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X glitch wipes out most pictures and links tweeted before December 2014

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Ellen DeGeneres’ 2014 Oscars tweet got its picture back, but most others are still broken.

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You Are Not Late (2014)

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[Translations:Ă‚ Italian, Japanese, Chinese] Can you imagine how awesome it would have been to be an entrepreneur in 1985 when almost any dot com name you wanted was available? All words; short ones, cool ones. All you had to do was … Continue reading →

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Paul Auster: How I Became a Writer (2014) [video]

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A rare visit at Paul Auster’s brownstone home in Brooklyn. Auster shares the story of how he became a writer and how he works: “A good day’s work is if I have one typed page at the end of the day…

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Board Members (2014)

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Over the last five years, there has been an incredible shift in leverage from investors to founders. It’s good in most ways, but bad in an important few. Founders’ desire for control is good in.

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Nightfall: Can Kalgash Exist (2014)

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We investigate the imaginary world of Kalgash, a planetary system based on the novel "Nightfall" (Asimov & Silverberg, 1991). The system consists of a planet, a moon and an astonishing six suns. The six stars cause the wider universe to be invisible to the inhabitants of the planet.

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RFC 7282 – On Consensus and Humming in the IETF (2014)

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The IETF has had a long tradition of doing its technical work through a consensus process, taking into account the different views among IETF participants and coming to (at least rough) consensus on technical matters. In particular, the IETF is supposed not to be run by a "majority rule" philosophy.

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Knightmare: A DevOps Cautionary Tale (2014)

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In the first 45-minutes the market was open the faulty software deployment sent millions of child orders into the market resulting in 4 million transactions against 154 stocks for more than 397 million shares. In laymen's terms, Knight Capital Group realized a $460 million loss in 45-minutes and went from being the largest trader in…

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