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To summarize something from a little over a year after I joined there: Cloudflare was building out a way to ship logs from its edge to a central point for customer analytics and se…

I also think his thesis isn't to celebrate poverty but to consider that development (or modernity, globalization, pick a term) comes with its own problems. https://en.wikipedia.org…

(Yes to the earlier post - had a similar experience with an early metrics system for Twilio in 2012-2013) The 1st issue is that ZMQ implementations generally have an IO thread hand…

Cf. William Deresiewicz's address to the cadets of West Point in 2009 ( https://theamericanscholar.org/solitude-and-leadership/ ). I think the most surprising insight is his commen…

You don't have to agree with her politics, but I think Peggy Noonan had the right answer on this one: it's a show and there's no good to be found in taking part. Just say no and hi…

Or similarly toxic chloramine gas, when combined with cleaning agents containing ammonia, such as Mr. Clean.

I've not spent enough time on Pearl, but Migual Hernan and Jamie Robins have a free textbook on causal inference at https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/miguel-hernan/causal-inference-... …

It'd be hard to understand without feeling it for yourself, but in actual instrument conditions (IMC), it's easy for your sense of balance to mislead you into thinking you're level…

Michel Foucault also wrote about this essay. His essay starts thus: > Today when a periodical asks its readers a question, it does so in order to collect opinions on some subject a…

A couple things to consider: * Hour restrictions for passenger transport are significantly more stringent than for freight. * Southern Air's fleet consists 737s and 777s -- not sma…

We're using it internally, and also for a relatively small customer-facing analytics API, on the order of 10-30 nodes. It's been good so far. Good support from the maintainers, too…

If you haven't read it, you may find Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism a worthwhile read. She offers a lot of analysis on the rise of a classless society, paired with a de…

Or the excerpt of the book printed in Harpers: http://harpers.org/archive/2016/08/the-origins-of-speech/

Macheath [Mac the Knife]: "If the poor are so powerful, then why do they need us?" Peachum [The Beggar King]: "Because they don't know that we need them." --Die Dreigroschenoper (1…

Correct. CTEs are pretty much a no-go, and you also can't do things like join between distributed and non-distributed tables. Your queries tend to break down into ones where you're…

We've been running CitusDB for a couple years now at CloudFlare for serving aggregated analytics to customers (cf. https://blog.cloudflare.com/scaling-out-postgresql-for-cloud... )…

http://harpers.org/archive/2015/09/the-neoliberal-arts/

Maurice Blanchot, you are still waiting for us to catch up. "Un récit? Non, pas de récit, plus jamais."

This is all a bit reminiscent of Double Helix ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helix_(database) ). The best part of using Helix was that the people doing data entry, and the people …

Who works with someone like this today?

What a pleasure this interview was to read. And plain spoken, too. Many here have complained that Derrida is hard to read, or worse, simply makes no sense. You may take a side in t…

These are the numbers in Sierra Leone from Les Roberts, WHO Foreign Medical Team Coordinator. Les is a long-time epidemiologist and sanitation engineer; he's served in dozens of ou…