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2019-11-19 · practicalecommerce.com

19 Free Tutorials for Google Analytics

Google Analytics may be the most important application to understand the behavior of your visitors. And whether you’re a beginner or an experienced user, there are many free resources to help. Here is a list of free tutorials for Google Analytics.

2019-11-19 · kotaku.com

The Final Days Of Japan's Most Incredible Arcade

Japan is known for its video arcades, from the tiniest little collections of claw games in basements to entire high-rise buildings packed with floor after floor of video amusements. On Sunday, November 17, perhaps the most elaborately themed arcade in the country, Anata no…

2019-11-18 · alexanderell.is

Harnessing the Power of Shower Thoughts

One of the best ways to learn and come up with new ideas is to focus intensely on a problem, then let your mind wander. I’ve enjoyed doing this when problem solving and learning, and recently I’ve been thinking about how weird it is to build trust in your unconscious to do the…

2019-11-14 · newsinteractives.cbc.ca

Into the abyss: The story of the MV Lyubov Orlova

What really happened to the MV Lyubov Orlova, a Russian cruise liner that was abandoned in St. John's Harbour nine years ago and eventually drifted out to sea as a rat-infested ghost ship? To find the answers, reporter Randi Beers delves into some Soviet history, the secretive…

2019-11-13 · layerci.com

Postgres is a great pub/sub & job server

If you need a publish/subscribe or job server at any point in your project, try using Postgres. It'll give you lots of data integrity and performance guarantees, and it doesn't require you or your team learning any new technology.

2019-11-12 · starterstory.com

How I Built A $200K/Month Business Selling Proofreading Courses

Hello! Who are you and what business did you start?Hello! My name is Caitlin Pyle, and I start Proofread Anywhere back in 2014. I help proofreaders earn extra income from anywhere in the world… even if you’re starting from scratch! I have two different courses: Transcript…

2019-11-08 · lithub.com

The 20 Best Works of Nonfiction of the Decade

Friends, it’s true: the end of the decade approaches. It’s been a difficult, anxiety-provoking, morally compromised decade, but at least it’s been populated by some damn fine lite…

2019-11-08 · getpocket.com

O Sister, Where Art Thou?

History makes no mention of what was one of the most popular all-female country acts ever. Yet the story of the Goree Girls—inmates who banded together in the forties at Texas’ sole penitentiary for women—is worth a listen.

2019-11-07 · pair-code.github.io

Understanding UMAP

UMAP is a new dimensionality reduction technique that offers increased speed and better preservation of global structure.

2019-11-07 · getpocket.com

The Minor Regional Novelist

Texas may have inspired Larry McMurtry to become a writer, but there is no writer who has inspired an understanding of Texas quite like Larry McMurtry. At age eighty, our most iconic author still has work to do.

2019-11-05 · aeon.co

How to be an Epicurean

A philosophy that values innocent pleasure, human warmth and the rewards of creative endeavour. What’s not to like?

2019-11-03 · features.propublica.org

The Wrong Goodbye

A wrenching decision to end life support, and the unthinkable mistake that devastated not one but two families.

2019-11-03 · getpocket.com

Of Meat and Men

John Mueller was the heir to one of the great Texas barbecue dynasties. Aaron Franklin was an unknown kid from College Station who worked his counter. John had it all and then threw it all away. Aaron came out of nowhere to create the state’s most coveted brisket. Then John rose…

2019-11-03 · vccafe.com

Startup Benchmarks

I joked the other day that some of the best fairytales are written in Excel. While there isn’t a single magic number or set formula, understanding industry benchmarks can be really helpful to…

2019-11-02 · bbc.co.uk

The story of Tunnel 29

In 1961, Joachim Rudolph escaped from one of the world’s most brutal dictatorships. A few months later, he began tunnelling his way back in. Why?

2019-11-02 · cooking.nytimes.com

No-Knead Bread Recipe - NYT Cooking

Here is one of the most popular recipes The Times has ever published, courtesy of Jim Lahey, owner of Sullivan Street Bakery It requires no kneading It uses no special ingredients, equipment or techniques

2019-10-31 · wnycstudios.org

Songs that Cross Borders

We explore songs with the power to transcend language and the triumphant return of the Elvis of Afghanistan.