At this moment, at the beginning of the year, I have eight active big rock projects. The following attributes define these projects: I am the primary owner and have committed to someone that they will
How stdbuf works 2022-11-11 stdbuf(1) is a little command line utility that changes how a program buffers its standard input or output streams. It sometimes doesn’t work as expected, so I became curio
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Once more: we are not modeling reality, but the way information about reality is processed, by people. — Bill Kent I've got this working theory that you can tell how enthusiastic someone is about a su
Back in college, they told me that I would start my career writing code, but eventually, I would move to a position where I would ask others to code my designs. To celebrate that this turned out to be
In late 1921, an exhausted T.S. Eliot dragged himself to the Albemarle Hotel in Margate, on the Kent coast. Signed off from his job at Lloyds Bank for three months complete rest, he spent a few weeks
With Twitter's recent notoriety , countless social media platforms have emerged from the shadows. If you've spent any time on social media since Elon's takeover, I'm sure you've heard rumblings about
The new social software is subtly designed to reduce the huge, viral surges of attention we see on Twitter. Published in UX Collective · 9 min read · Nov 9, 2022 -- Photo by Brett Jordan on Unsplash B
Party’s Over, Pleb. 14 min read · Nov 6, 2022 -- For most of the modern era, most people in the rich world have been poor, just like their parents and their children. Social mobility was more dream th
No one ever went broke taking a profit Unlike companies that reinvest all or most of the money back into the company every year, we take money (profit) out every year in the form of distributions (we’
Author practices jumping rope with seaweed while work awaits. ``. . . anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment." -- Robert Benchley, in Ch
Quick programming notes: NormConf is a real, free conference and it is happening on December 15 . See you there! Second, I recently had the distinct privilege of being interviewed by Peter Wang about
A Team at Microsoft is Helping Make Python Faster Jay Miller October 26th, 2022 Inside the Faster CPython Team at Microsoft The last few years have seen Python rise to prominence. TIOBE and IEEE both
Once upon a time I started taking photos with a Lubitel , which is an old, very basic, and completely manual camera. In 2000 I switched from film to digital and everything could be automated. This was
It’s mid-afternoon on a Friday at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, and three of Elon Musk ’s children are gathered around him – one of his triplets, both of his twins. Musk is wearing a g
Why Lisp ? Version française Lisp is not dead. For a language born at the end of the 50's, this is a happy but also very surprising fact. The success of Clojure or the remarkable resistance of Common
Edit Remote Development using SSH The Visual Studio Code Remote - SSH extension allows you to open a remote folder on any remote machine, virtual machine, or container with a running SSH server and ta
Enlarge / Now we'll never know how Dolores Abernathy's story ends. YouTube/HBO HBO surprised its subscribers and the TV industry on Friday by announcing that it has canceled the big-budget science-fic
01 Nov 2022 It’s been (almost) two years since I started my first steps in the Rust world. I thought it couldbe interesting to reflect on some impressions and lessons learned during this journey. Belo
(To receive weekly emails of conversations with the world’s top CEOs and business decisionmakers, click here .) As Twitter changed hands at the end of October, another very similar social media site w
I Fight for Pareto Pareto's law states that 80% of the results come from 20% of features (effort) of your application. Bear this in mind when planning the next scrum/delivery. The best engineers are t
Published in ThinkGrowth.org · 6 min read · Aug 23, 2017 -- Last week I got a call from Patrick an ex-student I hadn’t heard from for 8 years. He was now the CEO of a company and wanted to talk about
Friday 7 June 2019 Here’s a really simplistic model: if you want someone to do something, youhave to give them a compelling reason to do it, and you have to make it as easyas possible for them to do i
When the iPhone was first introduced, it packed in quite a few innovations. At a now-legendary keynote , Steve Jobs announced that Apple was launching a widescreen iPod, a phone and an internet commun
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Why I Program In Erlang By Evan Miller October 20, 2012 Translations: Urdu Erlang is a twenty-five-year-old programming language that has yet to win a popularity contest, and almost certainly will nev
This post describes in detail how I support myself while working on the SerenityOS project. Introduction Hello! My name is Andreas Kling and I’m the founder of the SerenityOS project. If you’re not fa
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