Josh Kopelman: Nothing to Lose (or Risk Tolerance is a Competitive Weapon) Interesting presentations from the 2009 Par Lab Boot Camp – Short Course on Parallel Programming: (all links to pdf) – David Patterson: A Parallel Revolution, Ready or Not – Kurt Keutzer: Architecting Parallel Software with Patterns – Efficient, Parallel Mobile Web Browser
When a Good Idea Works: Purity, openness, and simplicity are engines of design — on the language Processing. pubsubhubbub: A simple, open, web-hook-based pubsub protocol & open source reference implementation. The Good Enough Revolution: When Cheap and Simple Is Just Fine. The MP3 effect. Avinash Kaushik: Six Tips For Improving High Bounce / Low Conversion [...]
Daniel Pink: TED talk on motivation How FlightCaster Squeezes Predictions from Flight Data. Clay Shirky: Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable Chris Dixon: The worst time to join a startup is right after it gets initial VC financing Bill Gurley: What Is Really Happening To The Venture Capital Industry? The World’s Most Mind-Bending Language Has the [...]
Paul Graham: “No, it turns out, we’re not even the protagonists: we’re just the latest model vehicle our genes have constructed to travel around in.” See Randomness. David Foster Wallace on Life and Work. Joel Spolsky: Strong problem-solving skills are important in business. Knowing which problems you absolutely must solve is even more important. Setting [...]
Bokardo: No Sign-up Necessary (the strikethrough method) Lessons Learned from Asia: Most Popular websites in China, Japan & Korea Evri: Sentiment API Exposes Web’s Feelings Millionths of a second can cost millions of dollars: A new way to track network delays
Energy-Aware Internet Routing Software that tracks electricity prices could slash energy costs for big online businesses. Jeff Jonas: Your Movements Speak for Themselves: Space-Time Travel Data is Analytic Super-Food! BlackRock: Inside the trillionaires’ club. Scott Locklin: A bestiary of algorithmic trading strategies.
Interesting startup: Fairspin. Perspectives from an entire community spectrum. OpenTable: Technology that restaurateurs actually like. Laws of Productivity: 8 productivity experiments you don’t need to repeat Germany in the Era of Hyperinflation: Weimar Republic in the early 1920′s.
Interesting startup: I have been playing around with brizzly, a new service from thing labs to check my tweets. This has replaced twitter.com. Startup to watch – Rockmelt: Marc Andreessen backs the new *browser* startup. Robert Churchill is another person involved with Rockmelt. Ben Franklin’s daily planner Chris Dixon: Why Seed Investors Don’t Like Convertible [...]
Inflation and the Fall of the Roman Empire: Transcript of a speech given by Prof. Joseph Peden in 1984. Tim Ferriss: Google Website Optimizer Case Study Tim Sweeney, Founder of Epic Games: The End of the GPU Roadmap
Knob Creek bourbon ad embraces failure Directed Edge: A Whiteboard Artifact Dwight Merriman: Comparing Mongo DB and Couch DB Jordan Hubbard: Mac OS X – From the server room to your room (pdf) Joshua Bloch: How to Design a Good API and Why it Matters
I got a sneak peak at Peter Seibel’s long awaited Coders at Work. Superb book! My familiarity with the folks being interviewed varied; some I knew well, some in passing and some I had never heard of — like Bernie Cosell & Dan Ingalls. All the interviews were great to read, some of them were [...]
Jake Brutlag: Speed Matters for Google Web Search. Verisign: DNS ManagementBestPractices The eBay Architecture: Striking a balance between site stability, feature velocity, performance, and cost. Jans Aasman of Franz: Exploring RDBMS, OO Databases and Graph Databases
Startup Podcasts: – Paul Graham Start-ups, Innovation, and Creativity – Gabriel Weinberg Traction interview series, first up: Steve Barsh Chris Fralic of First Round Capital: Biz Dev for Startups: 25 years of learning in 25 slides Jeff Dean – Handling Large Datasets at Google: Current Systems and Future Directions (pdf) Bill Scott: Designing Web Interfaces [...]
How to Naturally Reset Your Sleep Cycle In One Night. Simply stop eating during the 12-16 hour period before you want to be awake Rajesh Jain’s presentation on the Indian Digital Market. Joseph Smarr’s presentations: – High Performance JavaScript – Performance Challenges for the open Web