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- Philosopher Alain Badiou speaks on Evil
- John Stuart Mill: neither society nor government should interfere with individual freedom
- Oscar Pereiro wins stage 16 in Pau, then gets massage
- Why does economic populism meet with rejection from some groups that might benefit?
- Could the Democrats ever become the majority party again?
- Some graphic design humor
- Is Friedrich Hayek a libertarian?
- What liberalism is not
- What is liberalism?
- Heretical questions regarding free trade
- John Locke's distinction between liberty and the voluntary
- Liberia last year, just after the siege of Monrovia
- Eventually, everything we do will be on record with Google
- Anne Zook on the comforts of tradition
- Nice Guys
- A Writer's Shortcut to Stronger Writing
- An equal rights amendment for women
- What if women conquered a city?
- Is America a republic or an empire?
- John Locke and Religious Fundamentalism
- Money and Motherhood: some contradictions
- Evolution and religious belief
August 2005 ( View complete archive page )
- Where have all the heroes gone?
- The Cunning Realist: some of the Republicans running the country have lost their minds
- BattlePanda: revolutionary idealism is dangerous because it makes everything too simple
- Virginia Postrel: the Republicans have given up their free-market beliefs
- Battlepanda: liberals should not be racist and sexist
- A nation without women
- Susie Bright: how can weblogs make money?
- John Stuart Mill: revivals of religion are often revivals of bigotry
- John Stuart Mill: government has the right to forbid marriage
September 2005 ( View complete archive page )
- Human nature favors social status more than it favors wealth
- The only moral question in the Iraq war is what do the people of Iraq need
- In America, conservatism has given up its argument for limited government
- Can the Christian faith be rescued from the Fundamentalists?
- Must Europe become more liberal?
- Bush lied. Our soldiers died.
- Explaining the poor to the middle class
- The 1990s were the high water-mark for a certain kind of conservatism
- In disasters, the lucky live and the unlucky die
- Big government conservatives betray America's political traditions
- Early Christian political thought, later suppressed, emphasized the individual's capacity for self-rule
- Is an emphasis on college access a detriment to social mobility?
- Who needs a college degree?
October 2005 ( View complete archive page )
- What's wrong with the leadership of the Democratic party, part II
- How can we trust anyone associated with government?
- Antioch Bible Church, the notoriously anti-gay institution on Seattle’s Eastside
- Yet another sick, pious hypoctrite that needs to be added to the Conservative Values Monitor
- it's still fashionable for women to write articles in which they berate other women for their less-than-perfect bodies
- Sex Without Love
- Susan Friedman: mapping feminism and the cultural geographies of encounter
- What's wrong with the leadership of the Democratic party?
- What is property?
- What is nationalism?
- The revolution that has really lasted is the democratic revolution emerging from France and the US in the 18th century
- What is needed to defend diverse, tolerant, open societies?
- The war against women
- The Best Democracy Money Can Buy -- BBC meets Greg Palast
- Dangers to science
November 2005 ( View complete archive page )
- When one of our people gets elected, sooner or later they stop being one of our people
- What is the link between federalism and conservatism?
- 'China is not a capitalist country, and it never will be
- When is war allowed?
- Anti-intellectualism as a trojan horse
- No one can be a sincere libertarian capitalist and a Roman Catholic at the same time
- Conservative economists are somewhat stupid
December 2005 ( View complete archive page )
- At its last valuation, an ounce of liberty cost a good two million dollars' worth of police state
- What kind of a father are you?
- The remarkable story of Ping Fu
- Conservatives are anti-American in the most profound sense of the word
- Are older men more attractive than younger men?
- If you are not guilty, then you have nothing to hide?
- Watch the Boondocks!
- The Cory Maye case
- If you have done nothing wrong, then you've nothing to hide?
- The government spied on 4,000 Americans, but only arrested one?
- Shelley Powers: women are taught not to put themselves forward
- Will Seigenthaler get Congressional hearings to end online anonymity?
- McCain wins one for the terrorists?
- We are only allowed to learn certain things at certain ages
- What is liberalism -- the child's edition
- Conservatism is a psychology of innocence?
- Avedon Carol is disgusted with Hilliary Clinton
- Nurturing parents are not liberal role models
- Rush Limbaugh defends the Babes Of Liberty
- How much should we worry about the decline of old media?
January 2006 ( View complete archive page )
- A petition for Cory Maye
- Will Cory Maye get a new trial? Hearing set for February 27th
- A new member of our weblog team
- Doris Lessing: Those at the top never know what goes on at the lower ranks
- How large a gap exists between the opinions of the blogosphere and the opinions of the mass public?
- Katrina death toll passes the 1,400 mark
- Doris Lessing: We are group animals
- How Thatcher brought mass marketing techniques to politics
- Mississippi expands self-defense law - but not for Cory Maye
- Doris Lessing: Truth sounds like a cool, quiet, sensible tone of voice
- An overdue Me Me
- What is patriotism?
- Why did Tookie Williams get so much attention, and why has Cory Maye gotten so little?
- American justice has gone blind
- America is the enemy of free markets in Latin America
- What are the moral limits to punishments for criminals?
- What is monopoly?
- The argument for torture reversed
- When self-defense gets you the death sentence
- Threats to the rule of law
- The death penalty is incompatible with the liberal tradition (however that tradition is defined)
- Where does Liberalism come from?
- The Legal Defense Fund for Cory Maye
- Please write to Cory Maye and let him know that he is not forgotten
- Is this cute?
- The changing tone of homophobia
- GoogleZone: Is this what the future will look like?
- Bob Evans... we are with you on this
- Roderick T. Long: knee-jerk anti-leftism discredits libertarians
- ON BEHALF OF CORY MAYE
- A legal defense fund has now been established for Cory Maye
- Divorce and marriage, in America and Japan
- Where is the Petition for Cory Maye? I'd like to sign it.
- If there has to be a Dead Man Walking... I don't want it to be Cory Maye
- What is "What is Liberalism?"
- Steve Kubby has a hearing Friday (Today)
February 2006 ( View complete archive page )
- The information revolution changes adolescence
- The man shot by the vice-president now apologizes to the vice president
- Please help us spread the word about the Cory Maye petition
- The Radicalism of the American Revolution
- A Little Matter Of Genocide
- Should employees carry guns?
- The Ring of Truth
- Bitch says
- In mice, and maybe humans, bullying leads to social withdrawal, unless treated with anti depressants
- This is not a place of honor
- What is liberalism? The child's edition, part II
- Is Russ Feingold worth supporting for President in 2008?
- Petition admin note
- We want at least 10,000 signatures on the Cory Maye petition
- Cory Maye is to get top-level pro-bono legal help from the firm of Covington and Burling
- Could it be Mohammed?
- Cross-Ideological Alliances
- What would it take for our politicians to value creativity?
- When people believed they could change the world for the better
- Joel Stein: people who buy little yellow ribbon magnets for their cars don't really Support The Troops
- John Derbyshire does not give a damn about Egyptian lives
- Iraq: the musical
- Cartoons of Prophet Muhammad
- I'm an Anne Zook dittohead
- So many years struggling hopelessly against stone
- BattlePanda: Women in commercials still get all the household drudge work
- How children change a marriage
- Why is America so successful, when it is so poorly lead?
- Can parents hit their kids?
- Robert McAfee Brown: Christianity is not inherently right-wing
- She conceals her intelligence in social situations
- How to lose a war
- Roots of Liberalism
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- The transition to IP 6 will be painful
- Joys that endanger our identity
- Optimizing MySql
- MySql search has no way to describe a string as literal (as a word) - it stumbles on periods
- Linux memory management collides with MySql
- SilverPop will not support Google Chrome any time soon
- Women who post photos of their children, rather than themselves, on Facebook
- Why Unix survived
- People who hate Paul Krugman
- Atheists did better than most on a survey about religion
- Why is Microsoft giving up on its own platform and giving its users to WordPress.com?
- TechCrunch is a dipshit company says TechCrunch
- How wiki software goes downhill
- What Dorkbot needs
- Too contrarian
- Filesort invoked when ORDER BY clause used on a text field in MySql
- B-tree versus R-tree indexes for different searches in MySql
- Small fields speed lookup speed in MySql
- Are lots of queries faster in MySql than a big JOIN?
- The limits of MySql, and the possible advantages of PostGreSQL
- Pete Lacey's satire, The S stands for Simple
- Loneliness is contagious
- The USA loses high-end jobs
- Ron Conway denounces the attempted collusion among super angel investors
- Play music as you move from page to page
- Michael Arrington's track record
- What is wrong with .NET
- Facebook is not what worth its valuation
- Leiningen and Clojure
- Why is Wandisco investing in Subversion?
- Does this make a good impression?
- Is there an attempt at collusion among super angels?
- The problems in the medical industry are due to an obsolete professional culture
- Is the climate heating up for startups?
- Incanter is a Clojure-based, R-like platform for statistical computing and graphics
- Happy second thoughts about Emacs
- Setting up Clojure and Emacs
- Incoherent ranting in TechCrunch comments
- Things I dislike about the Symfony framework
- Clojure, Lisp and Emacs
- Ben and Mena Trott were not entrepreneurial types
- Are there any customers for your product?
- Can you do Ycombinator if you are over the age of 30?
- Michael Arrington claims he found several major angel investors engaged in illegal collusion
- Visionary customers
- Clojure macro tutorial
- The problem with reputation points, and other forms of game mechanics
- Being poor
- Linux kernel leaves open path to run script right before a process dumps core
- Skills atrophy after 20 years at one job
- What does it mean to be rich?
- Income inequality
- Freelancing is increasingly understood and accepted in the USA
- What do people want?
- Does anyone want co-founders on a startup?
- Reddit is friendly to hackers, Digg is not
- Bash history lets you go way, way back
- User feedback is good, but sometimes betrays a lack of confidence
- Groupon can bankrupt small businesses
- Steven Gary Blank: I hadn’t just lost a potential advisor I had lost an irreplaceable opportunity
- Income inequality
- Computers are coming to the people
- Color palettes
- What is an idealist?
- What exactly is a hero?
- Do web designers and programmers just stop caring after awhile?
- Why do we have last names?
- Thomas Watson was fired several times, then sentenced to jail
- 37 Signals strict attitude about features
- Why did the media promote Haystack?
- Power tends to blind you
- Lying, cheating, stealing
- Not my best moment
- Request Tracker
- Linux cheat sheet
- The insanity that runs the world
- Is Marge Simpson white?
- Startups are different, and the job roles are different too
- The problem with declarative schemas for ORMs
- How can one ever know what the right tool is, when there are so many?
- Accidental Rails Love
- Lisp for Java programmers
- One word graphics
- We are looking for beta-testers who want to start a site like WP Questions
- Progressive algorithms
- What men pay for
- What created the current culture of Berlin?
- One death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic
- Why is alcohol good for you?
- Rejection is good
- Why is Ruby fun?
- Cows excrete peaches
- Not answering questions
- Twisting people's words
- The productivity boom
- Government secrets and torture
- How many times do clients need to ask for a feature before you give it to them?
- The finances of BabyCastle
- Why are there so few billion dollar startups Europe?
- The 4 rules of a sick relationship
- The restrained use of color
- Closures won't be in Java 7, does anybody care?
- Gender misrepresentation in advertising agencies
- Darren Hoyt is focusing more on his other projects
- Truth is a Wikipedia talk page
- Is Craigslists so perfect that it must be destroyed?
- Small in-house tech teams often face uphill battles in big corporations
- A really good prediction algorithm
- Exception handling in the Zend framework
- Cassandra not ready for prime time? Or put to an inappropriate use?
- Why is the Safari browser so buggy?
- University Tutor has 200 subscribers
- Some really good hook scripts for git
- There is a 100% chance that I'm wrong about something
- Misunderstandings about the word "alpha"
- If you want to do something that's going to change the world
- Steven Gary Blank: 4 Steps to the Epiphany, part 1
- The artist and animal rights activist Angela Singer
- Stackoverflow: What Happens When You Reach 200k Reputation?
- Should we just chuck the whole thing out and rewrite it from scratch?
- Bill Gates reboots his computer every night
- A red flag for a startup
- Religious affiliation is strangely high in the US
- The Public School
- Read the stack trace before you launch the debugger
- The Whorf hypothesis
- PHP has some seriously strange behavior
- Some of the very things that made PHP seem so clever in 1999
- Divorce decreases because of the recession
- Alexis Ohanian is now Ycombinator Ambassador to New York City
- The unique scale of job losses in the current recession
- Makoto Aida on pessimism and art in Japan
- Fat tissue is an active organ that sends chemical signals to other parts of the body
- Ancient Egyptians consumed tetracycline
- Darren Hoyt on the secrets of web success
- Muscle loss in cancer is a cause of death
- A model is a map, and a map can serve a function, but no model can ever become the territory
- Does anyone still think of Clojure as a toy language?
- Generics in Java are awful
- Divorce, children, and a couples expectation of the future
- The advantage of co-working spaces in New York City
- The bliss of an 18-month, paid, Swedish paternity leave
- What do people pay in taxes? Apparently 40%
- Compelled to face with sober senses the real conditions of our lives
- Why would I start a new weblog?
October 2010 ( View complete archive page )
- The truth about the Tea Party
- Do stuff
- Drugs that make you smart, but rob you of your creativity
- Sam Ruby says using Twitter needs to carry an obligation
- Lethal injection
- Work is like crystal meth
- A lost decade now seems likely
- Magnetic Fields has a documentary
- How bad can Yahoo be?
- The stuff that gets downvoted on Hacker News
- A lot of people hate PayPal
- It is legal to jail break an iPhone
- The value of a college education is decreasing
- Changing user interfaces for productivity?
- Edward Tufte reviews the Windows 7 phone
- Why is the market so slow? Why does it take several decades to respond to demand?
- Microsoft has huge growth potential in every market on earth due to its broad range of software and services
- Installing new Emacs major modes
- Diem is a CMS built on top of Symfony
- What to make of RawStory?
- Lisp on a Mac
- Gender and bias in the tech industry
- XML and Clojure
- Enclojure wants Maven 2
- Mandelbrot fractals with Clojure
- Clojure has complicated error messages
- Obama has never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity
- LispWorks
- Macintosh multi-core
- Overview of Clojure
- Subtle subconscious bias and gender
- Fabien Potencier takes PHP seriously
- The contract is broken for open source developers
- Steve Blank writing about Customer Education
- How to get an old copy of a file out of Subversion
- The FBI is spying on everyone
- Setting indent in Emacs
- The size of the Universe
- Useful emacs tips
- A single founder is a vote of no confidence?
- Similarities among entrepreneurs of both genders
- Not having kids
- An entrepreneur tells their employees: my family is more important than you
- Interviewing women for tech jobs, as technique for avoiding discrimination
- Mom and dad can either be the solution, or they can be the problem
- Career, marriage, divorce and remarriage again
- Women's choices regarding career and entrepreneurship
- A final fixed form is death
- Negligible senescence
- Why do we get old?
- About Vectors
- The fifth perfect number is 33,550,336
- Money doesn't matter, so long as you are among the wealthiest 5%
- Cascade and Moustache as a Clojure web frameworks
- How to get started with a web app written in Clojure?
- Where to find good UI designers?
- Is there no server monitoring at FourSquare?
- 10 good questions about Symfony
- Some clients are evil and their work is toxic
- What its like to have kids bully you when you are small
- Ruby and Python are terribly slow, I assume PHP is as well
- How many design patterns should a software project have?
- What to do when clients push you to move faster than what would allow good quality code
- How many different video formats do you need to publish if you want to use the new video tag?
- How to have a separate layout template for every user, in Symfony
- Slippery object handling in Symfony
- 30 year Treasuries now trade for 3.676%. Think about it.
