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GitHub: How An Open Source Programming Tool With A Funny Name Could Help Revolutionize Medical Research

Joyce Lee | The Health Care Blog | July 28, 2013

Most people I work with in medicine have never heard of GitHub . For the unfamiliar, GitHub is an online repository, which is an essential tool used by computer programmers to store their programming code.  It has a number of virtues, including giving users the ability to track multiple versions of their code... Read More »

Superstar Programmers Are Getting Paid Like Pro Athletes—Tens Of Millions Of Dollars A Year

Leo Mirani | Quartz | September 6, 2013

It’s always nice to be paid your “true value.” Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen says that is what is happening now in the technology industry, where some engineers are drawing multi-million dollar paychecks. Read More »

Why Software Patents Are Evil

Simon Phipps | InfoWorld | March 16, 2012

Mark Cuban is no fool. A tech billionaire, the no-nonsense owner of the Dallas Mavericks is just the sort of person you'd expect to value software patents. So the title of his blog post this Tuesday, "I hope Yahoo crushes Facebook in its patent suit," may not look out of place to you... Read More »