Friday Links 79

1. Self-determination theory – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2. 15 Phenomenal TED Talks You Need to Watch Today
3. The state of web compression
4. Gamasutra – Features – Chasing the Whale: Examining the ethics of free-to-play games
5. Does aggressive monetisation work? | The Develop Blog | Develop
6. The Future Of UX Design: Tiny, Humanizing Details | Co.Design: business + innovation + design
7. 10 Weird Tricks To Make Your Life Easier – Listverse
8. ScraperWiki Data Blog | A blog about ScraperWiki and all things data
9. Task Parallel Library and async-await Functionality – Patterns of Usage in Easy Samples – CodeProject
10. The “Yes, And…” Approach: Less Ego, More Openness, More Possibility – 99U
11. 10 Laws of Productivity – 99U
12. Expanding the Definitions of Design – NYTimes.com
13. Cause and Effect Analysis (Fishbone Diagrams) – Problem Solving Tools from MindTools.com
14. Anatomy of a hack: How crackers ransack passwords like “qeadzcwrsfxv1331” | Ars Technica
15. Microsoft to allow indie self-publishing on Xbox One, retail consoles will double as debug units (updated)
16. The Noun Project
17. Correctly Building Asynchronous Libraries in .NET
18. Rendering ASP.NET MVC Razor Views outside of MVC revisited – Rick Strahl’s Web Log
19. The 4 server logs you NEED to know to fix any IIS / ASP.NET error
20. Pamela Meyer: How to spot a liar | Video on TED.com