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Mon, 22 Jan 2018

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/

Sun, 21 Jan 2018

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

Fri, 19 Jan 2018

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

Thu, 18 Jan 2018

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

Wed, 17 Jan 2018

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