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Recording Tom Waits (2004)
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Soundonsound
'Bones' Howe & Tom Waits
When label boss David Geffen teamed respected engineer 'Bones' Howe with an unknown and very strange songwriter called Tom Waits, he set in motion one of the great artist-producer partnerships.
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Dropgangs, or the future of darknet markets
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Writing things down (how to know what to do next)
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Writing things down (how to know what to do next)
In which Taylor learns the power of writing things down. Or maybe learns a lesson about validating before coding. Or about launching too soon. All of the above, perhaps.
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The Rise and Rise of Chinese Science Fiction
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Telling the China Story: The Rise and Rise of Chinese Science Fiction | FactorDaily
A very brief introduction to modern science fiction from the People’s Republic of China.
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Bitcoin’s Biggest Hack in History: 184.4B Bitcoin from Thin Air
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Bitcoin’s Biggest Hack In History: 184.4 Billion Bitcoin from Thin Air | HackerNoon
On Aug. 15 2010, an unknown hacker nearly destroyed Bitcoin. The hacker generated 184.467 billion Bitcoin out of thin air in what has become known as the <a href="https://en.bitcoinwiki.org/wiki/Value_overflow_incident" target="_blank">Value Overflow Incident</a>.
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Ask HN: What's the most important piece of code you've written?
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Google Earth Reverse Engineering
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GitHub - retroplasma/earth-reverse-engineering: Reversing Google's 3D satellite mode
Reversing Google's 3D satellite mode. Contribute to retroplasma/earth-reverse-engineering development by creating an account on GitHub.
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“Secret Writer's Society”, the best way to swear at children in 1998
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The Obscuritory
Secret Writer's Society and the worst bug ever | The Obscuritory
This rote educational writing game has a huge problem that causes the text-to-speech voice to read a list of obscenities. After the game has been lost for 20 years, I got a copy, and now you can play it too!
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ReSeq: Repurposing HiSeq DNA Sequencers
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reseq.hackteria.org
We are writing free and open source software to drive HiSeq2000/2500 DNA sequencers. We want to avoid the waste of this decomissioned equipment by re-purposing it for high resolution fluorescence microscopy and more. Crowd funding early 2019.
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I'm leaving GitLab to help everyone work remotely
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Creating Languages in Racket (2012)
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Creating Languages in Racket
Sometimes you just have to make a better mousetrap.
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Australian Government Design System
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Android vendors, don’t kill my app
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Composing Programs in Python, SICP Style
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Rise and Demise of RSS
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The Rise and Demise of RSS
Before the internet was consolidated into centralized information silos, RSS imagined a better way to let users control their online personas.
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Haskell I/O and XPath
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Down the Code Mine
Haskell I/O and XPath
Through my own fault of being overly enthusiastic, and holding the general belief that there is always a better way with anything technology based... it's just that nobody implemented it yet! I decided to see if I could do something to improve how side-effects…
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Hospitals Must Now Post Prices. But It May Take a Brain Surgeon to Decipher Them
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Hospitals Must Now Post Prices. But It May Take a Brain Surgeon to Decipher Them. (Published 2019)
The Trump administration’s order was intended to force transparency and price competition, but with opaque and inconsistent data, the rollout is turning into a fiasco.
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Unifying Logical and Statistical AI (2006) [pdf]
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How We Think, by John Dewey (1910)
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Halo was written with a Lisp dialect called blamnoscript (2014)
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ChrysaLisp
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ChrysaLisp/README.md at master · vygr/ChrysaLisp
Parallel OS, with GUI, Terminal, OO Assembler, Class libraries, C-Script compiler, Lisp interpreter and more... - ChrysaLisp/README.md at master · vygr/ChrysaLisp
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