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That the first thing to build is trust. The disease that plagues companies is not communicating out of fear you'll get in trouble if something is broken or didn't get done. Build t…

Why we still use HTTP is beyond me. And I don't mean about the speed issues. Why have a protocol that's so complicated when most of the things we need to build with it are either s…

This is a pretty compelling point!

The idea of write-behind logging is slick. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/papers/p337-arulraj.pdf

> So what doesn’t a startup need to succeed, but an established company would consider an important requirement. > The first is a fully-distributed, incremental capability for quic…

Can I just use macros? Passing the type as a parameter to a macro can let the compiler match types, no?

Why do I have to use OO? Why can't I just call the functions I need?

Tangent: Is it a good thing for programming that I have to wrap my mind around this new term called contravariant?

Why would it be unsafe to reach out to them?

On reasons why RethinkDB failed, add: not having SQL support.

How is the cost of copying close to zero or not apparent?

> more advanced, static type systems Are static type systems more advanced than dynamic type systems? This sounds surprising, given how much more one can do with a dynamic type sys…

What's a chromeless browser?

Why is there a line of death to begin with? The picture-in-picture attacks seem serious enough to warrant a new kind of browser.

What makes Erlang work well when distributed is having one mailbox per process, to persist messages. Any language can add this as a library, yet most don't.

From: https://justinkan.com/the-founders-guide-to-selling-your-com... "When a sufficiently high-up decision maker decides he/she wants to buy your startup, he/she will attempt to m…

> the majority of users will probably not verify keys. That is our reality The server having knowledge of who it can MITM without getting caught is irrelevant if nearly 100% of use…