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Dec 20: Open-sourcing OvertureJS – the JS lib that powers FastMailblog.fastmail.com
This blog post is part of the FastMail 2014 Advent Calendar. The previous post on 19th December was about Mailr. Stay tuned for another post tomorrow. Technical level: medium Every so often we’re a... -
livecode.com
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www-groups.mcs.st-and.ac.uk
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hackerschool.com
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LRB · Richard Lloyd Parry · Advantage Pyongyanglrb.co.uk
The Choco Pie is a mouth-drying, individually wrapped slab of cake, marshmallow and chocolate, and in South Korea it is as important a part of childhood as Britain’s Mars bar or the American Twinkie. It is manufactured by the Orion company of Seoul, ex... -
dreamsongs.com
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MIT Computer Scientists Demonstrate the Hard Way That Gender Still Matters | WIREDwired.com
"Ask us anything!" we wrote for our Reddit Ask Me Anything session last Friday. And then, boom: “Why does it matter that you're female?” “Why should your gender matter if you’re talking about research?” Dozens of questions like these were interspersed ... -
Why competitions should be transparent - Zahnerblog.azahner.com
The glass and steel buildings that dominate contemporary skylines owe their silhouettes to a losing entry in a design competition that took place almost 100 years ago. How does a losing entry go on to influence an entire industry of … Continue reading → -
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A Mass Shooter’s Tragic Pastnewyorker.com
Patrick Radden Keefe on Amy Bishop, a neurobiologist with a Harvard PhD and a history of violence. -
Ancient Roman Water Networks Made the Empire Vulnerablesmithsonianmag.com
A model of ancient water movement shows how trade practices might affect today's urban centers as the climate changes -
How NASA launched its web infrastructure into the cloudgigaom.com
Among U.S. government agencies, the adoption of cloud computing hasn’t been moving full steam ahead, to say the least. Even though 2011 saw the Obama administration unveil the cloud-first initiative that called for government agencies to update their o... -
arxiv.org
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The-Compiler/qutebrowsergithub.com
qutebrowser - A keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on PyQt5 and QtWebKit. - wired.com
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He Was a Crook - by Hunter S. Thompsonm.theatlantic.com
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Goliath strikes back: Google takes legal action against Mississippi State Attorney Generaltheverge.com
Last Friday, The Verge published leaked documents revealing a secret legal campaign to discredit Google, coordinated by the MPAA on behalf of the major Hollywood studios. The documents show a... -
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Santa's real workshop: the town in China that makes the world's Christmas decorationstheguardian.com
Inside the ‘Christmas village’ of Yiwu, there’s no snow and no elves, just 600 factories that produce 60% of all the decorations in the world