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How Keeping Quiet Saved Our Startup $225Ktechcrunch.com
Most startup founders don’t think of themselves as master negotiators and struggle to come up with the right things to say in crucial moments. These moments.. -
Does All Wine Taste the Same? - The New Yorkernewyorker.com
Editors’ Note: Portions of this post appeared in similar form in an April, 2011, post by Jonah Lehrer for Wired.com. We regret the duplication of material. On May 24, 1976, the British wine merchant Steven Spurrier organized a blind tasting of French ... -
That Debt From 1720? Britain’s Payment Is Comingnytimes.com
Prompted by record low interest rates, the British government is planning to pay off debts it racked up over hundreds of years. -
Prying Eyes: Inside the NSA's War on Internet Security - SPIEGEL ONLINEspon.de
US and British intelligence agencies undertake every effort imaginable to crack all types of encrypted Internet communication. The cloud, it seems, is full of holes. The good news: New Snowden documents show that some forms of encryption still cause pr... -
A tale of two's complementdiscuss.rust-lang.org
There has been a lot of discussion about Rust's integral types, and in particular a lot of questions about what type to use for integer fallback and what to call the "pointer-sized" integer type. We (the core team) have been reading these threads and h... - federalreserve.gov
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prakhar1989/awesome-coursesgithub.com
awesome-courses - List of awesome university courses for learning Computer Science! -
my OpenBSD story - blather.michaelwlucas.comblather.michaelwlucas.com
The folks at undeadly.org have started posting “how I discovered OpenBSD” stories. This isn’t a story of how I discovered OpenBSD, but rather why I like it. Before you ask, I don’t have similar stories about any other operating system, not even any oth... -
Keeping the Pirates at Baygamasutra.com
Beyond giving developers a feeling of violation over having their hard work pillaged and disturbed illegally, piracy exacts a steep toll on the entire game industry. Insomniac's Gavin Dodd takes you inside the minds of game crackers and describes how I... -
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Sysdig Cloud - The Fascinating World of Linux System Callssysdigcloud.com
Let’s talk about system calls. Simply put, system calls are the primary way that programs interface with the operating system. I would go as far as to say that a basic understanding of system calls is a requirement for any serious Linux user. The syste... -
Scientific method: Defend the integrity of physicsnature.com
Attempts to exempt speculative theories of the Universe from experimental verification undermine science, argue George Ellis and Joe Silk. -
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mikolalysenko/functional-red-black-treegithub.com
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Make Santa Jump - Making an endless runner game in F# using MonoGametimjones.tw
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The Synapse Memory Doctrine Threatened? - Neuroskepticblogs.discovermagazine.com
In a provocative new paper, a group of UCLA biologists say that the leading theory for how memory is stored in the brain needs a rethink. But is it really time to throw out the textbooks? In their study, published in Elife, authors Shanping Chen, Dianc...
