I have talked about human filters and my plan for digital curation. These items are the fruits of those ideas, the items I deemed worthy from my daily reading. These items are a combination of tech business news, development news and programming tools and techniques. You will note that some of the formatting has changed, and that is due to the change in my process. Formatting, and the information presented, is likely to change a bit as I develop my new process.

• Phone Keypad | What If?
• Open Big Data Computing with Julia | Intel Science & Technology Center for Big Data
• Learning to code will not make you rich (or particularly powerful) | Dave Winer
• People Feel Dumb: That’s why they don’t code. | Impress Myself
• An Engineer’s guide to Stock Options | Alex Maccaw
• Using Google Compute Engine with open source software | Google Cloud Platform Blog
• Game Theory: What do PhD Scientists in America Have in Common with Unmarried Women in China? – Mind Your Decisions
• Server-generated JavaScript Responses | 37signals
• The Daily Six Pack: December 11, 2013
• Wasted Talent: The Tragedy of the Expert Beginner | DaedTech
• The cost of select count(*) from tbl – Ayende @ Rahien
• In Defense of the Agent | Architects Zone
• Why Elasticsearch? – Refactoring Story, Part 3 | Javalobby
• Fist to Five | Javalobby
• Double Shot #1256 | A Fresh Cup
• Google engineer: Smartphone displays may soon be a relic of the past | Boy Genius Report
• Why We Refactor | Javalobby
• Natural Language Processing in the kitchen – Data Desk – Los Angeles Times
• Call me maybe: Redis redux | Aphyr
• Writing a full-text search engine using Bloom filters – Stavros’ Stuff
• New Google Sheets: faster, more powerful, and works offline | Google Official Blog
• Dew Drop – December 11, 2013 (#1681) | Morning Dew
• Using Node.js PayPal Doubles RPS, Lowers Latency, but Where Do Improvements Really Come From? | High Scalability
• Square Acquires Evenly, A Venmo Competitor For Sending And Receiving Payments With Friends | TechCrunch
• The Most Misleading Measure of Response Time: Average – Optimizely Blog
• Long-term unemployment: Doom. | Slate
• Neo4j 2.0 Released: 5 Ways It Will Help You Kick Ass | Javalobby
• Docker will change everything – Sathish Manohar

I hope you enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on those sites.