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Doesn't anyone remember that it's "UNABOMer"?

My working definition of "too clever" is: If you have to spend time explaining 'what' the code is doing, it is "too clever". If you have to spend time explaining 'why' the code is …

The Romans called it decimation. Though, Twitter would need to make the layoffs random, force co-workers to escort the laid off off premises, and take away perks for a few weeks...…

You don't raise a rebel by telling them it's okay to play on the roof. You raise a rebel by telling them "I don't want to see you on that motherfucking roof!" Then, when they are r…

Then the marauders will thank you for your pile of guns as well.

A lot of the back-and-forth here reminds me of: "Note that, with careful optimization, only 14 gajillion messages are necessary. This is still too many messages; however, if the sy…

I don't engage devil's advocacy.. only pedantry.

1. I see your pedantry and raise you a "Honduras is in Central America"

To me.. the core idea is that (given one chooses, over and over, from a bunch of independent and identically distributed events.): There are more ways for everything to happen than…

His point about the bastardization of "cut and paste" is very important in my opinion. Hell, he ends with this.. Bringing a complex tangle of code to heel becomes tractable if you …

Its a sexy read. James Mickens is AKA "Galactic Viceroy of Research Excellence" http://microsoftjobsblog.com/viceroy-james-mickens/

Hmm, thanks for this bit (pun?) of information. So, I guess the question becomes.. is there a (or what is the) difference between: 1. [0, ∞) 2. (0,1] when it comes to a currency? I…

Bitcoin is "doomed" to fail (as a currency) by the simple fact that the supply is capped at 21 million. This relegates it to the status as a "virtual collectible" (as someone so hu…

According to the quote I provided from the article, failure of the Zookeeper cluster will bring down their entire architecture.

I don't know... sounds like they just shifted the 'single point of failure' to the Zookeeper cluster. Is it somehow sexier to have your SPOF be things running Zookeeper instead of …