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Don’t Let Metrics Undermine Your Business
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Harvard Business Review
Don’t Let Metrics Undermine Your Business
An obsession with the numbers can sink your strategy.
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Swiss Copyright Law: Downloading Stays Legal, No Site Blocking
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Swiss Copyright Law: Downloading Stays Legal, No Site Blocking * TorrentFreak
Switzerland's National Council has passed amendments aimed at modernizing the country's copyright law to make it more fit for the digital age. While services that host pirate sites or distribute content can expect a tougher ride moving forward, users will…
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Show HN: Rust Toolchain for iOS Bitcode
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GitHub - getditto/rust-bitcode: Rust toolchain for Xcode-compatible iOS bitcode
Rust toolchain for Xcode-compatible iOS bitcode. Contribute to getditto/rust-bitcode development by creating an account on GitHub.
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T. Boone Pickens Farewell Letter
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Boone Pickens
A final message from T. Boone Pickens shared before his passing on September 11, 2019 - Boone Pickens
If you are reading this, I have passed on from this world — not as big a deal for you as it was for me. In my final months, I came to the sad reality that my life really did have a fourth quarter and the clock really would run out on me. I took the time to…
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Binance.us
opens for US customers today
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@BinanceUS
@BinanceUS | Buy & Sell Crypto.
Binance.US is the crypto trading platform for US residents where you can buy, sell, and trade cryptocurrencies and alt coins with some of the lowest fees in the US. Start trading in minutes.
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200k people applied for jobs at Amazon in a single week
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200,000 people applied for jobs at Amazon in a single week
While New Yorkers repelled the ecommerce giant's expansion plans, job applications are flying in from other places
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Requests moved to Python Software Foundation
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GitHub
GitHub - psf/requests: A simple, yet elegant, HTTP library.
A simple, yet elegant, HTTP library. Contribute to psf/requests development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Quietly another drug candidate disappears
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Science
Quietly Another Drug Candidate Disappears
I wanted to note something today that won't make many headlines outside of biopharma, but it's just the sort of story that I wish more people knew about. Let's start with this: there's a terrible disease called IPF, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Anyone with…
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Expert Says Indians Will Soon Be Water Refugees Heading for Water-Rich Europe
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Vice
Expert Says Indians Will Soon Become Water Refugees Heading for Water-Rich Europe
Rajendra Singh, also known as the “Waterman of India”, says over 70 percent of the country has dried up, and this may lead to climatic migration to other countries.
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Linux Terminal Goods
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Blogspot
Linux Terminal Goods
Some time ago I blogged about some cool terminal plugins I was using in my Linux notebook. Also some awesome retro- emulator terminals j...
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iPhone 11 Pro Camera Review
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Travel Photographer - Austin Mann
iPhone 11 Pro Camera Review — Travel Photographer - Austin Mann
Partnering with Halide Camera, Peak Design, and Apple. To test the iPhone 11 Pro camera as I continue on-going work photographing The Bach Project w/ Yo-Yo Ma, a world tour where Yo-Yo is performing Bach in unconventional places around the globe. It’s been…
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Andrew Mason’s Denoscript raises $15M and acquires Lyrebird
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TechCrunch
Andrew Mason’s Denoscript snags $15M, acquires Lyrebird to let users type text to create audio in their own voices
The boom in popularity for podcasting has given a new voice to the world of spoken word content that had been largely left for dead with the decline of broadcast radio. Now riding the wave of that growth, a startup called Denoscript that’s building tools to…
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Advanced hackers are infecting IT providers in hopes of hitting their customers
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Ars Technica
Advanced hackers are infecting IT providers in hopes of hitting their customers
Previously undocumented Tortoiseshell is skilled but by no means perfect.
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Who needs qubits? Factoring algorithm run on a probabilistic computer
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Ars Technica
Who needs qubits? Factoring algorithm run on a probabilistic computer
It shares some features with quantum annealers, but it's easier to build and operate.
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Economists don’t understand much about the macroeconomy
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Quartz
Bill Gates: 'Economists don't actually understand macroeconomics'
Economics is predictably unpredictable, says Microsoft's co-founder in an interview.
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Solar and Wind Power So Cheap They’re Outgrowing Subsidies
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Automattic raises $300M at $3B valuation from Salesforce Ventures
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TechCrunch
Automattic raises $300 million at $3 billion valuation from Salesforce Ventures
Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce and soon Tumblr, has closed a $300 million funding round at a $3 billion post-money valuation.
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Closing the gap: cross-language LTO between Rust and C/C++
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The LLVM Project Blog
Closing the gap: cross-language LTO between Rust and C/C++
Link time optimization (LTO) is LLVM's way of implementing whole-program optimization. Cross-language LTO is a new feature in the Rust compiler that enables LLVM's link time optimization to be performed across a mixed C/C++/Rust codebase.
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Tesla earns its first-ever safety award from IIHS for Model 3
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IIHS-HLDI crash testing and highway safety
Tesla earns its first-ever safety award from IIHS for Model 3
The Tesla Model 3 qualifies for a 2019 Top Safety Pick+ award based on its standard equipment. It's the second all-electric vehicle to earn this year's top award after the Audi e-tron. A third, the Chevrolet Bolt, misses the mark because of poor headlights.
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Six U.S. Cities Make the List of Most Surveilled Places in the World
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Route Fifty
Six U.S. Cities Make the List of Most Surveilled Places in the World
A new report found that CCTV surveillance is increasing in certain areas of the U.S., with one city government watching its citizens from 35,000 cameras.
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The Pragmatic Programmer, 20th Anniversary Edition
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We improve the lives of professional developers. We create timely, practical books on classic and cutting-edge topics to help you learn and practice your craft, and accelerate your career. Come learn with us.
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