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FiveThirtyEight Forecast: G.O.P. Senate Hopes Slipping (Nate Silver/FiveThirtyEight)

(author unknown) — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:20:06 PDT

Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight: FiveThirtyEight Forecast: G.O.P. Senate Hopes Slipping — Democrats are now favored to retain control of the Senate when the new Congress convenes in January,...

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With iPhone 5, Apple Has Chiseled The Smartphone To Near Perfection

Mg Siegler — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 20:14:58 PDT

You pick it up and it almost feels fake. That’s not to say it feels cheap; because it doesn’t — quite the opposite, actually. It just doesn’t seem real. Certainly not to someone who has been holding...

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iPhone 5 Javascript Benchmarks Over Twice as Fast

Arnold Kim — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 22:11:14 PDT

AnandTech publishes the first SunSpider Javascript benchmarks for the iPhone 5. SunSpider measures Javascript performance which runs in web browsers. Smaller numbers are better, so the...

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Automate Google Analytics reporting using Google Apps Script

Scott Knaster — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 18:03:30 PDT

By Nick Mihailovski, Google Analytics API Team Cross-posted with the Google Analytics Blog and the Google Apps Developer Blog Many people have been asking for a simple way to put Google Analytics...

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Nation-building at home

(author unknown) — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 01:48:02 PDT

All through the Bush II presidency, political discourse in the US got more and more bizarre. At times, the debate was over who could do the most good for Iraq. Or what the people of Iraq wanted from...

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TED: Ramesh Raskar: Imaging at a trillion frames per second - Ramesh Raskar (2012)

TEDTalks — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 08:01:59 PDT

Ramesh Raskar presents femto-photography, a new type of imaging so fast it visualizes the world one trillion frames per second, so detailed it shows light itself in motion. This technology may...

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Amazon Cloud Player Upgraded with Scan and Match, 256 Kbps Audio

Eric Slivka — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 12:12:52 PDT

Amazon today announced a significant upgrade to its Cloud Player music service, bringing iTunes Match-like "scan and match" technology to assist users in making their entire music libraries available...

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Lessons from the Failure of Readability's Author Payment Plan (Greg Cox/Expletive Inserted)

(author unknown) — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 22:55:12 PDT

Greg Cox / Expletive Inserted: Lessons from the Failure of Readability's Author Payment Plan — Yesterday Readability announced that they were shutting down their experiment to take payments on...

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Make your website faster with PageSpeed Insights

Ashleigh Rentz — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 11:17:28 PDT

Bryan Libo By Libo Song and Bryan McQuade, PageSpeed Insights Team A year ago, we released a preview of the PageSpeed Insights Chrome Developer Tools extension, which analyzes the...

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Why "Social Darwinism" is just right

(author unknown) — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 06:29:13 PDT

Krugman worries that low-information independent voters won't know who Darwin was, or what it means to call Repub policy Social Darwinism. It doesn't matter. They don't know who Saul Alinsky is...

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How The IPO Ruined Google

Contributor — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 10:16:48 PDT

Editor’s Note: Ian Lurie is CEO of Portent Inc, an internet marketing agency that he founded in 1995. He co-published Web Marketing All-In-One for Dummies, where he wrote the sections on SEO,...

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Launching the Improved Auth Dialog

(author unknown) — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:00:00 PST

Over the past few months, we’ve been testing and iterating on the new Auth Dialog to incorporate feedback from users, developers and other third parties. By introducing new ways for people learn...

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25 Secrets of the Browser Developer Tools

Andi Smith — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 03:00:44 PDT

Over the last few years there has been one tool that has helped out every web developer more than any other – the browser developer tools. Working in harmony with the web browser, the developer tools...

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Installing the Python Imaging Library on Mac OS X Leopard ← Passing Curiosity

(author unknown) — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:20:54 PDT

Like many other developers, I work on a variety of UNIX-like operating systems including Linuxen, BSDs, and Mac OS X. While it's generally pretty easy to build and install new software on Linux...

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Pretty URLs: Routes in Google App Engine | Sproutee Solutions

(author unknown) — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 22:16:51 PDT

Designing an infinite digital bookcase

A Googler — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:29:12 PDT

(Cross-posted on the Google Code blog) As digital designers, we often think about how to translate traditional media into a virtual space. Recently, we thought about the bookcase. What would it...

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The Gamification

(author unknown) — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 09:22:26 PDT

When Joel Spolsky and I set out to design the Stack Exchange Q&A engine in 2008 -- then known as Stack Overflow -- we borrowed liberally and unapologetically from any online system that we felt...

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Step inside the map with Google MapsGL

A Googler — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 07:24:28 PDT

(Cross-posted on the Lat Long Blog) You’re now one step closer to experiencing and interacting with a 3D mirror of the real world within your browser with Google MapsGL. Google MapsGL takes Google...

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colour changing card trick

Steve — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 22:22:43 PDT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=A2Lgw9zFH-Y#!

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16 Pixels: For Body Copy. Anything Less Is A Costly Mistake

(author unknown) — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 10:13:35 PDT

Shared by Steve Good stuff. 16 Pixels For Body Copy....

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