After Senate vote, NSA prepares to shut down phone tracking program
Hours after the Senate balked at reauthorizing the bulk collection of U.S. telephone records, the National Security Agency began shutting a controversial program Saturday that senior intelligence and law enforcement officials say is vital to track terrorists in the United States.
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Posted on 2015-05-25T18:15:50+0000
Your clothes are killing us
The True Cost, a new documentary, chronicles the evils of the clothing industry and asks us to stop buying so much cheap crap.
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Posted on 2015-05-25T18:06:16+0000
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...