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Hunting down my son's killer
Normal Aside from severe jaundice, Bertrand was normal at birth. For two months, he developed normally. At three months, his development had slowed, but it was "within normal variations." By six…
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18 hours ago
Manhattanhenge | Hayden Planetarium
manhattan  architecture  nyc  science 
23 hours ago
KEEGAN: The Opposite of Loneliness
Marina Keegan '12. Photo by Facebook. The piece below was written by Marina Keegan '12 for a special edition of the News distributed at the class of 2012's commencement exercises last week. Keegan…
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yesterday
Some Thoughts on the Removal of AirFloat and AirFoil
As a follow-up to my previous post regarding the removal of AirFloat, I just want to give some insights to my perspective of this recent turmoil. The search for the perfect app A year…
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yesterday
Why Cheap Customers Cost More
I was listening to Patrick McKenzie’s podcast (with Amy Hoy as a guest), and they touched on something that I had heard before: when you offer multiple plans for a service, the cheapest…
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yesterday
We're doing HTTP right!
Alright, maybe we're not. We take the stance that we like how we're approaching HTTP. I gave a talk on our way to approach HTTP at PyGrunn 2012 tiled “I'm doing HTTP wrong” and shortly…
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yesterday
API Design
One of the development tasks I do most often is designing the API for a reusable component. The components are usually for iOS (though sometimes they’re for OS X), and are invariably GUI…
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4 days ago
The Art of Computer Typography
Ever since I came across Jürg Lehni’s essay on typographic technology and digital fonts, Typeface As Programme, I’ve been fascinated with the story of Donald E. Knuth and his…
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4 days ago
Google's Self-Driving Car Gets Mixed Reviews - Automotive News Story
Peter Valdes-DapenaPOSTED: 10:08 am PDT May 18, 2012UPDATED: 11:00 am PDT May 18, 2012WASHINGTON D.C. (CNNMoney) -- My first ride in Google's self-driving car was, all at the same time, thrilling,…
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5 days ago
My Encounter With a Patent Troll
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5 days ago
After Facebook fails
Making the rounds is The Facebook Fallacy, a killer essay by Michael Wolff in MIT Technology Review. The gist: At the heart of the Internet business is one of the great business fallacies of our…
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5 days ago
Mike Cardwell
I recently replaced my OSX based Macbook with an Ubuntu based Lenovo Thinkpad T420. I've done a number of things out of the ordinary to secure it, so thought I'd write an overview. You may find some…
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5 days ago
Kickstarter hides failure
(TL;DR: Kickstarter does not want you to see failed projects. Failed Kickstarter campaign pages include robot meta tags to keep search engines from indexing them. Plus,…
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5 days ago
the break that broke sudo
A recently-patched bug in the widely-used sudo command makes for interesting reading. The patch reminds us of some important points in security-related programming. The UNIX sudo command is usually…
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6 days ago
Olympic organisers shut down “Space hijackers” protest Twitter account
Index on Censorship has learned that the Twitter account of protest group Space Hijackers has been suspended following a complaint by the organisers of the London Olympics. The anti-capitalists, who…
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6 days ago
MIT’s Freaky Non-Stick Coating Keeps Ketchup Flowing
When it comes to those last globs of ketchup inevitably stuck to every bottle of Heinz, most people either violently shake the container in hopes of eking out another drop or two, or perform the…
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6 days ago
Dan Harmon's firing: My take
A lot of you have asked my take on the NBC firing of Dan Harmon from COMMUNITY – a show that he not only was running but created as well. First I should mention that I don’t know Dan…
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6 days ago
rjbs forgot what he was saying
It is traditional for each release of perl to be announced with a form letter beginning with a quote, or epigraph, chosen by the release engineer. For Perl 5.16.0, I chose the penultimate stanza from…
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6 days ago
A 29-year-old on the difficulties of landing a first job
My latest column discusses how older generations must help dislocated young adults now – or forfeit their own financial well-being later. If you want to know what it's like to look for a job…
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11 days ago
25 million gigabytes bring prosecution of MegaUpload and its eccentric founder to standstill
The last time a preservation issue caused this much commotion, the Big Four accounting firm KPMG was fruitlessly disputing a court order forcing it to save 2,500 hard drives that had been used by…
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11 days ago
TED and inequality: The real story
Today TED was subject to a story so misleading it would be funny... except it successfully launched an aggressive online campaign against us. The National Journal alleged we had…
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11 days ago
It Takes 6 Days to Change 1 Line of Code
May 17, 2012 (A true story.)Philip (President): Our factory is underutilized by 10%. Either we start building more of our backlog or we lay people off. I'd rather keep everyone busy, build inventory,…
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11 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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12 days ago
How the Professor Who Fooled Wikipedia Got Caught by Reddit
T. Mills Kelly encourages his students to deceive thousands of people on the Web. This has angered many, but the experiment helps reveal the shifting nature of the truth on the Internet. …
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13 days ago
The Effect of Shorter Trial Periods for SaaS
by Duane Jackson - Founder & CEO on May 16, 2012 A couple of months ago I wrote that we were reducing our free trial period for our online accounting software. To summarise: we have always…
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13 days ago
How to Set Up Metric Collection Using Graphite and Statsd on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
A few weeks ago, I talked about how Kinvey's analytics help developers gain insight into their app's usage. This insight is important, because it is a key factor in improving any product or service…
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13 days ago
The Bastards Book of Ruby
ruby  tutorial  reference  programming 
13 days ago
Facebook’s business model
Startups usually succeed because of a single major product or business innovation. Google is unusual in that they succeeded because of two major innovations: their core search product, and their…
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14 days ago
Browsers and Apps in 2012
It’s like this: The browser’s doomed, because apps are the future. Wait! Apps are doomed because HTML5 is the future. I see something almost every day saying one or the other. Only…
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14 days ago
» Fully Distributed Teams: are they viable?
