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Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type of Japanese Chalkgizmodo.com
This spring, an 80-year-old Japanese chalk company went out of business. Nobody, perhaps, was as sad to see the company go as mathematicians who had become obsessed with Hagoromo Fulltouch Chalk, the so-called “Rolls Royce of chalk.” -
When Solid State Drives are not that solidblog.algolia.com
It looked just like another page in the middle of the night. One of the servers of our search API stopped processing the indexing jobs for an unknown reason. Since we build systems in Algolia for high availability and resiliency, nothing bad was happen... -
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Dodgers Acceleratordodgersaccelerator.com
The LA Dodgers and R/GA announce a new accelerator program targeting companies with innovative products and services at the intersection of sports, technology, and entertainment. -
Buried in Jeb Bush Website, a 'Die Hard' Surprisenytimes.com
For an hour or so this afternoon, buried in the source code of Jeb Bush’s website were several paragraphs summarizing the plot of the “Die Hard” movie franchise. -
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Trigger-unhappyeconomist.com
FOR an hour or two on a foggy morning last December, some students at the University of Iowa (UI) mistook one of their professors, Serhat Tanyolacar, for a fan of... -
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mozilla/metrics-graphicsgithub.com
metrics-graphics - A library optimized for concise, principled data graphics and layouts. -
Clasp: Common Lisp using LLVM and C++ for Molecular Metaprogrammingyoutube.com
Google Tech Talk June 10, 2015 (more info - click "show more") Presented by Christian Schafmeister. ABSTRACT This talk describes our unique approach to const... -
Nothing to Hide and Nowhere to Hide It in Joshua Cohen’s Internet Novelnytimes.com
A writer finds a wider audience with “Book of Numbers,” a novel about government spying and corporate big data that bears a close resemblance to reality. -
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Why Startups Love Moleskines - The New Yorkernewyorker.com
The notion that non-digital goods have become more valuable seems to defy the disruption-worshipping narrative coming out of Silicon Valley. -
The Selfish Classlaputan.org
A code-level artifact must be able to attract programmers in order to survive and flourish. - nbviewer.ipython.org
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ZenPayroll's Engineering Principles and Valuesengineering.zenpayroll.com
Note: This is the first post of a 2-part series. As with any tech startup just getting off the ground, ZenPayroll started with a very small engineering team in 2012. Communication overhead was low and very little got in the... -
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