11 links collected from tumblr.com between 2011 and 2015

Things Real People Don't Say About Advertising

asians sleeping in the library

THEY’RE BETTER AT LIFE AND THEY GET BETTER GRADES THAN YOU FOR A REASON. PICTURES OF ASIAN STUDENTS FROM UNIVERSITIES SLEEPING IN THE LIBRARY AND LECTURE HALLS.

This Guy Has My MacBook

On March 21, 2011, my MacBook was stolen from my apartment in Oakland, CA. I reported the crime to the police and even told them where it was, but they couldn’t help me due to lack of resources. Meanwhile, I’m using the awesome app, Hidden, to capture these photos of this guy who has my MacBook.

Quality, not quantity is the power of networking!

Connecting with someone on a social network is *not* a short cut to getting access to important or well connected peoples ressources. It is simple an address book style list of people you’ve already made the effort to get to know and with whom you have a level of trust and understanding.

The Word of Notch: It's a scam!

notch: Perhaps you’ve seen the videos about some groundbreaking "unlimited detail" rendering technology? If not, check it out here, then get back to this post: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00gAbgBu8R4 Well, it is a scam. They made a voxel renderer, probably based on sparse voxel octrees. That’s... (via notch)

The Word of Notch: On Patents

notch: If you own a software patent, you should feel bad. (via notch)

Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 5 Notes Essay

As humans, we need to solve big problems. If you graduate Stanford at 22 and Google recruits you, you’ll work a 9-to-5. It’s probably more like an 11-to-3 in terms of hard work. They’ll pay well. It’s relaxing. But what they are actually doing is paying you to accept a much lower intellectual growth rate. When you recognize that intelligence is compounding, the cost of that missing long-term compounding is enormous. They’re not giving you the best opportunity of your life. Then a scary thing can happen: You might realize one day that you’ve lost your competitive edge. You won’t be the best anymore.

Progressive Reduction

I’m very excited to talk about a technique that we’ve started using at LayerVault. We call it Progressive Reduction.

Our Incredible Journey

Cataloging the thrilling opportunities start-ups are offered when their incredible journey continues by being bought by an exciting company. However, as a user of the start-up’s service, your own incredible journey must end, because all of your photos and writing and checkins and messages and relationships must now be deleted.

King James Programming: Correspondingly, (car z) is defined to be the Saviour of the world.

Posts generated by a Markov chain trained on the King James Bible, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, and some of Eric S. Raymond's writings Run by Michael Walker (barrucadu).

Flux solutions compared by example

Nowadays Flux (together with React.js) is one of the hottest topics in the tech world. When people talk about Flux they mean more of a pattern than a framework. But Javascript community has already made a solid input into it and developed different approaches for working with Flux in order to bring some structure and "frameworky" feel. The first thing which comes to mind after some exploration - there are too much Flux libraries right now. In spite of that let’s try to compare some of them.