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The Bull Case for Snapchat
Before I make a product-driven case for Snap Inc. achieving a $100 billion market cap by 2020, I should note that I’ve been a Snapchat bear for much of the company’s existence. That guy at the water...
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Drawing Lines is Hard (2015)
March 9, 2015Twitter: @mattdeslDrawing lines might not sound like rocket science, but it’s damn difficult to do well in OpenGL, particularly WebGL. Here I explore a few different techniques for 2D and...
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Dole Food Had Too Many Shares
In 2013, tropical-fruit tycoon David Murdock, who was the chairman, chief executive officer and biggest shareholder of Dole Food Co., took it private for $13.50 a share. A lot of shareholders felt that...
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Industrial Revolution Comparisons Aren't Comforting
“Why should it be different this time?” That’s the most common response I hear when I raise concerns about automation and the future of jobs, and it’s a pretty simple rejoinder. The Western world...
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Theranos might be on life support
It probably comes as no surprise Theranos, the blood testing technology company once worth billions, is struggling to survive. A new report from the Wall Street Journal says the company had just $200...
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Oldskool Demo on a 7 Segment Display
Or an 840 Segment display (960 if you count the decimal point)Now, I wonder if I can get an old calculator to play the accompanying 4 track MOD?What’s going on here then?It all started with an eBay...
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Important Announcement: Zerocoin implementation bug
Yesterday, our team found a bug in our implementation of Zerocoin. A typographical error on a single additional character in code allowed an attacker to create Zerocoin spend transactions without a...
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Google Spreadsheets and Python
This post is inspired by Patrick McKenzie’s reminder that sometimes you don’t need a database: So if you’re building out a quick CRUD app for e.g. internal use, Google Docs as a backend (consumed via...
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A.I. Duet: A piano that responds to you
This experiment lets you play a duet with the computer. Just play some notes, and the computer will respond to your melody. You don’t even have to know how to play piano—it’s fun to just press some...
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GM to build, test thousands of self-driving Bolts in 2018
FILE PHOTO -- General Motors Chairman and CEO Mary Barra announces that Chevrolet will begin testing a fleet of Bolt autonomous vehicles in Michigan during a news conference in Detroit, Michigan,...
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Loom: How Brian Moriarty Proved That Less Is Sometimes More
In April of 1988, Brian Moriarty of Infocom flew from the East Coast to the West to attend the first ever Computer Game Developers Conference. Hard-pressed from below by the slowing sales of their text...
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A simple flyback converter high voltage power supply for NIXIE tubes
Flyback Converters for DummiesA simple flyback converter high voltage power supply for NIXIE tubes. Ronald DekkerSpecial thanks to Frans Schoofs, who really understands how flyback converters...
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Bias in the ER
The dazed young woman who arrived at Sunnybrook Hospital, Canada’s first and largest regional trauma center, from a head-on car crash presented the surgeons treating her with a disturbing problem. In...
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SpaceX: CRS-10 Hosted webcast
SpaceX is targeting a late morning launch of its tenth Commercial Resupply Services mission (CRS-10) from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The instantaneous launch...
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Run Your Business Like a Drug Lord (2015)
Drug dealers may be criminals, but they are also savvy business people. What legal lessons can you learn from their tactics?Narcos is a new Netflix series about drug kingpin Pablo Escobar and the...
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Show HN: PJON – Digital communication framework for IOT
README.mdPJON™ (Padded Jittering Operative Network) is an Arduino compatible, multi-master, multi-media communications bus system. It proposes a Standard, it is designed as a framework and implements...
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Show HN: Simple message builder for Alexa Skills using Node.js
README.mdSimple message builder for Alexa response.InstallationAlexa Message Builder is available as a node module on NPM.Install it by running:npm install alexa-message-builder --saveUsageAfter...
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Dynamic Programming in Python: Bayesian Blocks (2012)
Of all the programming styles I have learned,dynamic programming is perhaps the most beautiful. It can take problems that, at first glance, look ugly and intractable, and solve the problem with clean,...
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Publing – A Social Media Display for Businesses
Collect all content related to your business and display it on many different screens.SEE IT IN ACTIONHOW IT WORKS Publing collects social media posts from different sources and shows them on many...
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