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“The president of MIT told me that tenure was not about research or merit.”
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Threadreaderapp
Thread by @cesifoti on Thread Reader App
@cesifoti: Want to read an insane tenure denial story? I was denied tenure at MIT in 2018. I was the only Hispanic faculty at my department, had 13k+ citations, 2 books, & papers in Nature, Science, &...…
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No one cares about your redesign
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Garbage Day
No one cares about your redesign
Read to the end for the anti-NFT anthem
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Amazon Co-Owns Deportation Airline Implicated in Alleged Torture of Immigrants
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The Intercept
Amazon Co-Owns Deportation Airline Implicated in Alleged Torture of Immigrants
Activists are pressuring Amazon to divest from Omni Air International, a company at the center of ICE’s deportation machine.
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Littlefs – A little fail-safe filesystem designed for microcontrollers
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GitHub
GitHub - littlefs-project/littlefs: A little fail-safe filesystem designed for microcontrollers
A little fail-safe filesystem designed for microcontrollers - littlefs-project/littlefs
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I wound up causing a major outage of my services and destroying my home dir
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ariadne.space
how I wound up causing a major outage of my services and destroying my home directory by accident
As a result of my FOSS maintenance and activism work, I have a significant IT footprint, to support the services and development environments needed to facilitate everything I do. Unfortunately, I am also my own system administrator, and I am quite terrible…
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Covid testing firm ‘selling swabs carrying customers’ DNA’ to third parties
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The London Economic
Covid testing firm ‘selling swabs carrying customers’ DNA’ to third parties
Cignpost - which sells £35 tests for holidaymakers - sells DNA from Covid swabs on to third parties.
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Happy 15th birthday Hacker News
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Versatile Open Source online SVG path editor
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GitHub
GitHub - Yqnn/svg-path-editor: Online editor to create and manipulate SVG paths
Online editor to create and manipulate SVG paths. Contribute to Yqnn/svg-path-editor development by creating an account on GitHub.
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From macOS to FreeBSD
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boucek.me
My journey from macOS to FreeBSD
Personal experience with moving away from Apple's world.
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Lessons Learned after $5B of M&A
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Tomtunguz
10 Lessons Learned after $5B of M&A by @ttunguz
Over the last few years, I’ve been lucky to work with founders and management teams to sell about $5b of startups. During that time, I’ve observed a few things about M&A. Here are 10 of my learnings:
Most acquirers have built a relationship with the acquisition…
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The Day AppGet Died (2020)
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Keivan Beigi
The Day AppGet Died.
The story of how Microsoft embraced and then killed AppGet.
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Rethinking Levels, Promotions and Salaries
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Daily API: Developer Tips to Build Voice, Video, and AI into Apps
Rethinking levels, promotions and salaries
Daily recently restructured our levels, promotions and salaries in somewhat
unusual ways, and we want to share what we’re doing. We’re still early enough in
our growth that we can’t compete with companies like Google and Netflix on
salary alone. But we can…
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Against Pair Programming
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Matt Rickard
Pair Programming Doesn't Scale
As effective as a backseat driver.
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The Dubai Debt Trap
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The Economist
The Dubai debt trap
Ryan Cornelius has completed a sentence for fraud but he’s lost hope of ever leaving prison
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Bitcoin miners revived a dying fossil fuel plant – then CO2 emissions soared
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the Guardian
Bitcoin miners revived a dying coal plant – then CO2 emissions soared
Critics say the enormous electricity consumption needed to sustain cryptocurrency is fueling the climate crisis and now threatens a partial resurrection of coal in the US
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Windows 11 settings rewritten in React Native
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microsoft.github.io
React Native for Windows is helping Settings improve more quickly · React Native for Windows + macOS
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Why Are Young People Having So Little Sex?
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The Atlantic
Why Are Young People Having So Little Sex?
Despite the easing of taboos and the rise of hookup apps, Americans are in the midst of a sex recession.
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Dune: Spice Wars
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Funcom’s world of Dune games
Step into Frank Herbert’s legendary sci-fi universe today. Discover Dune: Awakening, Funcom’s upcoming open world survival game. Play Dune: Spice Wars, Funcom’s and Shiro Games’ 4X real-time strategy game.
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Difficult situation on campus. Traffic jam of automated food delivery robots
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Twitter
Sean Hecht
Difficult situation on campus. Traffic jam of automated food delivery robots, apparently all stuck behind a carelessly discarded scooter. I just observed a couple of students clearing a path out of pity for the robots. This is our future, I guess
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Ask HN: Is there VC appetite for defense related startups
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Dr. Ian Cutress Leaves Anandtech
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AnandTech
From There to Here, and Beyond
I’ll be the first to admit, I had no history with AnandTech before I joined. It was by sheer chance, meeting one of the writers at an overclocking event, that led me to first become a reader, then a writer, to what has become my career in journalism. If you’re…
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