Bookmarks from 2014
18 bookmarks from 2014
The Overprotected Kid - The Atlantic
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.
How to Scale Yourself and Get More Done Than You Thought Possible
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.
Uber Job Ad Reveals Company Mindset
I'm not an Uber-hater. I use the service every couple of months, and I've always had a positive experience.
What Happened When Marissa Mayer Tried to Be Steve Jobs - NYTimes.com
The inside story of how Yahoo’s C.E.O. lost her way.
The Man Who Made 'Tetris' | Motherboard
Life gets pretty chill after creating 'Tetris' and escaping the KGB.
The Secret Life of Passwords - NYTimes.com
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.
How Netflix is turning viewers into puppets
"House of Cards" gives viewers exactly what Big Data says we want. This won't end well
The Rise of the Professional Cyber Athlete
Ben McGrath profiles Scarlett, the StarCraft competitor who is the most accomplished woman in the young history of e-sports.
Are Test Coverage Metrics Overrated?
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
Why Use Node.js? A Comprehensive Tutorial with Examples | Toptal
Node.js can solve I/O scaling. Learn why and when to use Node.js in this tutorial.
Finding a Video Poker Bug Made These Guys Rich—Then Vegas Made Them Pay | W
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
Drones and Everything After -- NYMag
The flying, spying, killing machines that are turning humans into superheroes.
My startup failed, and this is what it feels like… — Medium
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…
Is coding the new literacy?
Why America's schools need to train a generation of hackers.
What Can Men Do?
(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
