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The poor kids of Silicon Valleycnn.com
CNN’s John D. Sutter finds this rich valley’s children living in garages and homeless camps. -
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We use [RethinkDB] at Workshape.ioblog.workshape.io
What’s the tech? RethinkDB is an open-source distributed database that stores JSON documents. Overview It is both developer and operations oriented - combining an easy-to-use powerful query language with simple controls for operating at scale with high... -
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Startup Solidarity • Climb Highersethbannon.com
We often hear about how the startup world is different – about how it’s less zero-sum and more communal than other industries. Recently I had the (mis)fortune to experience this first hand. Last year, my startup Amicus nearly died. Running out of... | ... -
At 95, Lawrence Ferlinghetti Recounts More Than Six Decades of Life in San Franciscoww2.kqed.org
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In South Africa, Ranchers Are Breeding Mutant Animals to Be Huntedbloomberg.com
Rich marksmen pay a premium to shoot “Frankenstein freaks of nature” - store.google.com
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Google balloons, “cell towers in the sky,” can serve 4G to a whole statearstechnica.com
A single Project Loon balloon can cover an area the size of Rhode Island. - melodykramer.github.io
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US students are fleeing law schools and pouring into engineeringqz.com
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Kafka’s Remarkable Letter to His Abusive and Narcissistic Fatherbrainpickings.org
"It is, after all, not necessary to fly right into the middle of the sun, but it is necessary to crawl to a clean little spot on earth where -
Toward a Wikipedia model of drug discoverymedium.com
How Apple’s ResearchKit — or something like it — can democratize our search for new medical treatments. -
The Sad Truth About Developing Executivesrecode.net
For starters: Do you have the skills? The time? Do they have the time? -
Why I'm joining Cozy Cloud (hint: personal cloud matters)standblog.org
TL; DR : I am joining the leadership team of a very cool French startup called Cozy Cloud as Chief Product Officer. My book about online privacy and mass surveillance is almost -
Crystal amaze: how a chameleon changes colour revealedtheguardian.com
Altering the space between tiny crystals allows lizards to reflect a specific wavelength of light and camouflage themselves, study finds -
How One High School Grad Studied Computer Science Debt-Free And Nabbed A $90K-Salary Jobfastcompany.com
Masa Bando deferred admission to MIT, went to Make School, and got hired as a software engineer at a startup. Could this happen to you? -
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