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Share buybacks: Big cos say "We don't know what to do with the cash anyway!" and why it's good for startups.blog.garrytan.com
Stock buybacks are the biggest force influencing equities since 2009 — over $2 trillion have been done. Some are probably good, but many aren't. In 2011, Warren Buffet wrote about how you can... -
The Discovery of Apache ZooKeeper's Poison Packet - PagerDutypagerduty.com
We uncovered 4 bugs causing random cluster-wide lockups. Two bugs laid in ZooKeeper, and the other two were lurking in the Linux kernel. This is our story. -
Halt and Catch Fireamc.com
It’s March 1985. More than a year has passed since Joe MacMillan (Lee Pace) set fire to a truck full of Cardiff Giant PCs, the last in a long string of destructive acts that burned the people that made the machine possible. -
Rogue Russian spacecraft burns up in Earth's atmosphere - BBC Newsbbc.com
The Russian space agency says its out-of-control Progress spacecraft has burnt up after re-entering the Earth's atmosphere. -
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5 Brilliant Lessons Entrepreneurs Can Learn from Moneyballblog.saleswhale.io
Billy Beane (Brad Pitt), the general manager of the baseball club Oakland Athletics, one day has an epiphany: Baseball's conventional wisdom is all wrong. Faced with one of the lowest budgets in the league, and not able to outcompete the... -
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The Family That Couldn’t Say Hippopotamus - Issue 24: Error - Nautilusnautil.us
There is a family living in Britain, known only as the KE family, with a few members that can’t quite say words like “hippopotamus.”… -
Progress M-27M Re-Entryspaceflight101.com
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Accepting payments is getting hardermedium.com
PCI compliance is not really something often talked about in startup circles, but PCI is changing, and it’s getting a lo… -
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Optimize Python with Closures - Tech at Magnetictech.magnetic.com
Magnetic’s real-time bidding system, written in pure Python, needs to keep up with a tremendous volume of incoming requests. On an ordinary weekday, our application handles about 300,000 requests per second at peak volumes, and responds in under 10 mil... -
Open Smart Grid Protocol Homegrown Crypto Weaknesses | Threatpost | The first stop for security newsthreatpost.com
Researchers in Europe have published research examining weak, homegrown cryptography used in the Open Smart Grid Protocol. - breuleux.github.io
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Flickr redesigns web and mobile apps to create a powerhouse in online photo storagetheverge.com
When Marissa Mayer became Yahoo’s CEO in 2012, she was greeted with a viral internet campaign from one of the company’s most loved — and neglected — properties. "Dear Marissa Mayer," began the... -
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The Vanishing of America's Historic Mental Asylumshyperallergic.com
Between 1848 and 1890, dozens of grand mental asylums were built around the United States under the Kirkbride Plan, designed by Thomas Story Kirkbride.