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2012-05-30 08:44:26 Twitter Engineering: Improving performance on twitter.com |
http://engineering.twitter.com/...ormance-on-twittercom.html |
When we shipped #NewTwitter in September 2010, we built ... application architecture that pushed all of the UI rende... JavaScript running on our users’ browsers and consumed... API directly, in a similar way to our mobile clients. Th...
To improve
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2012-05-18 11:34:00 BBC - Newsbeat - Bouncers 'checking Facebook on phones' as identification |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/17930370 |
Some bouncers have been demanding people hand over their... they can check Facebook accounts, Newsbeat has been told.
It's claimed that it is to make sure the person is who t ...
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2012-05-17 13:11:21 BBC News - Subways 'share universal structure', research suggests |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18072627 |
A study of the world's largest subway networks has revea... remarkably mathematically similar.
The layouts seem to converge over time to a similar stru ...
The study, in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface ...
It found common distributions of stat
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2012-05-17 11:49:28 BBC News - Nvidia chip aims to power fastest supercomputer |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/18033970 |
"A machine like Titan has a budget of around 10 megawatts, and that costs roughly $10m per year just for the electricity, so people are concerned about the electrical bills," said Mr Scott.
"They are also concerned about how much power they can provide
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2012-05-12 10:44:33 BBC Nature - Dinosaur gases 'warmed the Earth' |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/17953792 |
Giant dinosaurs could have warmed the planet with their ... researchers.
British scientists have calculated the methane output of ...
By scaling up the digestive wind of horses, they estimat ...
They suggest the gas could have been a key factor in the ..
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2012-05-10 12:04:00 ZeroN system holds a ball wherever you place it, in mid-air |
http://www.gizmag.com/zeron-levitates-magnetic-ball/22482/ |
The ZeroN system was created by Jinha Lee, a Media Lab r... Above its open-air anti-gravity space sits an electromag... moved vertically and horizontally via a three-axis motor...
As the user reaches into the space with the ZeroN ball i ...
Along with
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2012-05-09 18:47:05 VSD: home |
http://www.vsdesign.org/ |
Value Sensitive Design refers to an approach to the desi... that accounts for human values in a principled and syste... throughout the design process.
Value-Sensitive Design is primarily concerned with value ...
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2012-05-07 13:20:11 reaDIYmate |
http://www.readiymate.com/#howitworks |
reaDIYmates are fun wi-fi objects that move and play sou... what's happening in your digital life.
Assemble them easily in 10 minutes, then decide what you ...
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2012-05-04 19:52:15 The ‘holy grail’ of hacks - The Tech |
http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N22/tetris.html |
153 windows, 153 pixels. Two weekends ago, the front of ... lit up in a colorful display of the popular puzzler Tetr... screen spanned over 80 by 250 feet — making it the sec... in the nation. Appearing mysteriously on Friday night, t... the culmina
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2012-05-03 16:38:04 Is Too Much Tech Bad for the Modern Teenager? [INFOGRAPHIC] |
http://mashable.com/2012/05/03/teenager-infographi/?... |
Is tech saturation good or bad for the modern teenager?
Arguments can be made either way, but there’s no debat ...
People aged 18-34 have an average of 319 online connecti ...
Pew also recently reported that 63% of teenagers text me ...
... to help or
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2012-05-03 12:58:32 Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal |
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/real.programmers.html |
Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal
[ A letter to the editor of Datamation, volume 29 number ...
The story of Mel is a related article. ]
Back in the good old days-- the "Golden Era" of computer ...
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2012-05-03 09:06:32 Dropbox and Safe Harbor |
https://www.dropbox.com/privacy_20120214 |
9. Safe HarborContacting Us
Dropbox has received TRUSTe's Privacy Seal signifying that this privacy statement and our practices have been reviewed by TRUSTe for compliance with TRUSTe's program requirements including transparency, accountability and choi
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2012-05-02 06:56:30 Mapping Science - Places & Spaces: Mapping Science |
http://scimaps.org/ |
Browse all maps with options to filter by year, auth...
Listing of all current & past venues.
See what the exhibit entails, plus how to host it at ...
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science is meant to inspire cro ...
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2012-05-02 06:55:13 Vision of future: experts close to turning bionic eye dream into reality |
http://www.smh.com.au/...am-into-reality-20120501-1xx71.html |
FIFTEEN years ago, the bid to create Australia's first b... university researchers pillaging old stereos for parts.
However today, 154 researchers led by biomedical enginee ...
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2012-05-02 06:52:46 The Crisis of Money and Its Metamorphosis | X.commerce |
https://www.x.com/devz.../crisis-money-and-its-metamorphosis |
The past several years have not been kind to the world's... working poor. The foundations on which we have built the... commerce—the markets, the banks, and government—have...
Nevertheless, there is one institution that has continue ...
This is the
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