hackerNews

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Ask HN: I'm quadriplegic, can you help me with my security? (news.ycombinator.com)

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White Coke (en.wikipedia.org)

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EFF sues the NSA Over Illegal Surveillance (www.eff.org)

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Email exchange between Edward Snowden and former GOP Senator Gordon Humphrey (m.guardian.co.uk)

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RegEx Crossword - Sudoku-like Regular Expression Puzzles (www.regexcrossword.com)

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A Low-Tech Mosquito Deterrent (www.nytimes.com)

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Mission Creep: When Everything Is Terrorism (www.theatlantic.com)

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19 Groups Sue NSA Over Data Collection (www.securityweek.com)

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Logic Pro X (www.apple.com)

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Home-made robot doing a perfect quadruple backflip [video] (www.youtube.com)

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Malware Hidden Inside JPG EXIF Headers (blog.sucuri.net)

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Gittip at Khan Academy (ejohn.org)

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100% time (cemerick.com)

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A preview of LightTable 0.5 (groups.google.com)

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Disney Research unveils Augmented Reality Books (www.disneyresearch.com)

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How Heroku Works (new, in depth) (devcenter.heroku.com)

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Why You Need to Ring the Freaking Cash Register (www.bothsidesofthetable.com)

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History of Emacs ＆ vi Keys (Keyboard Influence on Keybinding Design) (2010) (xahlee.info)

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My self-published book on being a great developer (www.theseniorsoftwareengineer.com)

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Home-made robot doing a perfect quadruple backflip. (newslamp.com)

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Microsoft: U.S. Constitution is 'suffering' from NSA secrecy (news.cnet.com)

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7 Reasons Why You Need To Work For A Big Company (onstartups.com)

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Ask HN: Has anyone here self-published a book? Any advice? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Dementia Rate Drops Sharply, as Forecast (www.nytimes.com)

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Has Ubuntu lost it? (www.techradar.com)

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Gotk3: GTK3 the Go way (blog.conformal.com)

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Authentic Design (www.smashingmagazine.com)

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What is Programmer Anarchy and does it have a future? (martinjeeblog.wordpress.com)

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Why I've Decided to Avoid US Genetic Testing (www.bencollier.info)

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Code and Creative Destruction (dangrover.com)

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StatusPage (YC S13) Lets Anyone Communicate With Customers About Outages (techcrunch.com)

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The Decline In Male Fertility (online.wsj.com)

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Snowden applies for asylum in Russia (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Overtime is Morphine (erniemiller.org)

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Hand-written lexer in Javascript compared to the regex-based ones (eli.thegreenplace.net)

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Being an excellent robot (Erica Goldson Graduation speech) (zenpencils.com)

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Card management API (stripe.com)

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Gistblog - a blogging platform for Github users (github.com)

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Confidential Microsoft brief: 'We're TOAST if we fight Google on price' (www.channelregister.co.uk)

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PayPal accidentally credits man $92 quadrillion (edition.cnn.com)

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Critical vulnerabilities in numerous ASUS routers (www.h-online.com)

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Linus Torvalds defends his right to shame Linux kernel developers (arstechnica.com)

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When you have a nail in your eye, everything looks like a nail (robertheaton.com)

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The Unfortunate Rise of Patents in the Startup World (immad.me)

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FundersClub (YC S12) disrupts VC with new referral feature (venturebeat.com)

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Seafile - Not a Dropbox clone, but a better replacement (seafile.com)

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Instagram Designer Tim Van Damme Is Leaving Facebook For Dropbox (techcrunch.com)

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‘US-Russian relations above Snowden case' – Putin (rt.com)

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Firereader: a real-time content aggregator based on Firebase and Angular (firereader.io)

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Show HN: Introducing Q.js, a library for modern web apps (github.com)

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Augmented android code snippets in StackOverflow (www.codotablog.com)

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Reducing the Roots of Some Evil (codeascraft.com)

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Six Lessons That Might Have Saved Our Business Had We Learned Them Earlier (blog.path.to)

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Batch Shipping Labels (blog.easypost.com)

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First Look at Next.Data.gov (www.whitehouse.gov)

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Ask HN: What exception tracking service do you use? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Why you’ll want everyone you know to wear Google Glass (lehrblogger.com)

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Brad Feld on the Rise of Global Startup Communities (www.technologyreview.com)

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Fuck Off As A Service (foaas.herokuapp.com)

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Break free from PRISM with the new Kolab 3.1 (kolab.org)

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Spectacular: a BDD framework for CoffeeScript and JavaScript inspired by RSpec (abe33.github.io)

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San Diego Hacker News Meetup tomorrow (downtown near Comic-Con) (anyvite.com)

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Evidence that Apple is making a TV, and the remote will likely be your hand (qz.com)

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Seven Life Lessons (versiononeventures.com)

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Are These The Most Ridiculous/Awesome Startup Perks Ever? (www.thedailymuse.com)

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Words Apple doesn't want you to type (www.canberratimes.com.au)

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Living the lonely solopreneur life? Why not try co-working? (medium.com)

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Abolish Tipping: It's bad for servers, customers and restaurants (www.slate.com)

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Famous First Landing Pages (blog.onemonthrails.com)

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Vatican offers 'time off purgatory' to followers of Pope Francis tweets (www.guardian.co.uk)

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Regulation and Innovation (blog.alexmaccaw.com)

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MIT Whiz Wants to Turn Your Skin Into a Computer Interface (www.wired.com)

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Show HN: SMRZr - Summarize YouTube Videos (http://smrzr.com)

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Ask HN: What has been the best career advice someone has ever given you? (news.ycombinator.com)

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How Does Elon Musk's Hyperloop Work? (www.abdinoor.com)

