Saudi Arabia’s Plan to Extend the Age of Oil
The biggest exporter has let prices plummet—delaying the day when climate concerns, efficiency, and fuel switching break the world’s dependence on crude.
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Posted on 2015-04-13T15:55:10+0000
To Raise Productivity, Let More Employees Work from Home
The study: Nicholas Bloom and graduate student James Liang, who is also a cofounder of the Chinese travel website Ctrip, gave the staff at Ctrip’s call center the opportunity to volunteer to work from home for nine months. Half the volunteers were allowed to telecommute; the rest remained in the off…
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Posted on 2015-04-13T15:16:07+0000
The one line you should add to every makefile | John Graham-Cumming
If you enjoyed this blog post, you might enjoy my travel book for people interested in science and technology: The Geek Atlas. Signed copies of The Geek Atlas are available.
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Posted on 2015-04-10T15:12:37+0000
U.S. Legalization of Marijuana Has Hit Mexican Cartels' Cross-Border Trade
The cartels are still smuggling harder drugs but advocates point out the success of legalization in cutting illegal trade
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Posted on 2015-04-09T15:56:32+0000
Working Remotely From A Tropical Island in Thailand
Mobile Jazz is an engineering and design agency. But unlike our peers, when it comes to working at Mobile Jazz we are becoming known for sometimes taking a rather different approach to the work/life balance. Unlike most companies out there, our main objective is to optimize for happiness, rather...
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Posted on 2015-04-09T15:54:24+0000
techcrunch.com
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Hasnain says:
Umm... I don't see why they would buy Lynda but it's interesting
Posted on 2015-04-09T15:52:41+0000
Hidden backdoor API to root privileges in Apple OS X
TL;DR The Admin framework in Apple OS X contains a hidden backdoor API to root privileges. It’s been there for several years (at least since 2011), I found it in October 2014 and it can be exploite...
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Posted on 2015-04-09T15:51:12+0000
Unit tests fail when run in Australia · Issue #5017 · angular/angular.js
I'm receiving the same error reported in this comment: #3474 (comment) I'm also in Australia/Sydney. I was able to skip with --force, but it'd be good to get a clean bill of health for contributing! Chrome 31.0.1650 (Mac OS X 10.9.0) ...
Silicon Valley: Perks for Some Workers, Struggles for Parents
The technology industry highlights the difficulties that the American economy has had adapting to modern family life.
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Posted on 2015-04-08T04:08:41+0000
What I'd tell myself about startups if I could go back 5 years.
Blog by Ben Dixon, Ruby on Rails Developer, about rails, devops, docker, climbing and startups