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Inside the Cosmonaut Survival Kit—Blogtheappendix.net
While NASA was developing its space ice cream and other trifles, the Soviet Union was working on a combination pistol and machete, for chopping wood and killing bears if they crash landed. - code.google.com
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Parallel In-Place Merge Sortdrdobbs.com
A very fast, parallel, simple to implement sort makes efficient use of memory. - developers.google.com
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Java on Iphone and IPadchriskohlhepp.wordpress.com
I am happy to announce that a full Java "eco system" has been ported to IOS, the operating system powering the popular IPhone and IPad platform. This includes JIT based compilation, a graphical Sw... - news.ycombinator.com
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CryptoMarketMonitor/BroadcastServergithub.com
BroadcastServer - Making cryptocurrency market data more accessible - polleverywhere.com
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Emotional Intelligence Is Overratedlinkedin.com
Not long ago, the CEO of a sales company mentioned that he was spending millions of dollars to train his employees in emotional intelligence. He asked if it was possible to assess emotional - eecg.toronto.edu
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Our First Dive Into the New Open Payments Systempropublica.org
The government's data on payments to doctors and hospitals by drug and device makers is incomplete and hard to penetrate – but here's a first look. -
How the Shinkansen bullet train made Tokyo into the monster it is todaytheguardian.com
Fifty years ago on Wednesday two Shinkansen bullet trains completed their first journeys, kickstarting a high-speed rail network that would transform Japan -
Factorli, an Early Casualty of the Las Vegas Downtown Projectrecode.net
Poof. Just like that, another empty warehouse in Downtown Las Vegas. -
Exploring the monstrous creatures at the edges of the dark matter maparstechnica.com
What if the most popular hypothesis is wrong? Plenty of fringier theories exist. - engineering.zenpayroll.com
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What the Mind of an Insect Can Teach Us About Thirstnewyorker.com
Certain fruit flies behave like people whose cravings have reached the point of obsession. “Playing with neurons has profound effects,” says one scientist. -
Multi- and conditional dispatch in traits - Baby Stepssmallcultfollowing.com
I’ve been working on a branch that implements both multidispatch (selecting the impl for a trait based on more than one input type) and …