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NovoLabs | Dallas, TX | Full-time | Onsite or REMOTE NovoLabs is a small team focusing on Conversational Commerce in the Restaurant Industry. Our vision is to provide a world class…

I've been jumping between AWS and Google Cloud ( with a bit of Digital Ocean sprinkled in ) for the last several years. I chose Google as our cloud platform when we founded our com…

I'm happy for the guys at Bouyant, they've been great to work with in the past. There's a very large complexity payment inherent in the new "cloud native" architectures that fundam…

Nokona gloves are almost comically well made. I've used mine for over 20 years at this point and outside of a once a year oil'ing it has held up remarkably well. My dad has his fro…

Alan Jacobs has a pithy overview of Morton, and the following is taken from a recent post on Morton by him: This strategy of employing familiar language in unfamiliar contexts give…

You're 100% correct. Sorry about that, my fingers didn't translate what I had in my head in regards to pkgng replacing the old separate multi-component way of handling binary packa…

That's a good overall article - I've been switching back and forth between FreeBSD and Debian for several years now, and I never spend more than a couple of month without using one…

Did anyone else actually laugh out loud at the "Scaling is a solved problem" line? Guess I can take off early for the weekend then.

+1 - that's an outrageously good book.

Scala is much closer in spirit to ML / OCaml / Haskell than a LISP dialect, but I do agree w/ you that Scala rocks. It's my favorite language I've picked up since O-Caml.

Man that's a bad post about Scala. Scala has a lot to love and a bunch to hate within the language itself, but writer doesn't appear to have the ability to actually discuss it.

The difference between the high quality math guys and the high quality distributed jocks at that level is much larger than I think most people think. I come from the engineer side,…

Dr. White, who heads this up, spoke yesterday at Strata . . . it was the most bizarre talk I heard in the 3 days by a mile. At one point, he actually put a slide from a Wired peace…

It's worth trying to grind through a few months of Free-BSD after using Linux to get a feel for it. One of my favorite quotes on the differences is, "FreeBSD is what you get when a…

I've done a lot of Spring side work and your first paragraph is the best explanation I've ever read for the framework. I also agree that if you can't test Spring code you are doing…

This article confuses me . . . a better title would have been, "Why we changed languages, went from PaaS to IaaS, and changed our datastore - or why we changed everything". I find …

Yeah, this is one of my favorite tricks as well . . .

This is 100% correct. Southwest uses SAAS, which is so old that last year they begrudgingly updated because the Big Iron SABRE was using to host these things was no longer being su…

I worked for Southwest as recently as last year. In the industry, ALL reservation and ticketing systems are written by specialists. The major players are Sabre ( think IBM ) / Navi…

According to github, 85% of this is in Scala. It's written on the JVM for the simple reason that if they wrote it in Go or Erlang, no Enterprise would adopt it as there isn't a CTO…

I keep waiting for someone to mention that the Texas law is virtually identical to the laws on the books in 48 other states. Also, Ford went to the Supreme Court over this in 2001 …

Wut? This is, umm, complete and totally false. Where do people come up with this crap?

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For those that don't know Texas politics, the Senate and the House are roughly divided into thirds -> 1/3 liberal democrat, 1/3 old school country club moderate Republican, 1/3 Tea…