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Stupid Template Tricks: Snakeblog.mattbierner.com
Conway's game of Life may be mathematically interesting, but it is not what most people would consider a real game. So let's take a look at another product of the 70's, the arcade game Snake. This post walks through a... -
This Berkeley startup & its energy machines are about to take offgigaom.com
A decade ago the sprawling artist compound just off of Ashby Avenue in an industrial part of West Berkeley, Calif, was filled with flame-throwing robots, stacks of shipping containers and towering Burning Man-inspired sculptures. During my college year... -
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Client-side MVC's major bug - TimKadlec.comtimkadlec.com
— February 6, 2015 — Client-side MVC's Major Bug Over the past year I conducted performance audits on a handful of sites that all used … -
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- pynchon.pomona.edu
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Oblique Strategies: Brian Eno’s Prompts for Overcoming Creative Block, Inspired by John Cagebrainpickings.org
"If a thing can be said, it can be said simply." "Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for -
Modern SQL in PostgreSQLslideshare.net
SQL has gone out of fashion lately—partly due to the NoSQL movement, but mostly because SQL is often still used like 20 years ago. As a matter of fact, the SQL… -
Why Is The Dollar Sign A Letter S?observationdeck.io9.com
The letter S appears nowhere in the word "dollar", yet an S with a line through it ($) is unmistakably the dollar sign. But why an S? Why isn't the dollar sign something like a Đ (like the former South Vietnamese đồng, or the totally-not-a-joke-currenc... -
The mysteries of chili heat: Why people love the painsalon.com
When eating hot peppers the difference between “just right” and “ouch” is razor-thin. Here's why -
news.ycombinator.com
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spatialities.com
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Alaska government spent nearly $28 million on database project before it was scrappedadn.com
The Alaska Department of Public Safety spent 11 years and $27.9 million trying to replace the state’s aging criminal information database before the project was abandoned, derailed by problems with funding and internal management, according to documents. -
The life, death, and rebirth of BlackBerry's hometownfusion.net
How Waterloo, Ontario survived the downfall of its crown jewel. -
gorhill/uBlockgithub.com
uBlock - µBlock - An efficient blocker for Chromium, Firefox, and Safari. Fast and lean. - cr.yp.to
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Linux Software Releases, January 2015linuxsoftnews.wordpress.com
In our connected world, the traditional UNIX privilege separation is not enough anymore. Security models are changing in order to provide a higher level of protection expected by users. We start wi... -
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