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Hasnain says:

This is a well-written piece.

"One night in March, 2013, Rami Ismail and his business partner Jan Willem released a game for mobile phones called Ridiculous Fishing. Ismail, who was twenty-four at the time and who lives in the Netherlands, woke the following morning to find that the game had made him tens of thousands of dollars overnight. His first reaction was not elation but guilt. His mother, who has a job in local government, had already left for work. “Ever since I was a kid I’ve watched my mom wake up at six in the morning, work all day, come home, make my brother and me dinner—maybe shout at me for too much ‘computering,’” he said. “My first thought that day was that while I was asleep I’d made more money than she had all year. And I’d done it with a mobile-phone game about shooting fish with a machine gun.”

Posted on 2014-04-04T16:51:40+0000

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$1,000-a-day miracle drug shocks U.S. health care system

The treatment for hepatitis C is so effective that patients and doctors are clamoring for it, but heath insurers are balking at the steep costs

Click to view the original at cbsnews.com

Hasnain says:

I'm not sure how I feel about this. On one hand, pharma needs money to fund expensive R&D to develop drugs (one estimate says the acquisition cost $11B). On the other hand, paying $90k to get rid of hep-C is a bit crazy.

Posted on 2014-04-04T16:41:43+0000

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5-year-old Ocean Beach exposes Microsoft Xbox vulnerability

An Ocean Beach boy is in the spotlight after he discovered a back door in to one of the most popular gaming systems in the world.

Click to view the original at 10news.com

Hasnain says:

All spaces? Really, Microsoft?

(and yes this is genuine, he's acknowledged at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/cc308589.aspx)

Posted on 2014-04-04T16:30:45+0000

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Sysdig: The New (Definitive) System Troubleshooting Tool

Sysdig is open source, system-level exploration: capture system state and activity from a running Linux instance, then save, filter and analyze. Think of it as strace + tcpdump + lsof + awesome sauce. With a little Lua cherry on top.

Click to view the original at sysdig.org

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Hasnain says:

This is a great piece by Jeff Atwood.

"What’s the most consistent piece of advice you get as a startup?

Always hire the best people. Never compromise in your hiring standards, no matter how big your company gets.

And it’s true. A great team can take an okay idea and transform it into an incredible, world-beating product.

But something has always bugged me about this advice. There’s an elephant in the room in the form of an implied clause: Always hire the best people… who are willing to live in San Francisco."

Posted on 2014-04-03T19:23:48+0000

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lelandbatey/whiteboardCleaner.md

Whiteboard Picture Cleaner - Shell one-liner/script to clean up and beautify photos of whiteboards! - Gist is a simple way to share snippets of text and code with others.

Click to view the original at gist.github.com

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