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Git’s empty tree

Git’s empty tree

It’s late. You’ve been coding up a greenfield project and it needs to be done by tomorrow. Yes, the team could have gone with a similar tool that has some of the necessary features, but damn, that thing written in PHP! This is your chance to write a totally new project and to show the company that python/ruby/go is the future. I mean, PHP, really? No, didn’t think so. Ok, ready for reviewboard. diff –full-index –oh-crap-you-forgot-to-make-an-initial-commit Oops. This is dumb….

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Youth, State Overreach, and Golden Handcuffs

Youth, State Overreach, and Golden Handcuffs

Uninvested As the tech community digests the news related to state surveillance and its overreach in protecting its secrets, many comparisons will be made between Edward Snowden’s situation and those before him. The most obvious is with Bradley Manning, locked up and tortured (as considered by the Geneva Conventions) by his own government for revealing its secrets. Mr. Snowden is rightly concerned that, by staying within the jurisdiction of the U.S., he would be tortured and denied both due process…

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