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How a Career Con Man Led a Federal Sting That Cost Google $500 Million
For three months, the operation plodded along. Whitaker and the agents worked 10-hour days and blew through their budgets. Reich wasn’t satisfied. There are, and have long been, strong First Amendment protections for Internet service providers, users, and third-party publishers—and Reich was concerned that Google could claim a free speech defense. Nobody had ever launched an investigation like this before; he and the Feds had to exhaust every possible option, fend off any likely objection. That’s why the phone conversations had to…
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The One-Person Product
In 2006, I moved to New York and started working for David Karp doing web development for various media companies. That fall, in a brief gap before starting a new client, David said that we were going to make a prototype of an idea he’d had…
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Welcome to Google Island
I awoke aboard a boat, just before daybreak, which was weird. The last thing I remembered was being in San Francisco’s Moscone Center, wrapping up a four-hour Google I/O keynote liveblogging…
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Welcome to the Real Space Age
(Photo: Courtesy of Virgin Galactic) At dawn one morning last November—just as the edge of Earth comprising Florida spun into the field of light bursting from roughly 93 million miles…
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Learn Anything in 20 Hours with This Four-Step…
With just 20 hours of focused, deliberate practice, you can go from knowing absolutely nothing to performing noticeably well. That's the message from Josh Kaufman, author of The First 20 Hours. In…
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A Convenient Excuse
On October 2, I led a climate protest inside the offices of the Boston Globe.OK, it was really a meeting in a small conference room with editorial page editor Peter Canellos and members of his staff.…
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Top 10 Everyday Life Hacks That Take 10 Seconds…
Sometimes, you can do something the fast way, or you can do it the right way. Other times, those two things are one and the same. Here are 10 everyday tasks that you can do in 10 seconds or less. 10.…
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Officer Serrano’s Hidden Camera
Officer Pedro Serrano walked through the heavy wooden doors of the 40th Precinct in the South Bronx and headed upstairs to the locker room. For eight years he’d been working out of this…
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GoogleリーダーからFeedlyに引っ越したとき役だった7つのアイデア
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Greetings from Gun Valley
LENNY LARIVEE has spent 68 percent of his 69 years on this planet doing the same thing: making guns. And he’s made them all for one company, Savage Arms in Westfield, just off Exit 3 on the Mass. Pike. He’s tall and bald, with…
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In the Programmable World, All Our Objects Will…
The third and final stage is to build applications on top of these connected objects. This means not just tying together the behavior of two or more objects—like the sprinkler and the moisture sensor—but creating complex…
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Dear American Consumers: Please don’t start…
Dear Consumers: A disturbing trend has come to our attention. You, the people, are thinking more about health, and you’re starting to do something about it. This cannot continue. Sure,…
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Focus More on Your Brain and Less on Your Diet to…
Weight loss is tricky business. Obviously what you eat has a huge impact on your health and body weight. But anyone who has ever tried to modify their diet for the sake of losing weight knows it…
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The Design of Code: Organizing JavaScript
Great design is a product of care and attention applied to areas that matter, resulting in a useful, understandable, and hopefully beautiful user interface. But don’t be fooled into thinking…
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Surprise! Mozilla can produce near-native…
In a bid to make JavaScript run ever faster, Mozilla has developed asm.js. It's a limited, stripped down subset of JavaScript that the company claims will offer performance that's within a factor of…
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ABC: Always Be Coding — Tech Talk
Be honest. Are you a good engineering candidate? How are you measuring yourself? How many companies have you interviewed at? What is your interview to offer ratio? Try the following formula:# x =…
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How Sunscreen Works (And Why You're Wrong About…
Your skin shouldn't look like a package of pork cracklins after spending the day outdoors; that's why we invented sunscreen. However, there's a right way and a wrong way to slather on your…
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The Air Travel Rights You Aren't Aware Of (and…
If you've ever sat in a plane on the tarmac only to have the flight cancelled, been bumped just before boarding, or landed at your destination only to be told your luggage will arrive sometime in the…
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Learning From Los Gatos — The Peer Society
It’s no surprise that George Packer—one of the most gifted writers in the business—has hit upon a fascinating topic in his latest New Yorker piece: the emerging politics of…
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Why Is Europe So Messed Up? An Illuminating…
The big news of the past week had nothing to do with the I.R.S. or Benghazi. It was the confirmation that, while the American economy continues to recover from the disastrous financial bust of 2008…