Categorie: Links
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Links van 3 maart 2014 tot 9 maart 2014
The Trek Collective: Trek-lit reading orderAs the continuity of Star Trek novels grows the question is ever changing, but if you're wondering: "What do I need to read before Articles of the Federation?" or "…Destiny?" or "…The Fall?", here are the answers. Maandans – Deelnemen is belangrijker dan SwinnenDe Calimero's zitten dit keer niet bij…
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Links van 28 februari 2014 tot 1 maart 2014
Jan Tritten crowd sources a life or death decision and the baby ends up dead | The Skeptical OBHomebirth midwives are dangerous, witless fools and babies die as a result. Most winning A/B test results are illusoryIn this article I’ll show that badly performed A/B tests can produce winning results which are more likely to…
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Links van 24 februari 2014 tot 27 februari 2014
Depixelizing Pixel ArtNaïve upsampling of pixel art images leads to unsatisfactory results. Our algorithm extracts a smooth, resolution-independent vector representation from the image which is suitable for high-resolution display device High Scalability – High Scalability – The WhatsApp Architecture Facebook Bought For $19 BillionHow do you support 450 million active users with only 32 engineers? Let’s…
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Links van 16 februari 2014 tot 22 februari 2014
Bad boy Amazon and George Packer’s latest salvo | The Story’s StoryStill, Amazon must save more books than it destroys. If you read any amount of literary criticism, journalism, or scholarly articles, you’ve read innumerable sentences like these: “[Malcolm] Cowley persuaded Viking to accept ‘On the Road’ after many publishers had turned it down. He…
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Links voor 5 februari 2014
BBC News – YouTube starts auditing video viewsThe video-sharing website YouTube said it has started to "audit" the number of views a video has received. The move is aimed at preventing users from artificially inflating view counts which, YouTube said, mislead people about the popularity of a video. Lists of NoteLate-1979, New York Times columnist…
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Links van 21 januari 2014 tot 29 januari 2014
Post mortem – Thanks & lessons learned | Notes from the trenchesLessons learned – Don’t operate in a market where a single player can arbitrarily decide to kill you. Especially don’t work in a market that’s controlled by an entity that explicitly refuses to communicate with you (or anyone else) or to explain their guidelines.…
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Links van 18 januari 2014 tot 21 januari 2014
Beats Music | Online Music StreamingOur curators are driven by a passion for music. They know the only thing as important as the song you’re hearing now is the song that comes next. Their expertise, combined with the best technology, always delivers the right music to you at the right time. Geocodio | Ridiculously cheap…
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Links van 14 januari 2014 tot 18 januari 2014
Ad blockers: A solution or a problem?Viewing ads is part of the deal if users want content to be free, says Freitas. The use of ad blocking software breaks that implicit contract. What's more, he continues, the vast majority of visitors who use ad blockers aren't interested in making even a small payment in exchange…
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Links van 12 januari 2014 tot 13 januari 2014
Google stabs Wikipedia in the front • The RegisterHowever, since Google rolled out Knowledge Graph, something interesting happened. Visits to Wikipedia had previously risen steadily year-on-year for a decade. Towards the end of the 2012 this trend not only stalled, but went into an unprecedented decline. According to Wikipedia's own stats, the page views for…
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Links van 10 januari 2014 tot 12 januari 2014
Nathanael Johnson lets the anti-GMO movement off the hookWhat is most disturbing about the GMO debate – and why it matters – is that the anti-GMO movement at almost every turn rejects empiricism as a means of understanding the world and making decisions about it. Pass the GarumHeerlijk! Recepten uit het oude Rome. Tijd om…
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Links van 8 januari 2014 tot 9 januari 2014
The Jesus Blog: The Testimonium Flavianum, Eusebius, and Consensus (Guest Post) – OlsonIn this post, I’ll try to make clear why I am skeptical toward common scholarly claims about what an early Christian writer would or would not have written in a brief passage about Jesus. Native Ads Are The Worst Idea In The World…
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Links van 29 december 2013 tot 8 januari 2014
Dell Wasn’t Joking About That 28-Inch Sub-$1000 4K Monitor; It’s Only $699 – ForbesThe P2815Q will have a full 3840 x 2160 4K resolution and launch globally on January 23. Dell hasn’t yet discussed things like refresh rate or range of inputs (I’m sure DisplayPort is a given), but they do promise the same “screen…
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Links van 25 december 2013 tot 28 december 2013
MAME 0.151 ROMs : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive43 gigabyte MAME roms!!! Study exposes acupuncture as pseudoscience via reddit.comAcupuncture has been practiced for thousands of years — but that doesn't mean it actually works. A new study published online in the journal Cancer suggests that any relief acupuncture brings may be the result…
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Links van 24 december 2013 tot 25 december 2013
Why I won’t be using Google In January — MediumThe story's all over the Internet— and if you’re the type of person to read a Medium article explaining why someone’s boycotting Google, you’re probably already familiar with it. The gist is as follows: RapGenius offers incentives to blog-posters to add links about Justin Bieber to…