The Long Tail (2004)
Hacker News
JANUARY 22, 2024
Forget squeezing millions from a few megahits at the top of the charts. The future of entertainment is in the millions of niche markets at the shallow end of the bitstream.
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Atrazine, an endocrine-disrupting herbicide banned in EU, is widely used in US
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MAY 10, 2024
Atrazine, banned in Europe in 2004, is an endocrine-disrupting herbicide widely used on crops across the United States.
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The Silver Thief (2004)
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SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
After a robbery in Rhinebeck, state troopers realized that they were dealing with a specialist. The burglar left no fingerprints or clues.
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100 Parking Tickets (2004)
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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
Over 100 Parking Tickets. All different Makes & Models. All different Colors
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I'm OK, the bull is dead (2004)
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AUGUST 11, 2023
Opinion: Gopal Kapur uses things that go bump in the night to illustrate a better way to report on IT project status.
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Out with the long (2004)
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DECEMBER 14, 2023
“Short words are best”, said Winston Churchill, “and old words when short are the best of all”
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Decision Table Based Methodology for Software Development (2004)
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DECEMBER 30, 2023
A tutorial on how to use a decision table based methodology for the analysis of complex conditional actions requirements in software development during software requirement gathering
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Video playback on low-end MS-DOS machines
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DECEMBER 31, 2023
Until the demo 8088 Corruption was released in 2004. Playing video on MS-DOS. it kinda was a thing with things such as the GRASP/GLPro and FLIC formats back in the day. But not on REALLY low-end machines, such as 8088s and CGA. And then its successor 8088 Domination in 2014, which I already discussed earlier.…
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The real realtime preemption end game
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NOVEMBER 16, 2023
The addition of realtime support to Linux is a long story; it first shows up in LWN in 2004. For much of that time, it has seemed like only a little more work was needed to get across the finish line; thus we ran headlines like the realtime preemption endgame — in 2009.
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The boy who stole Half-Life 2 (2011)
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AUGUST 31, 2023
At 6am on 7th May 2004, Axel Gembe awoke in the small German town of Schönau im Schwarzwald to find his bed surrou…
153 
Frutiger Aero
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NOVEMBER 15, 2023
Gloss) is a broad design style and aesthetic that was prevalent in advertising, media, stock imagery and technology from roughly 2004 to 2013, following the end of the Y2K era and overlapping with the McBling, Surf Crush, and ElectroPop 08 aesthetics. This article is part of a series on the Frutiger Family Frutiger Aero (also known as Web 2.0
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Air France denied my delay compensation, so I challenged them and won
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JULY 6, 2023
So, when Air France denied my EU 261/2004 claim, I knew what to do Rule of thumb: never trust a company that owes you money to fairly investigate themselves.
126 
How to Clean Chemistry Glassware
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DECEMBER 13, 2023
Demystifying Synthetic Organic Chemistry since 2004. Laboratory Techniques and Methods to Improve your Experimental Skills.
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Leaking Bitwarden's Vault with a Nginx vulnerability
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JULY 3, 2023
Nginx, a versatile web server pivotal to numerous internet infrastructures, has held a dominant market share since its inception in 2004, with widespread adoption across websites and Docker containers. This article delves into the intricacies of Nginx, focusing on the location and alias directives that are central to how Nginx
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The Pirate Bay’s Oldest Torrent is Now 20 Years Old
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APRIL 1, 2024
The file was originally uploaded on March 25, 2004, and several people continue to share it today. On March 31, 2004, someone uploaded a pirated copy of the documentary “ Revolution OS ” to the site which is alive and kicking today.
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Researchers reveal platform to study high-entropy alloy electrocatalysis
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JULY 28, 2023
Introduced in 2004, high-entropy alloys (HEAs) are alloys composed of multiple principal elements in nearly equiatomic proportions.
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Firefox 1.0 New York Times ad (2004)
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AUGUST 26, 2023
New York Times Launch Ad with all supporter names
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The Wembley Point Mystery
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JUNE 4, 2023
One October morning in 2004, a woman took the lift to the 21st floor of an office block in north-west London, bought a coffee in the cafe there – then opened a window and jumped out. No one knew who she was. Do they now?
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IRS takes aim at Microsoft over $28.9 Billion in back taxes
Dataconomy
OCTOBER 12, 2023
These allegations cover the tax years 2004 through 2013, and they were made public through an SEC filing. billion in tax for 2004 to 2013, plus penalties and interest. Since 2004, we have paid over $67 billion in taxes to the U.S.,” billion in past taxes, as well as penalties and interest. and around the world.
103 Inversion of Control Containers and the Dependency Injection Pattern (2004)
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FEBRUARY 20, 2024
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99 An Explanation of the Double-Dabble Bin-BCD Conversion Algorithm (2004)
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MARCH 12, 2024
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Mapping the sea floor
FlowingData
JANUARY 2, 2023
Jon Keegan on how USGS researchers collected data for 125 square miles of sea floor : In 2004 and 2005, two research vessels, Ocean Explorer and Connecticut set off into the waters off Cape Ann, Massachusetts on a U.S. Geological Survey mission to map a section of the bottom of the sea.
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More gender-neutral names
FlowingData
APRIL 8, 2022
Those dips in 1989 and 2004 are curious. Georgios Karamanis plotted the ratio of girls-to-boys over time for all the names in the Social Security Administration dataset. You can see the more gender-specific names at the edges and more gender-neutral names clustering in the middle.
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The curse and blessings of dynamic SQL (2004-2022)
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MAY 8, 2023
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CLOS: Integrating Object-Oriented and Functional Programming (2004) [pdf]
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AUGUST 12, 2023
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