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The Matthew Effect in Science – annotated/explained version (1968) (fermatslibrary.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | fermatslibrary.com | newest

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The Categories of Bugs in Python Apps (threeofwands.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | threeofwands.com | newest

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NHS England gives key role in handling patient data to US spy tech firm Palantir (theguardian.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | theguardian.com | frontpage

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The Death Star and the Final Trench Run (2017) (fxrant.blogspot.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | blogspot.com | best

2

Why should physicists study history? (fermatslibrary.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | fermatslibrary.com | newest

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Private Equity Faces a Reckoning (ft.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | ft.com | newest

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Met Police Scans Almost 250k Faces Using Facial Recognition Technology in 2023 (bylinetimes.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | bylinetimes.com | frontpage

2

Science is not a candle in the dark (smbc-comics.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | smbc-comics.com | frontpage

1

The JSON Schema Adopters (json-schema.org)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | json-schema.org | newest

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The fight over return-to-office is getting dirty (businessinsider.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | businessinsider.com | newest

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No Silver Bullet – Essence and Accident in Software Engineering (1986) (fermatslibrary.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | fermatslibrary.com | newest

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Is Braverman trying to get sacked? Some Tory insiders think so (theguardian.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | theguardian.com | newest

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Some Thoughts on Software Expertise (buttondown.email/hillelwayne)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | buttondown.email | newest

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Revolutionizing Deal Sourcing: How Technology Is Changing Venture Capital (goingvc.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | goingvc.com | newest

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Lingua::Romana::Perligata – Perl for the XXIimum Century (2017) (monash.edu)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | monash.edu | best

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Open source is struggling and it's not big tech that is to blame (medium.com/jankammerath)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | medium.com | frontpage

1

The Second Law of Infodynamics (aip.org)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | aip.org | newest

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Are we living in a computer simulation? [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | youtube.com | newest

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Every sky is full of stars (xkcd.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | xkcd.com | newest

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Challenges for Making Automation a "Team Player" in Joint Human-Agent Activity (fermatslibrary.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | fermatslibrary.com | newest

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Software Engineering Templates I Wish I Had Sooner (developing.dev)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | developing.dev | newest

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PyAPI Server (pyapi-server.readthedocs.io)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | readthedocs.io | newest

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What Is Nightshade? (twitter.com/theglazeproject)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | twitter.com | newest

2

Rodney Dangerfield on the World Wide Web (1995) (ew.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | ew.com | newest

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Cold war satellite images reveal unknown Roman forts (theguardian.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | theguardian.com | best

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The UK's 'official' labour data is becoming a nonsense (ft.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | ft.com | newest

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Bullets of Vaguely Silvery Hue (b-list.org)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | b-list.org | newest

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Skippr – Data Integration and Preparation (skippr.io)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | skippr.io | newest

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Brisk 22-minute walk could offset harmful effects of sitting, study suggests (theguardian.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | theguardian.com | best

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Stripe founder's "absurd" way of measuring engineer productivity (efinancialcareers.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | efinancialcareers.com | frontpage

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I wish people would do historical arguments better (buttondown.email/hillelwayne)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | buttondown.email | best

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Panopticon (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | wikipedia.org | newest

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Amazon's Fallout TV series gets a 2024 release date (arstechnica.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | arstechnica.com | best

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Why Are Fantasy TV Shows Still So Hard to Adapt (screenrant.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | screenrant.com | newest

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EU-funded report calls for wealth of super-rich to be taxed, not income (theguardian.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | theguardian.com | best

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Belgium investigating alleged breach of data protection laws over Ulez fines (theguardian.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | theguardian.com | newest

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Reasons Our Civilization Will Soon Collapse (okdoomer.io)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | okdoomer.io | frontpage

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The Humbling of the Maths Snobs (ft.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | ft.com | frontpage

3

Dog walker captures moment forest floor lifted by strong winds (sky.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | sky.com | newest

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Goodbye widescreen, hello tallscreen – soon we'll watch everything in portrait (theguardian.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | theguardian.com | newest

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Chess Boxing (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | wikipedia.org | newest

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Great Movies That No One Even Noticed (cracked.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | cracked.com | newest

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Ask HN: Offline Markdown editor with Git client?

a year ago | BerislavLopac | ycombinator.com | newest

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Dropbox's CEO on return to office: Workers aren't 'resources to control' (fortune.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | fortune.com | newest

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I Did Prison Time for Mentioning Climate Change in Court, While Rapists Go Free (bylinetimes.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | bylinetimes.com | newest

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The (Possible) Bones of 'The Unsullied' (2016) (therockstaranthropologist.wordpress.com...

a year ago | BerislavLopac | wordpress.com | newest

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Ancient Babylonian Algorithms (fermatslibrary.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | fermatslibrary.com | best

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The significance of brands in the Bond novels (2019) (midcenturybond.wordpress.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | wordpress.com | newest

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Earth was hit by a large solar storm that would devastate civilisation today (independent.co.uk)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | independent.co.uk | newest

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The Software Developer's Career Handbook (randsinrepose.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | randsinrepose.com | frontpage

