2008 Archive
4981.
Maps of the US made entirely of roads (benfry.com)
4982.
Copy the practices that were in place when a successful company (e.g. Google) was truly innovative (andrewhargadon.typepad.com)
4983.
CSS Tips (sweatte.wordpress.com)
4984.
Oily Speculations (newyorker.com)
4985.
Focus on Core (davidlanger.co.uk)
4986.
Calculating Color Contrast for Legible Text (particletree.com)
4987.
Mathematicians Illuminate Deep Connection Between Classical And Quantum Physics (sciencedaily.com)
4988.
MIT’s Introduction to Algorithms, Lecture 16: Greedy Algorithms (catonmat.net)
4989.
SpaceX Wins Big NASA Contract (fredstechblog.blogspot.com)
4990.
Teaching, Playing, and Programming: Ten Years of Purely Functional Data Structures (okasaki.blogspot.com)
4991.
Trying to Try & Yoda (overcomingbias.com)
4992.
[On writing] John Gruber, Paul Graham, Joel Spolsky, and Judge Judy (37signals.com)
4993.
Friendfeed gets $5m - congrats Paul Buchheit (mashable.com)
4994.
Big Name Companies Using Ruby on Rails (blog.obiefernandez.com)
4995.
Gmail's Quota Secrets (slideshow) (slideshare.net)
4996.
The secret to making money online (37signals.com)
4997.
Delighting with Data (tomtaylor.co.uk)
4998.
DHH Interview: Ruby on Rails, Startups, Culture (youtube.com)
4999.
What it's like to work at Xobni (interview) (blog.snaptalent.com)
5000.
Intuition + Money = An Aha Moment (nytimes.com)
5001.
Magit: Emacs mode for Git (zagadka.vm.bytemark.co.uk)
5002.
The Upside to the Market Crash (npr.org)
5003.
An Automatic Computer Science Paper Generator (pdos.csail.mit.edu)
5004.
Skype Plans for PostgreSQL to Scale to 1 Billion Users (highscalability.com)
5005.
A Lisp bootstrap for C hackers (cs.gmu.edu)
5006.
Erlang: It’s About Reliability (steve.vinoski.net)
5007.
Bathroom Art (niemann.blogs.nytimes.com)
5008.
Advanced bit manipulation-fu (realtimecollisiondetection.net)
5009.
How to improve your self-control (spring.org.uk)
5010.
Scaling Hadoop to 4000 nodes at Yahoo (developer.yahoo.com)