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Toys (and Patient Parents) Made Me an Engineerrachelberry.me
"How'd you get into that?" "What made you decide to pick that major?" "Really? You're an engineer? You don't look like an engineer." Just a few of the various responses I get when I respond to the question, "So what... -
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en.wikipedia.org
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Improving UIBezierPath Performance and APIblog.getlooseleaf.com
I shared two weeks ago how I built the scissors feature in Loose Leaf; short story, lots and lots of UIBezierPath. As I worked through the algorithm for slicing paths together, it didn’t take me long... -
This Uncanny Valley of Voice Recognitionzachholman.com
Writings, screencasts, and talks by Zach Holman. Zach works at GitHub and enjoys consuming cherry pies. - arxiv.org
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IBM Watson now brings cognitive speech capabilities to developers - Watson Devdeveloper.ibm.com
We are pleased to take our first steps in bringing the ability to recognize speech ("Speech to Text") and produce speech ("Text to Speech") to IBM Watson developers. These services allow you to build applications that can take speech as input and retur... -
Which Companies Wasted the Most Money on Super Bowl Commercialsblog.embed.ly
Super Bowl ad spots are expensive — ranging from $20M to $135M. If an ad does well, people will talk about it, share it, and watch it online. One way to measure success is how many views videos got on... -
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news.ycombinator.com
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Filenames and Pathnames in Shell (bash, dash, ash, ksh, and so on): How to do it Correctlydwheeler.com
This article explains how to correctly handle filenames in Bourne shells (the primary shell of Unix/Linux/POSIX systems), based on the issues discussed in 'Fixing Unix/Linux/Filenames'. Many programs fail to work properly on filenames that include spac... -
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Yelp for accelerators - Accelerat.ioaccelerat.io
Accelerat.io is the Yelp for accelerators. Not all accelerators are created equal. We know Y combinator is good, but how about all those other accelerators out there? Find out on Accelerat.io! -
Nobody Understands Debtnytimes.com
Families who rely on it make themselves poorer, so isn’t that true of nations? No, it isn’t. -
Nature, Pixelated - Issue 17: Big Bangs - Nautilusnautil.us
It is winter in upstate New York, on a morning so cold the ground squeaks loudly underfoot as sharp-finned ice crystals rub together.… -
Swift 1.2 and Xcode 6.3 beta - Swift Blogdeveloper.apple.com
Get the latest news and helpful tips on the Swift programming language from the engineers who created it. -
The Startup T-Shirt Phenomenon: Branding and Conway’s Lawblog.socialrank.com
In 1967, programmer Mel Conway wrote a paper called “How Do Committees Invent?” and submitted it to the Harvard Business Review, who promptly rejected it. Luckily for us, the paper eventually ended... - aerofs.com
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