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If you live in the United States, you’re probably familiar with some of the basic rights guaranteed by the Bill of Rights — for example, freedom of speech, religion, the press; the right against self-incrimination; and the right for alleged criminals to be tried in front of a jury of their peers


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It’s become the one decision that can make or break an online or retail business: hiring a web developer or programmer capable of creating a website that is functional, adopting the current best web practices and scalable. You could ask a friend for a web developer recommendation.


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In 1687, Sir Isaac Newton published his groundbreaking book, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, which described his three laws of motion. In the process, Newton laid the foundation for classical mechanics and redefined the way the world looked at physics and science.


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OS X Yosemite has had a slew of issues with Wi-Fi, namely that connections are randomly dropping out or slowing down. If you're affected by this, developer Mario Ciabarra has a Terminal command that'll fix the issue.


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We've finally heard from Officer Darren Wilson. Wilson had been publicly silent since the events of August 9, when he shot and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. And, even as the grand jury announced its decision not to indict him, he remained silent.


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Since the late 1800s, Coney Island has played host to a circus-like environment of amusement parks. Today, you can go there on July 4th and witness the annual hot dog eating contest, as eaters professional and amateur scarf down an obscene amount of tubular meat in short order.


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Lithuania, 1893. Charles Wainman did what many have done, before and since — he didn’t finish his meal.  Instead, he tucked away a small piece of cheese — a going away present, as he left for Johannesburg — to take with him.


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On November 21, 2004, voters in the Ukraine took to the polls to elect a prime minister. The incumbent, Viktor Yanukovych, came in with 15.09 million votes, besting the challenger, Viktor Yushchenko, by fewer than 900,000 votes, or about three percentage points.


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Unless you’re lazy about it, it makes very little sense to counterfeit a one dollar bill. The cost of obtaining the paper, striking suitable minting plates, and sourcing the ink is just too large to warrant the payout.


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In 1997, the Hanson brothers — Zac, Taylor, and Isaac and their gloriously long hair — hit musical paydirt with the song “MMMbop.


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REST APIs are a very common topic nowaday; they are part of almost every web application. A simple, consistent and pragmatic interface is a mandatory thing; it will be much easier for others to use your API.


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There are many Christmas traditions around the world, and most of them (if one excludes mass carnage at U.S. retail locations on Black Friday), are imbued with the spirit of giving and community. And Gavle, Sweden (here’s a map) has a tradition which, kind of, fits this mold.


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If you go to law school in the United States, you’ll end up taking a class called torts, which discusses the duties we all owe to each other and the liabilities we incur when those duties are breached.


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Peter the Great was the tzar of Russia from 1682 until his death in 1725. During that period, Europe was undergoing what is now known as the Age of Enlightenment, marked by a rise in the employment of science and logic in philosophy and culture.


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Most people aren’t excited at the prospect of auditing code, but it’s become one of my favorite types of projects. A CSS audit is really detective work.


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Growing up, I learned there were two kinds of reviews I could seek out from my parents. One parent gave reviews in the form of a shower of praise. The other parent, the one with a degree from the Royal College of Art, would put me through a design crit.


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You are bad at giving technical interviews. Yes, you. You’re looking for the wrong skills, hiring the wrong people, and actively screwing yourself and your company.


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Not too long ago, before Fastex buckles, SureFire flashlights and freeze dried Mountain House meals, a person’s survival was directly related to their skill and knowledge of their environment. The fur trappers who preempted the European expansion westward knew this better than most.


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Redundancy and efficiency don’t go well together. We wear belts or suspenders, not and, because having both would be unnecessary and the extra cost or discomfort isn’t worth it. But sometimes, having a backup plan is a good idea, especially when the risk of failure is incredibly high.


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I started my business as a web development consultancy, building sites for clients. As we have moved to become a product company since launching Perch, we’ve had to learn many things.


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Tyler Hall shares how his OmniFocus setup has evolved over the last four years. In his insightful post he is covering Looks like Tyler has a preference for modern Contexts and a Perspective-based "Planning & Today" workflow. Not sure where he got that from.


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That’s a rather simple sentence.  Three words, three syllables, fourteen characters (including spaces and the period).   Even in other languages it is similarly simple.  In the case below, French, the sentence loosely translates to “passe-moi le sel.


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AEM/CQ Reverse Engineering Demystified October 18, 2014 in CQ5, AEM Have you ever struggled to find out how to implement a particular feature for Adobe AEM/CQ? Did your attempt to find what you needed on Google or discussion groups fail? In your gut, do you know it's


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If story points are an estimate of the time (effort) involved in doing something, why not just estimate directly in hours or days? Why use points at all?


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The late 1980s were a great time to collect baseball cards.  In 1989, a company named Upper Deck debuted their set, with the first card, numerically, that of a star rookie:  Ken Griffey, Jr.   Immediately, that card became popular; that popularity has endured.


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