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100 Greatest Cooking Tips (of all time!)
- 61. When making mashed potatoes, after you drain the potatoes, return them to the hot pan, cover tightly and let steam for 5 minutes. This allows the potatoes to dry out so they'll mash to a beautiful texture and soak up the butter and cream more easily.
Wolfgang Puck
Spago, Los Angeles
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How collective memory saved lives during Japan's tsunami - Los Angeles Times
The 1,000-year-old warning. How a message was passed down from people 1,000 years ago that saved lives in Miyatojima, Japan. (X-post from r/Japan) (articles.latimes.com)
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sqrt(x*x+y*y)+3*cos(sqrt(x*x+y*y))+5 - Google Search
Google never ceases to amaze me (google.com)
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Oracle lays out long-range Java intentions - JavaWorld
Oracle's wish list for Java beyond next year's planned Java SE (Standard Edition) 8 release includes object capabilities, as well as enhancements for ease-of-use, cloud computing, and advanced optimizations.
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Breach Hits Card Processor Global Payments - WSJ.com
Global Payments Inc., GPN -9.06% which processes credit cards and debit cards for banks and merchants, has been hit by a security breach that has put some 50,000 cardholders at risk, according to people with knowledge of the situation.
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Earlier signs of autism found in babies' gaze - latimes.com
An early symptom of autism might be found in a baby's gaze, researchers reported Thursday.
Diagnosing autism as early as possible is of critical importance. Studies show the earlier therapy begins, the more likely the child can overcome the deficits linked to the brain disorder.
Saturday, March 31, 2012
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By designing you learn to design. By making programs you learn to make programs.
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Welcome … to the world of failed nations | Why Nations Fail
Failure is all around us. When you hear of failed nations, you may immediately think or Somalia or Afghanistan, where state institutions have all but completely collapsed. But failed nations are much more ubiquitous. In this globalized and integrated world of ours, there are huge differences in economic prosperity across nations. According to the latest World Bank data, income per-capita in the US, at $47,360 is about 50 times that of Sierra Leone, of 40 times that of Nepal, or about 15 times that of El Salvador or Uzbekistan. These countries have not experienced the sort of state collapse that Somalia or Afghanistan did. They have nonetheless failed in reaching anything close to the sort of prosperity that countries like the US, Switzerland or Germany have. This is a failure no less consequential than that experienced by Somalia and Afghanistan. And it is every bit as much a result of the choices that these countries — or to be more exact, their elites and leaders — have made.
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Mystery disease devastates northern Uganda | Reuters
(Reuters) - Most mornings, Michael Odongkara takes his daughter Nancy Lamwaka outside and ties her ankle to a mango tree.
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New high in U.S. autism rates inspires renewed debate | Reuters
(Reuters) - About one in 88 children in the United States has autism or a related disorder, the highest estimate to date and one that is sure to revive a national argument over how the condition is diagnosed and treated.
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James Cameron: Earth's deepest spot desolate, foreboding – USATODAY.com
Thursday, March 29, 2012
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Go is an open source programming environment that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software.
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Jef Claes: How a web application can download and store over 2GB without you even knowing it
I have been experimenting with the HTML5 offline application cache some more over the last few days, doing boundary tests in an attempt to learn more about browser behaviour in edge cases.
One of these experiments was testing the cache quota.
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#topquestion - How do I enable security (SSL) for my Storefront transactions? | Intuit Community
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Who is the Route 29 Batman? This guy. - Rosenwald, Md. - The Washington Post
Police pulled a man over on Route 29 in Silver Spring last week because of a problem with his plates. This would not ordinarily make international news, but the car was a black Lamborghini, the license plate was the Batman symbol, and the driver was Batman, dressed head-to-toe in his full superhero uniform.
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Fort Bragg wont let us feed homeless vets at the atheist festival
I fought very hard for this to happen at the festival this weekend. We went back and forth for several months. The ‘pro-starvation’ camp has prevailed.
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The Game of Distributed Systems Programming. Which Level Are You? « Incubaid Research
When programming distributed systems becomes part of your life, you go through a learning curve. This article tries to describe my current level of understanding of the field, and hopefully points out enough mistakes for you to be able follow the most optimal path to enlightenment: learning from the mistakes of others.
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Once you start working with the Varnish source code, you will notice that Varnish is not your average run of the mill application.
That is not a coincidence.
I have spent many years working on the FreeBSD kernel, and only rarely did I venture into userland programming, but when I had occation to do so, I invariably found that people programmed like it was still 1975.
