I agree…
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12 days ago
5 Minutes on The Verge: Loren Brichter
Loren Brichter is the man behind Tweetie, arguably the best Twitter app ever built. The app was so good that Twitter bought Brichter's company, Atebits, in April 2010 and turned the app into Twitter…
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12 days ago
Logs Are Streams, Not Files
Server daemons (such as PostgreSQL or Nginx) and applications (such as a Rails or Django app) sometimes offer a configuration parameter for a path to the program s logfile. This can lead us to think…
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13 days ago
a tornado of razorblades
As hackers, we’re familiar with the need to scale web servers, databases, and other software systems. An equally important challenge in a growing business is scaling your development team.…
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13 days ago
Please Don't Learn to Code
The whole "everyone should learn programming" meme has gotten so out of control that the mayor of New York City actually vowed to learn to code in 2012. A noble gesture to garner the NYC tech…
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13 days ago
How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet
Web startups are made out of two things: people and code. The people make the code, and the code makes the people rich. Code is like a poem; it has to follow certain structural requirements, and yet…
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13 days ago
Steve Ballmer's Microsoft by Dustin Curtis
You can call Steve Ballmer many things, but you cannot call him the “the worst CEO of a large publicly traded American company today,” as Forbes' Adam Hartung did in a recent article.…
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13 days ago
Effective memcache
This is part five of a five-part series on effectively scaling your App Engine-based apps. To see the other articles in the series, see Related links. This article explores techniques for using…
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13 days ago
Avoiding datastore contention
This is part three of a five-part series on effectively scaling your App Engine-based apps. To see the other articles in the series, see Related links. App Engine's datastore is a powerful…
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13 days ago
Minimizing work
This is part one of a five-part series on effectively scaling your App Engine-based apps. To see the other articles in the series, see Related links. App Engine allows you to deploy your Web…
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13 days ago
Paging through large datasets
This is part two of a five-part series on effectively scaling your App Engine-based apps. To see the other articles in the series, see Related links. This article was written for SDK version 1.1.7.…
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13 days ago
Be Cordial or Be on Your Way
Contributing to Open Source can be stressful. By opening a Pull Request to a popular project, you're inviting the maintainers and all of their users to analyze and scrutinize your code. Often, they…
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13 days ago
Sharding counters
from google.appengine.api import memcache from google.appengine.ext import db import random class GeneralCounterShardConfig(db.Model): """Tracks the number of shards for each named counter.""" name =…
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14 days ago
Vous ne pourrez pas vérifier
Je suis informaticien, je suis expert judiciaire en informatique, alors l'informatique, je connais bien. Vous qui me lisez ici, vous êtes peut-être aussi informaticien, peut-être pas.…
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14 days ago
Why quiet carriages don’t work, and how they might be made to
QUIET carriages on trains are a nice idea: travellers voluntarily switch phones to silent, turn stereos off and keep chatter to a minimum. In reality, there is usually at least one inane babbler to…
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14 days ago
The Architecture of Open Source Applications
This chapter discusses some of the design decisions that shaped LLVM, an umbrella project that hosts and develops a set of close-knit low-level toolchain components (e.g., assemblers, compilers,…
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14 days ago
( f o o b a r . l u ) » Blog Archive » A comprehensive guide through Python packaging (a.k.a. setup scripts)
One of the really useful things in python are the setup scripts. When doing “serious” business, you really should look into them. Setup scripts are amazingly powerful. But they…
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15 days ago
I am Doing HTTP Wrong
written on Saturday, April 14, 2012 A couple of months ago I finally came to the conclusion that the way I am approaching HTTP is fundamentally flawed and I am already so far down the rabbit hole…
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15 days ago
Who Killed Men's Hats? Think Of A Three Letter Word Beginning With 'I' : NPR
A hundred years ago — and that's when this picture was taken, in 1912 — men didn't leave home without a hat. Boys wore caps. This is a socialist political rally in Union Square in…
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15 days ago
Could a computer write this story? - CNN.com
Narrative Science, and other tech companies, are creating computer programs that turn data into written stories. (CNN) -- Computer applications can drive cars, fly planes, play chess and even make…
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15 days ago
DRESSCODE- BLUE TIE AND MALE
Af Christiane Vejlø Damn! I did not know the dress code was blue tie and male. I am at Dells big summit with Michael Dell in Copenhagen. Here we learn how to say “shut up bitch”…
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15 days ago
