In any industry, it’s hard to evaluate your skills if you’re self-taught. When will your skills ready to start freelancing? Self-taught coder Joyce Akiko answers this question, particularly for other programmers like herself. Read more…
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How to Know When You’re Ready to Freelance As a Self-Taught Coder
schwit1 writes The Justice Department and FBI have formally acknowledged that nearly every examiner in an elite FBI forensic unit gave flawed testimony in almost all trials in which they offered evidence against criminal defendants over more than a two-decade period before 2000. Of 28 examiners with the FBI Laboratory’s microscopic hair comparison unit, 26 overstated forensic matches in ways that favored prosecutors in more than 95 percent of the 268 trials reviewed so far, according to the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) and the Innocence Project, which are assisting the government with the country’s largest post-conviction review of questioned forensic evidence. The cases include those of 32 defendants sentenced to death. Of those, 14 have been executed or died in prison, the groups said under an agreement with the government to release results after the review of the first 200 convictions. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Freshly Exhumed writes “TorrentFreak has broken the news that after more than a year of downtime the Demonoid tracker is back online. The tracker is linked to nearly 400, 000 torrent files and more than a million peers, which makes it one of the largest working BitTorrent trackers on the Internet. There is no word yet on when the site will make a full comeback, but the people behind it say they are working to revive one of the most famous file-sharing communities. As the single largest semi-private BitTorrent tracker that ever existed, Demonoid used to offer a home to millions of file-sharers. Note that this is apparently the original Demonoid and not the d2 site that claims to be using the Demonoid database.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Demonoid BitTorrent Tracker Apparently Back Online
Being unable to install an app on your device from the Play Store is a pain. Fortunately, a developer has created a tool that lets you pull an APK directly from Google’s servers and side load it yourself . Handy! Read more…
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APK Downloads Lets You Pull APK Files Directly From Google Play
A new study shows that one in ten people from the ages 16 to 34 have been turned down from potential employment because of something they posted on social media. [Read more]
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Facebookers beware: Profile posts can get you job rejections
Study shows that companies have rejected 1 in 10 people between ages 16 and 34 because of something the person shared on social media. [Read more]
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Facebookers, beware: That silly update can cost you a job
Bookmark and Read Later apps like Pocket, Instapaper, and Readability are awesome ways to store and catch up on the interesting articles you find online, but if you use Google Reader, saving those articles is a multi-step process. Here’s an IFTTT recipe that will send articles to your favorite service in one keystroke. More »
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If you didn’t already know that the Taliban had a mailing list, your mind is already blown. But here’s a solid one-upper: the Taliban spokesperson accidentally CC’d everyone on that list in an otherwise pedestrian email, outing some people who likely didn’t want the world to know they were subscribers. More »
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The Taliban Mistakenly Outed Every Single Person on Its Mailing List