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Interview: Clark Benson of Founder & CEO of Ranker.com - Dicusses Playing Nice With Google

InfoChachkie

I have written about people who live by strong social contracts in Humble Pride. We’ve got a very search-friendly site; we are starting to see what Google calls ‘authority’ for terms like ‘list’ and ‘top’ and ‘best’. 2) Your “Top 500 Musical Groups/Artists Of All Time” list is one of my favorites (yes, I voted the Beatles up!).

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How to Teach Computational Thinking

Xconomy

Whether it’s sensor-based medicine, computational contracts, education analytics, or computational agriculture—success is going to rely on being able to do computational thinking well. To get enough precision to be able to get definite results one would end up with something like very elaborate and incomprehensible legalese.

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EnumSet and EnumMap

TechEmpower

from Java's standard libraries. Historically, Enum{Set,Map} were recommended as a matter of safety, taking better advantage of Java's type system than the alternatives. Effective Java goes into detail about this use case for Enum{Set,Map} and enum types in general. This article discusses java.util.EnumSet. and java.util.EnumMap.

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Twiistup 007: Final Showoff's Additional Speakers and TZ Discount

Tech Zulu Event

You folks are just that awesome that we try and hook our readers up whenever we can so you are Welcome! Eric Ries is the author of the blog Startup Lessons Learned and the lean startup methodology. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming(Waite Group Press, 1996).