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Yeah, if you can get away with that model things are simpler. The best first step into SOA to take is offloading work that doesn't need a user response to a pool of workers (often …

If you're considering switching your monolithic application into a SOA you should consider the testing and debugging implications seriously. If your call graph goes more than one l…

I started wondering about this in the recent STEM thread. As someone now in their early 30s I'm starting to wonder what the mid-late career as a software developer looks like. Do y…

It's important to remember that OrderedDict keeps insertion order, it isn't an implementation of a sorted dictionary.

I'm using MailTab Pro, which does notifications as well as presenting a mobile web view of the gmail website. I actually end up doing a lot of my email writing and processing direc…

You're better off going to a hotel in terms of cleanliness, and they are located all over midtown. I've never been refused from a hotel when I searched for or asked where the restr…

Generally multiple currencies aren't accepted and the volatility is much lower. You probably couldn't make a profit on normal consumer goods that have a return policy. For this to …

If merchants were doing sales and returns using Bitcoin it seems like you could make money on the volatility by returning items when the value of Bitcoins went up within the return…

Neat. An Objective C bridge to access OS X's frameworks was specifically what I was thinking of, and it looks like there is one: https://github.com/TooTallNate/NodObjC

Does this let you do anything on the host OS that you could do with a node.js library?

Fun fact: If you're taking one vowel and five consonants the Wheel of Fortune letters RSTLNE—not in that order—are the letters that are most likely to occur

Impressive. I think these sorts of articles are hard to come by because many (if not most) super productive programmers are doing their work for a company where the outside world w…

Yes. Audio Edition is a word-for-word reading of the print edition. Economist Radio looks like it has the random other audio things they do (there's also a podcast on iTunes with t…

You have to be a subscriber, and then it's available on their website: http://www.economist.com/audio-edition If you just want to read The World This Week it's available online for…

For anyone who isn't ready to completely turn off the news spigot, consider switching to a weekly (or monthly) source of news. I get all of my (non-HN) news from The Economist's au…

Is there a list of languages which use separate heaps for each thread? I'm really interested in learning more about that concurrency model, but haven't had much luck compiling a co…

This is cool. I implemented an extremely similar system for my last job. The data was dumped into mongo and then we visualized it with stacked bar graphs. One thing to consider sin…

Introversion and extroversion are obviously a spectrum. The reason that having that as an axis when discussing personalities rather than two different axes because people do tend t…

The really short version is that the company sells (probably newly created) shared in exchange for money. The owners of the company are generally not selling their own shares. That…

For those not familiar, the pudding in the domain name referring to a few kinds of sausage in England/Ireland (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_pudding )

I'm going to blog about it soonish. I'll cc you on twitter

Find an organization and reach out on twitter, or via email if they aren't on twitter. You'll probably find they would love the help.