Thread: A Father, a Son and Their $108B Push for Media Moguldom (Larry Ellison)

A Father, a Son and Their $108B Push for Media Moguldom (Larry Ellison) (nytimes.com)

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Lessons We Can Learn from Jiro Ono (lifehacker.com)

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Laurent Sansonetti on RubyMotion Internals (rubysource.com)

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Lavabit’s founder Ladar Levison responds to Moxie Marlinspike's criticism (arstechnica.com)

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Host a Personal Data API on Heroku (longren.org)

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Sonic.net CEO: Caps & Limits 'Artificial and Contrived' (dslreports.com)

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Sophie Wilson, Acorn and the development of ARM (linuxvoice.com)

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Who Hacked Ashley Madison? (krebsonsecurity.com)

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The First Person to Hack the iPhone Built a Self-Driving Car. In His Garage. (bloomberg.com)

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The U.S. Government and Open Standards: A Tale of Personal Woe (thevarguy.com)

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Ray Tomlinson, email inventor and selector of @ symbol, dies aged 74 (theguardian.com)

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David Patterson Retires After 40 Years (perspectives.mvdirona.com)

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A little late, but the content of this post lays out an impressive career.

Tech Titans Raise Their Guard, Pushing Back Against News Media (nytimes.com)

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Response of Jacob Appelbaum on personal attacks (twitlonger.com)

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Berlin, June 6, 2016 In the past few days, a calculated and targeted attack has been launched to spread vicious and spurious allegations against me. Given the way these accusations have been handled, I had little choice but to resign from my position as an advocate at the Tor Project and dev...

From file-sharing to prison: A Megaupload programmer tells his story (arstechnica.com)

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Chelsea Manning Begins Hunger Strike to Protest Bullying by Prison and US Government (chelseamanning.org)

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Jeff Nelson: Chromebook Inventor (2015) (quoracast.quora.com)

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Reasons not to use Uber (stallman.org)

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Oral History of Ken Thompson (archive.computerhistory.org)

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Interview with Ted Nelson, 1990 (youtube.com)

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How Two Founders With Zero Experience Built a Profitable Media Company with 3,000,000 Monthly Readers in Less Than a Year (thehustle.co)

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Charles P. Thacker Dies at 74; Helped Design Early Personal Computer (nytimes.com)

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Ted Nelson: Here I Stand, at Age 80 (youtube.com)

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That time Larry Ellison tried to have a professor fired for benchmarking Oracle (danluu.com)

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Unix and Beyond: An Interview with Ken Thompson (cs.princeton.edu)

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![ken_at_goboard](https://s17.postimg.org/rzk7b97m7/ken_thompson.gif)

Ted Nelson: What We Can Still Learn from Xanadu (thenewstack.io)

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John Hennessy and David Patterson will receive the 2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award (acm.org)

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'Big bitcoin heist' suspect escapes prison and flees Iceland 'on PM's plane' (theguardian.com)

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Bruce Wayne as a father and a person

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Ted Nelson on What Modern Programmers Can Learn From the Past (youtube.com)

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