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2

What it’s like to work for Stripe (blog.alexmaccaw.com)

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Add two-factor authentication to your ssh in 30 seconds (blog.authy.com)

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How I cracked my neighbor's WiFi password without breaking a sweat (arstechnica.com)

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Damn Cool Algorithms: Homomorphic Hashing (blog.notdot.net)

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Rich Hickey: Deconstructing the Database (youtu.be)

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Poor in India Starve as Politicians Steal $14.5 Billion of Food (www.bloomberg.com)

221 points first seen 2012082921 last seen 2012083106 170 comments

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HTML5 Boilerplate v4.0.0 (html5boilerplate.com)

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PG: The Art of Funding a Startup is now free on Amazon (www.amazon.com)

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Don’t drink the startup Kool-Aid – just find a problem and try to solve it (venturevillage.eu)

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IBM unveils z-series with 5.5 GHz CPU and hardware transactional memory. (www-03.ibm.com)

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HBO No Go (www.avc.com)

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Firefox 15 available to download, finally fixes add-on memory leak (www.extremetech.com)

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Jury foreman says Apple patents valid due to different processor architecture (news.ycombinator.com)

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Mailgun (YC W11) is being acquired by Rackspace (blog.mailgun.net)

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Show HN: A versioned filesystem inspired by Git (github.com)

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Firefox 15 arrives, supports compressed textures for impressive 3D gaming (arstechnica.com)

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New Default WordPress Theme: Twenty Twelve (en.blog.wordpress.com)

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8 Linux Commands Every Developer Should Know (blog.jayfields.com)

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The Talented Ms. Hornstein: How Shirls Fooled The Valley (techcrunch.com)

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Doctor Who goes back in time to beat TV pirates (paidcontent.org)

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1 million accounts leaked in megahack on banks, websites (www.theregister.co.uk)

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Major Labels Claim Copyright Over Public Domain Songs; YouTube Punishes Musician (www.techdirt.com)

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Break Apart Your Backbone.js Render Methods (ianstormtaylor.com)

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The email boilerplate for sending out nicely formatted messages (github.com)

82 points first seen 2012082921 last seen 2012083100 22 comments

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The Iraqi who Saved Norway from Oil (www.npr.org)

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IBM creating pocket-sized Watson in $16 billion sales push (www.kurzweilai.net)

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Javascript Tips for Non-Specialists (omniti.com)

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AMD reveals Steamroller CPU architecture details (techreport.com)

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New Actionscript compiler from Adobe (www.bytearray.org)

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Craigslist is on board: OpenStreetMap soars to new heights (arstechnica.com)

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Rackspace acquires Mailgun (YC W11) (techcrunch.com)

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Nodester acquired by AppFog (blog.nodester.com)

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BBC iPlayer for Kindle (Cool Hack) (www.frisnit.com)

61 points first seen 2012082900 last seen 2012082921 14 comments

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Zynga creative chief quits (online.wsj.com)

61 points first seen 2012082918 last seen 2012083006 43 comments

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The Sad State of the Startup Pitch (bryce.vc)

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The Siege of Academe: Silicon Valley's fight to disrupt higher education (www.washingtonmonthly.com)

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AppFog acquires Nodester (blog.appfog.com)

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The Andreessen Horowitz Effect (techonomy.com)

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BananaBread: 3D first person shooter game compiled to JS+WebGL (developer.mozilla.org)

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The 11th Principle of Good Design (blog.wells.ee)

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American Houses Are Still Much, Much Bigger Than They Used To Be (www.npr.org)

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25

Takeaways from three years of angel investing (www.gabrielweinberg.com)

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How Copyrights Ruined the Olympics and What You Can Learn From It (blog.kunvay.com)

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Play mario to navigate this website (www.concetto.co.in)

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Skypipe : a cloud based named pipe (klaig.blogspot.be)

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How Long Will You Need to Save to Buy a Home In Your City? (www.theatlanticcities.com)

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Drugged artist paints 8600 self-portraits (www.theage.com.au)

38 points first seen 2012082918 last seen 2012083003 10 comments

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RESTful Web Service in Go Powered by the Google App Engine (www.drdobbs.com)

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12 Interesting C Interview Questions and Answers (www.thegeekstuff.com)

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The quest for the perfect Linux distribution: an ongoing journey (rainbowtux.blogspot.it)

