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How I taught my dog to text me selfies
Using an Arduino Yun, Twilio and a big red button, my dog texts me selfies.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,197 posts.
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Hacker School is now the Recurse Center
The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City.
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Fake Amazon Tech Book Reviews Are Hurting My Book
Update : I really can't say as much as I would like (there's stuff I can't share), but my publisher had a face-to-face with an Amazon rep and internal action was taken. Amazon's investigation is apparently over. The internal position seems to be "we're making money, there are words on pages, so there's no problem…
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Paul Kalanithi, writer and neurosurgeon, dies at 37
Paul Kalanithi wrote essays for The New York Times and Stanford Medicine reflecting on being a physician and a patient, the human experience of facing death, and the joy he found despite terminal illness.
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Stephen King's “Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully”
"I really am going to tell you everything you need to pursue a successful and financially rewarding career writing fiction, and I really am going to do it in ten minutes, which is exactly how long it took me to learn."
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Microwave Oven Diagnostics with Indian Snack Food
Microwave ovens are curious beasts. A super convenient method of warming up certain foods, for boiling a cup of water, melting a little butter, or reheating frozen leftovers. But all too often, those frozen leftovers end up scorching in places and rock-hard frozen in others. Is this just random? Is it really the case…
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“Citizenfour” Awarded Oscar for Best Documentary in 2014
CITIZENFOUR, Laura Poitras' riveting documentary about Edward Snowden's efforts to shed light on gross surveillance abuses by the United States government and its partners, just won the 2014 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Tonight's Oscar win recognizes not only the incredible...
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Programmer proverbs
To be a programmer is to learn relentlessly. A short and deep collection of advices.
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Why Learning to Code Is So Damn Hard
Build practical, job-relevant skills with ready-made learning pathways and custom programs from Chegg Skills for employers, higher education, and government.
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I have no idea what I'm doing
It says “I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I’M DOING”. I don’t remember writing it, but it was in my house on my desk in my handwriting, so I obviously did.
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I Was Arrested for Learning a Foreign Language. Today, I Have Some Closure
Five years ago, the Philadelphia police thought that carrying Arabic-language flashcards was enough to warrant the arrest of an innocent traveler. A settlement reached today in a lawsuit I brought against the police department makes it clear that it is not.
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Telomere extension turns back aging clock in cultured human cells, study finds
Researchers delivered a modified RNA that encodes a telomere-extending protein to cultured human cells. Cell proliferation capacity was dramatically increased, yielding large numbers of cells for study.
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What taking my daughter to a comic book store taught me
I like to think that I'm a pretty decent human being. Don't think I didn't hear that snort of derision...lighten up - I didn't say "perfect", I just said "prett
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The 2014 Panic Report
For the last year or so, Panic was typically heads-down quiet. But as 2014 drew to a close, our furious typing came to fruition and a whole lot of magic happened. It felt great.
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“The Great Plate Count Anomaly” that is no more
by Gemma Reguera — For over a century, microbiologists have been using growth media solidified with agar to culture microbes from environmental samples. Individual cells are easily separated on th…
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The Interview
Follow the Stripe blog to learn about new product features, the latest in technology, payment solutions, and business initiatives.
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Negative comments
The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City.
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Why Can't I Take an Orange Through Customs?
Fruit flies, agroterrorism, and how a healthy snack became a threat to national security.
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A Cautionary Tale of Learning to Code
I was just a guy in a suit in an office with a vague startup idea. Then I decided to learn to code. I overheard some guy at a happy hour bragging about how easily he was able to automate his office workflows by using a language called Ruby. I
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Coding, Fast and Slow: Developers and the Psychology of Overconfidence (2013)
I’m going to talk today about what goes on in inside developers’ heads when they make estimates, why that’s so hard to fix, and how I personally figured out how to live and write software (for very happy business owners) even though my estimates are just as brutally unreliable as ever.