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Thinking This iPad Mini Thing Even Througher
I’m thinking the iPad Mini will be not just thinner and lighter than the iPad-as-we-know-it, but remarkably thinner and lighter than its competitors in the small tablet market.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,076 posts.
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John Resig: Redefining the Introduction to Computer Science at Khan Academy
I’m incredibly excited to take this opportunity to announce a new project that I’ve been leading here at Khan Academy: Khan Academy Computer Science .
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The Mystery of the Encrypted Gauss Payload
The Securelist blog houses Kaspersky’s threat intelligence reports, malware research, APT analysis and statistics
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The Science of Serif vs Sans Serif Type
Update March 2012 See my expanded critique of Colin Wheildon’s legibility research .
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Pixel Perfect
Regarding the 15-inch MacBook Pro With Retina Display.
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How we screwed (almost) the whole Apple community
Day4 är ett svenskt produktionsbolag specialiserade inom motion graphics och film för webb, spelfilm, TV, företagsfilm med mera.
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Stop teaching calculating; Start teaching math
Conrad Wolfram's 2010 talk on reforming maths education to teach real-world computational methods using computers.
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A Mole of Moles
What would happen if you were to gather a mole (unit of measurement) of moles (the small furry critter) in one place?
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Tarsnap now takes credit cards (switching from Paypal to Stripe)
I've been excited about Stripe ever since one of the founders, Patrick Collison, emailed me in 2009 to say that he was "trying to build a credit-card processor that doesn't suck". My immediate reaction: "I think that might be the most ambitious plan I've ever heard from someone associated with YC ". When Patrick went…
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Hate Java? Maybe you should hate the industries stuck in the 50's.
Today's guest post comes from our friend, Jonathan Fisher over at TheCodeMechanic blog. He points out some rather interesting issues in the "Java fight"
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Push, push, push. Expanding your comfort zone
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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Why Explore Space? A 1970 Letter to a Nun in Africa.
Ernst Stuhlinger wrote this letter on May 6, 1970, to Sister Mary Jucunda, a nun who worked among the starving children of Kabwe, Zambia, in Africa, who questioned the value of space exploration. A…
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Erlang programmer’s view on Curiosity Rover software
On Curiosity and its software I cannot help but speculate on how the software on the Curiosity rover has been constructed. We know that m...
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What “Worse is Better vs The Right Thing” is really about
I thought about this one for a couple of years, then wrote it up, and left it untouched for another couple of years.
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The End of Indie Game Development on Android
I got back from San Francisco and the Google I/O developer conference there last week. Google was yet again gracious with the hardware givea...