Why are more than 10 million homes vacant in India? - BBC News
Economic analyst Vivek Kaul on why millions of home are lying empty in India when the country is facing a shortage of housing.
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Posted on 2015-05-25T18:03:03+0000
New C++ experimental feature: The tadpole operators - The Old New Thing - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
Since the + and - operators have such low precedence, you end up having to parenthesize them a lot, which can lead to heavily nested code that is hard to read.
The generation that tech forgot - BBC News
How can the tech industry engage the over-65s who feel devices are not designed with them in mind?
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Posted on 2015-05-25T17:58:10+0000
How Employers Get Out of Paying Their Workers
Employers illegally siphon billions of dollars out of low-wage workers' paychecks each year, but the vast majority of these crimes go unreported.
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Organizational Debt is like Technical debt – but worse
Startups focus on speed since they are burning cash every day as they search for product/market fit. But over time code/hardware written/built to validate hypotheses and find early customers can be...
Who Will Be Hurt Most When The Tech Bubble Burst? Not VCs
Do we have a ticking time bomb on hand? The debate over whether Silicon Valley is sitting on another tech bubble rages on. It is being fueled by many..
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Posted on 2015-05-24T17:30:50+0000
the responsibility we have as software engineers
I had the chance to chat this week with the very awesome Kate Heddleston who mentioned that she's been thinking a lot about the ethics of being a software engineer, something she just spoke about a...
'Beautiful Mind' mathematician John Nash killed in crash - BBC News
Renowned mathematician John Nash, subject of the film A Beautiful Mind, dies in a New Jersey taxi crash with his wife.
Uber: Disability Laws Don’t Apply to Us
Is Uber letting its drivers dodge The Americans With Disabilities Act?
Hasnain says:
"The suits demand Uber abide by the ADA, but Uber claims that because it’s a technology company, not a transportation service, it doesn’t fall under the ADA’s jurisdiction."
Could the courts rule that since the average person really just thinks of Uber as a transportation company, that argument doesn't fly? Sort of like how aspirin/kleenex pretty much lost their trademarks?
Posted on 2015-05-22T16:48:05+0000