mrb's gist: 2669550 — Gist
Here's the API for the Go Riak PB client I'm working on:
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16 days ago
Steinar H. Gunderson
At this year's The Gathering, I was once again head of Tech:Server, and one of our tasks is to get the video stream (showing events, talks, and not the least demo competitions) to the inside and…
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16 days ago
iOS Low-Hanging Fruit
iOS has evolved in a fairly predictable manner over the years. Apple has done a good job tackling the lowest-hanging fruit on the to-do list, year after year. They crossed off a lot of big obvious…
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17 days ago
Why HBO's president panned internet streaming and how Forbes manipulated his words into linkbait by Dustin Curtis
In an article published a couple of days ago, Forbes writer Erik Kain suggested that HBO's president, Eric Kessler, called internet streaming distribution a “temporary phenomenon,” and…
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17 days ago
Test on Real Mobile Devices without Breaking the Bank
Mobile is the future of the web, so it’s time to start investing in some mobile devices. Testing on actual devices is now an absolutely essential part of web design. Stephanie Rieger explains…
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17 days ago
Scamworld: 'Get rich quick' schemes mutate into an online monster
A network of pitchmen have used the internet and fear of a failing economy to play the ultimate long con On a warm summer day in 2002, in Charlevoix, Michigan, Richard Joseph’s bad luck began.…
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17 days ago
Goodbye, CouchDB
Here at Sauce Labs, we recently celebrated the completion of a significant project to improve our service uptime and reliability, as we transitioned the last of our CouchDB databases to MySQL.…
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18 days ago
Organizing Your Graphite Metrics
One of the most common questions I get from Graphite users is how best to name and/or organize metric paths. I don't have an exhaustive list of "best practices" but I'd like to share some basic…
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18 days ago
The Maturation of the Billionaire Boy-Man
(Photo: Paul Sakuma/AP/Corbis. Illustration by Steven Noble.) If all goes as planned, Facebook will finally pull the trigger later this month on its long-salivated-over IPO. The deal could value the…
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19 days ago
Print Page
Building Printer-Friendly Page…
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19 days ago
Two Universes
You wake up in a small, enclosed glass cube. There’s a bed, a toilet, a radio playing music, and other bare essentials, but no door. You have no idea why you are here or what’s going on. After a few…
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19 days ago
Application Cache is a Douchebag
Good morning! Over in “castle Lanyrd” we recently launched our mobile site, which caches data on events you’re attending for viewing offline. I’ve boiled the offline bits…
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19 days ago
1944
One of my early Apple projects has just made its way to YouTube. It was a World War II movie made for the Apple International Sales Conference in the summer of 1984. Embedding is disabled, by you can…
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19 days ago
(503) http://www.amazon.com/dp/0672328380
is pretty good
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20 days ago
QArt Codes Posted on Thursday, April 12, 2012.
QR codes are 2-dimensional bar codes that encode arbitrary text strings. A common use of QR codes is to encode URLs so that people can scan a QR code (for example, on an advertising poster, building…
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20 days ago
In Flux
I had my brand new retina display iPad (all 3.1 million pixels) in one hand and the panic button in the other. I was sure the pixel-dense screen would take the websites we’ve built and…
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20 days ago
MICHEL GONDRY SPOTTING | the Blenheim Gang : essais et culture automobile, youngtimers, formule 1 et musique pop
Les voitures hackées par M. Gondry pour son film "l'écume des jours": dément ! J'en veux une !
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20 days ago
A Closer Look At Chorus, The Next-Generation Publishing Platform That Runs Vox Media
posted 27 Minutes Ago by ERIC ELDON The modern online newsroom is a 24/7 operation. It needs power tools to work efficiently, like modern carpenters need electric drills to build houses. The…
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20 days ago
kennethreitz/env · GitHub
Just released a new module, Env: Environment Variables for Humans! It makes mapping environment variables super simple
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20 days ago
The Thing About Git
The thing about Git is that it’s oddly liberal with how and when you use it. Version control systems have traditionally required a lot of up-front planning followed by constant interaction to…
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20 days ago
6 Reasons Why Apple Is Successful
One of the more interesting questions I get asked about as an industry analyst who’s followed Apple since 1981 is why Apple is so successful. It’s an honest question because to those…
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20 days ago
Facebook Social Readers Are All Collapsing
The Washington Post was the first publication to experiment with a "frictionless" social reader app, which launched last year. If you use Facebook you've probably come across it: it manifests as a…
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20 days ago
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