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Hasnain says:

Depression is unfortunately treated as something that never happens, or is swept under the rug.

This needs to change.

#NoMoreStigma

Posted on 2016-11-16T21:27:28+0000

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Hasnain says:

This escalated really quickly.

"As developers, we are often one of the last lines of defense against potentially dangerous and unethical practices."

Posted on 2016-11-16T19:11:28+0000

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Open population datasets and open challenges

Sharing data about how people are aggregated around the world can help solve challenges such as connectivity, infrastructure planning, humanitarian aid, and disaster response.

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I have toyota corola | daniel.haxx.se

cURL and libcurl I have toyota corola November 14, 2016 Daniel Stenberg 10 Comments Modern cars have fancy infotainment setups, big screens and all sorts of computers with networked functionality built-in. Part of that fanciness is increasingly often a curl install. curl is a part of the standard Ge...

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Why 30 is the decade friends disappear — and what to do about it

At 30, I’m not anxious about my biological clock or my career. I’m anxious about making friends.

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Hasnain says:

"In 2010, while on a book tour for Reshaping the Work-Family Debate, I gave a talk about all of this at the Harvard Kennedy School. The woman who ran the speaker series, a major Democratic operative, liked my talk. “You are saying exactly what the Democrats need to hear,” she mused, “and they’ll never listen.” I hope now they will."

Posted on 2016-11-13T07:57:51+0000

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The Art of the Awkward 1:1

You probably do a lot of one-on-one meetings at work: with your manager, teammates, folks from other teams. Unfortunately, most people…

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DeepMind and Blizzard to release StarCraft II as an AI research environment | DeepMind

Announcing DeepMind's collaboration with Blizzard Entertainment to open up StarCraft II to AI and ML researchers around the world.

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Lahore smog: It's not a natural phenomenon

Every December, thick fog descends upon Lahore, blocking out the winter sunshine, closing off the motorway after ...

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Empire shaped the world. There is an abyss at the heart of dishonest history textbooks | Moni Mohsin

Nearly 90,000 Indian soldiers laid down their lives for Britain in the second world war, yet the scale of that sacrifice – and the troubled history of the imperial project – is barely recognised

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