Categorie: Links
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Links van 22 december 2014 tot 23 december 2014
A Lost 1996 Interview with David Foster Wallace — MediumIn February 1996, David Foster Wallace came to Boston. He was the not-quite recognized writer of the massive book, Infinite Jest, which was just beginning to capture the attention of reviewers, readers and a generation of writers. Christopher Lydon interviewed David Foster Wallace on The Connection…
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Links van 19 december 2014 tot 22 december 2014
A Poor Imitation of Alan Turing by Christian Caryl | NYRblog | The New York Review of BooksThese errors are not random; there is a method to the muddle. The filmmakers see their hero above all as a martyr of a homophobic Establishment, and they are determined to lay emphasis on his victimhood. BBC News…
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Links van 16 december 2014 tot 17 december 2014
Hexspeak – WikiwandHexspeak, like leetspeak, is a novelty form of variant English spelling using the hexadecimal numbers. Created by programmers who wanted a magic number, hexspeak words can serve as a clear and unique identifier with which to mark memory or data. The Fatal PinchMany startups go through a point a few months before they…
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Links voor 14 december 2014
CBC.ca | Vinyl Tap | Past EpisodesTwo hours of music and stories from one of Canada's musical legends. Playing with The Guess Who, Bachman Turner Overdrive and as a solo act, Randy Bachman has provided a veritable soundtrack to the last thirty years of popular music. Now he's come to CBC Radio to play his…
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Links van 9 december 2014 tot 14 december 2014
You can take down Pirate Bay, but you can’t kill the Internet it created – The Washington PostIn the late hours of Tuesday night, the Pirate Bay abruptly disappeared from the Internet, the result of a surprise raid on the site’s servers by Swedish police in Stockholm. But forget the big-picture questions of Internet freedom…
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Links van 7 december 2014 tot 8 december 2014
How Not to Write an API — On Coding — MediumOne common pattern I see is that most APIs have a REST or NVP based API at it’s core. Then they generally have some method if signing a request. Following that is more than 1 way to send different types of data, between JSON, XML…
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Links van 1 december 2014 tot 4 december 2014
Stop giving Wikipedia money | Newslines – The Story of EverythingDon’t donate to Wikipedia. It doesn’t need the money, and anything you donate will not go to the people who actually created the pages that you like. It doesn’t even go to the admins who help check the content. It doesn’t go to content creation…
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Links van 27 november 2014 tot 1 december 2014
Dan Grover | Chinese Mobile App UI TrendsOne day, for the fun of it, I started writing a list in my notebook of all the things that are different between apps here and those I’m accustomed to using and creating back in the US. When I finished, I was surprised by how long the list…
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Links van 21 november 2014 tot 26 november 2014
A Country Known Only by Name | Articles | Inference: The International Review of ScienceThere is no need to introduce Alexander Grothendieck to mathematicians: he is one of the great scientists of the twentieth century. De Franstalige nota van Elke Sleurs (N-VA): ‘Schandalig gebruik van de taal van Molière’ – België – Knack.be"Cette loi est…
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Links van 19 november 2014 tot 20 november 2014
The Shazam Effect – The AtlanticBy studying 20 million searches every day, Shazam can identify which songs are catching on, and where, before just about anybody else. “Sometimes we can see when a song is going to break out months before most people have even heard of it,” Jason Titus, Shazam’s former chief technologist, told…
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Links van 15 november 2014 tot 19 november 2014
Microsoft puts Docker on Windows clients — Tech News and AnalysisMicrosoft said today that users can now run Docker inside a Windows machine and manage Linux-based containers with the new Docker Command Line Interface for Windows. The news follows up on Microsoft and Docker’s recent partnership to ensure that Docker can run nicely on the…
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Links van 13 november 2014 tot 14 november 2014
Amazon Finally Added a Long-Needed Feature to the Kindle | TIMEOn Friday, Amazon rolled out a software update that includes “Family Library,” a feature that will allow two adults and up to four children to share content on one Kindle. The adults can decide whether they want to share all or just a portion of…
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Links van 11 november 2014 tot 12 november 2014
The Sixth Stage of Grief is Retro-Computing — The Message — MediumHour after hour, this terrible fever. What the hell am I doing? I kept asking myself. Why am I forcing a fine new machine to pretend it is a half-dozen old, useless machines? Dit is de beste Belgische strip – De StandaardMBWAHAHAHAHAHA. "De Kiekeboes:…
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Links van 8 november 2014 tot 11 november 2014
How to become a data scientist in 8 easy steps: the infographic | DataCamp BlogAfter being dubbed “sexiest job of the 21st Century” by Harvard Business Review, data scientists have stirred the interest of the general public. Many people are intrigued by this job, namely because the name has an interesting ring to it. But…
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Links van 6 november 2014 tot 8 november 2014
‘Er zijn er die punker worden, ik werd de Marokkaan’ – De Standaard‘Ik krijg media-aandacht omdat ik Marokkaan ben. En ik gebruik dat. Keihard. Het zou dom zijn om dat niet te doen. Daarom gaan onze eerste twee films ook over allochtonen. Het zou heel lastig worden als we gewoon een Vlaamsch verhaal hadden gemaakt.…