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841.
I Am a Dangerous Professor(nytimes.com)
3 points by bootload 10y ago|0 comments
842.
See What People of 1967 Imagined the World Would Be Like in 1999(atlasobscura.com)
2 points by bootload 10y ago|0 comments
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Theorizing the Drone(blog.longreads.com)
2 points by bootload 10y ago|0 comments
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Hourglass Watch: How to build v4(ourglass.watch)
2 points by bootload 10y ago|0 comments
845.
Research sheds light on the origin of the baleen whale(monash.edu)
21 points by bootload 10y ago|5 comments
846.
Florida Cops Have a New Device for Tracking Your Cell Phone(warisboring.com)
4 points by bootload 10y ago|1 comments
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Why do books smell the way they do?(itunes.apple.com)
2 points by bootload 10y ago|1 comments
848.
Applying Open Source to Rocket Landings(mach30.org)
1 points by bootload 10y ago|0 comments
849.
by bootload 10y ago
source: https://twitter.com/FiveThirtyEight/status/80338926299332198...
850.
Are college towns pits of income inequality?(fivethirtyeight.com)
4 points by bootload 10y ago|1 comments
851.
America's Ancient Cave Art(slate.com)
2 points by bootload 10y ago|0 comments
852.
by bootload 10y ago
"why emacs is almost never installed by default while vi(m) is?" Memory footprint of emacs is? Vs memory footprint of vi? I've had problem machines where no OS is installed and working in low memory cf: ~ https:/&#x
853.
Can Technology End Poverty?(bostonreview.net)
3 points by bootload 10y ago|1 comments
854.
by bootload 10y ago
"I'm not able to speak to the statistical validity of the test, but as a software developer I find it more convincing if there's an explicit causal connection." @Michael, biology is messy compared to machines. To judge
855.
by bootload 10y ago
"A big advantage of taking the time to read a book, even if the book has just one central idea, is that it forces you to spend 5+ hours thinking on that idea. " Exposing you to ^new^ ideas, ones not encountered before.
856.
by bootload 10y ago
"I would wait for a biologist to do a more careful analysis of why those genes are being activated before using this to justify any political action." Already done. I refer to the "Dunedin Study" , (Dunedin Multidisci
857.
by bootload 10y ago
"I would not recommend writing this style of Basic if you want a simple language these days. Basics are a nightmare of ad-hoc parsing with too many edge cases. Better to write a modern byte-compiled language with a byte interpreter --
858.
by bootload 10y ago
" then there's fighting between groups of the same animals." have you not seen same animals fighting in groups against each other? Take your point though.
859.
by bootload 10y ago
plz keep posting and upvoting these kinds of stories (foss on hardware), great read.
860.
by bootload 10y ago
"... few animals other than humans and monkeys engage in it" Birds, ants, killer-whales are but a few I can immediately think of.
861.
by bootload 10y ago
source: https://twitter.com/daniel_bilar/status/801172154159075328
862.
by bootload 10y ago
"I feel like I'm the only one who learned Python from the official site's tutorial page" From Py1.52 I've done the same. I wish every language was as well documented (Perl6 is pretty good) [0] as Py, especially th
863.
CompCert: Trust, but Verify (2013)(blog.regehr.org)
1 points by bootload 10y ago|1 comments
864.
by bootload 10y ago
thx @Fr0sty I'm mighty impressed with the RISCOS effort. You can even purchase dev manuals in print. Must fire this one up on a Pi at home. This would be a good start.
865.
by bootload 10y ago
"The social network has quietly developed software to suppress posts from appearing in people’s news feeds in specific geographic areas" Censorship, suppression tools, fake news, Fb is moving into dystopian Sterling, Stephenson
866.
by bootload 10y ago
"The source for this is available from the CVS archive here: ... But trust me, it won't help. I've debugged my way through it. It's very... hand written." First computer ZX80, so I missed the BBCM. Thx @David, the
867.
by bootload 10y ago
Now I see why BBC BASIC is liked. It was created by Sophie Wilson FRS FREng, while at Cambridge as a student over a summer break on a 6502 micro processor. Wilson also designed the Acorn System 1. [0],[1] Also a portable C version of BBC BA
868.
by bootload 10y ago
"I agree BBC BASIC is excellent, particularly in having structured programming support." Found this in the article comments. What happened to the BBC BASIC language? Is it still available, in source?
869.
Stanford Researchers Find Students Have Trouble Judging Information Online(ed.stanford.edu)
1 points by bootload 10y ago|0 comments
870.
by bootload 10y ago
"Apple was ^never^ about freedom." QED.

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