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Rails 4.0: Final version released (weblog.rubyonrails.org)

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Sorry, NSA, Terrorists Don't Use Verizon. Or Skype. Or Gmail. (motherboard.vice.com)

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My Startup has 30 Days to Live (http://mystartuphas30daystolive.tumblr.com)

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2 Senators Say the NSA Is Still Feeding Us False Information (www.theatlantic.com)

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Ask HN: Can we please slow down the stories about Edward Snowden? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Our web development workflow is completely broken (blog.kenneth.io)

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IE11 to support WebGL (microsoft-news.com)

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Snowden distributed encrypted copies of NSA docs around the world (arstechnica.com)

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Don't Even THINK of Using Encryption Software to Escape NSA Scrutiny (www.dailykos.com)

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SSL: Intercepted today, decrypted tomorrow (news.netcraft.com)

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Opt Out of Klout Now (shkspr.mobi)

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NSA Rejection of Digital FOIA (blog.jarrett.io)

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Rails Tutorial for Rails 4.0 (news.railstutorial.org)

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Can Apple read your iMessages? (blog.cryptographyengineering.com)

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How fast can we make interpreted Python? (www.phi-node.com)

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Why the IRS is Targeting Open Source Software Groups (www.motherjones.com)

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HTML5 Genetic Cars (rednuht.org)

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Is Wine Bullshit? (priceonomics.com)

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Understanding the linux filesystem (/etc, /var, /bin, /opt etc.) (www.tldp.org)

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Police ID Man Found In Water: Dr James Martin (bernews.com)

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Copenhagen Suborbitals Successfully Launches Active Guided Rocket (www.arcticstartup.com)

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Why Snowden Asked Visitors in Hong Kong to Refrigerate Their Phones (thelede.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Three Planets in Habitable Zone of Nearby Star (www.eso.org)

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Introducing the Go Race Detector (blog.golang.org)

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Square Market (squareup.com)

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Show HN – Apptimize: A/B testing for native Android, iOS apps (newton.apptimize.com)

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XenServer open sourced (blog.xen.org)

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Manta: Unix Meets Map Reduce (dtrace.org)

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OpenWeatherMap (openweathermap.org)

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Ouya’s $99 Android-based video game console finally hits store shelves (thenextweb.com)

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Animation in AngularJS (gsklee.im)

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We've got 1000s of pages of BAH contracts: Help analyze them (www.muckrock.com)

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TAO: The power of the graph (www.facebook.com)

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The Fallacy of Human Freedom (nationalinterest.org)

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The man who won the right to discuss his National Security Letter (www.onthemedia.org)

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Glenn Greenwald pushes back hard on latest Edward Snowden “revelations” (www.washingtonpost.com)

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The Man With A 'Battery Operated Brain' (www.npr.org)

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Why I am so excited about Clojure (technotzen.wordpress.com)

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Docker joins the Linux Foundation (blog.docker.io)

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HTML5 webcam2gif (hdragomir.github.io)

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Automatically encrypt your gmail account (github.com)

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The War of the Closes (blog.stackoverflow.com)

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Demonizing Snowden: Which Side Are You On? (m.newyorker.com)

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Digg Reader Rollout (blog.digg.com)

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Announcing Microsoft Ventures for startups (blogs.technet.com)

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Clojure Tradeoffs (gtrak.wordpress.com)

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Why do we waste our lives as servants? (maladroit4u.neocities.org)

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Carberp Trojan source code, worth $40,000 underground, has been leaked. (threatpost.com)

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NSA and the Pandora’s box of surveillance (blogs.reuters.com)

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Comment Period for TSA Proposed Nude Body Scanner Rule Ends; 97% Opposed (tsaoutofourpants.wordpress.com)

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Want to Understand Mortality? Look to the Chimps (www.nytimes.com)

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Straightedge and Compass Construction Kit (sciencevsmagic.net)

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Scala Traits (workwithplay.com)

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McDonald's HTML5 promotion site (www.mcdonalds.co.uk)

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Poll: What is your primary programming language? (news.ycombinator.com)

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LA sides with taxi companies, sends cease-and-desists to Lyft, Uber, and Sidecar (www.scpr.org)

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Richard Matheson dies, aged 87 (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Google Consumer Surveys: Measure site satisfaction in real time (www.google.com)

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What It's Really Like To Work At Fab (betashop.com)

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Floobits: collaborative real-time cross-editor text editing (floobits.com)

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Putin: Russia can't turn over Snowden (yle.fi)

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How to prevent your neighbors from stealing your wifi (www.ex-parrot.com)

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27 and never felt better (so-makeshift.tumblr.com)

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Ask HN: Is Facebook secretly keeping accounts open? (news.ycombinator.com)

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How to get advice from powerful people (matchist.com)

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Ask HN: Never worked in a startup before, not sure if this is normal (news.ycombinator.com)

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Contractor Directory BuildZoom (YC W13) Raises $1.4 Million Seed Round (techcrunch.com)

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The Economics of Open-Source (www.sitepoint.com)

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Recruiting Strategy: 100% Bonus Over 10 Years (www.backpocketcoo.com)

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Instagram Video and the Death of Fantasy (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

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The Scarcest Resource at Startups is Management Bandwidth (www.blossom.io)

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Why Snowden's passport being revoked doesn't make it invalid outside US (travel.stackexchange.com)

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How we built our realtime app, Filmgrain, part 1 - the backend (blog.filmgrainapp.com)

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What we learned raising on AngelList (jmlite.tumblr.com)

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Pipe Viewer (www.catonmat.net)

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Use ShowKit to walk your clients through their in-progress iOS apps (blog.showkit.com)

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The United States Wiretapped The Mail Of The European Parliament (falkvinge.net)

