Assorted Links for December 09, 2013

Posted by Tejus Parikh on December 9, 2013

The Technology of Dreaming

“For myself I never found need of more than four or five hours’ sleep in the twenty-four. I never dre…

Sorry, Open Source Isn’t The Panacea For HealthCare.gov

Over the past decade, I’ve watched open source become standard operating procedure within large and s…

Write your post-mortem before your startup dies

This is a guest post by Aaron Schwartz, founder and CEO at Modify Industries. We’re in a strange plac…

Facebook’s database engineering team wants to help you

Every person on Facebook — all 1.2 billion of you — sees a unique homepage every time they visit the …

Why Do Computers Crash?

This question originally appeared on Quora. Answer by Vijay Kamath, coder Crash is a vague word used …

From the Kitchen Table to Nearly 10,000 Customers

The co-founder of the SEO firm BrightEdge explains how he scaled his bootstrapped company–fast. Jim …

The Art of ‘Minimally Invasive Management’

VC and Stanford lecturer Randy Komisar explains why the transition from entrepreneur to CEO is so tou…

Your Child Already Knows How To Program This Robot

Your average five-year-old doesn’t know how to program. But she can probably sing songs, tell stories…

Code.org creators: Coding is a privilege, and it’s not yet available to most A..

SAN FRANCISCO — On Feb. 26, the video that trended higher than Jennifer Lawrence’s adorable fall at t…

Apple II DOS source code released by the Computer History Museum

With Apple’s blessing, The Computer History Museum and the Digibarn Computer Museum have released the…

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