Saturday, 30. July 12016
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What sort of person are you? Would you rather feel good, or do good? Can you swallow your pride, humble yourself and vote for the lesser evil?

Friday, 29. July 12016
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The world’s easiest introduction to Machine Learning.

Machine Learning is Fun!

What is Europe’s next Archduke Ferdinand moment going to be?

It seems we’re entering another of those stupid seasons humans impose on themselves at fairly regular intervals.

20+ Rare Historic Photos That You Probably Haven’t Seen Before.

Goodbye, Object Oriented Programming!

“The problem with object-oriented languages is they’ve got all this implicit environment that they carry around with them. You wanted a banana but what you got was a gorilla holding the banana and the entire jungle.” — Joe Armstrong (creator of Erlang)

Friday, 15. July 12016
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Is there an emoji for this, too?

DDoS emotions.

When a DDoS attack occurs, organizations respond using existing mental models of operations—in effect treating it as an operational problem—not taking into account the emotional effects of the malicious nature of the attack for both the people in the line of fire and everyone else in the org.

Why do we use the Linux kernel's TCP stack?

(…) they wrote their own TCP stack, and it made everything several times times faster. What?!

Wednesday, 13. July 12016
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Analyzing swearing in movies, part 1: Swears per minute.

Plot Breakdown: Back to the Future.

This is a breakdown of the plot to Back To The Future. It divides the plot into 38 beats and the time they occur, rounded to the nearest minute.

Hypnagogic music playlist.