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A strong defense of Mr. Clifford Stollarticulateventures.com
I realize that this is an opportunity for me to stand up for what is right... to stand up and tell the world that there is so much more to this brilliant man than his guess about what the future would hold. - blog.noblemail.ca
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers: San Francisco Editionslate.com
Silicon Valley has been reaching its tentacles into San Francisco for some time now, just as the suburban tech companies of Puget Sound—Microsoft, Amazon, and now Google and Facebook too—infiltrated Seattle. But the scale of the San Francisco infestati... - news.ycombinator.com
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Google announces ban on "multi-purpose" Chrome extensions | ZDNetzdnet.com
Developers who write extensions for Chrome are on notice. Keep it simple, or risk getting kicked out of the Chrome Web Store. But what's the real reason for the sudden crackdown? Evidence suggests shady ad networks are Google's real target. -
Digging into the Python object system - Code with a Live Instructorenginehere.com
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Searchlight Meetings: a secret hiring process used at Facebook and Dropbox - YesGraph Blogblog.yesgraph.com
Getting the attention and time of engineers and other employees is a challenge for recruiters. One best practice is to have a meeting where you get a few people together to help by giving referrals. There are lots of names for this: a blitz, a sourcing... -
Koushik Dutta - Google+ - Google just approved our first CyanogenMod phone Man, the…plus.google.com
Google just approved our first CyanogenMod phone Man, the last 24 hours has been a total rollercoaster of emotions, and it isn't letting up it seems. … - Koushik Dutta – Google+ -
Gap between asm.js and native performance gets even narrower with float32 optimizationshacks.mozilla.org
asm.js is a simple subset of JavaScript that is very easy to optimize, suitable for use as a compiler target from languages like C and ... -
Exclusive: Secret contract tied NSA and security industry pioneerreuters.com
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - As a key part of a campaign to embed encryption software that it could crack into widely used computer products, the U.S. National Security Agency arranged a secret $10 million - news.ycombinator.com
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Putin critic Khodorkovsky in Germany after pardonreuters.com
MOSCOW/BERLIN (Reuters) - Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the Russian oil tycoon jailed for a decade after posing a challenge to Vladimir Putin, was freed by a presidential pardon on Friday and immediately flew - archive.org
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Synference thinks A/B testing can get a lot smarter with machine learninggigaom.com
An API launching today aims to help web and app developers make quick decisions about pricing and advertisements. - training.kalzumeus.com
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It Works! A Tiny Speaker Printed on a Single Sheet of Paper | Wired Design | Wired.comwired.com
These electronic circuits are silkscreened onto a piece of paper. -
Google Bus blocked and disrupted in West Oakland : Indybayindybay.org
An account by participants in an autonomous anti-gentrifaction action to block a Google Bus at 7th and Adeline in West Oakland. -
The 10 Coolest Big Data Startups Of 2013crn.com
The coolest big data startups of 2013 include companies developing products based on Hadoop, machine learning, predictive analysis, SQL database and NoSQL database technology. -
Origamifacebook.github.io
Origami is a free toolkit for Quartz Composer that makes interactive design prototyping easy.