96-Year-Old Secretary Quietly Amasses Fortune, Then Donates $8.2 Million
A frugal woman from Brooklyn, who rode the subway to work at one law firm for 67 years, left millions for students at Henry Street Settlement and Hunter College.
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“She was a secretary in an era when they ran their boss’s lives, including their personal investments,” recalled her niece Jane Lockshin. “So when the boss would buy a stock, she would make the purchase for him, and then buy the same stock for herself, but in a smaller amount because she was on a secretary’s salary.”
Posted on 2018-05-07T04:37:20+0000
Canada facing ‘brain drain’ as young tech talent leaves for Silicon Valley
A new study one-in-four recent STEM graduates from three of the country’s top universities were working outside Canada
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"Pearl Sullivan, the dean of Waterloo’s engineering school, disputed the assertion that a high number of Waterloo students head south after graduation, maintaining that 85 per cent of alumni list a Canadian address as their preferred point of contact. According to the university, migration rates have dropped sharply since 2000 and are now around 10 per cent."
Posted on 2018-05-05T17:42:33+0000
The Man Who Cracked the Lottery
When the Iowa attorney general’s office began investigating an unclaimed lottery ticket worth millions, an incredible string of unlikely winners came to light - and a trail that pointed to an inside job.
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Posted on 2018-05-04T18:11:42+0000
Google vs. Google: How Nonstop Political Arguments Rule Its Workplace
The tech giant, trying to navigate an age of heightened political disagreement, struggles to tame a workplace culture of nonstop debate. Often organized by small groups of employees, the discussions have turned the tech giant’s headquarters into something resembling a college campus.
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Posted on 2018-05-02T04:12:06+0000
Building games that can be understood at a glance
I've been making games on the iphone for a long time, almost since the beginning... and one thing that struck me early on was how differently I discovered iPhone games versus games on other platforms.
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Posted on 2018-05-02T04:07:18+0000
The Era of Very Low Inflation and Interest Rates May Be Near an End
Moves in global bond markets over the last few months suggest changing expectations about prices.
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Posted on 2018-04-29T17:44:07+0000
User IDs probably shouldn't be passed around as ints
Let's say you have a web site which has logins of some sort. That's not too much of a stretch, right? I imagine many of the people reading this have crossed paths with such a thing in their careers. Have you ever really thought about how those logins are stored internally in terms of data structures...
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Posted on 2018-04-29T17:40:53+0000
A few thoughts on Ray Ozzie’s “Clear” Proposal
Yesterday I happened upon a Wired piece by Steven Levy that covers Ray Ozzie’s proposal for “CLEAR”. I’m quoted at the end of the piece (saying nothing much), so I knew the piece was coming. …
Click to view the original at blog.cryptographyengineering.com
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Posted on 2018-04-28T19:21:12+0000
Relative's DNA from genealogy websites cracked East Area Rapist case, DA's office says
Sacramento investigators tracked down East Area Rapist suspect Joseph James DeAngelo using genealogical websites that contained DNA information from a relative, the District Attorney's Office said Thursday, April 26, 2018.
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Posted on 2018-04-28T17:45:47+0000
Magnasanti: The Largest and Most Terrifying SimCity
This picture may appear to be a collection of color fields without meaning or purpose, but there is a ton of math and evil genius behind this image. This is a view of Magnasanti, the metropolis tha…
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Posted on 2018-04-28T17:43:55+0000