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patft.uspto.gov
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The science behind Netflix’s first major redesign in four yearstheverge.com
Back in March, a developer named Renan Cakirerk wrote a small piece of code that made a big impact on Netflix. Cheekily named "god mode," it addressed one of the most annoying aspects of trying to... -
blog.llvm.org
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On Edgar Allan Poe by Marilynne Robinsonnybooks.com
Edgar Allan Poe was and is a turbulence, an anomaly among the major American writers of his period, an anomaly to this day. He both amazed and antagonized his contemporaries, who could not dismiss him from the first rank of writers, though many felt his... -
It appears the mystery buyer of Salesforce was Microsoft, but the talks have fizzledbusinessinsider.com
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Part 1: Designing Kitchensurfingmedium.com
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lambda-the-ultimate.org
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Why 1 in 4 Silicon Valley homebuyers want to leavecnbc.com
Talent is leaving Silicon Valley because of high real estate costs. Today, the median price for a home just exceeded $1 million. -
Smart Regulation For Smart Drugstechcrunch.com
Nootropics, smart drugs, and other biohacks are now drawing mainstream scrutiny and controversy as more and more people are using legal, off-label, and.. -
harvardmagazine.com
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What if we prescribed video games, and not Ritalin, to treat ADHD?medium.com
One in five high school boys is diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactive disorder. Here’s how gaming may change that… -
The Simple Logical Puzzle That Shows How Illogical People Are - Facts So Romantic - Nautilusnautil.us
In the 1960s, the English psychologist Peter Wason devised an experiment that would revolutionize his field. This clever puzzle, known… -
Fantasy must shake off the tyranny of the mega-noveltheguardian.com
The triumph of George RR Martin has made publishers greedy for multi-volume stories, but not all authors can write them – and why should they? -
Shellcode - Exploit Development Communityexpdev.byethost7.com
Introduction A shellcode is a piece of code which is sent as payload by an exploit, is injected in the vulnerable application and is executed. A shellcode must be position independent, i.e. it must work no matter its position in memory and shouldn’t co... -
queue.acm.org
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Time, People and Money: Exactly Why ‘Hardware is Hard’medium.com
Specifics about what it takes in time, people and money to make your first product (From “Building a Hardware Startup” P… -
github.com
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gagne.homedns.org
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Exact computation of sums and meansradfordneal.wordpress.com
A while ago, I came across a mention of the Python math.fsum function, which sums a set of floating-point values exactly, then rounds to the closest floating point value. This seemed useful. In par... -
The Ultimate Hard Drive Test: What Hard Drive is Best?backblaze.com
What hard drive is best? As of the end of Q1 2015 we had 44,252 hard drives spinning in our datacenter. Click now to see which drives performed best.