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20,000 startup ideas

October 13, 2019

The data comes from “the O*NET database, containing hundreds of standardized and occupation-specific descriptors on almost 1,000 occupations covering the entire U.S. economy.” | learn more

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How much is a prayer worth?

October 6, 2019

Two researchers decided to find out. “As you might expect, religious people were willing to pay to be prayed for (more if it’s a priest, not a stranger). Rather more surprising, was the fact that the non-religious were willing to […]

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World population by country

October 6, 2019

This 2019 data helped slightly open my eyes to how the world is changing. The U.S. is #3 with 329mm people, a 0.60% growth rate and a median age of 38. The country ranked #7 has a population of 200mm, […]

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An oral history of the AIM away message

September 29, 2019

The author found the original AIM creator and a handful of designers and developers to learn their stories. “It might have started out as something purely functional—a live out-of-office, if you will—but the away message was much more than that.” […]

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A $9 Billion scam involving Nigeria

September 29, 2019

“A dying Irishman went for one last big score in Nigeria. The project failed, but a London tribunal says his company’s owed $9 billion and counting.” | learn more

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Decapitate vs capitate

September 22, 2019

If you work in healthcare, you’ve probably heard of the term capitate or capitated. For the rest of us… “As verbs the difference between decapitate and capitate is that decapitate is to remove the head of while capitate is to pay health-care […]

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Javascript is weird

September 22, 2019

I’ve used JS a lot over the years, but I never stopped to think about how weird some of the design choices compare to other programming languages. I found this article linked from one title Javascript is bad. “Why [‘1’, ‘7’, […]