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arstechnica.com 13y ago

The NES turns 30: How it began, worked, and saved an industry

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www.wired.com 13y ago

Computer Vision Invades Public Cameras to Track the People

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techcrunch.com 13y ago

Forrester: $2.1 Trillion for 2013 IT Spending. U.S. & Software Lead the Charge

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www.bbc.co.uk 13y ago

Thom Yorke pulls albums from Spotify

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www.zdnet.com 13y ago

ICT environments now 'very messy'

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www.guardian.co.uk 13y ago

US blocks crackdown on tax avoidance by net firms like Google and Amazon

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techcrunch.com 13y ago

The Art And Science Of YouTube Networks

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www.npr.org 13y ago

An Ancient Parchment Refuses To Give Up Its Secrets

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techcrunch.com 13y ago

Google Explains Why Its Cloud Service Is Different When It Comes To Lock-In

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techcrunch.com 13y ago

Only 16% Of Republicans and 29% of Democrats Want Increased Immigration

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gigaom.com 13y ago

‘Lean In’ to lawsuits: firms should avoid Sandberg’s baby advice, say lawyers

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www.telegraph.co.uk 13y ago

If not a data dictatorship, why not a data democracy?

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www.guardian.co.uk 13y ago

After five years of the App Store - Apple (not devs) is biggest winner

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www.washingtonpost.com 13y ago

Why college has become so costly

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www.nytimes.com 13y ago

Do Clinical Trials Work?

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readwrite.com 13y ago

Big Data's Dehumanizing Impact On Public Policy

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www.washingtonpost.com 13y ago

Discover written word

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techcrunch.com 13y ago

Rating The Venture Capitalists

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gigaom.com 13y ago

Skype says it will kill its Desktop API by end of 2013

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thenextweb.com 13y ago

How Google Glass can evolve as a tool for journalists

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www.zdnet.com 13y ago

Twitter's lessons learned in service oriented architecture

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gigaom.com 13y ago

Sites scrape heaps of our data, so why don’t we get a personalized experience?

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arstechnica.com 13y ago

What to do with a popular project that you no longer want to maintain?

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gigaom.com 13y ago

Bitcoin will prosper until governments or banks decide to crush it

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techcrunch.com 13y ago

Mobile web apps may be slow because Moore's law is ending

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www.google.com 13y ago

Twitter hands over data in French anti-Semitism case

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gigaom.com 13y ago

Things Google Ventures guy Rich Miner looks for in startups

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news.cnet.com 13y ago

Escaping Google's gravity: How small search engines define success

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techcrunch.com 13y ago

In The Cloud OS Debate, OpenStack’s Success Inspires Backlash

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www.forbes.com 13y ago

Internet Law: Suit Won Against The Dirty Over 'Reputation-Ruining' Comments

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They didn't used the word 'model' but said, for example, in final paragraph:

“His code was clean, well-written, and submitted in a timely fashion,” ... “Quarter after quarter, his performance review noted him as the best developer in the building.”

Even before this suspension there was recent evidence that in non-advertorials The Atlantic was willing to call out Scientology. Googling "scientology site:theatlantic.com" yields, for example:

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/01/a-wonder... (dated Jan 14, 2013. Weirdly uncritical, simple praise for a book on Scientology)

July 2012 The Atlantic: "Psychiatry vs. Scientology":

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/07/scientolog...

Maybe it is. But this closed system crap is one of the things I hate about LinkedIn. When I visit the link you offered I am greeted with:

"You and this LinkedIn user don’t know anyone in common. You can only view the profiles of users within your network. However, as you add connections, you may discover people you know in common."

Want to take a screen shot of what you were able to share?

Can't speak from inside knowledge, but it has been observed when this was asked in past that during slow period (middle of night, U.S. time; Sunday mornings) it takes surprisingly little activity to rise quickly to top (if only briefly).

You’re making me homesick.

How many ISPs can (or would) post a news item on their home page re: EFF...

“Sonic.net privacy policies recognized by the EFF The Electronic Frontier Foundation assessed the policies of 18 leading Internet companies, and Sonic.net has come out with top marks. The EFF wrote in their report that...”

FWIW: No ties to sonic.net

It seems to me, bearing in mind my numerous career changes, that honest self-assessment is in order so that you can identify: 1) other (complementary or divergent) strengths you have and 2) what intrinsic drives of yours could be harnessed in a next career.

At times (for me) it has even been helpful to get professional career-counseling to discover careers (or even avocations) whose shape and impact have changed in preceding decade since I last looked at it. There are useful psychological batteries for assessing the fit between fit/vocation that take such assessment far beyond navel-gazing/tea-leaf-reading.

Another approach would be to involve yourself with an organization (vocation or volunteer) with a project that appeals to your vision for a better world - and discover what roles beyond traditional mathematician you find you can make a contribution to. Hope that's some help.

> But companies aren't afraid to cheap out on programmers. If a project fails or is late, there is a perception that that's just how software goes, no decision they could have made could have changed the outcome.

I'm in no position to judge this, but I wonder: With increasing visibility for the cost of digital security/privacy to a corporation, isn't there hope for better valuation of programming by the "C-suite execs"?

If you were providing services to AWS - that would "be doing business in US". I don't see how renting a service (AWS) from Amazon is "doing business in US" any more than would be buying a book from Amazon.com N'est-ce pas?

> we've heard...

But did you hear it from a tax attorney / certified accountant?

That being said (and: I've no experience in Sweden, and I'm neither atty nor acct) the idea that a US tax liability could be incurred by an international corp/business purchasing a service (e.g., AWS) from company in U.S. ...seems pretty outrageous.

> doesn't feel like something anybody wants to be chasing any more

A reasonable speculation. Of course the best data will take a while to become available.

The one data point (showing in headlines this morning) is that, judging that it took only 1 hour for iP5 shipping time to move back from 1 week to 2 weeks, this phone is selling several times as fast as any iPhone predecessor.

Apparently some body is "chasing it."

> Due to rule xyz, we would technically have to freeze...

This leaves me wondering, how clearly are PayPal's rules spelled out (I've just avoided PP like the plague, since I can) to help merchants avoid gotchas? Are freeze-worthy violations presented boldly ...or only buried in tiny TOS-like legal documents?

Actually, in the details of the story you find that you can "enjoy" the infection elsewhere...

"Only five states — New York, California, Texas, Oregon and Illinois — report the disease, and the data is inconsistent. Oftentimes, departments rely on each other to deal with paperwork, and the numbers are never recorded, Smith says. As a result, not much is known about tapeworm outbreaks in the U.S. — or the parasites themselves."

It also sounds as though the long dormancy of the symptoms make it extremely difficult to determine where it was contracted.

>the OP may have triggered the freeze by clearing the account of nearly all funds a couple of days after the phone interview.

It would be very helpful for someone to post (from experience and/or inside knowledge) a "How work with PayPal and avoid problems" FAQ

FWIW: My family's last 7 Macs have all been refurbs. The $ saved go to purchase additional (non-apple) RAM.

The last Mac I had that developed hardware problem (out-of-warranty) was not one of those refurbs.

>> evil "collectivists" ... are saying that "what is considered to be in the public domain should be greatly expanded."

It is "collectivist" to release software (etc.) in public domain???

Something done only by collectivists? So that if I contribute to FOSS I must be labeled a collectivist?

Maybe the Paul's better offer further explanations.

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