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Mastering Programming - by Kent Beck (2016)

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FEBRUARY 13, 2024

FEBRUARY 5, 2016 · FACEBOOK This was one of those posts that I threw together, thought nothing of, & then it blew up. Until recently this was my most-read post ever. From years [decades] of watching master programmers, I have observed certain common patterns in their workflows.

Professional Corner-Cutting (2016)

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MAY 12, 2024

Steve Jobs famously cared about the unseen backs of cabinets. Antique furniture built with hand tools isn’t like that at all. Cabinetmakers made each part to the tolerance that mattered.

Atari's Mike Jang

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MAY 4, 2024

Some sad news to report on the blog this week. I've known Mike since 2016, and whilst we never met, he was always on the other end of an email answering my questions and providing really valuable input into… I got word that long-time Industrial Designer at Atari coin-operated division, Mike Jang, has passed away.

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My Pebble mood tracker app from 2016

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AUGUST 22, 2023

Discover why a 2016 mood tracker remains unparalleled. Boris Berenberg shares his journey with MoodApp, exploring the challenges and potentials of mood tracking.

Wintergatan Marble Machine (2016)

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MARCH 2, 2024

Check out Speldosa - The Wintergatan Music Box![link] link] as AU/VST/AAX: [link] on App Store for Ipad and Iphone.

How the Soviets Revolutionized Wristwatches (2016)

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MAY 15, 2024

Shop for—and learn—about vintage and antiques. Browse the best of eBay, connect with other collectors, and explore the history behind your favorite finds.

Page Dewarping (2016)

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MAY 12, 2024

Flattening images of curled pages, as an optimization problem.

Hyper-Reality (2016) [video]

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FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Hyper-Reality presents a provocative and kaleidoscopic new vision of the future, where physical and virtual realities have merged, and the city is saturated…

Pirate IPTV Co. & Seven Workers Fined After Massive Raids Eight Years Ago

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MARCH 5, 2024

News that the Provincial Court of Pontevedra has handed down substantial fines to individuals behind a very large pirate IPTV operation was first reported by ElMundo on Tuesday. ‘International Organized Crime’ Between 2010 and 2016, Engel Systems sold a range of devices that provided illegal access to pirated TV content.

Earth rotation limits in-body image stabilization to 6.3 stops (2020)

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MAY 15, 2024

In 2016, Olympus Camera made some buzz in the photo world when they claimed that their new camera was capable of an impressive 6.5 stops of stabilization and that the limiting factor was in fact th…

Applying Grease to TLS Extensibility (2016)

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FEBRUARY 17, 2024

This document describes GREASE (Generate Random Extensions And Sustain Extensibility), a mechanism to prevent extensibility failures in the TLS ecosystem. It reserves a set of TLS protocol values that may be advertised by clients to ensure servers correctly handle unknown values.

5 Reasons to Attend Data Natives 2016: #4. The Workshops

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OCTOBER 17, 2016

and register, and get instant access to speaker and schedule information on Data Natives Berlin 2016. If you are just joining, The post 5 Reasons to Attend Data Natives 2016: #4. Go to datanatives.io Data Natives is just around the corner now, and so is the end of this series of Reasons Why You Should Attend Data Natives.

Announcing Data Natives Berlin 2016!

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AUGUST 9, 2016

Data Natives Berlin 2016: A Conference for the Data-Driven Generation Data is part of our new cultural identity, transforming the way we communicate, learn and interact. The post Announcing Data Natives Berlin 2016! appeared first on Dataconomy.

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5 Reasons to Attend Data Natives 2016: Building A Strong Professional Network

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

and get instant access to speaker and ticket discount information on Data Natives Berlin 2016. The post 5 Reasons to Attend Data Natives 2016: Building A Strong Professional Network appeared first on Dataconomy. Go to datanatives.io

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Patagonia's New Study Finds Fleece Jackets Are a Serious Pollutant (2016)

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MAY 6, 2024

Patagonia recently commissioned a study to find out how many synthetic microfibers—the tiny bits of plastic that marine scientists say could be jeopardizing our oceans (and us)—are being shed from its jackets in the wash. The results aren't pretty.

Generating Fantasy Maps (2016)

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JANUARY 31, 2024

An interactive exploration of the map generation algorithm behind @unchartedatlas.

