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Meet MUMPS, the Archaic Health-Care Programming Language That Predicted Big Datamotherboard.vice.com
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How Sleep Deprivation Decays the Mind and Bodytheatlantic.com
Getting too little sleep can have serious health consequences, including depression, weight gain, and heart disease. It is torture. I know. -
United Airlines awards hackers millions of miles for revealing risksreuters.com
United Continental Holdings Inc has awarded millions of frequent flier miles to hackers who have uncovered gaps in the carrier's web security, in a first for the U.S. airline industry.United -
Coping with context-switching madness - kreebenkreeben.tumblr.com
I’ve been a professional systems developer for 16 years now. I love it and I’m good at it. I’m currently working on two projects with two different customers. We run these projects in-house. The two companies have a systems setups that are very similar... -
The frequent fliers who flew too mucharticles.latimes.com
There are frequent fliers, and then there are people like Steven Rothstein and Jacques Vroom. Both men bought tickets that gave them unlimited first-class travel for life on American Airlines. It... -
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ankitrohatgi/WebPlotDigitizergithub.com
WebPlotDigitizer - HTML5 based online tool to extract numerical data from plot images. -
An Identity Thief Explains the Art of Emptying Your Bank Accountbloomberg.com
Meet Dmitry Naskovets, the con man from Minsk -
Three Dead Protocolsblog.annharter.com
Previously on ugh blog dot jpg etc, I went on for 1000 words about dedicated ports. The tl;dr is that dedicated ports have got RFCs associated with them abou... -
A unique Viking sword goes on display for the first time since its discoverypasthorizonspr.com
In the summer of 2011, archaeologists from the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo discovered a Viking burial ground in Langeid in Setesdal in southern Norway. In one of the graves they made the discovery of an ornate sword.… -
No Bad Thingstheparisreview.org
Growing up with obsessive-compulsive disorder.Illustration: Thomas TaitFrom the ages of twelve to fifteen, I went through an obsessive-compulsive rigmarole before bed every night. The process demanded a minimum of two hours filled with concentrated tou... -
Does one have to be a genius to do maths?terrytao.wordpress.com
Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly. (JosĂŠ Ortega y Gasset, "Notes on the nov... -
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How a Mexican Drug Cartel Makes Its Billionsnytimes.com
How the world’s most powerful drug traffickers run their billion-dollar business. -
ReWalk Robotics's New Exoskeleton Lets Paraplegic Stroll the Streets of NYCspectrum.ieee.org
Yesterday, a paralyzed man strapped on a pair of robotic legs and stepped out a hotel door in midtown Manhattan -
On Location99percentinvisible.org
So many classic movies have been made in downtown Los Angeles. Though many don't actually take place in downtown Los Angeles. L.A. has played almost every city in the world, thanks to its diverse l... -
An Unusual Tool in Hiring the Right Personnytimes.com
TWICE a year, Ronald S. Rosbruch, an insurance executive, meets with a strategic business coach to discuss methods he can put into effect to improve the profitability and productivity of his company, National Retirement Planning Associates in White Pla... -
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Viking sword unearthed complete with decorated gold pommeldailymail.co.uk
The weapon was pulled from a grave in a Viking burial ground in southern Norway by archaeologists from the Museum of Cultural History at the University of Oslo. -
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