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Google Employee Lives in a Parking Lot and Saves 90% of His Income
A 23-year-old Software Engineer who works for Google in San Francisco has eschewed renting an apartment in favour of sleeping in a truck in his employer’s parking lot. Brandon, who has withheld his surname and photo to maintain his anonymity, was struggling last Summer, living with four people in a…
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Kickstarted Potato Salad Joke Turned Charity
I think we all remember the Potato Salad on Kickstarter that made headlines a short while ago. Most people believed the creator Zack “Danger” Brown from Columbus, Ohio would just take the pledges and be a happy man. That is however not the case, the taking the money part at least.…
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Homeless Man Being Taught Coding Since August Launches His First App, Trees For Cars
You have probably heard about the homeless guy named Leo Grand and programmer Patrick McConlogue offering him a choice between $100 and 16 free coding lessons. Grand, homeless since 2011 after losing his job at insurance provider MetLife and being priced out of his home when a high-rise apartment block…
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Homeless Man Launches His First Mobile App After NYC Man Teaches Him Java
Patrick McConlogue of the website Medium had a idea last August that involved a homeless man he had met while he was heading to work. The homeless man called Leo goes by the nickname “Journeyman” and to Patrick, he seemed a smart and driven character who had just fallen on hard times.…
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