Google Plans New Headquarters, and a City Fears Being Overrun
Google’s sometimes testy relationship with community leaders in Mountain View, Calif., a city already bursting at the seams, is likely to get testier.
Hasnain says:
" “This last election we had maybe 12,000 voters,” said Jac Siegel, a city councilman who left office this year and is not related to Leonard Siegel. “If you brought 5,000 people in and they all work for Google and they said, ‘We want you to vote for this candidate,’ they can own the town.”"
Posted on 2015-02-25T16:59:55+0000
Get away with Google Flights
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Why digital natives prefer reading in print. Yes, you read that right.
Textbook makers, bookstore owners and college student surveys all find a strong preference for print.
PHP at the speed of C
Using new tools including HHVM and Recki-CT to speed up PHP applications
Pakistanis face a deadline: Surrender fingerprints or give up cellphone
To curb terrorism, the government launches a massive bid to compile a national biometrics database.
Hasnain says:
I really doubt this will add anything. And goodbye to my old number, I guess.
Posted on 2015-02-24T17:56:35+0000
My life in London's houseboat slums
Sam Forbes: Where do you live if you cannot afford London's soaring rents? I took the only home I could find: a tiny, mouldy room in a freezing barge on the Thames. And there are many desperate people in the same situation
Hasnain says:
I wonder when people will start living in the bay here.
Posted on 2015-02-24T17:43:42+0000
A Student-Debt Revolt Begins - The New Yorker
The refusal of fifteen students to pay back loans taken to pay for classes at a failed network of for-profit colleges could have far-reaching consequences.
Hasnain says:
It would set a pretty interesting precedent if they can have their loans forgiven
Posted on 2015-02-24T17:25:06+0000
Mathematical ends
This page features a collection of mathematicians who died under unfortunate or unfitting circumstances. The purpose of this list is not clear, but it is perhaps an attempt to compile a relatively complete list (which seems to be an end itself). Perhaps this is a page in honor of those whose lives e…
Proving that Android’s, Java’s and Python’s sorting algorithm is broken (and showing how to fix...
Proving that Android’s, Java’s and Python’s sorting algorithm is broken (and showing how to fix it) February 24, 2015EnvisageWritten by Stijn de Gouw. $s Tim Peters developed the Timsort hybrid sorting algorithm in 2002. It is a clever combination of ideas from merge sort and insertion sort, and des…
DHS Extends Eligibility for Employment Authorization to Certain H-4 Dependent Spouses of H-1B...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director León Rodríguez announced today that, effective May 26, 2015, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is extending eligibility for employment authorization to certain H-4 dependent spouses of H-1B nonimmigrants who are seeking…