hackerNews

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Lens Blur in the new Google Camera app (googleresearch.blogspot.com)

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Instagram took a username away from a user. Now a Facebook employee owns it (medium.com)

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Ask HN: What source code is worth studying? (item?id=7602237)

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Google's Street View computer vision can beat reCAPTCHA with 99% accuracy (googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com)

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GoDaddy Released My Personal Information to a Spammer Troll (skepchick.org)

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Quantum Entanglement Drives the Arrow of Time (www.simonsfoundation.org)

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Go Performance Tales (jmoiron.net)

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Bertrand Meyer: Those Who Say Code Does Not Matter (cacm.acm.org)

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I wish I could read Wikipedia like this (blog.assaflavie.com)

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I, Pencil (1958) (www.econlib.org)

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Boring Systems Build Badass Businesses (devopsu.com)

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Canadian bill to crack down on illegal downloads has privacy experts worried (news.nationalpost.com)

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Teach yourself proper CSS vocabulary. (pumpula.net)

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Create JavaScript+CSS Interactions With 0 Lines of Code (http://interactions.webflow.com)

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Successful private key extraction from OpenVPN using Heartbleed (item?id=7598616)

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Google's new modular phone may be the last one you will need to buy (www.wired.com)

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The spectre haunting San Francisco (www.economist.com)

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Improve developer habits by showing time cost of DB queries (danbirken.com)

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SigmaVPN: Stateless OpenVPN Replacement Using NaCl Encryption Library (frozenriver.net)

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Coding the Angular Tutorial App in Backbone (blog.42floors.com)

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Chrome Remote Desktop goes mobile (chrome.blogspot.com)

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Confessions of a Full Stack DevOp (www.ansible.com)

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Fear of Macros (www.greghendershott.com)

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The Gut Microbes of African Hunter-Gatherers (www.wired.com)

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Lavabit appeal confirms original ruling (pdfserver.amlaw.com)

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Streem (YC S12) Offers Unlimited Cloud Storage and Streaming for $20/Month (lifehacker.com)

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Railroader's Guide to Healthy Sleep: How to Avoid Sleep Debt (healthysleep.med.harvard.edu)

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For $45 Per Month, All the Coffee You Can Drink (www.businessweek.com)

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Qt Creator 3.1.0 released (blog.qt.digia.com)

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Why We Do All-Hands Support at Olark (www.olark.com)

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Ask HN: If you worked with a grad from a code bootcamp, how effective were they? (item?id=7599475)

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Creating cool maps using R, Deedle and F# type providers (www.clear-lines.com)

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The Science of Scientific Writing (www.americanscientist.org)

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Confessions of a Full Stack DevOp (www.ansible.com)

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Spotify Starts Shutting Down Its Massive P2P Network (torrentfreak.com)

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Bootstrapping 101 – How To Start Your Online Venture With Very Little Capital (www.imgrind.com)

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Microsoft concedes Chromebooks are work-worthy. (www.computerworld.com)

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Google Revenue Jumps, But Misses Forecasts (www.nytimes.com)

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Piston X86-64 Assembler working in web browser and Node.js (pasm.pis.to)

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Heartbleed hack case sees first arrest in Canada (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Soylent gets tested, scores a surprisingly wholesome nutritional label (arstechnica.com)

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Show HN: Forget PR Firms, a tool to pitch relevant reporters yourself. (justreachout.io)

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A Better Battery (Steven Chu as told to James Fallows) (www.theatlantic.com)

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Chris Anderson on drones and open source hardware (blueprint.shoplocket.com)

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When ‘Liking’ a Brand Online Voids the Right to Sue (www.nytimes.com)

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Ruby OpenSSL private key spoofing (seclists.org)

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Generative Impressionism (medium.com)

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WordPress 3.9, "Smith" (www.poststat.us)

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Blackberry had its first good idea in years (www.wired.com)

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Shuffle Sharding: massive and magical fault isolation (www.awsarchitectureblog.com)

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Raising Our $6.5m Series A – Lessons Learned (blog.zumper.com)

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The deal with Dirty Cheap Dirty Boards PCBs (dangerousprototypes.com)

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The Power of the Marginal (2006) (www.paulgraham.com)

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Tor Project Loses 12% of Entry/Exit Bandwidth Because of Heartbleed (lists.torproject.org)

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The Same-Day War: Amazon, Google And Walmart Race To Bring Your Groceries (www.forbes.com)

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Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, Citizens [pdf] (www.princeton.edu)

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The Internet of Things and Humans (radar.oreilly.com)

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Comparing Node.js Promises, Try/Catch, Angular Zone.js and yes, Zone (strongloop.com)

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3D Printer Built 10 Homes in 24 Hours (www.ryot.org)

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Washington, D.C. has some amazing startups http://started.in/dc (dc.started.in)

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Three Things (blog.codinghorror.com)

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Poll: Which JavaScript framework do you use (and why)? (item?id=7600875)

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Agda by Example: Sorting (mazzo.li)

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Startup Banking’s Looming Leviathan (blog.zactownsend.com)

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Show HN: SoundCloud Instant (karan.github.io)

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Learn Sketch 3 (designcode.io)

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Show HN: minicron – a system to manage and monitor cron jobs (github.com)

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Ask HN: Broke up with girlfriend, how to get on track with projects? (item?id=7599808)

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Show HN: Handcrafted standing desks from reclaimed materials (http://woodwardsalvage.com)

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$10,000 dotScale prize for open source projects (dotscale.eu)

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Node.js is Human (jondavidjohn.com)

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RedisMonitor: Free Redis monitoring service (www.redisgreen.net)

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Automatic age progression (arstechnica.com)

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Keeping up with Rust's breaking changes (mail.mozilla.org)

