Technology

Hello, Startup Review

Hello, Startup: A Programmer’s Guide to Building Products, Technologies, and Teams by Yevgeniy Brikman Rating: ★★★★★ Date Finished: September 13th, 2017 Reading Time: A week What’s special about Hello, Startup is how thoroughly the author is dedicated to his craft.

Following July’s Chipotle Norovirus outbreak, I wrote an article in which I analyzed ways that we might be able to profit from detecting food health incidents before they are disclosed by the mainstream media. For publicly traded companies, a confirmed

My college roommate Alek Mosholt was a professional powerlifter and an amateur value investor. When Chipotle stock went into free fall following the Boston College norovirus debacle, his models indicated that the stock was fundamentally undervalued. He purchased it near

Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems by Sam Newman. Rating: ★★★★★ Date Finished: May 21, 2017 Reading Time: One day This was the most enjoyable technical book I’ve ever read. Though I haven’t read many technical books. What fascinates me about

Having Fun with Rap Lyrics – An Abstract

I’ve spent the past year thinking about rap lyrics. Matt Daniels’ The Largest Vocabulary in Hip Hop remains as the pinnacle of pop culture meets computer science and was the inspiration behind my development of Cypher, a program that calculates

Back when I first started “spending too much time on the computer,” I wanted to be a hacker1. The Uploading Virus scene in Independence Day was my main inspiration. I toiled on HackThisSite.org in my early teenage years but all I learned

; Or, dispelling myths about how applicant tracking systems (should) work. After publishing my last post, I decided to sort through all of the articles written about automated resumé screening software. What I began to realize was that, for the most part, nobody

Modding Command & Conquer: Generals on OSX

Command & Conquer: Generals is a real-time strategy game released in 2003 on Windows. I remember playing the game at 1/6 speed on my father’s original-model Dell Inspiron laptop, never winning a match until I repurchased the game in a bundle

I love rap music. Chances are, you do too. With the popularization of Genius, we now have a crowdsourced library of not only song lyrics, but also the meaning behind those lyrics sometimes provided by the artists themselves. This is

About a month ago, a TechCrunch contributor named Basel Farag published an article titled Please don’t learn to code. In it, he criticizes the “Learn to Code” movement, or, broadly, the idea pulsating through society that everybody should learn how to