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Apple’s IOS Defeats Android in Battle of Christmas Day Shoppingbloomberg.com
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5 insanely great books about mathematics you should read.wp.kjro.se
I've been asked over and over for good books about mathematics for a layperson, someone who hasn't taken advanced courses in university and is more simply interested in learning about what math is,... -
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The Secret Law of Page Harmony - @retinartretinart.net
A method to produce the perfect book. The perfect book. This is how designer-genius Jan Tschichold described this system. Not the ok book, nor the pretty good book, but the perfect book. This method existed long before the computer, the printing press ... -
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Sherlock Holmes Is in the Public Domain, American Judge Rulesartsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com
A federal judge issued a declarative judgment stating that Holmes, Dr. Watson and other elements contained in the stories published by Arthur Conan Doyle prior to 1923 are in the public domain in the United States. -
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Jesse Willms, the Dark Lord of the Internettheatlantic.com
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The Quantas A380 Engine Failure: The story of an ops team pulling through a crisis - mmmarkmaunder.com
As a low hours pilot I spend a lot of time reading NTSB reports and postmortems on flight incidents to try and avoid repeating the mistakes others have made or learn about how they successfully dealt with problems encountered during … Continue reading → -
FreeBSD Journal announcedfreebsdnews.net
The FreeBSD Foundation has announced that it will launch the FreeBSD Journal in January 2014. The Journal will be a bi-monthly publication and will be available on the web or as an Android/iPhone/K... - dl.dropboxusercontent.com
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Jesse Willms, the Dark Lord of the Internettheatlantic.com
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Running your JS code in Pythonblog.sheetjs.com
tl;dr: PyPI package xls (repo https://github.com/SheetJS/py-xls) I wanted to see if it was possible to run the JS XLS module from Python, partially because I needed an XLS parser in a python tool but... -
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How to be a hackertheguardian.com
When our reporter turned up for a masterclass in hacking, he was astonished how easy entry-level hacking could be. By Alex Hern -
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