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BrowserQuest: Mozilla's Massively Multiplayer HTML5 Experiment
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Wednesday, March 28, 2012
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A secret unit within Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation promoted a wave of high-tech piracy in Australia that damaged Austar, Optus and Foxtel at a time when News was moving to take control of the Australian pay TV industry.
The piracy cost the Australian pay TV companies up to $50 million a year and helped cripple the finances of Austar, which Foxtel is now in the process of acquiring.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
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High Scalability - High Scalability - 7 Years of YouTube Scalability Lessons in 30 Minutes
If you started out building a dating site and instead ended up building a video sharing site (YouTube) that handles 4 billion views a day, then it’s just possible you learned something along the way. And indeed, Mike Solomon, one of the original engineers at YouTube, did learn a lot and he has given a talk about it at PyCon: Scalability at YouTube.
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Graphical view of HackerNews polls on favorite/ disliked programming languages (attractivechaos.github.com)
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Video game nation: Why so many play - CSMonitor.com
Gliding through the sky, long neck undulating, great, ridged wings beating, the dragon looks ... beautiful. Until it lands.
Thumbs working the controller, Matt Fries, a freshman at American University in Washington, D.C., throws fireballs at it with both hands. The dragon lifts off, and lands again. It belches out a stream of yellow and orange flame.
Sunday, March 25, 2012
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Google Chrome OS “Student package” notebook for $20 tipped imminent - SlashGear
Google IO day two doesn’t kick off for another nine hours or so, but it seems the search giant may not have revealed all its secrets in the jam-packed first day. According to a Forbes report quoting an unnamed senior Google exec, the company is readying a Chrome OS based notebook launch which will be positioned as a “student package”, offering both hardware and cloud services for $20 per month.
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The Bats Affair: When Machines Humiliate Their Masters - Businessweek
The spectacularly botched initial public offering of Bats Global Markets on March 23 is so rich in irony that it’s difficult to know where to begin. What’s far less amusing is the prospect that the current era of high-frequency trading, in which powerful computers sift through massive information flows in search of price discrepancies and split-second trades, will bring even more episodes of market mayhem far more costly to investors and the broader economy.
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Cache them if you can | High Performance Web Sites
"The fastest HTTP request is the one not made.”
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If there's one thing web developers love, it's knowing better than conventional wisdom, but conventional wisdom is conventional for a reason: that shit works. Something's been bothering me for a while about this node.js nonsense, but I never took the time to figure it out until I read this butthurt post from Ryan Dahl, Node's creator. I was going to shrug it off as just another jackass who whines because Unix is hard. But, like a police officer who senses that something isn't quite right about the family in a minivan he just pulled over and discovers fifty kilos of black horse heroin in the back, I thought that something wasn't quite right about this guy's aw-shucks sob story, and that maybe, just maybe, he has no idea what he is doing, and has been writing code unchecked for years.
Friday, March 23, 2012
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The fastest-growing job in America - CNN.com
(CNN) -- I have a good friend in New York who turned the upstairs of her house into a bed and breakfast to help make ends meet -- a great idea on paper. My girlfriend was not a morning person. But she is now -- up and making breakfast with a smile -- because she likes the lights staying on more than she dislikes alarm clocks. She also has a consulting company and gives speeches.
In other words, she's a hustler in the new economy.
Thursday, March 22, 2012
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Is Boeing’s 737 an Airplane Prone to Problems? - Print View - The Daily Beast
The plane is America’s most popular model. But aviation experts worry that America’s most popular airplane is prone to cracks in its skin. An investigative report.
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OpenBSD bug in the random() function - Banu Blog
I now work for ISC through Banu (which handles my payroll and some other stuff in India). These days, among other things, we're trying to get BIND 10 to work on OpenBSD. Yesterday, I stumbled upon a bug in random() on OpenBSD (tested with OpenBSD 5.0 on amd64). The bug is that if you call srandom(0) to initialize the RNG, random() will always return 0. Here is a testcase:
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CraftStudio - Real-time collaborative game-making -- Indiegogo
Games with user-generated content like Minecraft, Little Big Planet or Trackmania have made it clear that lots of gamers are creative at their heart and that, provided with the right tools, you guys can and want to build awesome stuff.
User-made maps are great, but we can do better! Introducing...
Real-time collaborative ga
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
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Nine Tools for Building Your Own Mobile App | Entrepreneur.com
As a small-business owner, if you decide there's good reason to develop your own mobile app, there are several ways to do it.
