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Rust by Example (rustbyexample.github.io)

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SpaceX Successfully Soft-Landed Booster Rocket in the Atlantic (mashable.com)

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Using Facebook Notes to DDoS any website (chr13.com)

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How I wrote Game Programming Patterns (journal.stuffwithstuff.com)

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Amazon’s Glacier secret: BDXL? (storagemojo.com)

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Facebook's git repo is 54GB (twitter.com)

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The worst year of my life (maban.co.uk)

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Off-Canvas Sidebar Transitions with CSS (tympanus.net)

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Russ Cox: Porting the Go compiler from C to Go (gophercon.sourcegraph.com)

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Marvel Comics API (http://developer.marvel.com)

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Lots of hate going on at Stack Overflow (meta.stackoverflow.com)

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How to Drink All Night Without Getting Drunk (shine.yahoo.com)

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PiPhone – Home-made Raspberry Pi Smartphone (www.raspberrypi.org)

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I'm embarrassed for TechCrunch over their Google+ coverage (mattcruikshank.blogspot.com)

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Kowloon Walled City (projects.wsj.com)

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Waffle.io (waffle.io)

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Dat – A git-like tool for large datasets (dat-data.com)

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HipChat Will Grant Employers Access To 1-to-1 Chat History (blog.hipchat.com)

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LyX 2.1.0 released (www.lyx.org)

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PiPhone – A Raspberry-Pi-based Smartphone (www.davidhunt.ie)

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Ludum Dare about to start (www.ludumdare.com)

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Gobot – Go framework for robotics, physical computing, internet of things (gobot.io)

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Ask HN: How does your home office look like? (item?id=7650916)

99 points first seen 2014042621 last seen 2014042800 140 comments

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Go from ThoughtWorks is now open source. (github.com)

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Using Vim as a writing environment (timotheepoisot.fr)

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A new CPU (2013) (www.fpgarelated.com)

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Eating Alone by Design: An Entire Restaurant With Tables for One (www.businessweek.com)

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Almost half of homeless men had traumatic brain injury in their lifetime (www.sciencedaily.com)

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Why we don't sell ads (2012) (blog.whatsapp.com)

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Character Encodings For Modern Programmers (blog.gatunka.com)

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Optimal Light Exposure for Rapidly Correcting Circadian Misalignment (www.ploscompbiol.org)

66 points first seen 2014042612 last seen 2014042800 15 comments

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In which I answer all of the questions (2012) (sarajchipps.com)

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DigitalOcean droplet console rewritten in Go (www.digitalocean.com)

63 points first seen 2014042618 last seen 2014042800 28 comments

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New 3DS Emulator (gbatemp.net)

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Model-view-controller, Haskell-style (www.haskellforall.com)

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Amazon’s Shrinking Profit Sets Off a Seismic Shock to Its Shares (www.nytimes.com)

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Why USB sucks (2005) (www.technozeal.com)

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After months of delay, Soylent finally ships (arstechnica.com)

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Better JavaScript Promises (frederic.vanderessen.com)

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Modifying Transcend WiFi SD Card Firmware (fernjager.net)

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Facebook news feed: Algorithms, A/B tests, and surveying that make it addictive (www.slate.com)

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Biomarkers and ageing: The clock-watcher (www.nature.com)

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Irony is ruining our culture (www.salon.com)

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Göbekli Tepe – Stone age mountain sanctuary (en.wikipedia.org)

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Obama pledges Net neutrality laws if elected president (2007) (www.cnet.com)

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A quick and easy way to setup a RESTful JSON API in Go (github.com)

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A fast, parallel backtracking algorithm for n-queens implemented in Rust (github.com)

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Is Your Site HSTS Enabled? (blog.nvisium.com)

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Lesser known DNS tools and BIND tricks (2012) (strotmann.de)

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Show HN: Usetrace – Virtual users doing your repetitive web testing (http://usetrace.com)

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Being a single founder with a speech impediment (justink.svbtle.com)

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Head injury causes savant syndrome (canadaam.ctvnews.ca)

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Bus factor (en.wikipedia.org)

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TDD isn't dead just because DHH can't do it (rubylove.io)

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Discrimination starts even before grad school, study finds (blogs.nature.com)

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Equal-weight ETF allocation with automatic rebalancing (www.quantopian.com)

