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Ghosts in the Machines: The Devices and Daring Mediums That Spoke for the Deadcollectorsweekly.com
[caption id="attachment_58284" align="alignleft" width="283"] Above: Margaret, at left, and Kate Fox, with their much-older sister, Leah, ri... -
Mathematical "urban legends"mathoverflow.net
When I was a young and impressionable graduate student at Princeton, we scared each other with the story of a Final Public Oral, where Jack Milnor was dragged in against his will to sit on a commit... -
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Virgin Galactic spaceship crashes during California test flightreuters.com
CAPE CANAVERAL Fla. (Reuters) - A suborbital passenger spaceship being developed by Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic crashed during a test flight on Friday at the Mojave Air and Space Port in California, -
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Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Crashes During Flight Test - NBC Newsnbcnews.com
Virgin Galactic said its SpaceShipTwo rocket plane suffered an "in-flight anomaly" during a powered test flight on Friday that resulted in the loss... - rdb.com
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SpaceShipTwo crashes shortly after Mojave test flight - KernGoldenEmpirekerngoldenempire.com
SpaceShipTwo, the experimental rocket plane designed to someday take tourists into space, has crashed in eastern Kern County, the CEO of the Mojave Air and Space Port has confirmed. -
The Hypercard Legacymedium.com
Apple’s forgotten software gem was a last breath for democratized computing. Can it be revived? -
Crash-Only Thinkingribbonfarm.com
A few weeks ago, I learned about something called crash-only software (ht, Robert Greco). This is software that has no normal “start” or “stop” mechanisms. It can only be stopped by crashing it. Often this means unplugging the computer physically. It -
Evolution in Action: Lizard Moving From Eggs to Live Birthnews.nationalgeographic.com
A skink species lays eggs on the coast but births babies in the mountains, giving a rare glimpse at how placentas evolved, scientists say. -
GC module - ruby (2.1.3) documentationomniref.com
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Khrushchev Visits IBM: A Strange Tale of Silicon Valley Historyfastcompany.com
When the world's most famous Communist saw one of the West's greatest capitalist enterprises, he found much to admire--in its food. -
How Long Does An ID Need To Be? — Eager Blogeager.io
When working with distributed systems, sequential IDs are not always an option. GUIDs are commonly used, but they’re unnecessarily long. How long do randomly generated IDs really need to be? - instapanel.com
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Why talent agents for engineers don't existblog.alinelerner.com
People often ask me if I'm a talent agent for engineers, in the same way that actors have talent agents in Hollywood. In a lot of ways, the way I work is closer to a talent agent than a traditional... - technotes.iangreenleaf.com
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