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Ex-Goldman programmer indicted over HFT code theft | Reuters February 18, 2010 – Who wants to bet that this case never goes to trial? There will be a settlement involving the perpetrator agreeing to never describe what this code actually…
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School used student laptop webcams to spy on them at school and home Boing Boing February 18, 2010 – This is pretty creepy and fits in to my “hypothetical attacks we talked about in Grad school are very real” theme.…
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Mozilla Debates Whether to Trust Chinese CA | Freedom to Tinker February 17, 2010 – It’s amazing when these esoteric technical issues we talked about in grad school turn out to be real-life issues. What if the certificate authority is…
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BBC News – Warner retreats from free music streaming February 10, 2010 – Surprise, Surprise. Just as streaming music sites like Pandora look to be turning the corner, here come the music labels to move the goal posts. Again. In…
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How Facebook uses Erlang for real-time chat – Off the Grid!! February 8, 2010 – This is a somewhat old blog post from a Facebook engineer describing how they engineered the chat system in Erlang. It’s notable because it contains…
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On College Campuses, a Shortage of Men – NYTimes.com February 6, 2010 – Hmm, not what I remember…
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Backing out of a term sheet cdixon.org – chris dixon's blog February 5, 2010 – Chris Dixon flexes some muscle. Hardcore.
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The disrupted of Davos « BuzzMachine February 5, 2010 – Very interesting view of the WEF
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12+1 Signs That You Have Founderitis – GigaOM February 3, 2010 – Om Malik on Founderitis
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Dear MBAs who want to work at startups | from This is going to be BIG! – Comments on New York Tech Community, Startups, Venture Capital and Career Education January 30, 2010 – Charlie O’Donnell, EIR at First Round Capital…
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An awesome and pretty self-explanatory graph from an awesome blog I just got sent. It’s three years old so I guess I’m just behind the times. (MySpace? What’s that?)
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Conan Blowing NBC's Money, Spends $1.5 Million For One Minute Segment (VIDEO) January 21, 2010 – Conan sticks it to NBC by doing a comedy bit with a Bugatti Veyron ($1.0m car) and by playing a clip from the Rolling…