hackerNews

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The absurdity of LinkedIn (blog.42floors.com)

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Stripe Open-Source Retreat (stripe.com)

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No Exit (www.wired.com)

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The Story Of Larry Page's Comeback (www.businessinsider.com)

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The Case Against ISP Tolls (blog.netflix.com)

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Google+ Head Vic Gundotra Leaving Company (recode.net)

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Nokia as we knew it ceases to exist today. An employee's goodbye/thank-you (kneeland.me)

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Core Infrastructure Initiative (www.linuxfoundation.org)

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Nginx 1.6.0 stable released (nginx.org)

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Stop the FCC from Breaking the Internet (www.savetheinternet.com)

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My new favorite vim/tmux bug (www.daniellesucher.com)

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Elsevier journals – some facts (gowers.wordpress.com)

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Cryptol DSL, a tool for writing correct crypto algorithms, is now open-source (www.cryptol.net)

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Blood of world's oldest woman hints at limits of life (www.newscientist.com)

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Artery chokes after 70 copies of Visual Studio (connect.microsoft.com)

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Google+ Is Walking Dead (techcrunch.com)

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100 Supercharger Stations (www.teslamotors.com)

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The Toxins That Threaten Our Brains (www.theatlantic.com)

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DatomicScript – Datomic in ClojureScript (github.com)

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IFTTT launches on Android with deeper integration than on iOS (techcrunch.com)

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What's left of NoSQL? (use-the-index-luke.com)

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Inside the ‘DarkMarket’ Prototype, a Silk Road the FBI Can Never Seize (www.wired.com)

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Apple, Google to pay $324 million to settle conspiracy lawsuit (www.reuters.com)

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African Ebola outbreak shows no sign of slowing (www.washingtonpost.com)

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RadiumOne CEO escapes felony charges (www.siliconrepublic.com)

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Jack Parsons: Occultist involved in early rocketry (www.wired.co.uk)

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Amazon, in Threat to UPS, Tries Its Own Deliveries (online.wsj.com)

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The Unexpected Entrepreneur: Interview with Joe Satriani (www.inc.com)

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Bramcohen: Great Programmers (bramcohen.livejournal.com)

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Speeding up and strengthening HTTPS connections for Chrome on Android (googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com)

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A totally simple way Google could have avoided f***ing up Google+ (www.scottporad.com)

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Bitcoin by analogy (brikis98.blogspot.com)

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Tennessee begins free community college plan (www.tennessean.com)

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Attack of the Week: TLS Triple Handshakes (3Shake) (blog.cryptographyengineering.com)

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Ruby Security Have You Not (hakiri.io)

80 points first seen 2014042506 last seen 2014042521 53 comments

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Comcast response to Netflix (corporate.comcast.com)

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Moves joins Facebook (moves-app.com)

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SEO: 4 things huge sites are allowed to do but you’re not. (nenadseo.com)

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Mozilla CTO: Andreas Gal (blog.mozilla.org)

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Technology Giants Settle Hiring Suit (www.nytimes.com)

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Show HN: Get clean readable content from any webpage (github.com)

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Inactive Account Manager (www.google.com)

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How Japan Plans to Build an Orbital Solar Farm (spectrum.ieee.org)

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Julie Ann Horvath names harassers (twitter.com)

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Why is Kim Jong-un always surrounded by people taking notes? (www.bbc.com)

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IBM, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, others pledge $3.6 million to fund OpenSSL (arstechnica.com)

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California Senate Rejects Smartphone ‘Kill Switch’ Law (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

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How to Analyze a Patent (philip.greenspun.com)

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Multi-Screen Resources – Google (www.google.com)

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Rebuilding An HTML5 Game In Unity (www.smashingmagazine.com)

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A survey of 911 dispatchers reveals the cost of bad technology (www.washingtonpost.com)

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The blockchain story is bullshit (geoffreywoo.com)

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Pinterest Hits 30 Billion Total Pins, Up 50% In 6 Months (techcrunch.com)

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Alan Kay + Brewster Kahle + Ted Nelson. Starts@9:30AM PDT (chapman.edu)

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Microsoft Surface Mini to debut in mid-May? (www.zdnet.com)

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Show HN: New project for on-demand chat rooms (www.urshoutbox.com)

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Ancient Fossils Suggest Complex Life Evolved on Land (www.simonsfoundation.org)

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The Science Behind Deep Brain Stimulation (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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Medisas (YC W13), A Company That Saves People's Lives (www.forbes.com)

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Reflections On YC Demo Day: How The Seed Market Has Changed (tomtunguz.com)

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The World’s First Bitcoin Debit Card Is Almost Here (www.wired.com)

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Show HN: Gandalf – $1 private Docker registries (http://gandalf.io)

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An iPhone Engineer-Turned-Game Maker Shares His Apple Story (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Tokaido 1.0 Released (github.com)

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MaidSafe: A Wildly Successful Cryptocoin Debacle (techcrunch.com)

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Before Silicon Valley got nasty, the Pirates of Analog Alley fought it out (arstechnica.com)

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The FyreTV Porn Streamer Maker Is Suing Amazon For Trademark Infringement (techcrunch.com)

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Mtgox stolen Bitcoins moving into MaidSafe's $6M IPO? (bitcointalk.org)

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How-to: Integrate Gmail Actions with your App (blog.rainforestqa.com)

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The Golden Ratio and Typography (www.lauradhamilton.com)

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Ask HN: Why are WSJ/paywalled links allowed? (item?id=7642187)

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Undiscovered Warhol works recovered from old Amiga disks (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Tracking Flu Outbreaks with Wikipedia (www.additiveanalytics.com)

