Link

Good startup ideas are not counterintuitive, but in fact obvious, if you talk to users and develop a better model of the world (Startup L. Jackson/Startups and S**t) http://www.techmeme.com/141109/p1#a141109p1

Latency in large systems

Improve small job completion times by 47% by running full clones. http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/11/3/improve-small-job-completion-times-by-47-by-running-full-clo.html

There was a good article in Communications of the ACM about how to deal with large latency variations a few months ago if you are interested in reading more.

Facebook says vendor secrets forced it to homebrew switches • The Register

Below is an interesting article that explains some of the motivation behind white box networking.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/10/31/speed_not_price_drove_facebook_into_networking_biz_says_ahmad/?mt=1414756116161

Link

http://tomtunguz.com/obscure-economic-concept-behind-saas-pricing-challenges/?utm_content=buffer61ebd&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Link

https://m.soundcloud.com/booksontheradio/cory-doctorow-keynote-information-doesnt-want-to-be-free-surrey-international-writers-conference

Link

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-pitchforks-are-coming-for-us-plutocrats-108014.html#.U7AGqkEpA0M

Burnt Chrome: Fixing Bufferbloat on Comcast’s “Blast” 50/10Mbps Service

http://burntchrome.blogspot.ca/2014/05/fixing-bufferbloat-on-comcasts-blast.html?m=1

The myth of interference – Salon.com

http://www.salon.com/2003/03/12/spectrum/

Lawfare › Heartbleed as Metaphor

http://www.lawfareblog.com/2014/04/heartbleed-as-metaphor/

DNA seen through the eyes of a coder

http://ds9a.nl/amazing-dna/