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Hasnain says:

Interesting read on torrents versus tube sites and ethics.

SFW link, but none of the other links on the site are really SFW.

Posted on 2015-03-12T16:46:26+0000

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Bidding farewell to Google Code

When we started the Google Code project hosting service in 2006, the world of project hosting was limited. We were worried about reliability and stagnation, so we took action by giving the open source community another option to choose from. Since then, we’ve seen a wide variety of better project ho…

Click to view the original at google-opensource.blogspot.com

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Drones and the rise of the high-tech assassins

How twenty-three innocent Afghani civilians were wiped out by self-deceiving drone operators seven and a half thousand miles away.

Click to view the original at boingboing.net

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Early Retirement in the N.F.L. and at Google, and the Paradox of Success

What a retiring chief financial officer and three football players — Patrick Willis, Jason Worilds and Jake Locker — have in common.

Click to view the original at mobile.nytimes.com

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There is No Now - ACM Queue

The time elapsed between when I wrote that word and when you read it was at least a couple of weeks. That kind of delay is one that we take for granted and don't even think about in written media.

Click to view the original at queue.acm.org

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Fear of Failure and Lack of Speed In a Large Corporation

I just spent a day working with Bob, the Chief Innovation Officer of a very smart large company I’ll call Acme Widgets. Bob summarized Acme’s impediments to innovation. “At our company we have a cu...

Click to view the original at steveblank.com