Notes

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• Marbury v Madison (Mock Class, UVA Law)

• How to Read a Case

• First-Year Contracts (Mock Class, BU Law)

• Violin plots should not exist

• Claude Shannon - Father of the Information Age

• Surely People Who Deny Climate Change are Lying

• Object-Oriented Programming is Bad

• Accidental Geoengineering

• Intentional Code

• Scientific Writing: Beyond Tips and Tricks

• Probabilistic Counting with HyperLogLog++

• Web Compression 101

• Parsing logs 230x faster with Rust

• The Birth of Legacy Software

• Marxian Alienation and Web Development

• Dark Matter Developers

• Let 1000 flowers bloom. Then rip 999 of them out by the roots

• The Lava Layer Antipattern

• John Carmack on Inlined Code

• Laws of Performant Software

• Why GNU grep is fast

• Surfacing Required Knowledge

• I/O is no longer the bottleneck

• Unlearning descriptive statistics

• More Shell, Less Egg

• Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster

• Scalability! But at what COST?

• Taco Bell Programming

• The Tail at Scale

• Behave

• On Depression in the U.S.

• Humans are Unique Among Living Creatures

• Stress and Health: Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers

• Performance Matters

• Why are Enterprises So Slow?

• It's the Latency, Stupid

• More Bandwidth Doesn't Matter (much)

• Identity Theft, Credit Reports, and You

• Four Years in Startups

• Scaling Yourself

• Considerations on Rent Control

• Autocracy: Rules for Survival

• Dear Liberal Friends: you do not have the tools to fight Trump

• Hiring is Broken And Yours Is, Too

• Coherence Penalty for Humans

• Work is Work

• Combinatorics & Probability (Coursera)

• Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt

• The Craft of Writing Effectively

• Writing Beyond the Academy

• The Evolution of Cooperation

• Preventing the Collapse of Civilization

• Why Specs Matter

• Own, Apologize, Repair: Coming Back to Integrity

• The Al Capone theory of sexual harassment

• The Pavlov Strategy

• Status as a Service (StaaS)

• Logs vs Structured Events

• Headcount goals, feature factories, and when to hire those mythical 10x people

• Between the World and Me

• ARC: A Self-Tuning, Low Overhead Replacement Cache

• Defect Attractors

• Corporate Open Source Anti-Patterns

• Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of Illumos

• Oral Tradition in Software Engineering: Passing the Craft Along Generations

• Leaping the chasm from proprietary to open: A survivor's guide

• Leadership Without Management: Scaling Organizations by Scaling Engineers

• The Summer of Rust

• What I Fought For

• Why I Didn't Do It

• What Happened (Oct. 17, 2017 Edition)

• Evil, and its relationship to the tech industry.

• America's 4th Phase

• Swamp Baseball

• Pyramid vs Obelisk

• Why "Agile" and especially Scrum are terrible

• Why 95 Percent of Software Engineers Lose Nothing By Unionizing

• The Time I Ruined Programming

• The Talent Crash

• Technological Unemployment: Yes, It's Our Problem Too

• Microsoft's Lost Decade

• Principles of Technology Leadership

• The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

• The Law of Lying: Perjury, False Statements, and Obstruction

• How Neoliberalism Worms Its Way Into Your Brain

• Delivering on Something That Doesn’t Exist

• How to Cut Through the Bullshit and Read the News Like a Defense Analyst

• The Limitations of Steven Pinker's Optimism

• Containers Will Not Fix Your Broken Culture (and Other Hard Truths)

• Your Company Culture Is Who You Hire, Fire, and Promote

• Why the Culture Wins: An Appreciation of Iain M. Banks

• When the (Empty) Apartment Next Door Is Owned by an Oligarch

• What’s Wrong With Our System Of Global Trade And Finance

• What Donald Trump Needs to Know About Bob Mueller and Jim Comey

• We have a political problem no one wants to talk about: very old politicians

• Uber’s New CEO

• Tolerance is not a moral precept

• The First White President

• The Dharma of Distraction

• The 9.9 Percent Is the New American Aristocracy

• Taming the steamroller

• Social Media Systems and Democracy

• Running in Circles

• Patterns are not building blocks.

• How to Win Your Next Political Argument

• How To Read Financial News

• How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner

• How (and Why) to Avoid Hiring That Terrible Google Dudebro

• Bitcoin is teaching libertarians everything they don’t know about economics

• Bayesian "Epistemology"

• Game Theory 101

• Confessions of an Unreal Engine 4 Engineering Firefighter

• A Taxonomy of Tech Debt

• Human factors and folk models

• An Evolutionary Approach to Norms

• Service Workers: An Introduction

• Deploying Often Is a Very Good Idea

• Choose Boring Technology

• The Push Train

• Ship Small Diffs

• No Way Out But Through

• Google SRE Book

• You Can't Have a Rollback Button

• Puppet (Configuration Management)

• HTTP/2

• HSTS

• CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing)

• The Gervais Principle

• Visualizing System Latency

• People can read their manager's mind

• How NOT to measure latency

• "Why Should I Know Anything About Rhetoric?"

• Scala Collections: Why Not?

• What I learned doing 250 interviews at Google

• The puzzle of motivation

• The power of vulnerability

• Impro

• How to Write a Great Research Paper

• How to Give a Great Research Talk

• Haskell is Useless

• Agile at Spotify

• The Future of Programming

• How to Negotiate Your Job Offer

• Front-end performance for web designers and front-end developers

• Computer Networks, 5th Edition

• Unicode Best Practices

• What We Actually Know About Software Development, and Why We Believe It’s True

• An Intuitive Explanation of Eliezer Yudkowsky's Intuitive Explanation of Bayes' Theorem

• Database normalization

• How I Met Your Girlfriend

• Newsnight interview with Christopher Hitchens

• Fun to Imagine

• Authors@Google | Christopher Hitchens

• AC360 interview with Christopher Hitchens

• SJSU-CS146 (Data Structures & Algorithms) - Graphs (2008 Spring)

• The Late, Great Stephen Colbert