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Coding Horror
Buying Happiness
Despite popular assertions to the contrary, science tells us that money can buy happiness. To a point. Recent research has begun to distinguish two aspects of subjective well-being. Emotional well-being refers to the emotional quality of an individual's everyday experience — the frequency and intensity of experiences…
Assembla Blog · Andy Singleton
9 Ways to Accelerate Software Development
Scaling– Design your process so that new contributors can join. Recruiting and Staffing – Add the new contributors. Blending – Use knowledgeable internal people, and new outside people, on the same team. Duplication – Fund two or more contributors to work separately on something really important and take the first or…
Google Webmaster Central Blog · Jens
Coding guidelines for HTML and CSS
Binary Bonsai · Michael Heilemann
Portal's Community Level Builder
Absolutely amazing. Having been a level designer for over a decade, I can't stress how impressed I am with this. Granted, they can do this because the environments of Portal supports it, but that's part of the brilliance, isn't it?
ShaunInman.com // plus Elsewhere
Millinaut Postmortem
This past weekend Ludum Dare celebrated its tenth anniversary. Ten years of crazy people going it alone to create a game in 48 hours. Two years ago they expanded the event to allow teams to participate in a separate but concurrent 72 hour jam. This is my fourth Ludum Dare (1, 2, 3) but my first as a jam participant.…
A List Apart: The Full Feed · Rachel Lovinger
Content Modelling: A Master Skill
The content model is one of the most important content strategy tools at your disposal. It allows you to represent content in a way that translates the intention, stakeholder needs, and functional requirements from the user experience design into something that can be built by developers implementing a CMS. A good…
Subtraction.com
The New Yorker: Battleground America
Using the recent Chardon High School shooting as a starting point, New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore looks at the history of gun rights in America. Before the late 20th Century, the widely accepted understanding of the Second Amendment was that it provided for the people’s right to form armed militias to provide…
Waxy.org Links
Dan Hon on beating diabetes with data
interesting look at the state of quantified health
Massive Health · cassandraleong
TEDMED Highlights: Here's to the future of health and medicine
After an invigorating three and a half days of TEDMED, we’re back. Intriguing talks. Brilliant People. Amazing conversations. And we can’t rave enough about it. Me and Ryan from Pipette/RockHealth Here’s some great highlights. Healthcare is a long and winding road. It takes years and billions of dollars to find that…
Schneier on Security · schneier
Amazing Round of "Split or Steal"
In Liars and Outliers, I use the metaphor of the Prisoner's Dilemma to exemplify the conflict between group interest and self-interest. There are a gazillion academic papers on the Prisoner's Dilemma from a good dozen different academic disciplines, but the weirdest dataset on real people playing the game is from a…
davetrott · Dave Trott
WHAT DOES ED KNOW THAT WE DON’T?
Coding Horror
Make Your Email Hacker Proof
It's only a matter of time until your email gets hacked. Don't believe me? Just read this harrowing cautionary tale. When [my wife] came back to her desk, half an hour later, she couldn’t log into Gmail at all. By that time, I was up and looking at e‑mail, and we both quickly saw what the real problem was. In my…
Coding Horror
Speed Hashing
Hashes are a bit like fingerprints for data. A given hash uniquely represents a file, or any arbitrary collection of data. At least in theory. This is a 128-bit MD5 hash you're looking at above, so it can represent at most 2128 unique items, or 340 trillion trillion trillion. In reality the usable space is…
Coding Horror
Visualizing Code to Fail Faster
In What You Can't See You Can't Get I mentioned in passing how frustrated I was that the state of the art in code editors and IDE has advanced so little since 2003. A number of commenters pointed out the amazing Bret Victor talk Inventing on Principle. I hadn't seen this, but thanks for mentioning it, because I…
High Performance Web Sites · Steve Souders
Frontend SPOF in Beijing
A List Apart: The Full Feed · Samantha Warren
Style Tiles and How They Work
How do you involve your client in a successful design process? Many of our processes date back to print design and advertising. It’s time we evolved our deliverables to make clients a more active participant in the process. The style tile is a design deliverable that references website interface elements through…
Quick Sprout · Neil Patel
The Real Secret to 1,000 Blog Subscribers in 60 Days or Less
timoni.org
I love the internet.
It’s my fifth cakeday of coming out here, to the internet world capital, San Francisco. I wouldn’t be here if there was no internet; I have no particular inclination towards hippiedom or comp sci or biotech, but once I learned it was the place to be if you loved the internet, I was dead set on moving here. Cause I…
ESCAPOLOGY (the escape pod's blog) · theescapepod
An inspirational story
The movie DRIVE, starring Ryan Gosling, was directed by Nicholas Winding Refn. NWR,as he shall heretoforth be known, is a younger Danish director who had a huge hit with his first movie PUSHER, a gritty and druggy noir pic. Copenhagen … Continue reading →
Bustr Bensn
"In article after article, one theme emerges from the media coverage of people’s relationships..."
“In article after article, one theme emerges from the media coverage of people’s relationships with our current set of technologies: Consumers want digital willpower. App designers in touch with the latest trends in behavioral modification—nudging, the quantified self, and gamification—and good old-fashioned…
Waxy.org
Waxy.org Turns 10
Ten years ago, I started this site with three simple rules: no journaling, no tired memes, and be original. 18 months later, I added a little linkblog. In those ten years, I've posted 415 entries, including this one, and over 13,000 links. The decision to start writing here regularly changed my entire life. It's…
Massive Health · azaaza
HOW WE EAT: ANALYZING ½ A MILLION MEALS
“Data is ten times more powerful than algorithms.” – Peter Norvig1 The CDC says that today more than ⅓ of people are obese2. United Health predicts that 52% of Americans will be either diabetic or prediabetic by 20203. The interventions used to combat this crisis aren’t working. Meaningful large-scale data about how…
Stephen Wolfram Blog · Stephen Wolfram
Overcoming Artificial Stupidity
Google Analytics Blog · Pete Frisella
Sharing Personalized Dashboards using the Analytics API
we make money not art · Regine
Book review: Visual Storytelling- Inspiring a New Visual Language
I Will Teach You To Be Rich · Ramit Sethi
Should you contribute to your 401(k) if your employer doesn’t match contributions?
Blog | Ushahidi · juliana
Data Hugging, Feedback Loops and Open Data
kottke.org · Jason Kottke
Valve Software's usual approach to building a creative business
More Intelligent Life · Robert Lane Greene
FACEBOOK: LIKE?
Our Top 12 of 2012. No. 6: The chances are, you have a Facebook profile yourself: by July, a billion people will have one. But have you thought about what it’s doing to real life? Robert Lane Greene reports, starting with a visit to Facebook’s offices... read more »