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Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus $3B in RSUs (techcrunch.com)

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AI (blog.samaltman.com)

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Your Path to a $16B exit? Build a J2ME App (blog.textit.in)

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The future of Fiber (fiber.google.com)

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10 Questions People Ask When I Tell Them I Own an Airplane (www.fivezeromike.com)

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“Facebook turned me down” (2009) (twitter.com)

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I don't know, Timmy, being God is a big responsibility (qntm.org)

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Redesigned Python.org (www.python.org)

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Numbers That Explain Why Facebook Acquired WhatsApp (sequoiacapital.tumblr.com)

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Life of Brian (www.hackerfactor.com)

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How I was able to track the location of any Tinder user (blog.includesecurity.com)

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Steve Jobs threatened Palm’s CEO, court documents reveal (pando.com)

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UK Court: David Miranda Detention Legal Under Terrorism Law (firstlook.org)

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Making ActiveRecord 2x faster (tenderlovemaking.com)

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This App Trains You to See Farther (www.popularmechanics.com)

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Canonical announces first partners to ship Ubuntu phones around the globe (insights.ubuntu.com)

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Facebook (blog.whatsapp.com)

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F.C.C. to Try Again on Net Neutrality (www.nytimes.com)

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How Microryza Acquired the Domain Experiment.com (priceonomics.com)

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Cool Git Intro/Summary/Refresher (rogerdudler.github.io)

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Steve Perlman's Amazing Wireless Machine Is Finally Here (www.businessweek.com)

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk confirms talks with Apple (www.bloomberg.com)

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Ukraine protests: Before and after photos from Kiev's battle zone (www.abc.net.au)

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Aereo loses copyright fight, gets banned in 6 states (arstechnica.com)

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Tesla Beats In Q4 With Adjusted Revenues Of $761M (techcrunch.com)

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Costs of a PostgreSQL connection (hans.io)

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The Powerlessness of Positive Thinking (www.newyorker.com)

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Software Startups Get JetBrains Tools at 50% Off (blog.jetbrains.com)

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Google I/O announced for June 25-26 (plus.google.com)

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How Long Does Mass Extinction Take? (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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Feed some real fish via this web app (www.aquard.io)

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A probabilistic model of prime numbers, based on network theory (arxiv.org)

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HP today begins charging for firmware updates and service packs for servers (www.zdnet.com)

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A Fervent Defense of Frequentist Statistics (lesswrong.com)

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Show HN: ThreesJS – iOS game Threes for the browser (threes.meteor.com)

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San Francisco Startup ZenPayroll Raises $20M, Finds Novel Ways to Lure Workers (blogs.wsj.com)

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MtGox's Bitcoin price drops to $260 (others at $600+) (www.mtgox.com)

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Nokia Treasure Tag: Never lose your valuables again (conversations.nokia.com)

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Comparison of C/Posix standard library implementations for Linux (www.etalabs.net)

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The 10x Engineer and Delegated Responsibility (ianlotinsky.wordpress.com)

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Heap's new interface for analytics: clicking around your site (blog.heapanalytics.com)

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Great Algorithms that Revolutionized Computing (en.docsity.com)

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Can Quiet, Efficient 'Space Elevators' Really Work? (www.space.com)

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PH7 – An Embedded Implementation of PHP (C Library) (github.com)

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ZenPayroll Raises $20M From General Catalyst And Kleiner At $100M+ Valuation (techcrunch.com)

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Google Cloud SQL now available with an SLA, 500 GB databases, and encryption (googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com)

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University of Maryland Data Breach (www.umd.edu)

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The Rags-To-Riches Tale Of WhatsApp's Jan Koum (www.forbes.com)

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Bored at your desk? Kill a few mins by feeding some real fish online (thenextweb.com)

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Facebook Stock Falls 5% in After-Hours Trading Following WhatsApp Announcement (techcrunch.com)

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Why Companies Should Buy From Startups (blog.simplelegal.com)

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Incoming ‘Moby Dick' asteroid goes missing near Earth (www.newscientist.com)

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Git: how to use stash (softwarecave.org)

