Around the world, the sensation of controlling one’s own way through the chaos—when every other driver on the road is an idiot, and danger lurks along every mile—is still seen as one of the purest remaining expressions of freedom.

when he played the iconic South African activist Steve Biko.

There are limitations this system. Potvin says certain highly sensitive code—stuff akin to the Google’s PageRank search algorithm—resides in separate repositories only available to specific employees. And because they don’t run on the ‘net and are very different things, Google stores code for its two device operating systems—Android and Chrome—on separate version control systems. But for the most part, Google code is a monolith that allows for the free flow of software building blocks, ideas, and solutions.

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You love them. People love rankings. We are fascinated by other people. We are all secret stalkers and lurkers

Quite appropriate given geth is written in Go

here wasn’t a single title priced at $9.99 among the top 20 titles on the company’s Kindle best-seller list

Brussels-bashing has become routine, the cheap and easy option for shameless national leaders acting unilaterally, blocking every suggestion that comes out of Brussels and then blaming it for the ensuing chaos

Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic told Paris and Berlin to get stuffed, arguing that west European-style multiculturalism is nothing but trouble

22 countries with a combined population of almost 400 million to absorb 160,000 people

as we’ve already told you. And, as we’ve also already told you

separating the deployment and rollout processes

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“We’ve sucked at it for years,”

But everyone does

stealing jokes, pictures, trademarks. All violations of Twitter’s terms of service, and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

the nerds —the kids who had weird, obscure obsessions, who knew everything about something nobody else knew anything about

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