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We’re Designing Apps Wrong For Huge Smartphones
As smartphones continue to get larger but our hands don’t, what kinds of design solutions can ensure mobile interactions remain comfortable, quick and easy on our thumbs? Here are a few options to consider.
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What Would Happen If The 20 Biggest US Cities Were Wiped Out With Nukes
Wiping out an American city, much less the largest ones, requires either blast yields well beyond the capability of any terrorist organisation, or numbers of nuclear weapons that would make the terrorist organisation one of the largest nuclear powers on the planet. This is particularly true of major cities such as Atlanta, Houston and LA,…
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Is The Domino’s Pizza Tracker Telling The Truth?
The tracker is legit — but only as legit as the people in the store let it be. The fact is there are a lot of factors that happen in a store that the tracker can’t always account for, and so your mileage may vary with the online tracker for those reasons.
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Mining Bitcoin With Pencil And Paper
I decided to see how practical it would be to mine Bitcoin with pencil and paper. It turns out that the SHA-256 algorithm used for mining is pretty simple and can in fact be done by hand. Not surprisingly, the process is extremely slow compared to hardware mining and is entirely impractical. But performing the…