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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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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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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.

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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...

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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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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...

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