But before you dive into the deep end of the app development pool, familiarize yourself with a number of the more advanced mobile development options. Here's some background on each platform:
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
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http://blog.stackoverflow.com/wp-content/uploads/WPW-Summary.pdf
What Programmers Want
Monday, March 19, 2012
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8,200+ Strong, Researchers Band Together To Force Science Journals To Open Access | Singularity Hub
Academic research is behind bars and an online boycott by 8,209 researchers (and counting) is seeking to set it free…well, more free than it has been. The boycott targets Elsevier, the publisher of popular journals like Cell and The Lancet, for its aggressive business practices, but opposition was electrified by Elsevier’s backing of a Congressional bill titled the Research Works Act (RWA). Though lesser known than the other high-profile, privacy-related bills SOPA and PIPA, the act was slated to reverse the Open Access Policy enacted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2008 that granted the public free access to any article derived from NIH-funded research. Now, only a month after SOPA and PIPA were defeated thanks to the wave of online protests, the boycotting researchers can chalk up their first win: Elsevier has withdrawn its support of the RWA, although the company downplayed the role of the boycott in its decision, and the oversight committee killed it right away.
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Programming Language Challenges in Systems Codes
Why Systems Programmers Still Use C, and What to Do About It
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Coding Reinvented For The Ipad
I learnt two important lessons during an idyllic holiday in Thailand over new year: Firstly I should relax more often, and secondly I should be able to code on my iPad when I am done relaxing. My resolve to relax more evaporated as soon as my fingers touched my keyboard back home, but the realisation that my iPad will never be a computer in my eyes until I can comfortably code on it didn't leave me. The accepted wisdom is that the iPad is a device for content consumption, not content creation, but I want my iPad to be more than an apparatus for donating more money to Apple, and I returned from Thailand on a mission to be able to code on my iPad. I am writing here to reveal my solution.
Sunday, March 18, 2012
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What happened when one of the world’s most unusual, and beloved, computer programmers disappeared.
[Ruby story]
Saturday, March 17, 2012
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Objective-C Automatic Reference Counting (ARC)
The Best Summary of Objective-C (clang.llvm.org)
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Passing out business cards is quickly becoming passé - latimes.com
Chalk up another looming casualty of the Internet age: business cards.
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Troy Hunt: Browsing the broken web: a software developer behind the Great Firewall of China
Browsing the broken web: a software developer behind the Great Firewall of China
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Diagnosing weird problems - a Stack Overflow case study - Jon Skeet: Coding Blog
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NEW YORK, March 15, 2012—ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery today named Judea Pearl of the University of California, Los Angeles the winner of the 2011 ACM A.M. Turing Award for innovations that enabled remarkable advances in the partnership between humans and machines that is the foundation of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Pearl pioneered developments in probabilistic and causal reasoning and their application to a broad range of problems and challenges. He created a computational foundation for processing information under uncertainty, a core problem faced by intelligent systems. He also developed graphical methods and symbolic calculus that enable machines to reason about actions and observations, and to assess cause-effect relationships from empirical findings. His work serves as the standard method for handling uncertainty in computer systems, with applications ranging from medical diagnosis, homeland security and genetic counseling to natural language understanding and mapping gene expression data. His influence extends beyond artificial intelligence and even computer science, to human reasoning and the philosophy of science.
Friday, March 16, 2012
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The concrete blonde - Michael Connelly - Google Books
*so true*
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Why I left Google - JW on Tech - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
Ok, I relent. Everyone wants to know why I left and answering individually isn’t scaling so here it is, laid out in its long form. Read a little (I get to the punch line in the 3rd paragraph) or read it all. But a warning in advance: there is no drama here, no tell-all, no former colleagues bashed and nothing more than you couldn’t already surmise from what’s happening in the press these days surrounding Google and its attitudes toward user privacy and software developers. This is simply a more personal telling.
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Study: Eating Red Meat Increases Death Risk | News | English
Eating red meat increases the risk of premature death, according to a new study, which also finds consuming processed meats presents an even greater risk.
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Rands In Repose: Hacking is Important
Back in the early 90s, Borland International was the place to be an engineer. Coming off the purchase of Ashton-Tate, Borland was the third largest software company, but, more importantly, it was a legitimate competitor to Microsoft. Philippe Kahn, the CEO at the time, was fond of motorcycles, saxophones, and brash statements at all-hands meetings: “We’re barbarians, not bureaucrats!”
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Why your tech CV sucks • The Register
No, really. Your CV really, really stinks. I read these things for a living and the quality varies a lot more than it should considering what you are selling.
Over the next few years you are asking to be paid more than the cost of a Ferrari and the desk space, computer kit and coffee you use over that time means you cost at least twice what you earn.