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5 Reasons to Attend Data Natives 2016: #5: Best Kept Secrets

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OCTOBER 21, 2016

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The right way to sauce pasta (2016)

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JANUARY 28, 2024

Pasta heated in the skillet with sauce has a vastly different and superior flavor and texture compared with pasta that is simply sauced on the plate. No matter how great a sauce you can make, if you don't sauce your pasta correctly, you're missing out on one of life's greatest pleasures.

Enphase Envoy-S data scraping (2016)

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JANUARY 19, 2024

If you are interested in other Enphase information the following other pages may also be of interest: What is inside the Enphase Envoy-S (teardown) Reverse Engineering the Enphase Installer Toolkit Enphase Envoy-S Open Ports! I've recently had to interface with an EnPhase Envoy Solar PV system. The annoying thing is the lack of documentation.

Interviewing my mother, a mainframe COBOL programmer(2016)

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DECEMBER 14, 2023

The Home Doctor - Practical Medicine for Every Household - is a 304 page doctor written and approved guide on how to manage most health situations when help is not on the way.

New £4M hub for metabolic psychiatry

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APRIL 26, 2024

2016 Lister Fellow Danny Smith will head up one of five new UKRI research hubs dedicated to severe mental illness (SMI). The Edinburgh hub, opening this month, will explore the correlation between metabolic disorders and severe mental health conditions.

How not to bomb your offer negotiation (2016)

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FEBRUARY 3, 2024

So you know the first 6 rules. You’ve maneuvered through the initial offer conversation, you’ve lined up counteroffers from other companies, and now it’s time to move into the actual negotiating.

AWS kills Snowmobile data transfer truck

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APRIL 18, 2024

Amazon Web Services says it has better and more cost-efficient ways to move data to the cloud than by using the semi truck it introduced in 2016.

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The Beautiful Islands of San Serriffe (2016)

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APRIL 22, 2024

Some printers at a newspaper in the UK made a funny joke about fake islands

Sugar Industry and Coronary Heart Disease Research (2016)

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APRIL 18, 2024

This historical analysis uses internal sugar industry documents to describe how the industry sought to influence the scientific debate over the dietary causes of coronary heart disease in the 1950s and 1960s.

5 Reasons to Attend Data Natives 2016: #2. The Schedule

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OCTOBER 10, 2016

The post 5 Reasons to Attend Data Natives 2016: #2. This time, we’ll talk about the conference schedule. By the way, the conference is approaching soon, so don’t sleep on the last chances to attend. The Schedule appeared first on Dataconomy.

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Why quantum entanglement doesn't allow faster-than-light communication (2016)

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MARCH 27, 2024

Quantum entanglement is one of the weirdest and coolest phenomena in physics, but it's absolutely not a method for sending messages faster than light, for subtle and complicated reasons.

Forgotten APL Influences(2016) [pdf]

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MAY 16, 2024

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Tokyo by Train (2016) [video]

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AUGUST 26, 2023

Come along as I ride the trains of Tokyo from first to last train!If If you'd like to support our mini-documentaries, we have a Patreon account [link]

Spoonbill (2016–2023)

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JANUARY 2, 2024

How I mostly-accidentally made $220K in 100 hours, and what I learned along the way

Atari Tempest: Time-Lapse Photography (2016)

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AUGUST 19, 2023

Thought we'd try something different this week. For the record, I am definitely a 'point and click' photographer - my mobile phone has always been my camera of choice. The extent of my photography skills is using an image size optimiser for the pictures I post here on the blog. Manipulating images and setting ISO…

One man saved a generation of premature babies (2016)

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DECEMBER 29, 2023

For years doctors in the US made little attempt to save the lives of premature babies, but there was one place distressed parents could turn for help - a sideshow on Coney Island.

The Queen of Sample Clearance: An Interview with Deborah Mannis-Gardner (2016)

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APRIL 15, 2024

Deborah Mannis-Gardner doesn’t rap or produce, but you’ll likely spy her on more album credits than all of the 808 mafias combined. One of America’s leading clearance agents, Deborah has spent 20 years dodging red tape to acquire music for film, samples and video games. Her role includes hunting obscure [.]

Could a video game developer win the Nobel Prize for Literature?

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APRIL 19, 2024

In October 2016, the Swedish Academy announced that it was awarding the Nobel Prize for Literature to the singer-songwriter Bob Dylan for.

