Lukáš Linhart

Friday Readings

written by Almad

This is part of Friday Readings series: commented readings I find worth sharing. If you want more, follow me on Pocket.

Technology

I don't work on hardware level, so Dan Luu's report on Intel CPU bugs in 2015 is surprising to me, and a bit scary.

While on Dan's blog I discovered because of that, Files are hard are very good as well. But honestly, just go and read most of it.

Leadership and company building

On Being Relentlessly Resourceful and how leading by example works. I can only echo this; I still see how culture in Apiary is still derived from founders and the initial team.

Linkedin's pitch to Greylock for their series B is not only an interesting resource for company states, but also an interesting revision of how Internet was like back in 2004, and which predictions worked and which not.

5 Scientific Suggestions Curbing an Employee's Sense of Entitlement provides suggestions on dealing with behavior that can make the group dynamics very toxic.

There is a turmoil in GitHub that also provides new context for previous CEO departure done in response to Julie Ann Horvath's story. Nevertheless, that's "news"; the interesting story is the dynamics of changing a lifestyle company into a VC-funded growth company.

Inspiration for hiring: We got 10 CEOs to tell us their one killer interview question for new hires. I usually walk with only one important question into interviews: "What do you want to do?".

Stop Complaining challenges you, but I find

Heisenberg developers: you can't observe developers without changing their behavior. Story about snowballing oversight and its effect on projects.

World around us

Fascinating story about how Columbian army warned hostages using popular song. I'd totally think it's made up and only a movie plot.

For the first time, we've produced and sustained hydrogen plasma. There is a lot more to harvest it as a source of energy, but after a very long while, it looks like at least some progress.

More pieces into puzzle of price discrimination; it's so widespread on the Internet that nobody notices or cares anymore, but it's interestingly gender-based in the real world:

Hackers paralyzed a hospital in Los Angeles and demand a reward for decrypting patients data. Given we currently don't have a good legal framework on who actually owns the data, it adds a lot of interesting facets to the story, i.e. who is responsible for backing it up. Sucks if you can't have them yourself.

Published on 2016-02-19