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The most popular blog posts about society, policy & culture on Hacker News. 338 posts.
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Tumblr "Disappears" Microsoft's Danah Boyd
Update: Tumblr called me, apologized, and restored my account. More details below.
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Paul Graham and not being as right as he could be in “The Age of the Essay”
Main internet atau akses situs favorit pakai Indihome atau Telkomsel sering kena blokir? Tenang, BIGOBET899 punya cara paling gampang buat buka blokir tanpa ribet.
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Charlie Stross: Reasons to be Cheerful
Elsewhere on the interwebbytubes, an acquaintance asked, somewhat grumpily, if anything good had happened in the past decade (aside from the iPod).
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Cutting their own throats
Back to: World building 201: Heuristics | Forward to: Upcoming reading in Edinburgh
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So you think you own your Twitter name?
Update Tuesday 15th March An interview with @girlgeeks with the full story is available here: How-safe-is-your-Twitter-name/ Update Sun...
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Fallen out of love with LinkedIn?
I had fallen out of love with LinkedIn a long time ago, but last week’s sneaky move (read about it here) pushed me over the edge. What a lost opportunity. LinkedIn was built on such a fantast…
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Why software patents are not fixable
I’m not a patent lawyer. I’m not even a lawyer. I’m just a software developer, and like every software developer, I’ve probably unknowingly infringed upon hundreds of patents while routinely doing my job.
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I just don’t get LinkedIn, do you?
I’ve tried. I’ve tried several times. And every time I try looking at LinkedIn I always end up staring at it and thinking, “What is the point?”
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What if Tunisia had a revolution, but nobody watched?
On December 17, a 26 year old Tunisian man named Mohamed Bouazizi reached the end of his rope. An unemployed university graduate, Bouazizi had become a seller of fruits and vegetables in the southern Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid. When authorities confiscated his wares to punish him for selling without a license…
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New Facebook Feature Empowers the Dangerous "Comment Nazis"
"You have one identity. The days of you having a different image for your work friends or co-workers and for the other people you know are probably coming to an end pretty quickly � Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity."
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Techmeme vs Hacker News
My two favorite tech news aggregators are Techmeme and Hacker News. I visit both multiple times per day for a quick scan of what is going on in techland. They are very different and you can see that in action this morning. Here is the above the fold Techmeme right now (9am eastern): We might […]
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Google+'s Real Goal is Not to Kill Facebook, but to Force it to Open
I’ve been so focused on the user experience of Google’s new social network Plus that I haven’t thought very much about the big picture, I must admit. Listening tonight to an interview with Plus designer Joseph Smarr on the IEEE Podcast it became clear to me that for at least some of Plus’s leadership the goal is not…
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Withdrawing from Hacker News
Slightly surprisingly, I got a reply, in which he suggested that I submit the link to Hacker News[4]. I'd never heard of Hacker News, but had a look, thought it interesting, and submitted the link.
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Nym Wars (Google+ "real name" rules)
I hadn't been paying much attention to the Google "Real Names" clusterfuck, because it was so obvious to me that they were going to lose this one in the press that it would all be over soon. But it's still not over, and the Google brass appear to be digging in their heels, despite the universally bad press they're…
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Turning the Internet Off
People who don't know me , and what I've spent my career doing, will think I'm some kind of Luddite, but of course I'm anything but that.
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