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Can’t You Just Turn Up the Volume?medium.com
Back when Alex and I were first pitching SoundFocus as an app that helped people with hearing loss, this was… -
Module clean up ideas for the CPAN Pull Request Challengecodeaffe.de
At the end of 2014 I signed up for the CPAN Pull Request Challenge; a brilliant idea of Neil Bower’s to clean up CPAN modules in need of a bit of “tender loving care” and to motivate new and not-so-new Perl developers get involved in the maintenance of... -
New Stanford course brings Silicon Valley to the humanities classroomnews.stanford.edu
Students from computer science and the humanities join forces to create literary websites and mobile apps, combining their strengths to launch literature into the 21st century. - arxiv.org
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World’s cartoonists respond to the attack on ‘Charlie Hebdo’blogs.reuters.com
The outpouring in reaction to the killing of 12 in an attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris -- known for its cartoons that took on politicians and religious figures, including the Prophet Mohammad -- was spontaneous and pointed. -
The Colombian army sent a hidden message to hostages inside a pop songtheverge.com
To reach hostages held deep in the Colombian jungle, the Colombian army turned to an ad man and wrote a pop song - youtube.com
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Less than Zeromedium.com
Facebook, Google and Twitter love the idea of that their services should be exempt from data charges. You should hate it… -
Hacking GMail to use custom domains for free | Simply Ian...simplyian.com
The musings of a young software engineer - marioferreirainenglish.wordpress.com
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What Do We Give Up When We Become Freedom-Seeking Entrepreneurs? A Lot, Actually.nymag.com
The cubicle may be cozier, and more creativity inducing, than we think. - turbolent.com
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Mapping the World - Airbnb Engineeringnerds.airbnb.com
People are always surprised when I tell them about Zack Walker, Airbnb’s in-house cartographer, who works on mapping the world. They say, “the world is already mapped! There’s Google Maps, Foursquare, Yelp, Garmin, National Geographic, Zheng He, Isabel... -
Bacteria ‘factories’ churn out valuable chemicalsnews.harvard.edu
A team of researchers led by Harvard geneticist George Church at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and Harvard Medical School has made big strides toward a future in which the predominant chemical factories of the world are colon... - swannodette.github.io
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