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GitHub: January 28th Incident Report
Last week GitHub was unavailable for two hours and six minutes. We understand how much you rely on GitHub and consider the availability of our service one of the core features we offer. Over the last...
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Amit Singhal, an Influential Engineer at Google, Will Retire
PhotoAmit Singhal joined Google in 2000 as employee No. 176.Credit Jason Henry for The New York TimesSAN FRANCISCO â Alphabet, the parent of Google, is losing one of its most influential engineers,...
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How the TPP Will Affect You and Your Digital Rights (2015)
The Internet is a diverse ecosystem of private and public stakeholders. By excluding a large sector of communities—like security researchers, artists, libraries, and user rights groups—trade...
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Homejoy back as Homeaglow
He was easy to work with, thorough, communicative, and considerate. We shared lunch and had a nice discussion, too. 7 hours is a looot of cleaning for one person to do, and he just kept going and...
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Apple’s declining software quality
Software quality is a nebulous and divisive topic. There are many parameters to software quality – reliability, speed, user experience, design, discoverability, and more – and a move towards any of...
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VISA Api: The Power of Visa Network Delivered as an API
Fast InnovationAccelerate your access to Visa’s products and services with no contracts required to get started.Build TogetherUse Visa’s rich API sets, comprehensive documentation, simple workflow,...
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Introducing the Keybase filesystem
The Keybase filesystemUpdated: Feb 4, 2016 by /chrisBig news, everyone.Alpha releases of the Keybase app are starting to come with a cryptographically secure file mount. It is brand new. And very...
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Tableau stock down almost 50%
Tableau Software, Inc. (Tableau) is a provider of analytics and business intelligence software solutions. The Company’s products are Tableau Desktop, a self-service analytics product, Tableau Server, a...
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Amgen publishes failures to replicate high-profile science
A biotechnology firm is releasing data on three failed efforts to confirm findings in high-profile scientific journals — details that the industry usually keeps secret.Amgen, headquartered in Thousand...
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Diesel: A Safe, Extensible ORM and Query Builder for Rust
Simple queries are a complete breeze. Loading all users from a database:Loading all the posts for a user:Diesel's powerful query builder helps you construct queries as simple or complex as you need, at...
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LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value
Nan Palmero/FlickrLinkedIn's stock is having its worst day ever.Shares cratered by as much as 40% in early trading Friday after the company reported a quarterly loss Thursday, with guidance that was...
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What it would take to actually institute Universal Basic Income
Universal Basic Income (UBI) proposals are gaining in popularity across the political spectrum. The measures would see governments hand a set monthly income to every single citizen within a country,...
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The Destruction of Pompeii by Mount Vesuvius, Re-Created with Computer Animation
A good disaster story never fails to fascinate — and, given that it actually happened, the story of Pompeii especially so. Buried and thus frozen in time by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, the...
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The Plot to Steal the Color White
There’s white, and then there’s the immaculate ultrawhite behind the French doors of a new GE Café Series refrigerator. There’s white, and then there’s the luminous-from-every-angle white hood of a...
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J.C.R. Licklider on the History of Personal Workstations (1986) [video]
The interactive transcript could not be loaded.Rating is available when the video has been rented.This feature is not available right now. Please try again later.Published on Aug 5, 2015A talk at the...
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Dead Men Write No Code
Dead Men Write No CodeI am a hypochondriac. In the back of my head I rationalize this as an evolutionary advantage. And in fact, it may have just saved my life.I work long hours, in a chair, writing...
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Maybe: run a command, see what it does to your files without actually doing it
See what a program does before deciding whether you really want it to happen.README.mdrm -rf pic* Are you sure? Are you one hundred percent sure?... allows you to run a command and see what it does to...
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Gmail Will Warn If Message Is Not Authenticated/Encrypted
If you receive a message from, or are about to send a message to, someone whose email service doesn’t support TLS encryption, you’ll see a broken lock icon in the message.If you receive a message that...
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OpenShot 2.0.6 (Public Beta) Released
Greetings Everyone! I am proud to release the third beta of OpenShot 2.0 (full details below). This marks the 3rd full release of OpenShot 2.0 in the past 30 days. I am working closely with testers and...
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Unsafe Lead Levels in Tap Water Not Limited to Flint
PhotoBottled water at a distribution site in Sebring, Ohio, where tests last year found unsafe amounts of lead in the drinking water.Credit Ty Wright for The New York TimesIn Sebring, Ohio, routine...
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