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Chapter 10: Buried Treasure — The Book of Home — Medium

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When I was a very little girl, my parents nicknamed me Hector the Collector, after the Shel Silverstein poem from his bo…

All Dressed Up For Mars and Nowhere to Go — Matter — Medium

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Valentin Vitaljevich Lebedev was a Soviet cosmonaut who made two flights into space. His stay aboard the Space Station Salyut 7 with Anatoly Berezovoy in 1982, which lasted 211 days,[1] was recorded in the Guinness Book of Records.

Code Climate. Hosted static analysis for Ruby, PHP and JavaScript source code.

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Code Climate hosted software metrics help you ship quality Ruby, PHP and JavaScript code faster. Get control of your technical debt with real time static analysis of your code.

Pluralization for JavaScript · An A List Apart Article

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Getting plurals right in localization is a tricky prospect—each language has its own rules, and exceptions within those rules. How can we scale our websites and apps to respond to our global audience? Tingan Ho shows us how MessageFormat lessens some common pain points in the pluralization process.

This new type of 3D printing was inspired by Terminator 2 - YouTube

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This new 3D printing technology by Carbon 3d looks like science fiction. But it's entirely real. Vox's Joseph Stromberg explains. For more on how it works: h...

What if testing was a part of the design process

blog.froont.com/what-if-testing-was-a-part-of-the-design/
Testing is a powerful tool. A wrap-up on which testing methods to choose, how to test responsive web design and make better design decisions.

The Virtual Water Project

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The water footprint of products, designed by Raureif / Timm Kekeritz.

The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary

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an essay, and later a book, by Eric S. Raymond on software engineering methods […]. It examines the struggle between top-down and bottom-up design.

FranceTerme

culture.fr/franceterme
Ce site est consacré aux termes recommandés au Journal officiel de la République française. Il regroupe un ensemble de termes de différents domaines scientifiques et techniques.