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Busted: elegant unit testing for Lua (olivinelabs.com)

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Azure Mobile Services launched: A Cloud Backend For Mobile Apps (techcrunch.com)

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NightPro.co a SaaS for the nightlife industry launches out of Miami Fl. (http://nightpro.co)

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US sanctions lock Iranian gamers out of World of Warcraft (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Exercise Does Not Make You Less Depressed (www.bmj.com)

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The Bain Capital Files (www.avc.com)

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The Untouchable Economy: Why Americans Are Turning Against 'Stuff' (www.theatlantic.com)

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Mailgun is being acquired by Rackspace (blog.mailgun.net)

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Can Technology Redefine Detroit? (www.growdetroit.com)

28 points first seen 2012082903 last seen 2012082906 54 comments

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Show HN: I'm bootstrapping my company and this is my first product. Thoughts? (http://www.myminutesapp.com)

28 points first seen 2012082906 last seen 2012082912 42 comments

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Show HN: Klaviyo - a new kind of CRM (not just for sales) (www.klaviyo.com)

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Inside the original Facebook house (money.cnn.com)

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Apple is bigger by market cap than Microsoft, Google, Amazon & Facebook combined (thenextweb.com)

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Open source author pulls code after GPL abuse (www.theregister.co.uk)

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Bookshelf Porn (bookshelfporn.com)

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Legal warning in under 6 hours after launch (blog.skierkowski.com)

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IBM patents runtime code replacement in web applications (www.freepatentsonline.com)

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The first photos of Mars taken by Curiosity's 'main' 34 and 100mm cameras (www.extremetech.com)

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A TCP Port Scanner in Bash (www.catonmat.net)

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F-Droid: The Android Market That Respects Your Rights (www.thepowerbase.com)

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What Facebook's New Campus Design Tells Us About the Company (www.theatlanticcities.com)

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YC RFS: Things Built on Twitter [2009] (ycombinator.com)

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Apple-Samsung case is 'far from over' (money.cnn.com)

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Ask HN: Would you pay for a 24/7 "sysadmin as a service"? (news.ycombinator.com)

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63

Google Consumer Surveys Election Center (www.google.com)

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Tom Knight, Godfather Of Synthetic Biology, On How To Learn Something New (www.fastcompany.com)

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How to Reinvigorate and Refocus Your Business (www.thedailymuse.com)

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Is Android doomed in the wake of the Apple v. Samsung verdict? Not a chance (www.bgr.com)

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How Apple killed the Linux desktop (edition.cnn.com)

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Interview with Tumult Co-Founder Ryan Nielsen – a Y Combinator startup (howtowriteabusinessplan.com)

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Bill Buxton (MS Research): Multi-Touch Systems that I Have Known (1982) (www.billbuxton.com)

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A Brief Tour of Factual’s Machine Learning Pipeline (blog.factual.com)

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IBM working on Watson app for smartphones (www.extremetech.com)

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Mindscape pre-sells Windows 8 controls with unique pricing promotion (www.mindscapehq.com)

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Announcing Windows Azure Mobile Services (weblogs.asp.net)

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Windows 8 Secure Boot May turn tables on Microsoft Says Developer (paritynews.com)

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Ask HN: Does HN move too fast? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Samsung copies Apple's OS X dock (www.cultofmac.com)

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Twitter's Legal Battle: Who Owns Your Tweets? (www.cnbc.com)

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How one man is bringing VoIP, Net access where telecoms fear to tread (arstechnica.com)

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ASK PG : Reason for not using gzipping on Hacker News content? (news.ycombinator.com)

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HTML Responsive Images Extension - W3C Draft (dvcs.w3.org)

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Generating nodejs server from Swagger specification (github.com)

6 points first seen 2012082906 last seen 2012082906 2 comments

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PandorAmp - The first Open Source Stereo Vacuum Tube Amp (www.kickstarter.com)

6 points first seen 2012082912 last seen 2012082915 0 comments

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Specification style and the future of the Web (dbaron.org)

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Ask HN: What would you do? Unpaid invoice (news.ycombinator.com)

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The incredible story of the first PC, from 1965 (royal.pingdom.com)

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Do you know HTML5? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Startup brings browser-toolbar crapware to Safari, Maps and other iOS built-ins (allthingsd.com)

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Persistent cannabis users show neuropsychological decline (www.pnas.org)