- Newer JVM build tools
- Why are technical recruiters so clueless about technology, and about the tech industry?
- Make, Ant, Maven: the problems with Java build systems
- Microsoft Internet Explorer now has less than 50% market share
- WordPress constantly loses my work
- And the subordinate pigs's habit of reclining idly by the trough is rewarded too
- Air views of housing developments in Florida
November 2010 ( View complete archive page )
- A simple script to gather news, written in Clojure
- Reversing aging in mice
- I get angry reading criticism of hard work
- Milton Friedman supported unconventional monetary expansion for Japan
- A clever way to defeat comment spam
- If I turn you on, but George turns you off, are you on or are you off?
- The iPhone dev team hackers - sort of like the anti-dev team
- Eras of moderation are unstable
- Google and Microsoft violate Internet standards to get fast websites
- Excessive praise marks corporate peaks
- Viruses explain schizophrenia
- Viruses explain obesity
- What you can do with ssh
- If the USA is the most innovative nation on Earth, then how can it suffer long-term economic decline?
- Why is there no political price to be paid for policies that might hamper an economic recovery?
- The Mac OS X sucks
- Arduino cat repeller
- We are not driven by utility, but rather by social status
- The most blind thing I have ever read
- The newspapers are doomed, part CXVIII
- The importance of human capital in the era of free money
- Many-to-many relationships in Symfony
- Other programmer's bugs are boring
- A video of my talk to the WordPress Meetup is now available on YouTube
- Computer programmers keep up with changing technologies?
- ClojureQL: the ultimate database abstraction layer?
- An odd conversation with NetVibes
- Regressive taxes are common in social democracies?
- MySql needs better error messages
- A sensible HTML templateing system in Common Lisp?
- Using JanRain and their service RPXNow
- My thanks to Lark Davis
- The smartest thing Bill Gates has ever said
- There is no leadership crisis
- MySql Workbench is a total waste of time
- The all possible experience generator
- Impostor Syndrome
- Why do I live in New York City?
- What if cancer and diabetes are both just the mishandling of sugar?
- Tunisia, Morocco, and Algeria show some of the largest gains in the world for human capicity
- An update for those of you who are on our waiting list
- Being a foodie is an acquired taste
- The summer of 2003 was the biggest turning point in the history of independent music sales
- If I do not remember you, it is because I read
- Why is the USA wealthy?
- If you are building a startup, it really helps to be in a city like New York
- Why does death seem more ironic when the chance of survival is close?
- WP Questions turns $10,000
- Mastering Emacs
- Reputational loss via Facebook
- Advanced routing in Symfony
- The US government has programs to promote cheese and programs to reduce cheese consumption
- FRED charts from the Fed
- Speaking out about misogyny in the tech world
- Misogyny in the tech world
- When backups fail
- How the US Revolutionary War was paid for
- Don't go to the Left Bank if you want to be a great writer
- Get the timing right
- The endless worry of non-support in future Linux desktop software
- Colin Steele: "The last programming language I will ever learn: Clojure"
- Ubuntu giving up on X
- Copyright penalties in Europe
- Copyright infringement
- I own everything that you write
- The incredible performance that Facebook gets from MySql
- Why is medical research into aging uniquely controversial?
- Converting Latin1 characters to UTF8 in MySql
- Git for beginners
- The solution is to yell a lot
- What makes a landing page effective?
December 2010 ( View complete archive page )
- The Random Walk Theory of Measurement
- How to manage a tech career
- Autonomy and women in business
- Motherhood: the list
- Growing apart from old friends
- Employees who suffer Stockholm Syndrome
- Can the USA drive cowardice out of politics?
- Category theory offered programming insights in 1965
- Patterns of prime numbers
- A snow storm
- The tech scene in New York is running hot
- What is an introvert?
- Microsoft loses billions of dollars on its online division, and no one seems to care
- What about dumb people who are energetic? Do they do harm or good?
- What is it like to have suicidal depression?
- Americans over-estimate how much money the poor have
- Ellen Beldner on gender
- The USA has a drug problem
- Glassdoor is a place where employees post reviews of companies
- Too many new ideas will kill a startup
- Researchers discover evidence of a multiverse
- A list of startup incubators
- Politics leaves me lonely
- Orwell: the worst truth about atrocities is simply that they happen
- People who have something to lose
- You can not be neutral
- Running strace on bash and ls
- PHP is still broken in its UTF8 support
- Your idea doesn't suck till you test it against reality
- A conference on entrepreneurship should have some entrepreneurs at it
- Flash file uploaders do not work
- Lisp simplifies things
- The division of wealth
- Pagination with Doctrine in Symfony 1.4
- A quarter million dollars isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? A web startup which makes the apartment rental process happen online.
- Pluto is not a planet
- Changing task names in Symfony 1.4
- How to edit the default CRUD templates used by Symfony for scaffolding?
- Learn Clojure, a new site
- Loading data from fixtures for functional tests in Symfony
- Another attack on Jason Calacanis
- Negative karma undermines online reputation systems
- Decision making among bees
- Women facing harassment at tech conferences
- What is the real meaning of Google? It is too soon to tell.
- Smart people prefer being smart versus having social skills
January 2011 ( View complete archive page )
- Every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed
- A carefully edited collection of vintage clothes
- Sometimes divorce is a great idea
- A brilliant Regular Expression matcher
- New York City has a vast underground
- Loose weight, be healthy
- The difficulty of predicting how people will perform
- The decision to be childless
- Parenting styles
- The importance of being positive?
- A Javascript tutorial where you can edit the examples
- Really bad sex for science
- Too many people are trying to get Phds
- Who the hell is Softlayer?
- What keeps people away from startups?
- The web answers a fundamental human need: Why wasn't I consulted?
- If you ask for a behavior on your blog, you have failed
- Gender dynamics in 1941
- An innocent man spends 30 years in prison
- Spam overwhelms Google
- 100 start-up seed stage incubators
- There is only one way to fight spam, and that is with money
- User session security in PHP
February 2011 ( View complete archive page )
- Reload the config file using SIGHUP
- How to index for Joins in Mysql
- A simple game written in Clojure
- DNSstuff is the place to look up your DNS stuff
- What is worth these feelings of inadequacy?
- Keeping women's point of view out of the tech industry
- There is no evidence for behaviorally-limited early homo sapiens
- Land Of Lisp code translated into Clojure
- Colin Steele on the culture of Hotelicopter
- There is no truth - truth died with Riemann
- Why the future didn't happen
- All the good ideas get stolen and re-used
- Why I hate WordPress
- New art directions from the government
- How to become an entrepreneur
- They're attacking the very definition of property
- Why Wall Street criminals never go to jail
- How is Silicon Valley innovation different?
- An old post about WP Questions and Symfony
- Women, men, and the culture of computer programming
- My greatest vice
- A list of Clojure projects
- Link schemes that undermine Google's search results
- The war on drugs is useless and counter-productive
- The law is strangling innovation
- What did the web browser incite at the beginning?
- What was it like to work for Netscape?
- Entrepreneurs mitigate risk
- Donating genetic code to the public domain
- SNPedia: a single-nucleotide polymorphism wiki
- Why do we make teaching so hard?
- The end of Nokia
- What does it mean to say math should be fun?
- Why I'd like to try online dating
- Readability.com
- Daniel Chu: I was able to turnaround from that crazy thinking
- The decline of Groovy?
- The newspapers are doomed, part CCXXXVI
- WalMart, Kmart, Target: why does one fail?
- The new nationalism
- Why purpose makes a difference
- The world needs more failure
- Manufacturing in San Francisco
- I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat
- The Verizon iPhone
- What is money?
- The best kind of progress
- Become a Dentist
- A history of Lisp error systems
- The noise is a lie
- Symfony security can not be set on a per-environment basis
- Historical Statistics of the United States
March 2011 ( View complete archive page )
- Bad names for startups can cause big problems
- The New York Times is doomed
- Radiation near Fukushima is now at twice the level of Chernobyl
- With computers, reliability is the most important feature
- Most job interviews for computer programmers are done poorly
- Spec work makes people angry
- Working remotely at Deviant Art
- Maintenance programming requires telepathy
- Funding Makes Lots of People Miserable
- The decay at Google, the struggle for organization at large scale
- Earliest humans to North America were here at least 13,000 years ago
- Every job interview should offer you valium
- All of Chrome, every window, can die at once
- How much should entrepreneurs network with other entrepreneurs?
- Gregory Dal Piaz writes his own articles?
- What else ends when a man dies in a bus accident?
- Coal is more deadly than nuclear power
- Wine was invented at least 6,000 years ago
- A developer's personal history with Twitter
- http_build_query
- Checking to see if a secure page really is secure
- Automated creation of functional tests for Symfony
- Functional programming lets you create your own language, specialized for your project
- Rare languages bring forth good programmers
- The correct way to add context information to a form class in Symfony
- You will be influenced by who you work with
- The end of publishing as we know it
- StackOverflow continues to expand the range of sites in its network
- What sort of free work are women willing to do online?
- Oxygen: an XML editor
- The word "passion" is terribly over-used regarding startups
- Sleep is the most important thing that top performers have
- How to recover from burnout
- DNA is Turing complete
- Dealing with burnout
- The many failures of Lisp: are they fixed by Clojure?
- The advantages that Ruby has over Lisp
- My friends, this conversation happened several decades ago
- A clever way to implement login history in Symfony
- Accounting can be made visually simple with nodes and edges
- LilyPond, a computer language for creating music sheets
- The Common Lisp Music Synthesizer
- Land Of Lisp is the best introduction to a programming language that I have ever read
- What is perfectionism?
- Symfony changes too much and the documentation does not keep up
- Flowing Data
- A great programming blog regarding Symfony
- Down voted on StackOverflow just for asking a question?
- Lisp is a brilliant failure, and it draws similar people to it
April 2011 ( View complete archive page )
- Madam, Sir, a file or a resource you requested does not exist on this server
- College is over-rated
- Do you remember when Facebook was doomed?
- The curse of Lisp
- Motions in a textile factory
- My last day at M Shanken!
- Eating has a big influence how judges render decisions
- The complete Emacs function list
- How much are programmers paid?
- How does Clojure shape your code?
- Like buying a house in 2006
- Where PHP regex fails
- “Professor, we don’t need to be studied. We need help!”
- The short term versus the long term
- Clojure is almost as big as Common Lisp
- The difficult of handling line endings
- Lisp lamda: When you need to use the same variable twice
- Bad CEOs come up with rationalizations, good CEOs deal with the pain
May 2011 ( View complete archive page )
- Entrepreneurs and labor unions are on the same side
- How do managers treat waiters?
- Dealing with depression and writing code
- Why are Italians apathetic?
- Don't do what I'm doing
- Method names should explain your intentions
- The disaster in Japan was worse than anyone knew
- The culture of short little bits of infotainment
- What is Clojure?
- RDF in Wikipedia
- Ballmer is a terrible CEO for Microsoft
- A cure for cancer?
- The master and the novice
- Sugar Helps Antibiotics Kill Dug-In Bacteria
- How to hire computer programmers
- Kill math
- Why do mommy bloggers have such a strong online presence?
- Can mortals and immortals be friends?
- Tomboy is useful for notes I take during a project
- What is "best practice" in programming?
June 2011 ( View complete archive page )
- Big Law is badly run
- Why Symfony sucks
- Is Apostrophe the best CMS for Symfony?
- Humans sense the Earth's magnetic field
- With more women, groups get more effective
- Micro controllers, soder, pizza and beer
- The limits of ORMs in PHP
- How far away is the nearest star?
- An algebra of types
- How to cure cancer
- A patent for movie plots
- Anyone looking for an apartment in New York City?
- A father with young children climbs Mount Everest and dies
- Science is biased, and it can kill you
July 2011 ( View complete archive page )
- Places where evolution does not explain behavior: kill all your children
- AirBnB stumbles badly when a user's home is sacked
- I am not a secretary
- Paul Graham on cities and ambition
- Creativity harms the careers of those seeking leadership positions
- The hunger to get people into the office is like the hunger to have too many meetings
- Managing by numbers will ruin companies
- The falling demographics of household formation
- How hackers can time your code to figure out a secret login
- Evolution is misunderstood
- Debt is useful
- Living longer is a political battle
- Rare frog found again
- Memory leaks in Javascript
- When is it appropriate for an entrepreneur to pull money out of the business?
- Free speech, open source software, and non-consensual pornographic references
- How patents destroy the economy
- Creating APIs with Ruby and Rabl
- Dominant bosses gain more power, yet do more damage to the organizations they lead
August 2011 ( View complete archive page )
- GitHub Flow
- Tutorials for RSpec
- Understanding JIT spray
- More innovation from CouchSurfing
- Looks have a bigger impact on earnings than education?
- Changing the gender ratio at SXSW
- Steve Jobs resigns
- Feeling like a phony
- Never paid for work, a developer releases the software as open source
- Bad management can kill any community, but Yahoo is especially good at the killing
- The only way forward for the USA is innovation
- The unreality of economic rhetoric in 2011
- Modified HIV delivers genetic changes to white blood cells which then kill cancer cells
- Why patents are awful
- Setting up Rails on a Mac
- The power of Lisp macros
- Wrecking one of the most fascinating projects in human history
- The problem with anonymous votes on social sites is that the votes are anonymous
- Wall Street traders are hackers
- When will democracy end?
September 2011 ( View complete archive page )
- Sometimes a computer programmer needs to fire their entrepreneur
- How one person can wreck a startup
- How to add and delete remote branches in git
- Most people are miserable
- Does "git push" make sense?
- A possible job interview question?
- HTML5 validation does not check for much
- The Board of Directors of Hewlett-Packard is criminally stupid
- The Board of Directors of Yahoo is criminally stupid
- Is cooperation more powerful than competition?
- Getting git
- The internet is the place where people say anything, a lot of is unpleasant
- Homophobic recruiting
- Surprises from linear algebra
- There is no overnight success
- Drupal in crisis
- Take risks, don't bother with contracts
- Notifo is shutting down
- Who exactly is Scala for?
- The software revolution
- In the modern age, your independence lasts as long as your username and password are valid
- You're so cute
- Managers are incompetent
- Ruby is just a temporary name for Ruby
- A map of out-of-wedlock birth
- Can governments fund startups?
- Burnout among programmers is common
October 2011 ( View complete archive page )
- Cubic-bezier animations
- True skunkworks, the programmers work without pay
- Drupal has decided to become Symfony
- In Japan, programmers must retire at age 35
- In the real world, most programming is boring internal apps
- Lying is useful because it is rewarded
- The impossibility of the pure API
- RSS is still important
- The newspapers are doomed
- Who will fix blog comments?
- How should I interpret this?
- The importance of trust
- How wrong is David Brooks?
- If Haskell is a failure, does that mean that math is a failure?
- Patents are evil
- How complicated is modern software?
- Why Google Wave failed
- lsof does everything
- Sometimes the best thing you can do is quit
- Startups are sexy
- Guidelines for getting into YCombinator
- Stored procedures do not scale
- Airbnb cheats its own workers out of they money they deserve via their stock options
- The movement against organizations
November 2011 ( View complete archive page )
- Representers: a brilliant idea from Nick Sutterer
- When an entrepreneur loses their nerve
- What is the REST interface?
- Into the Ruby community: RubyFlow
- Why entrepreneurs are giving up on the USA
- WhatFont tells you what font
- Mental decay and religion
- Cultures that oppose the startup mentality
- Google inflation
- The newspapers are surviving on momentum
- Rabl for easy APIs in Rails
- Kill math
- Current interaction design lacks tactile sensation
- John Nunemaker: using EventMachine with Passenger
- Coal continues to kill, nuclear does not
- Never seen this done effectively: it is important to be able to go back a number of years to determine the facts that were considered in arriving at a decision
- Mike Gunderloy's Double Shot
- Ditching your ORM and using straight PDO
- Very cool places to work in NYC
- Every recession, people write essays about how this is "the end of work"
- Korma
- Stop listening to other peoples advice. Go with my gut.
