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talks.golang.org
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Bomb Sight - Mapping the London Blitzbombsight.org
Explore the London Blitz through our website. Discover London during WW2 bombing raids, exploring maps, images and memories. The Bomb Sight web map and mobile app reveals WW2 bomb census maps between 7/10/1940 and 06/06/1941, previously available only ... -
Why Facebook, Google And Yahoo Security Pros Are Furious About Exploit Export Rulesforbes.com
US plans to control exports of hacker tools causes a furore amongst security researchers, who fear for the future of their profession. Even engineers and execs from Facebook, Google and Yahoo have given their backing and voiced their dissent at the pro... -
Solitude and Sandaya: The Strange History of Pianos in Burma—Vol. 1, No. 3theappendix.net
When Aung San Suu Kyi was Myanmar’s most famous prisoner of conscience, foreign media were taken by the image of her playing piano in captivity. The piano she played, however, was just as captive as she was: a rich tradition of Burmese music that had t... -
Loaded with lead: How gun ranges poison workers and shootersprojects.seattletimes.com
Lead poisoning is a major threat at America's shooting ranges, perpetuated by owners who've repeatedly violated laws even after workers have fallen ill. -
inf.usi.ch
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Don't Write Off Paper Just Yetnpr.org
In today's digital age it's easy to forget about paper, but as one paper pusher says, "a paperless society is about as plausible as a paperless bathroom." -
Atomic: Interface design software for professionalsatomic.io
Atomic is professional software for digital designers, featuring tools for interface design, prototyping, version control and collaboration. -
dataisnature.com
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MAME and the New Emulation Realityascii.textfiles.com
I'm sorry all my weblog entries seem to be variations of emulation, Internet Archive, Archive Team and Vintage Computing, but that's kind of all my life is right now anyway. (I'm also editing docum... -
Go Is Unapologetically Flawed, Here's Why We Use Itbravenewgeek.com
Go is decidedly polarizing. While many are touting their transition to Go, it has become equally fashionable to criticize and mock the language. As Bjarne Stroustrup so eloquently put it, "There ar... -
Mobile app startups are failing like it's 1999andrewchen.co
Stop the madness The long cycle times for developing mobile apps have led to startup failures that look more like 1999 – it’s like we’ve forgotten all the agile and rapid iteration stuff that we learned over the last 10 years. Stop the madness! Today, ... - mcclatchydc.com
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Obama Urges Lawmakers to Pass NSA Surveillance Billwsj.com
President Barack Obama, facing the expiration of certain government spying and surveillance capabilities, urged lawmakers to pass legislation by Sunday to keep the programs from shutting down at the end of this week. - strangelyconsistent.org
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Dynamic Distributed Systems in Javadrdobbs.com
Phil examines dynamic distributed Java programming techniques by presenting "Sojourner," a load-balancing system that uses Voyager distributed computing infrastructure from Objectspace. -
Stitch Fix Technologytechnology.stitchfix.com
Stitch Fix is a full-stack startup creating unique solutions in data-driven merchandising, massively scaled personal styling, and complex logistics. -
Models for adaptive arithmetic codingfgiesen.wordpress.com
My colleague Charles Bloom recently announced Oodle LZNA (a new compressor for RAD's Oodle compression library), which usually beats LZMA on compression while being much faster to decode. The major...