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git clone in Haskell from the bottom up

In order to give some structure to my ongoing investigation of git’s data structures, protocols and implementation I decided to re-implement git clone without using any of git’s plumbing commands or any of the existing git libraries. Along the way I tried to keep some implementation notes that shoul…

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How We Earned $10,120 in 30 Days by Sending Horse Poop to People: Amazing Kickstart of a...

Shitexpress.com is a service allowing people to order a box with horse poop and send it anonymously to a person anywhere in the world. Apart from PayPal, we accept Bitcoin to ensure 100% anonymity of the buyer. Price: $16.95, including personalized message, packaging and shipping.

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Nine hard-won lessons about money and investing

Any time you talk about money, you risk sounding like a jerk. I'm going to take that risk in this post. I'll start out by talking about a couple ways I shot myself in the foot financially and what ...

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Functional Programming Patterns (BuildStuff '14)

In object-oriented development, we are all familiar with design patterns such as the Strategy pattern and Decorator pattern, and design principles such as SOLI…

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Amazon Fire Phone, 32GB (Unlocked GSM)

Limited-time offer Includes a full year of Prime Enjoy unlimited streaming and downloads of tens of thousands of popular movies and TV episodes with Prime Instant Video, over one million songs and hundreds of playlists with the all-new Prime Music, over 500,000 books to borrow for free with the ...

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A eulogy for RadioShack, a strange strip-mall monster from a forgotten age.

This may very well be RadioShack's final holiday season. Jon, a former employee, looks back on a strange, craven, five thousand-fingered strip-mall monster from a forgotten age.

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Introducing data center fabric, the next-generation Facebook data center network

The more than 1.35 billion people who use Facebook on an ongoing basis rely on a seamless, “always on” site performance. On the back end, we have many advanced sub-systems and infrastructures in place that make such a real-time experience possible, and our scalable, high-performance network is one o…

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Liu Cixin’s ‘The Three-Body Problem’ Is Published in U.S.

Liu Cixin’s “The Three-Body Problem,” a science-fiction trilogy whose first book comes out Tuesday in the United States, has attracted a diverse Chinese audience.

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