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I am the fifth dimension
I am the fifth dimension!Bee WilsonBuyGef! The Strange Tale of an Extra Special Talking Mongoose by Christopher Josiffe Strange Attractor, 404 pp, £15.99, April, ISBN 978 1 907222 48 1‘He does not feed...
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Writing code with multiple overlapping side effects with a straight face
On an internal C# discussion list, a topic that comes up every so often is asking about the correct interpretation of statements like a -= a *= a; p[x++] = ++x; I asked, Who writes code like that with...
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Bitcoin Fork Monitor
NO CHAIN SPLIT DETECTED.About This WebsiteWhat is this website? This website is for warning users if the Bitcoin blockchain has experienced a chain split due to the various fork proposals such as...
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NIST Random Beacon
The Beacon broadcasts full-entropy bit-strings in blocks of 512 bits every 60 seconds. Each such value is time-stamped and signed, and includes the hash of the previous value to chain the sequence of...
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Plenty, Indoor Farming Startup, Raises $200M
SoftBank Vision Fund, the huge tech-investment vehicle helmed by Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son, has led a $200 million investment into indoor farming startup Plenty.Joining Son on his trip out to...
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Google to add 'news feed' to website and app
19 July 2017From the section TechnologyThese are external links and will open in a new windowShare this with FacebookShare this with TwitterShare this with MessengerShare this with MessengerShare this...
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On Being a Science Writer and Managing a Mental Illness
To be a science writer—to generate creative ideas, meet deadlines, and turn around timely revisions—you have to have a routine. Mine starts with a dose of citalopram, a selective serotonin reuptake...
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Zesty (YC W14) is hiring software engineers
Growth-MindedWe are a San Francisco-based food-tech company tackling an important problem in an ambitious way. We need growth-minded people to help us innovate an industry that’s stuck on old...
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Unlocking the Secrets Behind the Hummingbird's Frenzy
This story appears in the July 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine.In pursuit of the world’s smallest bird, we’ve come to the backyard of a flamingo pink house in Palpite, Cuba. Ornithologist...
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Azure Stack Running in an Azure VM
With the recent release of V3 VMs on Azure, you’ve now the possibility to do Nested Hyper-V, running a VM in an Azure VM.Azure Stack Development Kit just released, it was the opportunity for me to...
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EditorConfig – file format for defining coding styles and text editor plugins
What's an EditorConfig file look like?Example fileBelow is an example .editorconfig file setting end-of-line and indentation styles for Python and JavaScript files.# EditorConfig is awesome:...
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How to Make If Statements More Understandable
Published July 21, 2017 If statements are necessary to build our code.Granted, some ifs are bad, like those that try to emulate polymorphism by testing a series of types. Those, you want to stay away...
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Lessons from the CIA’s classified guide to good writing
July 14, 2017From avoiding “pomposity” to the evils of passive voice, these tips will make that next report on regime change into your magnum opusThe CIA, like all government agencies, produces a huge...
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TheMednet (YC W17), a Stack Overflow for cancer, is hiring its first engineer
TheMednet (YC W17), a Stack Overflow for cancer, is hiring its first engineer50 minutes ago | hideAre you interested in being the first hire at a high potential startup with traction? We are a small...
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Peek Behind Bret Victor's Lab at YC HARC
Issue Number Eight: Hacks, Leaks, and BreachesNot all engineers create equally. Götz Bachmann takes us inside the labs of “radical engineers” and the starkly different futures they imagine for us.In a...
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Why isn't everything normally distributed?
Adult heights follow a Gaussian, a.k.a. normal, distribution [1]. The usual explanation is that many factors go into determining one’s height, and the net effect of many separate causes is...
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Working in a Prison Goat Milk Farm
"The goats are kind of cool," says former inmate Chad Redding. "The females are like dogs — they just want your attention." Dan Charles/NPRhide captiontoggle caption Dan Charles/NPRJim Schott had one...
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Pascal at Apple
Pascal at AppleJul 20, 2017 Lately I’ve been reading old computing papers, articles, journals, magazines, and memos and tweeting about them as I work my way through. The most recent exploration was of...
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80-year Harvard study has been showing how to live a healthy and happy life
Second in an occasional series on how Harvard researchers are tackling the problematic issues of aging.When scientists began tracking the health of 268 Harvard sophomores in 1938 during the Great...
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How Did Anyone Do Math in Roman Numerals?
Slug SignorinoHow did the Romans actually do any mathematical calculations with Roman numerals? Without the concept of places (units, tens, etc.) how did they add, subtract, multiply, divide, sell...
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