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Forget Technical Debt — Here's How to Build Technical Wealth

Andrea Goulet runs a software SWAT Team — parachuting in to help companies fix bad code that's holding them back. Here's what she's learned on the job.

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The Shame of Palo Alto: an Interview with Kate Downing on Affordable Housing — Stanford Political Journal

This article is part of a series on housing politics and policy, particularly in the context of the Bay Area. Previous articles on housing…

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Hasnain says:

"I would also add that housing and transportation are two things that have to go hand in hand, and we have to be building up our public transportation infrastructure, and there’s a lot that we can do in that direction. But when you ask me about whether it’s a deflection, I would say it is, because in my experience the people who say, ‘well, we can’t have housing because that will create transportation issues,’ they’re the very same people who show up to protest public transportation."

Posted on 2016-08-15T06:38:41+0000

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This Daily Beast Grindr Stunt Is Sleazy, Dangerous, and Wildly Unethical

On Thursday morning, the Daily Beast published an exceedingly gross and bizarre article by a straight, married male writer who lured in gay Olympians t ...

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Hasnain says:

"Shortly after Hines’ article published, openly gay Olympian Gus Kenworthy tweeted that the author “basically just outed a bunch of athletes in his quest to write a shitty [Daily Beast] article where he admitted to entrapment.”"

Posted on 2016-08-12T04:42:54+0000

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The Great Productivity Puzzle - The New Yorker

Whatever is driving the slowdown in productivity growth in the U.S. appears to be affecting the advanced world as a whole. What is it?

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Zero-cost futures in Rust · Aaron Turon

Zero-cost futures in Rust 11 Aug 2016One of the key gaps in Rust’s ecosystem has been a strong story for fast and productive asynchronous I/O. We have solid foundations, like the mio library, but they’re very low level: you have to wire up state machines and juggle callbacks directly. We’ve wanted s...

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Generating fantasy maps

These are some notes on how I generate the maps for my Twitter bot @unchartedatlas, which is based on a generator I originally produced during NaNoGenMo 2015. There's JavaScript code for the generator on Github here, and the original messy Python generator code can be seen here.

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Prosecutors in PG&E case abruptly reduce potential fines

Abruptly and without explanation, federal prosecutors slashed potential criminal penalties for Pacific Gas and Electric Co. from $562 million to $6 million Tuesday while a jury was considering whether the company violated safety laws both before and after the lethal 2010 gas pipeline explosion in Sa...

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