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The NSA revelations shattered earlier assumptions that internet data was nearly impossible to intercept for meaningful surveillance, said Joseph Lorenzo Hall, chief technologist at the Washington-based...
View ArticleEmployees who decline genetic testing could face penalties under proposed bill
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View ArticleIntel to more actively engage with FreeBSD Foundation and make $250K donation
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View ArticleWhy traders should pay attention to earthquakes occuring in Japan
Earthquakes in Japan are a common thing, there are approximately 1,500 of them a year. Therefore, people are not alerted when an earthquake in Japan occurs. However, those earthquakes still have a...
View ArticleWhen the memory allocator works against you
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View ArticleYour personal guide to Software Engineering technical interviews
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View ArticleBoth geniuses and madmen pay attention to what others ignore
When John Forbes Nash, the Nobel Prize-winning mathematician, schizophrenic, and paranoid delusional, was asked how he could believe that space aliens had recruited him to save the world, he gave a...
View ArticleJoin WorldCover (YC W16) as Our First Full Stack Engineer
WorldCover is looking for a Full Stack Engineer in New York City to help us fulfill our mission to protect a billion small businesses around the world with insurance against natural disasters.Over $100...
View ArticleEasyBuggy: A broken web app in order to understand behavior of bugs and vulns
README.mdEasyBuggy is a broken web application in order to understand behavior of bugs and vulnerabilities, for example, memory leak, dead lock, JVM crash, SQL injection and so on.Quick Start$ mvn...
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