Ivan Marcin ivanmarcin

This is a plain-text version of Bret Victor’s reading list. It was requested by hf on Hacker News.

Highly recommended things!

This is my five-star list. These are my favorite things in all the world.

A few of these works have had an extraordinary effect on my life or way of thinking. They get a sixth star. ★

Programming Achievements: How to Level Up as a Developer

This gist is part of a blog post. Check it out at:

	Crawling Google Trivia
	How many bots does Google have?
	More than 25 and less than 1,000
	Crawling Hosting and Servers
	Should I use the Vary HTTP header on URLs that redirect based on user-agent?
	Yes, it's still used by Google though maybe not other services
	Crawling Website Coding
	How does Google handle "not found" pages that don't return a 404?
	Google tends to treat as regular 404s
	Crawling Website Content

	* ./zipkin-query.log *
	[error] DEB [20140313-18:04:13.562] query: getTraceIds: QueryRequest(flexd/,None,None,None,1394759001000000,100,DurationDesc)
	[error] DEB [20140313-18:04:13.563] query: List()
	[error] DEB [20140313-18:04:13.563] cassie: multiget_slice(Zipkin, [java.nio.HeapByteBuffer[pos=0 lim=10 cap=10], java.nio.HeapByteBuffer[pos=0 lim=10 cap=10], java.nio.HeapByteBuffer[pos=0 lim=10 cap=10], java.nio.HeapByteBuffer[pos=0 lim=10 cap=10], java.nio.HeapByteBuffer[pos=0 lim=10 cap=10], java.nio.HeapByteBuffer[pos=0 lim=10 cap=10], java.nio.HeapByteBuffer[pos=0 lim=10 cap=10], java.nio.HeapByteBuffer[pos=0 lim=10 cap=10], java.nio.HeapByteBuffer[pos=0 lim=10 cap=10], java.nio.HeapByteBuffer[pos=0 lim=10 cap=10]], ColumnParent(column_family:ServiceNameIndex), SlicePredicate(slice_range:SliceRange(start:00 04 F4 86 A2 CD 48 40, finish:, reversed:true, count:100)), ONE)
	[error] DEB [20140313-18:04:13.591] cassie: multiget_slice(Zipkin, [1082977437561870878, 1124990867600714556, -43389147812296631, 40034

	~ about everything ~
	---------------------

	× raw tweets :
	— 2880


	~ pure output tweets [tweets w/o retweets or replies] segmented by length ~
	---------------------------------------------------------------------------

	configatron.tracing.zipkin.enabled = true
	configatron.services.zipkin.address = "zipkin-prod-collector0.usw2.flexilis.net"
	configatron.services.zipkin.port = 9410
	configatron.services.zipkin.samplerate = 0.01