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The secret to writing great code is believing that you can do it. You can program anything as long as you believe in yourself.
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I like Go b/c you write funcs until they're unwieldy then you turn some code into structs and methods & then interfaces & then you're done
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With all that write amplification the writing is on the wall. Spend all that time compacting, doll you might as well go back to contracting
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Designing distributed systems for worst-case scenarios can improve average-case behavior, too: bailis.org/blog/worst-case-d…
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You shouldn’t be designing systems without considering the impact on #devops
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Actors, Green Threads and CSP On The JVM – No, You Can’t Have A Pony boundary.com/blog/2014/09/03… by @moonpolysoft
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Moving away from (CFEngine|Chef|Puppet). Salt or Ansible?
IMO they're all covers of the same mutate-config-in-prod model. Moving is silly.
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New blog post: What do you get if you cross a distributed database with a stream processing system? radar.oreilly.com/2014/07/wh…
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losing what little interest I had remaining in the actor model for local-node concurrency
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Wow, @srawlins has been doing some great work improving the memory performance of String#sub and #gsub github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/57…
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What happens when a local business opts out of SXSW? kutne.ws/1iJfJjg
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You don't blame the database technology because the design implemented a horrendous data model.
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From the Ad, it’s clear that all VW German engineers who get wings when a Volkswagen hits 100,000 miles are Men.
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Here's the full chain of emails from [email protected] about the Ruby TLS client. gist.github.com/jmhodges/d64…
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that was tough--it almost never takes me 6 hours to write one test. complicated domain required extensive research.
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Debunking the myth of social creativity: why creative people say NO to invitations: medium.com/thoughts-on-creat…
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we should know better, but complexity continues to have a morbid attraction. cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/tran…