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Show HN: OptKit.com – Enterprise Level Conversion Rate Optimization Kit (optkit.com)

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Porting AnyList from iOS to the Web (blog.anylistapp.com)

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Ask HN: How to deal with this freelance client? (item?id=7639628)

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Simplest Way to Sell Digital Downloads (sellfy.com)

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How to get started with a new business with this one day action plan (pollenizer.com)

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Patch analysis of latest Microsoft Office vulnerability (CVE-2014-1761) (h30499.www3.hp.com)

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Automattic Buys Scroll Kit (http://www.scrollkit.com)

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Popcorn time is back (www.time4popcorn.eu)

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Crazy Post Processing Color Effects to Change Your THREE.js Game Ambiance (learningthreejs.com)

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Decomposing Web App Development (tonsky.me)

7 points first seen 2014042503 last seen 2014042506 0 comments

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Your Moves moves, visualized (blog.cartodb.com)

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Designer Duds: Losing Our Seat at the Table (mokriya.quora.com)

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Datalinting (blog.urbanmapping.com)

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Is It OK to Invest in a Company if Its CEO Beats Women? (www.slate.com)

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The Story Of Larry Page's Comeback (www.businessinsider.com)

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Synack Raises $7.5M Putting Bounties on IT Security Threats (techcrunch.com)

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How I trolled myself out of Google and destroyed my affiliate business (sebastianjohnsson.com)

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Lessons Learned Growing our Startup to $50,000 in Monthly Revenue – Groove (www.groovehq.com)

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Anti-Net-Neutrality “Fast Lanes” Are Bullshit (www.marco.org)

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8 Takeaways from the Aereo Supreme Court Oral Argument (www.project-disco.org)

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The cronjob that generates $4 million a year (medium.com)

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The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: Why Paper Still Beats Screens (www.scientificamerican.com)

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Please review my project (item?id=7639237)

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How Baremetrics got its first 100 customers (and thousands in MRR) with Twitter (baremetrics.io)

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Using sysdig to explore I/O (draios.com)

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Microsoft Earnings Release FY14 Q3 (www.microsoft.com)

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Engineering All Hands Support (www.olark.com)

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Ask HN: Calls from debt collectors tied to iphone activity? (item?id=7643834)

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San Diego Hacker News Meetup 51 tomorrow (4/25) (anyvite.com)

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Ask HN: How much time/effort did Heartbleed cost your team? (item?id=7644767)

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Crypto Stick Storage ("version 2") Available as Beta (www.crypto-stick.com)

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I Can’t Write Real Good (medium.com)

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We need to protect the open Internet (medium.com)

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Goodbye TechCrunch, And Thank You (blog.semilshah.com)

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Crowdfunding Your B2B SaaS Startup (www.getvue.co)

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Designer Duds: Losing Our Seat at the Table (mokriya.quora.com)

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Why Your App Won’t Work In The Cloud (blog.engineyard.com)

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Putin: The Internet Is a 'CIA Project' (mashable.com)

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Who decides how consumers should shop? (www.ftc.gov)

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Xapo Launches a Bitcoin Debit Card (blog.xapo.com)

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How many users do you need to start split testing? (item?id=7641455)

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LibreSSL nearly able to build on OS X (github.com)

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Netflix to become real TV and get its own ‘cable channel’ next week (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Bing Developer Center: Speech (www.bing.com)

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Kobo lays off 63 people (www.thestar.com)

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Self-hack: enjoying doing the dishes (blog.assaflavie.com)

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Grading European Banking SSL Security (blog.codacy.com)

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The App-Filled Future of Luxury Is Avoiding People (www.theatlantic.com)

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Simple HTML Entity Lookup (entity-lookup.leftlogic.com)

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Why building a data science team is deceptively hard (www.codecademy.com)

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How A Bunch of Emails Turned Into A Kindle Best Seller (www.reddit.com)

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Bonsai Slice: An iOS game by Francisco Tolmasky's new company (techcrunch.com)

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The Micro 3D Printer Blew Way Past Its $50,000 Kickstarter Goal In 11 Minutes (www.businessinsider.com)

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Hosting static sites with Docker and Nginx (bricolage.io)

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Visualizing climate change mitigation (puzlet.com)

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How On-Demand Hardware and Software Impacts Engineering Development (blog.rescale.com)

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Apple, Google, Intel And Adobe Settle Antitrust Lawsuit Over No-Hire Agreement (techcrunch.com)

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Sunken ship discovery in SF Bay revives memories of xenophobia (www.sfgate.com)

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Gaming network lag explained (www.netduma.com)

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Ask HN: who is looking for a summer intern? (item?id=7643259)

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Jeff Garzik Announces Partnership to Launch Bitcoin Satellites into Space (www.coindesk.com)

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The FIBIAC (homebrew mechanical computer, using punch cards) (www.chrisfenton.com)

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Ask HN: Ideal blog platform for startups? (item?id=7643859)

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New Android Trojan hijacks SMS 2 factor auth to steal stuff (item?id=7643785)

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Crowdfunding the Recovery of a Lost Spacecraft (makezine.com)

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.NINJA domains are coming as an alternative to .COM (name.com)

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Ask HN: Does Google rummage through the Gmail account of job-seekers? (item?id=7644683)

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FaRM: Fast Remote Memory (www.usenix.org)

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Lithuanian Startup Community welcomes VKontakte founder looking for freer hub (arcticstartup.com)

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Avoiding Memory Allocation Deadlocks (In Linux Kernel) (lwn.net)

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Medieval bishop’s theory resembles modern concept of multiple universes (theconversation.com)

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How I got my first Valley-based Product Management job in 5 Weeks (sites.google.com)

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What if We're Thinking About Organisations All Wrong? (timkastelle.org)