It has become increasingly common for technology companies to run as Fully Distributed teams. That is, teams that collaborate primarily over the web rather than using informal, face-to-face…
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14 days ago
Learn Code The Hard Way -- Books And Courses To Learn To Code
I'm going to give you a piece of advice when you're trying to learn something new: Never listen to people who try to make beginners feel like losers. For whatever reason, some people get off on…
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14 days ago
Can an Algorithm Write a Better News Story Than a Human Reporter?
Illustration: Mark Allen Miller Had Narrative Science — a company that trains computers to write news stories—created this piece, it probably would not mention that the company’s…
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14 days ago
Sentiment Analysis using Apache Hive | Xebia Blog
apache  hive  mapreduce  nlp 
14 days ago
Guide to set internal chest freezer thermostat to >32F; Eliminate external control - Home Brew Forums
homebrew 
17 days ago
Specific Gravity and Attenuation
Specific Gravity and Attenuation Specific gravity (SG) is a measure of the density of a liquid, with respect to water.
gravity  homebrew  from readability
18 days ago
Facebook Fesses Up to Its Achilles Heel
In the sixth update to its S-1 filing so far, Facebook admitted in unambiguous terms on Wednesday that it's in trouble on the mobile front and not quite sure what to do about it. Trouble doesn't mean…
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18 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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18 days ago
The Making of Octicons
In our last post we announced Octicons, our new icon font. We put a lot of work into the font and gained a lot of knowledge in the process. With five different designers working to make it happen,…
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20 days ago
Who Wants to Buy Honduras?
Shortly after the 2009 coup that overthrew Manuel Zelaya, Honduras’s newly elected president, Porfirio Lobo, asked his aides to think big, really big. How could Honduras, the original banana…
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20 days ago
cssarrowplease
css  arrow  design  webdesign  css3 
20 days ago
jQuery Knob demo
css  ui  javascript  jquery 
20 days ago
What Is and Is Not A Technology Company
When I was a kid, I had a morning routine with my family. Over breakfast, we’d divvy up the newspaper. I’d go straight for the Business section, and from there to the back pages with…
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20 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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21 days ago
Google guilty of infringement in Oracle trial; future legal headaches loom
In what could be a major blow to Android, Google's mobile operating system, a San Francisco jury issued a verdict today that the company broke copyright laws when it used Java APIs to design the…
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21 days ago
Science and Truth: We’re All in It Together
THE greatest bird news of our lifetime occurred at the height of the George W. Bush administration. In April 2005, amid a pageant of flags and cabinet ministers in Washington, John Fitzpatrick, the…
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22 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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22 days ago
The dirty secret behind the incubator boom
“It’s people. Soylent Green is made out of people. They’re making our food out of people. Next thing they’ll be breeding us like cattle for food.” Detective Thorn,…
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26 days ago
Simple CSS color management with SASS | 12 Spokes
sass  css  color 
27 days ago
Featured on HackerNews and BetaList. Comparison and statistics.
About three weeks ago we opened a private beta registration at elastic.io. And by that date we started to think about how to attract visitors to our website. There were many ideas and actions related…
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27 days ago
Command Line Fanatic
Anybody who's been using the web for any appreciable amount of time has been presented with ominous, but vague, security warnings such as "this site's certificate has expired", "this site was signed…
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27 days ago
How did it go ?
