Colin Percival: Securing an HTTPS server Ben Tilly: Teaching linear algebra Caterina Fake: Working hard is overrated The Way I Work: Marc Lore of Diapers.com Jeremy Clift profiles psychologist Daniel Kahneman: Questioning a Chastened Priesthood Niki Scevak: Nuances of Twitter Financing John Cassidy: Rational Irrationality – The real reason that capitalism is so crash-prone.
Interesting Startup: SkyGrid. I got an invite to SkyGrid in April, finally got around to playing around with it. Absolutely Awesome UI. Another Interesting startup: Convey Computer, working on what they call Hybrid-core computing. Here’s a whitepaper from their site. Remember Steve Wallach from the book, Soul of a New Machine, he is the founder [...]
Podcasts: How A Driven Entrepreneur Made Tetris A Huge Hit – With Henk Rogers Econtalk podcast with Paul Buchheit Tom Gruber talks about Siri, the Virtual Personal Assistant William Tunstall-Pedoe talks about TrueKnowledge
Steve Blank: Let’s fire our customers Derek Sivers: Emphasize meaning over price = More paid sales Jeff Moser: A Stick Figure Guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Garry Tan: Build it “If only I had ____ I would succeed.” Interesting presentations from Commercial Users of Functional Programming (CUFP) 2009 – Functional Programming at Facebook [...]
Mendeley: How Last.fm inspired a scientific breakthrough Rebecca Saxe: How we read each other’s minds (Video) That Which Does Not Kill Me Makes Me Stranger: on Jure Robic the ultra-endurance athlete What went wrong with AIG, 3 part article from December, 2008: – What Went Wrong: The Beautiful Machine – A Crack in The System [...]
Eight Mental Traps to Avoid: Investing is as much an exercise in controlling emotions as harnessing the intellect. 80 legs: Rent a web crawler: crawl 2 billion pages/day for $2.00 per million pages crawled + $0.03/cpu/hr via @angusdav BetterExplained Math ebook: Get the beta! I am a big fan of Kalid’s website, there are some [...]
Building Rome in a day: Algorithm Generates a Virtual Rome in 3D from 150,000 Flickr Photos JSSpeccy: A ZX Spectrum emulator in Javascript. Nothing like playing Super Mario and Contra in JavaScript. Paul Graham: Post-Medium Publishing. Comments on Hacker News. David Weekly: How PBworks Used Lean Startup Techniques Things Naughty Dog Liked about Lisp
TC50 video demo of AnyClip: does amazing movie search. Pixlr: Cool web-based picture/image editor Dan Bricklin: Signals and the Ubiquity of New Carriers D. J. Bernstein: Usable security for DNS (pdf) Mark Sellers: Seven Traits great investors share
Short Paul Graham video interview at TechCrunch50 As always some gems. Joshua Porter: Designing For Social Traction Ulf Wiger: What is Erlang-Style Concurrency? The Man Nobody Wanted to Hear: Global Banking Economist Warned of Coming Crisis
Ben Tilly: Effective A/B Testing “Hello John. It’s Gordon Brown.” Interesting companies: Adam D’Angelo & Charlie Cheever’s Alma Networks resurfaces as Quora, “a community-generated database of the trusted information that interests people most.” The folks that worked at Right Media start a new company, AppNexus, a new cloud computing solution. A virtual Personal Assistant: Siri
Mike Markson of Blekko: Eight hard truths about online media Tim Bray: Music & Money. Another gem by Tim. Freebase: A socially managed semantic database. Freebase’s presentation at the NYC semantic web meetup. Tom Pinckney: What I don’t like about mysql and memcache Bret Taylor: The technology behind Tornado, FriendFeed’s web server Better Explained: Understanding [...]
Paul Graham: Good and Bad Procrastination Rands in Repose: Your People Zappos, the online shoe shopping utopia Confessions of a Car Salesman
Tom Gruber: Intelligence at the Interface Dan Ariely: The curious paradox of “Optimism Bias” Peter J. Wallison: Everything You Wanted to Know about Credit Default Swaps–but Were Never Told
Tim Bray interviews the founder of Ravelry James Hamilton: Successfully Challenging the Server Tax Harmonix: How ‘horrendous failure’ led to Rock Band Latency Arbitrage: High-frequency Trading
Dropbox’s Summer ’07 YCombinator Application, with interesting comments from Paul Graham. Thinking about applying to YCombinator, you have to read this. Philip Greenspun: Tips for Startup Companies Paul Graham: What Kate Saw in Silicon Valley Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage. Hacker News discussion here. IEEE spectrum: The Making of The [...]