State of Technology #96

elsewhere        Five ‘interesting’ moments with Andrew Mason        Startup to extractprecious metals from fly-by asteroids       10 Ted Talks to Reimagine Your Business       World’s First Bitcoin ATM     The Google Glass feature no one is talking about
Architecture Under the Hood: Building out Infrastructure of Facebook Graph Search
Code Apparently, Marissa Meyer made‘No More WFH’ policy after looking at VPN activity and logins for remote workers.
Design Why was ‘~’ chosen to represent Home directory?
Essay Evolution of Google Street View
Mobile We spend 23 full days a year on our phone!
SaaS Website Performance Data has never been more readily available  thanks to Navigation Timing Specification. E.g., to calculate page load time via the performance object – var loadTime = performance.timing.loadEventStart - performance.timing.navigationStart;
Service Anonymized Search Data via browser toolbar handily beats FDAwarning system to find Drug Side-effects
Social ‘New Social Media Startup Launches, Shuts Down Within 45 Minutes’ – Onion
Tool Great list of (almost) Free Tools to create Media Assets (video, animation, 3D models)
Hack How Japanese Kids Learn to Multiply
Etc          Mountain Viewhosts 2nd highest number of sites among world’s Top Million            ‘Seven Habits of Highly Effective Mediocre People’ Parting Thought “Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats” – Howard Aitken