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Nvidia Officially Releases CUDA 6 – Powerful New Features (devblogs.nvidia.com)

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Phasing out certificates of free courseware completion (blog.udacity.com)

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Are JavaScript Linters the Answer? (www.walkercoderanger.com)

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Programming for EFI (www.rodsbooks.com)

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IRS considers taxing work perks like food, gym memberships (www.foxnews.com)

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Show HN: Teach Yourself To Code (http://www.teachyourselftocode.com)

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Show HN: Transparency report for Makerland conference (makerland.org)

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Evan Spiegel 2014 LA Hacks Keynote (blog.snapchat.com)

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Recreational Pot Use Harmful to Young People’s Brains? (time.com)

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Photoshop is killing me when... (photoshopkiller.com)

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Longaccess Wants To Cold-Store Your Digital Life For 30 Years (techcrunch.com)

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Show HN: Pixel Art Editor built with ClojureScript/Om (jackschaedler.github.io)

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A rant-y personal opinion: I hate when people say “Product Guy.” (blog.ellenchisa.com)

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The Twitch Statistics Pipeline, Part 2 (ossareh.posthaven.com)

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Why Yahoo’s Not Going To Steal The Search Default For iPhone Away From Google (searchengineland.com)

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Kim Dotcom gets NZ assets back (www.nzherald.co.nz)

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AT&T Threatens Boycott if TV Airwaves Auction Rules Aren’t Changed (recode.net)

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Rescuing US biomedical research from its systemic flaws (www.pnas.org)

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Announcement of long term support for Debian oldstable (lists.debian.org)

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Reddit mods are censoring dozens of words from r/technology posts (www.dailydot.com)

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Fanfootage.com puts fan shot videos to good use (www.vevo.com)

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The Art of Contributing (blog.assemblymade.com)

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New Hire to First Commit in Minutes (www.lob.com)

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Hoodwinking Windows suckers (www.sdtimes.com)

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Discover the value of every thing you own (http://www.trov.com)

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What would a disruptive bank look like? (jackgavigan.com)

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Can we put an end to this ‘Estimate’ game of fools? (blog.frankel.ch)

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CampaignMonitor raises $250M from Insight Venture Partners (www.campaignmonitor.com)

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Can you easily deploy your Cordova/PhoneGap apps? (ezosaleh.com)

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Mt. Gox Files for Liquidation (online.wsj.com)

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Ask HN: How do you build landing pages quickly (item?id=7599608)

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How I created Airbnb before Airbnb and travelled the world for 10 years (www.adormo.com)

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A Patient’s Bizarre Hallucination Points to How the Brain Identifies Places (www.wired.com)

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Brad Feld: The Silent Killers (2011) (www.feld.com)

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Computer simulations teaching themselves to walk (www.youtube.com)

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Ask HN: What is more valuable, Y Combinator or an internship? (item?id=7601694)

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The most expensive lesson I learned was to start a startup in Europe (pando.com)

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Ask HN: SF vs Amsterdam(NL) for a programmer (item?id=7597816)

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Ask HN: Got rejected this time, here is my application (item?id=7598994)

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U.S. Intelligence Community Supports Sharper Satellite Images (techonomy.com)

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GlaxoSmithKline Investigated for Bribing Doctors (www.sciencebasedmedicine.org)

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Founder of 'Russia's Facebook' Says Government Demanded Ukraine Protestors' Data (mashable.com)

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On raising startups and family (medium.com)

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Amazing CNC Milled Ice Cubes (imgur.com)

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Better Raises $5M To Be Your Personal Health Advocate (techcrunch.com)

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Rescuing Ubuntu One (blog.mover.io)

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Economic Indicators Dashboard (www.russell.com)

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Ask HN: Review my app startup, www.chance.fm (item?id=7601722)

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Ask HN: Do Startup Databases have copyright over the data on their platform? (item?id=7602038)

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Leaked iPhone 6 pics show bigger screen (www.theregister.co.uk)

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Find out more about Iran's Startup scene (medium.com)

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Ask HN: Canadian VPS hosting? (item?id=7602408)

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New “solar thermal fuel” has energy density of lead batteries (arstechnica.com)

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Crazy court decision to ban Uber in Brussels. Show your anger. (ec.europa.eu)

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Ask HN: how do I promote on Hacker News? (item?id=7597754)

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Lavabit Loses Its Appeal For Mucking Up Basic Procedural Issues Early On (www.techdirt.com)

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Six Lessons Learned The Hard Way About Scaling A Million User System (highscalability.com)

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For Young Traders, a Market Where Air Jordans Are Blue Chips (www.nytimes.com)

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The Confidence Gap (www.theatlantic.com)

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A SILICON VALLEY DISASTER: How Clickle Blew Up (www.businessinsider.com)

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Linguistic Researchers Name Nick Szabo as Author of Bitcoin Whitepaper (www.coindesk.com)

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Princeton Study Finds the US Is an Oligarchy, not a Democracy (www.policymic.com)

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Microsoft broken definition update breaks systems running Security Essentials (item?id=7601364)

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Agents in the Ethereum cryptocurrency (gist.io)

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The basics of the InnoDB undo logging and history system (blog.jcole.us)

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Ask HN: Does thread based webservice scale with websockets? (item?id=7601262)

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Learn how to speed up your Hazelcast apps (blog.hazelcast.com)

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Sen Franken looks to recruit Netflix to help kill the Comcast-TWC merger (www.franken.senate.gov)

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MIT designs floating nuclear plants (newsoffice.mit.edu)

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Teespring (YC W13) is hiring for Growth, Full Stack, and PM (item?id=7599186)

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Rescale (YC W12) is looking for a platform software engineer (item?id=7601286)

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