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Netflix Announces Its New ‘Unlimited’ Maternity And Paternity Leave Program

A few hours after hitting its all-time stock price high today, Netflix has announced a new program for all employees. In a blog post, Netflix outlined its..

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This 90-Day Plan Turns Engineers into Remarkable Managers

Twitter's former Director of Engineering shares the plan he uses to transform engineers into successful and happy managers.

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My Life Unmasking British Eavesdroppers

Duncan Campbell spent 30 years — and risked his freedom — uncovering the secrets of U.S. and British eavesdropping, including the existence of ECHELON, one of the biggest spy scandals of the Cold War. Now, thanks to Edward Snowden, he has proof of ECHELON's existence.

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Hasnain says:

"The error was catastrophic. I watched as Johnstone slumped in the witness box. He then descended into “gloomy confusion,” according to a watching reporter. He condemned articles published in his own army unit’s magazine as illegal, and finally confessed, “To be frank, I am not certain what is a secret and what isn’t.”"

Posted on 2015-08-04T05:50:04+0000

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LLVM for Grad Students

LLVM is a godsend of a research tool. Here are some detailed notes on what LLVM is, why you would want to use it for research, and how to get started as a compiler hacker.

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Engineering Managers Should Code 30% of Their Time

Lose contact with the code, and you lose the connection to your team and the project. How then to make the time to manage and code? The cofounder of MongoDB explains his approach.

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How Dare You Say That! The Evolution of Profanity

From “Odsbodikins” to “belly,” the banned words of our ancestors look as bizarre today as tribal rituals. But we are hardly beyond such taboos. We just observe different ones.

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Hasnain says:

I had this open for a while, finally got around to finishing it. It's an awesome talk and worth reading for everyone; it's not just about "web design" but an amazing talk on technology, the past, and the future.

Posted on 2015-08-04T02:36:12+0000

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What The Ad Blocker Debate Reveals

Related columns: The Rise of AdBlock Reveals A Serious Problem in the Advertising Ecosystem By Frédéric Filloux Seeing a threat to their ecosystem, French publishers follow their German colleagues and prepare to sue startup Eyeo GmbH, the creator of anti-advertising software AdBlock Plus. But they…

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