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en.wikipedia.org 9y ago

142857 (number)

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valuemotive.com 9y ago

Unit Testing React Native Components with Mocha and Enzyme

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medium.com 10y ago

The Geography of Remote Work

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www.producthunt.com 10y ago

Marmoset – Take screenshots of your code

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medium.com 10y ago

The design patterns of work

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medium.com 10y ago

So what could possibly go wrong?

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royal.pingdom.com 10y ago

Web Performance of the World’s Top 50 Blogs

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yle.fi 10y ago

PM of Finland Pledges His Home to Refugees

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www.nytimes.com 11y ago

What My Landlord Learned About Me from Twitter

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teropa.info 11y ago

Overcoming JavaScript Framework Fatigue

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www.youtube.com 11y ago

Le Mans 360° Lap

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www.josebalius.com 11y ago

React Native – The Future Is Here

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medium.com 11y ago

What happens when Betelgeuse explodes?

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www.eurekalert.org 11y ago

A dim star passed through the Oort Cloud 70,000 years ago

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glaforge.appspot.com 11y ago

The Groovy project is looking for a new home

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www.youtube.com 11y ago

Slush 2014 – Cybersecurity Hour – Mikko Hyppönen: R.I.P. Internet

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www.nytimes.com 11y ago

The Evolution of Sleep: 700M Years of Melatonin

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tcorral.github.io 12y ago

JavaScript Challenges

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www.policymic.com 12y ago

Map Shows All the Countries in Africa Where the US Has Military Operations

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cgi.ebay.ca 12y ago

TU-95MS – Soviet Bomber

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www.businessinsider.com 12y ago

Couchsurfing: The Greatest Hook-Up App Ever

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www.ft.com 12y ago

The great middle-class identity crisis

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www.businessinsider.com 13y ago

Adding Iodine To Salt Resulted In A Decade's Worth Of IQ Gains For The US

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www.wired.com 13y ago

Voyager 1 Discovers Unexpected Region Outside Solar System

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money.cnn.com 13y ago

Judge rules Airbnb illegal in New York City

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Developers, by our nature, are very different from end-users. We're used to the idea that when you interact with a computer, it takes a little while for the computer to come back with an answer.

I don't agree. End users are used to shitty systems which take some time to load, but we developers should know better. We should be able to recognise performance bottlenecks during the architecture design and development, also we should be able to measure the layers where optimisation is necessary and useful. And when developing web app, caching should always be in mind as one tool to improve system performance in one way or another.

Otherwise fantastic piece of information.

I pay Spotify for usability and UX. Google Music might be couple of euros cheaper but the UI is worse (especially on mobile). Piracy and saving files to different devices takes time and effort, streaming is easy. Hunting down good quality uploads and creating playlists based on albums on Youtube? No way.

There was a debate in Finland when the child porn filter was introduced a few years back. One guy had a website where he kept database of sites which were blocked but did not contain any child porn. Aftermath was that the site was added to list and that raised even more questions about the whole censorship idea. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapsiporno.info)

Unlike in Britain, the consumers did not have an option to opt out from the filter although it seems that majority of ISPs don't use it. Later on ISPs were forced to block piratebay.org and there have been discussions about blocking online poker sites etc, because Veikkaus enjoys monopoly in gambling and betting business in Finland.