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Software Development and the Gig Economy(henrikwarne.com)
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Welcome to Nerdopolis – How knowledge workers are reshaping cities(review.chicagobooth.edu)
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A Tale of Two Moralities(niskanencenter.org)
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I took the Stanford Database MOOC course. A lot of work, but you get a pretty deep understanding from it: https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/Engineering/db/2014_1/... https://henrikwarne.co
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"By the time it gets to a counter-offer stage, it's often too late." - so true! Also made me think of the Netflix HR/culture document [1] - pay the max you would be counter-offering for an employee right off the bat, don
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Haven't read yet - only open in a tab, but I thought I'd add it to further the discussion :-)
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Another critical voice: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601499/basic-income-a-sel...
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On my "to read" list, but haven't read it yet. However, I started watching these screencasts on Turing Machines and Lambda Calculus (examples in Python), and they are fantastic: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com&#
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The Effective Engineer by Edmond Lau. Not CS, more SW dev, but it is fairly new and I thought it was very good: https://henrikwarne.com/2017/01/15/book-review-the-effective...
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Book Review: The Effective Engineer(henrikwarne.com)
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Monetization Over Massiveness: A Review of MOOC Stats and Trends in 2016(class-central.com)
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How I Write Tests(blog.nelhage.com)
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On the subject of sugar, there is a review of Gary Taubes' new book "The Case Against Sugar" in the Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/01/the-sug...
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The Sugar Wars(theatlantic.com)
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Scott Adams has similar advice (for anything, not just programming): "Become very good (top 25%) at two or more things." http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/07/care...
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On the subject of reading code, I thought this was a good article (basically, you can't read it like you read literature): http://www.gigamonkeys.com/code-reading/
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Very accurate in my opinion.
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I thought the most interesting finding was that completing Udacity or Coursera courses on programming/algorithms (for non-top school graduates) was highly predictable of strong interviewing performance.
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What science says about naming(felienne.com)
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The commoditisation of the coder (2010)(troyhunt.com)
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+1 (+2?) for Deep Work and Ready Player One. Read both this year, and both are excellent. Also really liked The Martian.
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Buy now, pay later: Klarna promises to be an alternative to your credit card(forbesindia.com)
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Definitely agree! Your comment made me think of this quote: "Give someone a program, you frustrate them for a day; teach them how to program, you frustrate them for a lifetime." - David Leinweber
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Bill Gates' Favorite Books of 2016(gatesnotes.com)
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Tesla, Apple, and the ‘secretly terrible’ engineer conundrum(venturebeat.com)
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What Makes a Good Programmer?(henrikwarne.com)
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Why forecasters failed to predict Trump’s victory(timharford.com)
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Wow! Very useful, and looks great! Good job!
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Mutmut: a Python mutation testing system(medium.com)
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I love reading and learning from books. However, it is a bit too easy to tell yourself that you have improved after finishing a book. I like this quote (from Dale Carnegie I think): "Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied." You

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