February 2012
49 posts
DiversityImbalance →
Flipping the day - (37signals) →
Interesting thoughts on the effects of working hours. I doubt his specific solution would work for me, but I like the idea of thinking more about possible options.
What you need to know about Twitter’s new filters →
Good post on international filtering laws.
Michael Wolfe's answer to Engineering Management:... →
Wow.
Two phase release planning - Exploration Through... →
Seems sensible enough. I also like the final paragraph: “My success selling this approach has been mixed. People really like the feeling of certainty, even if it’s based on nothing more than a grand collective pretending.”
The Internet needs BrowserID - a plea to... →
Is enough better than OpenID to succeed? Not at all clear to me.
America, Found and Lost - National Geographic -... →
North America didn’t have earthworms before Europeans arrived? That’s quite a change.
“The point is, I’ve realized I would much rather talk at length with one person...”
– under culture » side notes » The A.V. Club Problem: On Lists, Fandom and Mortality
Skyrim achievement completion - Nelson's Weblog →
Gameplay and Story Are Exactly Like Music and... →
Pretty reasonable parallel; see also his followup post.
More Evidence that Exposure to Economic Theory... →
A One Man Board Game Buyer’s Guide (Part II) |... →
Good set of recommendations.
““I remember getting my first banjo, and reading the book saying ‘this is how you...”
– Steve Martin, quoted in Closing Your Interests Opens More Interesting Opportunities: The Power of Diligence in Creating a Remarkable Life | Study Hacks
“John Cage doesn’t work more hours than you. Neither does Carole Greider....”
– Seth’s Blog: Time doesn’t scale
“I think he is right about these kids being comfortable with the “formal process”...”
– How Harvard is failing its students « mathbabe
“Supply Side assumes that the rich have a zillion other uses for their cash and...”
– Contrary Brin: Must the Rich be Lured into Investing? Who are the Real “Job Creators?”
Mononoke Hime (1980) - The Original Miyazaki Book... →
Spot the seeds of future Ghibli movies here; amazing.
Welcome to the Jungle « Sutter’s Mill →
The latest iteration of the Moore’s Law posts that Herb Sutter has been doing for a while.
“In a radio interview with US radio host James Martinez, Rossi stated that that...”
– Customers Can Buy E-Cat in the US, UK and Sweden Soon | Ecat Fusion And Andrea Rossi’s Ecats
Diseased disciplines: the strange case of the... →
“Indeed, not a single justice of the United States Supreme Court who has voted in...”
– Geoffrey R. Stone: Is Money Speech?
A response to one Elsevier employee, and an open... →
Yeah, pretty much.
“And speking of Life, sa silently the long black undertaker in his tall black hat...”
– Ronald Searle | The Economist
Fighting For Gwen :: RyanMacklin.com →
In general, I quite like the local schools, but it sounds like they really screwed up this time.
“When I first told my business partner that I wanted to work only 4 days a week,...”
– A million dollars isn’t cool, you know what’s cool? | Tannock.net
The Etsy Way « Code as Craft →
(Also via pinboard/nelson.)
High Scalability - High Scalability - Tumblr... →
(Via pinboard/nelson.)
“A reader asked why the lifecycle in Agile Lifecycles for Geographically...”
– Why an Agile Project Manager is Not a Scrum Master | Managing Product Development
“I was crippled by Impostor Syndrome”: One woman’s... →
Scary.
The Top Twelve Reasons Why You Should Hate the... →
This is not a surprise, but: our government is broken. (Via mathbabe.)
Nick Kwiatek — Web & interaction designer ... →
Cool ASCII animation. (Via Pinboard/nelson.)
Building Memory-efficient Java Applications →
Interesting (and somewhat depressing) set of slides.
Love Interest: Second Date Ikezawa Hanako a Trans*... →
Interesting take on Katawa Shoujo.
“This nostalgia for a past often so eclectic as to be unlocatable historically is...”
– Susan Sontag, Approaching Artaud, as quoted in Samuel R. Delany, Neveryóna, p. 9.
T-Rex Trying... →
Poor T-Rex…
Dangers of Fracking →
Interesting web design technique; I wouldn’t want many sites to be designed this way, but I’m glad it’s possible.
Ascension - An Ascension Proposal →
Okay, this is rather sweet.
“I was talking with a client recently, who was professing his desire for younger...”
– Can Anyone That Old Know Anything? | Hiring Technical People. Lots of fascinating hiring posts showing up these days…
“I thought it was time to take an empirical look at the gender ratio of some...”
– Pleasure and Pain » The plain numbers about women in tech – The VCs
“The first chef walks in, sits down at the table, and coldly stares at...”
– Unlimited Novelty: “Can you solve this problem for me on the whiteboard?” I do sometimes interview using whiteboard coding and/or programming questions that aren’t directly related to what I work on day to day, but I’m increasingly unsure why, and have much less tolerance for...
January 2012
36 posts
no-longer-loving-google - Nelson's Weblog →
I’ve been liking Google less than I had over the last couple of years, but even so this month has been a real downer. I never thought I’d switch my browsers to Bing as their search engine…