I love working on new projects, every part of the process excites me – planning the initial idea, designing the mockups, creating the products and writing the documentation ( well I actually…
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27 days ago
The Cab Ride I’ll Never Forget
I don t think that I have done anything more important in my life Twenty years ago, I drove a cab for a living. It was a cowboy s life, a life for someone who wanted no boss. What I didn t realize…
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27 days ago
Just My Type
fontstacks  typekit  fonts  typography  css 
27 days ago
Rupert Murdoch 'not fit' to lead major international company, MPs conclude
Rupert Murdoch. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Rupert Murdoch is "not a fit person" to exercise stewardship of a major international company, a committee of MPs has concluded, in a report…
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28 days ago
Code Spelunking in the all new Basecamp - (37signals)
code  performance  rails  ruby 
4 weeks ago
Cubism.js
graph  realtime  metrics  data  d3 
4 weeks ago
CSS Sprites Revisited | Smashing Coding
css  sprites 
4 weeks ago
Data and visualization blogs worth following
blogs  data  visualization 
4 weeks ago
Through a glass, clearly - MIT News Office
Through a process involving thin layers of material deposited on a surface and then selectively etched
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4 weeks ago
Can an Algorithm Write a Better News Story Than a Human Reporter? | Gadget Lab
Illustration: Mark Allen Miller Had Narrative Science — a company that trains computers to write news stories—created this piece, it probably would not mention that the company’s…
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4 weeks ago
"Gangbang Interviews" and "Bikini Shots": Silicon Valley’s Brogrammer Problem
Quora (left and right); Geeklist (center)At the South by Southwest Interactive festival in March, I attended a talk titled "Adding Value as a Non-Technical No Talent Ass-Clown." It was given by Matt…
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4 weeks ago
Chris Stucchio
A High Frequency Trader's Apology, Pt 2 Posted: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 In a previous post I discussed the mechanics of HFT. If you haven’t read it, go read it now. Now I’ll discuss…
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4 weeks ago
People Can’t Figure Out Why The Cabin in the Woods Is So Awesome, So Here Are a Few Solid Reasons For You [SPOILERS]
by Jamie Frevele | 12:30 pm, April 25th So, you may have been trying to avoid all the buzz that surrounded The Cabin in the Woods, which, if all you have seen of it is the commercials and online ads,…
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4 weeks ago
FRACKED UP!
Three hundred miles due north of Deadwood, South Dakota and roughly half as many years past its 1870s heyday, a new gold rush is threatening to give that storied spectacle of exuberant capitalism a…
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4 weeks ago
The A/B Test: Inside the Technology That’s Changing the Rules of Business
Photo: Spencer Higgins; Illustration: Si Scott Dan Siroker helps companies discover tiny truths, but his story begins with a lie. It was November 2007 and Barack Obama, then a Democratic candidate…
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4 weeks ago
Those Fabulous Confabs
(Photo: Getty Images. Photo treatment by Gluekit.) Had any bystanders witnessed the attack on Duncan Davidson late one evening three years ago, they could never have guessed its epochal…
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5 weeks ago
Reading RFID Cards With Ruby and the Mac - Mark Daggett's Blog
rfid  ruby 
5 weeks ago
Feynman's Nobel Ambition
From ``Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman'', by Richard Feynman, Copyright 1985, pg. 157-158. Dr. Feynman was a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who, among other things, worked on the first atomic bomb…
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5 weeks ago
Software Engineers Will Work One Day for English Majors
Which of the following describes careers in software engineering? A. Intellectually stimulating and gratifying. B. Excellent pay for new bachelor’s degree grads. C. A career dead-end. The…
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5 weeks ago
04.22.12 //
Now what the hell is you lookin’ for? Can’t a young man get money anymore? Let my pants sag down to the floor Really do it matter as long as I score? —Mase, Lookin’ at me…
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5 weeks ago
35 Beautiful Landing Page Design Examples to Drool Over [With Critiques] | Unbounce
landingpage  design  business  ux 
5 weeks ago
Apache Tika - Apache Tika
content  java  analysis  patently 
5 weeks ago
iPad Text Editors, Reviewed
Writing has a fine edge, regardless of whether you're doing prose or code. And people who write a lot (or, like me, who wish they had more time and opportunity to do so) tend to be constantly on the…
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5 weeks ago
Judge Alsup Decides He, Not the Jury, Will Decide the Issue of API Copyrightability ~pj
The news came with the final report from our reporter on Day 4's coverage. I've added it there in Update 5, but it's significant enough that I wanted to highlight it, to make sure you don't miss…
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5 weeks ago
This Is 2016 Not 2012
Her eyebrows knot themselves. A pencil grates back and forth on her legal pad. Scratch. Scratch. My back itches; a tiny incessant itch that demands more attention with each passing second. Should I…
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5 weeks ago
Inspiration and Chai
REGRETS OF THE DYING For many years I worked in palliative care. My patients were those who had gone home to die. Some incredibly special times were shared. I was with them for the last three to…
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5 weeks ago
Force Carbonation Chart - Kegerators.com
homebrew  carbonation  kegging 
5 weeks ago
Introduction to the Corneilus Keg System
An Introduction to the Cornelius Keg System The Cornelius keg system is simply the CO2 system of choice for great majority of homebrewers who keg their own beer. The Cornelius kegs are the canisters…
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5 weeks ago
IBM creates breathing, high-density, light-weight lithium-air battery
As part of its Battery 500 project — an initiative started by IBM in 2009 to produce a battery capable of powering a car for 500 miles — Big Blue has successfully demonstrated a…
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5 weeks ago
What good is experience? by Justin Kan
When I didn’t have any experience, I thought that experience was totally worthless. Emmett and I taught ourselves how to build web applications in a few months in college and built the first…
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5 weeks ago
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