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Show HN: MeTA: A Modern C++ Data Sciences Toolkit (meta-toolkit.github.io)

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Scientists characterize a new shape using rubber bands (www.seas.harvard.edu)

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Show HN: Spotsy – iPhone app to discover the world through Instagram (itunes.apple.com)

29 points first seen 2014042603 last seen 2014042700 39 comments

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Parallella Pre-Order Shipping Update (www.parallella.org)

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Netflix to get its own ‘cable channel’ next week (www.washingtonpost.com)

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A small router for Openresty (docs.apitools.com)

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Show HN: Phoenix – an ultra-fast SQL layer on top of Hbase (phoenix.incubator.apache.org)

29 points first seen 2014042606 last seen 2014042703 13 comments

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Inside Windows Product Activation (2001) (www.licenturion.com)

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AppCode 3.0 EAP Opens (blog.jetbrains.com)

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Poll: Do you work at a startup? (item?id=7649198)

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Early Roman Calendar (www.webexhibits.org)

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Flat Files And Server Denials: Covering Elections At Three News Orgs (blog.apps.chicagotribune.com)

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In Aereo, Supreme Court Rightly Skeptical About Becoming Technology Regulators (www.eff.org)

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Mt. Gox commences bankruptcy proceedings (www.mtgox.com)

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Pitcairn Island needs new settlers. Who will come? (www.thestar.com)

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Watch out KILLER HP firmware update bricks ProLiant server mobos (www.channelregister.co.uk)

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Ferrari’s unusual approach to F1′s new nose rules (www.f1fanatic.co.uk)

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Tabulation Hashing and Independence (2012) (rjlipton.wordpress.com)

13 points first seen 2014042606 last seen 2014042615 18 comments

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Order cannabis from your phone (trycanary.co)

12 points first seen 2014042609 last seen 2014042621 0 comments

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Ask HN: How do you remember names? (item?id=7650256)

12 points first seen 2014042615 last seen 2014042621 15 comments

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Codebabes.com | Learn Coding and Web Development the Fun Way (codebabes.com)

11 points first seen 2014042600 last seen 2014042600 16 comments

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AMZN is down 9% (www.google.com)

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HipChat Alternatives (github.com)

10 points first seen 2014042615 last seen 2014042700 6 comments

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Never Solve the Same Problem from Scratch Twice (scottndecker.com)

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PhoneGap Developer App (app.phonegap.com)

9 points first seen 2014042606 last seen 2014042612 2 comments

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Top Mistakes that C# Programmers Make (www.toptal.com)

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Hash – How can I create a password that says "SALT ME" when hashed? (security.stackexchange.com)

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SpaceX Press Conference Live Stream [1PM EDT April 25] (www.nbcnews.com)

9 points first seen 2014042606 last seen 2014042606 4 comments

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Kevo – Bluetooth Electronic Deadbolt (www.kwikset.com)

9 points first seen 2014042609 last seen 2014042609 6 comments

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The White House is leading efforts for a new web authentication system (www.govtech.com)

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Ask HN: What open source projects are you working on this weekend? (item?id=7650114)

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Stewart Butterfield’s Collaboration App Slack Raises $42.75M (techcrunch.com)

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Modern IE (modern.ie)

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New user content domains (developer.github.com)

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Streem (YC S12) Has Raised $875K For Its Unlimited Cloud Storage Service (techcrunch.com)

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JavaScript: Everything is a Value (raganwald.com)

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A 55yr Old Developer Tells Us What It's Like In A Youth-Obsessed Silicon Valley (www.businessinsider.com)

7 points first seen 2014042618 last seen 2014042618 0 comments

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Show HN: Sentiment Search Engine (http://www.sentimentsearch.com)

6 points first seen 2014042600 last seen 2014042600 8 comments

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Desert Bus: The Worst Video Game Ever Created (2013) (www.newyorker.com)

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A fascinating Egg box (sketchfab.com)

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SpaceX names Texas as site of its commercial space launch facility (arstechnica.com)

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Two-line music player (mollerhoj.github.io)

6 points first seen 2014042609 last seen 2014042615 3 comments

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Rust by example (rustbyexample.github.io)

6 points first seen 2014042621 last seen 2014042700 0 comments

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk adds Docker support (aws.amazon.com)

5 points first seen 2014042600 last seen 2014042600 0 comments

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Flood Beacon warns of danger in real time (www.cnet.com)

