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2017/12/31 #

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2017/12/29 #

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2017/12/28 #

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  • My Internet Mea Culpa - “I’m sorry I was wrong. We all were.* shift.newco.co #

  • Man Attempts To Cook A Christmas Dinner With Traditional Chinese Cooking Appliances digg.com #

2017/12/27 #

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2017/12/26 #

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2017/12/25 #

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  • Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain hackernoon.com #

  • Energy Efficiency - A New Concern for Application Software Developers m.cacm.acm.org #

  • What acceleration has done, across society, is to cut out the slack - Leisurely two-hour lunches have been replaced with events and tasks www.bbc.com #

  • How to use precache middleware with express-redis-cache github.com #

2017/12/24 #

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  • The Section 702 Surveillance Debate Has Taken Place in the Dark www.wired.com #

  • The Ultimate Guide To Understanding The Basics of Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies hackernoon.com #

  • response-time - middleware that records the response time for requests in HTTP servers www.npmjs.com #

  • Russian submarine activity increases around Atlantic internet cables thehill.com #

  • Men Are Joining #MeToo Campaign To Wear Black To The Golden Globes, The Rock Confirms www.refinery29.com #

2017/12/23 #

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2017/12/22 #

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2017/12/21 #

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  • We Are Not Exaggerating - This Is The Greatest Jenga Move We've Ever Seen digg.com #

  • The High School Student's Simple Explanation Of Relativity Will Boggle Your Mind digg.com #

2017/12/20 #

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2017/12/18 #

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  • I’m Sophia The Robot And I Heard You Were Talking Shit medium.com #

  • The youth these days couldn’t possibly understand the abstraction of a floppy disk for a save icon css-tricks.com #

  • express-ga-middleware - express middleware to enable Google Universal Analytics page tracking on your server www.npmjs.com #

2017/12/17 #

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  • After Blowback, Firefox Will Move Mr. Robot Extension to Store gizmodo.com #

  • Pentagon ran secret multi-million dollar UFO programme www.bbc.com #

  • Norway votes to decriminalise drugs and offer treatment instead of jail time inews.co.uk #

  • Weinstein 'derailed my career' Sorvino says after Peter Jackson claim www.bbc.com #

2017/12/16 #

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2017/12/15 #

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2017/12/14 #

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  • Democracy needs independence — not from the people, but from the current Congress-owners—just as the internet needs independence from the potentially corrupting influence of its intermediaries: the network owners medium.com #

  • I'm Sorry You Feel This Way NatWest, but HTTPS on Your Landing Page Is Important www.troyhunt.com #

  • Harvey Weinstein - Salma Hayek alleges he threatened to kill her www.bbc.com #

  • Democratic lawmaker says women invite sexual harassment with the way they dress boingboing.net #

  • hyper - a terminal built on web technologies github.com #

2017/12/13 #

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  • Anthony Bourdain - On reacting to bad news medium.com #

  • Little Brother Thinks His Sister's Wrestling Match Is A Real Fight, Runs In To Help Her digg.com #

  • Geniuses Attach A LEGO Star Destroyer To A Rocket And Fire It Into A Wall digg.com #

  • YouTubers Made Hundreds Of Thousands Off Of Bizarre And Disturbing Child Content www.buzzfeed.com #

  • The Weird, Unnamed Rhythm That's All Over Modern Music digg.com #

  • Swinging Safari review – Kylie Minogue and Guy Pearce in outrageous ode to 70s Australia amp.theguardian.com #

2017/12/12 #

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  • Visualizing The Unreal Size Of The Dutch East India Company At Its Peak digg.com #

  • A primitive is data that is not an object and has no methods - in JavaScript, there are 6 primitive data types - string, number, boolean, null, undefined, symbol developer.mozilla.org #

  • Don’t blame the election on fake news - Blame it on the media www.cjr.org #

  • We believe that fixing the information ecosystem is at least as much about improving the real news as it about stopping the fake stuff www.cjr.org #

  • President Trump Is Sending NASA Back To The Moon text.npr.org #

  • Godless' Creator Says He Wanted To Embrace Every Single Western Cliché text.npr.org #

  • apicache - simple API response caching middleware for Express/Node github.com #

  • express-redis-cache - Easily cache pages of your app using Express and Redis www.npmjs.com #

  • Building Faster APIs with NodeJs and Redis coligo.io #

2017/12/11 #

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  • German spy agency warns of Chinese LinkedIn espionage www.bbc.com #

  • Google Maps will soon tell you when it’s time to get off your train or bus techcrunch.com #

  • They’ve used multi-coloured lights, they’ve got them on flash, they’ve thrown on tinsel with no regard as to whether it matches and the baubles www.thedailymash.co.uk #

