// Internet Duct Tape

This is my weekly collection of the best stuff I saw on the Internet. They’re saved on delicious and stumbleupon and cross-posted to Twitter and Tumblr as they happen and then collected together for my blog on Internet Duct Tape.

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• [CODE] The Years of Experience Myth, codinghorror.com
  • It’s more important to hire smart people who get things done than masters of the domain
  • (programming, career, development, 177 saves, 53 inbound links, 51 diggs)
• [COMMUNITY] 4 Reasons You Should Encourage, Foster and Harness Dissent on Your Blog, problogger.net
  • Reasons against censoring dissenters
  • (blogging, community, 14 saves, 21 inbound links, 73 diggs)
• [COPYRIGHT] The Pirates Can’t Be Stopped, portfolio.com, via:techcrunch.com
  • An interview with the kid who hacked Media Defender copyright police.
  • (hacking, piracy, filesharing, p2p, 47 saves, 57 inbound links)
• [GEEK] 10 Breeds of PC User Identified and Explained, anywired.com
  • This was great. I’m a bit of 5, 7, and 9 with maybe a dash of 10.
  • (geek, computer, funny, 12 saves, 11 inbound links, 21 diggs)
• [GEEK] George Lucas Will Sell Your Dreams For Candy, io9.com
  • Star Wars merchandising that never was. High quality artwork.
  • (geek, starwars, 6 saves, 2 inbound links, 4 diggs)
• [GOOGLE] How 404 pages work in Google Toolbar Beta 5, mattcutts.com
  • The new Google Toolbar won’t display your custom 404 page if it’s less than 512 bytes long.
  • (google, 404, toolbar, 16 saves, 94 inbound links, 2 diggs)
• [HIRING] The Naive Approach to Hiring People, weblog.raganwald.com
  • Really excellent read by raganwald on why interviewing candidates is a Bayesian filtering problem instead of a if-then problem.
  • (hiring, career, programming, 75 saves, 14 inbound links)
• [JAVASCRIPT] XPath Overnight, ejohn.org, via:lazycoder.com
  • XPath is taking over DOM traversal in javascript libraries.
  • (javascript, 17 saves, 14 inbound links)
• [LIFEHACKS] I Was Programmed by Tetris to be a Better Person, io9.com
  • The 7 habits of highly effective form tetris players
  • (gamers, lifehacks, 12 saves, 9 inbound links, 11 diggs)
• [MOVIES] Netflix on the PS3 or Xbox 360 Could Be a Killer App, parislemon.com
  • Much agreement that this is too good to be true. If this happened it would kill the movie industry overnight.
  • (movies, 2 inbound links)
• [PIPES] Our one year anniversary, blog.pipes.yahoo.com
  • Yahoo Pipes is one year old. They have a list of tutorials
  • (pipes, 5 saves, 2 inbound links)
• [PIRACY] Internet users could be banned over illegal downloads, technology.timesonline.co.uk, via:l33t.reddit.com
  • The UK is setting up a “three strikes” rule where pirates could be banned from having internet access.
  • (copyright, piracy, filesharing, 28 saves, 100 inbound links, 22 diggs)
• [SLEEPHACKS] Ask YC : How many hours do you sleep in average ?, news.ycombinator.com
  • Good discussion about sleeping
  • (sleephacks, 5 saves)
• [SLEEPHACKS] Relax Like A Pro: 5 Steps to Hacking Your Sleep, fourhourworkweek.com
  • Some things I haven’t heard before
  • (lifehacks, sleephacks, 423 saves, 51 inbound links, 164 diggs)
• [SOCIALSOFTWARE] The Complexity of the Web 2.0 World, hq.andrewshuttleworth.com, via:l33t.reddit.com
  • A crazy look at what ubiquitous computing really means.
  • (web2.0, socialnetworking, visualization, 48 saves, 29 inbound links)
• [TWITTER] Dear LazyWeb, dearlazy.com, via:blog.twitter.com
  • A questions and answers interface using Twitter as the backbone
  • (twitter, web2.0, 10 saves, 4 inbound links)
• [TWITTER] Twitter-proxy: Any Interest?, assetbar.wordpress.com, via:l33t.reddit.com
  • A look at why Twitter has such scaling issues.
  • (twitter, architecture, performance, 36 saves, 10 inbound links, 3 diggs)
• [URLS] I CAN HAZ dot COM, icanhaz.com, via:lifehacker.com
  • new url shortner
  • (lolcats, tinyurl, tools, 61 saves)
• [WEBDESIGN] 10 Principles Of Effective Web Design, smashingmagazine.com
  • Well researched look at what makes for effective web design
  • (webdesign, design, usability, 2079 saves, 99 inbound links, 1709 diggs)
• [WEBDESIGN] Interface Screencast #1: The WordPress Dashboard, binarybonsai.com, via:wank.wordpress.com
  • Screencast of the (old) WordPress dashboard, and why it sucks. A little on the long side at 30min
  • (wordpress, design, interface, 4 saves, 4 inbound links)
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• Digest for December 2007 and January 2008
• Book Review: Halting State by Charles Stross
  • If you’re a programmer/gamer geek and looking for a gripping book that you won’t be able to put down then look no further than Halting State.
• The Canary in the Coal Mine of Open Source Code Re-use
  • Don’t reinvent the wheel. It’s one of those things that’s much easier to say then it is to do, particularly when it comes to programming. Programmers suffer from a horrible mental disease called Not Invented Here Syndrome (it’s in the DSM — check if you don’t believe me). We…
• Book Review: Everyware by Adam Greenfield
  • Adam Greenfield is a designer and one of the guys behind Boxes and Arrows. He’s also the guy who coined the term “moblogging” for blogging from your cellphone. He’s got a knack for inventing terms because “everyware” is such a simpler name than unicomp or “ubiquitous…
• Delicious Links – 20 links – programming, community, development, twitter, lisp
  • programming, community, development, twitter, lisp

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Tags: career, design, filesharing, geek, lifehacks, piracy, programming, sleephacks, twitter, web2.0