State of Technology #74

elsewhere

• Self Driving Car logs 300K mileswithout accident

• Andreessen Horowitz Effect– how they command an unprecedented “carry” of 30 percent

• 10 Best Startupsfrom YCombinator Demo Day

• What Hardware Powers Etsy
  
  
• CEO of 37Signals role models his cleaning lady 

 

Architecture

Rich JavaScript Applications– 7 Frameworks

 

Code

 

How the new Facebook for iOS solved for speed

 

‘In iOS, the main thread drives the UI and handles touch events, so the more work we do on the main thread, the slower the app feels. Instead, we take care to perform computationally expensive tasks in the background. This means all our networking activity, JSON parsing, NSManagedObject creation, and saving to disk never touches the main thread.’

 

Design

 

5 Design Tricks Facebook Uses to Affect Privacy Decisions

 

Essay

 

How Digital Mapping is Mapping Us?

 

‘Street View Trekker, a bulky backpack with several 15-megapixel cameras protruding on a stalk, so that operatives can capture “offroad” imagery from hiking trails, narrow alleyways or the forest floor.’

 

Mobile

 

Breaking the Mobile Web– how to make fast mobile apps with the 4 device limitations –

1.      Battery

2.      Latency

3.      Memory

4.      Responsiveness

 

SaaS

 

Cleaning Bad Code. Step 0: Is it worth doing?

 

Service

 

Increasingly Companies areusing quirky HTTP Headers for Recruiting

 

Social

 

60% of Amazon Reviews are Five Stars, andmany of them are purchased

 

Tool

 

An Entire Book Printed in DNA

 

Hack

 

Best Pareidolia Ever?

 

 

etc

• ‘What have you learned as a Police Officer that most people underestimate?’ – ‘High-speed chases look like fun because they are’

• Peer Reviewed “Terms of Service” so you do not have to read

 

Parting Thought

 

‘Paying attention in a distracted world: it’s like bringing a gun to a knife fight.’ – James Shelley

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