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How Patrick McKenzie (patio11) Builds Twilio Apps

You may know Patrick McKenzie as patio11 on the interwebs. He's the: founder of Bingo Card Creator highest rated commenter on Hacker News author of Sel

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The real reason measles cases spiked in 2014: the Ohio Amish

Last year was terrible for measles in the United States: there were 644 cases — the highest annual caseload in two decades. Granola-crunching Californians, wealthy Oregonians, and Jenny McCarthy...

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Hasnain says:

""We all took the vaccine after that. I had one shot, and I still took the other one and we had all our kids vaccinated, too. After people saw how sick people got, they changed their minds.""

I sometimes feel one major reason people don't get their kids vaccinated is that they've forgotten how horrible these diseases can be

Posted on 2015-01-29T17:09:54+0000

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The Free Code Camp Blog: A Vision of Coding, Without Opening your Eyes

We blog about learning to code by pair programming on projects that help nonprofits. We also blog about MongoDB, Express.js, Angular.js and Node.js - the JavaScript MEAN stack. Sign up for Free Code Camp here.

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The Day the Purpose of College Changed

On February 28, 1967, Gov. Ronald Reagan spoke of "certain intellectual luxuries that perhaps we could do without." Here's why liberal education has never recovered.

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A Gentle Primer on Reverse Engineering | Emily St.

Over the weekend at Women Who Hack I gave a short demonstration on reverse engineering. I wanted to show how “cracking” works, to give a better understanding of how programs work once they’re compiled. It also serves my abiding interest in processors and other low-level stuff from the 80s.

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Who Owns Los Angeles?

"What is this you call property?”, asked Massasoit, the leader of the Native American Wampanoag tribe. “It cannot be the earth, for the land is our mother, nourishing all her children, beasts, bird...

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One Week of Harassment on Twitter

Ever since I began my Tropes vs Women in Video Games project, two and a half years ago, I’ve been harassed on a daily basis by irate gamers angry at my critiques of sexism in video games. It can...

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