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There’s a Global Race to Control Batteries–and China Is Winning
KOLWEZI, Democratic Republic of Congo—Miners push bicycles piled high with bags of a grayish-blue ore along a dusty road to a makeshift market. There, they line up at wholesalers with nicknames such as...
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Optimizely’s decision to ditch its free plan
A/B testing platform leader Optimizely announced on December 20, 2017 that it will sunset its free Starter plan on February 28, 2018.We estimate that this change will leave around 70,000 websites*...
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A transcriber on the Isle of Man can decipher almost anything
A “commonplace” book from the 17th century. Beinecke Flickr Laboratory/CC BY 2.0On any given day, from her home on the Isle of Man, Linda Watson might be reading a handwritten letter from one...
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Spry Language
Spry LanguageSpry is a programming language primarily inspired by Smalltalk/Rebol/Lisp/JavaScript/Forth and Nim.Spry borrows homoiconicity from Rebol and Lisp, free form syntax from Forth and Rebol,...
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Why Don't Babies Smile from Birth?
When my son was born a few months ago, he quickly established himself as the tyrant of our household, one that ruled with a singular phonetic ultimatum (“Oooo—whaaah”), tiny iron fists clutched in...
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Pace Layering: How Complex Systems Learn and Keep Learning
"Civilizations with long nows look after things better," says Brian Eno. "In those places you feel a very strong but flexible structure which is built to absorb shocks and in fact incorporate them."1...
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Haskell developer experience in NixOS
Posted in category nixos on 2017-06-05Table of ContentsExpectationsNot long passed since I first started using Nix and NixOS, that I realized that I would like to have my haskell development to be...
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Slack is the opposite of organizational memory
InterruptionsThe format is fragmented and constrainedslack search is brokenIt increases productivity (the bad kind)It replaces documentationWhat does slack do righttrello & jira#deleteuberBetween...
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The Fields Medal should return to its roots
Olga Ladyzhenskaya was on the Fields Medal shortlist in 1958.Credit: Karl Nickel/Oberwolfach Photo CollectionLike Olympic medals and World Cup trophies, the best-known prizes in mathematics come around...
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America Needs a Nationalized 5G Network
A hundred years ago, it was hard to imagine that domestic electricity could be good for anything beyond powering a few light bulbs in the front hall. That is, until refrigerators, washer-dryers,...
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Protecting sites from Cryptojacking with CSP and SRI
We saw a pretty big event take place over the weekend where a 3rd party provider was compromised and their JS library was altered. The alteration introduced a crypto mining script that was then...
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Let’s talk about usernames
Published: February 11, 2018. Filed under:Django, Pedantics, Programming, Python.A few weeks ago I released django-registration 2.4.1. The 2.4 series is the last in the django-registration 2.x line,...
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Safe injection sites in San Francisco could be first in the US
A man uses heroin under a bridge where he lives with other addicts in Philadelphia (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)×San Francisco to open nation’s first heroin injection sitesA man uses heroin...
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React v16.3.0-alpha.0
Release v16.3.0-alpha.0 · facebook/react · GitHubTagging 16.3.0-alpha.0 release You can't perform that action at this time.You signed in with another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session.You...
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Place Kit – The future of augmented reality mobile apps
When Apple released ARKit, designing for augmented reality wasn’t defined as a field. But during autumn of 2017 in App Store appeared a lot of AR apps. Almost all of them used ARKit.In the beginning,...
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In search of a sacred combe, a writer’s refuge
In the first volume of his sprawling and unreliable memoir, the prolific French writer and shoe fetishist Restif de la Bretonne described finding a hidden valley, or “bonne vaux”, that cast a spell of...
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P not equal to NP
(Submitted on 30 Jan 2018)Abstract: Let $G(V,E)$ be a graph with vertex set $V$ and edge set $E$, and let $X$ be either $V$ or $E$. Let $\Pi$ be a search problem with input $X$ and solution $Y$, where...
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What Nabokov saw in his dreams
Dreams are boring. On the list of tedious conversation topics, they fall somewhere between the five-day forecast and golf. As for writing about them, even Henry James, who’s seldom accused of playing...
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The Tripartite Identity Pattern (2008)
The Tripartite Identity PatternOne of the most misunderstood patterns in social media design is that of user identity management. Product designers often confuse the many different roles required by...
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