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  • SQL on Khan Academy enabled by SQLite, sqljs, asm.js and Emscripten
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    Our implementation of SQL is based off of SQLite which is compiled down to asm.js by Emscripten packaged into sqljs.
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  • The Man Who Sees Art in Cheetos
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    By night, he creates art with Cheetos.
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  • Understanding Millennials—How do Potatoes Fit into Their Lives?
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    The United States Potato Board (USPB) is committed to designing and conducting consumer research that enables the industry to identify opportunities and make informed decisions to increase demand for potatoes
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  • 10 things I learned from reading (and writing) the PouchDB source
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    The fact that PouchDB works at all is a tiny miracle.
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  • Raspberry Pi + Spotify Media Server, tape player as interface | Neural
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    Matt Brailsford used a modified old tape player as interface to this Raspberry Pi + Spotify Media Server, so listener can use the player (and the cassettes) as physical interface to the different playlists.
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  • Here Comes Habitat - The M.A.D.E.
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    At this point, we are ready to announce that we feel we have a very good chance of bringing Habitat online, in its original form, for play online with Commodore 64 emulators as the client.
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  • The Future of Work is "Turking for Uber" and you Won't Like it
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    80-90% of the work that is currently being done will be automated in the next 20-30 years.
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  • Short logic (Reddit’s crappy ultimatum to remote workers and offices)
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    It’s hard not to get worked up about something that seems so unfair and so shitty to the people who did their part to get Reddit to where they are today. It feels like using people in the worst possible way. It smells like hopeless inadequacy to subject your workers to such a huge life change based on such flimsy justification.
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  • Physical-web by google
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    The Physical Web is an approach to unleash the core superpower of the web: interaction on demand. People should be able to walk up to any smart device - a vending machine, a poster, a toy, a bus stop, a rental car - and not have to download an app first. Everything should be just a tap away.
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  • What It’s like to Fly the $23,000 Singapore Airlines Suites Class — Travel & Adventure — Medium
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    The world’s best airline experience, from Singapore to New York.
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  • Matchstick Brings Firefox OS to Your HDTV: Be the First to get a Developer Stick ✩ Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
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    The first HDMI streaming stick powered by Firefox OS has arrived. It’s called Matchstick and we’re looking for your help to create apps for this new device.
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  • Ken Shirriff's blog: Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day
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    I decided to see how practical it would be to mine Bitcoin with pencil and paper. It turns out that the SHA-256 algorithm used for mining is pretty simple and can in fact be done by hand. Not surprisingly, the process is extremely slow compared to hardware mining and is entirely impractical. But performing the algorithm manually is a good way to understand exactly how it works.
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  • Dutch man fights for the right to turn his amputated leg into a lamp - then puts it on eBay - Mirror Online
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    As soon as the option of amputation was discussed in the hospital, he had a flash of inspiration: he wanted to make his amputated leg into a floor lamp instead of sending it to the incinerator.
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  • A ready-to-use virtual build environment for Firefox - Tim Taubert
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    If you ever wondered what contributing to Firefox feels like but you never had the time to read and follow through our instructions to setup a build environment or wanted to avoid screwing around with your precious system then this might be for you.
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  • Farewell to Tinderbox, the world’s 1st? 2nd? Continuous Integration server
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    In April 1997, Netscape ReleaseEngineers wrote, and started running, the world’s first? second? continuous integration server. Now, just over 17 years later, in May 2014, the tinderbox server was finally turned off. Permanently.
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  • Announcing Artillery's Project Atlas, a Hardcore RTS for the Browser - The Artillery Blog
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    The Artillery Platform, which Atlas is built upon, uses JavaScript and WebGL to deliver a high-quality, low-latency multiplayer gaming experience to anyone with a modern web browser. The platform is centered around 3D experiences with real-time multiplayer capability and strong community support. The JavaScript-based game engine features a component-entity design, a modern deferred rendering pipeline, and development tools designed to allow creative expression and super-fast iteration.
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  • DevDocs
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    DevDocs is an all-in-one API documentation reader for developers.
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  • Neil Fraser: News: CS in VN
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    Holy crap. My self-education in comp sci looked a lot like this, but I was a weirdo. America is screwed.
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  • What Lua scripting means for Wikimedia and open source « Wikimedia blog
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    What Lua scripting means for Wikimedia and open source « Wikimedia blog
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