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Python type hints: How to pass Any for unused parameters in tests (adamj.eu)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | adamj.eu | newest

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Medieval staircases were not built going clockwise for the defender's advantage (fakehistoryhunter.net)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | fakehistoryhunter.net | best

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A Magic Prioritization Trick (cutlefish.substack.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | substack.com | best

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Micromanagement: The Unpopular Truth You Need to Hear (shamun.dev)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | shamun.dev | newest

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How would you design the Stack Overflow website? (twitter.com/bytebytego)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | twitter.com | frontpage

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Lessons from bootstrapped companies founded by software engineers (pragmaticengineer.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | pragmaticengineer.com | best

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Dubious Islands of North America (xkcd.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | xkcd.com | newest

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Chatbot Journalism: Fake Doctors, Fake Dogs, Fake EastEnders Storylines (bylinetimes.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | bylinetimes.com | newest

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Productivity has grown faster in Western Europe than in America (economist.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | economist.com | best

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‘No white men’ policy: what you can and can’t do in diversity hiring (workable.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | workable.com | frontpage

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Why is Apache Kafka fast? (twitter.com/sahnlam)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | twitter.com | newest

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Croatia ranks 11th in the world in unicorn creation (croatiaweek.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | croatiaweek.com | newest

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Long Live the Test Pyramid (smashingmagazine.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | smashingmagazine.com | newest

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The Proof of Innocence (2012) (fermatslibrary.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | fermatslibrary.com | frontpage

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The UK Conservative Party Conference Embraces Trumpism Without Trump (bylinetimes.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | bylinetimes.com | newest

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Startup Credits: Companies offering free/discounted plans for startups (github.com/dakshshah96)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | github.com | newest

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The Shadowy Global Network Vilifying Climate Protesters (newrepublic.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | newrepublic.com | best

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The Musk Algorithm (world.hey.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | hey.com | newest

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Mistakes in the Lord of the Rings Movies (warfantasy.wordpress.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | wordpress.com | newest

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The Kakhovka Dam Disaster Revealed an Archaeological 'Goldmine' (atlasobscura.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | atlasobscura.com | newest

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San Francisco Tech Billboards? You're Not the Only One Who's Stumped (sfstandard.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | sfstandard.com | newest

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Uneven Gravity Makes You Weigh More in Illinois Than in Indiana (atlasobscura.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | atlasobscura.com | newest

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How many direct reports should a manager have? (theengineeringmanager.substack.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | substack.com | newest

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Syphilis is being rewritten by a medieval skeleton (wired.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | wired.com | newest

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Elon Musk's X enters the hiring arena: what you should know (workable.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | workable.com | newest

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The One Ring designers on exploring Moria in the long-awaited expansion (dicebreaker.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | dicebreaker.com | newest

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Movies That Missed Their Own Point (cracked.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | cracked.com | newest

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Musk’s Neuralink seeks volunteers for brain implants–who’s in? (arstechnica.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | arstechnica.com | newest

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OpenFeature (openfeature.dev)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | openfeature.dev | newest

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Now it’s clear: hard work doesn’t make you rich (theguardian.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | theguardian.com | frontpage

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The best model checker is your head (buttondown.email/hillelwayne)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | buttondown.email | newest

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Algorithm-assisted discovery of an intrinsic order among mathematical constants (fermatslibrary.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | fermatslibrary.com | best

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What we talk about when we talk about impostor syndrome (stackoverflow.blog)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | stackoverflow.blog | newest

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Founder vs. Investor: What VCS are really looking for [audio] (stackoverflow.blog)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | stackoverflow.blog | newest

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The Principle Of Applying Principles (poap) (2019) (fragiledeveloper.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | fragiledeveloper.com | newest

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How to evaluate a product roadmap, for engineers (stephen.fm)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | stephen.fm | best

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Python is (mostly) made of syntactic sugar (lwn.net)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | lwn.net | newest

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Social media platform X could go behind paywall (bbc.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | bbc.com | newest

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The scary way Trump could win without the electoral or popular vote (theguardian.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | theguardian.com | newest

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Leadership Is a Research Project (medium.com/onebigthought)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | medium.com | newest

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Blink Estimation (2013) (dannorth.net)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | dannorth.net | newest

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What do we do with the Twitter-shaped hole in the internet? (chelseatroy.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | chelseatroy.com | frontpage

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Etaoin Shrdlu (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | wikipedia.org | frontpage

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We Criticize, and Why You Should Too (mythcreants.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | mythcreants.com | newest

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What is wrong with TOML? (2019) (hitchdev.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | hitchdev.com | best

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The Problem with Software Development (oreilly.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | oreilly.com | frontpage

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Horse Archers Are Overrated (warfantasy.wordpress.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | wordpress.com | newest

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The Le Guin Precepts (seths.blog)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | seths.blog | best

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It's reassuring to think humans are peak evolution; but we may be an accident (theconversation.com)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | theconversation.com | newest

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Introduction to Python's Functools Module (florian-dahlitz.de)

a year ago | BerislavLopac | florian-dahlitz.de | newest