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“Man Becomes the Sex Organs of the Machine World” (2012)
Electric speeds create centres everywhere. Margins cease to exist on this planet. ( Understand Media , 1964.) Marshall McLuhan remains ...
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,838 posts.
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Book Review: The Secret Of Our Success
[Previously in sequence: Epistemic Learned Helplessness] I. “Culture is the secret of humanity’s success” sounds like the most vapid possible thesis. The Secret Of Our Success by …
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Algorithm allows video editors to modify talking-head videos as if editing text
A new algorithm allows video editors to modify talking head videos as if they were editing text – copying, pasting, or adding and deleting words.
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SaaS vs. Open Core: Which Business Model Is Best?
In the final part of this three-part series, we evaluate S-1 filings from SaaS and Open Core companies to determine if either model has an inherent advantage.
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Quantum transitions take time – the news is its experimental demonstration
A number of people have asked me to weigh in on this story in Quanta Magazine (based on this paper [ PDF version ] and also reported in t...
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Why the “Digital Ocean killed my company” incident scares the hell out of me
Digital Ocean recently locked out a small startup. I'm scared I could be hit by a faulty abuse algorithm and a broken customer service process.
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Nim 0.20.0 (1.0 RC1) released
We are very proud to announce Nim version 0.20. This is a massive release, both literally and figuratively. It contains more than 1,000 commits and it marks our release candidate for version 1.0!
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Why Medium Sucks
Yuk cek kesehatan gigimu di Klinik Gigi Wangsa Maju dengan promo INDO200 pakai uang jepemu. Perawatan nyaman, dokter berpengalaman, hasil maksimal. Booking sekarang biar senyummu makin percaya diri!
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Google to Acquire Looker
Google to acquire Looker, a unified platform for business intelligence, data applications, and embedded analytics.
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How to get rich without getting lucky (2018)
A collection of all my interviews about my ‘How to Get Rich’ tweetstorm. Seek Wealth, Not Money or Status Wealth is assets that earn while you sleep You probably know Naval from his Twitter account. We’re going to talk about his tweetstorm, “How To Get Rich (without getting lucky).” More
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Tokyo mechanical keyboard meetup photos
Last sunny Saturday, there was the biggest keyboard mee…
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The IA Client – The Swiss Army Knife of Internet Archive
As someone who's uploaded hundreds of thousands of items to the Internet Archive's stacks and who has probably done a few million transactions with the materials over the years, I just "know" about the Internet Archive python client, and if you're someone who wants to interact with the site as a power user (or were
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How to Draw Animals (1930)
Les Animaux tels qu'ils sont par R. et L. Lambry sur le site de l' Agence Eureka (cliquez sur les images pour les agrandir) ...
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How does Apple privately find offline devices?
At Monday’s WWDC conference, Apple announced a cool new feature called “Find My”. Unlike Apple’s “Find my iPhone”, which uses cellular communication and the lost…
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CSS Grid Level 2 – subgrid is coming to Firefox
The subgrid feature which is part of Level 2 of the CSS Grid Specification is not yet shipping in any browser, but is now available for testing in Firefox Nightly. ...
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Using machine learning to estimate lost demand in a fulfillment chain
How Instacart uses Machine Learning to spot lost demand in its fulfillment chain
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Amazon Unveils New Alexa Dialog Modeling for Natural, Cross-Skill Conversations
Get the latest news and features about smart home, Alexa Built-in, and Alexa Gadgets.
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Sealed Rust: A plan to bring Rust to safety critical software domains
Part 1 - The Pitch
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Writing a game engine in pure C: The Graphic Initialization
If you haven’t read the other posts, go now: Part 1: the state manager Part 2: the graphic initialization Part 3: the engine entity We have a state manager now but a game without graphic re…
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Plausible Deniability and Gaslighting in Fighting Ad Blockers
Google is planning changes in Chrome impacting ad blocker extensions and people are wondering whether those changes are motivated by self-interest or whether there are plausible, benign explanations.
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I've been building a Markdown note-taking app for 3 years
End-to-end Encryption Support, Smart Scroll Sync for Side-by-side View, New Logo, and More.
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There are now more people over sixty-four than children younger than five
What is the age profile of populations around the world? How did it change and what will the age structure of populations look like in the future?
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An update on last week's customer shutdown incident
Helping millions of developers easily build, test, manage, and scale applications of any size - faster than ever before.
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Solving Programming Puzzles Without Using Your Brain
This post is a write-up of a solution to part of a programming puzzle I did yesterday. It’s a little different than the usual “solution + theory” approach, though: I’m going to talk about the actual steps you’d need to take to get to the solution (i.e. what to google, what intermediate code looks like, etc.). Often…
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Open-Sourcing Our Reactor Design, and the Future of Transatomic
When Mark Massie and I started Transatomic in April 2011, the future of nuclear power was uncertain. In the wake of Fukushima, all bets for a nuclear renaissance were off, and starting a venture-funded advanced nuclear technology startup seemed like an unusual path, to say the very least. At the time, there were only…
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Apple's Audacity
This year’s WWDC presented an Apple that was finally ready to move past the iPhone.