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Shop Walmart and more of your favorite stores, faster
Shopping isn't always as easy as it should be. When was the last time you needed to pick up something from the store but didn’t have the time to make the trip? Or you went to the store only to realize...
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The Enduring Legacy of Zork
Forty years after the creation of Zork, the text-adventure computer game continues to entertain players and influence technologists.COURTESY OF MIKE DORNBROOKIn 1977, four recent MIT graduates who’d...
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Node.js is forked to Ayo.js (pronounced like “IO”)
README.md(Note: Ayo.js is forked from Node.js. Currently, a lot of the documentation still points towards the Node.js repository.)Ayo.js is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine....
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A ship that flips 90 degrees for precise scientific measurements
The United States research fleet is made up of dozens of vessels, large and small, that take scientists out to sea to collect data on the ocean and climate and marine life, and most of them look like...
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Psilocybin-assisted group therapy for demoralization in long-term AIDS survivors
The study team should get back to you in a few business days.You will also receive an email with next steps. Check your junk/spam folder if needed.If you do not hear from the study team, please call...
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A Striking Rise in Serious Allergy Cases
The rate of reports of severe allergic reactions to foods like peanuts has increased by nearly five times over the past decade, according to a new analysis of private insurance claims.The analysis...
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Atom uses nearly 1GB of RAM to open a 6MB file
Vim is my default editor. There’s no particular reason for this, except that I ended up learning it when I moved over to Linux many years ago. I ended up liking it because I could edit my small source...
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The Management Fix That Made Firefox Faster
How do employers motivate workers to do the unglamorous tasks that keep companies running?Mozilla Corp., maker of the Firefox web browser, faced that question last year when it weighed how to fix the...
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The Dark Side of Resilience
Executive SummaryThere is no doubt that resilience is a useful and highly-adaptive trait, especially in the face of traumatic events. However, it can be taken too far. For example, too much resilience...
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Kim Wall: Headless body identified as missing journalist
Image copyrightTom WallImage caption Kim Wall was researching a feature about submarines before she disappearedA headless torso found in waters off Denmark has been identified as missing Swedish...
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Kick Start a JavaScript GraphQL 3 Layers API with Apollo-Server, Dataloader and Knex (comments) A history of branch prediction from 1500000 BC to 1995 (comments) Companies from Y Combinator’s Summer...
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Kick Start a JavaScript GraphQL 3 Layers API with Apollo-Server, Dataloader...
Prerequisites (~12min)Have Yarn installed (~5min)Have Docker and Docker-compose installed (~5min)Have Postman installed (~2min)ThanksThanks to Tycho Tatitscheff and Yann Leflour for helping me with...
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Whalesong: a Racket to JavaScript compiler
Version: 5.2.1Danny Yoo <dyoo@hashcollision.org>Source code can be found at:https://github.com/dyoo/whalesong. The latest version of this document lives in...
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FTC Approves of Amazon and Whole Foods Deal
Bruce Hoffman, the Acting Director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition, issued this statement on the Commission’s decision not to further pursue an investigation of Amazon.com,...
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ThoughtWorks has been sold to private equity
ThoughtWorks, my employer, had some big news to share today. Our founder and owner, Roy Singham, has decided to sell ThoughtWorks to Apax Funds - a private equity firm based in London. Apax wishes the...
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New and improved bike routing, with low stress options
Bicyclists ride to commute, to exercise, for sport, for leisure. But no matter the reason, most cyclists will ride on the road at some point, and when they do, they’ll think about the safety and...
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Exploit broker Zerodium ups the ante with $500k to target Signal and WhatsApp
In a sign of the soaring demand for zeroday attacks that target software that's becoming increasingly secure, a market-leading broker is offering serious cash for weaponized exploits that work against...
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Universities are broke – let’s cut the pointless admin and get back to teaching
As students have been celebrating their exam results, pundits from across the political spectrum have been commiserating the state of British universities. Andrew Adonis, an education minister during...
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How are PCA and SVD related?
Principal Component Analysis, or PCA, is a well-known and widely used technique applicable to a wide variety of applications such as dimensionality reduction, data compression, feature extraction, and...
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iOS 11 Safari will automatically strip AMP links from shared URLs
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