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Old Geek Jobs: fighting against ageism in the industry
I don't like reading about age discrimination. That article was the impetus I needed to create this site just now. I'm 37 and recently interviewed for a job with two early twenty-somethings. I felt I...
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Restoring YC's Xerox Alto: how our boot disk was trashed with random data
In the previous Xerox Alto restoration session, we got the disk working, but the system didn't boot. After much investigation, I discovered the explanation for the boot failure: the disk has been...
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Fire balloon
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThis article is about the Japanese World War II weapon. For the small unmanned festive hot air balloon, see sky lantern.Fire balloon 風船爆弾 (fūsen bakudan)Shot-down...
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All quiet in the IPv4 Internet?
In 2016, IPv4 exhaustion is on everyone’s lips: four out of five Regional Internet Registries have run out of freely available address space.As a result, the number of new allocations has stagnated,...
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A Pixel Artist Renounces Pixel Art (2015)
I’ve wanted to write this article for some time now, and this seems like the perfect opportunity to do so. For those of you who are aware of Dinofarm Games and our recent release, Auro for iOS and...
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The Real-Life Plan to Drain the Mediterranean and Merge Africa and Europe
An artist's rendering of what Atlantropa—a plan to partially drain the Mediterranean—might have looked like. (Photo: lttiz/CC BY 3.0)Later this year, Amazon Studios will release the much-anticipated...
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Breaking the net neutrality deadlock
September 13, 2016Stanford engineers propose a technology to break the net neutrality deadlockEngineers demonstrate how ‘network cookies’ could allow internet users to request preferential delivery...
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React Game Kit
README.md Make games with React & React Native!Installnpm install react-game-kit --saveGet Startedreact-game-kit provides a set of helper components to make it easier to create games with React...
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SolarSinter: Using Solar and Sand for 3D printing on site
Solar Sinter2011In August 2010 I took my first solar machine - the Sun-Cutter - to the Egyptian desert in a suitcase. This was a solar-powered, semi-automated low-tech laser cutter, that used the power...
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React Router v4 FAQ
Declarative routing for React.React Router keeps your UI in sync with the URL. Make the URL your first thought, not an after-thought.InstallationUsing npm:$ npm install --save react-router@nextThen...
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Why the Apple II ProDOS 2.4 Release Is the OS News of the Yea
In September of 2016, a talented programmer released his own cooked update to a major company’s legacy operating system, purely because it needed to be done. A raft of new features, wrap-in programs,...
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We Don't Get Remote Jobs. We Join Remote Teams
In recruiting and seeking remote jobs, we are often preoccupied by the jobs themselves, and fail to pay attention to the teams behind the jobs. Such disproportionate attention can not only lead to...
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The building blocks of understanding are memorization and repetition
I was a wayward kid who grew up on the literary side of life, treating math and science as if they were pustules from the plague. So it’s a little strange how I’ve ended up now—someone who dances daily...
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AngelList Braces for Rainy Days as Startup Seed Funding Falls
AngelList is preparing for winter. The company, which runs an online portal connecting entrepreneurs with private investors, is assembling a “rainy day” fund and exploring new businesses as the market...
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Tesla Wins Massive Contract to Help Power the California Grid
Tesla just won a bid to supply grid-scale power in Southern California to help prevent electricity shortages following the biggest natural gas leak in U.S. history. The Powerpacks, worth tens of...
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R for Data Science
This is the website for “R for Data Science”. This book will teach you how to do data science with R: You’ll learn how to get your data into R, get it into the most useful structure, transform it,...
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Questions to ask in your next startup interview
Leaving a company voted as one of the “Best Places to Work” is not a decision that should be taken lightly. Before I joined my first startup, I talked to all the investors and had multiple...
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The man behind the million dollar homepage 11 years later
Alex Tew isn’t really known for following the crowd. His mantra has always been to see what everyone else is focusing on and to do the opposite.In 2005, Tew was obsessed with one thing: making money,...
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BRIN Indexes in Postgres 9.5
We recently had a chance to explore one of Postgres 9.5’s new features: block range indexes.You’re probably familiar with the most common (and default) form of index, the B-tree index. B-tree indexes...
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