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With Assembly, anyone can contribute to open source software and actually get paidtheverge.com
The open-source movement has produced some of the most widely utilized software in the world, a huge economic value driven by a widely dispersed community who believe contributing good work is often its own reward. -
What Was Said at the Uber Dinnerhuffingtonpost.com
I had the pleasure of sitting one seat over from Emil Michael at the now-infamous Uber dinner in New York last week. Emil was originally seated next to me and moved over to greet Ben Smith as a guest.... -
How It Worksletsencrypt.org
Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority brought to you by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). -
IBM shares plans for supercomputing futurecomputerworld.com
IBM plans to load future supercomputers with more co-processors and accelerators to increase computing speed and power efficiency. -
Orwell and China, Nineteen Eighty-four in Chineseibisbill.wordpress.com
By Michael Rank UPDATE – Some sad news: Sun Zhongxu, a prolific translator of Orwell and other 20th century authors, has committed suicide at the age of 41. For further information, see below. UPDA... -
One Man's Quest to Build a Mind-Warping 4-D Videogame | WIREDwired.com
There's a row</span> of books on a shelf in Marc ten Bosch's living room that contains a crash course in higher dimensions. Titles like <i>Flatland. Einstein, Picasso: Space, Time and the Beauty That Causes Havoc. The Fourth Dimension and N... -
Fractal Fun: Tweet-a-Program Mandelbrot Code Challenge—Wolfram Blogblog.wolfram.com
In honor of Benoit Mandelbrot’s birthday and his contributions to mathematics, tweet us your favorite fractal-themed lines of Wolfram Language code. -
What should we learn from Shellshock? An Internet Perspective - Beyond Bandwidthblog.level3.com
The Bash vulnerability, known as Shellshock, provides an excellent opportunity to discuss some of the challenges facing the security community today. Shell -
Is There A Link Between Mental Health and Gun Violence?newyorker.com
If you want to stop gun violence, it may be better to focus on anger management or alcohol abuse than on mental health. -
Protracker module player for Web Audiomod.haxor.fi
A Protracker/Fasttracker module player in Javascript using the Web Audio API. Supports Chrome 14+ and Safari 6. -
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Representing Trees in PostgreSQLwoss.name
Today we figure out a novel approach to the materialised path pattern for representing hierarchical data in SQL. It takes advantage of PostgreSQL’s native support for array types. But it also poses a question: can we make use of ActiveRecord’s preloadi... - rfrn.org
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Time Travel Is Real. Here Are the People and Spacecraft Who Have Done It | WIREDwired.com
To get ahead in life, spend some time on the International Space Station. Why? Well, according to the theory of relativity, astronauts on the ISS age more slowly due to the spacecraft’s high orbital speed. -
Something I've been experimenting with and researching is building a desktop…plus.google.com
Something I've been experimenting with and researching is building a desktop environment based off of Google's Material Design guidelines. I've been… - Miroslav Lacina – Google+ -
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Multisig Done Right: Launching Co-Sign Pages and Multisig API (M-of-15)blog.coinkite.com
Today for the first time, anyone can create a multi-signature shared account on Coinkite! You can keep any combination of keys to yourself. We cannot access your money, and we’ve made it so you can... -
nirvdrum's Weblog :: Open Sourcing a Failed Startupnirvdrum.com
Technical articles by Kevin Menard. Topics include Ruby, Java, machine learning, and general computing. -
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