Hookworm gave the South a bad name (2016)

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Today, hundreds of millions of people in dozens of nations around the world suffer from hookworm infection.

Rare Otis Pop-Out Elevators (2016) [video]

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

These Are EXTREMELY RARE ELEVATORS these were Modernized in the 1940's or 1950's With the Extremely Rare Pop-Out Fixtures. Pop-out buttons are Very RARE on A.

The 'Startling' Link Between Low Interest Rates and Low Crime (2016)

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JANUARY 16, 2024

When interest rates go up, crime goes up. When interest rates go down, crime goes down. Two analysts say the powerful relationship between them has significant implications for justice and economic policymakers in the next administration.

Quartz Crystals – Twinning (2016)

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APRIL 7, 2024

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Fairytales much older than previously thought, say researchers (2016)

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APRIL 30, 2024

Study of fairy story origins traces some back thousands of years, with one tale dating back as far as bronze age

8 years later: A world Go champion's reflections on AlphaGo

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MARCH 19, 2024

Editor’s note: Lee Sae Dol is a professional Go player who played a now-famous public match against AlphaGo, Google DeepMind’s AI system, back in 2016.As That changed in 2016 when I played a five-match game of Go against AlphaGo, Google’s AI system. As a world Go champion, I’d only ever played the game against other humans.

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Drop Table “Companies”;– LTD (2016)

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AUGUST 3, 2023

; DROP TABLE "COMPANIES";-- LTD - Free company information from Companies House including registered office address, filing history, accounts, annual return, officers, charges, business activity

:syntax off (2016)

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MARCH 13, 2024

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Ossian, the ‘Homer of the North’, the greatest literary hoax (2016)

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JANUARY 24, 2024

‘I am not ashamed to own that I think this rude bard of the North the greatest Poet that has ever existed,’ US founding father Thomas Jefferson wrote of the blind 3rd century Scottish poet Ossian, who was almost certainly made up in the 18th century

TCP Puzzlers (2016)

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FEBRUARY 19, 2024

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Mastering Programming - by Kent Beck (2016)

Professional Corner-Cutting (2016)

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My Pebble mood tracker app from 2016

Wintergatan Marble Machine (2016)

How the Soviets Revolutionized Wristwatches (2016)

Page Dewarping (2016)

Hyper-Reality (2016) [video]

Pirate IPTV Co. & Seven Workers Fined After Massive Raids Eight Years Ago

Earth rotation limits in-body image stabilization to 6.3 stops (2020)

Applying Grease to TLS Extensibility (2016)

5 Reasons to Attend Data Natives 2016: #4. The Workshops

Announcing Data Natives Berlin 2016!

5 Reasons to Attend Data Natives 2016: Building A Strong Professional Network

Patagonia's New Study Finds Fleece Jackets Are a Serious Pollutant (2016)

Generating Fantasy Maps (2016)

5 Reasons to Attend Data Natives 2016: #5: Best Kept Secrets

The right way to sauce pasta (2016)

Enphase Envoy-S data scraping (2016)

Interviewing my mother, a mainframe COBOL programmer(2016)

New £4M hub for metabolic psychiatry

How not to bomb your offer negotiation (2016)

AWS kills Snowmobile data transfer truck

The Beautiful Islands of San Serriffe (2016)

Sugar Industry and Coronary Heart Disease Research (2016)

5 Reasons to Attend Data Natives 2016: #2. The Schedule

Why quantum entanglement doesn't allow faster-than-light communication (2016)

Forgotten APL Influences(2016) [pdf]

Tokyo by Train (2016) [video]

Spoonbill (2016–2023)

Atari Tempest: Time-Lapse Photography (2016)

One man saved a generation of premature babies (2016)

The Queen of Sample Clearance: An Interview with Deborah Mannis-Gardner (2016)

Could a video game developer win the Nobel Prize for Literature?

Hookworm gave the South a bad name (2016)

Rare Otis Pop-Out Elevators (2016) [video]

The 'Startling' Link Between Low Interest Rates and Low Crime (2016)

Quartz Crystals – Twinning (2016)

Fairytales much older than previously thought, say researchers (2016)

8 years later: A world Go champion's reflections on AlphaGo

Drop Table “Companies”;– LTD (2016)

:syntax off (2016)

Ossian, the ‘Homer of the North’, the greatest literary hoax (2016)

TCP Puzzlers (2016)

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