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The odd life of an underground orchid | EarthSky.orgearthsky.org
A strange and wonderful orchid in Western Australia lives its entire life cycle underground. -
My uBiome Sleep Hacking Updateubiomeblog.com
Richard Sprague updates uBiome readers on his sleep hacking experiments with potato starch and microbiome monitoring. Yay Richard! -
Link prefetching FAQdeveloper.mozilla.org
Link prefetching is a browser mechanism, which utilizes browser idle time to download or prefetch documents that the user might visit in the near future. A web page provides a set of prefetching hints to the browser, and after the browser is finished l... -
Interview with Go's Russ Cox and Sameer Ajmani - The PL Enthusiastpl-enthusiast.net
We interview Russ Cox and Sameer Ajmani, two CS PhDs behind Google's development of the Go programming language. -
Node.js Tools 1.0 for Visual Studio - The Visual Studio Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogsblogs.msdn.com
Visual studio, VS, Express, editor, vs editor, visual studio editor, vsx, extensibility, vs extensibility, project, vs project, visual studio project, msbuild, vs build, shell, vs shell, UI, ide, vs ide -
JSON in URLsblogs.dropbox.com
HTTP-based APIs often encode arguments as URL path and query parameters. For example, a call to the Dropbox API's filename search endpoint might look like: While URL encoding seems fine for simple examples, using JSON might have some advantages. -
The Facebook Reckoning - stratechery by Ben Thompsonstratechery.com
Facebook's offer to publications to host their content may be the sort they cannot refuse. Most simply can't compete on mobile. - arxiv.org
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We’re treating soil like dirt. It’s a fatal mistake, because all human life depends on it | George Monbiottheguardian.com
War, pestilence, even climate change, are trifles by comparison. Destroy the soil and we all starve -
Introducing Messenger Platform and Businesses on Messengerdevelopers.facebook.com
Introducing Messenger Platform and Businesses on Messenger -
NoSQL Data Modeling Techniqueshighlyscalable.wordpress.com
NoSQL databases are often compared by various non-functional criteria, such as scalability, performance, and consistency. This aspect of NoSQL is well-studied both in practice and theory because sp... -
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How Super Angel Chris Sacca Made Billions, Burned Bridges And Crafted The Best Seed Portfolio Everforbes.com
Chris Sacc a came from nowhere to assemble the greatest angel portfolio--Twitter, Uber, Instagram--in Silicon Valley history. And he's ticked off a lot of people along the way. - arxiv.org
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Purdue News - 'Virtual nose' may reduce simulator sickness in video gamespurdue.edu
Virtual reality games often cause simulator sickness – inducing vertigo and sometimes nausea - but new research findings point to a potential strategy to ease the affliction. -
Soylent 1.4: a quick reviewtheverge.com
Soylent, the nutrition powder that replaces joy with scientific optimization, is the only food in the world that I'm aware of to use software-style version numbers. It's a bit weird, but it's also... -
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Open Government Data: The Bookopengovdata.io
Principles, practices, and a history of the open government data movement. - realtime-photo.thejsj.com