Google doesn’t necessarily need innovation – Steve Yegge https://medium.com/@steve.yegge/google-doesnt-necessarily-need-innovation-95cea96d0eeb?r=1

Waze Carpool: It's a thing. Should Uber be worried? https://www.waze.com/carpool/

Is there a ticking time bomb under the Arctic? | NPR https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/01/24/575220206/is-there-a-ticking-time-bomb-under-the-arctic

Milton's 'Paradise Lost' is 350 years old, and it's the greatest epic poem in English | The Weekly Standard http://www.weeklystandard.com/miltons-morality/article/2011211

Nextcloud vs ownCloud – The whole story | CiviHosting https://civihosting.com/blog/nextcloud-vs-owncloud/

Tronc and Axios are in talks for a news partnership | WSJ https://www.wsj.com/articles/tronc-and-axios-are-in-talks-for-a-news-partnership-1516726574

Amazon's HQ2 is going to the Washington, D.C. area, says D.E. Wilson, and the reason is AWS https://medium.com/@dwilson22180/amazons-hq2-here-s-where-it-s-going-13b862a47431

A man bit a smartphone battery as a test, and it exploded | The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/23/16923200/china-customer-bites-iphone-battery-replacement-explosion

Snapchat to let users share stories outside its mobile app | Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-23/snapchat-to-let-users-share-stories-outside-its-mobile-app

Post-work: The radical idea of a world without jobs | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jan/19/post-work-the-radical-idea-of-a-world-without-jobs

Social scientists have warned Zuck all along that the Facebook theory of interaction would make people angry and miserable | Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2018/01/22/facebook-is-sad.html

Why discrete math is important | Art of Problem Solving https://artofproblemsolving.com/articles/discrete-math

DuckDuckGo moves beyond search to also protect you while browsing https://spreadprivacy.com/privacy-simplified/

Will work for no benefits: The challenges of being in the new contract workforce | NPR https://www.npr.org/2018/01/23/579720874/will-work-for-no-benefits-the-challenges-of-being-in-the-new-contract-workforce

Complaining about low pay online ‘destroyed my life’ | New York Post https://nypost.com/2018/01/20/complaining-about-low-pay-in-an-open-letter-online-destroyed-my-life/

Is your child a phone 'addict'? | The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/17/well/family/is-your-child-a-phone-addict.html

Should you still do remote freelance WordPress development? Here’s a look at the stats. | Derick Sozo https://medium.com/@dericksozo/should-you-still-do-remote-freelance-wordpress-development-heres-a-look-at-the-stats-e69f2f5585c1

I've been trying the Microsoft Edge browser. I recently worked Firefox back into my daily routine due to the massive speed improvements, and I figured I should give Edge a try. It's not that great. Right-clicking to open links is slow. Font rendering is nice. But overall, meh.

Watch the wondrous Costco pizza sauce dispenser in action | Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/costco-pizza-sauce-dispenser-satisfying

SPA, or not SPA, that is the question | Gianluca Guarini https://medium.com/@gianluca.guarini/spa-or-not-spa-that-is-the-question-711ace3576cf

Bitcoin could lose 90% of its value, Wall St. veteran Boockvar warns | CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/19/bitcoin-could-lose-90-percent-of-its-value-wall-st-veteran-boockvar-warns.html

Jake Paul is a terrifying genius and we should all be scared: Insights from the YouTuber's video series on how to become a social media star | BuzzFeed https://www.buzzfeed.com/katienotopoulos/i-took-jake-pauls-educational-series

Inside Amazon Go, a store of the future | The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/21/technology/inside-amazon-go-a-store-of-the-future.html

Podcasters, replace Skype with Discord for better audio quality and Web-based interviews | The Mac Observer https://www.macobserver.com/tips/deep-dive/podcasters-replace-skype-discord/

I just learned a new Vim tip: Swapping characters, words and lines | Vim Tips Wiki http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Swapping_characters,_words_and_lines

UberEats will be the 'largest food delivery company in the world this year,' says CEO | VentureBeat https://venturebeat.com/2018/01/22/ubereats-will-be-the-largest-food-delivery-company-in-the-world-this-year-says-ceo/

Intel has a big problem. It needs to act like it | Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-01-18/intel-has-a-big-problem-it-needs-to-act-like-it

How Google ditched VPNs for remote employee access | The New Stack https://thenewstack.io/beyondcorp-google-ditched-virtual-private-networking-internal-applications/

Decades of movie poster history go online | University of Texas http://sites.utexas.edu/ransomcentermagazine/2018/01/18/decades-of-movie-poster-history-goes-online/

