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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 87 posts.
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Cook My Meat: heat diffusion through meat over time
This simulation shows the heat transfer throughout various kinds of meat. In the first section, you can input the starting values for the meat. The default is a 3cm piece of steak at room temperature (73°F or 23°C). The maximum meat thickness is 30 cm since we are assuming you're not trying to cook a whole cow. The…
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Snowboarding for Geeks
From practical tips to behind-the-scenes stories, our insights dive into the challenges, trends, and innovations in the digital landscape. Stay informed - and inspired.
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Why you need both rituals and routines to power your workday
Routines aren't the only thing we need for a balanced life. Most of us spend our days switching tasks and it’s our rituals that help us get through them.
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C.S. Lewis on the Reading of Old Books
"It is a good rule, after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between." - CS Lewis
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The Bare Minimum You Should Do to Protect Your Family's Data
For a lot of families, technology is the glue that holds everything together. There’s your kid’s Instagram feed you follow to see what theyR
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Amazon’s own ‘Machine Learning University’ now available to all developers
Today, I’m excited to share that, for the first time, the same machine learning courses used to train engineers at Amazon are now available to all developers through AWS. We’ve been using machine learning across Amazon for more than 20 years. With thousands of engineers focused on machine learning across the company…
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Two Years, Four Nanodegree Programs, and a New Career
Udacity's blog offers news and articles on the fastest, most effective way to gain job-ready expertise for the careers of the future.
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Wooden bikes
WOODEN BIKES Do they break easily?Can they withstand rain?Can they be compared to regular bikes? – Questions similar to these are completely logical and expected since wooden bikes aren't too common. We have had the same questions and concerns ourselves and have tried our best to answer them. Not so long ago we even
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2018 Engineering Gift Guide
The INSPIRE Research Institute for Pre-College Engineering is a research center in the School of Engineering Education (the world's first) at Purdue University focusing on pre-college engineering education research and integration with science, technology, mathematics and literacy.
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Sick Building Syndrome
Find out about sick building syndrome (SBS), including symptoms, things you can do to ease symptoms and possible causes.
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Myth of the Brown Recluse
Myth of the Brown Recluse: Fact, Fear, and Loathing Rick Vetter Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside, CA
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So You Want to Open a Small Press Bookstore/Artist-Run Space? A Cautionary Tale
Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
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Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012)
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Do We Worship Complexity?
Complexity is the most important challenge in software development. So it is important to always strive to eliminate complexity. But sometimes we worship complexity - and that can make complexity problems unsolvable.
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Am I Happy At Work? Analyzing my entire career
I've always wondered if I'm really happy at my work. After analysing my happiness throughout my entire career, I've found the exact answer to this question!
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Why does the Zune HD have the message “For our Princess” inside of the case?
Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
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What Most Remote Companies Don’t Tell You About Remote Work
Productivity inspiration and tactical advice that's actually useful.
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How to Get Rich (1999)
[JARED DIAMOND:] In Guns, Germs, and Steel I asked why history has unfolded differently over the last 13,000 years in Eurasia, in the Americas, in sub-Saharan Africa, and in Aboriginal Australia, with the result that within the last 500 years Europeans were the ones who conquered Native Americans and Aboriginal…
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A Fighter Pilot’s Guide to Surviving on the Roads
Portsmouth CTC part of Cycling UK organises cycle rides and events including easy rides, short rides, flat rides, long rides, and hilly rides.
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If you’re unsure whether to quit your job or break up, you probably should
If we actually read the paper we can learn much more than was reported.