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The Importance Of Founderstechcrunch.com
In a prior era, some considered it best practice to bring in "professional managers" to run the businesses started by creative and hard-working entrepreneurs.. -
"U Tr?": A Glossary of Abbreviations Used by Early-20th-Century Telegraph Operatorsslate.com
This list of abbreviations for telegraphic transmission, from a 1901 textbook, shows how operators increased the speed of communications by streamlining the messages they sent and received. By the time George M. Dodge published this book, telegraphy ab... -
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Alum Books Podcast: The Proof and the Puddingslice.mit.edu
Mathematicians build upon proofs in advancing their craft. So do cooks, who often use ingredients made of ingredients—ketchup, for instance, or condensed soup. For Jim Henle PhD ’76, the beauty of ... -
Rogue antimatter found in thundercloudsnature.com
Aeroplane detects signature spike in photons that does not fit any known source of antiparticles. -
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Interview with Chris Presseyesoteric.codes
Very excited to present an interview with Chris Pressey, who has been making esolangs since before esolangs had a name. He created the Befunge language (one of the very first) and managed the mailing... -
Why Billionaires Don't Pay Property Taxes in New Yorkcitylab.com
It’s the extreme end game of a tax code that shifts the burden from owners to renters, and from the wealthy to the poor. -
Ruby: The Last Eight Years | | InformITinformit.com
Hal Fulton, author of <a href="The">http://www.informit.com/store/ruby-way-solutions-and-techniques-in-ruby-programming-9780321714633">The Ruby Way</a>, points out some of the extensive changes Ruby has experienced in less than... -
"It's like an OkCupid for voting" - the Finnish election enginessnellman.net
The time I built an "OkCupid for elections" for the ex-communists. -
Poker Pros Battle Artificial Intelligence to a Statistical Drawspectrum.ieee.org
Top poker players fought a computer program to a draw despite winning slightly more chips -
'Dino-chickens' reveal how the beak was bornnature.com
Chicken embryos have been altered so that the birds grow dinosaur-like snouts. - dresden-pm.github.io
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Senate's PATENT Act is a Big Win for Startupsengine.is
Today, Sens. Grassley, Leahy, Cornyn, Schumer, Lee, Hatch and Klobuchar introduced the PATENT Act, an important piece of legislation targeting a serious patent troll problem. Engine is proud to support that bill. The PATENT Act, and the Innovation Act,... -
Dieter Rams: If I Could Do It Again, "I Would Not Want To Be A Designer"m.fastcompany.com
The lauded Braun designer reveals how architecture has influenced his work, what Apple gets right, and the kind of design he truly hates. -
BitTorrent Sync vs Dropbox – The Dafacto Blogdafacto.com
For many years, I stored the majority of my data in Dropbox. A few months ago, however, I migrated to BitTorrent Sync (BTS), and haven’t looked back. This article explains why. Synchronization of multiple folders Dropbox provides synchronization of a s... - avc.com
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Architecting Websites For The HTTP/2 Erama.ttias.be
The arrival of HTTP/2 will require a bit of re-thinking how we handle websites (and webservers). This makes it a good time to reflect on what those changes can bring. This post is based entirely on theory (the HTTP2 spec), as HTTP/2 is hard to test tod... -
Accuracy in the Palm of Your Hand : GPS Worldgpsworld.com
The smartphone antenna’s poor multipath suppression and irregular gain pattern result in large time-correlated phase errors that significantly increase the time