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
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Michael Connelly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A Look at New York City Center's 2012 Encores! Season - YouTube
Encores! Artistic Director Jack Viertel discusses the 2012 season
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As a follow-up to my March 1 posting, I want to share the findings of our root cause analysis of the service disruption of February 29th. We know that many of our customers were impacted by this event and we want to be transparent about what happened, what issues we found, how we plan to address these issues, and how we are learning from the incident to prevent a similar occurrence in the future.
Again, we sincerely apologize for the disruption, downtime and inconvenience this incident has caused. We will be proactively issuing a service credit to our impacted customers as explained below. Rest assured that we are already hard at work using our learnings to improve Windows Azure.
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
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14 Ways to Contribute to Open Source without Being a Programming Genius or a Rock Star
Plenty of people want to get involved in open source, but don’t know where to start. Here are several ways to help out even if you lack confidence in your technical chops.
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'Doonesbury' abortion series moves to The Times' Op-Ed page - latimes.com
A series of "Doonesbury" strips lampooning a Texas law requiring women to undergo an ultrasound before receiving an abortion will appear on The Times' Op-Ed page starting Monday rather than in the comics section, where the strip normally appears.
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All red meat is bad for you, new study says - latimes.com
A long-term study finds that eating any amount and any type increases the risk of premature death.
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A Didactic Tale to Illustrate Just How Much the Teacher Rating System Pisses Me Off, a True Story
A Didactic Tale to Illustrate Just How Much the Teacher Rating System Pisses Me Off, a True Story
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Coderbyte Programming Challenges - soofw
CODERBYTE PROGRAMMING CHALLENGES
11 MAR PROGRAMMING JAVASCRIPT PYTHON
As someone who enjoys programming as a hobby, this was an awesome experience. I spent a night on it and finished all of the challenges that I was able to and left fairly satisfied. Having some previous experience with "programming competitions/contents/challenges", I've found that often times they were actually "mathematics competitions/contests/challenges". Don't get me wrong, math is pretty great, but it's not what I want to challenge myself with. I want to think about programming, not calculating. I don't want to think of intricate formulas to deduce the exact number of times a certain card-shuffling algorithm will have to run in order to produce the original deck. I want to write a program that takes an argument, does something creative or unique with it, and then spits out a result.
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America Is Stealing the World’s Doctors - NYTimes.com
It was not an unusual death. Kunj Desai, a young doctor in training at University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka, Zambia, had seen many that were not so different and were equally needless. Still, this was the one that altered all his plans. “A guy came in, and he had a stab wound,” Desai recalled, “and his intestines got injured.” The operation was delayed, and the wound became infected. “Whatever he was eating would come out of his belly,” Desai said. A carefully managed diet would have helped the man heal, but there were no dietitians at the hospital nor any IV drips of liquid nutrients with which to feed him. “He withered away to probably about 100 pounds when he died.”
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The myth of 1812: How Canadians see the war we want to see - The Globe and Mail
Some wars never end.
Two hundred years ago this June, the still-new nation of the United States reopened hostilities against its bothersome British adversaries, and the War of 1812 began its long march into Canadian history. -
India is no stranger to the tiger mom trend - latimes.com
As millions of Indians migrate from villages to cities, parents increasingly view the educational success of their children as paramount.
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When eating in Hanoi, use your noodle - latimes.com
Reporting from Hanoi—
In Hanoi, soup is a way of life — the connective tissue of Vietnamese culture. With noodles, herbs and sinew, it strings together twisting streets and varied lifestyles. Here the bones, crumpled napkins and squeezed limes that litter the ground beneath tiny plastic tables are symbols of a good meal and a life well lived. -
Coding Horror: Separating Programming Sheep from Non-Programming Goats
A bunch of people have linked to this academic paper, which proposes a way to separate programming sheep from non-programming goats in computer science classes-- long before the students have ever touched a program or a programming language:
All teachers of programming find that their results display a 'double hump'. It is as if there are two populations: those who can [program], and those who cannot [program], each with its own independent bell curve. Almost all research into programming teaching and learning have concentrated on teaching: change the language, change the application area, use an IDE and work on motivation. None of it works, and the double hump persists. We have a test which picks out the population that can program, before the course begins. We can pick apart the double hump. You probably don't believe this, but you will after you hear the talk. We don't know exactly how/why it works, but we have some good theories.
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4 More Soldiers May Go On Trial Over Pvt. Danny Chen’s Death; Army Drops Top Charge « CBS New York
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) – The family of a Chinatown soldier who committed suicide after repeated hazing from his superiors is speaking out after the Army decided to drop the top charge against four of the eight soldiers charged in connection with his death.
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The controversy over Kony 2012 - PostPartisan - The Washington Post
The viral success of the KONY2012 film, produced by Invisible Children, has called immense Internet attention to the hunt for Joseph Kony, as well as provoking some criticism.