- Sometimes I regret being a murderer
- The focus on short term profits is destroying the possibility of long term growth
- If the deflation of 1930-1932 brought Hitler to power, why should Germans fear inflation?
- Just use divs for everything
- Nouriel Roubini foresaw Italian crisis back in 2006
- Computer programming is complicated, Rails is not
- John McCarthy has died
- Goals are unhappy
- We’ll fix it later
- Land rush or gold rush?
- Dynamic programming asks for a dynamic mindset
- The un-shared sacrifice of the millions
- Drugs have nothing to do with the crime wave of 1960-2001
- Amazing video of Earth
- Honey pots to keep comment quality high
- The influence of race in the tech world
- Racket is a good language for creating languages
- Open invite to anyone on LinkedIn
- A classic psychopath at Zynga
- Why are comment systems so broken?
- My trip to the Apple Store
- Anti-women activists
- Apple Computer is stupid
- The problem with fields such as 'type' in database tables
- Soulver
- This is when Java programmers smugly proclaim why their ecosystem is superior
- Democracy doesn't work
- Overconfidence to accuracy
- Consulting is addicting and it ruins your startup
- Memory allocation in ruby
- John Nunemaker offers drop-dead-simple debugging tips
- Using Rspec to write tests
- Why are there no dating sites started by women?
- Clients can be extreme
- College is worthless for most
- Money versus reputation: a woman kills a woman for sweatpants, or for reputation?
December 2011 ( View complete archive page )
- Don't manage memory in PHP
- Amazon is unfair to its Kindle partners
- The loves of Ayn Rand
- Bad management is more powerful than good programmers
- Can you solve the quintic?
- Institutional memory and mass layoffs during recessions
- The end of constitutional limits in Hungary
- Married women make bad teachers?
- PHP memory management is bloated
- Volkswagon cuts off employees email during non-working hours
- In the mid 90s the American dollar hit its all time low against the Yen and so the US economy took off like a rocket
- Is ambition more difficult as you get older?
- Could Poland become a super-power of energy production?
- Developers as Kings
- Teachers hate creativity
- What I want most right at this moment is to punch you in the face
- Context and environment suggest who belongs and who does not
- When I really want to share something with a friend I send them an email
- College is a scam
- How women get cheated at work
- How to trip yourself up with Clojure
- How does hiring happen at elite law firms and hedge funds?
- Why a poor black kid might get pregnant
- Grit determines the winners
- Lego no longer markets to girls
- A strange bug in Ruby On Rails: CSRF protection was eating sessions
- The pressure of startups can drive some people to suicide
- Easy to read does not equal quicker comprehension
- How to build desktop applications with Clojure and Swing
- How does HTTP work?
- What is your customer churn rate?
- The next Java isn't
- Fred Dewey is misunderstood
- Spider emulates intelligence by considering parts of a problem in turn
- A comparison of different admin frameworks for use with Ruby On Rails
- Cheeseburgers are difficult
- The connotations of the words "women" and "girls"
- Nothing is changing
- Why does Netvibes fail?
- The system can not be fixed, it needs to be burned down
- The Swedish Pirate Party gains another vote in the European Union
- The USA shadow banking system is made up of European banks
- Build it in a way that you can improve it later
- Build systems, versioning and dependency
- Bank bailout goes to hookers and drugs
- Why startups are great
- How much of politics is about who you like?
- PayPal is dangerous
- Emergency Linux Support
- What would we do if we weren't us?
- Responders as a controller in Rails 3
- Websockets foreseen in HTTP 1.1
- It seems overly emotional to me to write this article
- Why are payroll systems so complex?
- Social networks are anti-social
- How cells program other cells
- What does Poland ask of Germany?
- Failure is the most stressful part of a startup
- Great videos about git
- The need for an in-house graphic designer who can interact with the front-end developer
- John Nunemaker: how to create an API
- The correct, socially-acceptable amount of padding
January 2012 ( View complete archive page )
- Yahoo is run by idiots
- How to get 99.3% of your email delivered
- This guy almost died of an infected tooth
- Why are so many software estimates wrong?
- The adaptable survive
- Brainstorming sessions are a bad idea
- Is entrepreneurship risky?
- "I want to protect you" can also mean "You should be afraid"
- A radicalism I could support
- Who would trust a proprietary hosting system?
- Command and Conquer as an HTML5 game?
- Why are free conference calls free?
- Truly innovative ideas are misunderstood, even by well educated peers
- How much privacy can you ever have with cloud services?
- MIT does not teach humility
- Use Smashwords to publish on the Nook
- Total USA debt is declining
- Self-publishing is a revolution to publishing
- The new, new web moves beyond HTTP to the Spdy and WebSocket protocols
- What is lowering household formation in the USA
- The difference between git and mecurial
- Formal modeling could be a useful technique for computer programming
- With an automated test suite, what kind of tests are important?
- All startups are chaos
- People like to be around similar people
- Can a nation be punished?
- Quotas for men
- Engineering archaeology
- Willful ignorance is key to continue with any bad practice
- Why is Hungary spiraling down a dark path?
- Within a tradition, but what is the name of that tradition?
- Trade with the enemy so you can kill them (and they can kill you)
- Multitasking on Android and iOS
- Resolving git conflicts
- Government regulation will protect Microsoft
- Why the movie industry fails to innovate
- PayPal orders the destruction of a violin
- Path dependency regarding TV displays
- WebSockets are a new World Wide Web
February 2012 ( View complete archive page )
- Problems with the TSA
- Many large Internet companies violate the TCP protocol to boost their own speed
- Good teachers simplify the model for beginners
- Testing PHP Regular Expressions
- Google in 1998: why advertising is bad
- WebSockets versus the Web
- The limits of MVC for APIs
- More retrenchment at big tech firms
- Once upon a time, Microsoft was a well run company
- Women and Pinterest
- The true cost of cloud hosting
- The endless injustice of firms with big budgets for lawyers
- Gender differences in the tech industry
- Privacy violations often get a pass
- How much legal protection do content producers need?
- A ZeroMQ Javascript library
- How much does income influence decisions about marriage?
- Consulting depends on the social status of the of the agencies?
- Religion is the opium of the people?
- Can ZeroMQ replace RESTful HTTP?
- How to find all the ports that are currently in use on your server
March 2012 ( View complete archive page )
- Can business trust the GOP?
- A young black woman becomes a computer programmer in Canada in the 1950s
- The Clojure eco-system of small libraries
- Media companies are in dire straights, and therefore vicious about money
- Telling women to lighten up
- Even great programmers are slow to learn the culture of open source
- Ugly websites are distrusted
- The System D economy
- The intense intellectual energy of the early blogosphere
- Large companies make one big mistake when hiring
- Clever startup idea
- Statins do bad things
- Too many Americans are in jail
- What is it like to switch from PHP to Rails?
- Fame doesn't doom marriage, but tabloid fame does
- Goldman Sachs sacrifices its own clients to drive up its profits
- Encyclopaedia Britannica transforms itself into something new
- Google is in sad decline
- Software patents need to be banned
- How to manage cache in Rails
- What sort of messaging system should you use?
- How does the definition of property change?
- Dtrace offers a wealth of debugging tools
- The big ideas for future startups
- Brilliant career breakthroughs of those in middle age
- What time does Github use when showing punch cards?
- Cut in budgets have different effects regarding gender
- The role of religion in the current election
- How the universe expands
- Stranger than we can possibly know
- Is Objective C a modern language?
- How can you find good Ruby On Rails developers offshore?
- Will humans destroy themselves?
- Yet another startup burns through a few $ million dollars and then dies
- How to design a bathroom
- Is there any increase in women in tech?
- Evolution does not respect a separation of concerns
- How much of mental illness diagnosis has a cultural or political element?
- Huge insects, presumed extinct, found alive
April 2012 ( View complete archive page )
- Most attempts at motivation are fake and futile
- Loops of learning as the core of complex development in games
- Run Java as a daemon
- The importance of agents in Clojure
- The desperate and futile hope of recreating past moments of inspiration
- The continued retreat of women from programming
- Still working at age 103
- An extremely mis-run startup
- Everyone hates Mass Effect 3
- The decline of higher education
- Popular girls won't learn math
- People are moving back to the cities
- A company where the workers are self-managed
- Amanda Peyton on the nature of online identity
- Using Jetty inside of one's app
- How much should you work?
- Git rebase is confusing
- Monger is an experimental idiomatic Clojure wrapper around MongoDB Java driver
- Setting up Clojure on a Mac
- Sockets for chat?
- Running Java as a service (daemon) on a Linux machine
- Can we ever escape bias?
- The Therac-25 disaster
- High level abstraction for concurrent programming
- There is no path forward except multicore programming
- What I learned from Rails
- The tech you use for emails really should work
- Using arbitrary code in images to attack a site
- Sleeping alone?
- Clojure is 60 times faster than Ruby
- Setting up for Clojure development
- Should there be a character to represent flags, emoticons and gay rights?
- What will low skilled labor look like in the future?
- The tech life: New York versus San Francisco
- When does private property work?
May 2012 ( View complete archive page )
June 2012 ( View complete archive page )
- Emacs regular expressions
- 37 Signals does A/B testing for Basecamp and gets very different results
- Old classic nude paintings with Photoshop retouching
- What is the problem with Object Oriented Programming?
- What causes burnout?
- The intimidated Fed
- Learning versus fear of the new
- What changes should be allowed in PHP?
- Gamers and women
- What is wrong with PHP
- Why worker democracy could never work
- Emacs and Clojure on a Mac
July 2012 ( View complete archive page )
- My resume
- An incredible story about Clojure
- In Clojure, what is the difference between 'map' and 'apply'?
- Peter Agelasto in trouble again?
- Easy XML handling with Clojure
- A Clojure function with 70 lines of code
- Good engineers are hard to find, obscure languages are not a hindrance
- How to convert from Propel to Doctrine
- Support of Unicode is terrible
- Lana Del Ray is happy in the song "Video Games"
- A black triangle
- My old work was not bad
- Is this feminist?
August 2012 ( View complete archive page )
- Flynn says the Flynn effect is because we get abstraction now
- Software is not compatible if developers do not want to be compatible
- The end of the social contract in the tech industry
- http://www.smashcompany.com/technology/2559
- The Great Stagnation might be permanent
- Facebook hires Gehry to build a new office
- The Great Stagnation is reflected, not healed, by the current crop of startups
- Emacs will get you coffee in the morning
- Everything is evolution
- Pushing against stone
- Blogs are how the elite talk to each other
- Learning forces forgetting
- The dangers of posting anywhere other than your own site
- Read to lead
- fight as if you are right, and listen as if you are wrong
- Rage, sorrow, fear, doubt
- Twitter is the new Technorati
- You can win the Prisoner's Dilemma
- A comprehensive Emacs customization
- The Wind
- How you eat your corn determines your math interests
- I hate Google Chrome
- http://www.smashcompany.com/philosophy/2498
September 2012 ( View complete archive page )
- Maybe Immutant?
- I can not say anything on Facebook
- The problem hiring software developers
- Gender bias in science
- Who am I without sleep?
- Social sites: who wins?
- When freemium works
- Community matters: PHP versus Clojure
- Who is logged in?
- Rails has lost something
- The advantage of light frameworks
- Node.js can not compete with Jetty
- big companies are interesting
- When will you die?
- The problems with scrum
- Editors are parasites
- Maybe prime numbers have a pattern?
- If Asia no longer leads economic growth, who will?
- What does Ring and Moustache give me?
- Mental traps that afflict the ambitious
- Namespaces in Clojure are confusing
- How to run shell commands in the background
- Hash data to find duplicates
- How to prove slander correct
- Luck Enemy Rejection Hate But
- The first penny problem
- Pragmatism is hated
- Finite field math in the Romney speech
- Where did all the programmers go?
- Spoiled children are geniuses
- A culture that respects argument
- What do you really need as a programmer
- End of the 2nd Wave feminist generation
October 2012 ( View complete archive page )
- Do experts love complexity?
- This person does not want to work at Google
- There is nothing painless about git
- The problem with Javascript
- Hardware to give IP packets priority
- Poor Facebook
- Troubled teen?
- Who is logged in?
- Git is awful
- A virus inside of a virus
- The bubble sort is awful
- There is no free market
- Math for sorts, and statements about computational constants which are not time
- Nothing sexist
November 2012 ( View complete archive page )
- Why do games get so much energy, and important stuff gets so little?
- What will the future bring?
- Explaining open source to the government
- Popping pills, drinking wine
- When can you trust economic data?
- Things I did not know about childbirth
- Subtle discrimination
- Managing affirmative action
- How to ruin someone's confidence in tech
- Why is git so git?
- The future of journalism
- Is a free site really free?
- How to build a reputation
December 2012 ( View complete archive page )
- Clojure programming is a branch of Java programming
- How much can parents limit teenager's access to the internet?
- What is wrong with David Heinemeier Hansson?
- Design changes for the sake of change
- Why leaders fail
- No raise: stupid things USA companies do
- A simple example of WebSockets in Aleph
- Gender in the workplace
- Why privacy? Because knowledge is power
- What work should stupid people do?
- The need to train new workers
- The JVM is part of a world wide conversation
- The perfect woman
- Getting things done is not productive
- Lamina organizes events into channels
- Are you loyal?
- What is the best queue system?
- The declining quality of Ruby programmers
- Every idea has already been tried
- ZeroMQ solves the concurrency problem
- Why save Ruby? Why not use Clojure?
- Talking with Flattr about Kachingle
- The end of the monolithic web framework
- The problem with Object Oriented Programming
- Why Lisp macros are better than strings of code wrapped with eval
- Derek Sivers says: it is my fault
- A JConsole plugin for Clojure
- English is currently the international language of the computer programming sector
- The transformation of the conflict in the MidEast
- What is the best system for handling errors?
- Math notation is out of date
- The smart feel it most: the temptation to overreach
- Tough technological problems can not be solved as side projects
- The first 220 miliseconds of an HTTPS connection
- How should we organize science?
- I would like to change the world
- How do you use Friend? (Clojure has cool auth!)
- How can we improve HTTP?
- A sad time at Kachingle
January 2013 ( View complete archive page )
- The power of a language is the ease with which it can express abstractions
- PHP is terrible and awful and also very bad
- Computer programming is not intuitive
- Past IQ 120, creativity is more important than IQ
- So fast it only took 30 years
- Burn the witches
- The emotional impact of grades on students
- If you can not pay your bills, then you have no independence
- git is okay if you are solo
- Sending email from Clojure
- How to convert a string into an HTML resource when using Enlive
- What is the fastest Clojure web server?
- I do not want my computer writing code for me
- XML has failed
- John Lawrence Aspden writes about Ring
- Data is code and code is data
- A good intro to Clojure
- Michael Drogalis brings conditions to Clojure
- The news is bad for you
- More dirt on Dave Winer
- Selfish
- The many uses of ping
- Lead metal is really dangerous, but subtle
- Why do teens bully?
- Autonomy is crucial to innovation
- Does online dating undermine monogamy?
- How to support 9.5 billion people in the world 2050?
- Why is JRuby so slow?
February 2013 ( View complete archive page )
- How to add private jars to your Clojure projects
- Does a lack of diversity help a new company?
