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The Uber Bombshell About to Drop
March 14, 2017 • ∞If you’ve been following tech news over the last few weeks, youhaveprobablyseenseveralstoriesaboutUber, all negative (bar this one about flying cars). I suspect that what is coming...
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The Sandstorm Team Is Joining Cloudflare
By Kenton Varda - 13 Mar 2017Recently, we announced that Sandstorm is returning to its community roots, transitioning away from being a for-profit startup and towards being a community-effort, open...
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Introducing Create React Native App
Today we’re announcing Create React Native App: a new tool that makes it significantly easier to get started with a React Native project! It’s heavily inspired by the design of Create React App and is...
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LLVM 4.0.0
[llvm-announce] LLVM 4.0.0 ReleaseHans Wennborg via llvm-announcellvm-announce at lists.llvm.orgMon Mar 13 09:55:29 PDT 2017It is my pleasure to announce that LLVM 4 is now available. Get it here:...
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Why Do We Have Blood Types? (2014)
Listen to or download an audiobook of this story on SoundCloud and iTunes.When my parents informed me that my blood type was A+, I felt a strange sense of pride. If A+ was the top grade in school, then...
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The New Old Way of Learning Languages (2008)
Essays - Autumn 2008PrintNow all but vanished, a once-popular system of reading Greek and Latin classics could revitalize modern teaching methodsBy Ernest BlumSeptember 1, 2008In this country and...
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Index cards are pretty cool (2009)
A few sentences into this week's column, I'm going to reveal that I am obsessed with index cards, and you're probably going to mock me. That's OK; I can cope. But first let me just remind you of the...
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Reverse Engineering the Hacker News Ranking Algorithm
All data and code used in this article can be found on GitHub. If you enjoy the article then please keep me in mind for consulting on any full-stack development, scalable infrastructure, machine...
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RFC: Son (a subset of JSON for machine-to-machine communication)
README.mdA subset of JSON.JSON contains redundant syntax such as allowing both 10e2 and 10E2. This helps when writing it by hand but isn't good for machine-to-machine communication. Piping JSON...
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Why companies don't do GPL enforcement
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React VR
React VR lets you build VR apps using only JavaScript. It uses the same design as React, letting you compose a rich VR world and UI from declarative components.import React from 'react'; import...
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Lloyd Conover, Inventor of Groundbreaking Antibiotic Tetracycline, Dies at 93
Using a routine chemical procedure, he stripped chlorine from one antibiotic and inserted hydrogen, creating a more stable molecule. He worked with a single assistant. “I didn’t want an audience if we...
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HelloSign (YC W11) Is Hiring a Front End Engineer
If you want to develop new products at scale while helping us pay down technical debt, we want to hear from you. HelloSign is creating the next generation API-focused eSignature service. We are seeking...
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Some fun with π in Julia
14 Mar 2017 | Simon Byrne, Luis Benet and David SandersImage courtesy of Cormullion, code here.This post is available as a Jupyter notebook hereπ in Julia(Simon Byrne)Like most technical languages,...
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Chekhov: “Cultured people must, in my opinion, satisfy the following conditions”
In order to feel comfortable among educated people, to be at home and happy with them, one must be cultured to a certain extent. Talent has brought you into such a circle, you belong to it, but … you...
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Ask HN: Which Berkeley Courses Should I Archive?
Ask HN: Which Berkeley Courses Should I Archive?142 points by berkeleyarchive3 hours ago | hide | past | web | 42 comments | favoriteTomorrow UC Berkeley is removing all of their lecture videos from...
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A Formal Spec for GitHub Flavored Markdown
We are glad we chose Markdown as the markup language for user content at GitHub. It provides a powerful yet straightforward way for users (both technical and non-technical) to write plain text...
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Keep the Internet Open
The FCC has announced plans to roll back policies on net neutrality, and its new head has indicated he has no plan to stop soon.The internet is a public good, and I believe access should be a basic...
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Scala Native v0.1
March 14, 2017Written By: Denys ShabalinWe’re excited to announce the first release of Scala Native, an optimising ahead-of-time compiler for Scala built on top of the LLVM compiler...
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