Englishman in New Zealand. Still believes that computers should do the dumb stuff.
Wellington, New Zealand
Joined December 2010
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A little something we've been working on for the past 2 years in complete secrecy.
youtu.be/sahskKAxSCY
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I was taking with someone today that had an incident caused by a 5 year old quick fix that never got slow-fixed. And it led to me telling the story of the speech I give to my product managers when I agree to make brittle-but-fast fixes: “this is a privilege, not a right.”
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The railroads of the world - and only the railroads. #dataviz
Source: reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful…
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I was at Amzn in 2000 when the internet bubble popped. Capital markets dried up & we were burning $1B/yr. Our biggest expense was datacenter -> expensive Sun servers. We spent a year ripping out Sun & replacing with HP/Linux, which formed the foundation for AWS. The backstory:
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I accidentally wrote a short novel after starting a bug report: "How to open a file in Emacs"
murilopereira.com/how-to-ope…
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Alan Kay answers the question:
What did Alan Kay mean by, "Lisp is the greatest single programming language ever designed"?
quora.com/What-did-Alan-Kay-…
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I'm pleased to announce that I have released the #Emacs 27 edition of Mastering Emacs. And in the spirit of Black Friday, the book is 27% off this weekend only.
masteringemacs.org/book
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Love this clip. Dad was told to distract Buddy while they waited for Sammy to arrive and this happened. It was live television and completely improvised.
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Hey Wellington twitter! If you see a white Subaru Impreza, rego HAT890 could you let me know! Stolen from Wadestown sometime between 5.30 Friday 11th - Midday Saturday 12th September
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Why companies lose their best innovators or why startups innovate over large enterprises
Failure to identify creativity and foster it.
forbes.com/sites/kmehta/2019…
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#NewZealand🇳🇿 followed WHO guidance on isolating cases, reducing contact and testing, and successfully eliminated community transmission of #COVID19.
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The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing developers that good software requires constant churn.
@swannodette is it true that #ClojureScript is dead? There are barely any new commits on github.com/clojure/clojuresc… , just bunch of small ones pretty much only by you. This is night and day between something like @typescript I am not making this all up, anyone can go look:
