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- Better interviewing through psychology
- Critiquing Amazon's corporate culture
- APIs and accountability
- This Is My Jam is shutting down gracefully
- The expansiveness of YouTube
- Assessing iPhone security
July 2015
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May 2015
- Alex Stamos on the state of app security
- Uber makes a disingenuous argument against regulation
- On the media's lazy response to Seymour Hersh
- What I think about Uber
- One hundred one on ones
April 2015
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January 2015
- Links for January 28
- Links for January 26
- Let's make link blogging a trend
- Social skills matter for remote workers too
December 2014
- Why not just hire more remotes?
- Hiring the next engineer, not the best engineer
- Scott Rosenberg on Go and Swift
November 2014
- What happened when Black Friday became an event
- Playing with Vagrant
- The future prospects of comments
- Some thoughts on apps
- Where have referrers gone?
October 2014
- Retailers fight to control customer data
- Customers, not extortionists
- We should be allowed to encrypt our data
- Simple advice for men in tech
- Kathy Sierra opens up about online harassment
September 2014
- Management is not about sorting apples
- The strengths of low variance political configurations
- The significance of men's fashion
- The system that created Ferguson, Missouri
August 2014
- Surprisingly, Perl outperforms sed and Awk
- The difficulty of tracking police violence
- My favorite thing about President Obama
- Policing based on fear can't work
- The ethics of Web experiments
July 2014
- Square one for managers
- Soccer doesn't explain globalization
- How to communicate about strategy
- How Stripe is gaining open source karma
- Danah Boyd on algorithms and emotional manipulation
June 2014
- The expense report
- The dangers of over-reliance on perks
- Google's software approach to self-driving cars
May 2014
- Brent Simmons on the history of UserLand
- Danny Sullivan on Google and MetaFilter
- Maybe you should be afraid of Google
- Comparative risk
- Tyler Cowen on publishing an RSS feed
- Embrace the improved Web
- Tim Bray's Piketty roundup
April 2014
- Paul Ford on the software canon
- Why online games have sucky databases
- How Mike Bostock uses Make
- My favorite Heartbleed coverage
- Relationship advice from Malcolm X
- Felix Salmon reviews Michael Lewis's book on HFT
March 2014
- Mistakes they've made at Hacker School
- James Governor's Monki Gras wrap-up
- The Pilots in the Basement
- The high cost of unpaid conference speakers
- What bugs taught us about people
- You know what they say about assuming
February 2014
- Redirecting a bit of Amazon's money to charity
- The fraud ratchet
- How to report on information security
- Yes, you should do what you love
January 2014
- Describing my ideal dotfile installer
- Matt Mullenweg on free software
- Peter Seibel on code reading
- The New Yorker: Who Killed Net Neutrality?
- Looking for an audience and finding interlocutors
- What should the technology industry be famous for?
- Tim Bray sums up the state of the art
- How to hire a superhero
- Felix Salmon on the evolution of Netflix
- Management, the hard parts
December 2013
- Some thoughts on delegating
- Paul Graham is wrong about it being "too late"
- Great reads of 2013: why you should A/B test on the Web
- Great reads of 2013: Jay Kreps on logs
- Great reads of 2013: 1491
- Alan Turing's royal pardon
- It's OK to verify skills in an interview
- Why you may want to hate BitCoin
- The costly bias against older workers
- That's not analytics
November 2013
- The latest batch of insider details on Healthcare.gov
- Required reading: GoldieBlox versus The Beastie Boys
- Capitalism Writ Small
- The Soul of a New Machine
- The magnitude of Adobe's data breach
- Proof the NSA is tapping internal networks
- Everybody else sues Google
- Where zero-indexed arrays really come from
October 2013
- It's not Obamacare, it's supply and demand
- Lambdas arrive in Java
- How Google plays hardball with Android
- The argument for the Java ecosystem
- The Russians didn't just use a pencil
- How to treat email subscribers
September 2013
- The details on ARM64
- The security lesson of Touch ID
- The show must go on
- A blog is a relationship
- The IETF is on the case
- Cryptographer Matthew Green on the NSA SSL story
- SSL broadly compromised by the NSA
- Process versus tools
August 2013
- The case against bombing Syria
- Marc Hedlund on what managers produce
- Paul Ford explains Jeff Bezos
- UK government detains Glenn Greenwald's partner
- Cheating on the Internet is just cheating
- Monoculture and consensus
July 2013
- Seven signs of dysfunctional engineering teams
- The risks of a dead man's switch
- Defining data engineering
- The criminalization of binary downloads
- Worse places to live than where you live
- Data science by example
- The Snowden Effect
- Farewell to jeffreyp and Douglas Engelbart
- Confusing power and morality
- Our bias in favor of secrets
June 2013
- persistent.info: Getting ALL your data out of Google Reader
- The human body is a tool for experts
- The open source surveillance society
- How management and teaching are alike
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