Tutorial: Intro to React | reactjs.org https://reactjs.org/tutorial/tutorial.html

A brief overview of ES6 for React Native developers https://medium.com/the-react-native-log/a-brief-overview-of-es6-for-react-native-developers-15e7c68315da

JavaScript for Cats http://jsforcats.com/

How to Become a React Native Developer in 2018 – Hacker Noon https://hackernoon.com/how-to-become-a-react-native-developer-in-2018-d9bc85e1d91f

Looking beyond code to make the future work for everyone | Google CEO Sundar Pichai https://www.blog.google/topics/grow-with-google/looking-beyond-code-make-future-work-everyone/

Want a terrible job? Facebook and Google may be hiring armies of content moderators for 2018 | Slate https://slate.com/technology/2018/01/facebook-and-google-are-building-an-army-of-content-moderators-for-2018.html

From helping shut-ins to sisterly advice, mail-order magazines did more than just sell things | Smithsonian https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/helping-shut-ins-sisterly-advice-mail-order-magazines-did-more-just-sell-things-180967857/

Intel claims 90 percent of affected CPUs have live patches just as rumors of new attacks arrive | Gizmodo https://gizmodo.com/intel-claims-90-percent-of-affected-cpus-have-live-patc-1822192075

The techlash against Amazon, Facebook and Google — and what they can do: A memo to big tech | The Economist https://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21735026-which-antitrust-remedies-welcome-which-fight-techlash-against-amazon-facebook-and

Simple made easy | a talk by Rich Hickey, creator of Clojure https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy

Are we there yet? | a talk by Rick Hickey, creator of Clojure https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Are-We-There-Yet-Rich-Hickey

How I fell in love with Clojure | Christopher Small http://www.metasoarous.com/how-i-fell-in-love-with-clojure/

Top 5 trends in front-end development for 2018 | Applikey https://applikeysolutions.com/blog/top-5-trends-in-front-end-development-for-2018

Snap lays off two dozen employees | Cheddar https://cheddar.com/videos/exclusive-snap-lays-off-two-dozen-employees

I am looking at Wes Bos' JavaScript 30: Build 30 things with vanilla JS in 30 days with 30 tutorials https://javascript30.com/

Implementing an open salary policy at a 17-year-old company (that company being Fog Creek Software) https://medium.com/make-better-software/talking-transparency-at-fog-creek-c8b72d58f6c

The fall of Travis Kalanick was a lot weirder and darker than you thought | Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-01-18/the-fall-of-travis-kalanick-was-a-lot-weirder-and-darker-than-you-thought

Elixir - Erlang didn't change, the world did https://tomjoro.github.io/2017-01-31-world-changed/

How much would an iPhone cost if Apple were forced to make it in America? (You guessed too low!) https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2018/01/17/how-much-would-an-iphone-cost-if-apple-were-forced-to-make-it-in-america/#7749b3cf2d2a

Why Russia is building its own Internet | IEEE Spectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/internet/could-russia-really-build-its-own-alternate-internet

New California declares independence from California in statehood bid | USA Today https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/01/16/new-california-declares-independence-california-bid-become-51st-state/1036681001/

The hidden costs of serverless | A Cloud Guru https://read.acloud.guru/the-hidden-costs-of-serverless-6ced7844780b

Learn X in Y Minutes: Scenic programming language tours (for the minute, I'm obsessed with this site) https://learnxinyminutes.com

Transmit AM radio on computers without radio transmitting hardware | system-bus-radio https://github.com/fulldecent/system-bus-radio

Hey, makers of video content on Twitter, your video doesn't show until the video ad -- which has nothing to do with your content -- is over. tl;dr: Your entire post looks like an ad for some product, and you're getting paid /home/public//cgi-bin/ode.cgi.

How a 22-year-old discovered the worst chip flaws in history | Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-17/how-a-22-year-old-discovered-the-worst-chip-flaws-in-history

Lipi is a GUI that lets regular people use the Hugo static blog creator http://sohanchy.com/Lipi/

Your weird job titles are making you miss the best candidates | Fast Company https://www.fastcompany.com/40514090/your-weird-job-titles-are-making-you-miss-the-best-candidates

Is this the beginning of the end of the Bitcoin bubble? | The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/bitcoin-bubble-pop/550601/

Containers vs. operating systems | Dave Cheney https://dave.cheney.net/2018/01/16/containers-versus-operating-systems

Should internet firms pay for the data users currently give away? | The Economist https://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21734390-and-new-paper-proposes-should-data-providers-unionise-should-internet