Categorie: Links
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Links van 9 juli 2015 tot 14 juli 2015
How Not To Sort By Average RatingPROBLEM: You are a web programmer. You have users. Your users rate stuff on your site. You want to put the highest-rated stuff at the top and lowest-rated at the bottom. You need some sort of "score" to sort by. From Folklore to Exotica: Yma Sumac and the Performance…
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Links van 4 juli 2015 tot 7 juli 2015
Greece is solvent but illiquid: Policy implications | VOX, CEPR’s Policy PortalGreece’s debt is 180% of GDP, which seems to make it insolvent without large primary surpluses. This column argues that since restructuring lowered the interest burden to just 2% of GDP, Greece is solvent – or would be with nominal GDP growth of just…
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Links van 28 juni 2015 tot 29 juni 2015
The Alleged $7.5 Billion Fraud in Online Advertising – MozThe only way to reduce wasted impressions significantly is to research and implement digital ad campaigns manually rather than use programmatic ad buying. Digital advertisers should research potential websites on which they want to run advertisements to see if they are legitimate—potentially even running ads on…
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Links van 12 juni 2015 tot 25 juni 2015
Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head: A Mosquito’s Lament – Phenomena: Curiously KrulwichA study says a mosquito being hit by a raindrop is roughly the equivalent of a human being whacked by a school bus, the typical bus being about 50 times the mass of a person. And worse, when it’s raining hard, each mosquito…
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Links van 26 mei 2015 tot 11 juni 2015
Syriza moet op de knieën vanwege Spanje – De Groene AmsterdammerTotale vernedering van de Griekse populisten is sinds januari het onuitgesproken doel. Syriza moet en zal op de knieën. De ruggengraat moet worden gebroken. En dat heeft niets met Griekenland te maken – hinderlijke kiezelsteen in de hiel van de Europese schoen – maar alles…
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Links van 17 mei 2015 tot 26 mei 2015
Tanith Lee, 1947-2015 | Tor.comUgh. Nog een stuk jeugd verdwenen. — "We are saddened to report the passing of science fiction, fantasy, and horror writer Tanith Lee. Lee had a long and prolific writing career, publishing over 90 books and 300 short stories, as well as several poems, four BBC Radio plays, and two episodes of the BBC’s…
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Links van 4 mei 2015 tot 11 mei 2015
Canadian Government Says Free Speech is for Offending Muslims — Not Opposing Israel – The InterceptWhen the views being suppressed are ones amenable to those in power (e.g., cartoons mocking Islam), free speech is venerated; when ideas are advocated that upset those in power (e.g. speech by Muslims critical of Western nations and their allies), the…
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Links van 24 april 2015 tot 2 mei 2015
jamstik+ The SmartGuitar by Zivix — KickstarterA portable guitar that teaches you to play, sounds like any musical instrument and connects wirelessly so you can play guitar anywhere. The Unhappy King of Snooker – The New YorkerHeerlijk artikel over Ronnie O'Sullivan. ZeppelinA web-based notebook that enables interactive data analytics. You can make beautiful data-driven, interactive…
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Links van 16 april 2015 tot 23 april 2015
Wander (1974) — a lost mainframe game is found! | Retroactive FictionWander was probably the first computer game that is recognisable as what came to be known as a “text adventure” (or “interactive fiction“) – pre-dating even ADVENT (a.k.a. Colossal Cave) by Crowther and Woods! But Wander was more than that because it seems to…
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Links van 11 april 2015 tot 16 april 2015
Study finds, surprisingly, that women are favored for jobs in STEM – The Washington Post“At one point we turned to each other while we were coding email responses from faculty across the U.S. and said we hoped that the large preference for women applicants over identically qualified men applicants would slow down because it seemed…
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Links van 6 april 2015 tot 10 april 2015
The Outlandish Adventure of Miss Amanda Collins « Oldskooler RamblingsThis little girl had decided one day to write a story, and when the program prompted for a diskette to save it, she grabbed — with sticky jelly fingers — whatever diskette was closest and jammed it in… in this case, Daddy’s expensive business program, ruining it…
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Links van 4 april 2015 tot 6 april 2015
IMF admits: we failed to realise the damage austerity would do to Greece | Business | The GuardianThe International Monetary Fund admitted it had failed to realise the damage austerity would do to Greece as the Washington-based organisation catalogued mistakes made during the bailout of the stricken eurozone country. In an assessment of the rescue…
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Links van 31 maart 2015 tot 4 april 2015
A Eulogy for Twitter — The AtlanticWe've been trying to figure out the moment Twitter turned, retracing tweets to see whether there was something specific that soured the platform. Something is wrong on Twitter. And people are noticing. Or, at least, the kind of people we hang around with on Twitter are noticing. And it's…
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Links van 27 maart 2015 tot 31 maart 2015
Waarom de milieubeweging het ggo-dossier mag loslaten | Stijn Bruers, one world activistWat ik ook al een tijd volhoud: "Ik besloot hetzelfde te doen als wat de milieubeweging doet in verband met de klimaatopwarming: kijken of er een wetenschappelijke consensus bestaat die gebaseerd is op de meest betrouwbare wetenschappelijke studies zoals systematische reviews en meta-analyses…
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Links van 22 maart 2015 tot 27 maart 2015
Obituary: Terry Pratchett: Of gods and men | The EconomistThe Economist: wreed, wreed schoon gedaan. Comic Papyrus Font – FINALLY! ~ Sans Serif Fonts on Creative MarketPresenting Comic Papyrus. You heard right — COMIC FREAKIN' PAPYRUS! Your two most favoritest fonts ever have FINALLY been smooshed together typographically, just as Darwin intended. Cross-bred. Cross-awesomified. Pourquoi…