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YouTube to Acquire Videogame-Streaming Service Twitch for $1 Billion: Sources

Google's YouTube has reached a deal to buy Twitch, a popular videogame-streaming company, for more than $1 billion, according to sources familiar with the pact. The deal, in an all-cash offer, is e...

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Hasnain says:

"We like to think that merit is eventually recognized, that a great book will make its way, but we know only the success stories."

Posted on 2014-05-17T01:54:22+0000

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Functional Programming | Clojure for the Brave and True

So far, you've focused on familiarizing yourself with the tools that Clojure provides: immutable data structures, functions, abstractions, and so on. In this chapter, you'll begin learning how to think about your programming tasks in a way that makes the best use of those tools. You'll begin integra…

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The end of a monopoly

Kenya’s handy alternative to cash THE SELF-SERVICE tills at Home Depot, an American home-improvement store, offer customers an unexpected payment option alongside...

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Sift Science Lands $18M Series B From Spark Capital To Stop Credit Card Fraud | TechCrunch

Today Sift Science, a credit card fraud prevention company, has closed an $18 million Series B round of funding led by Spark Capital, with participation from..

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python! — The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python

This opinionated guide exists to provide both novice and expert Python developers a best-practice handbook to the installation, configuration, and usage of Python on a daily basis.

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Surfin' Safari - Blog Archive » Introducing the WebKit FTL JIT

Just a decade ago, JavaScript – the programming language used to drive web page interactions – was thought to be too slow for serious application development. But thanks to continuous optimization efforts, it’s now possible to write sophisticated, high-performance applications – even graphics-intens…

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