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Firecracker: Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Applications
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Amazon Science
Firecracker: Lightweight virtualization for serverless applications
Serverless containers and functions are widely used for deploying and managing software in the cloud. Their popularity is due to reduced cost of operations, improved utilization of hardware, and faster scaling than traditional deployment methods. The economics…
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In Santa Cruz, a graduate student strike grows out of a housing crisis
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The New Republic
A Wildcat Strike Grows out of a Housing Crisis
In Santa Cruz, an unauthorized graduate student strike threatens to spill into its second week, with no clear resolution in sight.
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Heart doctors 'held back stent death data'
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BBC News
Heart doctors 'held back stent death data'
The trial suggested more people fitted with stents were dying after three years than those given surgery.
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End torture and medical neglect of Julian Assange
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Uncensored ADSB aircraft tracking network
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I Worked for a Criminal Organization
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Open Monster Vision
That Time I Worked for A Criminal Organization - Open Monster Vision
That time I was employed by a criminal organization I was employed by Micfo for several months, I quickly determined that they were shady and invovled in illegal practices. I did not quit because of that, I quit because I felt unwanted, by HR and Management.…
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The Chaos at Condé Nast
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NY Times
The Chaos at Condé Nast
The memoirs of Dan Peres and other ex-employees of the magazine company reveal mess behind the gloss of the aughts.
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The First Computers in East Africa and what became of them (2015)
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Owaahh
The First Computers in East Africa –and what became of them - Owaahh
One of them ended up at the bottom of the ocean, because of a snake, a gun, and bureaucracy. Another ended up in China, somehow.
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Prosecutors allege Micfo obtained 800k IPv4 addresses illegally
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WSJ
WSJ News Exclusive | Fraud Case in Charleston, S.C., Shines Light on Web’s Dark Corners
Web-services provider Micfo and founder Amir Golestan face 20 counts of wire fraud in U.S. District Court in South Carolina, a case showing how internet hackers and spammers are able to cloak their identities.
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Generics in Go with Ian Lance Taylor (2019)
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Changelog
Generics in Go with Ian Lance Taylor (Go Time #98)
Mat, Johnny, Jon, and special guest Ian Lance Taylor discuss generics in Go. What are generics and why are they useful? Why aren’t interfaces enough? How will the standard library change if generics are added to Go? How has the community contributed to generics?…
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DARPA Wants Millions to Design an Unmanned 'Flying Gun' Under Its New Gunslinger
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The Drive
DARPA Wants Millions To Design An Unmanned 'Flying Gun' Under Its New Gunslinger Program
Budget documents describe a gun-armed “missile” that would be able to engage multiple targets, either on the ground or in the air.
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Makani’s time as an “other bet” comes to an end
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Medium
A long and windy road
Makani’s time as an “Other Bet” comes to an end
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Perch: a really little CMS
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Grabaperch
The Really Little Content Management System
Perch is a PHP content management system that installs on your own website. Perch is supported and regularly updated, and used by thousands of happy customers around the world.
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No visas for low-skilled workers, UK government says
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BBC News
Immigration: No visas for low-skilled workers, government says
Ministers urge firms to stop relying on "cheap labour", but critics warn of damage to the economy.
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Rosalind: Learn bioinformatics by programming it
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Learning from Turing’s silver hoard (2016)
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Reuters
Saft on wealth: Learning from Turing’s silver hoard
(Reuters) - The story of Alan Turing and his silver hoard shows that investing well takes more than extremely high intelligence and getting your analysis correct.
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IRS sues Facebook for $9B, says company offshored profits to Ireland
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Fox Business
IRS sues Facebook for $9B, says company offshored profits to Ireland
The trial, which Facebook expects will take three to four weeks, could see top executives including hardware chief Andrew Bosworth and Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer called to testify.
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Programmer's critique of missing structure of operating systems
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blog.rfox.eu
Programmer's critique of missing structure of operating systems
Patterns and structures of current operating systems and some thoughts about how that could be improved, with lessons learnt from Self, Smalltalk and other "structured" systems.
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How to write the perfect pull request (2015)
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The GitHub Blog
How to write the perfect pull request
As a company grows, people and projects change. To continue to nurture the culture we want at GitHub, we’ve found it useful to remind ourselves what we aim for when we communicate. We recently introduced
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Secret’s founder returns with anti-loneliness app Ikaria
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TechCrunch
Secret’s founder returns with anti-loneliness app Ikaria
“I don’t feel good about that. That sucks,” Chrys Bader-Wechseler reflects when asked about the bullying that went down on the anonymous app Secret he co-founded in 2013. After $35 million raised, 15 million users and a spectacular flame out two years later…
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Chinese Companies Say They Can’t Afford to Pay Workers Now
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Bloomberg
Chinese Companies Say They Can’t Afford to Pay Workers Now
A growing number of China’s private companies have cut wages, delayed paychecks or stopped paying staff completely, saying that the economic toll of the coronavirus has left them unable to cover their labor costs.
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