Stories by yarapavan

How to create illusion of faster web pages (while creating actual happier users)

39 years of computing in 11 hours, with $5K in costs vs. $44M estimate

The Six Books Bill Gates Thinks You Should Read This Summer

The redBus sale: A cautionary tale for Indian Startups

Failed Science: On the emptiness of failed replications

Writing tips from the CIA’s ruthless style manual

You soon may not need citizenship to vote in the US; just become a New Yorker

We Just Ran Twenty-Three Million Queries of the World Bank’s Website

Stanford Free Course – CS101 – starts on July 15. Register here

First principles thinking: a better way to innovate

Career Advice From Reid Hoffman

The Official Computer Bowl Trivia Book (1996) [pdf]

Prediction model for the FIFA World Cup 2014

How Our Delusions Keep Us Sane:Psychology of Essential Self-Enhancement Bias

A Century On, This (Ramanujan) Math Prodigy’s Formulas Are Finally Unravelled

A Conversation With Linus Torvalds

Creativity Tips from Pixar’s President Ed Catmull at Stanford ECorner Talk

The Origins of "Privilege"

Reuters wants to keep stories under 500 words. Editor takes 1174 to explain why

1000 users upload 700kB pic/sec.How many machines do I need to handle the load?