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nelson : Cosmic distance ladder - The various ways we measure distances in astronomy
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nelson : Tumblr architecture - Nicely detailed article about how Tumblr operates
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nelson : Distributed consensus in practice - Detailed examination of how various distributed data stores actually deal with network partitions
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Andy Baio : Flickr launches major redesign with 1TB free space, new apps - looking pretty great
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nelson : Marco Arment on Tumblr - Really sweet take on Tumblr from its first employee
Andy Baio : Marco Arment on the Tumblr acquisition - great early personal history of Tumblr
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cobra libre : The robot threat: In the long run, we are telepathic androids - "Here's the thing about robots: they will be telepaths." #
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cobra libre : Kickstarter: Torment: Tides of Numenera by inXile entertainment - OH BABY #
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cobra libre : The Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation #
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cobra libre : Wikipedia: Rise and Decline of the Third Reich #
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cobra libre : Michael Wood: Roberto Bolaño Plays With History #
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cobra libre : War Games: On Roberto Bolaño's The Third Reich #
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cobra libre : In Pursuit of an Underwater Menagerie #
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cobra libre : learnfun and playfun: A general technique for automating NES games [via] #
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cobra libre : CS in VN - "After returning to the US, I asked a senior engineer how he'd rank this question on a Google interview. Without knowing the source of the question, he judged that this would be in the top third. The class had 45 minutes to design a solution and implement #
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nelson : "massless exploration" - Intriguing idea: instead of sending mass from Earth to space, we should use mass already in space
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nelson : Random Access Memories review - Good writeup of Daft Punk's new album
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Anil : Where Tumblr Came From - Seven years ago, my wife Alaina Browne and I were living happily in San Francisco when she went off to NYC to visit with our friends and attend a party. By the time she flew back, we were on a path that not only led to our return to New York City, but to
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nelson : Viewport Inversion - Jason Davies' amazing slippy map in Albers projection, using my vector rivers
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nelson : Modern GPU - NVidia publishes notes on how to use GPUs to do general purpose computing
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nelson : How Yahoo killed Flickr - Amazingly sourced, insidery analysis of Yahoo's failed acquisition
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nelson : Neverwinter economy broken - Stupid bug in auction house leads to real money being lost
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Andy Baio : Yahoo buys Tumblr for $1.1B - the community isn't taking it well; let's hope Yahoo learned from their first billion-dollar mistake
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kaninka.net : nevver: “It is not where it is or what it is that matters, but... - nevver: “It is not where it is or what it is that matters, but how you see it.” — Saul Leiter
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nelson : Tumblr community guidelines - "We're not in the business of profiting from adult-oriented videos and hosting this stuff is fucking expensive"
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nelson : Tumbalog - Merlin Mann and I dredged up our idea to build something like Tumblr, just before Tumblr launched
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