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Turing, the Halting Problem and the Dawn of the Digital Age

Turing, the Halting Problem and the Dawn of the Digital Age

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Why Windows uses \r\n newlines instead of \n
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Why Windows uses \r\n newlines instead of \n

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Science, Strategy and War: The Strategic Theory of John Boyd by Frans Osinga
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Science, Strategy and War: The Strategic Theory of John Boyd by Frans Osinga

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The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch

The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch

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Server-side JavaScript a decade before Node.js with Netscape LiveWire
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Server-side JavaScript a decade before Node.js with Netscape LiveWire

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Patterns of Conflict: Understand blitzkrieg with 4 German words

Patterns of Conflict: Understand blitzkrieg with 4 German words

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7 interesting deprecated JavaScript features
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7 interesting deprecated JavaScript features

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Why DDT?
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Why DDT?

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The Richest Man in Babylon by George S Clason
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The Richest Man in Babylon by George S Clason

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Who Owns The Web?
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Who Owns The Web?

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Why do database columns have a character length of 191?
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Why do database columns have a character length of 191?

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The Land Before Internet: How everyday computer terms got their names
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The Land Before Internet: How everyday computer terms got their names

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A History of Debugging on the Web
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A History of Debugging on the Web

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The iOS journey
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The iOS journey

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What would you like to understand about the history of the cloud? Answer for the chance to be featured on our podcast!
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What would you like to understand about the history of the cloud? Answer for the chance to be featured on our podcast!

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Fixing a 40-year-old Software Bug
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Fixing a 40-year-old Software Bug

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The Frontend journey
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The Frontend journey

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Five Classic Reads in Software Development
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Five Classic Reads in Software Development

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Game of Phones: History of Erlang and Elixir
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Game of Phones: History of Erlang and Elixir

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How does troll (tech) become cute?

How does troll (tech) become cute?

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Changing the rails
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Changing the rails

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The history of Model-View-Presenter
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The history of Model-View-Presenter

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The history of wildfire modeling
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The history of wildfire modeling

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So how did we begin?
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So how did we begin?

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Deutsche Geschichte
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Deutsche Geschichte

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