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Britain To Foreign Workers: If You Don't Make $50,000 A Year, Please Leave

To reduce the number of foreign workers, some of those making less than $50,000 won't qualify to stay in Britain beyond April. Critics say the deal would cause labor shortages.

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Bob Poekert's Web-Log | Twitter Star Chart

Twitter Star Chart Here shown is a chart of the top ten thousand websites linked to on twitter. You can play with an interactive version of it here. Before I get into the details of how I made the chart, here are some interesting things that fall out from it: Spambot networks are really obvious. It'…

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Announcing InfluxDB v0.10 GA with Support for Hundreds of Thousands of Writes Per Second and 98%...

InfluxData is based on the TICK stack, the first open source platform for managing IoT time-series data at scale.

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The State of Go

Time flies Go 1.4 is one year old (happy birthday!) Go 1.5 is already 6 months old! Go 1.6 to be released sometime in February. Go 1.6 Candidate Release 1 was released on January 28th

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Was Uber’s Branding done while Uber High?

Uber is the focus of much controversy of late, from aspects of accountability and safety, to taking advantage of their “contractors” and a host of dubious business practices and individ…

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Shkreli insults Congress on Twitter after refusing to testify

REUTERS - Former Turing Pharmaceuticals Chief Executive Officer Martin Shkreli on Thursday called members of the U.S. Congress "imbeciles" on Twitter moments after refusing to testify before ...

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With NFL Rams gone, St. Louis still stuck with stadium debt

The National Football League’s Rams left behind more than bitterness when the team ditched St. Louis for Los Angeles last month - it left a stadium saddled with about $144 million in debt and maintenance costs.

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Amit Singhal, an Influential Engineer at Google, Will Retire

Mr. Singhal, one of the earliest builders of Google’s computer system, said he would leave the parent company, Alphabet, on Feb. 26.

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Apple's declining software quality - Sudophilosophical

Software quality is a nebulous and divisive topic. There are many parameters to software quality – reliability, speed, user experience, design, discoverability, and more – and a move towards any of these virtues leads to sacrifices in others, especially on a limited time schedule. Additionally, a nu…

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