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How often do you talk to your close friends? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Alike: light kNN library for Node (github.com)

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Show HN: Easily Add External JS Libraries To Your Meteor App (github.com)

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Stop waiting to give back (getluckybird.com)

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Announcing: Mastering Modern Payments: Using Stripe with Rails (pkn.me)

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Techniques that measurably improved our customer development (peternixey.com)

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Ask HN: Why are IT salaries so much lower in Europe than in the US? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Why Lettuce Keeps Making Us Sick (modernfarmer.com)

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Developing Traction: A Classic Joke Retold (www.startupengine.org)

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PRISM: We are fighting the wrong battle. (www.slashgeek.net)

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Oops! PayPal accidentally credits man $92 quadrillion (www.cnn.com)

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A new kind of inheritance in programming languages? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Programming Languages at a Glance (www.minimalprogramming.org)

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Put yourself on Rails with a push of a button (blog.lunarlogicpolska.com)

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Startupland: A documentary series (www.kickstarter.com)

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Ask HN: I'm an MD and a hacker. I would like to do something interesting. (news.ycombinator.com)

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The Static Website Hosting Showdown: S3 vs GCS vs Cloud Files (blog.scalr.com)

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Responding to government legal demands for customer data (blogs.technet.com)

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The challenge of geocoding Indian addresses (www.slideshare.net)

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UltraHook – Receive webhooks while behind a firewall (www.ultrahook.com)

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Heka 0.3 Released (blog.mozilla.org)

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Would an American Jury Even Convict Edward Snowden? (www.theatlantic.com)

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What Happens When We Actually Catch Edward Snowden? (www.lawfareblog.com)

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Rep. Holt to introduce bill to repeal Patriot Act & 2008 FISA Act (americablog.com)

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Where are the Voyagers? (voyager.jpl.nasa.gov)

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Microsoft Asks Attorney General To Release Gag Order On NSA Spying (techcrunch.com)

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Rails Tutorial Rails 4.0 ebooks and supplementary screencasts (news.railstutorial.org)

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How the Tesla Model S is Made -- Behind The Scenes -- The Window - Wired (www.youtube.com)

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Hipmob brings real-time customer support to Appcelerator (developer.appcelerator.com)

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The management framework that propelled LinkedIn to a $20 billion company (firstround.com)

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Next version of data.gov released for review (next.data.gov)

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Keeping the NSA in Perspective (www.stratfor.com)

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Show HN: CarIncentives.com – get paid to test-drive new cars (http://www.carincentives.com)

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The honest dangers of OpenStack "winning" (ibuildthecloud.tumblr.com)

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Google is Said to Mull Internet Cable Service (www.nytimes.com)

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Nginx on cPanel done right (engintron.com)

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PayPal credits man with $92,233,720,368,547,800 (articles.philly.com)

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How the Tesla Model S is Made (Video) (www.youtube.com)

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Snowden leak: Microsoft added Outlook.com backdoor for Feds (www.theregister.co.uk)

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Basic Augmented Reality using Glass (9to5google.com)

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The pitch deck that the Samwer brothers raised $1B in 26 weeks with (www.manager-magazin.de)

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iOS is destined to be a hardcore gaming platform (www.polygon.com)

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JavaScript Powered Arduino with Johnny-Five (blog.safaribooksonline.com)

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NY appeals court refuses to rehear Aereo case (online.wsj.com)

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F.T.C. Turns a Lens on Abusers of the Patent System (www.nytimes.com)

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Incredible skill of old-fashioned fairground signwriter (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Introduction to Public Speaking (chodounsky.net)

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Ask HN: Snapchat, the harbringer of the bubble? (news.ycombinator.com)

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This Apple Ad Is Nuts: How Our Devices Turn Us Away From Reality (www.fastcodesign.com)

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Ask HN: Any recommendations on building a team and delegating? (news.ycombinator.com)

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All about Perl 6 – interview of Jonathan Worthington (Part 3 of 3) (www.josetteorama.com)

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Learn Python with the DataNitro team tonight in NYC (www.meetup.com)

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Optimizing a Parser Combinator into a memcpy (twistedoakstudios.com)

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How Heroku Works (blog.heroku.com)

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Estimote Creator Talks About Building An “OS For The Physical World” (techcrunch.com)

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Did you learn anything from your failed start up? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Is changing funeral tradition morbid or tabu? (news.ycombinator.com)

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New Relic FutureStack conference (futurestack.io)

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CodeWarranty: Get paid to maintain your own integrations. (blog.apixchange.com)

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The first program I ever wrote: HOTAIRBALLOON on the Commodore 64 (gist.github.com)

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The incredible intangible value of Twitter (owened.co.nz)

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GERDA investigates the identity of the neutrino (www.symmetrymagazine.org)

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Paypal blacklisting the word "Iranian" (www.cityofsound.com)

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Snowden's Contingency: 'Dead Man's Switch' Borrows From Cold War, WikiLeaks (www.wired.com)

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Ask HN: poll - any startups working to capitalize on the coming privacy boom? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Noam Chomsky (June, 2013) The Future of American Power [video] (www.youtube.com)

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Lets move this issue forward: gender inequality in tech workplaces... (www.newstatesman.com)

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Why Develop in the Newsroom? (thescoop.org)

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Ask HN: Should I wait for Tesla? (news.ycombinator.com)

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NSA Snooping: The War on Terror Is America's Mania (www.spiegel.de)

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PHP internationalization with gettext tutorial (blog.lingohub.com)

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Java software analyze "The Cuckoo’s Calling" and found author as J.K. Rowling (entertainment.time.com)

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TED’s Spectacular Fail: Ideas Worth Suppressing (sebastian.penraeth.com)

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Media Consumption is Motion (journal.michaelahlers.org)