Archive for November, 2009

Daily Links #130

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

Andrew Chen: Product design debt versus Technical debt

The Recession and the Routing Table: Reading the Transit Tea Leaves (pdf)

John Ousterhout: Why Threads Are A Bad Idea (for most purposes) (pdf)

Yahoo! Developer Network:
- An Engineer’s Guide to Bandwidth

- An Engineer’s Guide to DNS

Daily Links #129

Friday, November 27th, 2009

From a thread on reddit, interesting videos from TED:

- Rory Sutherland: Life Lessons from an Ad Man

- Adam Savage’s obsessions

- Dan Gilbert asks, Why are we happy?

- Mike Rowe celebrates dirty jobs

- Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology

- VS Ramachandran on your mind

Daily Links #128

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009

Florence Nightingale: The Passionate Statistician

Ed Yourdon: Peopleware 2008 (pdf)

John Ousterhout:
- My Favorite Sayings
- Startup Company Culture
- Open Decision-Making
- Fortnight Milestones

Daily Links #127

Saturday, November 21st, 2009

Paul Graham: Apple’s Mistake.

John Resig: Deep Tracing of Internet Explorer

Mathematician Solves Rowing Boat “Wiggle” Problem

Vladimir Sedach: Developing high-performance network servers in Lisp

John Ousterhout: RAMCloud: Scalable Datacenter Storage Entirely in DRAM (pdf)

Edward Yourdon: The Politics of Metrics

Daily Links #126

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

Jonah Lehrer: The Tiger Woods Effect

Robert Full: Learning from the gecko’s tail (video)

Charles Davi: Understanding Custom OTC Derivatives

Psy-Fi blog; Intelligence Can Seriously Damage Your Wealth

Daily Links #125

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

Scobleizer: My world has changed (and I get to share with you)

A dozen of the best start-up pitches on the Web

Time: The 50 Best Inventions of 2009

Richard Thaler: Paying a Price for the Thrill of the Hunt

Interview: Jeff Bezos Founder and CEO, Amazon.com from 2001

Making browsers faster: Resource Packages

Daily Links #124

Saturday, November 14th, 2009

Bram Cohen: Comments on Go

Scobleizer: The worst things startups do

Alexis Ohanian: From PlayStation to Y Combinator: The Reddit Origin Story, Part 1

Eric A. Brewer: Towards Robust Distributed Systems and Brewer’s CAP Theorem

SPDY: An experimental protocol for a faster web

Daily Links #123

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

Evan Williams: Why Retweet works the way it does

Laura Ries: How Crocs Crashed

Christian Swinehart: 13 months and 11k lines of code later, i’ve finished up the choose your own adventure project.

Johan Andersson: Parallel Futures of a Game Engine

Satish Dharmaraj: The air in the valley

Daily Links #122

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

Trevor Blackwell: Early-stage theories

Greg Linden: Starting Findory – The entire series

Chris Dixon: Presenting Founder Collective

Steve Blank: Relentless – The Difference Between Motion And Action

Riak: Web-shaped data storage system

Daily Links #121

Monday, November 9th, 2009

Has Japan designed the world’s best bike shed?

A Contrary Indicator on M.B.A.’s and Stocks

Japan’s technology champions: Invisible but indispensable

The Krakatoa Chronicle – An Interactive, Personalized, Newspaper on the Web

Daily Links #120

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

Richard Muller on his grad school research and advisor

Joel Spolsky: Does Slow Growth Equal Slow Death?

Scott Wheeler: The “Interview” with Y Combinator That’s Not

Jason Cohen: Business Advice Plagued by Survivor Bias

Matthew Ebel: In Defense Of 1,000 True Fans – Part II