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A Guide to Memoization in Ruby

Discover the benefits of memoization for your Ruby application, common mistakes to avoid, and when not to memoize.

D3.js - Data-Driven Documents

The JavaScript library for bespoke data visualization

Meet Arrokoth: Ultima Thule, the Most Distant Object Ever Explored, Has a New Name

The small body beyond Pluto visited by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is now officially known as Arrokoth

How to validate the presence of a boolean field in a Rails model

A subtle bug happens when validating the presence of boolean fields in Rails. Here’s how to find it before it hits production.

What is /dev/zero in Linux?

One of the special device files in Linux, /dev/zero is used for creating files filled with zeroes.

The Blues | PBS

The Blues: a multi-media project anchored by seven impressionistic and interpretive films that capture the essence of the blues while exploring how this art form so deeply influenced people the world over.

Incredible Afrobeat music from Mali / Boing Boing

Founded in 1989, Mr Bongo is an exquisitely-curated indie record (and film) label that uncovers incredible Brazilian psych, rare soul, avant-jazz, and deeply groovy Afrobeat recordings and reissues them in…

HONK!TX - A Free Festival of Community Street Bands

HONK!TX, a free fesitval of community street bands held each spring in the public spaces of Austin, Texas

Festival/Event Calendar

The Eagle Huntress || A Sony Pictures Classics Release

Sony Pictures Classics presents 'The Eagle Huntress' - Directed by Otto Bell - Opens NY & LA 10/28 - Coming Soon To a City Near You

Stream 35 Hours of Classic Blues, Folk, & Bluegrass Recordings from Smithso

Marshall McLuhan’s chestnut “the medium is the message” contains some of the most important theory about mass media to have emerged in the past century.

Massive Archive of 78RPM Records Now Digitized & Put Online: Stream 78,000

Last summer we checked in with the Internet Archive’s Great 78 Project, a volunteer effort to digitize thousands of 78rpm records—the oldest mass-produced recording medium.

Documentary: Louis Armstrong - Satchmo - The Big Picture

Late night palette cleanser: American jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong.

Stream 47 Hours of Classic Sci-Fi Novels & Stories: Asimov, Wells, Orwell,

The pronouncements of French theorist Jean Baudrillard could sound a bit silly in the early 1990s, when the internet was still in its infancy, a slow, clunky technology whose promises far exceeded what it could deliver.

All Learn - Decrypt

The next-generation media outlet navigating the intersection of culture and technology.

Custom Logo Design Services. Professional Logos Online

Get a professional logo from the #1 choice for logo design. Original designs. Award-winning designers. Real human customer service. Quality guaranteed.

Companies Who Use Erlang

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The Capital Allocation Guide for CEOs — Behavioral Value Investor

Too many CEOs don't understand capital allocation. They rose up through the sales or operations ranks, and now that they are at the top they have to wing it with respect to one of the most important aspects of running the business. Don’t get me wrong – there are some amazing…

15 Minute Lunch: Strap in, shut up and hold on. We're going back.

Last weekend I put an exhaust fan in the ceiling for my wife's grandfather. After a bunch of hours spent in The Hottest Attic In The Univers...

This Is What Happens to Your Body on a Thru-Hike - Outside Online

The secret to ultimate fitness isn't all that complicated—just spend a month outside, hiking eight hours per day. Kyle Boelte breaks down how his body evolved into an efficient, fat-burning, testosterone-fueled machine over 29 days on the Colorado Trail.

The 9-Minute Strength Workout - Well Guides - The New York Times

Strength training is the key to flexibility, mobility, improved performance and lower injury risk.

The Planks You Should Be Doing (But Probably Aren't)

As one-minute planks gave way to three-minute planks, and three-minute planks evolved into ten-minute planks, marathon plank-holding has become a calling card of sorts. " Being able to hold a traditional plank for 10 minutes isn't very functional for anything except just that,"…

Periodic Table of Bodyweight Exercises

Strength Stack 52 Bodyweight Exercises Games make exercising fun. Play dozens of different fitness games with your friends.

Whitepages - Search, Find, Know | The largest and most trusted online direc

Whitepages | Find accurate phone numbers, addresses and emails from the most trusted U.S. white pages phone directory and address lookup since 1997.

