- Go and goroutines and the magic of parallel computing
- State and locking operations (Deadlocks, Race Conditions, Concurrency in general)
- Designed for solving Google-scale problems: lots of connections, lots of data, needs to be fast.
- Designed also to be easy to read & maintain.
- http://golang.org (write and run Go in your browser!)
- Drones! (Chris Andersen and DIY drones): http://diydrones.com
- Proxy Servers (tied in to Singapore and the goverment listening to everything)
- Different forms of legitimacy of government (consent, e.g. elections, or economic success, e.g. fixing buses and financial success)
- https://www.ted.com/talks/eric_x_li_a_tale_of_two_political_systems
- Public Salaries: http://www.glassdoor.com/index.htm
- Amy Hoy: http://unicornfree.com/
- "The things we use every day are so disgustingly terrible, there’s unending opportunity. We don’t need novelty, we need better."
- http://unicornfree.com/2014/fuck-innovation-everything-we-have-now-is-shit
- Square and disrupting the POS world
- Gold-convertable currencies, means of exchange.
- First Bitcoin ATM opened in Las Vegas
- Tony Hsieh (Zappos) the Downtown Project: http://downtownproject.com
- Lowering costs of startups that require physical space (vodka-infused sherbet!)
- http://www.workinprogress.lv
- http://venturebeat.com/2013/06/26/part-3-why-investors-tech-startups-are-flocking-to-downtown-vegas/
- Reduction of costs in genetic sequencing may mean that it's the next industry for disruption.
- Sam Altman (CEO of Y Combinator) on startups: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2014/07/sam_altman_on_s.html
- bigO: in the worst of all possible worlds
- Conway's game of life
- Stephen Wolfram and Computational Irreduciblity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60P7717-XOQ
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics_of_Sudoku
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmics_of_sudoku
- Ev Williams' theory of the internet: fewer clicks make mo money
- The B-Sides Conf: http://www.securitybsides.com/w/page/77739272/BSidesAugusta%202014
- Put on by the local ISSA: http://augusta.issa.org
- Ye Olde Dev Club Bloge: http://2058magnolia.blogspot.com/
- Dev Club Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9wc9YSYqb9wNkdzi05EbzD_VXSr_-k-E
- podcasts & such
Sunday, August 3, 2014
Dev Club Weekly
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