Interesting Things on the Internet: April 27th 2015

• Lessons Learned in Software Development. All important, hard-won gems of lessons.
• How to Survive the Looming Tech Bubble: Ignore the Gurus. Always good to be reminded, and this is a good reminder, no to believe everything you read.
• In praise of friction. A pitch-perfect post about why you should install (this) ad-(and tracking)-blocker.
• A Quick Note on Airbnb’s San Francisco Report. This is a fantastic take-down of the statistics quoted by Air B'n'B. You could apply almost all of those complaints to any of the reports that get generated to "prove" how much value tourism/arts/council-or-gov-topic-du-jour bring to the city.
• The Slow Death of the University. "What if the value of the humanities [and the arts] lies not in the way they conform to such dominant notions [of society's prevailing ideologies], but in the fact that they don’t?"