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LibreS3, a robust Open Source implementation of the Amazon S3 service, has just been released! Standard S3 client libraries and tools (for example python-boto, s3cmd, DragonDisk, etc.) can be used to access it. LibreS3 uses Skylable Sx as the storage backend, which automatically provides data deduplication and replication. Source code and binary packages are available. …

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Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don’t: Traditional rewards aren’t always as effective as we think. Listen for illuminating stories — and maybe, a way forward. via Dan Pink: The puzzle of motivation | Talk Video | TED.com.

The Indie Revolution: How little games are making big money – GameAcademy.com.

78 Tools for Writing and Previewing Markdown.

An Embeddable JavaScript Markdown Editor EpicEditor is an embeddable JavaScript Markdown editor with split fullscreen editing, live previewing, automatic draft saving, offline support, and more. For developers, it offers a robust API, can be easily themed, and allows you to swap out the bundled Markdown parser with anything you throw at it. via EpicEditor – …

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Enjoy live editing (+markdown) via Pen – What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG).

In the late 20th century, web developers talked about using the LAMP stack Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl for building professional websites with open-source software. 15 years later, we have a new acronym that\’s gaining popularity — the MEAN stack MongoDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS, NodeJS. via HTML5 Slidemaking 101.

When AMD sent us the Brix Gaming for review, it wasn’t alone in its box. We were also sent another, smaller Brix with an AMD processor, and it’s the antithesis of its big loud cousin. It’s basically the AMD take on the NUC: a small, quiet, unobtrusive little box that still tries to deliver the features …

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Logitech Media Keyboard 600: Amazon.co.uk: Computers & Accessories.