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  • Every Kid Wanted this Hot Wheels Belt Buckle back in 1983 | The Retroist
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    I come from a fairly sensible family when it came to buying cloths. My Mother planned ahead, knowing I would outgrow pants and shirts and would often size up so that I had room to grow into things. via Pocket
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  • Microservices
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    Are Microservices the Future? Our main aim in writing this article is to explain the major ideas and principles of microservices. via Pocket
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  • ​How to Comprehend Incomprehensibly Large Numbers
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    We humans are a smart bunch, but we really suck when it comes to understanding and handling excessively large numbers. Here's why we're so bad at it — and what you can do to make sense of concepts and figures that are unreasonably huge. via Pocket
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  • Mobile in the ā€˜pre-pagerank’ phase — Medium
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    Benedict Evans has a tremendously good analysis of Facebook’s acquisition of WhatsApp up that’s highly worth reading. That’s it. Let that roll around in your head a while. via Pocket
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  • The Economics of Star Trek — Editor's Picks — Medium
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    I promise this is about Star Trek. Sort of. Bear with me a moment. I’ve been reading a lot about robots lately. When I read about robots, and the future, I can’t help but think about it in economic terms. via Pocket
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  • Welcome to the Age of the Upgrade | The Verge
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    As the 1980s came to a close, a curious thing happened to American consumers: they began to really understand what the word "upgrade" meant. This realization occurred thanks to a magical fusion of technological advancement and capitalistic opportunity: the video game console. via Pocket
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  • Gamasutra: Carsten Germer's Blog - "Not So Random Randomness" in Game Design and Programming
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    As production of "Pavel Piezo - Trip to the Kite Festival" draws to a close later this year I reviewed the material I collected for the Postmortem and found it too much and too diverse to put in one huge article. via Pocket
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  • Veterans Day 2013: Technology demands we bring back the draft.
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    One of the most significant contributions to a reduction of domestic social tension in the United States as the Vietnam conflict wore down was the ending of the draft in 1973. (The Selective Service system, which is the administrative backbone of the draft, remains active. via Pocket
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  • Beyond pushStateā€Šā€”ā€Šbuilding single page applications — Joys of JavaScript — Medium
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    Single page applications are on the rise, and in many cases they make the web faster, richer, and more interactive. The HTML5 history APIs have allowed us take advantage of the benefits of SPAs while still allowing pages to be deep linkable, server renderable, and easily shareable. via Pocket
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  • The Evil Keurig — Roast Lab
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    I recently admitted to partially owning a Keurig. Many look at the Keurig as a bad thing for coffee. In many ways it is. But, in some ways its also a bridge to a better coffee world for millions who just don’t know better Let’s use an analogy. via Pocket
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  • Can't Get Away From It All? The Problem Isn't Technology — It's You | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
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    A few years ago, my wife and I spent three weeks hiking the backcountry of California. We walked more than 200 miles without crossing a road—and even better, without fielding any calls, emails, tweets, or other day-to-day Internet bullshit. It was heavenly. via Pocket
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  • Tomohiro Nishikado: The Space Invader : The New Yorker
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    ā€œI am terrible at video games,ā€ Tomohiro Nishikado says. His admission sounds hardly unusual for a man of sixty-nine, but it’s a secret that he has kept for thirty-five years, ever since he created the classic arcade game Space Invaders, in 1978. via Pocket
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  • www.nytimes.com
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    I AM a genetic Republican. via Pocket
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  • Why Doesn't the Constitution Guarantee the Right to Education? - Stephen Lurie - The Atlantic
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    Every country that outperforms the U.S. has a constitutional or statutory commitment to this right. ā€œThe Learning Curve,ā€ the global ranking of education systems produced by the publishing company Pearson, is by most accounts a beautiful publication. via Pocket
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  • Only Openness Can Power The Next Wave Of Human Progress – ReadWrite
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    Mitchell Baker is contributing as part of #TheOpenAgenda—a campaign by Telefónica Digital to provoke debate around the benefits of an open philosophy for digital, technology and innovation. Get involved with the debate using #TheOpenAgenda on Twitter or view more at www.theopenagenda.com via Pocket
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  • The Day Google Had to 'Start Over' on Android - Fred Vogelstein - The Atlantic