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WebSID (www.igorski.nl)

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Drp.io: Fast and easy images hosting (http://drp.io)

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Wikipedia-size maths proof too big for humans to check (www.newscientist.com)

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How Bitcoins Involved in Crime Can Be Seized by the Feds (businessweek.com)

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Did The 900-Pound Gorilla Just Vanquish Your Startup Or Validate It? (onstartups.com)

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Beyond Slush, Strays and Stalin: An Alternative Sochi Story (www.lifelisted.com)

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Overthinking Design (www.smallhq.com)

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Software Startups Get draw.io at 100% off (plus.google.com)

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Crowdfunding Campaigns Built With Crowdhoster (blog.crowdtilt.com)

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Tech Protester in Kiev Badly Beaten, Journalist Killed, As ‘IT Tent’ Is Burned (techcrunch.com)

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Helloworld program in 100+ langauges (github.com)

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3D-printed exoskeleton helps paralyzed skier walk again (news.cnet.com)

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WhatsApp founder rejected by Twitter and...Facebook (uncrunched.com)

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Why Selling WhatsApp To Facebook Would Be The Biggest Mistake (2012) (www.forbes.com)

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Sad News: Jim Weirich (author of Rake and Builder) passed away (twitter.com)

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How designers can create interactive prototypes with Illustrator (tomgermeau.com)

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The Evolution of CS Papers (tagide.com)

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The Evolution of CS Papers (tagide.com)

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The Economics of Doomsday Survival (www.smartasset.com)

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Why buying whatsapp is GENIUS and Google must be shit scared (softwaretalk.wordpress.com)

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Ask HN: My industry's becoming commoditised and I'm scared (item?id=7263425)

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Facebook Is Buying Whatsapp For $16 Billion (www.businessinsider.com)

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Ask HN: What is your hackathon or weekend project software stack? (item?id=7265891)

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Jan Koum – the man behind Whatsapp (www.forbes.com)

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The username is a relic. Here is how to fix it (www.wired.com)

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My open source social networking protocol and companion iOS app released today (postcardsocial.net)

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And this, too, shall pass away ... (item?id=7266891)

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Bitcoin Exchange Prices Plummet as Investors Brace for Bankruptcy (www.wired.com)

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Show HN: Hubbble – A weekly email of links you favorite on Twitter (http://hubbble.co)

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Facebook engineering manager of privacy doing an AMA (www.reddit.com)

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Food Crises: Predictive validation of a quantitative model of food prices (necsi.edu)

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Show HN: iOS SDK to live-stream app to any web browser (built at PennApps s2014) (fuckitstreamit.com)

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Facebook to target flood victims with volunteer help (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Starbucks and The Economist Admit To Using Google+ For SEO More Than Social (searchengineland.com)

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How our economy works (and doesn't work), in words and pictures (economixcomix.com)

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New Tinder Security Flaw Exposed Users' Exact Locations for Months (www.businessweek.com)

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Department of Homeland Security cancels national license-plate tracking plan (www.washingtonpost.com)

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The real reason Facebook just paid almost 10% of its market cap for WhatsApp (pando.com)

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Germany Considers Counterespionage Against US (www.spiegel.de)

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The Semicolon Is the Perfect Punctuation for the Digital Age (observer.com)

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Easy, but easy to f*ck up. 3 Rules to Setup Analytics Tools correctly (klinger.io)

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Startups Interviews Turn Hackers Off (medium.com)

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Features tell, but benefits sell (www.helpscout.net)

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Startups Interviews Turn Hackers Off (medium.com)

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How to piss off, demoralize, and demotivate your team (dandreamsofcoding.com)

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Google offered to pay WhatsApp to be notified of buyout talks but was rebuffed (www.theinformation.com)

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Show HN: What to use instead of WhatsApp (threema.ch)

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Ask HN: Which newsletters are you subscribed to? (item?id=7263069)

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Monadic futures in Java 8 (zeroturnaround.com)

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Weave (YC W14) Launches To Bring Modern Telecom To SMBs (techcrunch.com)

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Ask HN: Need help from outside in establishing initial equity picture (item?id=7265449)

