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My Senior Design Project: Node.js WiFi-Extending Robot
A wifi-deploying tank robot controlled with JavaScript/Node.js.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,076 posts.
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How your startup is getting lapped by companies who know how to hire
There will always be an excess of bad ideas and dumb money in the market--so we'll always be complaining about a lack of talent, no matter how many developers there are. Still, I contend that most companies have no idea how to hire, and in the last week, my theory got proved to me several times ov
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High performance libraries in Java
There is an increasing number of libraries which are described as high performance and have benchmarks to back that claim up. Here is a sele...
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I Have No Idea [Why Apple Featured My App]
In early December, 2011, I was both surprised and flattered to discover that Apple had named Halftone as one of the best photo apps in its App Store Rewind 2011 . Since then, I’ve received a lot of e-mail asking me how I did it. That is, what did I do to “get” Apple to pick Halftone? I don’t know what kind of response…
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Uses For A Message Queue
Overview We've been working with, building, and evangelizing message queues for the last year, and it's no secret that we think they're awesome. We
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(Some) ORM haters do get it
Daftar slot online di Modus99 dapat menggunakan qris dan menjadi satu-satunya situs paling terpercaya saat ini dengan berbagai jenis bocoran semua provider.
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Top Surprises When Starting Out as a Software Developer
Even though more than 20 years have passed, I still remember wondering what it would be like to finish university and start working. Up until that point, I had pretty much spent my whole life in sc…
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Whatever It Takes: Visualizations in E-mail with d3.js
Content comes in many shapes and sizes, and proving the value of the content that your business produces is a challenge that many marketers face today.
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How WebSockets work vs polling/long polling/streaming
How the web evolved from HTTP polling and Comet to WebSockets. Covers Ajax, long polling, Server-Sent Events, and why WebSockets became the standard for real-time communication.
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EU court: Reverse engineering OK, API not protected by (c) and more
This case (SAS v WPL) has a lot in common with the Oracle v Google case in the US.
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Writing A Lisp Interpreter In Haskell
An article describing the experience of writing a Lisp interpreter in Haskell.
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Doctorow & Stross's "The Rapture of the Nerds" creative commons edition released
We promised it, and here it is (slightly delayed by a signing tour and epic-level jet lag): "The Rapture of the Nerds" by Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross is available as a Creative Commons licensed download right here: The Rapture of the Nerds .
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The Fast Fourier Transform
It’s often said that the Age of Information began on August 17, 1964 with the publication of Cooley and Tukey’s paper, “An Algorithm for the Machine Calculation of Complex Fourier…
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The Slow Web Movement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. - Carl Sagan, Cosmos (1980). (Source: https://www.youtube.com/) The slow web started as a vague idea framed as a joke. When we put our site out into the world on January 2, 2011, we only proces
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The Quiet Wikideath of BBS History
Folks, I’ve said I’m not a fan of Wikipedia for nearly ten years now. I used to mention it in presentations until I found that eighteen-year-olds would confront me at the end, like I sp…
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UK'S shadow Internet minister says she is "particularly stupid"
I remarked earlier about Helen Goodman MP and her total lack of technical knowledge. An MP being a bit behind the times isn't the greatest shock - but she's Labour's Shadow Minister for Culture, Media, and Sport - that's a big deal! This year, Claire Perry MP produced an "independent" report into online child…
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Telling people to leave finance
I used to work in finance, and now I don’t. I haven’t regretted leaving for a moment, even when I’ve been unemployed and confused about what to do next. Lots of my friends that I …
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Unicode is, in 2012, still “cutting edge.”
Note: These pages make extensive use of the latest XHTML and CSS Standards . They ought to look great in any standards-compliant modern browser. Unfortunately, they will probably look horrible in older browsers, like Netscape 4.x and IE 4.x. Moreover, many posts use MathML, which is, currently only supported in…
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