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Before Beanegrantland.com
The origin story of AVM Systems, the little-known company that jump-started sabermetrics and made Moneyball possible. - economics.usf.edu
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Tree That Grows 40 Kinds of Fruitdevour.com
Through chip grafting, Sam Van Aken has created a tree that produces 40 different kinds of stone fruits.... -
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Fun with BPF, or, shutting down a TCP listening socket the hard waypythonsweetness.tumblr.com
For $work I recently came across a fun situation involving TCP/IP sockets that I hadn’t encountered before. In summary, an upstream service would become upset should our service accept a connection,... -
I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroupslatestarcodex.com
[Content warning: Politics, religion, social justice, spoilers for "The Secret of Father Brown". This isn't especially original to me and I don't claim anything more than to be explaining and rewor... -
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Industry, Ingenuity, and Fracture: On John McPhee - The Los...lareviewofbooks.org
THE WORLD THE WORK of John McPhee creates appears deceptively small. In January 1965, he published his first of several dozen pieces of reportage for The New Yorker, a profile of the basketball forward (and future US senator) Bill Bradley. The Bradley ... - eliterature.org
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Climate Change Seen as Top Global Threatpewglobal.org
People in many countries around the world, particularly in Latin America and Africa, list climate change as a top worry. Americans, Europeans and Middle Easterners, however, most frequently cite ISIS as their top threat. -
540M Active Plugins Makes WordPress a Billion Dollar Marketfreemius.com
Simple step-by-step calculation based on the number of active plugin installs which proves WordPress market size is at least 1 Billion Dollar. -
A guide to analyst relations for startups Craig Kerstienscraigkerstiens.com
When it comes to go to market and marketing there’s lots of pieces in a toolchest that all work together. One that comes a bit later, but if … -
In Iraq, I raided insurgents. In Virginia, the police raided me.washingtonpost.com
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Ten Little Algorithms, Part 4: Topological Sort - Jason Sachsembeddedrelated.com
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