joshuago’s Bookmarks

With venture backed endeavors you generally find that during the first several years the numbers in your bank account are perpetually decreasing, giving your company an expiration date. Your VCs have encouraged you to grow fast and spend hard, which makes perfect sense for them, but not necessarily for you.

Being awash in money blinded Yahoo to the fact that their revenue model was precarious and unsustainable. Being ambivalent about being a technology company and considering programmers a commodity led to the hiring of mediocre programmers, which then resulted in products that weren't very good.

Nothing is fun until you're good at it. To get good at anything, you have to work.

An in-depth walk-through of Java bytecodes.

Dismal online conversations aren't part of the state of nature; everything online takes place in a constructed environment. That means bad discourse isn't a behavior problem, it's a design problem.

You can use analytics and data-driven design to climb to the top of the current mountain, but it takes a creative leap and good judgment to spot a bigger mountain to climb.

Trigonometry made fun, with stories drawn from history.

A sad survey of the plight of Mexican migrant farm workers in the United States. A fair treatment of the issue and its various stakeholders.

The best computer science papers from various top-tier conferences.

The call to help the needy plays a major role in Christianity's history and is utterly central to its message. This should never be forgotten. The way to do something is to see the needy as people first, not projects.