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Get flash to fully experience Pearltrees

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exp%C3%A9rience_de_Milgram#R.C3.A9sultats

L’expérimentateur (E) amène le sujet (S) à infliger des chocs électriques à un autre participant, l’apprenant (A), qui est en fait un acteur. La majorité des participants continuent à infliger les chocs jusqu'au maximum prévu (450 V) en dépit des plaintes de l'acteur.

Expérience de Milgram

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Things You Should Never Do, Part I - Joel on Software

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

Netscape 6.0 is finally going into its first public beta.

http://thechangelog.com/post/21314257945/prince-of-persia-source-code-open-sourced

Prince of Persia Source Code, Open Sourced! - The Changelog - Open Source moves fast. Keep up.

Before Prince of Persia was a best-selling video game franchise and a Jerry Bruckheimer movie , it was an Apple II computer game created and programmed by one person, Jordan Mechner . Not only is Prince of Persia now available as a paperback and ebook, but the source is now on GitHub!

Mozilla may make Flash click-to-play by default in future Firefox

Firefox developers are considering making Web plugins like Adobe Flash an opt-in feature.

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Metcalfe's law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Two telephones can make only one connection , five can make 10 connections, and twelve can make 66 connections.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe%27s_law

RFC 3501 - INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION 4rev1 (RFC3501)

http://swizec.com/blog/why-programmers-work-at-night/swizec/3198

A geek with a hat » Why programmers work at night

And sure enough, ask a random programmer when they do their best work and there’s a high chance they will admit to a lot of late nights. Some earlier, some later. A popular trend is to get up at 4am and get some work done before the day’s craziness begins.

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97 Things Every Programmer Should Know - Programmer 97-things

http://programmer.97things.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/97_Things_Every_Programmer_Should_Know

Pluto Scarab — Hash Functions

Hash functions are functions that map a bit vector to another bit vector, usually shorter than the original vector and usually of fixed length for a particular function.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_record_pattern

In software engineering , the active record pattern is an architectural pattern found in software that stores its data in relational databases . It was named by Martin Fowler in his 2003 book Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture . [ 1 ] The interface to such an object would include functions such as Insert, Update, and Delete, plus properties that correspond more or less directly to the columns in the underlying database table.