Hi. Sorry I was late this week, to all my 10 readers. You know who you are.
dhh on creating a profitable company
antirez is making videos on system performance + redis
Some ideas Patrick Collision (CEO of Stripe) finds useful. I haven’t heard of most of these
principal/agent, diagonal positions, mood affiliation, first- vs nth-order effects, marginal vs inframarginal behavior, fallacy of mono-causation
Good afternoon.
lcamtuf on immigrating to the United States from Poland (twice).
A really fast (exponentially fast) and rather insane algorithm for Conway’s Game of Life.
One neat trick for talking/empathizing with people.
How the Dutch police infiltrated the dark-web marketplace Hansa.
A deep analysis on income equality: how it’s changed and what drives it.
An introduction to the actor model in distributed programming.
A visualization of a 56kbps modem connecting to the internet.
Census of U.S. Population and Housing. I bet you could find some neat trends in here…if you have some time.
Launched Pricing Engine. It lets you manage your subscription pricing and see metrics in our dashboard. We built it in just 10 days and we’re using it in our other projects!
Uh so I think my days were off or something, but it’s fixed now. I don’t have a lot of links this week so I’ll start with some shameless self-promotion:
An article I wrote on getting to $2000/month with a newsletter.
A very nice explanation of the Y-combinator.
Some useful tips for UI design.
The differences between giftedness and genius.
Next on my reading list: Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
Related: Chinese lingerie merchants in Egypt (New Yorker, 2015)