a more or less weekly digest of juicy stuff

• what startups are really like, highly recommended
• the world was always awful, a guide to world history for people who romanticize the past
• myth: entrepreneurship will make you rich, one of the unfortunate side effects of all the publicity and hype surrounding startups is the idea that entrepreneurship is a guaranteed path to fame and riches. it isn't
• investors don't want to meet you. they wanted to be introduced to you, this applies to so many other areas as well
• ux is not just a fancy word for common sense, ux is easy to criticize, hard to do well
• a glimpse and a hook, a resume will never define who you are. it's not the job of your resume to give me a complete picture, and if you're struggling to include every last detail about who you are, you're wasting your time. your resume should be designed to give me a glimpse and a hook
• how to write a spelling corrector in 21 lines of python
• one-time pad, great summary
• "big data is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone claims they are doing it...", dan ariely
• anatomy of a perfect landing page
• how i faced my fears and learned to be good at math, the difference between good at math and bad at math is hard work
• which css measurements to use when
• the fizzbuzz trap, by quoting a programming problem - no matter how banal and contrived - the article was bound to provoke a huge amount of dicussion around the correct way to solve the problem, while ignoring the point of the post
• 10 things everyone should know about propaganda
• no future generation, where the 50s had a vision of the future that was based on technological progress, flying cars and robots cleaning our houses, where the 70s had a cuddly view on the future where everybody loved each other and mother earth would bring us all together, we have... nothing
• grey power, photography project by nick bookelaar and yoni lefevre