http://blog.wilshipley.com/2016/05/pimp-my-code-book-2-swift-and-dynamism.html

People are all upset about the lack of dynamic-ness in Swift, but they’re dumb and wrong.

http://www.jasonshen.com/2016/new-napster-sci-hub-academic-publishing/

Big evil academic journal publisher is evil.  Also, it better get with the times, or it’s going to be napstered.

http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-06-01/michael-dell-bought-his-company-too-cheaply

Dell (the company) was undervalued in the public stock market, so Dell (the person) decided to buy it back.  Everyone agreed that it was undervalued, so once he bought it back, some of them sued claiming he didn’t buy it back for enough, and won. The legal system is stupid.

http://yosefk.com/blog/evil-tip-avoid-easy-things.html

Working on things perceived as “easy” is bad, because if you fail you look bad, and if you succeed you don’t get much recognition.  The worst is things perceived as “easy” that are actually “hard”.  One way to avoid this is to postpone working on “easy”/“hard” things, because the eventual urgency changes their perception to “hard”.

http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/browser-ktrace-browsing

You might think that software used by millions (billions?) of people would be well written, but you would be wrong.