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    Google was building a secret mobile product to fend off chief rival Microsoft. Then Apple announced the iPhone, and everything changed. In 2005, on Google’s sprawling, college-like campus, the most secret and ambitious of many, many teams was Google’s own smartphone effort—the Android project. via Pocket
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  • Hordes Of Novices | 8th Light
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    Is the software industry trying to write the script for Hamlet by hiring a million monkeys to bang on keyboards? Perhaps we should rethink that strategy and hire one bard instead. Perhaps, instead of hordes of novices, we need a small team of professionals. via Pocket
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  • Daily Kos: First, kill all the 'gerrymander-ers'
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    At least in the Senate, at some point, Republican primary voters may realize that nominating the Christine O'Donnells, Todd Akins, Sharron Angles, Ken Bucks and Richard Mourdocks of the world only leads to Democratic victories in all but the reddest of states. via Pocket
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  • www.nytimes.com
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    The word ā€œfreedomā€ looms large in modern conservative rhetoric. Lobbying groups are given names like FreedomWorks; health reform is denounced not just for its cost but as an assault on, yes, freedom. via Pocket
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  • My Son Wears Dresses; Get Over It - Matt Duron - The Atlantic
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    A lot of marriages don’t survive raising a gender-creative son who is, statistically speaking, most likely going to be gay or transgender as an adult. I wish I could to talk to those men. I wish I could be there for their kids. I've been a police officer for more than 15Ā years. via Pocket
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  • Poverty and cognitive impairment: Study shows money troubles make decision-making difficult. - Slate Magazine
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    How much money do I waste in a given month by doing most of my grocery shopping at the Whole Foods that’s directly on my route home rather than taking the three-minute detour to Safeway? I have no idea. via Pocket
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  • David Berreby – The obesity era
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    Years ago, after a plane trip spent reading Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Notes from the Underground and Weight Watchers magazine, Woody Allen melded the two experiences into a single essay. ā€˜I am fat,’ it began. ā€˜I am disgustingly fat. I am the fattest human I know. via Pocket
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  • Jim Leff's Slog: How I Outgrew Libertarianism
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    I was a Libertarian in college. I even volunteered for the 1980 Ed Clark/David Koch (yes, that David Koch) Libertarian party presidential campaign. As promised, the following is the story of how I outgrew Libertarianism. There were three factors: 1. via Pocket
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  • The Wonderbrewer of Nowheresville by Kevin Koczwara Narratively - Narratively: Local stories, boldly told.
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    I'm a bit nervous when I finally turn down the long dirt road to the brewery after a two-hour drive. The road doesn't seem to lead anywhere. I'm in the middle of nowhere and there is no brewery in sight. It certainly doesn't seem like the most logical place for one. There is no major city nearby. via Pocket
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  • Using Vim for writing Prose | Terminally Incoherent
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    Vim is a great text editor for writing code. Anyone who claims otherwise is either an Emacs user (and you should be OK with that, because Emacs is pretty neat) or a ā€œcasualā€ code wrangler who sometimes dabbles in programming but knows very little of it. via Pocket
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  • How Billionaire 'Philanthropy' Is Fueling Inequality and Helping To Destroy the Country | Alternet
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    Peter Buffett, the second son of billionaire investor Warren Buffett, worries that the state of philanthropy in America ā€œjust keeps the existing structure of inequality in place. via Pocket
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  • Manning Is Guilty and So Is the Army That Sent Him Overseas - The Daily Beast
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    Manning is no hero but the army knew he was unfit and sent him anyway. How we ended up with a known security risk guarding classified secrets. Brian Van Reet explains. Bradley Manning is not Edward Snowden and he is most definitely not a hero. Let’s get that straight, for starters. via Pocket
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  • The Republican Budget Cut that Would Crush Silicon Valley | New Republic
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    When Congress returns from its summer recess in early September, it will have exactly nine legislative days to agree on a budget or the government will shut down. via Pocket
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  • Chuck E. Cheese's, Silicon Valley Startup: The Origins of the Best Pizza Chain Ever - Alexis C. Madrigal - The Atlantic
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    This great American franchise, and by extension, childhood itself, almost never existed. You may not know this, but Chuck E. Cheese's -- yes, the pizza place -- has its origins as firmly planted in the soil of Silicon Valley as Apple, HP, or Intel. via Pocket
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  • MOOCs could be disastrous for students and professors. - Slate Magazine
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    The word mooc sounds a bit like slang from Goodfellas or the affectionate shortening of the already-affectionate name of a former outfielder for the New York Mets. via Pocket
