Monday, January 30, 2012

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  • Imagine yourself as an eager, young developer. After many long months of self-study, you’ve carefully honed your craft and have skillfully mastered virtually all development technologies from enterprisey to hipster. Your twelve-page résumé could land you a job anywhere, and as it would happen, the job you decided to take was at a highfalutin consultancy filled with like-minded developers who were almost as skilled as you.

    tags: programming

  • Today we caught up with Andrei Alexandrescu for a “10 Question” interview. He is a Romanian born research engineer at Facebook living in the US, you can contact him on his website erdani.com or @incomputable.

    We will talk about some of the juicy stuff that going on at Facebook, so let’s get started.

    tags: programming

  • Along with SOPA and PIPA, our government is contemplating another acronym with deplorable consequences for the free dissemination of information: RWA, the Research Works Act. This is a bill to, it says, "ensure the continued publication and integrity of peer-reviewed research works by the private sector", where the important phrase is "private sector" — it's purpose is to guarantee that for-profit corporations retain control over the publication of scientific information. Here are the restrictions it would impose:

    tags: news

  • Nomads hunting with Golden Eagles in Western Mongolia. (i.imgur.com)
    submitted 9 hours ago by Dead_Motherfucker to pics
    741 commentssharesavehidereport

    tags: culture

  • Two large ISPs in the Netherlands have said they will not be blocking subscriber access to The Pirate Bay, as demanded by the Hollywood supported anti-piracy outfit BREIN. T-Mobile and KPN argue that blocking websites is a threat to the open Internet, and suggest that the entertainment industry focuses on new business models instead. BREIN is now expected to take the ISPs to court.

    tags: news

  • Tabs vs Spaces vs Both (emacswiki.org)
    submitted 15 hours ago by hongminhee
    516 commentssharesavehidereport

    tags: humor

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