Must-See Tech Talks for Every Programmer
I love a good tech talk. I like to watch them, I like to give them, and now that I have lots of free time on my hands, I’ve put together a list of the must-see...
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Review: The User Illusion by Tor Norretranders
A spectacular book that has completely changed my understanding of the mind and consciousness. I poured through this 400+ pages in just a few days. I couldn’t set...
Review: Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
This is a book of brilliant insights separated by hundreds of pages of tangents. It touches on a ridiculous number of topics:
Review: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
A wonderful read that gives a peek into the way people think and make decisions. The book describes the two ways the mind can work:
Don't learn to code. Learn to think.
It seems like everyone is trying to learn to code: Code.org has celebrities like Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Chris Bosh telling you anyone can code; CoderD...
You are what you document
Hey, grab a seat—we need to talk about documentation. Now, I know what you're thinking: documentation is tedious, a chore, an afterthought, a redu...
Bitcoin by analogy
Bitcoin is the first purely digital, decentralized money. It has been on my mind a lot lately and apparently, I'm not the only one. Paul Graham called it a ...
Got fast download but slow upload speeds? Here's a fix.
If you’ve found that your download speed is great, but your upload speed is abysmal, I’ve got a possible solution for you. I struggled with this issue for a whi...
Six programming paradigms that will change how you think about coding
Update #1: this post hit the front page of r/programming and HN. Thank you for the great feedback! I’ve added some corrections below.
So long, and thanks for all the t-shirts
In 2009, I joined LinkedIn as a Software Engineer. 5 years, 25 t-shirts, 50 hackdays, 4000 employees, several hundred million members, a billion dollars in reve...