February 2012
Metrics 2.0 →
from Yammer.
drinking games →
Why French Parents Are Superior →
by Pamela Druckerman. Interesting observations.
Buildpacks →
Really like how the Heroku platform is designed.
January 2012
Andrei's Tips on Giving Technical Talks →
by Andrei Alexandrescu
The Power of Introverts: A Manifesto for Quiet... →
on Scientific American.
Everything You Thought You Knew About Learning Is... →
If you want to do something big in your life, you must remember that shyness is...
– Such a shame, I want so many more children like this.
Digital Life - Programming prodigy passes away at 16: Hear her philosophy of life
What Scientific Concept Would Improve Everybody's... →
Answers. Lots of them.
Self; The Video →
I suffered through half a semester of differential equations before my pride let...
– Inri137 comments on I’m not as smart as I thought I was.
Such a great response.
The Stop Online Piracy Debate →
on Forum, a KQED production. Both sides represented.
Algorithm Measures Human Pecking Order →
Physicists Seek To Lose The Lecture As Teaching... →
at NPR.
December 2011
Why you should use a BSD style license for your... →
Fuck the GPL.
Practical Garbage Collection, part 1 –... →
Time to end the war on drugs →
Fuck yeah Richard Branson!
In the period of shareholder capitalism since 1976, executive compensation has...
– The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing Shareholder Value - Forbes
Which reads faster, Chinese or English? →
at Per Square Mile. Good read.
Desktops and Workspaces to Inspire Best of 2011 →
Planning to make my home office suck way less.
IF you are ever on a jury in a marijuana case, I recommend that you vote “not...
– Jurors Can Say No - NYTimes.com
The only useful airport security measures since 9/11,” he says, “were locking...
– Does Airport Security Really Make Us Safer? | Culture | Vanity Fair
One teachers approach to preventing gender...
togetherforjacksoncountykids:
“It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel
Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that she still had not removed her hood. When we arrived at the art room, I...
Visualizing Device Utilization →
Graph porn.
It turns out that preferences have a cost.
– In Open Source, Learn to Decide | Andrew Nacin
It Just Got Incredibly Easy to Tell Congress That... →
Locomotion Smoke and Mirrors →
Interpreting user actions, at Robot Invader.
Finance for Geeks →
Sleep Deficit: The Performance Killer →
Very interesting article on sleep in the Harvard Business Review.
Led by the child who simply knew →
by The Boston Globe.
More shell, less egg →
Fuck yes Unix.
There are always shiny things. A company shouldn’t get addicted to being shiny,...
– I kinda love Jeff Bezos.
Jeff Bezos Owns the Web in More Ways Than You Think | Magazine
Ivo →
Interested to see how this turns out.
November 2011
Fast, easy, realtime metrics using Redis bitmaps →
Python Ecosystem →
There needs to be more documentation for development environments and ecosystems in every language like this.
3MF Project: What's In A GIF - Bit by Byte →