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There are several ideas here about how to elegantly combine physical switches, knobs, and dials with digital displays that I quite appreciate in this design. Some nice details: - T…

The issue with conferences is not where they are held, but that people come from afar to visit them.

Start with the animal table: Animal(animal_id PK, ... animal attributes) No need for join tables or surrogate keys on these tables. The animal_id can serve as both the primary key …

Part of the safety of standard cruise control is the fact that it is clearly crude and dangerous - it keeps the driver engaged.

Just because you've made a team and given them the job of doing something (incredibly) difficult, doesn't mean you've actually solved that problem or even should expect them to sol…

You can even do SQL DDL ALTER TABLEs in a Transaction on production, do the change, run smoke tests in a nested transaction that are all rolled back when complete, and if anything …

When breaking up your records into multiple rows by attribute - you then require multiple read units due to how DynamoDB charges you for each row read which costs a minimum of a re…

I've head this comment before, but from my own speech I don't find this to be true at all. It usually means I'm saying something I perceive to be more vulnerable or direct than any…

In my opinion, the two most important features as a developer for the App Store: 1. Rolling deploys - right now releasing on iOS is scary and big bang, combined with the review pro…

You're missing something: The way to project an iPhone onto your Mac screen with OSX is to use Quicktime movie recording mode and select your iPhone.

Couldn't you just use a dimpled ball to get however many numbers you'd like?

This is from their kickstarter page: "The real challenge now is to deliver a sequel that we will all be satisfied with after 14 years of waiting. After much research and planning, …

The camera is to recognize what recipe you put in the oven. Not sure if full HD was required, but maybe they found it gave better accuracy for the cost difference.

Scalability is a reason that many growing companies use open floors. When you are growing rapidly, you're often put in a situation where you need the most flexible possible floor p…

Model your data first using foreign keys, then if you have performance issues with specific queries consider ways of optimizing those queries. Materializing that data in a graph ma…