  • David Davis - 'No deal means we won't be paying the money' www.bbc.com #

  • Spotify and Tencent Music buy stake in each other www.bbc.com #

  • Pizza night aboard the International Space Station www.bbc.com #

  • James Franco Might Forever Change The Way You Think About Pizza In This 'SNL' Bit digg.com #

  • Jerusalem - Netanyahu sees EU following US recognition www.bbc.com #

  • touchrunner - Run npm scripts from the MacBook Pro Touch Bar github.com #

  • Bad Lip Reading Turned 'Stranger Things' Into A Weird 'The Wonder Years' Knock-Off digg.com #

2017/12/10 #

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  • The White House press briefing, always a spin zone, is now approaching uselessness www.latimes.com #

  • Mac - what permissions are granted for “allow the apps below to control your computer”? superuser.com #

  • Bitcoin was supposed to disintermediate the finance industry...Instead, it replicated this system and made it worse theoutline.com #

  • Jerusalem - what a bunch of pathetic cry babies (all of them) text.npr.org #

  • This Amateur Short Film Takes Itself Too Seriously In The Best Way digg.com #

  • Chinese students blanket the world, but Americans barely get past Europe qz.com #

2017/12/09 #

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  • Rumours that Apple is acquiring music recognition app Shazam techcrunch.com #

  • Square dancing was a racist hoax funded by Henry Ford to get white people to stop dancing to black music boingboing.net #

  • Elon Musk Says Tesla Is Building Its Own Chip for Autopilot www.wired.com #

  • Death of a Salesman Actress Accuses Dustin Hoffman of Sexual Harassment www.vulture.com #

  • Walking the Tightrope - 8 Tips for Refactoring an Active Application medium.com #

  • Inside Elsagate, the conspiracy-fueled war on creepy youtube kids videos www.theverge.com #

  • This Bro's Speech To The LA City Council Might Be The Funniest Thing We've Seen All Year digg.com #

  • Lord's Prayer - Pope Francis calls for change www.bbc.com #

  • Trump's border wall - Climbing tests begin on (wafer thin) prototypes www.bbc.com #

2017/12/08 #

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  • Introducing Turbo - 5x faster than Yarn & NPM, and runs natively in-browser medium.com #

  • country-iso - Get ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for geographic coordinates github.com #

  • lowdown - Small JSON database for Node, Electron and the browser. Powered by Lodash github.com #

  • Patreon’s new service fee spurs concern that creators will lose patrons techcrunch.com #

  • What You Should Know About Bitcoin's Ridiculous Surge In Value digg.com #

  • What We Can All Learn From Domestic Workers' Silent Battle Against Sexual Harassment splinternews.com #

  • Are Intelligent People More Likely To Feel Lonely? digg.com #

  • Parcel - A blazing fast, zero configuration web bundler parceljs.org #

  • Brexit - 'Breakthrough' deal paves way for future trade talks www.bbc.com #

  • Things you need to know to become an ace Javascript developer codeburst.io #

  • Why hasn't Australia developed more diverse regional accents? www.sbs.com.au #

  • Hilton Unveils Plans for Its Smart Hotel Room Rollout in 2018 skift.com #

  • Lies You Were Told About The Human Body digg.com #

  • Flickr's Top Photos Of The Year Are Stunning digg.com #

2017/12/07 #

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2017/12/06 #

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  • Dustin Hoffman confronted over abuse allegations by John Oliver at public Q&A www.theguardian.com #

  • We have a tendency to police our code ecosystems and it’s harmful to those ecosystems and community medium.com #

  • Evidence that Ethiopia is spying on journalists shows commercial spyware is out of control www.wired.com #

  • Germany's proposed anti-cryptography bill - backdoors and hack-backs boingboing.net #

  • Journaling for Self-Trackers and Quantified Self Enthusiasts www.markwk.com #

  • TIME Names The Women Who Spoke Out About Sexual Harassment Its 'Person Of The Year' time.com #

  • This Nano X-Ray Technology Is Positively Mind-Blowing digg.com #

2017/12/05 #

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  • rapid.js - An ORM-like Interface and a Router For Your API Requests github.com #

  • An Introduction to ES6 Template Literals dev.to #

  • The secret to being a top developer is building things! Here’s a list of fun apps to build! medium.freecodecamp.org #

  • Mastering 'active rest' is far harder than it looks, but there are good reasons why we should keep working at it www.bbc.com #

  • Apple CEO backs China’s vision of an ‘open’ Internet as censorship reaches new heights www.washingtonpost.com #

  • We've not found aliens yet, so let's start listening for different signals www.wired.co.uk #

  • YouTube plans to have over 10,000 content moderators on staff by the end of 2018 to stop its child exploitation problem www.buzzfeed.com #

  • Severed Arm Tours Canada - might be the most goth thing the Catholic Church has allowed www.vice.com #

2017/12/03 #

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