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When Nazis Took Manhattan(npr.org)
1 points by mborch 8y ago|0 comments
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One test to diagnose them all: researchers exploit cancers’ unique DNA signature(theconversation.com)
6 points by mborch 8y ago|0 comments
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by mborch 8y ago
Hey HN. While the focus of this driver is not performance as such, a comparison can be found here: https://github.com/MagicStack/pgbench/pull/2 What's more interesting for fans of type safety is that the
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Show HN: Fast PostgreSQL Driver for Node.js Written in TypeScript(npmjs.com)
3 points by mborch 8y ago|1 comments
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by mborch 8y ago
What it does have is compile-time parameters where you can bind a type variable during compilation: fn max(comptime T: type, a: T, b: T) T { if (T == bool) { return a or b; } else if (a > b) { return a
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by mborch 8y ago
It's not just software that doesn't "square the very definition of a project ... with our real world experiences". The same happens on the business side. There's always the other side of the equation: how the system
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by mborch 8y ago
He wants to make that case that software development is a more pedestrian affair than it might seem, without much of an argument. But it's not true. Even a small shop needs to live up to pretty much a global standard, not least in term
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by mborch 8y ago
From Google Analytics.
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by mborch 8y ago
That would be illegal (in the EU, at least). Why would a successful business risk that?
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by mborch 9y ago
or better, just spend more time outside.
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by mborch 9y ago
But they are... Unless you want to be pedantic.
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by mborch 9y ago
It most certainly isn't. The Wikipedia article has an accurate description. Google pulls a wrong definition for some reason.
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Why I’m Not Reviewing Noma Mexico(nytimes.com)
2 points by mborch 9y ago|0 comments
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Oral contraceptives reduce general well-being in healthy women(ki.se)
2 points by mborch 9y ago|0 comments
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by mborch 10y ago
The brain can drive a car and uses a fraction of that amount of energy.
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by mborch 10y ago
The new web needs to be distributed in a privacy-preserving sense. Today, you can't realistically browse the web without getting identified and – generally speaking – geolocated. What we need is a model where you pull information you r
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by mborch 10y ago
For most people that's currently Google due to search-based location bar.
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A fast, compact, JSON-equivalent binary data format(github.com)
3 points by mborch 10y ago|0 comments
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by mborch 10y ago
Cisco's got a royalty-free codec that would let you decode like it's 2017. https://github.com/cisco/thor
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by mborch 10y ago
It uses Amazon Redshift under the hood.
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What is Facebook going to do?(tobi.rocks)
1 points by mborch 10y ago|0 comments
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Petroleum jelly from birth offers effective atopic dermatitis prevention(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
1 points by mborch 10y ago|0 comments
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by mborch 10y ago
"However, neither Mallick et al. nor Malaspinas et al. exclude the possibility of multiple out-of-Africa dispersals." (from the commentary). How is that one wave?
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Human body cooling by nanoporous polyethylene textile(science.sciencemag.org)
2 points by mborch 10y ago|0 comments
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by mborch 10y ago
Terrible user experience. There's no reason to use this kind of interaction when it's not adding to the experience.
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Humans have caused climate change for 180 years(anu.edu.au)
2 points by mborch 10y ago|0 comments
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Kinesis Advantage 2 (preorder)(kinesis-ergo.com)
3 points by mborch 10y ago|0 comments
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by mborch 10y ago
If you live in a country where you can't trust your ISP then there is a very real MITM risk.
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by mborch 10y ago
It's already public record since it's a law suit.
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by mborch 11y ago
Are you saying that the only programmer who's able to avoid bloat is a not-smart programmer? The truth is that it's a balancing act and it's not always clear when bringing in yet another externally maintained library is the r

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