Never judge a programmer by their commit history - Mehdi Khalili

Here is a few things I have either experienced personally or seen happen to great developers that led to bad code

Statistical foundations of machine learning | OTexts

We are in the era of big data. The procedure for finding useful patterns in data is known by different names in different communities but more and more, it is grouped under the label of machine learning. This handbook aims to present the statistical foundations of machine learning intended as the discipline which deals with the automatic design of models from data.

Howdoi – Instant Coding Answers via the Command Line - Benjamin Gleitzman’s Blog

One of my favorite collaborations to come out of the illustrious Oxidized Bismuth Blogger (OxBiz) ideation list is howdoi, a tool for instant coding answers via the command line.

Elegance as a luxury

But once you see your brain as a CPU, then a more practical question arises. How do you organize the problems to maximize the efficiency of your brain…

What Ultimate Does for Daughters | Bay Area Disc Association

In each case, it’s assumed that they are all the same kind of people — Ultimate people. These kind of people are family of a kind forged by lots of work, lots of experience and more fun than seems quite reasonable.

Hacker School’s Secret Strategy for Being Super Productive (or: Help.) - Julia Evans

What if everybody asked questions when they needed help? What if helping people was everyone’s default procrastination method?