In this week edition you can learn about monads, business lessons, healthcare systems or why most public benches suck. Enjoy!
What is a Monad?
DRY principle often makes my code more complicated and/or more difficult to understand - How do I get over this? What am I not considering?
May the next Etsy learn its lessons - Venture capital taught Etsy that making money wasn’t a skill it needed to learn early on.
Code Health: Obsessed With Primitives? - Programming languages provide basic types, such as integers, strings, and maps, which are useful in many contexts.
Deflationary Spiral - Some people worry about Bitcoin being “deflationary”, that it appreciates over time.
Facebook is not worth $33,000,000,000 - It’s getting beyond ridiculous and when even serious publications like Forbes jump on for a ride.
Statistically rigorous Java performance evaluation - This paper won the 10-year most influential paper award at OOPSLA this year.
The Milan Police Have A High-Tech Solution To Catch Robbers
The Country with No Territory
Our Story in 1 Minute
How Does Stealth Technology Work?
How Technicolor changed movies
Black Mirror
Road signs suck. What if we got rid of them all?
Job Searching? Skip The Job Boards And Take These Five Steps Instead - As one career expert explains, the art of “speculative job applications” may be a numbers game, but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
The Town Where Gap Year Kids Went To Die
Leadership Anti Patterns
Why cities are full of uncomfortable benches
From inboxing to thought showers: how business bullshit took over - Vacuous management-speak is easily laughed off – but is there a real cost to talking rubbish?
Are We Running Out of Ideas?
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IT
How programmers get disqualified from doing everything else - Being able to program is one of the few skills that can make you be seen as less than what you are.What is a Monad?
DRY principle often makes my code more complicated and/or more difficult to understand - How do I get over this? What am I not considering?
May the next Etsy learn its lessons - Venture capital taught Etsy that making money wasn’t a skill it needed to learn early on.
Code Health: Obsessed With Primitives? - Programming languages provide basic types, such as integers, strings, and maps, which are useful in many contexts.
Deflationary Spiral - Some people worry about Bitcoin being “deflationary”, that it appreciates over time.
Facebook is not worth $33,000,000,000 - It’s getting beyond ridiculous and when even serious publications like Forbes jump on for a ride.
Statistically rigorous Java performance evaluation - This paper won the 10-year most influential paper award at OOPSLA this year.
The Milan Police Have A High-Tech Solution To Catch Robbers
Politics
The real reason American health care is so expensiveThe Country with No Territory
Science
How Much Plastic Do You Eat?Our Story in 1 Minute
How Does Stealth Technology Work?
Culture
What Realistic Film Dialogue Sounds LikeHow Technicolor changed movies
Black Mirror
Miscellaneous
Employees who stay in companies for more than 2 years get paid 50% less - There’s an image that has come to be associated with millennials – that they are changing jobs every couple of years. This is said to look bad on a resume.Road signs suck. What if we got rid of them all?
Job Searching? Skip The Job Boards And Take These Five Steps Instead - As one career expert explains, the art of “speculative job applications” may be a numbers game, but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
The Town Where Gap Year Kids Went To Die
Leadership Anti Patterns
Why cities are full of uncomfortable benches
From inboxing to thought showers: how business bullshit took over - Vacuous management-speak is easily laughed off – but is there a real cost to talking rubbish?
Are We Running Out of Ideas?
Check out my Slovak newsletter (if you understand Slovak :) ).
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