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YC-Backed BuildScience’s Platform Ties Hardware Systems Together In Big Office Buildingstechcrunch.com
Google's $3 billion acquisition of Nest made it clear that Internet-connected hardware in the home was a big opportunity. But what about the commercial.. -
Cell Phone Records Can Show Where You Sleep and Where You Prayaclu.org
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has become the latest federal appeals court to consider the question of whether law enforcement needs a warrant before it obtains cell phone location data. We have (with allies) filed an amicus brief in this case, as ... -
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How PlayFab migrated from EC2-Classic to VPC with zero downtime | PlayFabplayfab.com
At PlayFab, one of our core tenets is no downtime. This makes challenges like the recent overhaul of our AWS topology particularly interesting. When you’re a backend-as-a-service, you can’t just turn everything off for six hours. (Or six minutes.) This... -
Lessons from Launching a Data Productblog.socialrank.com
Over one month ago, we launched a product called the SocialRank Index. The Index tracks the Twitter activity of the world’s biggest brands, and our goal with it is to build a tool that monitors the... -
Wildbit Blog. » Wildbit HQ: Ending the open office epidemic - Thoughts on building web apps, business, and virtual teamswildbit.com
Wildbit create web products such as Beanstalk and Newsberry to help business collaborate and communicate more effectively. - iswhale.com
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What’s the Hardest Shot in Bowling? It’s Not the 7-10 Split.slate.com
At a crucial moment in the classic bowling comedy Kingpin, Woody Harrelson’s character, Roy Munson, stares down a 7-10 split. “The dreaded 7-10 split,” an announcer intones. “In bowling there are 1,022 spare leads. And this, the 7-10, is by far the mos... -
What a Handshake Smells Liketheatlantic.com
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Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides For 80 Yearsnpr.org
The insect is so large — as big as a human hand — it's been dubbed a "tree lobster." It was thought to be extinct, but some enterprising entomologists scoured a barren hunk of rock in the middle of the ocean and found surviving Lord Howe Island stick i... -
The big-data successor of the spreadsheetmedium.com
What could the big data successor of the spreadsheet look like? - danielrapp.github.io
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Drawing Lines is Hard • Matt DesLauriersmattdesl.svbtle.com
Twitter: @mattdesl Drawing lines might not sound like rocket science, but it’s damn difficult to do well in OpenGL, particularly WebGL. Here I explore a few different techniques for 2D and 3D line rendering, and accompany each with a small canvas... | ... -
Strange Stars Pulse to the Golden Mean | Quanta Magazinequantamagazine.org
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The World’s Weirdest Librarynewyorker.com
The Warburg Institute was created by a half-mad visionary. Is it too strange to survive? -
The economy of weirdnessmeteuphoric.wordpress.com
It is often said that you should spend your weirdness budget wisely. You should wear a gender-appropriate suit, and follow culture-appropriate sports, and use good grammar, and be non-specifically ...
