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The Electric Car

The electric car is going to take over the world. Soon. Let me explain. 75% of US consumers and over 85% of US millennials own smartphones. Perhaps more amazing is that 1/4 of people in the...

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singleton-considered-stupid - steveyegge2

Design Patterns was a great book, no question. It's still in my Top Ten List of books every programmer should read. It's a beautifully crafted book, and I get a rush of nostalgia when I read through it, ten years since it was published. It was a seminal work, groundbreaking, something that revolutio…

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Hasnain says:

"It also indexed family members by presuming everyone would have a unique birthday—meaning twins couldn’t both have accounts."

How the original programmers even thought they could legitimately charge for that is beyond belief.

Posted on 2015-07-12T05:44:05+0000

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If you've got nothing to hide... - Jacques Mattheij

The Past Since 1851 Amsterdam had a registry that recorded the following innocent pieces of data about the residents: Name, Date of birth, Address, …

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Hasnain says:

"When you say I don't care about the right to privacy because I have nothing to hide, that is no different than saying I don't care about freedom of speech because I have nothing to say or freedom of the press because I have nothing to write."
- Edward Snowden

Posted on 2015-07-11T19:39:52+0000

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New York Times' Reddit Piece Shows Dangers of Internet Journalism - TechRaptor

The New York Time's has become the latest journalistic organization to show the dangers of internet journalism and rewriting of stories.

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Revised and much faster, run your own high-end cloud gaming service on EC2!

Playing Witcher 3, a GPU-intensive game on a 2015 fanless Macbook

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