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I didn’t catch him but did look for him every time I rode that way.

Agreed! I routinely cycle around the city and one of my favorite loops is along the Embarcadero and up through Pier 39 and Fisherman’s Wharf. We live in a beautiful city that peopl…

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert Cecil Martin

I wrote a post about how to do these multi-lingual quines a while back: https://nolancaudill.com/2011/01/01/how-to-build-a-quine/

Seriously? http://blog.linkedin.com/2011/01/11/open-source-linkedin-kaf... http://blog.linkedin.com/2009/03/20/project-voldemort-scalin...

And there's actually a project that takes advantage of that fact: https://github.com/nvkelso/golden-ratio

Coincidentally, I felt compelled to write a bunch of words about the issues with pagination just this past weekend. http://nolancaudill.com/2012/03/24/pagination/

Nolan, here: the guy that wrote the post about the recent layoffs. As stated in the post, I honestly believe that Flickr-the-site, in the long run, will be fine. Do these layoffs h…

At Flickr, we recently added some real-time features to our API, so I built a little page that simply streams every single of our photos that is tagged with #occupywallstreet. I us…

Thanks! I like that you guys are using your database's stock features to accomplish this. Most of the time you don't need complicated systems to get things done. Reducing that ment…

I work at Flickr and I see they mentioned Flickr's ticket server idea, (ab)using MySQL's autoincrement and "REPLACE INTO" trick and mentioned that a con was the write bottleneck. W…

SICP is under some sort of Creative Commons license but I'm pretty sure Intro to Algorithms isn't.

At Flickr, I always have our system graphs in one tab and our help forum in another tab.

I'd love to see a pros-and-cons of this approach from a team organizational standpoint.