The $160B given to AIG — a visual representation
John Carmack and the Wizardry of Id
Jude Gomila: Mapping Out Your Web Startup
Beautiful Parallelism: Harnessing Multicores with Haskell (pdf)
From OCaml to Javascript at Skydeck
Joseph Smarr: The Social Web - An Implementer’s Guide
Gabor Cselle Business opportunities around Google Waves
Google Wave Federation Architecture & wave developer preview video from Google IO 2009
Michael Janke: Hardware is Expensive, Programmers are Cheap
The Hedge Fund 100 (pdf)
Dan Liebgold of Naughty Dog: Adventures in Data Compilation
Benjamin Joffe: New business models in online communities
Vint Cerf Nanog keynote: Tracking the Internet into the 21st Century (PDF)
Adam D’Angelo & Charlie Cheever’s (formerly of facebook) new company, Alma Networks
The protocols powering the real-time web
Buster McLeod: Kinds of attention
Derek Sivers: My $3.3M mistake
Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing (pdf)
Michael Lewis: The Master of Money – An interesting review of The Snowball, book detailing the life of Warren Buffett
Heavyweights (Ferguson, Krugman, Roubini, Soros, et al.) discuss The Crisis and How to Deal with It
In-N-Out Burger’s six secrets for out-and-out success.
AideRSS: Taming the RSS Beast
Secret of Googlenomics: Data-Fueled Recipe Brews Profitability
The Moby Scheme Compiler for Smartphones : (Is That a Parenthesis in Your Pocket?)
Web App Autopsy: Wufoo, Feedburner, BlinkSale, RegOnline
Brian Fling: Getting Started with the Mobile Web
Brian Fling: Everything you always wanted to know about the mobile web But were afraid to ask
Interesting Presentations from the 2009 Streaming Media East & Content Delivery Summit
- Dan Rayburn: CDN Research Data: Market Sizing and Pricing Trends
- Jeff Cohen: Meeting Microsoft’s Content Delivery Needs
- Jan Ozer – Streaming Production: Improving your video quality
- Lisa Larson-Kelly: Developing a Rich Video player for the Flash platform
- Jan Ozer: Encoding H.264 Video for Streaming and Progressive Download
Essay by the current #1 team in the Netflix Prize: The Million Dollar Programming Prize
Fascinating exchange of emails between Bill Simmons & Malcolm Gladwell.
- First exchange in 2006
- Ultimate rematch in 2009
Dave Patterson: The Parallel Revolution has started
Sawtooth Software: Understanding Conjoint Analysis in 15 minutes
Presentations from Percona Performance Conference 2009, mostly has to do with MySQL
- Gil Hildebrand: Amazon Cloud Recipes
- Jan Lehnardt: Apache CouchDB In 20 Minutes
- Bradley C. Kuszmaul: Covering Indexes: Orders-of-Magnitude Improvements
- Ronald Bradford: The Ideal Performance Architecture
- Paul Tuckfield: Tuning OLTP RAID IO
Malcolm Gladwell: How David beats Goliath
The secret of Google’s book scanning machine revealed
Jim Gray & Prashant Shenoy: Rules of Thumb in Data Engineering (pdf/march 2000)
Analysis of Netflix’s security framework for ‘Watch Instantly’ service
Kevin Kelly: 1,000 True Fans
Intentional Software presentation (pdf)
The Quest for Computable Knowledge — A Short Timeline (pdf)
Good explanation of Bayes theorem
Reg Braithwaite’s fantastic essay on Optimism, based on Martin Seligman’s book, Learned Optimism
Danny Sullivan: Impressive: The Wolfram Alpha “Fact Engine”
Updated slides & commentary from Eric Ries on Customer Development
