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How medieval astronomers made trig tables
Clever tricks used by medieval astronomers to tabulate sines at every degree, before calculators and before calculus.
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Becoming A Software Consultant: My Backstory
1337 h4x0r
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Cloud Platform at Google I/O – new Big Data, Mobile and Monitoring products
Cost per task: Using cheap classifiers to route across Gemini models and thinking levels
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Bitcoin contracts
Bitcoin is designed to support a wide variety of transaction types. Although currently the majority of transactions are standard payments to address it is possible to build more complex protocols.
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Habits of a Happy Node Hacker
This post is from 2013 - check out the update! For most of the nearly twenty years since its inception, JavaScript lacked many of the niceties that made...
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Fast immutable vectors in C#
In the last post I talked about immutable stacks & queues. This post will be on immutable vectors. We want to support 3 operations:
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Content, Forever
Got some time to kill and want to read a meandering essay by an algorithm with a short attention span? Tell us how many minutes you want to spend reading and a starting topic, and we'll whip something up.
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Sometimes Kill -9 Isn't Enough
If there’s one thing to know about distributed systems, it’s that they have to be designed with the expectation of failure. It’s also safe to say that most software these days is, in some form, distributed—whether it’s a database, mobile app, or enterprise SaaS. If you have two different processes talking to each…
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No, I’ll tell you the answer
Beware of advice that tries to change who you are. True wisdom guides you to a better version of yourself.
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Move Fast, Don't Break Your API
Amber on Rails
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Porting rr to x86-64
(TL;DR: rr from git can record and replay 64-bit programs. Try it for yourself !)
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Why Ada isn't Popular (1998)
Rick Thorne writes: > In truth, I like Ada too. I'm a former Ada man myself, as I believe I > mentioned. There are great things about the language, and since we're all > aware of them there's no point in going into them. I also prefer Beta to > VHS. Mathew Heaney responds: This is actually a specious comparison…
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It's Time to Kill Surface
“The question that needs to be asked and answered is why hardware.” To Satya Nadella’s credit, he provided not just the answer, but the question as well. And, looked at narrowly, …
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The Move from Linux to FreeBSD
About 2 months ago, I had a spare VPS at my host, Hetzner. So I decided to play with FreeBSD which was being offered for Hetzner servers and VPSes.That’s how the whole thing started. I didn’t have much problems getting the concepts because it belongs to *nix family of OSes [...]
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Edit: A Relaxing Mix of Vi and Acme
Disclaimer: This software is not ready. I am using it and it is stable but I still have to make it feel great , if you have suggestions I would be glad to take them. I wrote a list of work that I will attempt in the future.
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4k, HDMI, and Deep Color
Akses ACGWIN dan cari insight game slot online untuk menemukan insight terbaru 2026, panduan fitur interaktif, fitur teknologi, dan trik menang edisi 2026.
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Germany is pressuring Neocities to censor a disclosure of their censorship
The German government is pressuring Neocities to censor a disclosure of their censorship list.
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Cylinders in Spheres
What is the largest volume cylinder it is possible to carve from a solid sphere? Also, so you know about the napkin ring problem?
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Mattermark Has Raised $2M in Our Second Seed Round
After taking $3.4M in total funding over the past 2 years, it’s time to take a break from fundraising
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Chrome Remote Desktop goes mobile
Have you ever been out and about, and urgently needed to access a file that’s sitting on your home computer? Since 2011, Chrome Remote Deskt...
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Bulletproof HTML Email Components
Sendwithus helps teams manage transactional emails outside of source code — leading to streamlined workflows and always on-brand emails. Learn more here!
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Why Intel is adding instructions to speed up non-volatile memory
The latest version of the Intel manual has a couple of new instructions for non-volatile storage, like SSDs . What's that about?
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AngularJS Style Guide
Discover why we chose AngularJS style guide for flawless code organisation and optimisation.
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