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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 705 posts.
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Congress Is Poised to Introduce a Bill to Fast Track TPP So It's Time to Act Now
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks are stalling while the White House assures its trading partners that this secret trade agreement won't be amended when it comes back to Congress for ratification after the President signs the deal. That's why the Executive is scrambling to get its allies in...
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Exploding Software-Engineering Myths (2009)
By Janie Chang, Writer, Microsoft Research At Microsoft Research, there are computer scientists and mathematicians who live in a world of theory and abstractions. Then there is Nachi Nagappan, who was on loan to the Windows development group for a year while building a triage system for software bugs. For Nagappan, a…
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Slashdot Burying Stories About SlashdotMedia Owned SourceForge
If you've followed any tech news aggregator in the past week (the week of the 24th of May, 2015), you've probably seen the story about how SourceForge is taking over admin accounts for existing projects and injecting adware in installers for packages like GIMP. For anyone not following the story, SourceForge has a…
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PayPal does not know how to detect fraud
Contact with an owner of tooltrainer.com domain name.
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Making Sense of Dell and EMC and VMware
Dell recently announced an agreement to acquire EMC [NYSE: EMC] — and with it, control of VMware [NYSE: VMW] — in a deal valued at $67 billion at the time of the announcement. While analyses of the deal so far have been devoted to the (more straightforward) implications for the computing, storage, and networking…
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Nothing Is Agreed Yet – We Can Still Stop the TPP's Copyright Trap
Trade negotiators have a saying—that nothing is agreed until everything is agreed. What that means is that despite all of the deals that has been struck in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations so far, they remain tentative until each country signs off on the final agreement. A...
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Who Do You Trust?
Ben Horowitz is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The
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Microsoft acquires Havok
Today, we are proud to announce that Microsoft has acquired Havok, the leading provider of 3D physics, from Intel. As we welcome Havok to the Microsoft family, we will continue to work with developers to create great gaming experiences, and continue to license Havok’s development tools to partners. We believe that…
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How Doomed is NetApp?
by Robin Harris | Monday, April 13, 2015 | Cloud computing & storage , Enterprise , Management , NAS, IP, iSCSI , Object storage | 40 comments
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Microsoft and Arduino Announce Partnership
It’s a special day for the Makers’ community. Massimo Banzi is in San Francisco attending Build Conference, the biggest developer event of the calendar
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Hacker News as a case study to test the wisdom of the crowd theory
Marketing Plan: What It Is & How to Create One (With Examples)
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On software popularity
Donald Knuth once said: If I find too many people adopting a certain idea I’d probably think it’s wrong .
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Meet: Fast way to schedule a one-to-one on the go
Stories about sunrise, sunset, twilight, golden hour, daylight, solar phenomena and travel — published on Sunrise.am.
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A Few Global Cultural Treasures We Will Lose for 20 Years Under the TPP
What do Japan's Blue Sky Library, Malaysia's answer to John Wayne, and the first recorded composer from New Zealand, all have in common? They could all disappear from their countries' public domain for the next 20 years, if the current agreement on copyright term extension in the Trans-Pacific...
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