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  • homoiconic/2010/12/oop.md at master Ā· raganwald/homoiconic Ā· GitHub
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    Over on Hacker News, there's a small discussion about OOP and specifically about inheritance. "lyudmil" pointed out: via Pocket
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  • The Weekend Interview with Kevyn Orr: How Detroit Can Rise Again - WSJ.com
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    What do northwest Washington, D.C., South Beach Miami and upper Manhattan have in common? Less than 50 years ago, the now vibrant communities didn't look much different from most of Detroit, says emergency manager Kevyn Orr—whom Gov. Rick Snyder tapped in March to revive the broken Motor City. via Pocket
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  • Douglas Engelbart’s Unfinished Revolution | MIT Technology Review
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    Doug Engelbart knew that his obituaries would laud him as ā€œInventor of the Mouse.ā€ I can see him smiling wistfully, ironically, at the thought. The mouse was such a small part of what Engelbart invented. via Pocket
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  • codeartisan: Using HTML as the Media Type for your API
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    There is an ongoing (and interesting) discussion on the API-craft mailing list revolving around designing new media types for enabling hypermedia APIs primarily for programmatic consumption. As some folks may know, I like to use HTML as the media type for my hypermedia APIs. via Pocket
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  • Warren Ellis: "Lich-House," a short story - Boing Boing
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    In 2013 at Institute for the Future, the non-profit forecasting thinktank where I'm a researcher, we explored what we're calling the Coming Age of Networked Matter. via Pocket
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  • Sous vide at home: Why thermal immersion circulators are the microwave of the future. - Slate Magazine
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    In August 2005, the New York Times Magazine published an article by Amanda Hesser that effectively introduced sous vide—the process of cooking bagged, vacuum-sealed food in a precisely controlled, low-temperature water bath, sometimes for days at a time—to the American public. via Pocket
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  • www.nytimes.com
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    Something terrible has happened to the soul of the Republican Party. We’ve gone beyond bad economic doctrine. We’ve even gone beyond selfishness and special interests. via Pocket
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  • Valve's 'perfect hiring' hierarchy has 'hidden management' clique like high school | Game Development | News by Develop
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    Valve's idealised 'flat management' structure is not all it's cracked up to be, according to one of the developers fired from the studio earlier this year. via Pocket
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  • libgit2/libgit2 Ā· GitHub
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    lmorchard starred libgit2/libgit2
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  • libgit2/pygit2 Ā· GitHub
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    lmorchard starred libgit2/pygit2
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  • t.co
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    "hat loving bastards" http://t.co/SWI0D7TW2x The PƓneis Brilhantes series will not capture the experience of spending time with ponie...
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  • Amazon Kindle: A Highlight and Note by Leslie Michael Orchard from Constellation Games
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    "hat loving bastards"
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  • Cheddars has an outdoor boyfriend named Sid | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
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    Might have to start shooing this lil guy away from our house
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  • Tell ISPs: No "Six Strikes" Plan -- Or We'll Take Our Business Elsewhere | Demand Progress
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    Pls RT: @ATT, @COMCAST, @VERIZON, @TWC punishing users. Tell ISPs to stop #SIXSTRIKES. http://t.co/fg5KZ4bYT8 via @demandprogress
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  • Fiery blast destroys Royal Oak home, damages others: 'It was a horrific explosion' | Oakland County | Detroit Free Press | freep.com
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    Holy shit. A house blew up a few miles mile from us while I was outside shovelling snow. http://t.co/FPvSkL8akO
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  • Yahoo, working at home: Marissa Mayer has made a terrible mistake—working from home is great for employees and employers. - Slate Magazine
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  • The case against working at home. - Slate Magazine
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  • 'Six Strike' System, Slowing Or Suspending Internet For Illegal Downloads, Takes Effect Monday
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    How is this not collusion?
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  • Despite Yahoo Ban, Most Tech Companies Support Work-From-Home Policies - Kara Swisher - News - AllThingsD
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    From pinboard.in/deusx: "Top sources told me that Mayer has been particularly irked about Yahoo parking lots that are slow to fill in the morning and quick to empty by 5 pm — which is atypical at other tech companies such as Google. (Mayer was a longtime exec at the search giant.)"
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  • Too long? Read anyway. – blog.lmorchard.com
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    Oddly enough, my "Too long? READ ANYWAY." post is my most-read so far on my new blog. http://t.co/BrYWd3OaT1
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