Stream a 144-Hour Discography of Classic Jazz Recordings from Blue Note Rec

There have been many influential jazz record labels throughout the previous century and into the current one, but there is no more recognizable label than Blue Note Records.

Enter the Cover Art Archive: A Massive Collection of 800,000 Album Covers f

When I get to muttering in my beard about kids today, the subject oft turns to digital music and how everything sounds the same and looks the same and “what ever happened to album covers, man….” I mean I know they still exist, but they’re terrible, right?

Cover Art Archive / API

Neal's Sound File Collection

Complete List of Songs Used in Commercials by Apple, Samsung, Google and Mi

Songs used in commercials, advertisements, events, presentations and promotional materials by Apple, Samsung, Google and Microsoft.

https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-science-fiction-themed-songs-of-all-time-1650307105

Soundbreaking: Stories from the Cutting Edge of Recorded Music - The Big Pi

I have been really enjoying this 8 part series on the process of recording music via PBS: Music has been a constant in human history, an intermingling of voice and instrument that for all its local variation and increasing sophistication nevertheless endured in more or less the…

Why vinyl records survive in the digital age | Ars Technica

Don’t underestimate ritual and tactility.

Digital Music Couldn't Exist Without the Fourier Transform

This is the Fourier Transform. You can thank it for providing the music you stream every day, squeezing down the images you see on the Internet into tiny

The 21 Best Hip-Hop Albums of the 21st Century

Who truly ranks as the 'King of Hip Hop' in this century? Breaking down review scores to find the best hip hop albums, the answer may surprise you.

Someone Has Made 38 Hours of Playlists That Trace the Evolution of Hip-Hop

And you can listen to it for free.

Learn violin - Freddie's Site

How to Play the Violin

The violin is one of the most rewarding and beautiful instruments to play. The road to learning the violin is a long one, but with patience, discipline, and enthusiasm, these steps will help you start down the road to success with this...

5 Excellent Free Software Options For Creating Music At Home - Hypebot

The ubiquity (and quality) of available home recording software has dramatically lessened the cost of DIY recording, but with so many options available, it can be difficult to know exactly. Continue reading

Paper Airplane Designs

A database of paper airplanes with easy to follow folding instructions, video tutorials and printable folding plans. Find the best paper airplanes!

CorentinJ/Real-Time-Voice-Cloning: Clone a voice in 5 seconds to generate a

Clone a voice in 5 seconds to generate arbitrary speech in real-time - CorentinJ/Real-Time-Voice-Cloning

[1702.04680v1] Visual Discovery at Pinterest

Over the past three years Pinterest has experimented with several visual search and recommendation services, including Related Pins (2014), Similar Looks (2015), Flashlight (2016) and Lens (2017)....

A Standard and Clean Series A Term Sheet | Y Combinator

We’ve noticed a common problem: founders don’t know what “good” looks like in a term sheet. This makes sense, because it is often, literally, the first time in their careers that they’ve seen one. This puts founders at a significant disadvantage because VCs see term sheets all…

Top 10 reasons why Darth Vader was an amazing project manager

The Sith Lord Darth Vader, of Star Wars fame, often gets a bad rap, particularly in what we all think of as his 'dark years'. From a certain perspective his mass murder, brutal oppression, and frequent deception to serve his own ends makes him seem like a pretty bad guy.

Yoga Poses, Postures and Asanas | The Yoga Poses

UTM Parameters Best Practices & Intro | Rafflecopter

Do you know where your site traffic comes from? Which of your campaigns drives the most traffic? Let's investigate UTM parameters best practices.

NASA's Pluto Spacecraft Begins New Mission at the Solar System's Edge

New Horizons is about to wake up and study the Kuiper Belt, the universe, and even Uranus and Neptune. But a new target to visit could trump them all

Strengthen your heart, bones – and maybe even your brain: a beginner’s guid

A resistance workout is not just about adding muscle: it can bring a host of other proven benefits as well. So what is stopping you?

Terry Hall, singer with ska icons The Specials, dies at 63

Terry Hall, lead singer of The Specials, has died. With its mix of Black and white members and Jamaica-influenced fashion style, the band became leaders of the anti-racist 2 Tone ska revival movement.

Homemade French Baguettes

Everything you need to know to make perfect French baguettes at home.