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The “Web Application” Mythmedium.com
The last few weeks were full of lots of great articles about an old topic: should things on the internet be dependent on… - apa.org
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Better rate limiting with Redis sorted sets | ClassDojo Engineeringengineering.classdojo.com
At ClassDojo, we’ve recently been building out our push notification infrastructure. Our plans required a rate limiter that met the following … -
Listen to Freddie Mercury and David Bowie on the Isolated Vocal Track for the Queen Hit ‘Under Pressure,’ 1981openculture.com
In the summer of 1981, the British band Queen was recording tracks for their tenth studio album, Hot Space, at Mountain Studios in Montreux, Switzerland. As it happened, David Bowie had scheduled time at the same studio to record the title song for the... -
Measles in Historysloaneletters.com
The terror of smallpox lives on in popular memory, but measles are often dismissed by many as just a childhood disease: How much harm could it really cause? And aren’t childhood diseases useful for... -
The New Age Of Platformsdigitaltonto.com
It’s easy to scoff at early adopters, but that shouldn’t blind us to new capabilities that can either propel us forward or run us over. - traviswingo.github.io
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The Rich Man's Dropout Clubchronicle.com
In 2011 the billionaire Peter Thiel picked 24 teenagers to prove you don’t need a college degree to be a success. Here’s what happened. - janka102.github.io
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The impossibility of perfect forgeries? | OUPblogblog.oup.com
Imagine that Banksy, (or J.S.G. Boggs, or some other artist whose name starts with “B”, and who is known for making fake money) creates a perfectly accurate counterfeit dollar bill – that is, he creates a piece of paper that is indistinguishable from a... -
The Dark Master of Russian Film by Gabriel Winslow-Yostnybooks.com
The wonder about late Russian filmmaker Alexei German's Hard to Be a God is not that it took so long to make, it's that it got made at all. -
Open-Source Angel Investment Templates - Bernard Leongbernardleong.com
We contribute a convertible loan sheet and share purchase agreement template similar to Y-Combinator for the Singapore entrepreneurial ecosystem. - impactjournals.com
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Box It, Bag It, Wrap It: Medieval Books on the Gomedievalbooks.nl
Books in use generally reside in our hands or on our desks. This was not very different in medieval times. However, medieval and modern reading culture take different paths when it comes to books t... - news.ycombinator.com
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