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Shells are much better than python at managing and orchestrating process execution. Also the pipes and filters model is simple and powerful when it fits your problem, which for me …

The interviewer was clearly annoyed at my questions, it was not that I didn't discuss the right things, it was that I asked too much and drew too little.

I've failed system design interview where they repeatedly asked me to design "for scale" but all the volume and latency requirements I could get from them could be handled by a sin…

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If you don't like fiat there is always gold. If you really care about value, independent from the monetary system (post-apocalyptic safety), buy tools, grain, generators and oil, t…

Some years ago, at the height of the Augmented Reality bubble, I had a hackathon idea about smart sunglasses that would replace any detected poster and billboard with information o…

What is the advantage compared to established AOP libraries, such as AspectJ or BytecodeBuddy?

And here is my attempt to describe what Kubernetes is, and the expected benefit and tradeoffs. This is what I wish I had before I started learning. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/k…

I tried to skim-read through the Unison About page, but all I saw was an under-designed variation of Jetbrains MPS for a single language. I assume you have spent longer with the pr…

From my experience, using the Google maps within the city, it tends to ne pretty sparse with labels by default. This is a good thing because in a place like tokyo there is just too…

From my experience, using the Google maps within the city, it tends to ne pretty sparse with labels by default. This is a good thing because in a place like tokyo there is just too…

I really like SemanticMerge, in its current shape it is litte more than a fancy proof of concept. Its biggest limitation on real projects is that it works on a single-file level, w…

It's definitely not traditional, but I can think of a few options in Tokyo. The most accessible one is Chabu-ton on top of Yodobashi in Akihabara.

By "native" they mean JVM-native (not OS-native). I believe what they really mean is that they use JVM primitives for dispatch, as opposed to building their own using functor objec…

>> There's an interesting point to be made here, though - "wrapping everything up in one type" is essentially what dynamic type systems do, except that it's baked into the language…

In a dynamic languages you can do dynamic dispatch - i.e. dispatching based on the actual runtime type of the arguments of a function, as opposed on the declared or statically infe…