Pierce Hickey

great read - "Of course, you don't have to go far on the internet, much less in gaming, to encounter egregious displays of self-entitlement. That particular mixture of naivety and self-absorption is the principle feature of an X-Factor generation, regularly flattered into thinking their views are of vital importance by cheap marketing initiatives to "drive engagement" - rhetorical questions on Facebook; the Like button; text to vote now! Why not get on YouTube and unload your soul into the digital ether? You are worth it, you beautiful snowflake." - Pierce Hickey

Mix of the very first Massive Attack 45 - Pierce Hickey

Alan Moore article - Pierce Hickey

More on how GitHub uses Git - Pierce Hickey

Twitter's Scala "Best Practices" - Pierce Hickey

TomDoc is a code documentation specification that helps you write precise documentation that is nice to read in plain text, yet structured enough to be automatically extracted and processed by a machine. - Pierce Hickey

(30 mins) Build features fast. Ship them. That's what we try to do at GitHub. Our process is the anti-process: what's the minimum overhead we can put up with to keep our code quality high, all while building features as quickly as possible? It's not just features, either: faster development means happier developers. This talk will dive into how GitHub uses GitHub: we'll look at some of our actual Pull Requests, the internal apps we build on our own API, how we plan new features, our Git branching strategies, and lots of tricks we use to get everyone — developers, designers, and everyone else — involved with new code. We think it's a great way to work, and we think it'll work in your company, too. - Pierce Hickey

Uncle Bob schools the Rails folk on architecture (1 hr) - Pierce Hickey

Gephi is an interactive visualization and exploration platform for all kinds of networks and complex systems, dynamic and hierarchical graphs. Runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Gephi is open-source and free - Pierce Hickey

By including a single line of JavaScript you can emulate device motion events in your test page which can either be a regular browser or even a mobile emulator. - Pierce Hickey

In the twilight of Moore’s Law, the transitions to multicore processors, GPU computing, and HaaS cloud computing are not separate trends, but aspects of a single trend – mainstream computers from desktops to ‘smartphones’ are being permanently transformed into heterogeneous supercomputer clusters. Henceforth, a single compute-intensive application will need to harness different kinds of cores, in immense numbers, to get its job done. The free lunch is over. Now welcome to the hardware jungle. - Pierce Hickey

Placed in Russia, The Gift is a Sci-Fi short with a savage Chase sequence on it. (via MeFi) - Pierce Hickey

"Also I want an orbital death ray." - Pierce Hickey

Jex Humble article. Pimping Lean Startup a lot - Pierce Hickey

Graphic design, Interaction design and User Experience design. Some handy book references too. - Pierce Hickey

(via dkierans) - Pierce Hickey

51 minutes of vintage Orbital - Pierce Hickey

This template condenses nine key questions into a one-page "Cliffs Notes." Quickly articulate your answers to 9 key areas, including: strengths, goals, work-style, ideas, challenges you've overcome, questions & an answer to that dreaded "weaknesses" question - Pierce Hickey

Good list, I've only read a few. - Pierce Hickey

On the making of Goodfellas - Pierce Hickey

Hate the layout, but some great commentary. - Pierce Hickey

Phoney politeness and muddled messages: a guide to euphemisms (via @tomcoates) - Pierce Hickey

Cybercrime expert Mikko Hypponen talks us through three types of online attack on our privacy and data -- and only two are considered crimes. "Do we blindly trust any future government? Because any right we give away, we give away for good." - Pierce Hickey

Or "Why iPhones are made in China" (via DaringFireball) - Pierce Hickey

What aspects of religion should atheists (respectfully) adopt? Alain de Botton suggests a "religion for atheists" -- call it Atheism 2.0 -- that incorporates religious forms and traditions to satisfy our human need for connection, ritual and transcendence. - Pierce Hickey

I don't think he's ever scrubbed up so good. It's all thanks to the auspices of the good Bene. - Pierce Hickey

Ireland has been one of the largest casualties in the global financial crisis, which began during the banking collapse of 2008 and has continued to impact markets and destabilise the developed world ever since. - Pierce Hickey