a more or less weekly digest of juicy stuff

• the psychology of security, highly recommended
• how to become as rich as bill gates, recommended
• the end of bosses, talented people need organizations less than organizations need talented people
• the most revealing interview question
• encouraging interviewees to say "i don't know" improves performance
• stop using generic form letters when you tell a candidate 'no', somebody who spent a day interviewing with you deserves more than a form letter. giving them feedback on how to improve is worth the time, and might just land you your next hire
• how much to read as an entrepreneur
• hellogit, code tutorials encoded in git. interesting idea
• unix shell tricks, hilarious
• the ball-of-mud transition, the complexity of a software system does not increase linearly with the number of connected components - there is a clear transition from a manageable, slightly connected system to a ball-of-mud system that is heavily connected and hard to reason about
• finding and removing large files in git history
• rfc 1178, choosing a name for your computer
• the impossible music of black midi, they're calling this kind of music "black midi," which basically means that when you look at the music in the form of standard notation, it looks like almost solid black
• world's scariest runways
• while my prof was setting up for his lecture, hilarious
• tech support cheat sheet, dear various parents, grandparents, co-workers, and other "not computer people."
• well, that escalated quickly
• no seconds, photography project by henry hargreaves
• django 3000, bavarian gipsy band