Timothy Gowers & Michael Nielsen: Massively collaborative mathematics
Jonah Lehrer: Accept Defeat – The Neuroscience of Screwing Up
Annotations on Paul Graham’s ANSI Common Lisp
December, 2009
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Dec 09
Daily Links #136
Tim Harford: It’s not what you know, but who you know and where they are
Malcolm Gladwell: Late Bloomers – Why do we equate genius with precocity?
Nova Spivack: Web Evolution
Learn to Let Go: How Success Killed Duke Nukem
Ars Technica: From Cinepak to H.265: a brief history of video compression & How to obtain and install an SSL/TLS certificate, for free
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Dec 09
Daily Links #135
Steve Blank: The Elves Leave Middle Earth – Soda’s Are No Longer Free
Peter Norvig: What to demand from a Scientific Computing Language — Even if you don’t care about computing or languages (video)
Traction series interview: Mark Cramer, Part II
Alexis Ohanian: How to make a splash in social media
Technology Review: Trading Shares in Milliseconds
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Dec 09
Daily Links #134
Will Larson: Hands On Review of the Dynamo Paper
Jason Cohen: Easy statistics for AdWords A/B testing, and hamsters
Dan Bricklin: Note Taker for the Apple iPhone and iPod touch
Sean Ellis: How to bring a product to market
Ash Maurya: Achieving Flow in a Lean Startup
Joe Armstrong: Comet is dead long live websockets
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Dec 09
Daily Links #133
Disney org chart from the days of Walt Disney
@LEFSETZ VS. @IANCR: Mixing sincerity and marketing on Twitter
Who is getting rich off the iPhone?
David Greiner: Rock Solid HTML Emails
Project Honeypot: Our 1 Billionth Spam Message
Byrne Hobart: Why I Stopped Throwing Out Junk Mail
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Dec 09
Daily Links #132
namebench: Open-source DNS Benchmark Utility. If you are planning to use one of the DNS services recommended by namebench, here’s something to remember. Also read this: Using djb dnscache with Google DNS
Technically speaking, what makes Google Chrome fast?
Peter Coles: How tracking scripts affect page loads… can Google Analytics kill my web app?
Scott Locklin: A peregrination on the nature of money
James Grant: Requiem for the Dollar
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Dec 09
Daily Links #131
Scott Adams: Job Satisfaction
Matt Brezina: No One Cares About Your Stupid Little Startup
Robert L. Glass: Frequently Forgotten Fundamental Facts about Software Engineering
Derek Sivers: There’s no speed limit.