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The 'Deaf' Composer Who Fooled a Nationnewrepublic.com
Mamoru Samuragochi’s story hit all the right notes: a deaf genius whose music inspired a nation. But the “Japanese Beethoven” wasn’t who he seemed. -
The Doll That Helped the Soviets Beat the U.S. to Spacetheatlantic.com
Meet Ivan Ivanovich, the mannequin who beta tested space. -
alex/what-happens-whengithub.com
what-happens-when - An attempt to answer the age old interview question "What happens when you type google.com into your browser and press enter?" -
Treeline Wants To Take The Coding Out Of Building A Backendtechcrunch.com
Y Combinator-backed Treeline is trying strip the job of building a backend down to its essence: building the pipelines through which data will flow in an.. - chromium.org
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Author's Note 119: Shameless Blegginghpmor.com
So! HPMOR is ending, and there are two things I long ago decided I would do when that occurred. First, the following request: I would like any readers who think that HPMOR deserves it sufficiently... - googlefeud.com
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Product Analyst job at SmartAsset in New York, NYjobscore.com
Product Analyst open job details at SmartAsset, Product department, in New York, NY -
Early Retirement in the N.F.L. and at Google, and the Paradox of Successnytimes.com
What a retiring chief financial officer and three football players — Patrick Willis, Jason Worilds and Jake Locker — have in common. -
Introducing dnsdist: DNS, abuse- and DoS-aware query distribution for optimal performanceblog.powerdns.com
Over the years, PowerDNS users have frequently asked us about our preferred DNS load balancing solution, and we've never had a satisfying answer for that. Users of dedicated hardware often tell us ... -
Gamma Rays May Be Clue on Dark Matternytimes.com
Researchers say a newly discovered galaxy is emitting a surprising amount of gamma rays, which, if confirmed, may provide answers as to the mysterious dark matter that permeates the universe. -
Strong Mode Proposaldocs.google.com
A Strong Mode for JavaScript (Strawman proposal) Author: Andreas Rossberg rossberg@google.com Motivation If it is too strong, then you are too weak. With the adv... - sutrotower.org
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OpenSSL Auditcryptoservices.github.io
Cryptography Services is a dedicated team of consultants from iSEC Partners, Matasano, Intrepidus Group, and NCC Group focused on cryptographic security assessments, protocol and design reviews, and tracking impactful developments in the space of aca... -
The Rise and Fall of the 'Wilhelm Scream'priceonomics.com
Used in everything from Star Wars to Grand Theft Auto, the ‘Wilhelm Scream’ is the not-so-inside joke of Hollywood’s sound effects producers. -
Big, Bent Earsbigbentears.theparisreview.org
“Big, Bent Ears: A Serial in Documentary Uncertainty” | Our friends at The Paris Review have invited us to expose our methods in a series of documentary pieces over the next several months—in effect serializing our uncertainty. We’ll offer combina -
YC-Backed Notable Labs Provides Personalized Medical Testing For Brain Cancer Patientstechcrunch.com
Matt de Silva was working as a hedge fund manager with Thiel Capital in the fall of 2013 when he got the news that his dad had brain cancer -- specifically, a.. -
About Us - Future NYTfuturenytimes.org
When I came to The Times in 2012, I felt that it was a newspaper that had a strong digital element. Now, I feel like it’s actually a digital media … - pubs.acs.org
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