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Improving Form Controls in Microsoft Edge and Chromium
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Microsoft Edge Blog
Improving form controls in Microsoft Edge and Chromium
Since we began work on the next version of Microsoft Edge based on Chromium, we’ve been investigating ways to modernize form controls to provide a modern appearance as well as the touch friendliness and accessibility that our users expect from Microsoft Edge…
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My 2019 Mathematics a to Z: Linear Programming
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nebusresearch
My 2019 Mathematics A To Z: Linear Programming
Today’s A To Z term is another proposed by @aajohannas. I couldn’t find a place to fit this in the essay proper. But it’s too good to leave out. The simplex method, discussed with…
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The Myth of 10,000 hours
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Medium
The Myth of 10,000 hours. Hard Work ≠ Success.
The tragedy of the book The Outliers is that it perpetuated the myth of hard work leads to success. The myth the book was trying to dispel.
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Show HN:
Schema.org
with GitHub and noscripts: A tool to make data more useful
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Google and Ambient Computing
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Google and Ambient Computing
Google presented a vision of ambient computing that goes beyond the smartphone. The company is well-placed, but faces challenges both in the marketplace and in the mirror.
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Verb-Noun vs. Noun-Verb
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Blogspot
Verb-noun vs noun-verb
Behind the scenes - how I'm making redblobgames.com - interactive explanations of game development algorithms and math
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In 2019, multiple open source companies changed course
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Ars Technica
In 2019, multiple open source companies changed course—is it the right move?
"We have to draw a line between open source and the right to make money with open source."
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Dapr: an open-source project to make it easier to build microservices
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Microsoft Open Source Blog
Announcing Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr), an open source project to make it easier for every developer to build microservice…
Dapr enables all developers using any language and any framework to easily build portable microservices applications.
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“I was told to buy a software or lose my computer: I ignored it”
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Show HN: Pipedream. Develop any workflow, on any trigger, with auth and no infra
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Pipedream
Pipedream | Connect APIs, AI, databases and more
Pipedream is the fastest way to build powerful applications that connect all the services in your stack, with code-level control when you need it and no code when you don't.
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Hubble Observes First Confirmed Interstellar Comet
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NASA Science
Hubble Observes First Confirmed Interstellar Comet - NASA Science
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has given astronomers their best look yet at an interstellar visitor — comet 2I/Borisov — whose speed and trajectory indicate it
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US Law Enforcement Traces Bitcoin Transfers to Nab ‘Largest’ Child Porn Site
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UK Government drops controversial 'porn blocker' plan
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BBC News
UK's controversial 'porn blocker' plan dropped
A plan to force porn sites to verify users' ages will be shelved, says Digital Secretary Nicky Morgan.
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Amazon Has Transformed the Hasidic Economy
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NY Times
How Amazon Has Transformed the Hasidic Economy (Published 2019)
Amazon has become a lucrative place to do business for many Hasidic Jews, offering anonymity to a largely insular community and allowing women to work from home.
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Where you place your food in the fridge does matter
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www.electrafixbc.ca
Where you place your food in the fridge really does matter
Serving the Lower Mainland
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After 184 years, Cherokees seek House delegate seat promised in treaty
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Roll Call
After 184 years, Cherokees seek House delegate seat promised in treaty - Roll Call
Kim Teehee was an intern combing through dusty archives when she first learned of a largely forgotten agreement between her Cherokee tribe and the federal government. More than 25 years later, that document has placed Teehee at the center of a historic reckoning…
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The Pioneering Maps of Alexander von Humboldt
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Smithsonian Magazine
The Pioneering Maps of Alexander von Humboldt
Beautiful and insightful, the illustrations of the German naturalist helped shape a new understanding of the world
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What happens when a city bans cars from its streets?
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Bbc
What happens when a city bans cars from its streets?
Many modern urban areas have been built around cars, with huge amounts of space set aside for roads and parking. But what happens when you take them out of the equation?
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Designing Accessible Color Systems
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Designing accessible color systems
How we designed a color system with hand-picked, vibrant colors that also met standards for accessibility and contrast.
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Gitlab: won't exclude customers on moral grounds, don't discuss politics at work
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www.theregister.co.uk
Blood money is fine with us, says GitLab: Vetting non-evil customers is 'time consuming, potentially distracting'
Code-hosting biz also bans staff from talking politics at work
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SpaceX just filed a request to run 30k more Starlink satellites in orbit
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MIT Technology Review
SpaceX just filed a request to run 30,000 more Starlink satellites in orbit
If SpaceX gets approval, it could single-handedly quintuple the total number of spacecraft launched by humans.
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