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The normal way? You can implement whatever kind of index you like — b-tree index, bitmap index, hash index are all useful and conceptually simple if you're familiar with the backin…

I'm so sorry. Thank you for sharing your story.

I don't regret putting it off until my 40s because it let me find a person I want to have a family with Thank you for including this tidbit. I'm a man in my early 30s interested in…

I'll give you my answers to your questions as someone writing production JS/TS. Answering your questions is precisely illustrative of why hooks issues are hard to catch. unexpected…

I'm curious if you've used useDeepCompareEffect, the use-deep-compare-effect npm package? I've found that it is pretty reasonable foolproofing for many of these identity questions.…

Polymatter recently had a great video on the way the college ranking system is a hustle for foreign student money, and just how heavily it distorts colleges incentives: https://www…

Wut? I just make websites man. I don't want to be dismissive, but I hate deploying my applications for this reason. I'm an application developer. I'm not averse to infrastructure a…

Gassée also started Be Inc which created BeOS. Beyond being great in and of itself, BeOS was also slated to be the successor to Mac OS 9. If you're an operating system or file syst…

You mean like SoCs or SiPs? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_on_a_chip https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_in_a_package

I've always had a soft spot in my heart for PHP style "raw query in the template". Even as we've moved away from that I feel like GraphQL recapitulates a lot of the reasons why hav…

The progressive C++ification of JS is scary and exciting in equal measure.

It's been a long time since I was there, but I thought there were plenty of 15,000 call site refactorings done in a single final CL. Not that the Linux kernel should do the same!

I don't know why you're getting downvoted. This seems like exactly the right move.

Yeah, that little bit made my jaw drop. Package manifests in a format the language doesn't have stdlib support for is insane.

No shenanigans for any library-ish code with few dependencies that targets relatively modern Python. I've had one or two fundamental version conflicts with a 5+ year old applicatio…

For those who are into this kind of thing, here's a 25 minute mini-documentary of the US electrical system's history and problems. It's more focused on wiring, but has a lot to say…

I think the GitHub GraphQL API docs are particularly badly organized and basically show the API as a bucket of stuff, rather than as CRUD entities (which is how it's actually organ…

FTA, though the misspellings are frustrating: In a GraphQL API, tools such as Dataloader allow you to batch and cache database calls. But in some cases, even this [isn't] enough an…

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> Hoffman, Ward, Feltovich, et al. 2013 For those who wondered: Accelerated Expertise: Training for High Proficiency in a Complex World https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17399473…

The video (or blog post) below is one of the best explanations I've seen about what subtle bugs are easy to make with asyncio, why it's easy to make them, and how the trio library …

As a sidenote, I saw your talk on Clickhouse to the CMU database group [1] back when and was extremely impressed with your deep technical knowledge yet down-to-earth presentation. …

I am a small business owner with unlimited PTO. It's not a passive aggressive lie. I want people to take time off. I just can't have large outstanding liabilities associated with a…