February 2017 Archive
1561.
Kind of a Big Deal – What it’s like to be a famous librarian (2015) (medium.com)
1562.
Biologists find cave life that may be 50k years old (phys.org)
1563.
Legislation to stop US border agents from demanding passwords is on the way (techcrunch.com)
1564.
The History of Asphalt (asphaltpavement.org)
1565.
Good Plain English: The problem with writing manuals (harpers.org)
1566.
Industrial Revolution Comparisons Aren't Comforting (bloomberg.com)
1567.
Drew Houston on How to Build the Future [video] (blog.ycombinator.com)
1568.
A pragmatic decision on GNU Emacs versus Vim for programming (utcc.utoronto.ca)
1569.
The Future of Neuromorphic Computing (newyorker.com)
1570.
I ate 40 teaspoons of sugar a day. This is what happened (2015) (telegraph.co.uk)
1571.
You can build a laptop out of open source components if you want a bad laptop (theverge.com)
1572.
$5 Showdown: Linode vs. DigitalOcean vs. Amazon Lightsail vs. Vultr (joshtronic.com)
1573.
The Untold Secrets of Grand Central Terminal (bloomberg.com)
1574.
Miller v5.0.0: Autodetected line-endings, in-place mode, user-defined functions (github.com)
1575.
Liquid – A Language Integrated Quantum Operations Simulator (stationq.github.io)
1576.
Bloomberg U.S. Startups Barometer (bloomberg.com)
1577.
Analyzing Your Google Search History with Rakam (blog.rakam.io)
1578.
How Norway Avoided Becoming a Fascist State (yesmagazine.org)
1579.
The Cool Cam (2007) (thedailywtf.com)
1580.
Descartes Labs opens its geospatial analysis engine (techcrunch.com)
1581.
Design Patterns for Humans – An ultra-simplified explanation (github.com)
1582.
Who pollinates the daffodils? (2011) (honeybeesuite.com)
1583.
Wearable Fitness Devices Don’t Seem to Make You More Fit (nytimes.com)
1584.
Microsoft’s February security update release delayed to March (blogs.technet.microsoft.com)
1585.
The multiprocessing module in Python (linuxramb.blogspot.com)
1586.
Supporting civic engagement with paid time off (fauna.com)
1587.
Realm is a mobile database: an alternative to SQLite and key-value stores (github.com)
1588.
How Silicon Valley Is Trying to Hack Its Way into a Longer Life (time.com)
1589.
Martian Immigration Nightmare (zarkonnen.itch.io)
1590.
White House Bars CNN, NY Times, Politico, LA Times and BuzzFeed from Brief Access (reuters.com)