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Wed, 03 Jan 2018

Who killed Mr. Fixit and how to bring him back: A Q&A with iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens about the demise of the repair industry and a plan to revive it | Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-10-10/who-killed-mr-fixit-and-how-to-bring-him-back

Tue, 02 Jan 2018

How to know everything about everything: Laura Riding’s extraordinary 1930 letters to an 8-year-old girl about being oneself | Brain Pickings https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/02/20/laura-riding-four-unposted-letters-to-catherine/

The web is dying, but mesh networks could save it | thenextweb.com https://thenextweb.com/syndication/2018/01/02/web-dying-mesh-networks-will-save/

Mon, 01 Jan 2018

The Kindle changed the book business. Can it change books? | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/can-amazon-change-books/

Introduction to Theoretical Computer Science | Boaz Barak http://www.introtcs.org/public/index.html

How I learned to stop worrying and love the job hunt | Stephan Behnke https://blog.stephanbehnke.com/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-job-hunt-in-toronto/

I just discovered spell check in Vim (I'm a slow learner)

Using Spell Check in Vim | Jake Harding http://thejakeharding.com/tutorial/2012/06/13/using-spell-check-in-vim.html

Jilted in acquisition, digital home lock startup Otto ceases operation, and company CEO/founder details what went wrong | Hackernoon https://hackernoon.com/so-close-806b8ae77fa6

Add OpenSSH to Windows 10 (alternative title: My God, it's full of stars!) https://www.howtogeek.com/336775/how-to-enable-and-use-windows-10s-built-in-ssh-commands/

Sat, 30 Dec 2017

re-frame: A Reagent Framework For Writing SPAs, in Clojurescript. https://github.com/Day8/re-frame

Fri, 29 Dec 2017

Simple and Happy: Is Clojure dying, and what has Ruby got to do with it? | Lambda Island https://lambdaisland.com/blog/25-05-2017-simple-and-happy-is-clojure-dying-and-what-has-ruby-got-to-do-with-it

Why Clojure? http://blog.venanti.us/why-clojure/

Thu, 28 Dec 2017

Regexes in Clojure for fun and profit | LispCast http://www.lispcast.com/clojure-regex

Wed, 27 Dec 2017

Talk: A new online-comments system from the Coral Project https://coralproject.net/products/talk.html

Chemistry is quantum computing’s killer app | Chemical & Engineering News https://cen.acs.org/articles/95/i43/Chemistry-quantum-computings-killer-app.html

Learning to code in 6 months — a product manager’s journey | Hackernoon https://hackernoon.com/learning-to-code-in-6-months-a-product-managers-journey-b5d09b856f72

The future of buying stuff won't involve humans at all, except you | Bloomberg.com https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2017-future-of-automation/

Tue, 26 Dec 2017

Clojure Newbie Guide http://www.clojurenewbieguide.com/

Mon, 25 Dec 2017

I was an Amazon delivery driver: What it’s like to work in the tech giant’s citizen package brigade | GeekWire https://www.geekwire.com/2017/amazon-delivery-driver-like-work-tech-giants-citizen-package-brigade/

Top programmers now have agents | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/24/programmers-price

The men who are convinced we’re all living in a simulation | Mel Magazine https://melmagazine.com/the-men-who-are-convinced-were-all-living-in-a-simulation-d2c76772df2f

How Amazon delivers packages in less than an hour | Time http://time.com/4159144/amazon-prime-warehouse-new-york-city-deliveries-christmas/

7 things that could make Bitcoin crash to $1,000 or less | The Motley Fool https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/12/24/7-things-that-could-make-bitcoin-crash-to-1000-or.aspx

Where this supercomputer is going, there are no hard drives | Fast Company https://www.fastcompany.com/40500260/where-this-supercomputer-is-going-there-are-no-hard-drives

The pessimist’s guide to 2018 | Bloomberg.com https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/pessimists-guide-to-2018/

Repairing a 1960s mainframe: Fixing the IBM 1401's core memory and power supply | Ken Shirriff http://www.righto.com/2017/12/repairing-1960s-mainframe-fixing-ibm.html