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Can you life-hack your way to love?

  • Written by Joseph Reagle, Associate Professor of Communication Studies, Northeastern University
True love could be hiding inside mounds of data.xtock/Shutterstock.com

There’s never been a shortage of dating advice from family, friends and self-help authors. Yet in the digital age, people are turning to nerdy hacker-types as guides.

At first, they might seem like an odd source of romantic advice, but think again: Computer programmers...

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