LinkedLists- Most Popular StackOverflow links

The most popular links posted by developers to Stack Overflow.

It started as an exploration of what kinds of links people shared on Stack Overflow and grew from there.

All the links are mined from the Stack Overflow data dumps (March 2013). The link descriptions are mined by crawling the web and using Duck-Duck-Go which publishes a great free website summary API.

How to Explain Bitcoin to a 7-Year-Old and How I understood It!

There’s a room that anyone can access. The room has security cameras that anyone can view, and every second of recorded footage is available online forever.

The room is filled with indestructible piggy banks made of transparent plastic. Naturally, these piggy banks have coin slots, and everyone can see which coins are in which piggy bank. These piggy banks can never leave the room.

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An incredible time-lapse video

This video was shot by photographer Dustin Farrell in Arizona and Utah (yay!). He said, “Every frame of this video is a raw still from a Canon 5D2 DSLR and processed with Adobe software. In Volume 2 I again show off my beautiful home state of Arizona and I also made several trips to Utah. This video has some iconic landmarks that we have seen before. I felt that showing them again with motion controlled HDR and/or night timelapse would be a new way to see old landmarks.”
 In layman’s terms… he used a camera. Not a camcorder. A DSLR camera. And he put each individual picture together on a computer to make it into a video.

 This post first appeared on Danoah.com


A complimentary video-


View from the ISS at Night from Knate Myers on Vimeo.

Teensy alien-looking skeleton from Chile poses a medical mystery

Sirius via YouTube

A 6-inch-long (15-centimeter-long) skeleton was found in Chile's Atacama Desert. The skeleton showed several anomalies, including its alien-like skull, teensy body and the fact that it had just 10 ribs rather than the 12 that healthy humans normally have.

>>Read full Article from NBC news<<

Fuck your Code | Fuck your Design

Fuck your code

Fuck your Design

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Why Watching DVDs on Linux is Illegal in the USA

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) makes unlocking cell phones, ripping DVDs, removing eBook DRM, and jailbreaking tablets illegal in the USA. However, there’s another surprise: simply watching a DVD on Linux is also illegal.
This is why Ubuntu and other Linux distributions don’t include out-of-the-box DVD support, forcing you to run a command that downloads and installs libdvdcss from elsewhere – not the Linux distribution’s software repositories, or they would get in trouble.
If you are an American who’s watched a DVD on Linux, there’s a good chance the DMCA makes you a criminal.

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snopes.com: Rumour Has it!

Snopes.com, officially the Urban Legends Reference Pages, is a website covering urban legends, Internet rumors, e-mail forwards, and other stories of unknown or questionable origin. It is a well-known resource for validating and debunking such stories in American popular culture, receiving 300,000 visits a day.
 Snopes aims to debunk or confirm widely spread urban legends. The site has been referenced by news media and other sites, including CNN, Fox News Channel, MSNBC and Australia's ABC on its Media Watch program. Snopes's popular standing is such that some chain e-mail hoaxes claim to have been "checked out on 'Snopes.com'" in an attempt to discourage readers from seeking verification.

Obscure C++ Features

Here is a collection of obscure C++ features, gathered over the years by the author of the post, Evan Wallace. Hopefully you'll learn something from this page even if you already know C++ pretty well. The features below are roughly ordered from least to most obscure.

1. What square brackets really mean
2. Most vexing parse
3. Alternate operator tokens
4. Redefining keywords
5. Placement new
6. Branch on variable declaration
7. Turing complete template metaprogramming
8. Pointer-to-member operators
9. Static methods on instances
10. Overloading ++ and --
11. Operator overloading and evaluation order
12. Functions as template parameters
13. Template template parameters
14. Function try blocks

  
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Hosting a Wordpress Blog on Heroku with the Svbtle Theme for free

Svbtle - Wordpress Theme

I don't know about you, but since I've seen the Svbtle theme being used, I became a fan!
Its simple, and that kudos button is awesome!

So here is the article that teaches you to host a blog with this theme installed on heroku.  Heroku is a cloud platform as a service (PaaS) supporting several programming languages

See the article @ Unuttered Scribbles

Does Decreased Brightness Increase Your Phone's Battery Life?

How About an Experiment?

 

How do you measure the energy use in a phone? I’m sure there’s an app for that, but I don’t have that app. Instead, I tried something different. What if I charged my phone up to 100% battery and kept it plugged into the charger? In this case, I can assume that an increased load on the power charger is just due to an increased power use of the phone. Maybe this isn’t true, but I can assume it anyway.


Full article @Wired.com