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Tech Cooperative Resources

A collection of random articles, videos and other links to stuff, re-posted from our slack channel and other places.

Business

Interviewing

• Guide: Use structured interviewing https://rework.withgoogle.com/guides/hiring-use-structured-interviewing/steps/introduction/

• Five Reasons Why You Should Hire an Old Programmer https://joshondesign.com/2017/07/02/hire_old_programmer

Leadership

• David Marquet: Turn The Ship Around! / U.S. Navy live at WORLDWEBFORUM 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivwKQqf4ixA

• Accidentally destroyed production database on first day of a job, and was told to leave, on top of this i was told by the CTO that they need to get legal involved, how screwed am i? https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/6ez8ag/accidentally_destroyed_production_database_on/

• I camped out with a tech billionaire. The advice he gave me was priceless. https://medium.freecodecamp.org/i-camped-out-with-a-tech-billionaire-the-advice-he-gave-me-was-priceless-c3bdcc29c068

Start ups

• Why we choose profit https://m.signalvnoise.com/why-we-choose-profit-e511efc4dcb9

Team

• On the Unhappiness of Software Developers https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.04993.pdf

• We are All Product Owners! An Impact Guide for Engineers* https://medium.com/@erand/we-are-all-product-owners-an-impact-guide-for-engineers-76a2b4342c74

• Don’t crank out code at 2AM, especially if you’re the CTO https://codewithoutrules.com/2017/07/07/dont-code-at-2am/

• 5 Reasons We Offer “Paid Paid Vacation” (And Love It) https://www.bamboohr.com/blog/5-reasons-offer-paid-paid-vacation-love

• One out of every 20,000 Stack Overflow visitors is just trying to exit Vim https://medium.freecodecamp.org/one-out-of-every-20-000-stack-overflow-visitors-is-just-trying-to-exit-vim-5a6b6175e7b6

Product development

• MVP Paradox And Here’s How To Fix Your MVP Before Its Too Late! https://hackernoon.com/mvp-paradox-and-what-most-founders-need-to-be-aware-of-3a5f8c3acb76

• Gentry Underwood on collective intelligence and building Mailbox into a $100M email app https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcYm5mdGWt0

• Why We Should Master the Art of Storytelling https://hackernoon.com/why-we-should-master-the-art-of-storytelling-72bab45608af

• Everything I Wish I’d Known Before I Started Demoing SaaS https://thebetterstory.co/everything-i-wish-id-known-before-i-started-demoing-saas-f83c1c4fad99

Project management

• Into The Lair of the Beast https://medium.com/ncr-edinburgh/into-the-lair-of-the-beast-e2dde945abb5

• The Expert (Short Comedy Sketch) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg&feature=youtu.be

Programming

Infrastructure

• You Are Not Google https://blog.bradfieldcs.com/you-are-not-google-84912cf44afb

Design Paradigms

• How do you cut a monolith in half? http://programmingisterrible.com/post/162346490883/how-do-you-cut-a-monolith-in-half

• Dependency Injection, Inversion of Control & The Dependency Inversion Principle http://kc.my-junk.info/di-ioc-dip

Front-End

CSS

• Mobile Safari (Whyyyy?!) https://www.eventbrite.com/engineering/mobile-safari-why/

• The Languages Which Almost Became CSS https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-languages-which-almost-became-css/

Design

• How A Web Design Goes Straight to Hell http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell

JavaScript

• Introducing Electron Webpack Dashboard https://formidable.com/blog/2017/introducing-electron-webpack-dashboard/

• Coding "Snake" in 4 min 30 sec (plain browser JavaScript) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGmXxpIj6vs

• What I learned at React Europe 2017 https://medium.freecodecamp.org/what-ive-learned-from-react-europe-2017-c433468890d6

User Experience

• Redditors design worst volume sliders possible https://www.designernews.co/stories/84443-redditors-design-worst-volume-sliders-possible

Back-End

C

• Syntactic sugar in C - (ab)using “for” loops http://zserge.com/blog/c-for-loop-tricks.html

Data management

• A comprehensive study of Convergent and Commutative Replicated Data Types http://hal.upmc.fr/file/index/docid/555588/filename/techreport.pdf

