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Shopify shares soar in debut, close 51% higher in New Yorktheglobeandmail.com
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Database Scaling Redefined: Scaling Demanding Queries, High Velocity Data Modifications and Fast Indexing All At Once for Big Data - High Scalability -highscalability.com
This is a guest post by Cihan Biyikoglu , Director of Product Management at Couchbase . Ques... -
Two commutes with Rust — Matt Godbolt’s blogxania.org
Note and thoughts on Rust, having spent a couple of commutes playing with it -
When everything you know is wrong, part twoericlippert.com
Now that we've looked at a bunch of myths about when finalizers are required to run, let's consider when they are required to not run: Myth: Keeping a reference to an object in a variable prevents ... -
Make mainframes, not war: how Mad Men sold computers in the 1960s and 1970sarstechnica.com
Celebs, comics, and—at times—computing itself helped sell the young technology. -
RabidAudio | The War of the Rootrabid.audio
A year ago this month, it was announced that the US would be transferring control of the DNS Root Zone. As of writing, it is still to be determined who that ... -
PhD: is the doctoral thesis obsolete?timeshighereducation.co.uk
Should the foundations of a 21st-century academic career still be built on the traditional model? -
User stories on steroids – how Estimote uses “blog post driven development”blog.estimote.com
Planning and defining the work of an SDK team is a special challenge in software development. Such teams don’t always have “visible” deliverables in the same way a web or app team do. The team’s work... -
The Disappearing Colorado Rivernewyorker.com
It’s the most important river in the West—and it exemplifies everything wrong with water use in America. -
How to Build a Fake Ancient City in Just 5 Yearsatlasobscura.com
For the last five years, the Balkan nation of Macedonia has been involved in one of the more improbable public works projects around, filling the streets of... -
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The Surprisingly Complicated Physics Of A Light Bulbforbes.com
Knowledge of quantum physics brings a sense of wonder to the operation of even something as simple as an incandescent light bulb. -
The doomsday vault: the seeds that could save a post-apocalyptic world | Suzanne Goldenbergtheguardian.com
The long read: Set in an Arctic mountainside, the Svalbard seed bank contains the world’s most prized crops. But a row has erupted over whether this is the best hope of feeding the world after a catastrophe or just an overpriced deep freeze - jbonneau.com
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Wrong notes and syntax errors: The joy of improv in music and codeboingboing.net
What can thinking like musicians teach us about game-making? -
The rocket-powered story of the ejector seatbbc.com
With a bang and a roar, ejector seats in planes have saved thousands of lives. Paul Marks charts their remarkable development. - inlinehq.com
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No more dieting, and 7 other things we do differently after reporting on health carevox.com
What two Vox reporters have learned from a combined decade of writing about health. -
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