- Really awful object oriented code from Adobe
- Frustrated with Adobe and Omniture
- Why the "Agile" method fails
- We escaped from the complexity of Java and ended up with the complexity of Rails
- Object oriented programming is stupidly complicated
- Where does this man live?
- If you can't trust ring you can't trust anything
- Pre-published peer review is bad for science
- The main problem with Microsoft is its cultureG
- Great programmers make simple mistakes
- Have we failed to correctly measure inflation?
- Nothing can guarantee your success
- Did a bot get control of Kachingle's account on Twitter?
- Handling conflicts in git
- The 7 signs of a struggling startup
- Pretending to hold certain emotions can be a form of work
- A new window manager for OSX?
- You can not know what you do not know
- Opera is moving to Webkit, but this doesn't mean Webkit will improve
- Should a company/website be all about the personality of the founder?
- The banks hand your money to the government without waiting for a court order
- VCs can promise you money, sign a deal, and then still back out
- What are credentials for?
- How to get Passenger to use a preferred version of Ruby?
- How do Unix domain sockets work?
- Female heads of state and the perception of golden ages
- Microsoft Excel is important
- Why does Rails have so many security problems?
- How to deploy Clojure apps
- When does a company benefit from remote workers?
- No one ever changes their mind
- git tags are simple
- The concept of neighborhood barely exists in the USA
- We must find problems for our technology
- I can do this alone
- Keyword arguments are easier in Clojure than in Ruby
- Be assured you will not get a response
- Bad managers drive good workers away
- Software that kills hardware
- Women gamers streaming
- Clojure entices you to craftmanship
- Send all your data
- Paternalistic Languages
- A trip to Crazy Land with Clojure
March 2013 ( View complete archive page )
- Why use Clojure
- Expressiveness of languages ranked
- In the USA, real wages decline again
- Shaw Solution Consultancy gets everything wrong
- Heart disease was common in the ancient past
- Does business strategy exist?
- Some people learn by doing
- How to setup admin username and password for MongoDb
- Clojure destructing compared to Common Lisp destructuring
- Keyword arguments in Clojure and Ruby and Common Lisp
- Men who know neither theory nor the history of previous crises are utterly convinced that they know what to do
April 2013 ( View complete archive page )
- Clojure is immutable -- what this really means
- George W Bush was a genius -- who cares?
- Jay Fields cuts to the important stuff
- Do intellectuals have any influence?
- Real entrepreneurs are ready to go to jail
- Why does danah boyd face more criticism than Paul Krugman when writing about personal topics?
- How to restart your server processes when they die
- Why is it so difficult to estimate time on software projects?
- Use JConsole to debug JVM apps
- You can debug a running process
- Sex and technology
- A simple example of a one-function for encoding
- No one can pay attention to everyone
- ClojureWerkz now accepts donations
- The attitude of the Clojure community
- How to export files from MongoDb GridFS
- Lukasz Wrobel on Ruby cache systems
- Github finally gets my money
- The cult of credentials
- One way functions
- Programming and boredom
- Mutiny is good for us
- A simple example of how normal people might do encryption
- Ars longa, vita brevis, occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile
- Whois.net is having a bad day
- Austerity and feeling old
- Gender ignorance at a tech conference
- Why are the French drinking less wine?
- Clojure is fast
- Kill cancer
- Thank you industrialization. Thank you steel mill. Thank you power station.
- Online wallet services are dangerous
- http-kit is amazing
- The problems with dynamic scope
- If you sell your company then you have failed
- Strange experiments with Javascript
- Good management is not a control freak
- The street kids of San Francisco
- Marissa Mayer and change
- Don't run Java inside of Shell inside of Emacs inside of Screen
- Oakland is the next Brooklyn
- Embedding legit sites within iframes to run an advertising fraud scheme
- Yahoo overpays to acquire new companies
- Logging in Javascript
- The most hated language is now adored by the whole world
- URLs are for people
- The strange world of WordPress
May 2013 ( View complete archive page )
- Why use the REPL when doing Clojure development?
- Puritanism means hurt someone else
- Object oriented programming does not work
- What is my public IP address
- Why is YouTube terrible?
- How to setup Nginx, PHP-FPM and APC on a Mac
- Why does anyone use PHP for anything?
- Depression is more than sadness
- How to setup your database at AWS to work with Heroku
- When does entrepreneurship on the web end?
- Category bias in Wikipedia
- How to restore MongoDb from backups
- The dev-ops anti-pattern
- Homophobes for fiscal constraint
- max_allowed_packet and Heroku
- One language for the frontend, backend, and the database?
- Clojure as a Javascript generator
- Why President Obama limits decisions
June 2013 ( View complete archive page )
- Lisp for the individual genius who can not work with others
- Simplicity is only bad if it limits flexibility
- Clojure solves the inversion-of-control problem
- The engineering architecture design builder facade factory aggregator anti-pattern builder pure contract pattern structure failure
- A program of zero bytes, worth £5
- Monopoly rents depress both wages and investment
- Social Networks of the American Revolution
- 82 year old Catholic nun protests nuclear power so she must be a terrorist
- The wealth of the world now concentrates into fewer cities
- You have nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide
- How to fix the medical industry
- The problem with the FDA
- The culture at Microsoft
- Why is Github asking me for a username and password?
July 2013 ( View complete archive page )
- Licklider on April 25th, 1963: an intergalatic network of computers
- An architecture of small apps
- Gender backed dollar
- A constant diet of death threats
- When I buy a desktop, I want it to *be* a desktop... not a iPad.
- The true problem with git
- Talking Points Memo: Twilight Of The CMS
- Who offers mercy
- Why Yammer believes the traditional engineering organizational structure is dead
- FourSquare gives exclusive access to firehose to Gnip
- How to become amazing on FourSquare
- Facebook hides messages, sometimes important
- Software patents do great harm
- Facebook slowly killed its platform
- It is a rare group that does not establish some informal networks of communication through the friends that are made in it
- Why buy a home?
- Dr. Curran said there was no apparent danger to nonhomosexuals from contagion
- The decline of the web is the decline of the elite web professional
- The web is becoming a slow-motion Snapchat where content lives for some unknowable amount of time before it dies
- I am feeling nostalgic for the pre-2007 web
- Why movies suck
- Katy Perry is Abercrombie & Fitch turned into music
- Profile pictures with spouse and children?
- Eccentric, unconventional and rash
August 2013 ( View complete archive page )
- There is no way to measure the productivity of a computer programmer
- The government controls the Internet
- Ian Hickson is always wrong about everything
- An intro to macros
- Karoshi for American interns
- Why Aren't There More Women Programmers
- Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?
- Racism is a system, even in Silicon Valley
- Users should be able to delete their accounts
- Why does Hollywood survive?
- Loneliness Is Deadly
- Why are the Democrats vispy?
- The TSA pointlessly harasses people
- The problems with Evolutionary Psychology
- Groklaw closes down over concerns of NSA spying
- The cult of the MBA
- Life as a wage slave grinds you up
- Does the USA have a constitutional obligation to protect journalism?
- Muriel's Wedding is the anti-romcom
- Boredom at work
- Women regret quitting their careers
- Programming languages do not influence thinking?
- How are network packets queued in Linux systems?
- How to deal with the "copy" command when someone aliases it
- The earth is warming back to where it was 50 million years ago
- A startup builds a new building and then dies
- pthreads in PHP
- Your boss has the power, and the incentive, to undermine any improvement
- Hugo Schwyzer tried to murder one of his girlfriends
- Brad Delong is shockingly stupid where Larry Summers is concerned
- Visualizing Alexander Grothendieck
- Is Apache faster than Nginx?
- Switching from Unix Sockets to TCP/IP in Nginx
- Setting up Nginx to work over a Unix file socket
- Dynamically mapping requests to work processes
- What is Clojure Expresso for?
- The Strange Kathy Sierra Saga
- Online dating in 1880
- Undefined method `render' for SomeTemplate
September 2013 ( View complete archive page )
- Old male writers write bad sex scenes
- Optional typed systems in Clojure
- Genius or LSD?
- The bottom-padding hack
- Does Starcraft teach you something about startups?
- Judging college based on its financial return
- Why failure happens
- Dramatic decline ahead for higher ed in the USA
- Women prefer positive message, men prefer negative
- Dying dBase brought down 2 companies
- Banks suck the souls of the poor
- Education in the USA is strangely focused on sports
- What killed the Blackberry?
- Doctors killing patients
- Before patents, when software was innovative
- This is the stupidest thing that the New York Times has ever done
- Microsoft Excel is important because of its ease of data visualization
- The American middle class is shrinking
- 4chan culture struggles with the onslaught of success
- Large companies are terrible about online security
- a jewel-like geometric object that dramatically simplifies calculations of particle interactions
- The Great Stagnation deepens
- Gaofen dineng: high scores but low ability
- The Fed exists to protect big banks from the free market
- Lack of health insurance leads to terrible injustices
- The Euro zone is badly managed
- Profesors are poor and mistreated
- The usual visual grammar was in place
- Police shoot up neighborhood
- Does social media re-invent the old forces of conformity?
- Supervision hierarchies
- Operating systems are bad
- Let it crash
- An Erlang example of functional programming
- Difficult code, and easy code, should go in different modules
- The revival of capital since 1945
- Sex crimes in Asia
- History seems to have favored the run-time checks plus the process approach to fault-containment
- The security system depends on limited knowledge of internal names
- Concurrency oriented programming languages
- A Lisp love letter
- Girl treated badly in high school programming class
- Why women make great leaders
- The economic threat of automation, as seen in the 1960s
- Perverse incentives
- The best beginner's tutorial for Enlive
October 2013 ( View complete archive page )
- What a story is really about
- Did Pericles influence Lincoln's Gettysburg Address?
- Financial deregulation means the USA must suffer with an overvalued currency
- Conformity in America
- The seas are dying
- The fall of party bosses gave rise to the era of money politics
- Important researchers are kept out of the USA
- Happy rats avoid drug addiction
- We would be smarter if we forgot more
- The Catholic injustice in Ireland
- lsof files of a particular user or process
- The genius of named pipes
- Military software projects are a disaster
- Easy testing of regular expressions
- The limits of human knowing
- Can humans ever be rational?
- “Equality of opportunity” echoes another famous phrase in American politics, “separate but equal”
- Humans are not robots
- Assume a can opener
- Can creativity be separated from politics?
- I love Berlin?
- Hannah Montana is now listed as the lead actress in Hannah Montana: The Movie
- When can medicine beat evolution?
- AirBnB continues its fight with NYC
- No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does
- When can intuition succeed?
- Safe monkey patching in Scala
- The open source community is sometimes its own enemy
- Acid in the oceans is a great danger
November 2013 ( View complete archive page )
- What is bound-fn good for?
- How to handle loops in bash
- Church Numerals make all numbers the results of funtions
- The economics of Paul Krugman
- Corruption creeps into the USA military
- Sex and hazing
- Life is luck
- The decline of the dollar
- Tales for our time
- How much does luck influence startups?
- More about texting changing English
- 100k in student debt and only poorly paid jobs
- TV is dying
- A brilliant attack on object oriented programming
- The uselessness of journalism in the modern era
- The unchanging tone of race relations in the USA
- Small innovations in English miss the big ones
- How does a frontier society have slavery?
- Incentives for bureaucrats
- The land of the free
- The 401K is a failed experiment
- Humans can outrun anything
- Remembering World War I
- You can not understand another person's sorrow
- Richard Cohen talks about a white man married to a black woman
- A man wanted a website and he ended up "mad, frustrated and angry"
- Google+ demonstrates Google's new insecurity
- Wages in the USA have been falling since 1973
- Pipe-and-filter architectures are among the most successful design patterns ever
- Small apps and specialized machines
- Michael Drogalis shows a very concise pipeline
- Object oriented artifacts in a functional world
- Political factors for alcoholism
- Russian nationalist nostalgia
December 2013 ( View complete archive page )
- Kill processes running on a certain port
- How to listen for the delivery of a promise in Clojure
- An incredible comeback story
- The lack of future listeners in Clojure
- Girls who code
- How to reload an app in the REPL with Clojure
- Clojure is concise
- Dependency Injection is more important than dependency injection frameworks
- The rise of the algorithm economy
- Why Scala should be outlawed
- When programmers say "types" what do they mean?
- The axiom of choice
- Music is training for concurrent programming
- Bullying among academics
- What I learned from Clojure
- This is why Rails sucks
- Do you need television to keep up with the Kardashians?
- How to organize namespaces in Clojure?
- Contract programming in Clojure
- The marriage of math and computers
- Can we avoid firewalls by re-using obsolete ports?
- When will media companies understand technology?
- The heyday of unix
- Find all field names in MongoDb
- Why leadership often misunderstands software
- Watch users interact with your software everyday
- Does intellectual debate matter?
- How to work with Clojure's EDN
- Edsger Dijkstra on the fear of radical novelties
- Scala is wildly multi-paradigm
- The difference between Scala and Clojure
January 2014 ( View complete archive page )
- Why do games and Hollywood portray different sexualities?
- Nothing but a false accusation based upon ignorance of Evidence Based Management
- Mistakes that startups make
- Black business owner framed by the police
- Why did the blogosphere die?
- Why PHP is obsolete
- A language non-programmers praise while getting drinks at a bar
- Marriage does not cure poverty
- No one reads anyone else's code for fun
- All work, no pay
- The difficulty of work-life balance when running a startup
- Startup founders are the new working class
- Online dating is rough
- 50 years of social change for women
- The rising power of the far-right in Greece
- The argument against type hinting in Clojure
- Aliases for namespace qualified keywords in Clojure
- Why are forums so badly designed?
- What makes a great tutor?
- The lack of female directors in Hollywood
- He showed the communications to his girlfriend and she didn't see anything sexist about them
- Women in the USA workforce
- Girls get math
- The awful magic syntax of Scala
- Impostor Syndrome in science
- Old Viking game
- Another online-print hybrid
- Your app is not real time if anything blocks
- New publishing models for print web hybrids
- What is wrong with Virginia Republicans?
- Broken ad technology
- Head of government is not head of state
- It takes a nation of millions to push them forward
- Sexual harassment on the Internet
- When do we learn to remember?
- Megan McArdle knows who she is
- Scandinavian culture respects women
- The oldest known vertebrate animal with a jaw
- YCombinator "safe" agreements are intended to replace convertible notes
- Functional programs are much more readily appreciated as mathematical objects
- Slow evolution in sharks
- All entrepreneurs are criminals
- What drives wage differentials among the genders?
- The challenges faced by Netflix
- Why do women go to college and choose poor paying careers?
- Deploying Clojure to production
- What are the advantages of functional programming?
- Game culture and women
- The end of the HTML/CSS guru
- The invisibility of programming as a career
- Where Google fails at search
- Why git won as a distributed version control system
- A girl can wait and if she is attractive good things may happen to her
February 2014 ( View complete archive page )
- Greedy bankers, the lazy poor: moralizing wealth
- Corporate welfare in the USA, from state and local numbers
- Assortative Mating plays no role in current income inequality
- Who should be in charge when policy actually matters?
- The culture of girls and computers
- Bloated software promises a stability which might be a liability
- Drupal is bloated software
- What is a Spruce Goose software project?
- Getting useful info out of git logs
- The most difficult thing about programming
- Trying to use the Formative library
- Working with Clojure and Dire
- Git is complicated because there are 5 places content can go
- Lisp as a mathematical formalism for recursive functions
- Why government spying matters
- Why is code so awful at Etsy?
