I’ve been going through a list of links that I bookmarked at some point in the past and I thought I might share a selection of them. This is an eclectic mix, with no common theme other than the fact that I found them interesting sometime around 2007-2008 and I still do for the most part. So, if you just ran out of things to read on a train, on an airplane or in the bathroom, take a look at these:
Engineering
Extreme programming (Yossi Kreinin’s look at methodologies)
MetaCrap (Cory Doctorow’s 2001 piece on the metadata utopia)
Why I hate frameworks (Benji Smith’s timeless rant)
Alan Kay: Predicting the future (and the best way thereof etc. etc.)
Peter Norvig: Teach yourself programming in 10 years (why all the hurry)
Side projects (why you should have one)
Aaron Swartz: Genius is in the details (not all abstraction is good)
Steve Yegge: Done and gets things smart (and not (only) the other way around)
Clay Shirky: A group’s worst enemy (spoiler: is itself)
Research
Richard Hamming: You and your research (“If what you are doing is not important, and if you don’t think it is going to lead to something important, why are you working on it?”)
Terence Tao: What is good mathematics
Ten lessons from Gian-Carlo Rota
Two depressing but well argued opinions about CS and academia:
Why I am not a professor and What’s wrong with CS research
So long and thanks for the PhD
Paul Krugman: How I work and Incidents from my Career
Doron Zeilberger: Use the blackboard
Theodore Gray and Jerry Glynn: Software in mathematics education
Pseudoscience
Feynman: Cargo Cult Science (from the book “Surely you are joking, …”)
Wikipedia: list of anti-patterns
Wikipedia: list of cognitive biases
Ten signs breakthrough is wrong
Economics and misc.
Paul Graham: The power of the marginal
Bruce Schneier: The value of privacy (if you do nothing wrong, you shouldn’t have anything to hide, right?)
Bruce Schneier: The psychology of security
Bruce Schneier: Snakeoil security
Semyon Dukach: Reasons for the crisis
Ten lies told to naive artists and designers (and programmers)
Software business (just some observations)
Scott Aaronson: Who can name the bigger number
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