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I wrote a story that became a legend. Then I discovered it wasn’t true
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Columbia Journalism Review
I wrote a story that became a legend. Then I discovered it wasn’t true.
In 2003, with what felt like an angel on my shoulder, I wrote a story that became a myth. It was a once-in-a-lifetime piece. An emblem for human courage in the face of adversity, and an inspiration for motorcyclists like me, that swept the world in its small…
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Oracle Swings the Layoff Axe and Clear-Cuts Teams of Engineers
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IEEE Spectrum
Oracle Swings the Layoff Axe and Clear-cuts Teams of Engineers
Oracle takes a page out of IBM’s playbook this week, with unannounced layoffs, rationalized by a restructuring to the cloud, and little acknowledgement that they are happening
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Expressing Business Flows Using an F# DSL
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Medium
Microservices to Workflows: Expressing Business Flows using an F# DSL
How to represent business logic in F# using a custom Domain Specific Language (DSL).
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Graphene Device Sops Up Sunlight, Heats to 160 Degrees Celsius in Seconds
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IEEE Spectrum: Technology, Engineering, and Science News
Graphene Device Sops Up Sunlight, Heats to 160 Degrees Celsius in Seconds
A new class of ultrathin light absorbent material could harvest solar energy, boil water, and work as an infrared detector
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RIP Mrdocs (1963–2019)
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AT&T’s “5G E” is slower than Verizon and T-Mobile 4G, study finds
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Ars Technica
AT&T’s “5G E” is actually slower than Verizon and T-Mobile 4G, study finds
AT&T's so-called "5G E" lost to Verizon and T-Mobile 4G in new speed tests.
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HighwayHash: Fast hashing at over 10 GB/s per core in Golang
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Medium
HighwayHash: Fast hashing at over 10 GB/s per core in Golang
Introduction
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“Every minute I spent thinking about competitors was a minute wasted”
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Twitter
At both Viaweb and YC, every minute I spent thinking about competitors was, in retrospect, a minute wasted.
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How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner
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DaedTech
How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner - DaedTech
In this post, I describe the phenomenon of the so-called expert beginner -- someone with mediocre skill who thinks he's an expert.
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Uganda’s Tarantino and his $200 action movies (2015)
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BBC News
Uganda’s Tarantino and his $200 action movies
Wakaliwood is a studio making low-budget action movies in Uganda - despite a shoestring budget it's films feature car chases, special effects and choreographed fight scenes.
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Reasons to Quit Twitter and Facebook and Switch to Mastodon
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Finer Things in Tech
Reasons to quit Twitter and Facebook and switch to Mastodon
These companies poison us and our communities for profit. It’s time to go elsewhere.
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How the car industry hid the truth about diesel emissions
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the Guardian
Dirty lies: how the car industry hid the truth about diesel emissions
The long read: The ‘Dieselgate’ scandal was suppressed for years – while we should have been driving electric cars
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Nation's only Civil War pensioner collects $73 a month from VA (2017)
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floridatoday
One N.C. woman still receiving Civil War pension
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Why Mailchimp is no longer in the Shopify App Store
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Shopify
[Update] Here's why Mailchimp is no longer in the Shopify App Store
We know that not having Mailchimp in the Shopify App Store is a big change for many of you. We’re updating this post to clarify some of the most frequently asked questions around this change. Why did this happen? We recently updated our policy for app partners…
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Key Polish Political Party Comes Out Against Article 13
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
This Could Be It: Key Polish Political Party Comes Out Against
With only days to go before the final EU debate and vote on the new Copyright Directive (we're told the debate will be at 0900h CET on Tuesday, 27 March, and the vote will happen at 1200h CET),
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The Mathematical History of a Perfect Color Combination
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Wired
The Very Mathematical History of a Perfect Color Combination
Solarized creator Ethan Schoonover sought colors that would look good together, have the same apparent brightness, and work on light and dark backgrounds.
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Show HN: Everything I Know Wiki
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Paperfellows
N. Voloboev: Writing, Research and Development
N. Voloboev is a developer and coder that has worked on several projects, and right now is creating a full wiki dedicated to the things he has learned during his time on them.
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Kickstarter Senior Staffers Are Pushing Back Against Colleagues' Union Efforts
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Gizmodo
Leaked Memo Shows Kickstarter Senior Staffers Are Pushing Back Against Colleagues' Union Efforts
Tuesday afternoon, a contingent of Kickstarter employees went public with their intention to unionize under the name Kickstarter United. According to an email provided to Gizmodo, however, senior staffers at the crowdfunding company are already attempting…
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Farewell from Paradise Bay
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Why I no longer use GitHub (2018)
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Architecting UIs for Change
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