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Re:Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age on Monday October 12, 2026 @04:19PM (#50062411)

my father owned a series of CXs with that suspension and it was magic. the car went round corners like it was on rails - completely flat

The Great Zelle Pool Scam

Posted by dodders on Friday October 06, 2023 @06:25PM
from the businessinsider.com dept.

https://www.businessinsider.com/zelle-fraud-scam-swimming-pool-online-payment-apps-mobile-banking-2023-10

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Re:Paternoster Lift on Sunday April 18, 2021 @07:52PM (#26857754)

Not the OP but I was at Sheffield in the late 80s and remember the paternoster in the Arts tower well!

Goldsmith Banker

Posted by dodders on Thursday February 25, 2021 @03:19PM
from the en.wikipedia.org dept.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldsmith_banker

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Does Hot Weather Fuel Road Rage?

Posted by dodders on Thursday February 25, 2021 @07:46AM
from the psychologicalscience.org dept.

https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/motr/does-hot-weather-fuel-road-rage.html

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The Strange and Dangerous World of America’s Big Cat People

Posted by dodders on Monday May 04, 2020 @08:32AM
from the longreads.com dept.

https://longreads.com/2020/03/16/tiger-trafficking-in-america/

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Arthur Hanson's Machine with Concrete

Posted by dodders on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @05:30PM
from the makezine.com dept.

https://makezine.com/2012/04/25/arthur-gansons-machine-with-concrete/

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Progress, Postmodernism and the Tech Backlash

Posted by dodders on Saturday March 07, 2020 @10:32AM
from the alexdanco.com dept.

https://alexdanco.com/2020/02/20/progress-postmodernism-and-the-tech-backlash/

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I replicated an $86M project in 57 lines of code

Posted by dodders on Friday December 20, 2019 @09:05AM
from the read.acloud.guru dept.

https://read.acloud.guru/how-i-replicated-an-86-million-project-in-57-lines-of-code-277031330ee9

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Write Dumb Code – Advice from Four Leading Java Developers

Posted by dodders on Friday December 13, 2019 @10:15AM
from the oracle.com dept.

https://www.oracle.com/technical-resources/articles/javase/devinsight-1.html#1

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JavaScript Library for Creating Xkcd-Style Charts

Posted by dodders on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @09:41PM
from the kottke.org dept.

https://kottke.org/19/11/javascript-library-for-creating-xkcd-style-charts

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Why I Turned Down an AWS Job Offer

Posted by dodders on Saturday August 17, 2019 @12:45PM
from the lastweekinaws.com dept.

https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/why-i-turned-down-an-aws-job-offer/

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Safecrackers Can Unlock an ATM in Minutes

Posted by dodders on Monday August 12, 2019 @08:30AM
from the wired.com dept.

https://www.wired.com/story/atm-lock-hack-electric-leaks/

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Long Island City’s real estate is booming without Amazon’s HQ2

Posted by dodders on Friday July 05, 2019 @02:45PM
from the vox.com dept.

https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/7/2/19102639/amazon-hq2-long-island-city-real-estate

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Finding the Four Month Bug: A Debugging Story (2015)

Posted by dodders on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @08:03AM
from the evanjones.ca dept.

https://www.evanjones.ca/jvm-mmap-pause-finding.html

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Mandelbrot Set in SQL

Posted by dodders on Friday June 21, 2019 @08:43AM
from the wiki.postgresql.org dept.

http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Mandelbrot_set

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How much does data weigh?

Posted by dodders on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @08:09AM
from the ellipsix.net dept.

http://www.ellipsix.net/blog/2009/04/how-much-does-data-weigh.html

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Overthinking Elevators

Posted by dodders on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @12:48PM
from the medium.com dept.

https://medium.com/@byrnehobart/overthinking-elevators-ceab417a5352

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Investor Meeting Seating

Posted by dodders on Friday April 12, 2019 @02:21PM
from the alexcornell.com dept.

https://www.alexcornell.com/investor-meeting-seating/

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Hello world: Shining a light onto the culture of computer programmers

Posted by dodders on Monday April 08, 2019 @09:12AM
from the arstechnica.com dept.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/04/how-the-new-art-form-of-coding-came-to-shape-our-modern-world/

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The Math That Takes Newton into the Quantum World

Posted by dodders on Saturday March 02, 2019 @11:32AM
from the nautil.us dept.

http://nautil.us/issue/69/patterns/the-math-that-takes-newton-into-the-quantum-world

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The Life and Times of the First Web Cam (2001)

Posted by dodders on Friday March 01, 2019 @11:10AM
from the cl.cam.ac.uk dept.

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/coffee/qsf/cacm200107.html

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Why Instacart and Doordash workers don't always receive the tips you give them

Posted by dodders on Monday February 04, 2019 @09:01AM
from the nbcnews.com dept.

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/why-instacart-doordash-workers-don-t-always-receive-tips-you-n965926

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Don't Reply to Your Emails

Posted by dodders on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @12:39PM
from the theatlantic.com dept.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/01/case-inbox-infinity/579673/

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Re:Compare career levels across companies on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @10:40PM (#18351080)

Barclays - missing VP (between AVP and Director), and Capital One isn't an investment bank...

An Open Letter to 44,000 Verizon Employees

Posted by dodders on Friday October 05, 2018 @07:25PM
from the inc.com dept.

https://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/open-letter-to-44000-verizon-employees.html

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All-time heat records have been set all over the world during the past week

Posted by dodders on Thursday July 05, 2018 @07:41PM
from the washingtonpost.com dept.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2018/07/03/hot-planet-all-time-heat-records-have-been-set-all-over-the-world-in-last-week/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.0c2dd6bbdd39

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Re:Things I’ve learned using serverless on Friday May 04, 2018 @10:15PM (#16999957)

Our core banking app has 1000+ tables.

Is the Answer to Phone Addiction a Worse Phone?

Posted by dodders on Sunday January 21, 2018 @02:21PM
from the nytimes.com dept.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/technology/grayscale-phone.html

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We are the IBM z/OS development team. AUA

Posted by dodders on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @08:54AM
from the reddit.com dept.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3f5x1i/we_are_the_ibm_zos_development_team_aua/?limit=500

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