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252
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https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1058676834940776450.html
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455
354
Microsoft Releases a Linux Version of the ProcDump Sysinternals Tool
https://github.com/Microsoft/ProcDump-for-Linux
389
415
Google's interview system: it's not about solving the problem
https://threader.app/thread/1058433116002381824
386
270
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-internet-privacy/prison-time-hefty-fines-for-data-privacy-violations-draft-u-s-senate-bill-idUSKCN1N65U2?
353
105
30 spies dead after Iran cracked CIA comms network
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/02/iran_cracked_cia_google/
351
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My Amazon Interview Horror Story
https://www.igorkromin.net/index.php/2018/11/04/my-amazon-interview-horror-story/
343
90
An OCR cliche: Into his/her anus (2009)
https://wraabe.wordpress.com/2009/03/07/an-ocr-cliche-into-hisher-anus/
331
31
Harvard Converts Millions of Legal Documents into Open Data
http://www.govtech.com/analytics/Harvard-Converts-Millions-of-Legal-Documents-into-Open-Data.html
248
326
Philosophy Has Made Plenty of Progress
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/philosophy-has-made-plenty-of-progress/
115
Engineers Shouldn’t Write ETL
https://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2016/03/16/engineers-shouldnt-write-etl/
239
119
Bussed out: how America moves thousands of homeless people around the country
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/dec/20/bussed-out-america-moves-homeless-people-country-study
229
122
So You Want to Learn Physics (2016)
https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2016/8/13/so-you-want-to-learn-physics
218
151
Apple's T2 chip will prevent hackers from eavesdropping on your microphone
https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/30/apple-t2-security-chip-microphone-eavesdropping/
210
35
GoCity – Code City metaphor for visualizing Go source code
https://go-city.github.io
199
65
Jeri Ellsworth and the Robot Uprising of 2038
http://blog.robertelder.org/jeri-ellsworth-robot-uprising/
184
49
A key ingredient for a universal flu vaccine may come from llamas
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-universal-flu-vaccine-llamas-20181102-story.html
183
Show HN: Above-average products selling for below-average prices
https://www.goodcheapandfast.com
180
52
Show HN: Technical note app that builds a knowledge base
http://monocorpus.com
166
64
Edward Snowden says a report critical to an NSA lawsuit is authentic
https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/03/edward-snowden-nsa-lawsuit-jewel-authentic/
156
125
Academia is a cult?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/academia-is-a-cult/2018/10/31/eea787a0-bd08-11e8-b7d2-0773aa1e33da_story.html?noredirect=on
147
36
How Writers Map Their Imaginary Worlds
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/writers-maps
143
20
More Evidence Points to China as Source of Ozone-Depleting Gas
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/03/climate/china-ozone-cfcs.html
140
Real Progress in Parkinson’s
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2018/11/02/real-progress-in-parkinsons
138
Cemeteries are landfills, and can contain all sorts of pollutants
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cemetery-soil-human-remains
139
28
A List of Recommender Systems and Resources
https://github.com/grahamjenson/list_of_recommender_systems
55
Wired Interviews Bill Gates (1996) [video]
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VFFlO7yBIBM
72
So You Wanna Be a Chef (2010)
http://ruhlman.com/2010/09/so-you-wanna-be-a-chef%E2%80%94-by-bourdain-2/
126
Fred Rogers wouldn't have wanted to appear in a Google ad
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-linn-fred-rogers-google-20181104-story.html
45
Stealing Chrome cookies without a password
https://mango.pdf.zone/stealing-chrome-cookies-without-a-password
124
29
Depends – the missing linker for the JVM
https://github.com/bgard6977/depends
63
EventStore: Open-Source, Functional Database with Complex Event Processing in JS
https://github.com/eventstore/eventstore
117
44
Learning Clojure: comparing with Java streams
https://blog.frankel.ch/learning-clojure/5/
113
41
A Fetus Can Turn to Stone in Its Mother’s Body and Go Undiscovered for Decades
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-a-stone-baby
112
59
Scaling Machine Learning at Uber with Michelangelo
https://eng.uber.com/scaling-michelangelo/
109
Solar storm of 1859
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_of_1859
26
6502 Language Implementation Approaches
https://dwheeler.com/6502/
97
You’re Not Managing a Team of Software Engineers, You’re Managing Writers
https://medium.com/coaching-notes/youre-not-managing-a-team-of-software-engineers-you-re-managing-a-team-of-writers-b263d3a10cc7
91
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Why one of America’s richest states is also its poorest
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2018/10/27/why-one-of-americas-richest-states-is-also-its-poorest
What Minimum-Wage Foes Got Wrong About Seattle
https://www.bloombergquint.com/view/what-minimum-wage-foes-got-wrong-about-seattle#gs.n8hwiG0
Could Solar Radiation Pressure Explain Oumuamua’s Peculiar Acceleration?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.11490