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Local Variables
And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,838 posts.
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Fixing the Internet for Games
What we're doing at my new startup [Network Next](https://networknext.com) :rocket:
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You probably don’t need input type=“number”
I'm Brad Frost, an independent creator, web designer & developer, teacher, speaker, writer, musician, and artist based in Pittsburgh, PA.
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Why we think giant pterosaurs could fly (2018)
Giant azhdarchid pterosaur in flight. Images like this virtually always trigger discussions about the validity of giant pterosaur flight h...
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Redox OS 0.5.0
The Redox official website
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My New Favorite Tool for Reviewing PDFs: Okular
Harris Kenny, founder of OutboundSync. A little ode to a computing journey.
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Hexagonal Cross Stitch
At least year’s Bridges Conference in Stockholm, I attended a short presentation by Susan Goldstine about “self-diagramming lace” . As motivation for the new work she was presenting, Susan referenced her paper from the year before on what she calls “symmetry samplers” . Samplers are an old tradition in fibre arts. A…
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PyPy v7.1 released; now uses UTF-8 internally for Unicode strings
The PyPy team is proud to release version 7.1.0 of PyPy, which includes two different interpreters: PyPy2.7, which is an interpreter s...
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Why I Switched from Python to Clojure (2016)
I spent some more time with Python and started to realize that I needed something more. Here's a brief list of the reasons why I switched to Clojure.
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A guide to threads in Node.js
While it is single-threaded, Node.js uses worker threads that allow for a separate execution thread that runs alongside the main thread.
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Where Have All the Angels Gone?
Angel investing plummets 81% as institutional seed dominates startup funding. New data shows dramatic shift in early-stage venture capital from 2010-2018.
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On Learning Rust and Go: Migrating Away from Python
I first started using Python in 1993. It's been my main programming language since about 2000. I've written a ton of code in Python, both for work and in my free time. For several years now, I've been growing dissatisfied with it. Partly it's because I'd like more help from my programming tools, such as static type…
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How we manage plans and features in our SaaS app
This is how we manage what a user can do and see on their account and plan in our active monitoring SaaS app.
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Hyphenation in CSS
Automatic hyphenation on the web has been possible since 2011 and is now broadly supported. There is however far more control available to designers than just turning on hyphens. Updated January 2023.
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ISPs in AU and NZ start censoring the internet without legal precedent
Several websites including Voat, ZeroHedge, Archive.is, LiveLeak, and others have been blocked in Australia and New Zealand in direct contravention to
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Russiagate is a death-blow for the reputation of the American news media
The Iraq war faceplant damaged the reputation of the press. Russiagate just destroyed it
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Machine Learning: Full-Text Search in JavaScript – Relevance Scoring (2015)
Full-text search is a powerful machine learning algorithm, especially relevant for web developers. This article teaches you the basics, from scratch.
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Calculating the mean of a list of numbers (2016)
You have a list of floating point numbers. No nasty tricks - these aren't NaN or Infinity, just normal "simple" floating point numbers.
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End-User Programming
A vision for empowered computing that reaches back forty years. Our research lab examines why it has been so hard to achieve.
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Theoretical way to levitate objects with light
Specially designed materials enable objects of different sizes to be levitated and manipulated with light, thanks to new research from Caltech scientists.
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‘A Swiss cheese-like material’ that can solve equations
Engineering professor Nader Engheta and his team have demonstrated a metamaterial device that can function as an analog computer, validating an earlier theory about ‘photonic calculus.’
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Key Polish Political Party Comes Out Against Article 13
With only days to go before the final EU debate and vote on the new Copyright Directive (we're told the debate will be at 0900h CET on Tuesday, 26 March, and the vote will happen at 1200h CET), things could not be more urgent and fraught. That's why today's announcement by Poland's Platformy...
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Architecting UIs for Change
Techniques for keeping your app code under control even when requirements shift dramatically.
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