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Contribute to Osmocom 3.5G and receive a free femtocell
In 2016, Osmocom gained initial 3.5G support with osmo-iuh and the Iu interface extensions of our libmsc and OsmoSGSN coede. This means you can run your own small open source 3.5G cellular network for...
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Dragula: Drag and drop so simple it hurts
readme.markdownDrag and drop so simple it hurtsBrowser support includes every sane browser and IE7+. (Granted you polyfill the functional Array methods in ES5)Framework support includes vanilla...
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How Watership Down was written
Bustling preparations for a car journey take time: the need to check on children, belongings and provisions, to make certain of the route and the vehicle, and to calculate quite when to leave. In the...
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Show HN: Remember – A progressive Todo app
README.mdWhat is this?Remember is a progressive modern offline todo (go figure) web-app I built to learn about progressive webapps or PWA. It uses app shell architecture and IndexedDB to make the app...
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Once mocked, Facebook’s $1B acquisition of Instagram was a good move
In April of 2012, Facebook shocked the tech world when it acquired Instagram for $1 billion. At the time, the acquisition raised quite a few eyebrows, along with many more questions than answers. Not...
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On the Exponential View
The following is the text of a talk I gave in San Francisco on December 1st, 2016.The audience was readers of my newsletter, Exponential View. You can sign up here.This is a long (7,500 word)...
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CDC considers lowering threshold level for lead exposure
A general view of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia September 30, 2014. REUTERS/Tami Chappell/File Photo
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Yitang “Tom” Zhang and fame in mathematics
Yitang “Tom” Zhang spent the seven years following the completion of his Ph.D. in mathematics floating between Kentucky and Queens, working for a chain of Subway restaurants, and doing odd accounting...
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Ray-Casting Tutorial for Game Development and Other Purposes (1996)
Ray-Casting Tutorial For Game Development And Other Purposesby F. PermadiPREFACE This document explores the fundamental theory behind ray-casting, a pseudo 3-dimensional rendering technique that are...
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I’m a Bad Developer, That’s the Only Reasonable Explanation
I remember the first time I started to feel insecure as a web developer or even generally as a professional in any field. I was asked to time-track my projects down to the very last minute and every...
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U.S. Incarceration and Crime Rates Continue to Fall in Tandem
BJSThe total number of people in American prisons and jails, which peaked in 2008, fell last year by more than 2 percent after rising slightly in 2014, according to numbers released yesterday by the...
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Critiques of the DHS/FBI’s GRIZZLY STEPPE Report
On December 29th, 2016 the White House released a statement from the President of the United States (POTUS) that formally accused Russia of interfering with the US elections, amongst other activities....
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Working remotely, coworking spaces, and mental health
This should be a hard blog post to write–after all, it’s the one where I openly admit I had an emotional breakdown and saw a mental health professional–but it’s actually easy. And it’s easy because it...
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Tile38 – Realtime geofencing and geospatial index, v1.7.0
Tile38 is an open source (MIT licensed), in-memory geolocation data store, spatial index, and realtime geofence. It supports a variety of object types including lat/lon points, bounding boxes, XYZ...
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Nectar: A Native JavaScript Compiler Inspired by Crystal Lang and Nim Lang
I didn't make C, Crystal, NodeJS and Golang benchmarks (and much more I didn't post) just for fun : I'm finishing Nectar, a native cross-platform compiler for javascript/ECMAscript.Javascript is...
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ThinkPad X1 Carbon
Limits: Limit 5 per customer. Offers valid from Lenovo in Canada only. Lenovo may increase or decrease these limits, from time to time, for certain offerings.Ship date: Shipping times listed are...
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When retirement pays better than the job ever did (public employee pensions)
James Mussenden doesn’t bring up his pension in casual conversation. No point getting his golf partners’ blood boiling.The retired city manager of El Monte collects more than $216,000 a year, plus...
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The Hardware Hacker: Bunnie Huang's Tour-De-force
I've been writing about genius hardware hackers Andrew "bunnie" Huang since 2003, when MIT hung him out to dry over his book explaining how he hacked the original Xbox; the book he wrote about that...
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Latest em-drive paper – A rational discussion
Now that the EmDrive has made its way into the peer-reviewed literature, it falls in range of Tau Zero’s network of scientist reviewers. Marc Millis, former head of NASA’s Breakthrough Propulsion...
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