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The Kitchen Bladesmith - Craftsmanship Magazinecraftsmanship.net
Profile of Bob Kramer, a master knife-maker, and his idiosyncratic pursuit of perfection in a field dominated by larger manufacturers. -
Why cable stocks surged after the FCC’s net neutrality proposalwashingtonpost.com
The draft rules were far more aggressive than anyone could've predicted a year ago. So why are Internet providers rallying on Wall Street? -
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Your First Unit Tests With PHPUnittaha-sh.com
In the previous lesson, we learned the basic concepts of testing in general, and then we looked at the various... -
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Inside the Chinese Bitcoin Mine That's Making $1.5M a Monthmotherboard.vice.com
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Firefox’s adoption of closed-source DRM breaks my hearttheguardian.com
I understand the pressure to support commercial video – but the browser makers can do more to defend free and open software. By Cory Doctorow -
The Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered, and It Is Not What You Thinkhuffingtonpost.com
New evidence about addiction isn't just a challenge to us politically. It doesn't just force us to change our minds. It forces us to change our hearts.... -
A/B testing long-form readability - Gwern.netgwern.net
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Why are we obsessed with the Nazis?theguardian.com
The Nazis still have a strong hold on us – in daily news stories, in bookshops and cinemas, even on the streets of Europe. Does it exert such a grip because it represents racism in its most extreme form? -
A Glimpse Inside the Hidden Vault Where Harvard Keeps Millions of Booksgizmodo.com
Harvard's flagship library, Widener, is an imposing granite cube built quite literally as shrine to the book. A central alcove cuts through the stacks to show off a prized relic: an original Gutenberg bible. But this is not the heart of Harvard's libra... -
Feynman Lectures on Computationbooks.google.com
When, in 198486, Richard P. Feynman gave his famous course on computation at the California Institute of Technology, he asked Tony Hey to adapt his lecture notes into a book. Although led by Feynman, the course also featured, as occasional guest speak... -
Wings of steeleconomist.com
A LOT of tosh is talked about “nanotechnology”, much of it designed to separate unwary investors from their hard-earned cash. This does not mean, though, that... - bashrcgenerator.com
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For Preventing Disease, Data Are the New Drugs - Issue 21: Information - Nautilusnautil.us
A few key data points about Amelia Sloan: She likes to suck her own toes. She wears pink tutus. She doesn’t do interviews with journalists.… -
100 Must-Read Articles on Testing and Optimization from 2014 - Brooks Bellbrooksbell.com
Every week we round up five of our favorite testing and optimization posts from around the web. Looking back over all the Top 5’s of 2014, we noticed a few trends. Inspired by this, we’ve collected 100 of our favorite articles and organized them around... -
Learning to love the command lineblog.expertinamonth.com
If you are trying to learn programming, then you MUST learn the command line. It’s unbelievable how many “professional programmers” struggle with the most basic of command line tasks. In fact, I often... -
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