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Former Employee Of Google, Apple, And Microsoft On How To Master The Tech Interview

This interviewing expert urges software engineers to ditch perfectionism, avoid these common mistakes, and try these tactics.

When Gayle Laakmann McDowell had her first interview for a software engineering position at Microsoft 11 years ago, she didn’t know quite what she was getting herself into. “I was mostly naive about the interview process,” she says. McDowell had just finished her freshman year at University of Pennsylvania and was applying for an internship. “Now, I would think: ‘I should be studying for this like I would for a test,'” she says.

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For Affluent Millennials, Fine Art Is Going, Going, Gone–Online

Digital auction house Paddle8 sees opportunity in the shifting buying habits of young collectors.

Last summer, Paddle8 cofounder Alexander Gilkes happened to run into designer Andy Spade at a dinner party. “I’ve long admired Andy’s eclectic taste,” says Gilkes, a former auctioneer and Old Etonian with a penchant for tweed jackets. Spade had recently sold his home in Southampton, Long Island, and the artworks and collectibles that he had acquired over the years were sitting in storage. As the evening light filtered through the windows of host Tory Burch’s uptown apartment, Gilkes suggested that Spade sell the Southampton works online through Paddle8, his startup auction house. That conversation led to a meeting at the Bowery Hotel, and by mid-January, 80 lots from the designer’s personal treasure trove were open to bidders around the world.

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How Bosch’s Haptic Feedback Pedal Could Change The Way We Drive

The technology could give your foot a quick buzz when you need to slow down, replacing dashboard signals drivers usually ignore.

With cars becoming ever more connected and tech-enabled, drivers have little excuse not to drive sensibly, efficiently, and exactly to the desired destination. But, of course, most of us don’t drive efficiently and sensibly. We like speeding away at traffic lights or accelerating uphill, burning gas. And we still get lost.

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It’s A Deal: Foxconn Is Buying Sharp

It will be the largest acquisition by a foreign company in Japan’s tech sector to date.

Taiwanese manufacturing and supply firm Hon Hai Precision Industry Co, or more readily known as “Foxconn,” will acquire Japan’s Sharp Corporation for $5.5 billion, Reuters reports. The deal is expected to close by the end of this month and the amount that Foxconn is offering would make it the largest acquisition by a foreign company in Japan’s tech sector to date.

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BMX Legend Dave Mirra Dead At 41: Here’s Why He’s An Action Sports Icon

A trailblazer on and off the bike, from record-breaking tricks and X Games medals, to namesake video games and mainstream brand partners.

BMX star, rally car driver, and former MTV Real World/Road Rules Challenge host Dave Mirra died yesterday at the age of 41, from a reported self-inflicted gunshot wound. Soon after the news, fellow athletes, artists and celebrities remembered his influence on the sport and culture.

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