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Open-plan offices make employees less productive, less happy, and more sick (qz.com)

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Linux To Become Exclusive OS Of The International Space Station (www.redorbit.com)

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How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time on GitHub (2008) (tom.preston-werner.com)

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HTML5 Features you need to know (daker.me)

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Four Steps to Google, Without a Degree (medium.com)

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Google defence of proprietary messaging technology is innacurate and misinformed (plus.google.com)

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Poll: long-term contractors, what is your hourly rate (news.ycombinator.com)

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Getting a job in San Francisco (blog.penso.info)

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Want to help the poor and transform your economy? Give people cash. (chrisblattman.com)

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Tarsnap: Online backups for the truly paranoid (http://www.tarsnap.com)

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What does O(log n) mean, exactly? (stackoverflow.com)

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Use Google Analytics on your blog? Check your bounce rate (drawingablank.me)

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Zero.rs: runtime-less Rust programs (github.com)

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Perl Cannot Be Parsed: A Formal Proof (www.perlmonks.org)

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Dear Dumb VC (medium.com)

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Unsupervised Feature Learning and Deep Learning Tutorial (ufldl.stanford.edu)

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The Art of Finding Anyone’s Email Addresses (www.lifeaftercubes.com)

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As Populist as it May Feel, 98% of VCs Aren’t Dumb (www.bothsidesofthetable.com)

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Game designer designs a game for 2,000 years from now, hides it in desert (www.polygon.com)

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ANNOUNCE: Xorg-free Wayland Live CD that starts directly to Wayland (lists.freedesktop.org)

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Is the FBI dumb, evil, or just incompetent? (techcrunch.com)

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Ask HN: I'm an engineer, how do I learn design? (news.ycombinator.com)

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I Built This AK-47. It's Legal and Totally Untraceable (www.motherjones.com)

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The Mozilla Manifesto (www.mozilla.org)

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Clojure in the Field [InfoQ] (www.infoq.com)

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SICP distilled (www.programming-musings.org)

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Google’s Polymer and the future of web UI frameworks (www.2ality.com)

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The cult of design dictatorship (alexcabal.com)

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A look at some of Python's useful itertools (naiquevin.github.io)

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Google Glass in 10 years: the view from dystopia (pandodaily.com)

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How to burn $20 on Twitter with $10 real CPC (news.ycombinator.com)

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Project Pluto (www.merkle.com)

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You’re Too Cheap to Fly Faster (medium.com)

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Language Design Deal Breakers (sebastiansylvan.wordpress.com)

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Should String Be An Abstract Class? (appsandsecurity.blogspot.com)

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Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (en.wikipedia.org)

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How To Get Your Conference Talk Accepted (chadfowler.com)

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Thoughts on Matasano Security’s Critique of Javascript Cryptography (log.nadim.cc)

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PyGreen – The Simplest Static Web Site Generator Ever For Python Programmers (butterflyprogramming.neoname.eu)

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PhD vs Startup (hernan.amiune.com)

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Implementing a BTree in Haskell with GADT's (matthew.brecknell.net)

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How To Find A Technical Co-Founder (girdley.com)

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Shocking response from Facebook about request to remove this offensive page (twitter.com)

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“Why are you using Node.js rather than PHP?” (sparklinlabs.com)

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Elon Musk: thinking of producing sequel to Thank You for Smoking; for the planet (twitter.com)

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Version Control and Higher Education (medium.com)

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Show HN: Fast DOM manipulation with jQuery-like syntax (github.com)

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In Media, Big Data Is Booming but Big Results Are Lacking (allthingsd.com)

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Blogging and the Paralysis of Choice (www.mikeperham.com)

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The Magic of the Brain Dump (blog.attendmind.com)

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Design for Programmers (derekmyers.com)

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Game designer evolves game with AI, and buries it for play 2700 years from now (boingboing.net)

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[Ask HN]Please, advice: what to do next in my career? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Microsoft ignored tip that it botched browser choice in Windows 7 SP1 (2012) (www.computerworld.com)

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Taking Career Risks in Your Twenties (kevinchau.org)

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Better Place to file for bankruptcy (finance.fortune.cnn.com)

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Ask HN: leaving a company in silicon valley. (news.ycombinator.com)

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Show HN: What do you think of this short End User Licensing Agreement? (pastebin.com)

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How Not to Pitch to a Startup (www.particletree.com)

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Boost VC Launches Bitcoin Fund and Accelerator Program (onbitcoins.com)

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Ask HN: Poll for long-term contractors, what is your hourly rate? (news.ycombinator.com)

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A Backbone.Marionette tutorial [2012] (davidsulc.com)

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The making of a 4k demoscene production (erleuchtet.org)

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Petition to the European Union ("Citizen initiative") for Basic Income (basicincome2013.eu)

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Addicted to Twitter (dpearson.me)

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Why Tumblr Was a Massive Steal for Yahoo (allthingsd.com)

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How the smartphone killed the three-day weekend (redtape.nbcnews.com)

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Eric Schmidt interview: 'You have to fight for your privacy or you will lose it (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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ClojureScript's persistent data structures in vanilla JavaScript (github.com)

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Show HN: A CRM built on Google Drive (http://spreadsheetcrm.com)

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Ask HN: Can’t we define a new e-mail standard with Facebook’s features? (news.ycombinator.com)

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The First Image Ever of a Hydrogen Atom's Orbital Structure (io9.com)

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With Gorgeous Dorms But Little Cash, Colleges Must Adapt (www.npr.org)

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Debating How to Market an iPhone App (boss.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Google defends its use of proprietary tech in Hangouts (www.techhive.com)

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Obama's Gitmo Problem (www.nytimes.com)

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Across U.S. Companies, Tax Rates Vary Greatly (www.nytimes.com)

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My Language Design Deal Breakers (sebastiansylvan.wordpress.com)

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Ask HN: Do you write unit tests at your startup? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Leaving Behind the Digital Keys to Financial Lives (www.nytimes.com)

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Poll: What mobile OS do you use? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Screen vs. tmux faceoff (www.youtube.com)

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GCC 4.8.0 vs. LLVM Clang 3.3 Compiler Performance Three-Way (www.phoronix.com)

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How Are Google's Street Maps Recorded? (science.opposingviews.com)

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Leaving Behind the Digital Keys to Financial Lives (www.nytimes.com)

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Improving OCaml's inlining (www.ocamlpro.com)

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How I learned Ruby on Rails (devops.rackspace.com)

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Wikipaintings, programmers need some great paints. (www.wikipaintings.org)

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AMD’s Jaguar Architecture: powering the PS4 and XBOX One, Kabini & Temash (www.anandtech.com)

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Myth: Scaling is a good problem to have (www.intelliot.com)

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An Interview with a Dead Man (www.newscientist.com)

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Logo Evolution of 25 Famous Brands (www.hongkiat.com)

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Ask HN: Is there ToS and Privacy Policy for HN? (news.ycombinator.com)

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WikiHouse's DIY kits are the open-source way to build a house (www.wired.co.uk)

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We aren’t born anything. (benyu.org)

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Ask HN: Should I take unexperienced Android devs that work for free? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Schmidt: Teens' mistakes will never go away (news.cnet.com)

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How to check if your wordpress site is undeContent-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8 X-Powered-By: Mojolicious (Perl) Status: 200 OK 1r bruteforce attack (www.slashgeek.net)

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What I learned today: It's not worth it. (medium.com)

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