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Should I write unit tests? Yes and I’ll tell you why. (blog.hubstaff.com)

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Wildfire forecast from your mobile device (crowdprocess.com)

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Fleet by CoreOS, a distributed init system built on etcd and systemd (github.com)

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Ask HN: How to create a fake identity? (item?id=7266063)

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Libtorque: Event library for manycore, heterogenous, NUMA Unix systems (nick-black.com)

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A Rant on Redis (www.roguelazer.com)

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Voynich manuscript partially decoded by Bedfordshire professor (www.beds.ac.uk)

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Git is a Directed Acyclic Graph (smangelsdorf.github.io)

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Ask HN: Do you Consider Life to be Futile (item?id=7268995)

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Things we can't compute (www.alexstjohn.com)

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Google Cloud SQL now available with an SLA, 500GB databases, and encryption (googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com.es)

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Ask HN: Good math books / activities for children? (item?id=7263507)

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Clever Ways Online Marketers Use Consumer Surveys (survata.com)

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On-Demand Food Startup SpoonRocket Brings Its $6 Meals To San Francisco (techcrunch.com)

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Bitcoin ATM arrives in Boston (www.boston.com)

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Part 2: Redesigning the United Flight Search in Photoshop (nathanbarry.com)

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Microsoft Officially Rebrands SkyDrive To OneDrive (techcrunch.com)

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ObjectIdColumns: Transparently Store MongoDB BSON IDs in a RDBMS (swiftype.com)

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Sit More, And You're More Likely To Be Disabled After Age 60 (www.npr.org)

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With Funding From BMW And Khosla Ventures, InstantCab Rebrands As Summon (techcrunch.com)

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Our Decadent Elites (blogs.wsj.com)

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The minority report: Chicago's new police computer predicts crimes (www.theverge.com)

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Facebook turned down WhatsApp co-founder for a job in 2009 (thenextweb.com)

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Winkdex – Dynamic bitcoin index (winkdex.com)

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Ask HN: Recommendations on Chat Application (item?id=7267226)

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Ask HN: WhatsApp for $16B.... What for Tesla? (item?id=7267016)

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Putin on the Ritz (www.hackerfactor.com)

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Ask HN: Do you have a dropshipping ecommerce? (item?id=7263194)

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Cluster-Level Container Deployment with fleet (coreos.com)

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How Developing SPA Influenced Me and My Code (netguru.co)

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EBook Review: Python High Performance Programming (www.blog.pythonlibrary.org)

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Show HN: BlazingX.com – 1000 Glass Inspired Ideas (http://www.blazingx.com)

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Yandex Offers Fee-Free Android Firmware Kit So OEMs Can Ditch Google Services (techcrunch.com)

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Ask HN: Legal/IP implications of freely offered coding? (item?id=7265149)

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Is pCell the Holy Grail of wireless networking? | Mobile – CNET News (news.cnet.com)

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Hazelcast Introduces MapReduce API (www.infoq.com)

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Can 'Robotic' Pills Replace Injections? (online.wsj.com)

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Analysis of Hired – The Marketplace Where Tech Companies Compete to Hire You (www.telegraphresearch.com)

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Facebook is buying WhatsApp for $16 billion (www.theverge.com)

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DBAs will be left behind in the NoSQL/DBaaS world if they cannot adapt (orchestrate.io)

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Facebook Is Buying Huge Messenger App Whatsapp For $16 Billion (www.businessinsider.com)

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Enabling Java in Latency Sensitive Environments (www.infoq.com)

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The Super Desk [video] (devour.com)

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D3 and React – the future of charting components? (10consulting.com)

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Startups in Oakland (hackpad.com)

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Facebook To Buy WhatsApp For $19B (www.forbes.com)

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Jan Koum: "People starting companies for a quick sale are a disgrace..." [2012] (twitter.com)

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Tear apart my consulting page (item?id=7269069)

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Interested in remote? Grouper is hiring Rubyists (item?id=7264192)

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Segment.io is looking for a lead platform engineer (item?id=7265550)

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Rescale is looking for a platform software engineer (item?id=7267366)

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