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With few exceptions, you should NEVER start generating new ideas in a group - always start with people writing ideas alone and only then move to a group setting. (We've known starting with groups is worse for 50 years, but people still keep doing it since it feels more creative)
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One of the things that surprised me following last week's Jepsen report on Radix DLT (jepsen.io/analyses/radix-dlt…) was seeing both blockchain/DLT people *and* the database community go "Hang on, 16 transactions per second can't be right"--and expecting wildly different figures.
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As a software developer, you may be called upon to perform some of these tasks in your career.
How well a CS degree prepares you for these tasks (and whether it even should prepare you for these) is left as an exercise to the reader.
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What is the most mind-blowing AWS service, you ask?
It's not EC2. It's not S3.
It's IAM.
500 million API calls EVERY SECOND 🤯... Imagine that.
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"Not sure why you don't have this yet. It's very simple code; I'll send a PR"
ALT Iceberg Above water: writing the code Below water: * testing it on all platforms * interaction with other configuration * performance * security * documentation * localization * interaction with future features
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"Async" Slack channels are one of our secret weapons at @beondeck
After using them for ~18 months, I can't imagine Slack without them. Particularly now— operating 100% remote with 62 teammates in 14 timezones.
Here's the "how it works" post I use to open each new 1:1 channel 👇
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Felix Mendelssohn #CG #Likeness
Sculpted in @pixologic #ZBrush
the color map was painted in @Substance3D #Painter
Rendered in @AdskMaya with @arnoldrenderer
used #Xgen core for the hair.
artstation.com/hadikarimi
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The director of @AuschwitzMuseum wrote the President of Nigeria and asked him to pardon 13-year old Omar Farouq sentenced for 10 years imprisonment.
He declares he is ready to share part of the sentence.
'I cannot remain indifferent to this disgraceful sentence for humanity.'
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Because I'm THAT nerd. This is a PSA that the Unix Epoch rollover to 1600000000 is at 2020-09-13 12:26:40. ⌛️🤓🥳
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84 years young today! Wishing a very happy birthday to the incomparable computer scientist Margaret H. Hamilton. 🎂
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Write your internal docs like the person who has to use them is the on-call, just started working there last week, and just got woken up at 3AM.
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Announcing my next book: Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud, 2nd Edition (2020) brendangregg.com/blog/2020-0…
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OKD4 is now officially GA and available for general purpose use! more details here: openshift.com/blog/okd4-is-n… get started here: okd.io
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Earlier today, Google announced @IstioMesh's trademark goes to Google's Open Usage Commons. This is not what I had hoped to see and @jrmcgee explains why: developer.ibm.com/blogs/isti… @IBMcloud @IBMDeveloper
