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September 23 Links: Affording College, Thinking Outside the Box, and Papametrics

...and we're back! Staring at a critical mass of cool things in my feed today, I decided to dust off this old format, and serve seven things that I think are worth reading, even if I don't have time to write more than a paragraph or

Karim Pirbay is an Email Scammer

(1) If you haven't heard, the Harvard Class of 2016 elected Program Marshals for commencement (graduation) exercises this week. Basically, it's a popularity contest to determine who gets to sit on stage with Natalie Portman or John Oliver or whoever it is this year. At some

A Verse for the Memorial

These kids have learned some history and they know what warfare used to be: tanks and guns and soldiers that moved across the land— with strategies and battlelines converging at a place in time; and lives were lost for reasons that the world could understand On the History Channel, war

Yes, you should hire college-educated computer scientists

Daniel Gelernter, CEO of Dittach, has a WSJ op-ed titled "Why I’m Not Looking to Hire Computer-Science Majors": The thing I look for in a developer is a longtime love of coding -- people who taught themselves to code in high school and still can't

Something's Rotten in the State of Facebook

content warning: domestic terrorism A friend posted the following on Wednesday: Dear everyone posting That Video to Facebook today: Yes, there was another shooting. VA this time, caught on live news. Yes, the murderer (no, he doesn't deserve to be named) filmed his victims' deaths and immediately

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