{"id":920,"date":"2014-08-01T06:59:42","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T10:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/?p=920"},"modified":"2014-11-14T04:31:13","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T09:31:13","slug":"things-i-read-week-27-jul-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/things-i-read-week-27-jul-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Cool things I read about this week (27-Jul-2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know that random browsing you do at work everyday? I spin it as ‘cool things I read’ and post a blog about it every week. Here is a list of cool things I read this week.<\/p>\n

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1. A service that drains your competitors daily ad-word budget<\/a>
\n2. A look into Comcast’s culture of selling<\/a>
\n3. Mysterious fast radio bursts from outer space<\/a>
\n4. Martin Fowler on Technical Debt<\/a>
\n5. Podcast with CEO of Gravity on why MySpace failed<\/a><\/p>\n

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My notes:<\/h3>\n

1. A service that drains your competitors daily ad-word budget<\/a>
\nDoes Dogbert really exist? On a more serious note, I am unable to figure out an ethical way to stop this beyond hoping people are good enough not to sign up for the service. Sigh.<\/p>\n

2. A look into Comcast’s culture of selling<\/a>
\nD’uh! No surprises that the culture at Comcast is leading to the pretty awful customer service they provide.<\/p>\n

3. Mysterious fast radio bursts from outer space<\/a>
\nIf there are aliens, I hope they play chess. <\/p>\n

4. Martin Fowler on Technical Debt<\/a>
\nI reread this piece this week. I like working on resource strapped projects where no one can optimize for their own team. Technical debt is a natural by product. The deliberate\/inadvertent and reckless\/prudent is a good way to frame the invariable compromises that teams need to make.<\/p>\n

5. Podcast with CEO of Gravity on why MySpace failed<\/a>
\nJuicy part for me was from 14:45 where Amit Kapur talks about balancing short term revenue vs innovation and the culture clash with NewsCorp as the key reasons for MySpace losing. I love collecting examples of good engineering beating dumb metrics. The example of how MySpace decided to eschew Ajax just so their page views count went up is a good addition to my collection. <\/p>\n

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