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Engineer on finagle, used to work at tumblr when we started running into problems with finagle. In large part it was because we didn't understand how it worked, and were doing thin…

MVCC has been around for at least thirty years, but it's interesting that we have seen more databases with this feature recently.

This is good advice. Another good tool to better yourself is reading code. This lets you think about why people have written code the way they have, and whether you agree with how …

I have also had this happen to me--I am part of a fairly large company on github, so this means that suddenly I don't see anything in my strema except for posts about that company,…

I feel like a large percentage of hacker news is posts exactly like this. "Want to be productive? Stop reading about how to be productive!" I personally feel like Hacker News would…

It seems like you get most of this stuff from a basic abstract algebra course. How does category theory help me beyond what I got from modern algebra 101? edit: this is from the pe…

this is the correct pronunciation.

I had a similar experience, where I found that none of my computers, neither my six year old laptop, nor my one year old laptop (!) could support GNOME 3, which has essentially pre…

Yes, for example Foucault or Derrida is not meant to be skimmed, and part of the point of reading Hegel is to struggle with it. It doesn't make sense to make the reader struggle wi…

I was skimming this article and thought that the premise was that first person shooters were switching to using the up, left, right, and down arrows instead of wasd. I felt the led…

Using a language with static typing means that there are a lot of tests you don't have to write. Do you remember the units trick from physics? If you forgot which equation you're s…

I generally disagree with what this guy is saying. This is reasonable from the perspective of, "How to pitch yourself to a non-technical founder." A. Programming languages do matte…

I agree, writing Java without powerful refactoring tools is a bore--that's why it's great to use Eclipse's "Generate Getters and Setters based on Fields" refactoring tool. Interest…

Interesting. My experience with Java is that the only thing that gets in the way of programming in Java is the verbosity, which an IDE with powerful refactoring tools (eclipse, IDE…

If the point is to learn front-end development, it seems like you're still sticking to your strengths instead of challenging yourself and delving into actual front-end DOM manipula…

I wrote something vaguely similar a while back, I imagined it would be useful in a hackathon context for people who had never used git before. The biggest problem was that it doesn…

The idea of encouraging the term of "man logic" is man logic. Misogyny is clearly a problem, but saying, "oh but men are dumb too" is not the right way to go about fixing it.

it's man logic to promote denigrating terms against men in an effort to better the plight of women.

I was about to ask this question. I also can't figure out if the powerups stack or if they're distinct. I wonder if it's possible to win if you get all of the powerups without dyin…

how do you negotiate equity?

on the other hand, things like "nlogn is a lower bound for comparison sorts" can't easily be reduced to counting your for-loops.

Taj Mahal doesn't seem like a strong counter-example, in that although it seems to have many non-standard lego pieces, it still has a high pieces per type value (or as the author d…

Interestingly, I recognized the handle DGG from the article partially because he is a notable inclusionist.

I think that more than the content of your post, siculars is responding to the somewhat inflammatory title. As soon as I saw the title I thought, "Someone is going to be complainin…