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Dictionary of Numbers(blog.xkcd.com)
14 points by spatten 13y ago|1 comments
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What A 16th Century British Currency Can Teach Journalism(blog.priceonomics.com)
2 points by spatten 13y ago|0 comments
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Feeling Ill? Swallow a Parasite(bbc.com)
1 points by spatten 13y ago|0 comments
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by spatten 13y ago
Any recommendations for open source serif fonts?
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by spatten 13y ago
Here's a Google Cache link: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Awww.b...
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The Only Problem With the Greatest Hoodie Ever Made(slate.com)
2 points by spatten 13y ago|0 comments
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Amazon launches "Send to Kindle" button for websites(paidcontent.org)
2 points by spatten 14y ago|0 comments
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Tesla is the new Apple(medium.com)
4 points by spatten 14y ago|1 comments
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by spatten 14y ago
I'm assuming that this will also shut down the Google Reader API, but I haven't seen anything definite. Anyone have confirmation either way?
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by spatten 14y ago
This turned out to be a very interesting talk. The speaker set off my BS detector at the beginning with all of his grandiose statements, but the images near the end of the talk seem to prove him right. I'd love to hear more about this. Anyo
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How to green the world's deserts and reverse climate change(ted.com)
2 points by spatten 14y ago|1 comments
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by spatten 14y ago
No, actually I didn't. In my experience, "those people" are indistinguishable from "people who have the same skin colour as me" after a generation or two. Oh, and here a some studies with, you know, numbers and statistics that bear that out
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How to Stabilize a Wobbly Table(maa.org)
2 points by spatten 14y ago|0 comments
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by spatten 14y ago
Cool, thanks! I'm going to set that up for us at Leanpub.
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by spatten 14y ago
The hint about a persistent Google Hangout is very interesting. It sounds like you just create a Google+ event, attach a hangout to it and the URL is persistent forever[1]. Is it really that easy? https://plus.google.com/+CheeChew/posts/Rm
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by spatten 14y ago
Interesting that they ignored the whole "here's a suite of products that Quirky offers that are clearly copies" part of the OXO post.
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by spatten 14y ago
"When new violations are found, Apple requires its suppliers to return the workers back to a school chosen by the family and finance their education. "In addition, the children must continue to receive income matching what they received whe
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Humble Pursuit of Mastery(blog.8thlight.com)
1 points by spatten 14y ago|0 comments
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by spatten 14y ago
I know you've already spent the time to build the PDF and epub converters, but if you want to use Leanpub to get the PDF, epub and mobi versions, you're totally welcome to. Since you already have Markdown, it would be ridiculously easy to d
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by spatten 14y ago
This is easily accomplished by kindlegen[1], which takes in an epub file and spits out a mobi file. [1]: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000...
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Steven Pinker comments on the Lead and Crime Hypothesis [pdf](stevenpinker.com)
3 points by spatten 14y ago|0 comments
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by spatten 14y ago
I'm getting exactly the same thing. Glad to know it's not just me.
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by spatten 14y ago
Hey, co-founder of Leanpub here. If you're interested in the differences between Pandoc and Leanpub, there are two places to look. Leanpub is based off of Kramdown, so there's the Kramdown documentation[1]. We have made a few extensions to
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Map - Image(maps.stamen.com)
1 points by spatten 14y ago|0 comments
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by spatten 14y ago
I think you're vehemently agreeing with Irregardless.
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by spatten 14y ago
From a quick look, this will not only allow you to copy backups across regions, but will also allow you to effectively copy EBS backed AMIs across regions. AWS does it again :).
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EBS Snapshot Copy(docs.aws.amazon.com)
2 points by spatten 14y ago|1 comments
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Fun with to_proc and compositions (Ruby)(jhchabran.com)
2 points by spatten 14y ago|0 comments
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by spatten 14y ago
If you need something a bit more detailed, then Randall Munroe has you covered: http://xkcd.com/657/
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"Wind Turbine Syndrome"(blogs.discovermagazine.com)
2 points by spatten 14y ago|0 comments

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