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God's Number is 20
God's Number is 20 R L U2 F U' D F2 R2 B2 L U2 F' B' U R2 D F2 U R2 U Superflip, the first position proven to require 20 moves. New results: God's Number is 26 in the quarter turn metric! Every...
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Single-file C/C++ public-domain/open source libraries with minimal dependencies
README.mdI am the author of a large number of single-file C/C++ public domain libraries. I am not the only person who writes libraries like this, so below are other, similar libraries.Generally, the...
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Galileo navigation satellite system goes live
The European Union's promise to enhance localization services was became reality on Thursday, with the successful launch of four more satellites of the bloc's prestige Galileo project.Initial services,...
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How Unix made it to the top
[TUHS] How Unix made it to the topDoug McIlroydoug at cs.dartmouth.eduSat Dec 17 12:09:16 AEST 2016It has often been told how the Bell Labs law department became the first non-research department to...
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Finding Wisdom in the Letters of Aging Writers
In 1975, a 63-year-old Elizabeth Bishop wrote to her long-time friend and fellow poet Robert Lowell, who was then 58 and just two years from his death. “I’m going to be very impertinent and...
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The Longflow Manifesto
About this manifestoThe longflow model is an engineering-centric workflow for serious software developers, tired of the "Agile"/"Scrum" bullshit.The question of TimeTime and WorkIn the software...
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Why physicists still use Fortran
“I don’t know what the programming language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called FORTRAN.” – Charles Anthony Richard Hoare, circa 1982Fortran is rarely used today in industry...
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Where Is Marissa Mayer?
It's the end of 2016. Do you know where your CEO is? For a brief period of time, it looked like 2016 was going to be the year that Marissa Mayer finally did something good for Yahoo. She managed to...
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Technology in Hostile States: Ten Principles for User Protection
This blog post is meant to generate a conversation about best practices for using cryptography and privacy by design to improve security and protect user data from well-resourced attackers and...
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GNU Hurd 0.9, GNU Mach 1.8, GNU MIG 1.8 Released
GNU Hurd 0.9, GNU Mach 1.8, GNU MIG 1.8 released.GNU Hurd 0.9,NEWS:Version 0.9 (2016-12-18) The 'boot' program can now be run as unprivileged user, allowing any user to create unprivileged Subhurds. An...
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Growth as a false signal in Y Combinator startups
One has to appreciate how Paul Graham built Y Combinator into the world’s flagship accelerator and handed it off to others to continue its impressive run at the top of the heap. In fact, I have yet to...
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Ten Years at Google
Ten Years18 December 2016 Today marks my ten year anniversary as a Googler. I arrived with very little; just a suitcase, a backpack, and my pet mouse. Google took care of everything, from finding an...
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Show HN: libtmux – A tmux workspace manager in Python
libtmux is the tool behind tmuxp, a tmux workspace manager in python.it builds upon tmux’ target and formats to create an object mappings to traverse, inspect and interact with live tmux sesssions.view...
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Graphene-Fed Silkworms Produce a Super-Strong Silk That Conducts Electricity
In BriefThe carbon-enhanced silk conducts electricity, is twice as tough as regular silk, and can withstand at least 50 percent higher stress before breaking. This smart textile could have applications...
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Wolfenstein 3D – Gameboy cartridge with co-processor
Wolf – Gameboy cartridge with co-processorWork in progress game logic and AI:Implemented most of the game logic, and basic AI which still needs some tweaking.Also added some “glue” stuff such as title...
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Consus: Fast Geo-Replicated Transactions
Consus is a consistent, geo-replicated key-value store. It can run in multiple data centers and allow clients to initiate and run transactions in any data center. This symmetric design enables fast...
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Depressed children respond differently to rewards than other kids
A child wearing a device that measures electrical activity in the brain chooses between doors on a computer screen. Choosing one door wins points while the other results in a loss of points. Washington...
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Inside Amazon's clickworker platform
Internet platforms like Amazon Mechanical Turk let companies break jobs into smaller tasks and offer them to people across the globe. But, do they democratize work or exploit the disempowered?Each...
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