{{< bookmark-card image="1055997550.jpg" title="The scientific evidence against spanking, timeouts, and sleep training" link="http://qz.com/310622/the-scientific-evidence-against-spanking-timeouts-and-sleep-training" domain="qz.com" date="2015-01-05" tags="health, psychology, science" excerpt="So when you were punished as a kid, did you absolutely, never again take an extra cookie from the cookie jar?" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997549.jpg" title="Xmas or Bust: The Untold Story of ‘National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation’" link="http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/features/untold-story-of-national-lampoons-christmas-vacation-20141222" domain="rollingstone.com" date="2015-01-05" tags="news" excerpt="From freak snowstorms to working with Chevy Chase, the makers of 'Christmas Vacation' reveal the secrets behind a holiday-movie classic." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997546.jpg" title="The Overprotected Kid - The Atlantic" link="http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/03/hey-parents-leave-those-kids-alone/358631" domain="theatlantic.com" date="2014-12-24" tags="health, history, psychology, science" excerpt="A preoccupation with safety has stripped childhood of independence, risk-taking, and discovery—without making it safer. A new kind of playground points to a better solution." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997521.jpg" title="How to Scale Yourself and Get More Done Than You Thought Possible" link="https://zapier.com/blog/scale-yourself-scott-hanselman" domain="zapier.com" date="2014-12-24" tags="career, leadership, productivity" excerpt="The following is a detailed write-up of a popular productivity talk delivered by Scott Hanselman. Visit his blog, hanselman.com, for more productivity tips. \"Don't worry, just drop the ball." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997548.jpg" title="Uber Job Ad Reveals Company Mindset" link="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/uber-job-ad-reveals-company-jason-webster" domain="linkedin.com" date="2014-12-20" tags="career, interviews" excerpt="I'm not an Uber-hater. I use the service every couple of months, and I've always had a positive experience." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997547.jpg" title="What Happened When Marissa Mayer Tried to Be Steve Jobs - NYTimes.com" link="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/magazine/what-happened-when-marissa-mayer-tried-to-be-steve-jobs.html" domain="nytimes.com" date="2014-12-18" tags="apple, history, management, news, tech" excerpt="The inside story of how Yahoo’s C.E.O. lost her way." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997539.jpg" title="The Man Who Made 'Tetris' | Motherboard" link="https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-man-who-made-tetris/" domain="vice.com" date="2014-12-10" tags="games, gaming, politics, tech" excerpt="Life gets pretty chill after creating 'Tetris' and escaping the KGB." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997540.jpg" title="The Secret Life of Passwords - NYTimes.com" link="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/19/magazine/the-secret-life-of-passwords.html" domain="nytimes.com" date="2014-12-10" tags="security, tech" excerpt="We despise them – yet we imbue them with our hopes and dreams, our dearest memories, our deepest meanings. They unlock much more than our accounts." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/images/bookmark-placeholder.jpg" title="How Netflix is turning viewers into puppets" link="http://www.salon.com/2013/02/01/how_netflix_is_turning_viewers_into_puppets" domain="salon.com" date="2014-12-09" tags="data, netflix, tech" excerpt="\"House of Cards\" gives viewers exactly what Big Data says we want. This won't end well" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997537.jpg" title="The Rise of the Professional Cyber Athlete" link="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/24/good-game" domain="newyorker.com" date="2014-12-09" tags="games, gaming, stories, tech" excerpt="Ben McGrath profiles Scarlett, the StarCraft competitor who is the most accomplished woman in the young history of e-sports." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997543.jpg" title="Are Test Coverage Metrics Overrated?" link="http://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/are-test-coverage-metrics-overrated" domain="thoughtworks.com" date="2014-12-09" tags="programming, tech, testing, thoughtworks" excerpt="I know a certain developer whose level of anxiety rises to disproportionate levels when his test coverage report returns a less-than-100% coverage. Whenever this happens, he will fiddle with his tests until he achieves the glorious 100% statistic - after which he will have earned" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997511.png" title="Why Use Node.js? A Comprehensive Tutorial with Examples | Toptal" link="http://www.toptal.com/nodejs/why-the-hell-would-i-use-node-js" domain="toptal.com" date="2014-11-12" tags="code, javascript, programming, tech" excerpt="Node.js can solve I/O scaling. Learn why and when to use Node.js in this tutorial." