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11 years ago
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Dear America, I Saw You Naked
On Jan. 4, 2010, when my boss saw my letter to the editor in the New York Times, we had a little chat. It was rare for the federal security director at Chicago O’Hare to sit down with her floor-level Transportation Security Administration off...
politico.com
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11 years ago
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Breaking silence - The Tech
I am writing this not because I know exactly what words are the most right to say, but because I know it is important: I know it is important, and I know that I am not alone.
tech.mit.edu
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11 years ago
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billing - Why do credit card forms ask for Visa, Mastercard, etc.? - User Experience Stack Exchange
You can tell if it's a Visa or MasterCard based on the number it starts with, i.e. 4 for Visa, 5 for MasterCard. Why do most billing forms request the type of card? It's not a barrier for bots (t...
ux.stackexchange.com
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11 years ago
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Solve the Adjunct Crisis by Hitting Colleges Where It Hurts —Their U.S. News Rankings
Changes are afoot among us part-time adjuncts who shoulder a hefty majority of college instruction in the United States. We have, for now, the attention of Congress. We’ve got our own snappy hashtags! And we’re methodically organizing ourselves into un...
slate.com
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11 years ago
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Google Groups
Mit Google Groups können Sie Online-Foren und E-Mail-basierte Gruppen erstellen, sich daran beteiligen und interessante Diskussionen mit anderen Mitgliedern führen.
groups.google.com
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11 years ago
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Age is largely irrelevant. - My Octopress Blog
Age Is Largely Irrelevant. Jan 28th, 2014 I’ve lost count how many times over the last 12 months that I’ve been told how it’s done …
maxehmookau.github.io
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11 years ago
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Who wants competition? Big cable tries outlawing municipal broadband in Kansas
Lobbyist for Comcast, Cox, TWC wrote bill to stifle rivals like Google Fiber.
arstechnica.com
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11 years ago
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This Wall Street trader was making millions by 30 and left it all behind, here's why
Sam Polk was a hedge fund trader on Wall Street who had made more than $5 million in bonuses by the age of 30, but he left finance behind and went on to start a nonprofit to help feed the hungry. He tells us why.
finance.yahoo.com
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11 years ago
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User Onboarding | A frequently-updated compendium of web app first-run experiences
With just under 16 million members in nearly 200 countries, Meetup has to be doing something right with their onboarding experience. What might that be? Let's check it out!
useronboard.com
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11 years ago
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Watch out: your emails may reveal text hidden in Microsoft Word | ZDNet
If you paste text from Microsoft Word into an email, you may not see what the recipient will see, and this includes hidden text. Microsoft ought to fix this in Outlook.com. Until it does, the solution is 'Inspect Document', which also lets you remove h...
zdnet.com
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11 years ago
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Breaking silence - The Tech
I am writing this not because I know exactly what words are the most right to say, but because I know it is important: I know it is important, and I know that I am not alone.
tech.mit.edu
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11 years ago
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Wealth does not make you smarter
This is my take-away from the Tom Perkins story.
scripting.com
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11 years ago
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Clever | Jobs
clever.com
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11 years ago
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StrongLoop | What Makes Node.js Faster Than Java?
strongloop.com
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11 years ago
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New YC Partner Investment Policy
As of this batch we're introducing a new policy for investments by YC partners in the companies we fund. YC partners have invested in the startups we fund since the first batch. In the beginning...
blog.ycombinator.com
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11 years ago
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Amazon to Raise Fees as Revenue Disappoints
The online retailer’s revenue rose 20 percent, but the company said it was considering raising prices by as much as 50 percent on its $79 Prime shipping program.
nytimes.com
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11 years ago
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Authorea
Alberto Pepe
authorea.com
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11 years ago
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Gamasutra: Rohan Wadsworth's Blog - How to start, publish and fail in 1 week*
gamasutra.com
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11 years ago
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Have US Income & Wealth Inequality Actually Increased?
There has been a lot of press recently about income inequality diverging recently. There are two issues with this. First, it isn’t a metric that should matter. Second, it is less clear to me that...
chawkins.org
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11 years ago
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