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Nothing you can do impresses me.

Because of the urgent need for new blood / ideas in the tech world, our lack of ability to reward new developers is a particularly profound example of shooting oneself in the foot.

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Hasnain says:

" Seriously, is “Is it responsive?” really the first words you want to come out of your mouth, before you’ve even seen the product? Can you step back, suspend your criticism for just one second, and realize that someone has just completed a shit-ton of work?"

Yup, developers are pretty mean

Posted on 2015-01-10T02:36:10+0000

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The Foreign Spell

The foreign has long been my stomping ground, my sanctuary, as one who grew up a foreigner wherever I happened to be. Born to Indian parents in Oxford, England, I was seven when my parents moved to Ca

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Hasnain says:

"But all I thought then was that nearly everywhere I knew was foreign, which meant that nearly everywhere had the power to unsettle and surprise me, forever."

Posted on 2015-01-10T02:27:08+0000

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A Career in Science Will Cost You Your Firstborn

"I hate science." In six years of graduate school, this has to be the phrase I’ve heard most frequently from my colleagues. People who have dedicated their lives to science. People who made a decision...

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Anti-vaccination update: How the measles crisis struck Disneyland

As many as 12 measles cases have been connected to visits to Disneyland or Disney's California Adventure Park, California public health authorities say--including at least six occurring in people who were unvaccinated for the disease. Among them were two infants too young for immunizations.

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The Colombian army sent a hidden message to hostages inside a pop song

To reach hostages held deep in the Colombian jungle, the Colombian army turned to an ad man and wrote a pop song

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Antibiotic Pulled From Dirt Ends 25-Year Drug Drought

Scientists have discovered an antibiotic capable of fighting infections that kill hundreds of thousands of people each year, a breakthrough that could lead to the field’s first major new drug in more than a quarter-century.

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Wikipedia on HHVM

If you've been watching our GitHub wiki, following us on Twitter, or reading the wikitech-l mailing list, you've probably known for a while that Wikipedia has been transitioning to HHVM. This has been a long process involving lots of work from many different people, and as of a few weeks ago, all no…

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Dissecting OpenBSD's divert(4) Part 1: Introduction - Lawrence Teo's Pseudorandom Thoughts

For more than four years I have been using and tinkering with OpenBSD’s divert(4). At one point after OpenBSD 4.9 was released, I ran into an …

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