In this week edition you can learn about monads, business lessons, healthcare systems or why most public benches suck. Enjoy!
IT
How programmers get disqualified from doing everything else – Being able to program is one of the few skills that can make you be seen as less than what you are.
What is a Monad?
DRY principle often makes my code more complicated and/or more difficult to understand – How do I get over this? What am I not considering?
May the next Etsy learn its lessons – Venture capital taught Etsy that making money wasn’t a skill it needed to learn early on.
Code Health: Obsessed With Primitives? – Programming languages provide basic types, such as integers, strings, and maps, which are useful in many contexts.
Deflationary Spiral – Some people worry about Bitcoin being “deflationary”, that it appreciates over time.
Facebook is not worth $33,000,000,000 – It’s getting beyond ridiculous and when even serious publications like Forbes jump on for a ride.
Statistically rigorous Java performance evaluation – This paper won the 10-year most influential paper award at OOPSLA this year.
The Milan Police Have A High-Tech Solution To Catch Robbers
Politics
The real reason American health care is so expensive
The Country with No Territory
Science
How Much Plastic Do You Eat?
Our Story in 1 Minute
How Does Stealth Technology Work?
Culture
What Realistic Film Dialogue Sounds Like
How Technicolor changed movies
Black Mirror
Miscellaneous
Employees who stay in companies for more than 2 years get paid 50% less – There’s an image that has come to be associated with millennials – that they are changing jobs every couple of years. This is said to look bad on a resume.
Road signs suck. What if we got rid of them all?
Job Searching? Skip The Job Boards And Take These Five Steps Instead – As one career expert explains, the art of “speculative job applications” may be a numbers game, but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
The Town Where Gap Year Kids Went To Die
Why cities are full of uncomfortable benches
From inboxing to thought showers: how business bullshit took over – Vacuous management-speak is easily laughed off – but is there a real cost to talking rubbish?
Are We Running Out of Ideas?
Check out my Slovak newsletter (if you understand Slovak 🙂 ).