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Depression Makes Time Feel Slowermotherboard.vice.com
Examining the relationship between depression, time quantification, and time perception. -
Why Y Combinator Funded a Radical Political Party in Argentinafastcompany.com
Silicon Valley investors are betting that the ideas that turned Airbnb and Dropbox into megahits can work for social enterprises. -
Are Uber Drivers Employees? The Trial That Could Devastate the “Sharing Economy.”slate.com
Uber, you might recall, is very rich. It’s racked up billions of dollars in funding for a valuation somewhere in the realm of $40 billion. Lyft, its main rival, isn’t doing too shabbily either. Late on Wednesday, Lyft confirmed a new $530 million fundi... - arxiv.org
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Functional Heap - Leftist Treetypeocaml.com
This post presents a functional heap - leftist tree in OCaml. It walks through binary heap, list based heap towards leftist tree. OCaml code has been supplied.... -
The Heart-Stopping Climbs of Alex Honnoldnytimes.com
The master of climbing without ropes spends his life cheating death. -
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Shakespeare in Tehran by Stephen Greenblattnybooks.com
For more than four centuries now he has served as a crucial link across the boundaries that divide cultures, ideologies, religions, nations, and all the other ways in which humans define and demarcate their identities. The differences, of course, remai... -
How Apple Makes the Watchatomicdelights.com
Apple is the world's foremost manufacturer of goods. At one time, this statement had to be caged and qualified with modifiers such as "consumer goods" or "electronic goods," but last quarter, Apple shipped a Boeing 787's weight worth of iPhones ever... -
The Kleiner Perkins Lawsuit, and Rethinking the Confidence-Driven Workplacenytimes.com
Ellen Pao, testimony revealed, was coached to improve her speaking skills so as to learn to interrupt better, which raises an interesting question. -
Unprotected: Insurance failed us, now we're using crowdfunding to make them honour their promisesgoliathmustnotwin.com
Unprotected: Insurance failed us, now we're using crowdfunding to make them honour their promises -
Deep Convolutional Inverse Graphics Networkwillwhitney.github.io
A layout example that shows off a responsive product landing page. -
HGST gets closer to shipping 10TB HDD | ZDNetzdnet.com
It won't be in your laptop, but 10-terabyte hard drives will soon be in your datacenter servers. -
Paul Kalanithi, writer and neurosurgeon, dies at 37med.stanford.edu
Paul Kalanithi wrote essays for The New York Times and Stanford Medicine reflecting on being a physician and a patient, the human experience of facing death, and the joy he found despite terminal illness. -
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Why salaries don’t risewashingtonpost.com
Unemployment is down, but wages remain stagnant, which leaves the middle class stuck in neutral. -
deckar01/transcend_wifi_sd_channel_config_root.mdgist.github.com
Rooting the Transcend WiFi SD card by injecting commands into the wifi channel config - Gist is a simple way to share snippets of text and code with others. -
Los Angeles Should Be Buried - Issue 22: Slow - Nautilusnautil.us
The San Gabriel Mountains are waging war on Los Angeles and Ed Heinlein’s chainsaw is screaming in the late afternoon sun. It’s… -
robashton/crowdsourcedhomepagegithub.com
crowdsourcedhomepage - Pull requests auto-merge and auto-deploy to codeofrob.com - GO GO GO