Go-Lang

• Gopherfest 2017: Upspin (Rob Pike) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENLWEfi0Tkg

Perl

• Why I’m Learning Perl 6 http://www.evanmiller.org/why-im-learning-perl-6.html

Serverless

• Serverless: A lesson learned. The hard way. https://sourcebox.be/blog/2017/08/07/serverless-a-lesson-learned-the-hard-way/

Artificial Intelligence and Data

Computer Vision

• Google researchers reveal automated process for removing watermarks from stock images https://boingboing.net/2017/08/18/robust-vs-imperceptible.html

• Origami anything - New algorithm generates practical paper-folding patterns to produce any 3-D structure. http://news.mit.edu/2017/algorithm-origami-patterns-any-3-D-structure-0622

Data Science

• Learn Data Science http://www.learndatasci.com/

• Python for Finance, Part I: Yahoo Finance API, pandas, and matplotlib http://www.learndatasci.com/python-finance-part-yahoo-finance-api-pandas-matplotlib/

• Predicting Housing Prices with Linear Regression using Python, pandas, and statsmodels http://www.learndatasci.com/predicting-housing-prices-linear-regression-using-python-pandas-statsmodels/

• Hill for the data scientist: an xkcd story http://livefreeordichotomize.com/2016/12/15/hill-for-the-data-scientist-an-xkcd-story/

Decision Science

• Counterintuitive problem: Everyone in a room keeps giving dollars to random others. You’ll never guess what happens next. http://www.decisionsciencenews.com/2017/06/19/counterintuitive-problem-everyone-room-keeps-giving-dollars-random-others-youll-never-guess-happens-next/

Deep Learning

• Awesome Deep Learning Resources https://github.com/guillaume-chevalier/Awesome-Deep-Learning-Resources

• Applying deep learning to real-world problems https://medium.com/merantix/applying-deep-learning-to-real-world-problems-ba2d86ac5837

Neural Networks

• How to build a simple neural network in 9 lines of Python code https://medium.com/technology-invention-and-more/how-to-build-a-simple-neural-network-in-9-lines-of-python-code-cc8f23647ca1

Machine Learning

• Machine Learning for Humans Simple, plain-English explanations accompanied by math, code, and real-world examples. https://medium.com/machine-learning-for-humans/why-machine-learning-matters-6164faf1df12

Natural Language Processing

• How to get started in NLP https://medium.com/towards-data-science/how-to-get-started-in-nlp-6a62aa4eaeff

News

• Artificial intelligence - wonderful and terrifying - will change life as we know it http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/june-4-2017-the-sunday-edition-with-michael-enright-1.4139383/artificial-intelligence-wonderful-and-terrifying-will-change-life-as-we-know-it-1.4139397

• Public Data Sets: Use these to train Machine Learning models on Mateverse https://medium.com/@matelabs_ai/public-data-sets-use-these-to-train-machine-learning-models-on-mateverse-4dda18a27851

Probabilities

• The Drunkard’s Walk Explained Stochastic Processes, Markov Chains & Random Walks https://medium.com/i-math/the-drunkards-walk-explained-48a0205d304

Security

Risk Management

• Kids Pass Just Reminded Us How Hard Responsible Disclosure Is https://www.troyhunt.com/kids-pass-just-reminded-us-how-hard-responsible-disclosure-is/

Intrusion

• How to defend your website with ZIP bombs https://blog.haschek.at/post/f2fda

Other

Crypto Currencies

• Photos: Life inside of China’s massive and remote bitcoin mines https://qz.com/1026605/photos-chinas-bitcoin-mines-and-miners/

Game Theory

• The Evolution of Trust an interactive guide to the game theory of why & how we trust each other http://ncase.me/trust/

History

• Episode 606: Spreadsheets! http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/02/25/389027988/episode-606-spreadsheets

Robotics

• Moley Robotic Kitchen - Short Overview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV6CR-d0YdQ

Space

• First Object Teleported from Earth to Orbit https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608252/first-object-teleported-from-earth-to-orbit/

Tools

• Linkbait Title Generator http://www.contentrow.com/tools/link-bait-title-generator