Last weeks top links (week 6, 2012)

Another week, another bunch of links. Feels intimidating how many leaning ressources, articles and potential point & click adventures are out there.

Programming Meta

• Why are software development task estimations regularly off by a factor of 2-3?
• Why there often is no single root cause for problems
• Suffering-oriented programming - a nice concept to think about.
• Why You Shouldn’t Hire More Developers
• Most Pressed Keys and Programming Syntaxes

New stuff to learn

• A new MIT course on “Advanced Data Structures” is online.
• New Peepcode on HTML 5 Browser Caching

Misc

• A point and click adventure raised over 1 million dollars in one day on KickStarter
• Sneak peek at the greatest toy robot ever invented

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