- What Your Culture Really Says – Pretty Little State Machine
Well said.
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Links: 2-20-2013
- The Fox and the Hedgehog: cognitive styles in decision-taking
Came across this via Nate Silver’s book.
(categories: decision-making politics foxes thinking complexity )
Links: 2-12-2013
Links: 2-11-2013
- 100 Best Books for Men – Gear Patrol
Good list of books for guys should I ever read everything from my amazon wishlist.
(categories: books man reading book )
Links: 2-4-2013
- Woodcut Maps: Handcrafted wood-inlay maps, designed by you.
I’m such a sucker for maps on stuff.
(categories: gifts maps )
Links: 1-24-2013
- We host tech talks at Airbnb every other Wednesday at 6pm. If you’d like to come speak here please drop us a line!
Hot damn what a great list of talks.
(categories: presentation techtalks video airbnb )
Links: 1-23-2013
- Edward Tufte’s defense of Aaron Swartz and the "marvelously different" | Dan Nguyen’s Hack Place
Quote: "Aaron’s unique quality was that he was marvelously and vigorously different." Never met aaronsw, admired from afar though. Great tribute by ET.
(categories: life )
Links: 1-19-2013
- PeteSearch: Things users don’t care about
Quote: "How long you spent on it. How hard it was to implement. How clean your architecture is. How extensible it is. How well it runs on your machine. How great it will be once all their friends are on it. How amazing the next version will be. Whose fault the problems are. What you think they should be interested in. What you expected. What you were promised. How important this is to you."
(categories: software development priorities ux )
Links: 1-16-2013
- Homebrew — MacPorts driving you to drink? Try Homebrew!
If / when I get a new Mac.
(categories: mac osx software )
Links: 1-6-2013
- What I learned going back to UX school
Data driven usability questions: "People throw around sayings like “Easy to Use” or “Intuitive” but without some data those are merely opinions. When it comes to measuring ease of use, there are well established things to track: Success rate: What percent of users can even do the thing its supposed to let them do. Often this is well below 100%. Time on task: how long does it take users to do the thing it supposed to do. Better designs take users less time. Error rates: how many mistakes or confusions does the user have."
(categories: ux usability-testing usability testing data metrics ) - Numbers Every Programmer Should Know By Year
Ran into this a couple weeks ago when onsite with a customer and was seeing 3ms for a "file.exists" type of operation when inside of a VM which was about 100x slower than corresponding VM’s in our own infrastructure.
(categories: architecture performance programming systems speed ) - How To Run a 5 Whys (With Humans, Not Robots)
Quote: "Which is the Root Cause? DB access bug or monitoring failure? Answer: don’t care about "root causes”. They don’t exist (multiple things conspire for failures to happen). Also, kind of moral/blame-ish. Ask instead: if we made an incremental improvement in area A or area B , which would prevent the broadest class of problems going ahead? Much better conversation… Remember, There Is No Axe Murderer (Probably)."
(categories: management process rca root-cause-assessment ) - Custom T-Shirts – Design Your Own T-Shirts Online – Free Shipping!
Great custom t-shirt site.
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