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My Week in Review (2017-08-09)
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My Week in Review (2017-08-09)

Blake Embrey
Aug 9, 2017
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What Happened?

  • Visited Victory Point Cafe and played some games

  • Walked out to Inspiration Point

  • PizzaHacker is the best pizza I've ever had

  • Discovered Workshop Cafe today and it's perfect

Internet

  • Favourite

    • Scaling Unsplash with a small team 📈👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

    • Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?

    • Humans are the only animals who crave oblivion through suicide

    • Why religious identities are not immune to robust criticism

    • Building a startup in public: from first line of code to frontpage of Reddit

    • It Starts Early: My Experience as a Female Tech Student

  • Useful

    • YC's 2017 Summer Reading List

    • Costco vs. Amazon Fresh: A Real-World Grocery Shopping Showdown

  • Interesting

    • Operation Luigi: How I hacked my friend without her noticing

    • Bitcoin Exchange Had Too Many Bitcoins

    • How Threats Against Domain Names Are Used to Censor Content

    • J. Craig Venter and Elon Musk discussed faxing genomes through space

  • Opinion

    • Apple’s Third Quarter Results

    • Botched Release of Beta HomePod OS Reveals Details of New 2017 iPhones

    • Seth's Blog: The management of whales

    • On Apple Removing VPN Apps From the App Store in China

    • Steven Levy: ‘How Apple Is Putting Voices in Users’ Heads — Literally’

    • Apple is about to do something their programmers definitely don’t want.

    • Seth's Blog: The Peter Possibility

    • Seth's Blog: Feels risky

    • Exclusive: Here's The Full 10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Internally at Google

  • News

    • A biological fax machine could seed life through the galaxy

    • Tesla Is Getting Into the Offshore Wind Energy Game

    • Climate Change Could Bring Killer Humid Heatwaves to South Asia

    • Why a Birth Control Pill For Men Is Still Not Here

    • A Hyperloop Pod, Fired Through a Tube at 200 MPH for the First Time

  • Software

    • Kids Pass Just Reminded Us How Hard Responsible Disclosure Is

    • A Year of Stories: Launching Is the Easy Part – Instagram Engineering

    • Building a query parser over a weekend

    • Faster Pagination in Mysql - Why Order By With Limit and Offset is Slow?

    • Eliminate the Database for Higher Availability

    • Story of a successful migration to Google Cloud Platform

    • Graph Databases: Living on the Edge

    • Taking FogBugz Forward

    • Scaling Node.js Applications

Reading

  • I Will Teach You To Be Rich

  • Finished Algorithms to Live By

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