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Archivists Find Fragments of an Unfinished Orson Welles Autobiographynytimes.com
With the working title “Confessions of a One-Man Band,” the unfinished memoir appears to have been in the works since the 1970s. -
Bernini: He Had the Touch by Ingrid D. Rowlandnybooks.com
The world into which Gian Lorenzo Bernini brought his glorious visions was a harsh, violent world—to whose violence he had made his own contribution—but the effect of his work has been to bring people together, not only in his own time and place, but a... - research.microsoft.com
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The Caveman’s Home Was Not a Cave - Issue 24: Error - Nautilusnautil.us
It was the 18th-century scientist Carolus Linnaeus that laid the foundations for modern biological taxonomy. It was also Linnaeus… -
Yandex Pushes Privacy With Beta Release Of Its Minimalist Browsertechcrunch.com
Russia's Yandex has added a suite of new privacy centric features to an experimental browser it unveiled last year, as well as now switching the software from.. -
Curve Parameterization For Mere Mortalssidewindiegames.com
In our previous article we have seen how to define and use curves to create paths. A curve is a smooth parametric function defined as : $latex \phi(t) : [0,1] \to \mathbb{R}^3 $ Suppose that we wan... -
The Unbalanced Negative Externalities of Cybersecurity | The Security Ledgersecurityledger.com
The Internet could benefit from a public health model for combatting threats - even moreso with the Internet of Things, says Symantec CTO Amit -
Glowforge: From 'Robot Turtles' to Actual Lasers - GeekDadgeekdad.com
Dan Shapiro created a programming-based board game for kids that involved turtles with lasers. Now he wants to sell you real lasers. Continue reading → -
The curiously ordinary desire of Tim Schaferpolygon.com
One of the world's most successful game developers is missing something: a really big hit. -
Shopify shares soar in debut, close 51% higher in New Yorktheglobeandmail.com
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Database Scaling Redefined: Scaling Demanding Queries, High Velocity Data Modifications and Fast Indexing All At Once for Big Data - High Scalability -highscalability.com
This is a guest post by Cihan Biyikoglu , Director of Product Management at Couchbase . Ques... -
Two commutes with Rust — Matt Godbolt’s blogxania.org
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When everything you know is wrong, part twoericlippert.com
Now that we've looked at a bunch of myths about when finalizers are required to run, let's consider when they are required to not run: Myth: Keeping a reference to an object in a variable prevents ... -
Make mainframes, not war: how Mad Men sold computers in the 1960s and 1970sarstechnica.com
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RabidAudio | The War of the Rootrabid.audio
A year ago this month, it was announced that the US would be transferring control of the DNS Root Zone. As of writing, it is still to be determined who that ... -
PhD: is the doctoral thesis obsolete?timeshighereducation.co.uk
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User stories on steroids – how Estimote uses “blog post driven development”blog.estimote.com
Planning and defining the work of an SDK team is a special challenge in software development. Such teams don’t always have “visible” deliverables in the same way a web or app team do. The team’s work...