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How to Deal With Brilliant Jerks You Work With (www.wired.com)

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Professor revolutionises computers with the most random function ever (sciencenordic.com)

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Famo.us So Far: Field Guide for April 2014 (wayfinder.co)

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Banks Add Card Controls to Their Mobile Banking Apps (www.americanbanker.com)

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Hillary Clinton Blasts Edward Snowden for Fleeing to Russia and China (www.motherjones.com)

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NASA's Spitzer and WISE Telescopes Find Close, Cold Neighbor of Sun (www.nasa.gov)

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Tech CEO on bike arrested in Marin road rage beating (www.sfgate.com)

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Legally blind programming help (item?id=7650505)

5 points first seen 2014042618 last seen 2014042618 3 comments

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Smash the Past (oneplus.net)

4 points first seen 2014042600 last seen 2014042600 0 comments

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Work begins on the world's first 3D-printed house (www.theguardian.com)

4 points first seen 2014042600 last seen 2014042600 0 comments

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Anonymous' New Walkie Talkies Use Radio Waves to Access the Internet (motherboard.vice.com)

4 points first seen 2014042603 last seen 2014042606 2 comments

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Easily Transfer Snapshots Between Accounts (digitalocean.com)

4 points first seen 2014042606 last seen 2014042609 0 comments

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Parallel Monte Carlo using Scala (darrenjw.wordpress.com)

4 points first seen 2014042606 last seen 2014042609 0 comments

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Rabbit Proto: Open source electronic prototyping for 3D printers (http://www.rabbitproto.com)

4 points first seen 2014042606 last seen 2014042606 0 comments

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Craigslist: the web's fertilizer (dangoldin.com)

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Increasing Application Performance with HTTP Cache Headers (devcenter.heroku.com)

4 points first seen 2014042606 last seen 2014042606 0 comments

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On Mobile, Facebook Has Moves Like Jagger (blog.semilshah.com)

4 points first seen 2014042606 last seen 2014042606 0 comments

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Ask HN: How would you design password storage for a service like Mint.com? (item?id=7648207)

4 points first seen 2014042606 last seen 2014042606 6 comments

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Node.js Performance Tip of the Week: Heap Profiling (strongloop.com)

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FTC sides with Tesla, says it should be allowed to sell directly to consumers (arstechnica.com)

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Tesla Pays CEO Musk $70,000 Following $78 Million Year (www.bloomberg.com)

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Panel discussion with Go team members (gophercon.sourcegraph.com)

4 points first seen 2014042609 last seen 2014042612 0 comments

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Fe26: Fuse your way to the iron-56 tile (newbrict.github.io)

4 points first seen 2014042609 last seen 2014042612 0 comments

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Using Facebook Notes to DDoS any website (chr13.com)

4 points first seen 2014042609 last seen 2014042612 0 comments

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HSCTF – A hacking competition by high schoolers for high schoolers (hsctf.com)

4 points first seen 2014042612 last seen 2014042618 3 comments

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Marvel Ipsum (www.marvelipsum.com)

4 points first seen 2014042612 last seen 2014042615 0 comments

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FStar: An ML-like language with a type system for program verification (github.com)

4 points first seen 2014042612 last seen 2014042612 0 comments

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The way we board airplanes (www.vox.com)

4 points first seen 2014042615 last seen 2015020106 0 comments

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Meet the Cuckoo Mafia (blogs.discovermagazine.com)

4 points first seen 2014042615 last seen 2014042621 0 comments

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Show HN: gcam2ply – 3D point clouds from Google Camera Lens Blur photos (github.com)

4 points first seen 2014042615 last seen 2014042615 0 comments

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How to become an advance python programmer from intermediate python programmer? (item?id=7650584)

4 points first seen 2014042618 last seen 2014042618 2 comments

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Traces of Errors: Getting Better JavaScript Stacktraces [video] (www.youtube.com)

3 points first seen 2014042600 last seen 2014042600 0 comments

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Deploying a Node.js app to IBM BlueMix (joelennon.com)

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How Google Can Leverage Facebook’s Biggest Weakness (medium.com)

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How to Avoid Loading Indicators (software.intel.com)

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Web Ads, Sold on Computerized Exchanges, Bring Wall Streeters Into the Fray (online.wsj.com)

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Spores: Distributable Functions in Scala (speakerdeck.com)