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Remote Developers, Not Immigration Policy, Are the Real Solution to America's Tech Skill Shortageblog.salsitasoft.com
Paul Graham's latest essay makes an impassioned plea for more liberal immigration policies in the United States for high-tech workers. Software startups are desperate for great developers, he writes, and the notion that we can meet this need simply by... - nytimes.com
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How Google Cracked House Number Identification in Street View | MIT Technology Reviewtechnologyreview.com
Google can identify and transcribe all the views it has of street numbers in France in less than an hour, thanks to a neural network that’s just as good as human operators. Now its engineers reveal how they developed it. -
Chesapeake Bay Skipjacks, 1986imgur.com
The most viral images on the internet, curated in real time by a dedicated community through commenting, voting and sharing. -
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Redesiging a Broken Internet: Cory Doctorowyoutube.com
Part of the Second Curve Internet Speaker Series at the Institute for the Future, powered by Ten-Year Forecast. More information here: http://www.iftf.org/ou... -
Minerals and the search for life on Marsmarsblogger.wordpress.com
Understanding if life could ever have existed on Mars is one of the most challenging scientific questions facing us in the 21st Century. We know that the Martian surface at present is an arid envir... -
On Immigration, Engineers Simply Don’t Trust VCstechcrunch.com
In an essay posted on his website, Paul Graham, the co-founder and former head of YCombinator, loudly called for an increase in skilled immigration. Writing.. -
A Primer on Bézier Curvespomax.github.io
A detailed explanation of Bézier curves, and how to do the many things that we commonly want to do with them. -
jill380 auf Twittertwitter.com
“friends of @jamesgolick the news is worse than any of us can imagine. our beloved James died last night. Celebrate his beautiful life.” -
Exploring an alternative to git-subtreemos6581.org
When you want to include external code in your git repository, for example a third-party library or code shared with another team, there are two popular options: git-submodule and git-subtree. Unfortunately both suffer from some problems and this led m... -
Investors Are 'Fighting Like Drunken Sailors' Over Hot Startups And Letting Founders Get Rich Too Earlybusinessinsider.com
It must be nice to work for six months and make $6 million. -
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Bill Gates: People Don't Realize How Many Jobs Will Soon Be Replaced By Software Botsbusinessinsider.com
Bill Gates believes that within 20 years a lot of jobs will be replaced by software. - blog.emillon.org
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Home for the holidays, and for a 20-year-old issue of PC Magazinetheverge.com
When I'm home for the holidays, one of my most beloved traditions involves sifting through my time capsule of a bedroom, where decades of PC Magazines, PC Worlds, Windows Magazines, and Visual... -
How Colonel Sanders Became Father Christmas in Japantalkingpointsmemo.com
Of all the odd mutations of American culture to be exported abroad, Japan’s KFC Christmas tradition may be one of the oddest. This month, KFC Japan will bring in revenue up to ten times greater than what it earns during other months of the year. Life-s...
