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ken (Ken Thompson)
Follow ken on GitHub and watch them build beautiful projects.
github.com
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11 years ago
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Twitter is Tracking Users’ Installed Apps For Ad Targeting
Twitter is now collecting information about the apps installed on users’ devices in order to better target and tailor advertising and other content to them.
blogs.wsj.com
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11 years ago
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sendto.mozilla.org
sendto.mozilla.org
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11 years ago
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Why the U.S. Military Is Into Bee Brain Surgery - Issue 11: Light - Nautilus
A surgeon wielding a micro-scalpel cuts through the head capsule of her subject, the nocturnal sweat bee Megalopta genalis, in a lab…
nautil.us
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11 years ago
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Virginia Woolf Goes to the Movies
A meditation on film and reality
newrepublic.com
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11 years ago
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Wikipedia’s ‘complicated’ relationship with net neutrality
And what it says about attempts by telecom companies to exempt apps and services from your monthly data cap.
washingtonpost.com
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11 years ago
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Monty Hall, Erdos, and Our Limited Minds | WIRED
The Monty Hall problem is a rare mathematical problem that confounds our intuition is a most vexing way, even for probabilistic experts.
wired.com
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11 years ago
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DNA Can Survive Reentry from Space
Genetic blueprints attached to a rocket survived a short spaceflight and later passed on their biological instructions
scientificamerican.com
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11 years ago
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Seven Molecules’ Claim to Fame - Issue 5: Fame - Nautilus
From drinking water to DNA, from caffeine to carbon dioxide, and from Lipitor to Viagra—that is from atorvastatin to sildenafil…
nautil.us
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11 years ago
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Tech Toys That Can Make the Video Screen Passé
Toys will soon be able to be controlled and updated through an Internet connection, and that may forever alter how we think about play.
nytimes.com
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11 years ago
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A eulogy for RadioShack, a strange strip-mall monster from a forgotten age.
This may very well be RadioShack's final holiday season. Jon, a former employee, looks back on a strange, craven, five thousand-fingered strip-mall monster from a forgotten age.
sbnation.com
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11 years ago
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Practice mental arithmetic online. No ads and no charge.
Practice mental arithmetic online. No ads and no charge. http://mental-math-trainer.com
mental-math-trainer.com
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11 years ago
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We Don’t Eat It Here - The Morning News
An editor telephones complete strangers outside the US, asking them to describe a typical Thanksgiving.
themorningnews.org
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11 years ago
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Continuing the Phone Metadata Program Without Congress: Three Options
webpolicy.org
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11 years ago
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Expiry.io • Reduce your churn rate by avoiding failed payments on Stripe
expiry.io
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11 years ago
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Coding Relic: The Six Million Dollar LibC
codingrelic.geekhold.com
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11 years ago
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ACM Classic: Reflections on Trusting Trust
cm.bell-labs.com
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11 years ago
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Scale Model WWII Craft Takes Flight With Fuel From the Sea Concept - U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Navy researchers demonstrate proof-of-concept in first flight of an internal combustion powered model aircraft fueled by a novel gas-to-liquid process that uses seawater as carbon feedstock.
nrl.navy.mil
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11 years ago
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Publishing: The peer-review scam
When a handful of authors were caught reviewing their own papers, it exposed weaknesses in modern publishing systems. Editors are trying to plug the holes.
nature.com
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11 years ago
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RadPad Blog: Renting a 1-bedroom apartment near BART in San Francisco
blog.onradpad.com
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11 years ago
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