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livewire-framework.com 6y ago

Livewire. Front end components rendered server side in PHP

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phys.org 8y ago

Stock market forces can be modeled with a quantum harmonic oscillator

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www.sciencemediacentre.org 12y ago

Expert reaction to organic food nutrition study

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heterocephalusgabler.wordpress.com 12y ago

I got invited to write for the Huffington Post today

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www.economist.com 12y ago

The backlash against running firms like progressive schools has begun

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martinfowler.com 12y ago

Cannot Measure Productivity

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www.guardian.co.uk 13y ago

Sabre rocket engine could open up access to space as never before

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arstechnica.com 13y ago

Death of a data haven

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puddingmanifesto.org 13y ago

The pudding manifesto

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qlblang.org 13y ago

Ramsey Nasser's Arabic Programming Language

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pandodaily.com 13y ago

Networking is for losers

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youarenotsosmart.com 13y ago

The Just-World Fallacy

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timharford.com 15y ago

Why social marketing doesn’t work

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firstmonday.org 15y ago

The emerging economic paradigm of Open Source (2005)

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www.informit.com 15y ago

An Interview with Martin Fowler and Rebecca Parsons on Domain-Specific Languages

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radar.oreilly.com 16y ago

Safari Books converts to flash. Users complain.

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www.ted.com 16y ago

TED talks: Predicting Iran's future with game theory

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www.slate.com 16y ago

Microblogging has become too important for Twitter to rule the field.

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www.friskdesign.com 17y ago

Myows: A new service to protect copyright on digital creative works.

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www.oft.gov.uk 17y ago

Why people fall victim to scams – OFT research

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mashable.com 17y ago

Twitter’s Response to #fixreplies: We Can’t

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www.scribd.com 18y ago

Viral Marketing for the Real World

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Java Developers 12 years ago

That's a really useful insight. What particular problems did you run across in Python that Java/C++ handled better?

I find it really helpful to write little notes and diagrams to help visualise the problem and as a basic mnemonic technique. There's not much space in your short term memory so it's better to offload some of the work if you can. I've started reading Your Brain at Work. It explains how your brain operates in laymans terms and offers some workarounds for common problems.

Help! My digital self has been enslaved by corporate missionaries and forced to drink coke. Can we calm down on the emotive metaphors a little so I can see the actual point?

I was attracted by the basic looking design, but I can't work out how to do anything. Why am I subscribed to a huge number of random feeds? How do I get rid of them? How do I view the content of the feed instead of opening a new window on the original site?

It's very easy to make up a story like the one about MS Word after the event. Not so easy to predict in advance who these influencers are, who they influence, and if they exist in the first place. Duncan Watts has researched this and there's an interview here. http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/scientist-in...

" They throw parties or they give away free samples or they advertise in particular publications that brand themselves as reaching an influential audience and run some campaign in their normal manner. And if it works, they say, "We reached the influencers." And if it doesn't work, they say "We didn't reach the influencers" or "We weren't able to make them help us." In that sense, it's just a rhetorical device to help you explain the randomness that you actually experience in the world. "

Not about V for Vendetta, but my when my wife saw Animal Farm for the first time a couple of weeks ago she thought it was pretty accurate.

V can be interpreted any way you want depending on who you think the bad guys are. The Chinese government was established by revolutionaries after all.

Being able to program is not that uncommon a skill anymore. Just as you might expect customers to have a certain degree of literacy and numeracy, you can expect a growing number of them to be able to program.

Surely its because they have a strong cycling culture that cycling is not seen as something extraordinary that requires special safety equipment. It makes about as much sense as a walking helmet.

And on the other side of the coin, why not release it as open source? I would be interested to know if they'd considered that. It works very well for Redhat.

I don't have any hard data, only my own experience, but I think some customers prefer PayPal. I added it as a payment option to one site and they now get approximately 30% of their payments through PayPal.

I don't think iTunes is that simple to use. It's very easy to make a mistake and lose all your contacts. I know two people that happened to, and to be honest I cross my fingers and hope when I upgrade my iPhone. Dropbox is very easy to understand in comparison.