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Ask HN: Are my goals realistic? (news.ycombinator.com)

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You're the only one seeing this page (alexiscreuzot.com)

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The TV Apps Economy Will Be A $14 Billion Business (www.forbes.com)

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Show HN- wireLawyer is Linkedin Meets Elance for Lawyers (rockthepost.com)

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The More You Know: JavaScript Loop Performance (jsperf.com)

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Greenwald's partner's laptop was stolen from their Rio home. Nothing else taken. (twitter.com)

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Ask HN: If you were going to blog what platform would you use? (news.ycombinator.com)

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"Please do not be afraid. I am a medical robot" [video] (www.created-to-help-you.com)

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Controversial T-shirt destroys business (money.cnn.com)

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Russia rejects US demand for Snowden's extradition (news.yahoo.com)

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Why Google Glass Will Fail (medium.com)

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Asm.js: now in the release version of Firefox. (blog.mozilla.org)

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Firefox 22 Launches With Built-In Asm.js And WebRTC Support (techcrunch.com)

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CyanogenMod is building secure user-to-user push messaging into their ROM (plus.google.com)

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NSA Claims It Doesn't Track Movements of Cell Phone Users (m.motherjones.com)

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In Va., Tesla Motors has a showroom where it can’t make sales (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Joyent goes big on big-data computing and storage with Manta (gigaom.com)

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A Whistleblower's Argument (Interview with Thomas Drake) (freespeechdebate.com)

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Node server for dynamic, fake JSON (webpro.github.io)

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Greenwald: Snowden’s Files Are Out There if “Anything Happens” To Him (www.thedailybeast.com)

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What Snowden Has Revealed So Far (www.forbes.com)

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Is it time to drop jQuery? (toddmotto.com)

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Hacker School: Where students and instructors learn together (mashable.com)

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Three Planets in Habitable Zone of Nearby Star -- Gliese 667c (www.sciencedaily.com)

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Lobbyists wanted NSA-like spying for reasons unrelated to terrorism (www.reddit.com)

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OFF Pocket: A privacy case for mobile phones (offpocket.com)

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Ask HN: Why wouldn't you hire a programming boot camp graduate? (news.ycombinator.com)

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RubyKaigi: Making a Japanese Conference Accessible to the World (patshaughnessy.net)

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Advanced Bovine Depilation (blogs.burnsidedigital.com)

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$99 Ouya (Open Source Game Console) Retailed Today ... Sold Out Today (www.forbes.com)

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The chilling effects of surveillance (www.aljazeera.com)

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Don't Specialize (desmondrawls.com)

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How A Great Google Workplace Turned Into A 'Nightmare' (www.businessinsider.com)

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Steve Wozniak: Snowden ‘Is a Hero Because This Came From His Heart’ (www.thedailybeast.com)

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Show HN: Make your AngularJS, EmberJS, or BackboneJS website crawlable by Google (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: is finding an idea a major bottleneck for you? (news.ycombinator.com)

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In 30 days, my startup will be be dead (mystartuphas30daystolive.tumblr.com)

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IRS was targeting open source groups (www.vartmp.com)

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Machine learning classifier gallery (home.comcast.net)

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Digg Reader is now open (techcrunch.com)

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The Myth of the Cool Office (www.theatlanticwire.com)

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Show HN - Gifft, My first app. Built with Phonegap and AngularJS (gifft.co)

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Is this the public key for Edward Snowden? (plus.google.com)

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The Rise of the Minimalist Workout (well.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Stop looking for D3 developers (benbonfil.com)

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Whistleblowers will continue to leak state secrets, warns AP chief (www.guardian.co.uk)

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Ask HN: How Would Your Market My SAAS Web App? (news.ycombinator.com)

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When can you legally travel without a passport? (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Optimizing memory usage in Python: a case study (guillaume.segu.in)

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Air Pollution May Have Suppressed Storms, Research Suggests (www.nytimes.com)

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Hello, Manta: Bringing Unix to Big Data (www.joyent.com)

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Stats on how the .01% dominate elections (www.motherjones.com)

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Show HN: A slick online TV for watching live with friends (http://www.xylocast.com)

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Marathon Everyman (www.slate.com)

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Ask HN: What is your startup email solution? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Startup co-founder survival tips (blog.stereotypes.fm)

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Our misplaced obsession with simplicity (www.drdobbs.com)

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I don’t think President Obama is here tonight, but I’m sure he’s listening in. (rt.com)

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Ouya Gaming Console Already Sold Out (mashable.com)

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Q&A: NSA's Prism Internet surveillance scheme (www.bbc.co.uk)

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National Security Agency takes surveillance fact sheets off website (www.politico.com)

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Canadian Hacker School Goes Dark After Government Probe (www.wired.com)

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Debunking Myths About Highly-Skilled Immigration and the Global Race for Talent (blogs.hbr.org)

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PEP 8: Why is the character limit 79 and not 80? (www.reddit.com)

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The New McCarthyism? (medium.com)

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The Future of Internet & Cars (venturefizz.com)

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The house in London that is a 3D illusion [video] (www.bbc.co.uk)

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The Play Framework at LinkedIn (www.slideshare.net)

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Anglo-Saxon Spies: German National Security Is at Stake (www.spiegel.de)

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DropMeme: The Fastest Way to Create Your Memes, Trolls, and Other LOL’s (http://dropmeme.com)

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Berkshelf & The Application Cookbook Pattern (red-badger.com)

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Would you save a puppy or a child from a burning building? (www.psychologytoday.com)

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Meet Potluck, a new product from Obvious-backed Branch (medium.com)

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Dropbox CEO Shares Screenshot Of The Moment Dropbox Raised First $1 Million (www.fastcompany.com)

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Rape and Porn – Will Censorship Make a Difference? (beachsideblues.com)