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A man ate 'expired' food for a year

Posted by syquek on Monday June 17, 2019 @11:10PM
from the washingtonpost.com dept.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/06/17/this-man-ate-expired-food-year-heres-why-expiration-dates-are-practically-meaningless

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The Accounting Tack That Makes PayPal’s Numbers Look So Good

Posted by syquek on Sunday August 06, 2017 @02:27PM
from the nytimes.com dept.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/04/business/paypal-accounting.html

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How Liberals Fell in Love with the West Wing

Posted by syquek on Monday May 08, 2017 @12:52AM
from the currentaffairs.org dept.

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/04/how-liberals-fell-in-love-with-the-west-wing

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Here Lies a Graveyard Where ‘East and West Came Together’

Posted by syquek on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @07:02PM
from the nytimes.com dept.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/04/world/asia/here-lies-a-graveyard-where-east-and-west-came-together.html?module=WatchingPortal&region=c-column-middle-span-region&pgType=Homepage&action=click&mediaId=thumb_square&state=standard&contentPlacement=5&version=internal&contentCollection=www.nytimes.com&contentId=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2017%2F04%2F04%2Fworld%2Fasia%2Fhere-lies-a-graveyard-where-east-and-west-came-together.html

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The Rice-Size Fly That Hits the Bull’s-Eye Every Time

Posted by syquek on Monday March 13, 2017 @10:54AM
from the nytimes.com dept.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/10/science/robber-flies-eyes.html?module=WatchingPortal&region=c-column-middle-span-region&pgType=Homepage&action=click&mediaId=thumb_square&state=standard&contentPlacement=11&version=internal&contentCollection=www.nytimes.com&contentId=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2017%2F03%2F10%2Fscience%2Frobber-flies-eyes.html&eventName=Watching-article-click

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The World's First Open Source Massively Parallel Data Warehouse

Posted by syquek on Thursday December 22, 2016 @02:42AM
from the greenplum.org dept.

http://greenplum.org

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16 Product Things I Learnt at Imgur

Posted by syquek on Monday June 22, 2015 @11:59AM
from the medium.com dept.

https://medium.com/@gerstenzang/16-product-things-i-learned-at-imgur-4e58b936759c

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Organizing Go code

Posted by syquek on Thursday September 18, 2014 @05:08PM
from the go-talks.appspot.com dept.

http://go-talks.appspot.com/code.google.com/p/go.talks/2014/organizeio.slide#1

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SmartWater – Anti-theft Asset Marking System

Posted by syquek on Saturday March 22, 2014 @05:09AM
from the en.wikipedia.org dept.

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

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Re:Things Every Programmer Should Know on Friday September 20, 2013 @02:30PM (#6419596)

created a readlist for this: http://readlists.com/36fc6507

'Invisible' Wetsuits Confuse Attacking Sharks

Posted by syquek on Thursday July 18, 2013 @09:00PM
from the news.sky.com dept.

http://news.sky.com/story/1117387/invisible-wetsuits-confuse-attacking-sharks

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Work with Obama's Campaign Team - Data Science for Social Good Summer Fellowship

Posted by syquek on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @03:16AM
from the ci.uchicago.edu dept.

http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/datasciencefellowship/

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Software maintenance - Clarity in Code

Posted by syquek on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @02:36AM
from the clarityincode.com dept.

http://clarityincode.com/software-maintenance/

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Re:Mincss "clears the junk out of your CSS" on Tuesday January 22, 2013 @04:28AM (#5096305)

Hey just fyi, I didn't develop this, just found it online and wanted to share here. I'll let the developer know.

Mincss "clears the junk out of your CSS"

Posted by syquek on Monday January 21, 2013 @11:27PM
from the peterbe.com dept.

http://www.peterbe.com/plog/mincss

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Auto-Forwarding Carousels and Accordions Annoy Users and Reduce Visibility

Posted by syquek on Monday January 21, 2013 @04:13AM
from the nngroup.com dept.

http://www.nngroup.com/articles/auto-forwarding/

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Comparing against typeof 'undefined' instead of undefined - Eli Perelman

Posted by syquek on Saturday December 15, 2012 @08:13PM
from the eliperelman.com dept.

http://eliperelman.com/blog/2011/07/12/comparing-against-typeof-undefined-instead-of-undefined/

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Re:Karma - pay as you go data by sharing your hotspot on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @10:28AM (#4871319)

Should saying "most sites use HTTPS" be the way to explain security of this set up?