March 2014 ( View complete archive page )
- OKCupid takes a stand against Brendan Eich
- Changing ideas for a startup
- The worst web site ever: healthcare.gov
- A genuinely new thought about the history of human expansion
- Java 8 has an Optional to deal with NullPointerException
- Content Security Policy and Ruby and Clojure
- Using Clojure to build a microservices CMS
- Declining wages for men
- Bitcoin has a great future in crime
- eat food for food in foods when food isnt 'chocolate'
- Debtors prisons raise the risk of corruption in the USA
- Chris Granger: more problems with object oriented programming
- Half the board of Mozilla resigns because of the new CEO
- NoSQL is a new of doing things, not a drop-in replacement for SQL
- Sensitivity training: I have a knife and you have a gun
- The advantages of Ruby on Unicorn
- More negative views about Rails
- If Unix is good for Unicorn, why can't Unicorn handle slow connections?
- Photon could save PHP
- The tremendous innovation in Javascript
- Sexism in Silicon Valley
- Radical workarounds for the limits of MongoDB
- Julie Ann Horvath struggles with Github
- Strange facts about HTML
- Why is the technology for blogs so difficult?
- Once again, the shift to "smart services, dumb pipes"
- What is the future of news?
- Often businesses handle a degree of inconsistency in order to respond quickly to demand
- What kind of standards are useful to your team?
- The conceptual model of the world will differ between systems
- A complexity that is frankly breathtaking
- The pushback against the monolithic framework
- Leave the error checking in your code
- A defense of MongoDB
- Millions at stake but programming mistakes everywhere
- Announcing Humorus-MG
- Making the VC process more tolerant of women
- To what extent can artists be political?
- Why I use MongoDB
- The gentrification of San Francisco
- Assumptions to avoid when starting your web startup
- Criticker gives away all of its users passwords
- ONO sells for $9.5 billion and no one cares
- Working with images using Clojure
- How to monitor Clojure apps?
- How to bankrupt a successful software company
- The downside of Unit Testing
- Darren Holloway walks through the philosophy of Ring/Clojure
- What it is like to think you are talented when you are ignorant
- Emotional intelligence and success with Bitcoin
- The difference between database indexes and database histograms
- I still don't get PAAS
- The many problems with Bitcoin
- The new Formal blogging
- Russia mobilizes troops to occupy parts of the Ukraine
- What is correct HTML syntax?
April 2014 ( View complete archive page )
- 39% survival rate for this guy's kids
- Drowning: the game of life
- Does anyone know what is happening with Corrante?
- Nokia ends an era
- Urban male hipsters love old men and Ruby programming
- Women's reactions to behavior in the tech industry
- What is the correct way to handle errors when making HTTP calls?
- The problem with frameworks
- The system at Twitter
- The decline of teen births
- Clojure versus Erlang
- Fast setup with Vagrant and Ruby 2.0
- Formal proofs for software: prove small theorems, not grand ones
- The meta view on underinvestment in early stage female-lead startups
- Free markets, with a gun to your head
- Kill your process and restart it is still a popular hack in Ruby land
- Vagrant is easy
- The Healthy Hazda do not have the "healthy" bacteria in their gut
- What is devops?
- This is why the news media is dying: global online ad revenue for content sites is maybe $25 billion
- Blogosphere 2.0?
- Hacker School bans competitive feigned surprise regarding your ignorance
- The fight against healthcare: almost awesome in its evilness
- Rage against Facebook
- Forked processes, concurrency, and memory problems
- Change fails most of the time
- Is college needed for tech?
- Cost overruns and the IBM 360
- Women moved into the work force from 1930s to 1970s
- Yahoo has some very stupid programmers
- The Clojure workflow still suffers and the REPL is not a cure all
- People can rationalize any amount of greed: tech industry collusion
- Behavior driven development is broken
- You don't have to run faster than the bear
- It’s like – I don’t know
- Where established companies might see risks or threats, startups see opportunity
- Apple is secretive
- Why has Linux not seen more forks?
- Using Gloss to change bytes into Clojure data structures
- Hashmaps versus btrees
- Zero is a function
- Shareholders do not legally own a corporation
- Germany versus America
- The end of Steve Blank's Epiphany
- Low expectations for sitcoms
- The war on science
- Is Hacker News bad for the tech world?
- Just Libraries - the composition of small apps
- Work should be fun
- The good and the bad of Facebook advertising
- Woman takes a grant, is then called a hypocrite for criticizing university
- The impact on gender relations of unpaid labor in open source?
- Can open-floor plans be useful in an office?
May 2014 ( View complete archive page )
- Using Xdebug to profile PHP
- Do not ever use MemCache
- Why Joe Watkins is wrong about pthreads in PHP
- In PHP, the foreach() loop is a performance murderer
- Building a recommendation engine for one's customers
- Math education in the USA
- Who is responsible for dinner?
- How should we handle unlimited leisure?
- What a dictionary is for
- Wall Street as the low-risk option for recent elite graduates
- Media people are petty
- The USA medical system needs to be more aggressive in treating pain
- Bro culture on a rampage
- Diversity is bad for teams
- Advertising is bad for business
- Ellen Page and the relationship of Hollywood to its romantic leads
- Comic books with super heroes continue to fade but not die
- Why Facebook will fail
- Can programmers indulge anarchy?
- The end of Twitter
- Mainstream economics needs an overhaul?
- Are there any new ideas?
- The further rise of polyglot programming
- Young blood reverses aging in old mice
- Is it bad for an online writer to know how much traffic their posts get?
- The culture that is Japanese
- Site promotes computer programming and stripping?
- Design by contract in Clojure
- What do you do, Mr. Gable?
- Piketty
- Teens are going crazy for the Snapchat upgrade
- Uptalk among men
June 2014 ( View complete archive page )
- mongodump and mongorestore
- Waste my screen like it's 1996
- A simple regex rule
- Unix and C are the ultimate computer viruses
- E-books are more and more popular
- The cost of small apps
- Maybe Unicorn works for Ruby
- Do Catfish viewers get catfished?
- Regular expressions: greedy and lazy matching
- Jeff Bezos is putting more money into the Washington Post
- Amazon's growing power over the publishing industry
- What allows a marriage to last?
- Is the FizzBuzz test really hard?
- ZFS instead of Git
- Managing multiple Future objects in PHP
- Refactoring fat models
- Eventual consistency is probably the only consistency that one can hope for using Javascript and WebSockets
- The emergence of the jaw, in the late Cambrian, was one of the big breakthroughs for life on earth
- PHP-FPM with Nginx
- Growing discontent with Google?
- The declining power of the search engines?
- Ellen Chisa on gender and technology
- Docker is the future
- The impact of online advertising can not be measured
- Startups are luck
- The evil of innovation
- Emacs struggles to get a good package manager
- Breaking into your boyfriend's email to find if he is cheating on you
- Internet advertising is a bad idea
- The madness of being an entrepreneur
- Tumour necrosis factors have not changed in 550 million years
- Fasting helps bring back your stem cells
- The privacy crimes of Google+
- The strange way my memory works
- The one remaining strength of publishing is its prestige
- 800 dead babies in Ireland
- Avoid overcrowding your web server with too many unneeded processes
- Using Apache Flood to test websites
- How does PHP work
- PHP and Squid
- Threads in a Unix process
- Setup is hard, and it wastes an extraordinary amount of developer time
July 2014 ( View complete archive page )
- OKCupid experiments on its users again
- When should a program interpret words?
- Rate limiting middleware for Clojure Ring
- Organizing Emacs
- Why is the solar system stable?
- The Cambrian explosion of Javascript innovation
- Why a woman becomes a social worker
- Understanding Ring Middleware
- TJ Holowaychuk leaves NodeJS for Go
- Changing leadership of NodeJS
- The Perseus Cluster is huge and strange
- Adding real continuous loop behavior to Clojure apps
- How to ruin a company
- The problems of object oriented programming and strict typing
- How much can a developer possibly know?
- Pretty-print JSON from Clojure
- Learning a new language boosts your memory
- PrettyPrinting for test results
- Why is uberjar such a rare option?
- Buildr as a continuous integration tool?
- Shame and politics
- Should project packaging/building be complicated?
- Clojure encourages small functions
- The difference between strict static typing and design-by-contract
- Classpath hell in Java
- Testing RESTful APIs with cURL
- Why would a sane programmer use PHP rather than Clojure for a RESTful API?
August 2014 ( View complete archive page )
- Big Data solves cancer
- Independent women under Communism
- The end of the quiet era
- American Exceptionalism
- Parsers in Clojure
- Microsoft finally defends its customers against government intrusion
- Greedy cable companies try to block municipal broadband
- When the ice melts
- The anti-patterns of email conversations
- Apache Commons-IO overwhelms me with options
- Ribol is a restart library for Clojure
- Does the Universe have any concept of scale?
- repl-friendly development workflow
- The 5 types of dependency injection in Clojure
- Thread binding in Clojure is tricky
- What if I totally misunderstood?
- Open Source still lives
- The bugs on your face evolved to live there
- Is there a single answer to the problem of package management?
- I am frustrated that Wikipedia hides old version pages from search engines
- 9 year old girl, machine guns, killing, accidents, death, for freedom
- The growing power and status of Computer Science departments
- Problems of package management are sapping productivity for tech workers
- A single div
- NixOS as package management?
- Why are Emacs packages such a disaster?
- The amazing success of Bustle
- "Just works" versus "I understand it"
- The uncertainty of promised products
- Oracle takes $240 million for a website, and then fails to build the website
- Representational Value Transfer (REVAT)
- Racket sounds awesome
- People strongly disagree with me
- The Lost World of Tarnów
- Blatant sexual harassment at tech conferences
- Strict parenting in Roman times
- The S does not stand for Simple
- Fixing Bad Data in Datomic
- Police intimidation of journalists is a political statement
- Police want too much discretion
- Women's soccer is violent
- Editors are worthless, and middle managers are also worthless
- Living organisms communicate with RNA
- Heterosexuals do not understand bisexuality
- Unboxing mania
- Security problems with OpenSIS
- Gender, romance and looking desperate
- How to handle comments at a media site
- Event Tracing for Windows is a truly terrible API
- The explosion of sysadmin configuration complexity
- What if your husband is secretly an abusive online troll?
- Pandering and popularity
- Life online allows people to hate strangers
- Clojure core.async is just a bunch of callbacks
- Just write SQL
- Visual Markov Chains
- Mental performance in men and women, improvements linked to national development
- Multimethods in Clojure
- Are in-app purchases uniquely destructive to personal finance?
- (NSFW) Is Whisper really respecting people's privacy?
- The need to check PayPal
- What makes people attractive to one another?
- Will it ever be immoral to have children?
- PHP will never be a happily multi-threaded language
- Multi-cellular creatures live on intimate terms with bacteria
- If a writers say they are writing a series, is that an implicit contract?
- Kim Kardashian understands how money works
- Web apps can be desktop apps if you bundle the web server
- Scott Feeney writes about Liberator
- Relying on "standard" libraries which may or may not exist on a server
- The evolution of RESTful APIs
September 2014 ( View complete archive page )
- Public meltdowns, in the era of the Internet, are forever
- Is Facebook repeating all of Friendster's mistakes?
- Declining wages spread to the rest of the West
- Queues are databases
- We need a new protocol to replace HTTP and allow for software
- Treacherous unexpected pitfalls in Java
- A painful pause while my app is running
- How to publish one's own book
- How to restart public JVM services
- Async is state machines
- Transducers in Javascript
- What is so hard about disequilibrium dynamics?
- Is depression honest?
- The sacrifices of women who are CEOs
- The problems with Object Oriented Programming are well known
- Why do people use inheritance in Javascript?
- Inheritance is evil
- Crime no longer lifts people out of poverty
- More celebrity photos leaked
- Getting famous with criminal pranks
- The struggle between Uber and its drivers
- Yet another investor complains about low rates
- The Dark Age Of Emacs
- Wikipedia lacks women
- A corrupt for-profit college
- How to avoid race conditions in Java
- What sort of social life do you have if you live at work?
- Women who defend their abusers
- Vladimir Voevodsky grounds mathematics on Homotopy Type Theory
- Sarah Lacy believes in patience
- The sharing economy gives rise to the scam economy
- The Shen language was shaped by illness and rejection
- Innovation to end The Great Stagnation
- Cat scratch fever can be transmitted by ticks
- Apple has been sloppy about security
- Gawker struggles to avoid full impact of unpaid-intern lawsuit
- Professors using Facebook for class
- How should Twitter work?
- Prosecutors show no regrets about jailing innocent men
- The many lives a woman might live
- More awful news about racist police
- Tortoise survives 32 years in an attic
- An exaggerated sense of entitlement regarding celebrity photos
- How can a corporation keep its employees from spying on celebrities?
- New discoveries with The Sims
- Tech stereotypes I did not know: devops more exciting than programming
- There is an insane amount of blackhat hacking going on
- What would a Pelagian version of math look like?
- The problem building a business to cater to the poor
- The problem with the current tech startup scene
- How ignorant am I, and how do I formally specify that in my code?
- Bayesian calculations often depend on sampling methods such as Markov Chain Monte Carlo?
- Transducers are coming to all the core functions of Clojure
- We can not estimate how long that software project will take
- The frustrations of Twitter
- Your 9 year old can use guns but can't play in a park
October 2014 ( View complete archive page )
- Why not use fun notation?
- Single dispatch in Python
- Sandboxing in Python
- How to track garbage collection on the JVM
- A very open company
- When is visionary-driven development good?
- A new low for tech bro PR?
- The multiplicity of truth during the era of the Internet
- Talking about GamerGate leads to harrassment
- The end of consensus
- Does Python need strict data-type enforcement?
- The end of system admins
- Will GamerGate win?
- Gombe Chimpanzee War
- Best practices are sometimes the worst practices
- The Great Stagnation really started in 1970
- The difference between brains and computers
- The worst startup ever?
- GamerGate dudes are very, very nasty people
- Archis's blog on the need for compromise in engineering designs
- The emotional need to troll
- How much of a speed boost can we get from new programming languages?
- The tech industry is shifting away from nice guys
- The need for empiricism in computer programming
- Maximum Sim City
- Urban raccoons are smarter than rural raccoons
- How do we know what correct English sounds like?
- Docker is like MemCache, if you need it, then you need another programming language
- Should the law accept apologies?
- The dream job at the dying company?
- Can you run a business and do a reality show?
- Electronically-dissociated antisocial personality disorder
- Is there any consequence to being wrong?
- This is what misogyny looks like
- Stealing funds from investors and spending it on a party
- Spoiled versus invincible youth
- How should people argue?
- The women defending Kurdistan
- Axilmar's Blog responds to "Object Oriented Programing is an expensive disaster"
- Phil Trelford shrinks 30,000 words to a useful 167
- Object Oriented Programming is an expensive disaster which must end
- Brilliant insights ruin your personal life
- Lena Dunham's book
- What exactly is the link between success and narcissistic overconfidence?
- GamerGate reveals rampant misogyny
- Programmers who become managers forget how hard programming is
- Loyalty to a corporation
- Learning a craft is like starting a business
- Transducers in Javascript
- Telegony is real
- C++ wants Lisp macros
- Every function in Haskell officially only takes one parameter
- Problems in the USA economy started in 1954
- Abstractions are slow
- Economic growth concentrates at the top
- Scrum is an industry where everyone scams everyone
November 2014 ( View complete archive page )
- When the crowds leave, some parts of the Internet get better
- Perpetual immaturity is the price of immortality
- Why use Java?
- Letting others write your Emacs config
- peerinvalid The package mocha does not satisfy its siblings' peerDependencies requirements!
- nixd is an automation framework to build your application environment
- We need a unified abstraction for apps to discover each others formats
- The Krugman diet
- Slingshot cleans up its "catch any exception or object" syntax
- Why use Github and also Google Groups for an open source project?
- Flask uses assertions
- Can Gunicorn die if bash quits before forking is done?
