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The Government's $200,000 Useless Android Application
The Gun.io blog: insights on hiring software developers, AI in engineering, distributed teams and how to build high-performing technical teams.
Carrier IQ Tries to Censor Research With Baseless Legal Threat
Last week, security researcher Trevor Eckhart posted an analysis of software produced by Carrier IQ, which describes itself as "the world's leading provider of Mobile Service Intelligence solutions." Eckhart concluded that the software, which comes by default on many mobile devices and runs quietly...
Esther Dyson vs Bill Campbell: 2002 − 2012
will go to The Eurasia Foundation (www.eurasia.org) if Dyson wins, or The Computer History Museum (www.computerhistory.org) if Campbell wins.
How Elite Firms Hire: The Inside Story
I highly recommend Lauren Rivera’s “Ivies, Extracurriculars, and Exclusion” (Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 2011). Not only is the piece careful, edifying, and interesting; it’s even emotionally affecting. Learning more about elite hiring actually replaced my apathy toward elite firms with sour grapes…
The Sugru story
The benefits of original formula + family friendly formula = the best Sugru ever!
PyPy 1.7 released: widening the sweet spot
We're pleased to announce the 1.7 release of PyPy. As became a habit, this release brings a lot of bugfixes and performance improvements ove...
Internet Community Shut Out of Stop Online Piracy Act Hearing - Again
This morning, EFF’s staff and concerned netizens across the country tuned into the live webcast of the House Judiciary Committee’s hearing on the Stop Online Piracy Act (H.R. 3261). At least we tried to. Unfortunately, we were confronted with an incredibly poor webcast stream for much of the...
JQuery Mobile 1.0
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
How StackOverflow Scales with SQL Server
Bad news: that page is gone. We try to keep our site as accurate and up-to-date as possible so that if you’re reading advice here, you can rely on it. That means from time to time, we decide that a page isn’t a great reference anymore, and the work to update it is beyond what […]
Mozilla urges its users to raise their voice against SOPA
Yesterday, we blacked out the default start page in Firefox and redirected visitors to the Mozilla sites to a special action page. We also sent direct mess
Google adds verbatim search mode for your exact search terms
Behind the simplicity of Google search is a complex set of algorithms that expands and improves the query you’ve typed to find the best resu...
Cracking Siri
เว็บตรง API แท้ รับทรูวอเลทไม่มีขั้นต่ำ สล็อตเว็บตรง แตกหนักจัดเต็มทุกเกม บริการ สล็อต จากค่ายหลัก ไม่มีล็อคยูส รวมเกมสล็อตเด็ด 2026 ไว้ในที่เดียว
The Go Programming Language turns two
Happy 2nd birthday, Go!