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

Tuesday, September 18, 2012
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,...<br

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

Tuesday, September 18, 2012
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

Tuesday, September 18, 2012
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

Thursday, August 23, 2012
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

Saturday, September 08, 2012
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)

Thursday, July 26, 2012
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...<b

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

Tuesday, July 31, 2012
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)

Saturday, June 16, 2012
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...&l

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Make your website faster with PageSpeed Insights

Tuesday, June 12, 2012
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

Monday, April 09, 2012
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

Sunday, April 08, 2012
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,...<br

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Launching the Improved Auth Dialog

Wednesday, January 18, 2012
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

Friday, November 04, 2011
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

Monday, October 31, 2011
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

Sunday, October 30, 2011

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Designing an infinite digital bookcase

Tuesday, October 18, 2011
(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

Wednesday, October 12, 2011
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

Thursday, October 13, 2011
(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

Sunday, October 16, 2011
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16 Pixels: For Body Copy. Anything Less Is A Costly Mistake

Sunday, October 09, 2011
Shared by Steve Good stuff. 16 Pixels For Body Copy...

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