- The effects of signal() in a multithreaded process are unspecified
- Why I don't use classes or protocols in Clojure
- Returning an object from eval() in Javascript
- A basic skeleton for python decorators
- Protecting against JSON attacks in Flask
- Top level arrays in Javascript are dangerous: Register callback on Javascript Array setters
- Weird that under Python 3.4 runtime you can import from 2.7
- Prepare for broken builds
- Every programming language has its own culture
- Ugly mutable parts of Python
- Is 0% growth for 90% a successful economic model?
- What its like to have an illness with no name
- Python and its discontents
- An abundance of file watchers in Clojure
- Instant dashboard with the ELK stack?
- How to write errors to the terminal while booting a daemon
- Using Emacs Eshell as the ultimate shell
- The Tracy-Widom distribution
- Why strict encyclopedias are strong
- Setting up a daemon to run automatically at startup
- Controlling the aggressiveness of swap
- Escort for command line utilities in Ruby
- Login into remote server with one word alias
- Some Unix commands that I am finding useful
- A 23 line web server in Ruby
- Stream Control Transmission Protocol
- You don't need to normalize a reporting database, because it's read-only
- Older brains learn differently than young brains
- Female MBAs lose out to their husbands
- The Hindenberg was the largest airship ever built
- The toilet paper scare of 1973
- Automatic conflict resolution in a distributed database?
- How should biologists define sex?
- What is a vector clock?
- Denormalizing a variety of data-types to a standard type for display
- Does anyone want to die?
- The denormalized Materialized Path
- Kenya was the first country in Sub-Saharan Africa to deploy a completely online national HIS in September 2011
- Gravidity
- Why doesn't protein send information to RNA?
- The Haplotype Map
- The data that Uber hides
- Government science projects: i2b2
- What good can come from childbirth?
- The SQL relational model fails at hierarchical trees
- How many errors are needed to make a model false?
- ¡Yo!
- Preeclampsia studies should segregate data regarding how many births a woman has had
- The woman at the bank
- Why is declarative programming so limited?
- Python encourages tinkering
- Is conservative-versus-liberal a proxy for rare-big-loss-versus-rare-big-win
- Marc Andreessen on diversity in the tech industry
- Software transactional memory in Python
- Rapid intake and output of data, with control over the scale of the failures
- Uber CEO Travis Kalanick is a danger to women
- Why Python is slow
- Perl is faster than Python
- Misogyny haikus
- His accumulating motives were rather those of power, of self-expression, of hunting big game
- The computers of the future, seen from 1964
- Modern romance and breakups
- Midwifery is uniquely human -- there is no other species where the female needs help giving birth
- Setting up Flask to talk to Nginx
- Do you need to learn how to program a computer?
- How difficult is it to work with TCP?
- The invisibility of certain kinds of midwives
- What should be illegal on the foreign exchange markets?
- A bill which makes it mandatory for candidates to have toilets in their homes
- The Rubinius community engages in extraordinary outreach
- Alexander Grothendieck broke from the consensus
- Martin Odersky on the transition from OOP to Functional programming
- Lisp is not functional, but Clojure is
- The naming of ducks in Python
- The importance of names to signal intent in Python
- The decline of Wikipedia
- There is no time for shame in a recession
- The 11 greatest Python blogs
- Structs in Python
- What women in tech say about being in tech
- What are the Republicans for?
- Photos of female militias from the Spanish Civil War
- Great ideas for zsh config
- There is a 31% gender gap on the issue of marijuana legalization
- Do women under-pay themselves at non-profits?
- Surprisingly awful maternal outcomes in USA healthcare
- Pregnancy is not a condition to be "managed"
- Data integration as the next big thing for startups?
- How to design a Clojure/Redis system with Components
- Backends for RESTful interfaces versus WebSockets
- Where Apache Storm fails
- How many bindings exist in your Angular app?
- All that is terrible in AngularJS
- Using zsh as my shell
- Is Janet Yellen losing sleep over what people are paying for Picassos?
- Jay Kreps is leaving LinkedIn to start his own company focused on Kafka
- Logcheck keeps track of your logs, emails you when things get suspicious
- Reuters ends user comments on news stories
- Poland is the only true post-Communist success story
- Fashion and science have a similar history
- Network versus CPU bandwidth in a Storm topology
- Why not use asserts in Python?
- The surprisingly difficult task of data importing
- What Apache Storm demands from you
December 2014 ( View complete archive page )
- Accessing Columns in SqlAlchemy
- Always `git diff HEAD` before committing
- We need to stop using HTTP for software
- How to convert Sqlite to Postgres
- The lack of expressiveness in Go
- Mae Keane, swallowed radium, died at age 107
- Worse is Better is often worse
- It's hard to preserve programmer intent across all stages down to the silicon
- Quality should be the responsibility of one person
- Which module should we use for RESTful APIs in Python?
- How to imitate the Flask app.route() decorator
- The changing focus of MBA programs
- When rational thinking is correlated with intelligence the correlation is modest
- If you miss the boom, your business will decline
- Real Simple is real complicated
- Boring is good in Python's __init__
- When age and marriage and kids forces entrepreneurs to get a job
- Get SqlAlchemy to call CREATE SCHEMA to keep PostGres happy
- Generate Python models from an SQL schema
- Why are people willing to give Facebook so much power?
- .tgz file- tar: Unrecognized archive format
- Why Wikipedia succeeded
- Why callback hell is hell
- Financing the “Humanisation” of Birth
- The increasing rigidity of Wikipedia
- git pull --rebase
- Guido van Rossum agrees with me
- Marriage peaked in 1958
- Gamer culture and the demeaning of teen girl culture
- 110 year old lizard has children with 80 year old lizard
- Academics are poor
- Metaphors for bad code
- Which is better, MongoDB or Postgres?
- An outside perspective on SqlAlchemy
- The big Python surprise: a culture of composable libraries, like Clojure
- What happens if you introduce a new pattern in your software but never replace the old?
- If a disease drives you crazy, then you are crazy but you are also having a physical issue
- How to install Postgres
- Is PostGreSQL text search good enough?
- The CEO of Playboy admits that he's clueless
- Logging activity can be expensive
- dtrace: error on enabled probe ID 5 (ID 992: io:mach_kernel:buf_strategy:start): illegal operation in action #3 at DIF offset 0
- Why are dance friends so rare?
- Making money as a public trust
- 1 returns 1 as its identity, but how?
- Java gave me a choice that I didn't need, and I made the wrong choice
January 2015 ( View complete archive page )
- Do you think mothers play an important role during birth?
- Using gulp-diff to discover which of your Javascript won't minify
- When is dependency injection a bad thing?
- Immutability changes everything, part CXXVIII
- Groupon is not a joke
- Depression and sex
- A girl gets propositioned
- How do you enforce the integrity of your system?
- The unnecessary complexity of Ruby
- The flexibility (and ease of debugging) of optional types in Clojure
- How much should gender figure in a story about women fighting in Afghanistan?
- Stuff I do when I am burned out
- Jimmy Carter deregulated venture capital
- Why men love war
- Constraining competition
- The heyday of the Romans ended with a crash
- The unique suffering of being rich
- The Hemingway Law of Motion: Gradually, then Suddenly
- Use an obvious alias to teach newcomers about a language
- Why I love immutability
- Basecamp caches HTML to go fast
- Async difference between blocking and parking
- A Pythonista reacts to Clojure's immutability
- Maintain acceptance test suites
- How to set up project.clj for a Clojure project
- Assertions in dynamic languages give you the benefits of static type safety, with less code and ceremony
- The Internet Protocol is out of date, can RINA save us?
- Dependency Injection in Python and Javascript
- Encouraging new developers
- How should a programmer grow?
- Clojure tessers
- The dictatorship of the GIL keeps you safe and makes you slow
- Women in economics
- The Tracy-Widom distribution
- Peer-to-peer health
- Cloxp
- Why is modularity such a struggle in Javascript?
- Is there any point to dependency injection frameworks in dynamic languages?
- Defending Python's Pyramid design choices
- Handling HTTP routes in Python and Clojure
- Jakub Holý: Start with the simplest version you can
- (Computer) Language is culture
- Kevin Drum expects more of the same
- Why is gender still an issue?
- The power of the double-linked list
- What does statistical over-fitting look like?
- Asian films worth seeing
- The Linux system calls worth knowing
- Object Oriented Programming is often defended with examples of Anthropomorphism Gone Wrong
- The many penalties for writing about sex
February 2015 ( View complete archive page )
- Dating someone wealthier
- Fashion freedom in Britain
- Does the visitor design pattern need to exist?
- The angry argument against design patterns
- The best argument for design patterns
- The Leiningen eco-system
- Computers, patterns, humbleness
- What do standard OOP patterns look like in Haskell?
- What is the difference between depression and procrastination?
- Best practice is a misnomer
- We lack a good theory for depression
- What is the argument for design patterns?
- How much of Gamergate is simply mental illness
- The most popular resist-sexual-assault training manual is out of date
- Pair programming is exhausting
- The hollowness of the neutral meditation promoted by business
- Are polyhedra of equal volume equidecomposable?
- Online bullying intensifies the attacks against women
- Communism and corporatism are the same
- Strings in Python have the wrong number of bytes
- 8,000 computer programmers at General Motors?
- If we sample from a population using a sufficiently large sample size, the mean of the samples will be normally distributed
- All GUI toolkits are old
- How to pull in patches from foreign repos
- Odious behavior from George Washington
- A very bad awful way to ask for help with your startup
- Sleep paralysis is heredity?
- Being extorted by a non-profit
- Premature deindustrialisation in the developing world
- A successful movie
- 革命的非モテ同盟
- Why self publish?
- Women learning Python
- A family's story of life in the video game industry
- When Paul Krugman stepped outside this morning
- Drinking water in the Middle Ages
- The growing importance of doulas during birth
- How to think about your exercise regime
- The Compulsory Vaccination Act of 1853
- Is this dependency injection?
- How should we separate HTML from its content?
- Managing dependencies in Javascript
- Um
- How to maintain software?
- This is not fun anymore
- Possible new Javascripts
- Goals of Kythe
- Gradual typing for Javascript
- A standardized ontology of Javascript types?
- The spread of gradual/optional typing
- 400,000 lines of CSS at Etsy
- Most USA companies have too many meetings
- Javascript should not be used for everything
- What left parties mean for Europe
- The assumption that programmers are men
- The 4 levels of bugs
- ElasticSearch is amazing
- The benefits of testosterone
- Does denormalization make a linked list better?
- Problems with the schools in the USA
- How not to do a BSDM movie
- Good British manners at a brothel
- Azithromycin and mitochondrial biogenisis
- Can antibiotics kill cancer?
- The perfect Javascript framework
- The problems in Europe
March 2015 ( View complete archive page )
- The folklore that allows technology to work
- Why is Clojure leaner than Object Oriented Programming?
- Types of functions: where Functional Programming meets Object Oriented Programming
- Jodhaa Akbar
- Mistake: At least make your fancy app act like a web page
- The most important election in the history of Israel
- Does not globally pollute Array, Hash, Object or AR::Base.
- ActiveRecord scopes
- Constraints on routes in Rails
- You can't take my pretty adjectives, damn you
- I hate dependencies
- Ruby mixins are powerful
- The cost of failure
- When strongly stated opinions bring out defensive anger in computer programmers
- PHP is adding types without breaking backwards compatibility
- CSS media rules for iPads and iPhones
- What Rails asset pipeline looks like
- Functional design patterns
- The tech industry reaction against cloud computing
- Now when confirmation validations fail, the error will be attached to :#{attribute}_confirmation instead of attribute.
- Rails adds a lot to the $LOAD_PATH
- A shell script which turns your OS X laptop into an awesome web development machine
- Redis for microservices with Clojure
- Rubinius X as the future of Ruby
- Ruby reinvented to look like Clojure
- Ruby concurrency needs microservices but not Elixir
- Teaching yourself computer programming is morally correct
- What to use for Ruby background tasks?
- Kate Heddleston on argument culture
- Tardigrades can not be destroyed
- Relentless sexual assault in tech
- Netflix monitors its micro-services
- Mike MacHenry: Object-oriented programming has one major flaw which is that no one agrees what it really is
- Just 18 elite universities produce half of all computer science professors
- Women's drinking peaks at age 40
- Contracts in Ruby are part of the new style
- Bad female boss suddenly understand mothers now that she has a kid
- Object-oriented Programming cannot save us anymore
- Oracle is completely incompetent
- Let's disagree with Micro-Services
- 9 different package managers
- At a certain scale you have to give up on the single, normalized, canonical database
- Martin Odersky has some comments about Object Oriented Programming
- Are you sure objects are an improvement of procedural programming?
- If you measure something intermediate, be sure it also contributes to your end goals
- Financial speculation in games teaches us about financial speculation in real life
- The company transition from one big group to many groups
- Job interviews for computer programmers are full of bias
- Customization killed MySpace
- The end of the globalization consensus
- Women stealing happiness from women
- The professionalization of childhood sports is child abuse
- The countryside is out of fashion
- What is the right way to use micro-services?
- I don't get the zombie craze
- If mid-level managers are useless, then why do they exist?
- Europe has seen a surge in voluntary childlessness
- Men ask Sarah Lacy to think of the children
- The problem with the ActiveRecord, as a pattern
- PostgreSQL is great and ORMs suck
- Anita Sarkeesian hopes to see game culture change
- The good and the bad of data-types
- How does ActiveRecord work?
- What is object oriented programming?
- Message passing in computers is flawed because messages can not be trusted
- The weaker reasons for hating object oriented programming
- Object Oriented Programming is a moving target
- You can call yield in Ruby without an explicit block declared
- The mania for object oriented programming
- Is static type checking important in software for a bank?
- Physical presence is important for freelance
- When will WordPress die?
- What makes Buzzfeed good?
- The short version of Kino Haruki Murakama
- Lying is good for you
- How can anyone remember where they saw a movie 25 years ago?
April 2015 ( View complete archive page )
- Startups behaving after Demo Day like someone going off a strict diet
- Jim Starkey says "Well, duh"
- Kyle Kingsbury's Jespen series is CAP enlightenment
- Redis losing 56% of writes during a partition
- Can MongoDB keep its promises?
- Parallelism versus concurrency
- Disque is a distributed and fault tolerant message broker, so it works as middle layer among processes that want to exchange messages
- A very long Java method
- Java performance
- Your data is the API
- The farce known as "object oriented programming"
- New data structures in Clojure 1.8
- Design patterns have social value
- Automat for easy finite-state-machines in Clojure
- Using abstract classes to hide boilerplate code
- Zach Tellman on specialized tuples for Clojure
- When to use reify in Clojure
- ExecutorCompletionService
- Limit new features to a subset of your users
- A Redis queue
- Redis: I am late to the party
- Design patterns are failures
- Singletons are evil
- What happened to Ani DiFranco?
- Steve Yegge's contribution to the revolt against Object Oriented Programming
- Encapsulation of information is folly
- Why have both deftype and defrecord?
- Evening, by Susan Minot
- China became powerful for all the wrong reasons
- Print journalism is dying and there is no way to save it
- Zed Shaw's legacy
- Ruby closures borderline macro syntax
- If the only thing you care about is behavior then ruby suggests to implement it as a module
- Ruby On Rails as the frontend for polyglot programming
- The evil of granting companies property rights to IP numbers
- What Ruby sees when you monkeypatch
- Shocking fact: using Spring used to mean giving up all compile time checks in Java
- Why does Google point to 5 year old articles about Railties?
