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How Microsoft quietly built the city of the future
The latest news and stories about how technology is helping people around the world solve problems, innovate and do more each day.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,197 posts.
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Busyness is Not a Virtue
When you go on about being so busy, you’re often engaging in doublespeak. Here's what busyness really means and why it's not a virtue.
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How much sleep do we really need to work productively?
How much sleep do you need? How does the sleep you get impact your work productivity? Read on to learn those answers & the myth of the 8 hours rule:
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Email: the easiest way to improve retention
Build amazing customer experiences on the Twilio platform with APIs for SMS, RCS, voice, and email, plus conversational AI for smarter engagement, and identity verification for trust.
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How the kids stole the show: Young Coders tutorial at PyCon
Throughout the planning phases of PyCon 2013, for everything we did, we did it bigger than last year. Attendance? We raised the cap to 250...
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Goodbye, Malcolm
Posted by Jacob Kaplan-Moss on March 19, 2013
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Why do we eat grains? Thermodynamics
For generations their people had collected the seeds of tall grasses, which they cooked and ate to supplement their diet of foraged fruits, vegetables, and leaves, and hunted game, fish, and seafood.
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My Very Own Protocol Droid
Thirty-six people work at 37signals. Only six of us don’t have iPhones. Out of the six of us, three have Androids. I just recently became one of the Android minority. I’ve been a die-hard “Apple evangelist” for over twenty years — first an avid Mac user, then an e…
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Good sleep, good learning, good life
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The Psychedelic Experience FAQ
A Frequently Asked Questions file about Psychedelic Experiences
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What it's Really Like Working with Steve Jobs
People who worked with Steve Jobs (I'll call him Steve) usually don't talk about it. It's kind of an unwritten rule, partly because he was obsessive about his privacy.
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How Japanese Kids Learn To Multiply
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Farewell to Aaron Swartz
Yesterday Aaron Swartz, a close friend and collaborator of ours, committed suicide. This is a tragic end to a brief and extraordinary life. Aaron did more than almost anyone to make the Internet a thriving ecosystem for open knowledge, and to keep it that way. His contributions were numerous, and...
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The Programming Books That Meant The Most To Me
There are so many programming books out there, but most focus on specific technologies and their half-life is incredibly short. Others focus on process or culture. Very few focus on the timeless principles of writing good code, period. The following five books had the biggest influence on my progra…
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Why I learned to "make things"
Two years ago this week, I started working at 37signals. I couldn’t make a web app to find my way out of a paper bag. When I started working here, my technical skills were in tools like Excel, R, and Matlab, and I could muddle my way through SQL queries. I had the basic technical skills tha…
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