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Making Money On Mechanical Turk

The Hustle have an informative long article about how Mike Nabb, a full time senior business analyst, turnde to Amazon Mechanical Turk to earn extra money before the birth of his baby daughter. The post describes Mike's experience in getting start with Mechanical Turk, the pitfalls to avoid, and how he made on average $33 per day for 30 days.

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No Ageism In Tech

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No Ageism In Tech is a jobs board that highlights open positions that value the experience of older employees and have Equal Opportunity Employments policies in place.

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Codebases

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Information Is Beautiful released a fascinating data-visualisation comparing the size of different codebases, such as the 40,000 lines of code in the space shuttle vs the 40,000,000 lines of code in Windows XP! Check out the full list here.

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Web Browsing On 50MB

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Smashing magazine has an interesting article about web browsing on a 50MB budget. The author demonstrates the issues of browsing resource heavy websites while being limited on bandwidth and network speed. The key takeaway is that a user will abondon a mobile site if it takes more than 3 seconds to load, and the post lists 14 tips on how to improve your site's performance to avoid this.

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Anna Mieke at Glad Cafe

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A great time was had at the Glad Cafe in Glasgow night seeing the amazing Anna Mieke from Wicklow with drum wizard Matthew Jackobson of Clang Sayne and Brían Mac Glionn of Ye Vagabonds, supported by the character that is Dave Frazer. Check out my photos from the concert here.

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Richard Dawson - Jogging

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Newcastle legend Richard Dawson is back with the first single Jogging from his upcoming new album 2020. With this fantastic track (and great video), Richard once again reaches deep into your core, grabs your emotions and gives them a bit of a shake in a tough love sort of way, before giving your heart a hug and a pat on the back to send you on your way. Amazing.

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TV Review: Another Life

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I just finished watching the first season of Another Life on Netflix. As soon as the trailer showed Katee Sackhoff (Starbuck!), I was in. After a mysterious alien artifact lands on Earth and starts sending a signal to a deep space planet, a ship is sent to investigate the planet and possibly attempt first contact, while scientists on Earth try to engage with the artifact. Most of the show takes place on the ship with Katee Sackhoff as commander however the drama (and there is lots of drama) also unfolds on Earth where her husband is the chief scientist studying the artifact.

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KLM Urges Responsible Flying Decisions

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The CEO of KLM, the dutch national airline has urged for responsible decisions about flying due to the amount of CO2 emmitted by each flight taken by a customer.

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EveryNoise At Once Music Scatter-plot

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Every Noise At Once is a scatterplot of the music genre space and the artists within each genre, generated from Spotify as of 01/08/2019.

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OpenXR

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The Khronos group has released OpenXR, an open, royalty-free, cross-platform AR/VR/XR standard supported by major software and hardware companies ushc as Microsoft and Oculus.

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