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What Opera is about to Unveil?
Bioinformatics, genomics, and Javascript
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,923 posts.
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What Does $14 Million Worth of PageRank Look Like?
CircuitCity.com is back after Systemax purchased the brand and domain at bankruptcy auction for $14 million. Systemax also owns TigerDirect.com and acquired CompUSA last year. CircuitCity.com was quickly relaunched last week to capitalize on the remaining brand strength and traffic to the website.
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Peter Selinger: MD5 Collision Demo
C:\TEMP> md5sum hello.exe cdc47d670159eef60916ca03a9d4a007 C:\TEMP> .\hello.exe Hello, world! (press enter to quit) C:\TEMP>
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Cryptographic Right Answers
Encrypting data: Use AES in CTR (Counter) mode, and append an HMAC . AES is about as standard as you can get, and has done a good job of resisting cryptologic attacks over the past decade. Using CTR mode avoids the weakness of ECB mode, the complex (and bug-prone) process of padding and unpadding of partial blocks (or…
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Student challenges prof, wins right to post source code he wrote for course
[BRADYcore] TARGETED TRAINING. REAL RESULTS.
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Polyphasic Sleep: One Man's 6-Month Experiment (2005)
A couple days ago, I saw a post about polyphasic sleep on LifeHack.org . Since then I’ve been emailed about this topic as well, probably because I’ve written previously about becoming an early riser .
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Why "I'd Google it" is not an acceptable Interview Answer
Going out on a limb In my previous article, The Code Sample, I ruffled the feathers of a few readers who objected to my implication that “I’d just Google it” is not an acceptable…
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Last.fm founders quit
After two years running Last.fm within CBS we feel the time is right to begin the process of handing over the reins. This is the latest stage in a long journey for us founders, which began in a living room in East London in 2002, and took us to the headquarters of one of the biggest media companies in the world.
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Corrupted Word Files for Sale
On one hand, this is clever: We offer a wide array of corrupted Word files that are guaranteed not to open on a Mac or PC. A corrupted file is a file that contains scrambled and unrecoverable data due to hardware or software failure. Files may become corrupted when something goes wrong while a file is being saved e.g…
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Writing Microcopy
An Interface and Product Design blog by Joshua Porter
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Google Open Source Blog: Introducing Android Scripting Environment
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
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Too small to fail: How startups can grow in recessions
These two little startups are exploding in sales, even in recession. Here's how they're doing it, and how you can too.
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The MP3 Experiment
Last Saturday, Improv Everywhere staged its sixth annual MP3 Experiment, and it was open to anyone who wanted to play along. My son and I did.
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Gruber's WWDC 2009 Predictions
What I know, don’t know, and know I don’t know about tomorrow’s WWDC announcements. As usual, please, no wagering.
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