5 points first seen 2012082906 last seen 2012082909 2 comments

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Chrome style tabs in Windows explorer [Productivity Boost] (lifehacker.com)

5 points first seen 2012082906 last seen 2012082906 0 comments

83

MFA for Rails apps using the Google Authenticator (github.com)

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Samsung brings back the Start Menu in Windows 8 with S-Launcher (www.winbeta.org)

5 points first seen 2012082909 last seen 2012082912 0 comments

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Optimizing Sales for Happiness (github.com)

5 points first seen 2012082912 last seen 2012082915 0 comments

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Should Your Company Just Say "No" To Dropbox? (www.readwriteweb.com)

5 points first seen 2012082918 last seen 2012082921 2 comments

78

Anatomy of a Crushing [2011] (blog.pinboard.in)

5 points first seen 2012082918 last seen 2012082921 0 comments

80

Debunking A Misconception About Firefox Releases (blog.mozilla.org)

5 points first seen 2012082921 last seen 2012083000 0 comments

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Patterns In App Store Reviews (appbot.co)

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A $17 Million Round We All Missed (pandodaily.com)

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Phising by Data URI (klevjers.com)

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Stupeflix video maker passes 10 million videos, cuts price by 50% (thenextweb.com)

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0

IBM's new mainframe aimed at assimilating "private clouds" (arstechnica.com)

4 points first seen 2012082906 last seen 2012082906 0 comments

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Java 0-day exploit code, prevention explained (geeknizer.com)

4 points first seen 2012082906 last seen 2012082906 0 comments

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“There are more mobile phones in Uganda than light bulbs” (thenextweb.com)

4 points first seen 2012082906 last seen 2012082906 0 comments

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New Megaupload Will Change the World (torrentfreak.com)

4 points first seen 2012082906 last seen 2012082906 4 comments

0

Ask HN: Anybody using only OmniAuth for authentication? (news.ycombinator.com)

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80

New quad-core Intel Atom SoCs target PCs, servers, and tablets (arstechnica.com)

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85

A Guide to Raising a Seed Round (bretthard.in)

4 points first seen 2012082909 last seen 2012082912 0 comments

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Video Games journalism class debuts at University of Iowa (jimromenesko.com)

4 points first seen 2012082909 last seen 2012082909 0 comments

0

My DIY SEO success story (www.chrisbell.eu)

4 points first seen 2012082909 last seen 2012082909 0 comments

89

A ruby gem for fantasy football data (www.tablexi.com)

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83

Show HN: Malcolm, a Persistent XMPP/Gtalk Chatroom (github.com)

4 points first seen 2012082915 last seen 2012082918 0 comments

0

Fixing recruitment: Whatever happened to transparency? (www.dragonflylist.com)

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0

Is US Economic Growth Over? Faltering Innovation Confronts the Six Headwinds (av.r.ftdata.co.uk)

4 points first seen 2012082915 last seen 2012082915 0 comments

0

The emergence of “platform first” (bijansabet.com)

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0

Trade: IPHONE CODING for a ride in an ASTON MARTIN (plus.google.com)

4 points first seen 2012082921 last seen 2012082921 0 comments

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A Start-Up Tries to Prepare Students to Work in Start-Ups (boss.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Online University For All Balances Big Goals, Expensive Realities (www.npr.org)

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So You Want to Be an App Developer? Here's How (infographic) (mashable.com)

3 points first seen 2012082900 last seen 2012082900 0 comments

0

How to get C like performance in Java (blog.jelastic.com)

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How to use adwords effectively (assets.singly.com)

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0

Craigslist rolling out a PadMapper clone (gizmodo.com)

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1

What Happens to Stolen Bicycles? (blog.priceonomics.com)

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Five Traits of User Onboarding Craftsmen (www.guynirpaz.com)

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0

The iRobot Q&A: Colin Angle on the Next Robotics Inflection Point (www.xconomy.com)

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0

2012 Q2: Software Engineering Salaries in Silicon Valley (rivierapartners.com)

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How the Apple-Samsung case could push OEMs closer to Google and stock Android (www.extremetech.com)

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Just Because Some Tweets Are Public Doesn't Mean Our Users Have No Privacy (www.techdirt.com)

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Setting up automated builds for Open Source iOS (coderwall.com)

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First, Fire Thyself (techcrunch.com)