- Why (right side) cast a variable in Java
- ActionDispatch and middleware
- ActiveJob offers a uniform queue interface for Rails
May 2015 ( View complete archive page )
- Simple Design
- Women in tech in India
- Natasha Vargas-Cooper and Kelly Faircloth on romance novels
- Niki Tisza writes about burnout
- Why Appsflyer gave up on Python and switched to Clojure
- We get trapped by our virtues more than our vices
- The effect of blind auditions on orchestras
- Forces that drive women's labor force participation rates
- Sick systems
- Concurrency in Ruby
- Sandi Metz tries to solve Object Oriented problems with composition
- Sandi Metz on hidden assumptions
- Predator-Prey modeling in Clojure
- The life of single moms
- GamerGate losers continue the argument on Wikipedia
- Starve yourself
- addShutdownHook(), to stop your app in a reasonable way
- "Habits" by To Love
- Test all your code in production using "feature flags"
- Can you defend your relationship?
- The public no longer thinks of GLBT celebrities as being scandalous
- What smart people miss
- Anyone can contribute to clojure-doc.org
- The changelog for the clojure.org wiki
- The contents were now a boilerplate AT&T copyright notice claiming intellectual ownership of the otherwise still empty file
- Caribou as the ultimate Clojure web framework?
- "My daughter came home one day crying and said, 'Mommy, somebody told me you made a lot of money ...' "
- If a language does not guarantee order in a hashmap can the hashmap be referentially transparent?
- ExecutorService makes exceptions disappear in a bad way
- JVM advice: name your thread pools
- Poland is the most Slavic nation in the world?
- Clojure does not need job queues, because it has Storm, Onyx, Quasar, Pulsar
- Aaron Bedra: web apps in Clojure have some of the worst security
- Embarrassing code I wrote under stress at a job interview
June 2015 ( View complete archive page )
- David Tuite offers bad interview advice
- CRM for startups
- Image recognition: we can not get there from here with what we've got
- Where does image recognition fail?
- Sex, Google, and how sex writers adapt
- How NodeJs fails to deal with backpressure
- Git history should show you reality, not a cleaned up version of reality
- The New Netflix
- Krugman's 10 years on the recession
- The new RESTful style
- Strange problems with Rackspace cloud machine
- Avoid RejectedExecutionException in lein :(
- When to use Patch
- Working with monoids
- A pipeline of agents creates a fully asynchronous programming model
- Using reducers on the bytes in a memory mapped file
- Higher order functions in Clojure support chaining
- Stuart Sierra says avoid Dynamic Scope
- Mark Seemann feels that mutating state is intuitive
July 2015 ( View complete archive page )
- Fatherhood circa 2015
- But you can customize the code?
- Refactor async work in Ruby
- Innovation has slowed since the 1970s
- Could I ever explain monads to someone else?
- When to use repeating tasks inside of an app?
- Why Docker failed
- Trying to convince devs of the merits of Clojure
- The limits of RESTful interfaces
- Mutable arrays in Clojure
- When should Clojure imitate Object Oriented Programming?
- The maybe monad represents computations whose result is maybe a valid value, but maybe nil
- The sins of Adam Bard
- Scheduling libraries in Clojure
- Will I regret Functional programming?
- Why Python 3.x went off course
- They cost of using Hystrix
- The simplest step toward circuit breakers in Clojure
- Chris Zheng is consolidating his libraries into Hara
- Advice columns still survive in newspapers
- Property based testing in the Functional Paradigm
- Functional programming is not the same as static typing
- Dealing with mutation is hard
- Women still get fired for being pregnant
- Robyn Exton keeps moving forward
- Hollywood sexism
- Men who lose at video games are the most likely to harass women
- The rebirth of urbanism
- When is it ethical to out someone?
- The worsening web
- Greg Hendershott looks at Racket Macros
- Vim has a function with 400 lines of code
- Sydney Leroux’s fake eyelashes
- Debt relief and devaluation as wild-eyed radical ideas?
- What does the word "Cancel" mean?
- Ronda Rousey Fights Like An A Very Unusual Human
August 2015 ( View complete archive page )
- It is very difficult to understand software based only on the database
- Racism is okay if the market approves? WTF?
- The financial bubbles of 2,000 BC
- Matrices are representations of linear transformations
- Google won't hire Max Howell even though Google depends on Max Howell
- Rich Hickey: Would you want to be on a team that only did what was easy?
- Hashmaps are not simple
- Police caught on tape talking about a woman
- The personal responsibility to build a durable ego
- Over budget and late: the BBC epic software fail
- Good writing is difficult
- Zach Tellman: the heuristics of the government fail and the heuristics of software fail
- Garajeando takes on the Gilded Rose Kata in Clojure
- Stuart Sierra's anti-patterns for Clojure
- Hauptsatz is the central result establishing the significance of the sequent calculus
- Less than 1% of female accounts on Ashley Madison showed any activity
- Natural language processing (NLP) is a messy and difficult affair
- Men cite their own work more than women cite their own work
- She never did anything useful, she just raised her children
- Why use Clojure at your startup
- E.W.Dijkstra on multi process systems
- Can the economics profession ever be made whole?
- What politicians deserve respect?
- C. A. R. Hoare in 1973
- The Starbucks scam
- Pretty in kindergarten
- Paul deGrandis in 2012, the emergence of Clojure success stories
- Influences in 進撃の巨人 (Attack On Titan)
- Camille Fournier (Rent the Runway) - Consensus Systems for the Skeptical Architect
- A good society is safe for children
- Concurrency is easier with Clojure
- SSL for Jetty via Apache reverse proxy
- How to create a POJO in Clojure
- SalesForce is confusing
- Zookeeper Owns Your Availability
- Bad habits: someone reports a bug so you insult them
- Alexis Neiers: I wasn't wearing Louboutins
- Insider trading is the best way to steal
- What poor and uneducated brilliance looks like
- Redis Out Of Memory error
- The wrk command replaces Apache Bench
- The assumption you are smarter than everyone else
- When the FDA gets it right
- Dogmatism Skepticism Eclecticism
- A package gets sent over the ocean 7 times by FedEx
- Why Google failed
- Risk aversion is destroying modern movie making in the USA
- The basics of working with Supervisord
- Opfer müssen gebracht werden
- Supervisord is Python
- Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man recently released from prison kills at Gay Pride in Israel
- The humility of the Clojure community
September 2015 ( View complete archive page )
- The Liar, The Bitch and the Wardrobe
- 積ん読
- The Recursive Function Pattern Matching Pattern
- Best practice pattern matching in Clojure
- Never a victim or always a victim
- Racist school administrators go after Islamic child for science project
- Ahmed Mohamed's father has been an activist fighting for justice for muslims
- School administrators committing crimes
- Clean up your act with lein-checkall
- Most cells in the body keep time
- Loyalty is the most desirable response, but also the hardest to quantify and design for
- Calculating and Visualizing Voronoi Diagrams using the Quad-Edge Structure - Alan Shaw
- Microservies mean freedom of future action
- Why are microservices happening now?
- The difference between Clojure and Common Lisp
- Microservices are different
- The problem with Meetups
- Zach Tellman -- the need for backpressure in queues, and the limits
- Dynamic scope in Clojure
- This instance doesn't do much, but it does have a nice property: it's only equal to itself
- The 8 fallacies of distributed computing
- Stanislaw Lem's dystopia
- Free, white, and 21
- Is Gradle the best build tool for the JVM?
- No locks for performance under load with concurrency
- Use Specter to transform Clojure's lists
- Matthew Phillips makes the case of Clojure's "for" comprehensions
- Prismatic's Schema is better than Typed Clojure because it has coercions
- Why is microservices popular now?
- Fortran still survives
- Ritual burial 3 million years ago?
- Checkpoint and Restore In User Space (CRIU)
- Mutable versus Immutable history
- The conceptual clarity of CQRS
- Sad love story
- How to play cricket
- Things that make Clojure beautiful: namespace declarations
- The sad story of Twitter
- Suicide on campus
- The end of science
- Video game as format for serious essay
- Is frontend Clojure development the best frontend development eco-system
- Limit the number of threads in Jetty
- A website with teacher reviews got a student suspended from school, in 1994
- Use ZeroMQ instead of Kafka
October 2015 ( View complete archive page )
- Who still pays for music?
- The glacial speed of reform in Morocco
- White people diversity
- Why are computer programmer competitive with each other?
- The process of writing software will change the way you think
- Kill your heroes
- The protest at 200 meters at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City
- A Java Hashmap is not a Clojure collection
- The TCP checksum is weak, and the Ethernet checksum will accept corrupt TCP that passed the TCP checksum
- When is computer programming easy?
- How central bankers propose marriage
- How easy is it to write immutable Javascript?
- Erlang - OTP - Cowboy are the cutting edge
- Clojurescript as the frontend to Erlang
- Based on this, I just enabled Ghostery on my machine
- Hacking environmental protection features
- Women in Japan now work more than women in the USA
- Are we in a recession?
November 2015 ( View complete archive page )
- Marvel Comics increasing maturity regarding adult themes
- The Amazon Echo will primarily succeed in business settings, not in home settings
- Christine Dodrill on the Universal Design
- Separate AWS accounts for development, staging, and production
- Using Twitter for long-form stories
- I am one voice of many, who question Object Oriented Programming
- Can you survive in a glamour business without glamour?
- Gawker's problem with women
- Sometimes things go fast
- The States and Fates of Javascript
- Why modern Javascript development sucks
- How do you get latitude with Javascript
- Trailblazer has good ideas hidden by Object Oriented Programming
- Nested relations are the death of Object Oriented Programming
- Rails derails
- What happens when the Board Of Directors begins to panic?
- Where is the article?
December 2015 ( View complete archive page )
- RFC 128: We are contemplating allowing sender and receiver to specify different byte sizes
- Fundamentalist upbring leads to viewing women as stereotypes
- NLP versus Conversational AI
- Minecraft is participatory but Call Of Duty is passive entertainment with occasional button-mashing
- Failure is a de-stressing option
- Why does Rand Fishkin think bureaucracy is bad?
- Finding the one kanji that sums up the year
- Admitting failure in public
- Allowing an object to exist in an invalid state is an Anti-Pattern
- People who love spies do not love being spied upon
- Websockets are an all or nothing proposition
- Abuse of H-2 visas
- Any growing Rails app runs into the problem of fat models
- The death of traditional blogging
- The reaction in Poland
- Why did feminism finally get picked up by the women's magazines?
- Why do women use Tinder?
- Where are the female film critics?
- Groupies and artists
- The Great Stagnation, as seen in movies
- What does a weblog need in 2015?
- In science the only confirmation that matters is whether you will proceed
- The biggest bribery scam in India ever?
- How to find a major security breach at Facebook
- How to test the Salesvoice skill for the Amazon Echo
- Silicon Valley is an increasingly rigged game
- Everyone's been rejected for a job they should have gotten
- Melting glaciers slow the rotation of the Earth
- The importance of the Module class to NodeJs
- Require and Export in NodeJs
- How to build conversations via the Amazon Echo
- Using a glottal stop to force the Amazon Echo to correctly pronounce "tw"
- I believe in Enterprise software for the Amazon Echo
- Dialogue designers replace graphic designers when creating voice interfaces
- The rise of Liberalism in Sweden
- How can I connect the Amazon Echo to wifi in an Enterprise with secure wifi?
- The old debates about Clojure
- The Amazon Echo Blogosphere
- Custom commands for the Amazon Echo
- Ellery Coffman demonstrates home automation via Alexa
- Startups accelerate your learning cycle
- When can sex or violence be justified as a plot point in a story?
- What parts of the movie Her will come true first?
- Hi, I'm an inexperienced, spineless CEO who can't handle confrontation
- The advantages of a Natural Language Processing interface
- People want to be able to talk to their computer
- Clojure is easier than Scala
- Uneasy is the head that wears the crown, even among baboons
- Progress in math is needed for progress in science
- Startups are embarrassing chaos
- The problem of locking intellectuals into universities
January 2016 ( View complete archive page )
- We want loose-coupling and high cohesion
- A message hospital (or dead letter queue), where messages got sent if they failed
- The early excitement about Facebook is long forgotten
- Jon Williams, Fractional CTO: Include business teams in the Agile process
- Joe Armstrong figured out the right way to do everything, and nobody cared
- This disproves the superstar theory of economic success
- The importance of intuition in the discovery of a person's medical conditions
- Britain has the safest wall sockets
- Journalism continues to fall into deeper trouble
- Chasing stats to the detriment of your team
- When technology goes on strike
- A nation's income can be predicted from its technology in 1500 AD
- Why did Nasa allow the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster to happen?
- Forbes wants to block my ad blocker
- The future is over
- Amazon.com will give away your personal details to hackers
- Groping in the dark as a method to discover module boundaries in microservices
- Why I love Erlang
- The non-rational roots of politics
- T-shirts vary like crazy, in terms of size
- HTML is the failed GUI for TCP/IP
- You can be the most popular business in your market for years, till the year that changes
- Once you go public, it doesn’t matter what rock-solid assurances you might have been given
- An Amazon DSL in Clojure
- A 3D DSL in Clojure
- Humans have been practicing genocide for a long time
- The end of _why
- Patents impose tariffs of 1,000%
- The decline of computer programming in the USA
- Microservices first
- I give good tech advice to startups, and different good advice to Enterprises
- The cost of using patterns is that I have to give up the illusion that I am infinitely creative
- Paralyzed by too much thinking
- Bayghazi
- Bitcoin has failed
- Startups don't make you rich
- The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise
- When the history of gay marriage is written...
- What Meetups tell us about America
- Invoxia will allow Alexa to figure out who is speaking
- How much should kids be allowed to walk around?
- Money changes a city
- Abusive searches by aggressive police
- Saint Teresa as a role model for single women
- Some sports can be reduced to statistics, but not soccer
- Free time is only useful when your friends have free time
- Malaysia a wants Nobel Prize winner by 2057
- Multiculturalism cascades from industry to industry
- Critiques of Paul Graham
- Discrimination against women in tech, part MCCXVI
- Amazon acts likes its doing us a big favor by allowing us to develop for the Alexa platform
- On Hacker News, how neutral does a title have to be?
- Amazon has absolutely no idea how to run an app store
- Japan keeps a train going for one person
- The crash in Silicon Valley
- CQRS Read Models
- No one realizes that there is an app store for the Amazon Echo?
- The Amazon Alexa certification process has gone out of control
- Amazon does not give a damn what developers want to do with its offerings
- A modern career as a freelance writer
- When minor problems provoke great rage
- The new personalism of new new journalism
- Churchill almost went bankrupt
- Things I associate with the Great Stagnation
- Narcisstocracy
- Mark Lee Smith fights functional programming in 2011
- Some suburbs will have to be left to die
- When did the Internet start?
- The Democrats of the tech industry
February 2016 ( View complete archive page )
- Why is Slack popular?
- When will New York City have a functioning subway system?
- Boom and bust, money and poverty
- The lack of software leadership is the driving force of verbose ceremonies and placating rituals
- Goodbye Jess, I will miss you very much
- Immutability changes everything
- Functional programming is not the same as static data-type checking
- Why are great artists so weird?
- Interlude
- Get rid of all Dependency Injection
- Mutable iterators are the work of the Devil
- Clojure has mutable state
- Why I hate all articles about design patterns
- A parable about concurrency (demonstrated with comical cartoons)
- Why does Erlang allow so many processes to crash and how does promote reliability?
- The importance of fun
- Dorothy Thompson examines the fascists in 1941
- A recursive definition of what an expression is
- Hindley-Milner and the lambda calculus
- When we are held back by our plans
- I miss the old blogosphere
- A major turnover of the population in Europe around 14,500 years ago
- The casualties of casual dismissal
- Number of women in IT-related positions dropped by 20% in the last decade
- Does weblogging disempower women?
- When did bloggers start counting links?
