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Karn You Believe It?
General web
Here’s a look at Elasticsearch’s data loss issues [aphyr] (cheers James!)
karn [github/prydonius] is a way to easily manage multiple Git identities.
DaVinci [github/pedrovieira7] is an Objective C library for creating images out of text, ideal for hiding or decoding secret messages, like conspiracy theorists allege Da Vinci did.
HyperLogSandwich [github/chanian] is, and we’ll quote directly here for reasons that will become apparent, “a probabilistic data structure for frequency/k-occurrence cardinality estimation of multisets.” Pretty basic.
Captain Obvious
Design
ABO — Always Be Obvious [lukew].
Phonebook [tilt] is a phone-shaped sketchpad for phone-shaped sketches.
The Weather Channel
SitePoint
On SitePoint, we had a look at getting realtime weather data into a Unity game. Insane.
Here’s a look how to use Memio to automatically generate PHP code.
Then we have a guide to making API calls in AngularJS using its $http service.
Red Rover
News/business
NASA wants to send a manned vehicle to Phobos, one of the moons of Mars [motherboard.vice]. Seems like a pretty Doomed plan to us.
Finally, a way to group all those posts you make on Google+ [plus.google]. Seriously, Google+ was starting to get too busy for a while there, thank goodness there’s a way to slow it down a bit.
After criticism from net neutrality advocates, Facebook is opening its Internet.org platform, but not to high-bandwidth sites [arstechnica]. Mark Z appears to have also realized that providing free internet isn’t very financially sustainable, which was actually the part of the plan everyone admired, so congrats, genius.
Also, here’s a pretty scathing first-person account of one person’s experience with an immersive code school [drive.google]. It’s bound to be disputed, but is worth reading.
Death Proof
Everything else
This watch strap will power your Apple Watch [reservestrap]. (Eventually, once it’s made, of course.)
Do you have $4000 to burn and a (near) death wish? Here’s the service for you! [motherboard.vice].
Pay tribute to those who have gone before you with these t-shirts showing off the logos of extinct startups [extinctstartups].
Finally: SPACE COFFEE [blogs.nasa].
