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Zappa, a framework for running "server-less" Python Web applications, will deploy scalable applications to the cloud with one command. Detailed by Rich Jones of freelance developer service gun.io, Zap
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The New York attorney general disclosed Monday that it ordered Donald Trump’s personal charity to cease fundraising immediately after determining that the foundation was violating state law by solicit
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The following is an excerpt from the first chapter of my book Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope. We live in an interesting time in that, materially, things are arguably better than they have eve
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Illustration by Pablo Lobato The modern Presidential campaign may be the world’s most sophisticated pop-up operation, a billion-dollar multilayered organization that, if it hopes to succeed, must be a
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Gawker.com is shutting down today, Monday 22nd August, 2016, some 13 years after it began and two days before the end of my forties. It is the end of an era. The staff will move to new jobs on other p
In most jobs and most industries, if you do something that doesn't work out, that's a bad thing, and you might get fired. If you write a cover story for a newspaper that turns out to be untrue, you ha
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As is sadly the case with most political stories these days, whether or not you care about the so-called “DNC leak” probably depends on which candidate you supported in the primaries. If you supported
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Blackstone, the giant Wall Street private equity firm, will hold an invitation-only reception before the final night of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. The event, at the swanky Bar
President Obama during his speech Wednesday night at the 2016 Democratic National Convention, in Philadelphia. Photograph by Philip Montgomery for The New Yorker It was about 8:40 P.M. last night when
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