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Wells and driveways.

Paging David Hume. David Hume. Has anyone seen David Hume?

> I've been to standup meetings in close to a dozen different companies, ranging from the smallest startup to some of the biggest tech companies and never have I ever seen a standu…

It was for LBJ.

Hanlon's Razor is enemy propaganda.

There used to be a proverb about this sort of thing. Something about being careful when eating finger foods.

There's a reason that the safety razor became more popular than the straight razor.

World Star Hip Hop will never be the same.

Last time I tried to use the same public key for a second account, GitHub refused.

Millenials can typing?

Once upon a time, there was a town that had a severe rat problem. They imported a large number of cats, and soon the rats were gone. Now the town had a cat problem. They imported a…

Heartsuck?

So we should choose the approach that gives us trivial attacks that reveal 64K straight out of Compton to the approach that may be slightly harder to defend against timing attacks?…

The npm source is crazy. Here's my favorite bugfix (bug being that the prepublish script simply wasn't running): https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/2389525a1df6d20e780cca5887...

Coincidentally, I just this week threw away one of his short story collections. In an introduction to a story, he gleefully quoted a nasty song one of his friends had written about…

The problem isn't only with primitives, as I think you've mentioned before. Even assuming a browser provides turnkey symmetric crypto for arbitrary plaintext lengths, "content-cont…

The short answer is: Use of synchronous Redis calls made it easier to develop and to experiment with storage patterns. Workers can be written in any language, which was another maj…

The "queue" is merely a Redis list. Durable by default. Redis PUB/SUB is not suited for the task queues we use, because any number of subscribers will receive the messages. We want…

Regarding the architectural question: We actually tested a few designs using m2 and 0mq during our R&D phase. 0mq's push/pull sockets provide the same "take" behavior as the Redis …