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Ruins of forgotten empires: APL languagesscottlocklin.wordpress.com
One of the problems with modern computer technology: programmers don't learn from the great masters. There is such a thing as a Beethoven or Mozart of software design. Modern programmers seem more ... -
From 'Dropout Crisis' To Record High, Dissecting The Graduation Ratenpr.org
A lot of time, effort and money over the past decade have gone into producing a great statistic, but not without unintended consequences. -
Beat Detection Algorithms (Part 2) · Marco Ziccardimziccard.me
An advanced beat detection algorithm based on discrete wavelet transform and its Scala implementation -
How two men survived a prison where 12,000 were killed - BBC Newsbbc.com
At least 12,000 people were tortured in Cambodia's Tuol Sleng prison and then murdered. Now, two survivors return every day to remind people what happened there in the 1970s. -
After Waterblog.longreads.com
Susie Cagle | Longreads | June 2015 | 21 minutes (5,160 words) The sun was going down in East Porterville, California, diffusing gold through a thick and creamy fog, as Donna Johnson pulled ... -
Let's Encrypt Overviewcryptologie.net
What is Let's Encrypt? Basically, it's a way to get a quick x509 certificate for your server without knowing much about what is a x509 certificate: You have a website. You want people to be able to log in on it from starbucks without the guy sitting at... -
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Gawker’s Moment of Truthnytimes.com
Gawker Media, which says it’s doing fine, faces a lawsuit and is confronting the same challenges as a lot of establishment media companies. -
‘Trouble with girls?’ Female scientists mock Nobel laureate with #DistractinglySexy photoswashingtonpost.com
Female scientists were jumping on Twitter to voice their views on the controversial comments. -
The Man Who Broke Atlantic Citytheatlantic.com
Don Johnson won nearly $6 million playing blackjack in one night, single-handedly decimating the monthly revenue of Atlantic City’s Tropicana casino. Not long before that, he’d taken the Borgata for $5 million and Caesars for $4 mil... - people.csail.mit.edu
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Cutting planes with Julia and JuMPsbebo.github.io
When you need to interact with a mathematical programming solver, you have a few possible choices. I’ll briefly discuss the pros and cons of the … -
LRB · Ben Lerner · Diary: On Disliking Poetrylrb.co.uk
In ninth grade English Mrs X required us to memorise and recite a poem and so I asked the Topeka High librarian to direct me to the shortest poem she knew and she suggested Marianne Moore’s ‘Poetry’, which, in the 1967 version, reads in its entirety: I... - theburningmonk.com
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When I lost my hands making flatscreens I can't afford, nobody would help me | Rosa Morenotheguardian.com
Injured workers like me don’t ask for much of the billions these companies make off of our work. We just want enough to take care of our families -
etcd Clustering in AWS - Engineering at Monsantoengineering.monsanto.com
The engineers of Monsanto produce code that powers agricultural products that support farmers all around the world. Our goal of sustainable agriculture mirrors the way we present our ideas and code to the world. -
France Wants Google to Apply 'Right to Be Forgotten' Ruling Worldwide or Face Penaltiesbits.blogs.nytimes.com
The authorities want the ruling to apply to all of Google’s domains like Google.com, though the company contends that Europe’s privacy legislation should apply only to its regional domains. -
marklibbowlingx.github.io
A simple and fast zero-dependencies-library to transform text-selections into serializable markings.