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“Angry Birds Space” Q&A: Your Guide to the Angry Universe – News Watch
Green pigs across the cosmos should start looking for places to hide, because the Angry Birds are headed to space.
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When Should a Kid Start Kindergarten? - NYTimes.com
According to the apple-or-coin test, used in the Middle Ages, children should start school when they are mature enough for the delayed gratification and abstract reasoning involved in choosing money over fruit. In 15th- and 16th-century Germany, parents were told to send their children to school when the children started to act ''rational.'' And in contemporary America, children are deemed eligible to enter kindergarten according to an arbitrary date on the calendar known as the birthday cutoff -- that is, when the state, or in some instances the school district, determines they are old enough. The birthday cutoffs span six months, from Indiana, where a child must turn 5 by July 1 of the year he enters kindergarten, to Connecticut, where he must turn 5 by Jan. 1 of his kindergarten year. Children can start school a year late, but in general they cannot start a year early. As a result, when the 22 kindergartners entered Jane Andersen's class at the Glen Arden Elementary School near Asheville, N.C., one warm April morning, each brought with her or him a snack and a unique set of gifts and challenges, which included for some what's referred to in education circles as ''the gift of time.''
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How I finally got over the hump and contributed to open source - mark[sweep]
I finally contributed my first open source “project” to the greater Internet community. There have been stalled attempts before, there have been ambitious projects and desires to contribute to the core of important projects but I finally found the formula that worked.
Thursday, March 8, 2012
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What sank the Titanic? Scientists point to the moon | Reuters
(Reuters) - A century after the Titanic disaster, scientists have found an unexpected culprit for the sinking: the moon.
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Sheldon Moldoff, a widely published comic book artist of the North American comic book's first four decades who contributed in significant fashion to the Hawkman and Batman franchises, died on February 29. He was 91 years old. The cause of death was kidney failure.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
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Why China Is Suddenly Content With 7.5 Percent Growth - Businessweek
For years, there’s been one constant for people talking about the Chinese economy: GDP growth would exceed 8 percent. It didn’t much matter what happened in the rest of the world—the U.S. and other export markets might be thriving or might be struggling, but China would grow at least 8 percent, year in and year out. The country needed to create enough jobs for the millions of young people entering the workforce every year, and the Chinese leadership decided that anything below 8 percent would put job creation in jeopardy. And the policy makers were consistent: The last time China had a growth target below 8 percent, George W. Bush was still in his first term and the Boston Red Sox still hadn’t broken the Bambino’s curse.
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I'm Stephen Wolfram (Mathematica, NKS, Wolfram|Alpha, ...), Ask Me Anything : IAmA
Looking forward to being here from 3 pm to 5 pm ET today...
Please go ahead and start adding questions now....
Verification: https://twitter.com/#!/stephen_wolfram/status/176723212758040577
Monday, March 5, 2012
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Cogs Bad - William Edwards, Coder
There is something really wrong with modern programmers. Very wrong indeed.
Saturday, March 3, 2012
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Call of Apathy: Violent Young Men and Our Place in War » Medium Difficulty
Disclaimer: I am not an academic. I have no education past the age of 16, so my writing may be rough. What I do have is an entire adulthood of military service, which I terminated recently when I decided I wanted more money for doing the same job.
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AntiSec dumps Monsanto data on the Web | Security - CNET News
Hackers affiliated with Anonymous go after the biotech giant, stating, "Your continued attack on the worlds food supply...has earned you our full attention."
Friday, March 2, 2012
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My Drone War - By Pir Zubair Shah | Foreign Policy
American drones have changed everything for al Qaeda and its local allies in Pakistan, becoming a fact of life in a secret war that is far from over.
Thursday, March 1, 2012
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A Complete Understanding is No Longer Possible
Let's say you've just bought a MacBook Air, and your goal is to become master of the machine, to understand how it works on every level.
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vitess - Scaling MySQL databases for the web - Google Project Hosting
The main goal of the vitess project is to provide servers and tools to facilitate scaling of MySQL databases for the web. The Project Goals page has more details on this.
Vtocc is the first usable product of vitess. It acts as a front-end to MySQL providing an RPC interface that accepts and transmits SQL commands. It is capable of efficiently multiplexing a large number of incoming connections (10K+) over a small number of db connections at reasonable throughput (~10kqps). It also has an SQL parser which gives the server the ability to understand and intelligently reshape the queries it receives.
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BBC News - The myth of the eight-hour sleep
We often worry about lying awake in the middle of the night - but it could be good for you. A growing body of evidence from both science and history suggests that the eight-hour sleep may be unnatural.
