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The Simple Logical Puzzle That Shows How Illogical People Are - Facts So Romantic - Nautilusnautil.us
In the 1960s, the English psychologist Peter Wason devised an experiment that would revolutionize his field. This clever puzzle, known… -
Fantasy must shake off the tyranny of the mega-noveltheguardian.com
The triumph of George RR Martin has made publishers greedy for multi-volume stories, but not all authors can write them – and why should they? -
Shellcode - Exploit Development Communityexpdev.byethost7.com
Introduction A shellcode is a piece of code which is sent as payload by an exploit, is injected in the vulnerable application and is executed. A shellcode must be position independent, i.e. it must work no matter its position in memory and shouldn’t co... - queue.acm.org
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Time, People and Money: Exactly Why ‘Hardware is Hard’medium.com
Specifics about what it takes in time, people and money to make your first product (From “Building a Hardware Startup” P… - github.com
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Exact computation of sums and meansradfordneal.wordpress.com
A while ago, I came across a mention of the Python math.fsum function, which sums a set of floating-point values exactly, then rounds to the closest floating point value. This seemed useful. In par... -
The Ultimate Hard Drive Test: What Hard Drive is Best?backblaze.com
What hard drive is best? As of the end of Q1 2015 we had 44,252 hard drives spinning in our datacenter. Click now to see which drives performed best. -
CodeConf · June 25 - 26, 2015codeconf.com
CodeConf is about improving the software community by featuring thought-provoking talks and building social connections. Join us for the third installment of the CodeConf series where we will come together to discuss open source, best practices, docume... - dmst.aueb.gr
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The Berlin Start Up Scene According To Mattermark Dataschumacher.me
By Tim Schumacher (@TimSchu)Which are really Berlin's best start ups?To find out I used Mattermark, an awesome big data tool for private companies. Just like I did a few weeks ago, when looking at my home town of Cologne, I used Mattermark to see w... - news.ycombinator.com
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‘Adult’ Dating Site Hacked, Personal Details Leakedblogs.wsj.com
Channel 4 News said it found a database of 3.9 million of AdultFriendFinder.com’s members in an online forum for hackers, including users’ sexual preferences, e-mail addresses, dates of birth and, in some cases, whether they were looking to cheat on th... - news.ycombinator.com
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mafintosh/hyperfsgithub.com
hyperfs - A content-addressable union file system build on top of fuse, hyperlog, leveldb and node - news.ycombinator.com
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Overvalued in Silicon Valley, but Don’t Say ‘Tech Bubble’nytimes.com
The tech industry’s venture capitalists admit to a certain amount of “frothiness” in start-up investments, but they studiously avoid another word. Bubble.