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The URL made it hard to read!
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
Carl Sagan
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The iPad’s light, sleek, simple construction belies its complex origins. There’s a lot of stuff in the iPad: aluminum and glass, of course, but also other heavy metals and toxic chemicals. And manufacturing each 1.44-pound iPad results in over 285 times its own weight in greenhouse gas emissions. The manufacturing of and material used in the iPad are two reasons why the iPad must be made in China—and not just in the ways you’d expect. It's not just about cheap labor.
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Your phone's or computers' battery drains over the course of a day, but its effectiveness also wears down over the course of weeks, months, and years. We explain why, and the best way to do long-term battery storage. You'll get a charge out of this.
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That's all very well but why does my chewing gum lose it's flavour on the bed-post overnight?
You never answer the most important questions, do you?
Henry Minute
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus!
When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.
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Henry Minute wrote: chewing gum [...] bed-post overnight
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
Carl Sagan
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Ancient skiffle ditty[^].
Henry Minute
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus!
When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.
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Best known for authoring one of the very first web browsers, Lynx, and being a founding engineer at Netscape. I helped create many of the foundational technologies for the web: HTTP, HTML, SSL, Cookies, Proxies and others. Here's the software and hardware Lou uses to get stuff done. What does the developer of Lynx use to get stuff done?
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"For many years I've been saying that from a security point of view there is no big difference between Mac and Windows. It's always been possible to develop Mac malware, but this one was a bit different. For example it was asking questions about being installed on the system and, using vulnerabilities, it was able to get to the user mode without any alarms." Welcome to Microsoft's world, Eugene Kaspersky tells Apple.
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A bros-only atmosphere will hurt no one more than the startups that foster it. Beyond the obvious workplace consequences—and potential legal fallout—of this imbalance, testosterone-fueled boneheadedness can also turn into a PR nightmare, especially in an industry awash in social media. For startups, recasting geek identity with a frat house swagger is a dangerous game.
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In this installment we talk to Michael Hopke, who helped launch a game and a game development company while still in college. Welcome to our continuing series of Code Project interviews.
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Here’s the deal: typed arrays are not fully portable. On the other hand, can we really trust that web applications will write portable code? For now, we should let browser vendors on big-endian systems make that decision, and not force the decision through the spec. If they end up all choosing to emulate little-endian, I’ll be happy to codify that in the standards. There is a whole array of problems to parse here.
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When we're producing code, we have to be mindful that there will be a person consuming our code and stop focusing on just getting it out of our head. When we come back to this code in 6 months we want to be able to read it easily, be able to safely make assumptions about elements in it, understand the intent as well as the concrete implementation, and do so with the least amount of re-reading possible. We don't write code for the computer. We write code for ourselves an hour later.
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My recommendation: learn the language, and use it to your liking; and don’t rely or blindly accept what any “wise elders” tell you. Try to do something new and crazy every day. You might not end up using the crazy, but it’s the best way to master JavaScript. Develop your own style that you are comfortable with. Experiment. ...Or, don’t trust what “wise” elders tell you.
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VIM Adventures is an online game based on VIM's keyboard shortcuts (commands, motions and operators). It's the "Zelda meets text editing" game. It's a puzzle game for practicing and memorizing VIM commands (good old VI is also covered, of course). It's an easy way to learn VIM without a steep learning curve. hklj-shot!
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That is really cool!!
I wish there was something like this when I was learning vi.
Our instructor used the STARE OF SHAME when you couldn't
remember how to do something in vi.
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Over the years I've written a lot about the evolution I've taken with testing. I've also written about the frustration of testing within the confines of static languages. More briefly, I've discussed testing in dynamic languages, and what benefits developers get from that. I think talking about how far dynamic languages can be taken, from a testing point of view, deserves more attention. Well sir, I have a silly test and I'd like to obtain a Government grant to help me develop it.
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Some of you out there know that I have been collecting passwords for quite some time. Since 1998 to be exact. Originally I did it just to have big wordlists for password cracking, then I started gathering them for research on my Perfect Passwords book, finally it became like a big ball of string where you just do it because it makes no sense to stop now. So I thought that some people might be interested in how I collect these passwords. With 6 million username/password combos, the list only contains about 1,300,000 unique passwords.
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That's because 4 million of them are "password". 
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Literally every single username/password acquired this way is from a porn site.
Oh really?
Yes, really...
Giraffes are not real.
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As bitly usage has grown, one of the systems that has evolved several times along the way is our metrics platform. Originally implemented as log files with a hierarchical timestamp key, by early 2011 we were using 3 different metrics systems, and had outgrown 3 others. We started with a set of goals to build a scalable time series database application, which we now call Clickatron. Here's how it works. Meet the metric hamsters behind the bitly short URL links.
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Here you'll find a collection of all the AGC, AGS, LVDC, and Gemini spacecraft computer documentation and software that I've managed to find. My intention is to eventually provide one-stop-shopping for all of your Apollo and Gemini computing-system documentation needs. Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.
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While few are concerned about Windows 8's usability as a tablet operating system, desktop users remain wary. Will the new operating system take a huge step back in terms of both productivity and usability? Ars Technica takes a closer look. Start with... wait! Where's Start?
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