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997532.jpg" title="Finding a Video Poker Bug Made These Guys Rich—Then Vegas Made Them Pay | W" link="http://www.wired.com/2014/10/cheating-video-poker" domain="wired.com" date="2014-10-12" tags="finance, games, gaming, news, tech" excerpt="Michael Friberg John Kane was on a hell of a winning streak. On July 3, 2009, he walked alone into the high-limit room at the Silverton Casino in Las Vegas and sat down at a video poker machine called the Game King. Six minutes later the purple light on the top of the machine fla" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/images/bookmark-placeholder.jpg" title="Drones and Everything After -- NYMag" link="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/10/drones-the-next-smartphone.html" domain="nymag.com" date="2014-10-12" tags="hardware, politics, science, tech" excerpt="The flying, spying, killing machines that are turning humans into superheroes." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997425.webp" title="Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years" link="http://norvig.com/21-days.html" domain="norvig.com" date="2014-07-18" tags="learning, programming, tech" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997530.webp" title="Visualizing Algorithms" link="http://bost.ocks.org/mike/algorithms" domain="bost.ocks.org" date="2014-07-11" tags="algorithms, code, programming, tech" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997529.jpg" title="My startup failed, and this is what it feels like… — Medium" link="https://medium.com/@nikkidurkin99/my-startup-failed-and-this-is-what-it-feels-like-c5d64b3ae96b" domain="medium.com" date="2014-06-28" tags="business, finance, tech" excerpt="If there is one thing that doing a startup has taught me, it’s that I am much more resilient than I could have ever imagined. Looking back, when I started 99dresses fresh out of high school I was…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997528.jpg" title="Is coding the new literacy?" link="http://www.motherjones.com/media/2014/06/computer-science-programming-code-diversity-sexism-education" domain="motherjones.com" date="2014-06-22" tags="education, history, learning, politics, programming, tech" excerpt="Why America's schools need to train a generation of hackers." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997525.webp" title="What Can Men Do?" link="http://blog.codinghorror.com/what-can-men-do" domain="blog.codinghorror.com" date="2014-04-29" tags="diversity, talks, tech" excerpt="(The title references Shanley Kane’s post by the same name. This post represents my views on what men can do.) It’s no secret that programming is an incredibly male dominated field. * Figures vary, but somewhere from 20% to 29% of currently working programmers are female. * L" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997520.webp" title="Wu-Tang, Atomically «" link="http://grantland.com/features/wu-tang-clan-20th-anniversary-reunion-rza-gza-ghostface" domain="grantland.com" date="2014-03-28" tags="history, music, stories" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997513.jpg" title="You Need To See This 17-Minute Film Set Entirely On A Teen's Computer Scree" link="http://www.fastcocreate.com/3017108/you-need-to-see-this-17-minute-film-set-entirely-on-a-teens-computer-screen" domain="fastcocreate.com" date="2013-12-11" tags="health, psychology, tech" excerpt="Find the latest Creativity news from Fast company. See related business and technology articles, photos, slideshows and videos." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997492.png" title="SnowflakeServer" link="http://martinfowler.com/bliki/SnowflakeServer.html" domain="martinfowler.com" date="2013-08-24" tags="design patterns, programming, tech, thoughtworks" excerpt="a bliki entry for Snowflake Server" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997491.png" title="PhoenixServer" link="http://martinfowler.com/bliki/PhoenixServer.html" domain="martinfowler.com" date="2013-08-24" tags="design patterns, programming, tech, thoughtworks" excerpt="Why you should regularly smash your servers with a baseball bat (figuratively)" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997509.png" title="ConfigurationSynchronization" link="http://martinfowler.com/bliki/ConfigurationSynchronization.html" domain="martinfowler.com" date="2013-08-24" tags="design patterns, programming, tech, thoughtworks" excerpt="a bliki entry for Configuration Synchronization" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997508.png" title="ImmutableServer" link="http://martinfowler.com/bliki/ImmutableServer.html" domain="martinfowler.com" date="2013-08-24" tags="design patterns, programming, tech, thoughtworks" excerpt="Immutable servers cannot have their configuration changed once deployed, instead they are torn down and replaced with a new server based on an updated (version-controlled) definition." >}}