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Powerchair: A dad hacks a wheelchair for his disabled 2-year-old son
We wanted Alejandro to have a power wheelchair. We wanted him to be able to move through the world by his own volition and it’s clear that the ability to independently explore his environment is important for his cognitive development on multiple levels. We tried going through the typical process of obtaining a power…
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RJS leaking vulnerability in multiple Rails applications
I wrote about this problem in May, without showcases, just a theoretical post http://homakov.blogspot.com/2013/05/do-not-use-rjs-like-techn...
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Clojure from the ground up: Macros
In Chapter 1 , I asserted that the grammar of Lisp is uniform: every expression is a list, beginning with a verb, and followed by some arguments. Evaluation proceeds from left to right, and every element of the list must be evaluated before evaluating the list itself. Yet we just saw, at the end of Sequences , an…
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Thrun pivots Udacity toward vocational education
Internet applications and technology and their implications for individuals, organizations and society
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Facebook reveals friends list even when it’s set to private
The Sophos Blog
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Why Procrastinators Procrastinate
The full story about why procrastinators routinely ruin their own lives.
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An engineer's emergency kit business card
NEW! You can now buy a version of this board! (Read more .) Circuit board business cards have been done . But since circuit boards ...
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How Software Companies Die (1995)
Home Page for Charles Rosenberg
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Is work necessary?
I saw this bouncing around Facebook, and I would like to endorse the underlying philosophy:
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How to Buy Bitcoin
As someone who recently purchased Bitcoin and two other crypto currencies using three different methods, I thought I’d share how to buy Bitcoin because I know there’s precious little information out there:
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It's practically impossible for regular people to buy Bitcoin
We’re in the middle of a huge Bitcoin bubble resembling Tulip mania. There’s now huge demand in the mainstream to buy bitcoin for speculation mainly due to med…
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A universal income is not such a silly idea
The concept of paying people to sit around has an upside, writes Tim Harford ‘Swiss to vote on 2,500 franc basic income for every adult.” Reuters, 4 October 2013 How much is that? It’s about £1,700…
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String types are fine. How about your code?
Someone on the internet says that strings are broken, and some more people on the internet disagree. The problem is that all kinds of common operations on strings, such as counting the amount of ch…
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