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
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
Florence Nightingale: The Passionate Statistician Ed Yourdon: Peopleware 2008 (pdf) John Ousterhout: – My Favorite Sayings – Startup Company Culture – Open Decision-Making – Fortnight Milestones
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Way I Work: Jason Fried of 37Signals James Surowiecki: Amazon-Wal-mart price war Steve Blank: Lean Startups aren’t Cheap Startups How John Paulson took home $10 million a day betting on a fall in home prices Why Dolphins are deep thinkers?
Jon Moore: NoSQL East 2009 Redux Tim Anglade: Tin, a database engine so tiny, its name had to be shortened Memcached Study (pdf) Radia Perlman: Tutorial on Bridges, Routers, Switches, Oh My! (pdf) Feynman, Challenger Disaster, and Software Engineering