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Month: September 2016

  • King of West African tribe returns to landscaping job in Canada

    Vancouver residents looking to hire some landscaping help this fall could end up with royalty tending to their hedges and bagging up leaves...

    Jeff Lagerquist (CTV News)

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    • posted 29 September, 2016
  • Image representing post: Quantum Entanglement and the Great Bohr-Einstein Debate | PBS Space Time

    Quantum Entanglement and the Great Bohr-Einstein Debate | PBS Space Time



    PBS Spacetime

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    • posted 29 September, 2016
  • Image representing post: Trans Sex | Sexplanations

    Trans Sex | Sexplanations



    Dr. Lindsey Doe (Sexplanations)

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    • posted 29 September, 2016
  • HTC Vive users make a pentagram

    HTC accepts no responsibility should you accidentally summon an intra-dimensional chaos god, ushering in a new dark age for humanity.



    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CtSPx3OVUAAhy2B.jpg:large

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    • posted 29 September, 2016
  • green screen computer text

    IBM PC - Computerphile



    Computerphile

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    • posted 29 September, 2016
  • SMBC: Augmented Reality

    Augmented Reality



    Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

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    • posted 20 September, 2016
  • What I Didn't Understand as a Junior Programmer

    I remember the first time I saw a codebase over a million lines. It was at my internship, a large 10+ year old system, in multiple languages, thousands of unit tests, organized into several projects and dll's that would take the whole night to recompile. Some of the projects had complex build processes, requiring extensive …

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    • posted 19 September, 2016
  • Magnetically levitating spinning top amongst smoke; animated GIF

    Smoke and maglev spinning top



    https://i.imgur.com/3jozuyL.gif

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    • posted 19 September, 2016
  • Image representing post: In Defense Of A Boring, Comfortable Life

    In Defense Of A Boring, Comfortable Life

    They call it β€œthe easy life” for a reason.

    I got my degree from a small, public college in upstate New York.

    People went there, got their degrees and then went off to have quiet and sometimes boring lives. Although a degree from the State University of New York (SUNY) system is a valuable commodity outside of …

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    • posted 19 September, 2016
  • Image representing post: Godzilla's Family Vlog Review - Episode ??

    Godzilla's Family Vlog Review - Episode ??



    Just because there hasn't BEEN an episode of Godzilla Huntley's IRL (the "Family Vlog") in a long while doesn't mean that I can't do a review of one, right?

    Right? See Godzilla's channel (to complain about the lack of a new vlog yet).

    Music: Starkey, by Koona, used under a Creative Commons license.

    With special thanks to Doreen …

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    • posted 16 September, 2016
  • I'll be coaching at @codebar #Oxford on 11 October! More details/sign up at https://t.co/gMiw13DdI4

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    • posted 14 September, 2016
  • How you know your job is awesome: "Shall we get the VR toys out before or after we go for ice cream?" @j_townshend @mccarthy_liz

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    • posted 14 September, 2016
  • SMBC: Security Vulnerability

    Security Vulnerability



    Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

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    • posted 12 September, 2016
  • XKCD: Earth Temperature Timeline

    Earth Temperature Timeline



    XKCD

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    • posted 12 September, 2016

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