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China prepares to grow vegetables on Mars(google.com)
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News Corp. Shutters The Daily iPad App(allthingsd.com)
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John McAfee arrested in Belize(whoismcafee.com)
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Where does our alphabet come from?(ilovetypography.com)
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by othello 14y ago
Indeed, from the fourth to last paragraph: "The material is so thin that it’s completely transparent"
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Battery Performance Deficit Disorder(physics.ucsd.edu)
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by othello 14y ago
To put this in a European perspective: the legal minimum floor area to rent out an apartment in France is 9 square meters, or slightly less than 97 sq feet. Even better (or worse, depending on your perspective): the absolute minimum is a v
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Facebook to drop Credits for new payments system(digitalspy.co.uk)
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Tweeting? It's just a tidal wave of drivel(dailymail.co.uk)
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by othello 14y ago
"They had cities ordered into grids, with exquisite plumbing, which was not encountered again until the Romans" It's amazing how quite advanced technologies (for a civilization that thrived from 5000 to 3000 years ago) were mastered only to
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A Corporate Escape Story (from Investment Banking to Bootstrapped eCommerce)(ecommercefuel.com)
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by othello 14y ago
"If you're lucky you will have patrons, not customers." Probably the best quote from the post. Soon the only way of making a living from a creative endeavour might be to be funded by patrons, then releasing your content for free. A generali
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Facebook CFO Fumbled Number of Shares Offered in IPO(online.wsj.com)
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Greeks withdraw $894 million in a day: Is this beginning of a run on banks?(worldnews.msnbc.msn.com)
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by othello 14y ago
Deploying web apps as self-contained binaries reminds me of Go [1]. Except in Go you get this for free as a simple (and swift) compile step. Of course, this is true of any compiled language that can produce self-contained binaries, but Go
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Titanic II: Australian billionaire announces plan to rebuild liner(guardian.co.uk)
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Million Song Dataset Challenge(kaggle.com)
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Facebook IPO may be delayed until June(forbes.com)
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Nokia finds software bug in Lumina 900(chicagotribune.com)
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Nuclear Fusion - Do the Math(physics.ucsd.edu)
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The heat is on(economist.com)
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by othello 15y ago
This piece of advice is quite at odds with another classic piece: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html Back to that two page function. Yes, I know, it's just a simple function to display a window, but it has grown li
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GroupOn registers mispellings of popular website(nyitmes.com)
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What it takes to power Google(technologyreview.com)
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Yes, We Need Jobs. But What Kind?(nytimes.com)
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Commotion Wireless: digital communication in the face of an Internet shutdown(spectrum.ieee.org)
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by othello 15y ago
For those who did not get the xkcd reference either: http://xkcd.com/887/
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by othello 16y ago
What do you make of France, which with Ireland has the highest fertility rate in Europe (2.01 in 2010 [1]), while Catholicism can hardly be described as thriving there: 4.5% of French people go to mass at least once a week [2]. Social polic
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by othello 16y ago
Thank you for pointing the mistake out. However, it is not so obvious that 6 is the highest score. While it was the case in Switzerland (where Einstein was studying at that age), it was the exact contrary in Germany at that time - 1 being t
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by othello 16y ago
Here is Einstein's certificate for the year 1879 (he was 10): http://www.scienceblogs.de/frischer-wind/einsteins-zeugnis.j... Long story short, he obtained the best score (6) in the three mathematical topics (algebra, geometry and descrip

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