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Ask HN: Do Udacity nanodegrees get anyone a job without academic background?
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The hidden costs of engineering time in technical interviewing
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interviewing.io blog
You probably don’t factor in engineering time when calculating cost per hire. Here’s why you really should.
Whether you’re a recruiter or an engineer, you’ve probably heard of cost per hire. But, there's a problem with this metric -- engineering time, specifically, despite often being the most expensive resource, isn’t usually included and can cost you an extra…
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Medical records on the blockchain – the history of a bad idea
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Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain
Medical records, but on the blockchain — the history of a bad idea
Patients having some sort of “control” over their own medical data is a perennial favourite blockchain pitch. We may have found the source.
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KaiOS takes on the Apple-Android mobile duopoly
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The Economist
KaiOS takes on the Apple-Android mobile duopoly
The three-year-old company will sell 70m smart-ish devices this year, mostly in the developing world | Business
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Matrox History: A Computer Graphics Also-Ran’s Second Life
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Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet.
Matrox History: A Computer Graphics Also-Ran’s Second Life
Is there a more misunderstood technology company than Matrox? Let’s ponder the second life of the graphics card maker, long considered a 3D graphics also-ran.
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Non-Photorealistic Rendering Using a Painting Robot [pdf]
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Stepping Away from Sass
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cathydutton.co.uk
Stepping away from Sass
My latest site redesign and why I left out Sass and media queries in favour of native CSS grid, calc, viewport units and custom properties.
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Facebook's Email-Harvesting Practice Is Under Investigation in N.Y
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Turnover Hits Apple’s Famed Industrial Design Team
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WSJ
Turnover Hits Apple’s Famed Industrial Design Team
Apple’s industrial design team is undergoing its most pronounced turnover in decades, marking a changing of the guard for the group that has defined the tech giant’s aesthetic and spearheaded the development of products including the iPhone.
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The former lead designer of Gmail just fixed Gmail on his own
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Fast Company
The former lead designer of Gmail just fixed Gmail on his own
The free Chrome extension Simplify will give you the Gmail you want.
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Marcus Hutchins Stopped WannaCry. He Deserves a Pardon.
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NY Times
The WannaCry Hero Deserves a Pardon, Not a Conviction
Society owes this security researcher a very big favor.
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Ireland blocks the world on data privacy
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POLITICO
ast May, Europe imposed new data privacy guidelines that carry the hopes of hundreds of millions of people around the world — including in the United States — to rein in abuses by big tech companie…
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Propose HN: 'Countless' experiment – hiding all karmic integers
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Show HN: My first open-source project release – RandomJson
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GitHub
mangatmodi/RandomJson
Provides a Kotlin/Java library to create a random json string - mangatmodi/RandomJson
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After Pentagon Ends Contract, Top-Secret Scientists Group Vows to Carry On
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NPR
After Pentagon Ends Contract, Top-Secret Scientists Group Vows To Carry On
The 60 or so members of the Jasons are normal academics by day. But each summer, they come together to study tough problems for the military, intelligence agencies and other parts of the government.
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How Germany used radio waves to guide night bombing raids in WWII
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Medium
England Was Almost Destroyed By Radio Waves
The BBC may have saved England against the Nazis
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How to Read a Schematic
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Up close and personal with the women of the Japanese Yakuza
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Huck Magazine
Up close and personal with the women of the Yakuza
Led by a fascination of Japanese culture, Chloé Jafé moved to Japan, a country where she barely knew anyone and spoke very little of the language. While there, a project that at first seemed impossible became possible, when she managed to gain access to the…
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Ecuador legalized gangs and murder rates plummeted
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Vox
Ecuador legalized gangs. Murder rates plummeted.
A stunningly successful experiment has the potential to upend the US approach to deviance.
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About Our Galaxy Fold Teardown
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iFixit
About Our Galaxy Fold Teardown
Update, Oct. 7, 2019: We tore down the retail release of the Galaxy Fold. After two days of intense public interest, iFixit has removed our teardown of…
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Name one thing in this photo
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Twitter
dumbass ass idiot
Name one thing in this photo
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