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One suggestion you can make to the founders is early exercise. Some companies offer this. That at least gives the employer the benefit that people put money on the table and "inves…

Here's a relevant post from Basho about that and their take on it. http://basho.com/posts/technical/erlang-at-basho-five-years-...

Possibly, like driving for Uber/Lyft, shopping for Instacart or dogwalking in the time between since they have their own cars at the depot. But the problem would still be the extre…

Robert, I think it's great you comment here now and then. It's awesome to occasionally get access to the original authors of erlang. The proposed refactor in the article doesn't lo…

Here's one, https://eng.uber.com/dockerizing-mysql/

Obligatory joke about danish summers goes here.

Did your drivers ed/school teach you how to drive with a hood that's flipped up at highway speed? Mine didn't, then it happened to me. (but yeah you're right)

I worked for Andy Hertzfeld once, it was awesome in many ways, but the anecdotes... so good.

Mensch, an older code/terminal font. http://robey.lag.net/2010/06/21/mensch-font.html

You wouldn't want to rely on a happening upon a cargo ship anyway. You'd rely on an EPIRB.

Amex has a credit card called Blue Sky. Now I kind of want one.

I'm having flashbacks to the nineties and working with CORBA and it's C bindings. "Those who do not know history are doomed to reinvent CORBA_Environment." (Although there are few …

What's the type for "can't be bothered with personality tests" ? If you were a pizza, which topping would you have ?