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How We Come to Know Ourselves In the Age of the Quantified Selfgizmodo.com
My grandmother recently had a pacemaker implanted. Major surgery and its aftermath are frightening at any age, but for a 93-year-old and her family it is a particularly scary tightrope to walk. Had her recovery been filmed for a montage in a family dra... -
quantifind.com
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Electronic supermarket checkout terminals (1978)youtube.com
Horizon: Now The Chips Are Down First transmitted in 1978, Horizon examines the rise of the microprocessor and asks if automation presents a problem for the ... -
Project Silkhacks.mozilla.org
Editor's Note: An earlier version of this post appeared on Mason Chang's personal blog. For the past few months, I've been working on Project ... -
Getting The Band Back Together: Why The Justin.TV Mafia Returned To Y Combinatorfastcompany.com
Y Combinator helped make the guys behind the ne plus ultra of silly startup ideas rich. Now they're helping to remake the startup factory. -
mobile.nytimes.com
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Silicon Valley ageism versus the productivity of famous inventorsthomason.io
A few weeks ago I was having lunch with a friend who half-jokingly asked me if I was ready to retire yet. I half-jokingly quipped that I was well past the age of "fundable" established by Silicon ... -
The tell-tale signs of a galactic mergerspacetelescope.org
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured this striking view of spiral galaxy NGC 7714. This galaxy has drifted too close to another nearby galaxy and the dramatic interaction has twisted its spiral arms out of shape, dragged streams of material... - efekarakus.github.io
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Networks Reveal the Connections of Disease | Quanta Magazinequantamagazine.org
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How would the world change if we found extraterrestrial life?phys.org
In 1938, Orson Welles narrated a radio broadcast of 'War of the Worlds' as a series of simulated radio bulletins of what was happening in real time as Martians arrived on our home planet. The broadcast is widely remembered for creating public panic, al... -
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The surprising history of hippy crackboingboing.net
People have been having fun with nitrous oxide – even in the name of science – virtually since its discovery more than 240 years ago. -
Food & Consequences: Food for Monsters?luckypeach.com
Evidence of a world roamed by giants, found in an avocado seed. -
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kk.org
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Moving from Node.js to Go at Bowerybowery.io
Bowery is a limitless development environment. Run your application in seconds no matter the operating system, programming language, database, or other dependencies. We're dedicated to making every stack easy to use. -
people.gnome.org
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Stream processing, Event sourcing, Reactive, CEP… and making sense of it allblog.confluent.io
This is an edited transcript of a talk I gave at /dev/winter 2015. Some people call it stream processing. Others call it Event Sourcing or CQRS. Some even call it Complex Event Processing. Sometime... -
Using React.js and Application Cache for a fast, synced apptabforacause.org
In many apps at scale, the choice between fast app load and up-to-date data arises at some point, on some level. You can cache aggressively, but you’ll probably be serving stale data at some point. You can retrieve fresh data, but you’ll probably be sa...