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China trumps SpaceX and James Cameron in same week(edition.cnn.com)
14 points by sparknlaunch 14y ago|4 comments
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China triumphs in space and sea(bbc.co.uk)
18 points by sparknlaunch 14y ago|6 comments
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Wikipedia founder steps in to help UK hacker(huffingtonpost.co.uk)
181 points by sparknlaunch 14y ago|99 comments
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Petition to stop extradition of UK hacker(change.org)
153 points by sparknlaunch 14y ago|52 comments
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China's first manual space docking successful(news.xinhuanet.com)
1 points by sparknlaunch 14y ago|0 comments
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Chinese Astronauts Make Their First Manual Docking (nytimes.com)
1 points by sparknlaunch 14y ago|0 comments
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Wikipedia's founder calls for UK hacker extradition to be stopped(guardian.co.uk)
2 points by sparknlaunch 14y ago|0 comments
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‘Girl Thing’ Science Campaign Video Deemed Patronizing, Insulting(redorbit.com)
2 points by sparknlaunch 14y ago|0 comments
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Startup Stories Blog Post: A Wild Pivot From Dried Fish to Smartphones(sparknlaunch.wordpress.com)
1 points by sparknlaunch 14y ago|0 comments
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Is computer generated speech protected under the constitution?(arstechnica.com)
3 points by sparknlaunch 14y ago|0 comments
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by sparknlaunch 14y ago
Craigslist, Plenty Of Fish plus some others are examples of sites that took a really minimalist approach to design but managed to pull in a massive market share through fulfilling a customer need. Revenue from advertising paid the bills. We
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Code Club - The Interview with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Chad Hurley(youtube.com)
1 points by sparknlaunch 14y ago|0 comments
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Alan Turing's 100th Birthday - Mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, scientist(en.wikipedia.org)
146 points by sparknlaunch 14y ago|19 comments
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by sparknlaunch 14y ago
> "Blogging mistake #1: Not prominently linking to your main site > Blogging mistake #2: Not integrating with social properties > Blogging mistake #3: Making it harder to subscribe to, and regularly follow, your blog > Blog
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Microsoft Research make breakthrough in audio speech recognition(blogs.technet.com)
138 points by sparknlaunch 14y ago|44 comments
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Who invented the full stop?(tlg.uci.edu)
2 points by sparknlaunch 14y ago|0 comments
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by sparknlaunch 14y ago
In a recent fictional book about poverty in the UK, two types if poverty were identified. One was unintentional poverty- someone falls into trouble due to no fault of their own. Maybe illness, trauma etc The other is intentional- individual
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Real World Problem - Major bank suffers many day outage(telegraph.co.uk)
1 points by sparknlaunch 14y ago|0 comments
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Major UK bank hit by technical glitch impacting cash(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by sparknlaunch 14y ago|0 comments
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Question: Is a black pixel on or off?(sparknlaunch.wordpress.com)
1 points by sparknlaunch 14y ago|0 comments
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Is This PC Gaming Chair Too Much?(hacknmod.com)
1 points by sparknlaunch 14y ago|0 comments
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by sparknlaunch 14y ago
It's a great story however skeptical of these retrospective views. I wonder how much of her motives were driven by protecting the mortgage holders and the economy; or protecting her career prospects. Saying this, Hunt seems much more deserv
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by sparknlaunch 14y ago
1- When logged in comments and submissions (by logged in user) should be highlighted in a distinctive colour. 2- Comment karma should be shown publicly rather than privately. ie each comment should show value. 3- Comments within a thread sh
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by sparknlaunch 14y ago
> [Campbell talks about boom and bust cycles...] People always dismissed it, when I told them - if only I was born x years earlier I would have graduated at the start of the boom cycle. I would have landed a high paying role out of coll
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by sparknlaunch 14y ago
Top marks for utilising feet for inputting. We have grown lazy with smartphones almost limiting our interaction to a shake of the wrist. Could a neck collar or head band be developed to perform similar tasks? Eg you move your head left or r
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Oracle chief buys his own island(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by sparknlaunch 14y ago|0 comments
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by sparknlaunch 14y ago
> Why are Rails people so obsessed with accelerating the trivial? From a Rails beginner perspective... Having spent days trying to get Rails up and running on a Windows box, this product looks absolutely awesome. Even the so called
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Is Peter Thiel still wrong about college?(venturebeat.com)
1 points by sparknlaunch 14y ago|0 comments
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by sparknlaunch 14y ago
>> Nothing ever get's built on schedule or within budget. If anything, things always deliver on schedule and within budget. This is due to massive scope creep (scope reduction) and reduced quality.
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Facebook turnaround by replacing credit with local currency(techradar.com)
1 points by sparknlaunch 14y ago|0 comments

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