Lint For Math
Can we remove simple errors from math proofs? simple-talk interview source Stephen Johnson is one of the world's top programmers. Top programmers are inherently lazy: they prefer to build tools rat...
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Posted on 2015-03-09T16:22:01+0000
Five minutes with Mariana Mazzucato: "We have socialised the risk of innovation but privatised...
The public sector is often seen as sclerotic and conservative in contrast with a dynamic and innovative private sector. This assumption lies at the basis of much of the outsourcing of public servic...
Hasnain says:
" When Google received funding for its algorithm from the National Science Foundation (NSF), is it right that after it earned billions nothing went back to the NSF (which is today starved of funds), or that some of Apple’s profits go into a national innovation fund to fund the next wave of Apples?"
Posted on 2015-03-09T16:16:08+0000
DevOps Is Bullshit: Why One Programmer Doesn't Do It Anymore
The story of one programmer's journey into, and vehement rejection of, this thing we call "DevOps" - lessons learned, sound advice and why you're probably doing it all wrong.
Click to view the original at lionfacelemonface.wordpress.com
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Posted on 2015-03-09T15:57:18+0000
The Hiring Post
The Hiring Post 06 March 2015 1 The software developer job interview doesn’t work. Companies should stop relying on them. The savviest teams will outcompete their peers by devising alternative hiring schemes. Years from now, we’ll look back at the 2015 developer interview as an anachronism, akin to…
Hasnain says:
Oh man. What a great read on hiring practices that I think every company should follow
Posted on 2015-03-07T01:04:40+0000
people.torproject.org
On March 4th, 2015, we found a tracking device inside of the wheel well of a car belonging to an attendee of the Circumvention Tech Festival in Valencia, Spain. This was reported in the local media.
The dangers of intermediate targets: IQ, cholesterol, and 99%-ile latency
Most real-world problems are big enough that you can’t just head for the end goal, you have to break them down into smaller parts and set up …
The man who posted himself to Australia
In 1964 Australian athlete Reg Spiers sent himself from London to Australia in a wooden box - he was transported as freight in the cargo hold of a plane.
MySpace – what went wrong: ‘The site was a massive spaghetti-ball mess’
Sean Percival on corporate interference, Punch The Monkey, and a failed attempt to buy Spotify: ‘They sure as hell were not selling to us...’
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Posted on 2015-03-06T17:06:36+0000
Newest version of uTorrent has Bitcoin mining offer during install | Hacker News
news.ycombinator.com
Hasnain says:
The end of a once great software. This is the last nail in the coffin
Posted on 2015-03-06T16:59:03+0000
Introducing Google Compare for U.S. car insurance
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