- Can boycotts help diversity in the tech industry?
- Has there been any improvement for women in tech?
- Is Github in crisis?
- There is deep denial about the problems of diversity in the tech industry
- Paul Krugman sometimes starts with a graph and then goes to learn the math
- Problems at Github
- When no one listens, perhaps violent and ruthless truth-telling will save us
- Students do not study the fields that might pay the most?
- The importance of institutions for economic growth
- When a company runs out of money, its managers may suffer meltdowns
- Destroy the old cells to regenerate the body
- Fasting has benefits even if your long-term calorie intake is unchanged
- Beware of Ruby libraries that generate way too many objects
- Pat Shaughnessy dissects how much work Ruby has to do to give you a string
- Software development is a complex system of multiple poorly understood feedback loops and interactions
- Leonardo Borges's Imminent for futures and promises
- Why the tech community rejected XML
- Clojure community problems
- The founder of ThoughWorks is radical
March 2016 ( View complete archive page )
- The fanaticism of "test driven development" is slowly fading
- Automation is putting people out of work
- The languages of politics
- Churchill's vivid writing
- Are bootcamps better than University?
- Why are women paid less than men?
- RESTful APIs are dead, long live GraphQL
- Picking React isn’t a technology decision, it’s a business decision
- Pay discrimination in tech
- Left-Pad as a service
- null
- How long can an unsustainable economy grow?
- What name should the children get?
- The First Civil War may end in time for the Second
- History is not individuals
- The monoculture of tech
- The end of what was in San Francisco
- The big trials remind us of the changing times
- The end of the test-first mania
- How the movies talk about authoritarian tendencies
- The new politics at National Review
- Onyx tested by Jespen is genius tested by genius
- How to erase a woman from her biography
- Living Social has raised more than $900 million to date
- The new politics in the USA
- Dov Charney continues to self destruct
- The math teacher who could not read his own math writings
- You can know someone day in, day out, love them completely and never really understand them
- Unix processes have gotten bigger and slower over the years
- Had Linda been more confident, we'd have won
- Jakub Holý on copying :pre and :post conditions
- Garth Greenwell talks about the importance, and the cost, of gay marriage
- Sweden leads the world in the ratio of women to men getting college degrees
- The history of temporary workers
- What used to be bad about Microsoft
- Why women leave the STEM fields
April 2016 ( View complete archive page )
- Lying is a lot of work, especially in romance
- Love is hard because everyone is crazy
- Weddings are not over
- If your characters don't interact then you don't have a story
- Innovation is dead
- What is education really for?
- What do AWS services actually do?
- The rare moments I help someone
- Femslash and the growing power of fandom
- What does the word herbivore mean?
- Planning the wedding a long time before the wedding
May 2016 ( View complete archive page )
- Zana Vrangalova's research on human sexuality
- Math papers are hard to read because people invent their own syntax
- Why does Rails become awful?
- Chronological feeds are being replaced by algorithms
- Angry while female
- The dumbest name for a good architecture is "serverless"
- The next wave of layoffs in tech
- Who is Christian?
- You rarely hear about how truly fucking brutal it is
- Layers of abstraction build up in the financial world, just like they do in software
- Financial innovation is often just corruption by another name
- The sad, slow way a system of cron scripts becomes ugly
- If women could be fathers
June 2016 ( View complete archive page )
- The tech elite of Silicon Valley are a surprisingly reactionary crowd
- The Agile process of software development is often perverted by politics
- The whole publishing industry depends on Barnes and Noble
- In Pergamon there is a huge marble altar, forty feet tall with large sculptures: it also includes a Gigantomachy (Battle of the Giants)
- Ленин — гриб
- How much time and energy should a computer programmer spend learning a proprietary server system?
- If equity is compensation, can an employer ever take back compensation?
- Is Phoenix going to take over the tech industry?
- That strange isolation of raising kids
- Maybe students and professors need to push back against the University?
- The importance of taking a break
- Merav Michaeli changes the Hebrew language
- The arrogance of computer programmers
- Niche content plays that I was not aware of
- Why the public no longer listens to economists
- Which groups of people benefit most from global trade
- Everyone who becomes a writer becomes a writer in their own way
- What it is like to tutor the wealthy and the privildeged
- What age group stans on social media?
- How can you not mention the writer and singer of a song?
- Pagination with React / Relay / GraphQL
- The dreamers of the Web are still dreaming
- VioletBlue writes of being harassed by Jacob Appelbaum
- What is a comic book?
- The world is full of buggy jobs boards
- When your trusted friends take the side of a charming psychopath and gang up against you
- Trolling is more and more a professional specialty
- Demanding ssh key login to a server is safer than allowing passwords
- Every manager needs to get better at firing people, because they always wait too long
- When a pregnancy isn't viable
- The NYC.gov website is full of bugs and errors
- Tech forums can be nasty
- Mother and daughter and a short skirt
- A screaming lunatic
- Object/Relational Mapping is rarely worth it
- Math is confusing even for those who are good at it
- AWS is inappropriate for small startups because its complexity demands a specialist
- GraphQL is the best thing about React / Relay / GraphQL
- Inemuri
- The lights at the Dentsu headquarters in Tokyo are automatically turned off at 10:00 PM. But what happens afterwards?
- Krubner, you saved my day
- Sometimes I make a bad decision
- Meditation can lead to madness
- The thugs in Russia
- Anna Rose Holmer is a genius
- The Belief that Tests are Smarter than Code Telegraphs Latent Fear or a Bad Process
- The problem with unit tests
- Ruby On Rails is obsolete
- What does it mean for a criminal to express remorse?
- Elite conservatives attack the white working class
- Fighting against poverty, yet indulging in corruption
- What makes a great fake viral story
- How moderation grew up on the Internet
- Sexual ideas you should really avoid
- The way Trump is changing politics in the USA
- Pure objectivity in news is an impossibility
- Sometimes peer review delays progress for many decades
- The diverse factions of the progressive movement in the USA during 2016
July 2016 ( View complete archive page )
- Square Space offers marketing nonsense when I want actual facts
- Twitter is violence
- How to package dependencies in Golang
- Google Maps does not name Nachitschewan?
- This is one dirty latrine
- The advantage of a weight-balanced B-tree
- The rigidity of gender norms
- Romance writers lead the way regarding self-publishing
- A string of characters is best parsed using a finite state machine
- Zach Tellman on the benefits of a senior engineer
- The problems at Reddit
- Strong law is stronger than strong code
- The problems with Clojure
- Milo Yiannopoulos is proving the power of the modern troll
- The RegX that killed Stack Overflow
- The difference between Kafka and Kestrel
- Honey Lee Cottrell is dead
- RabbitMQ is difficult, Kafka is awesome, Kestrel is beautifully simple
- Kestrel is as simple as Redis but Kestrel is an actual queue
- Only use Amazon SQS if you need a high-latency high-concurrency service
- For Apache Storm, use Kestrel
- The problem with RabbitMQ
- ZeroMQ is the opposite of a queue
- Everything you need to know about queues
- The New York Times uses RabbitMQ
- Gauges uses Kestrel which is based on work from Blaine Cook
- Kestrel versus Resque
- How bad can MongoDB be with Dirty Reads?
- How to return a disallowed field in GraphQL
- Why has Google released gRPC
- An app to pay women for emotional labor
- Brad Sester is writing in public again
- The Republican National Convention
- Germs protect from allergies, biting nails helps
- Why I hate Ruby On Rails
- You are dragging this man by his ankles, through sliding glass doors down wide empty aisles
- Why national legislators in the USA are ignorant about important topics
- Mixins are harmful -- the Javascript edition
- I am selling WPQuestions.com
- The decline of entrepreneurialism in the USA
- How people get sober
- Edges is just a wrapper around the real results that adds extra data used for slicing the result cursor
- I remember Remember The Milk
- How to be a writer
- Make the Web compatible?
- Asymptotic
- Emi Bryant Lotto moves to Kodansha
- Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you
- Why are Taylor Swift and Tom Hiddleston pretending to date each other?
- Why the police sometimes abuse their authority
- The era of important Web based startups is over
- England was already a great success by the 1600s
- The problem with the Swedish housing market is that there are no houses and there is no market
- Success hides your mistakes
- Writer vents their rage while quitting after 14 years with People magazine
August 2016 ( View complete archive page )
- The relentless criticism of sorority recruitment videos
- Facebooks is aggressive about getting people's data from any source that it controls
- The alt-right meme
- End of the unacknowledged advertisement on social media?
- City as skyscrapers
- Where is the magazine industry going?
- What did Gawker do?
- How much did war contribute to the strength of the early blogosphere?
- The 20% of Real America
- Blinded by its simultaneous romanticization of and contempt for working-class America
- When is a woman a woman?
- HAProxy for MySQL
- Is Twitter a common carrier or a community?
- Unnecessary amounts of gender at the Olympics?
- Limits on hate speech in Western democracies
- Clever uses of a custom TCP stack
- The Roman economy was in danger of continuous secular stagnation
- What the culture gains and loses from gay dating apps
- All the ideas we never work on
- The big new insult of 2016
- When algorithms betray you
- Only good leadership can create good software
- A whole web site devoted to horror stories about Amazon.com
- Clever hacks whereby sites can see aspects of your browser history
- The problem with Terry Richardson
- The control mania of Scrum
- The daily Scrum meeting is a pointless ritual
- If you measure programmers by points then they will optimize for points
- Problems with the Scrum process
- The viewpoint of police in Germany
- The popularity of artificial languages in the 1800s
- Confusing French
- What causes burnout?
- You don't have plenty of time
- Conversations which have not changed in 50 years
- Even for successful writers, the traditional publishing industry is brutal
- The JustWorks job interview
- Prison should not be a government's profit center
- The IMF admits it has favored austerity at the wrong time and the wrong place
- The importance of the blogosphere for economics
- Is Docker ready for production?
- Kent Beck suggests winter could come to the tech industry
- Crime is rising in the outermost suburbs
- Flossing does not improve gum health
- A Swede lands in Silicon Valley and is disappointed
- Why do people join hate groups?
- Grief regarding the end of the old political system
- Why people hate Clinton
September 2016 ( View complete archive page )
- After 1970, people had to spend more on rent
- The rarity of a game that allows much expression of femslash
- An unusual election in the USA
- Online beauty gurus have become much more reliable than brands
- Why wouldn't people buy Hermione Granger and the Philosopher’s Stone?
- Andrew Montalenti: Ask a teacher, police officer, or firefighter if they are paid proportional to the value they add
- Inequality ruins romance
- Software as a metaphor for human behavior
- Rapidly Exploring Random Trees
- Women at the White House amplify what they each say, so as to avoid being ignored
- As a consolidation client for Kinesis, ZeroMQ is much better than Kafka
- I always learn what I need to know about a year too late
- Camille Fournier on ephemeral nodes in etcd
- Why would I ever want to use Docker?
- The universe as a Church encoding
- Unary Numeral System
- What sort of apps would we get if everyone could program?
- Video games as a supplement to other mental medications
- The promise of equity no longer aligns the interests of workers and startup founders
- It took me 10 years to write that 5 line app
- The economy is a collection of many distinct but interconnected practices
- Post-Real Theory
- Petty Revenge Stories
- Is this a story about women in journalism in the 1920s, or is this a story about burnout?
- For the last 10,000 years, the banking industry has relied on eventual consistency
- How not to transition from celebrity life to politics
- I keep really good company
- Americans are less enamored of the status quo
- Failing to expand cities will come at a cost
- I am confused why large firms acquire smaller firms
- When is consistency needed in a database?
- Why insult your customers?
- For the USA economy, 2015 was the best year since at least 1999
- The fraud at WellsFargo is historic
- Why did Salesforce use markup tags for VisualForce?
- Could crime prediction software force patterns of crime to continue as they have in the past?
- Are ebooks in decline?
- Rolling coal is sheer aggression
- When co-workers doubt complaints of sexual harrassment
- Women generally do more housework than men, but this pattern varies immensely in degree across countries and over time
- Political reactions to recent protests in Dallas
- When women's entrance to the workforce had the most effect
- Comparing data sets that are imbalanced
- Base 10 numbers need log(10) digits to be described
- Accessing any single element in an array takes constant time as only one operation has to be performed to locate it.
- Beware Big O Notation in higher level languages
- The gamification of Slack makes it addictive but also makes it a drain
- Some blunt advice on management
- Hausdorff space
- What Gawker did well
- What is continuous?
- The nostalgia for old games
- How Uber failed in Japan
- Content on the web doesn't pay, and giving up on comments will make everything worse
- Progressive values in science-fiction and fantasy
- Mena Trott did not understand the online world she was helping to build
- It's not even XML!
- Finding novelty via friends is a metric not yet captured by recommendation engines
- Detecting voting rings with HyperLogLog
- Manila Social Club
- Great browser software in 1996
- Social media is the highlight reel of other people's lives
- The oxytocin receptor gene comes in several variants
- The Big O cheat sheet
- Raj Bhakta is a pathetic loser
- Faraday's breakthrough came when he wrapped two insulated coils of wire around an iron ring
- The 1990s were a golden age for paper magazines
- Empathy overreaches when we can’t know and we can’t judge wrap themselves around each other so tightly that they become indistinguishable
- A virus that breaks itself up into 5 pieces before it spreads
- A galaxy of almost pure dark matter
- The political divisions in working class towns
- The end of the 58 year old political cycle
- More help for those who want to cheat school
- Technology's productivity shrinks the economy
- Normal_gaussian: The communication benefit group chats gave me was phenomenal
- Mitochondrial genes show a similar pattern of change in a vast array of creatures
- Failure is everywhere
- Will shows like "The Girlfriend Experience" ever explain the industry they cover?
- I stopped counting, she said, because it was too upsetting
October 2016 ( View complete archive page )
- AirBnB lacks the power to fight discrimination
- Stripe almost got burned by Bitcoin
- Voter fraud in Iowa
- I like echo chambers
- When we gather our identity from many sources we create a more diversified sense of esteem
- Being judged incapable of producing your own work BURNS
- Democracy is a colossal swindle
- It sets a trap like a spider building a web, or a witch casting a spell
- Soylent is every stupid thing about the tech industry
- She had not asked such questions before
- We need perspectives on the startup scene
- Why are Americans so good at sports and so bad at math?
- Software doesn't need options
- Is it useful to have a college degree?
- Until 1896, not a single Election Day passed in the United States without someone getting killed at the polls
- When The Nas looked out his window and wrote what he saw
- Who talks about rigged elections?
- What if we spent out money building businesses, instead of subsidizing houses?
- This was the war witnessed by Thucydides
- In 2024 Michelle Obama will become our second female President
- The odd rhetoric for expressing outrage, in the Republican party
- The stagnation in the USA
- Chimamanda Adichie talks about Beyonce
- The corruption at WellsFargo
- Anti-Chinese sentiment in New York City in 2016
- California history foreshadows modern politics
- Ross Douthat describes post liberal thought
- Samuel Beckett looks miserable with success
- Distrust the other
- An elected House Of Lords would fix this
- A Nobel Prize for the describing the details of autophagy
- How process becomes bloated and bureaucratic over time
- There is no cure for depression
- Working hard: love of work or misguided hero complex?
November 2016 ( View complete archive page )
- A fictional Thanksgiving
- If Sanders had been the candidate
- Sima Qian: The remorse I felt at the prospect of leaving the achievement dearest my heart incomplete
- We could build a progressive movement that makes life better for everyone
- Clojure for XML
- How far can code be optimized
- Secrecy is contagious
- Devin Faraci Steps Down as Editor-in-Chief of Birth.Movies.Death
- Emily Witt talks about the non-conformist marriage
- How Paula Scher remains productive
- The bird with 4 sexes
- The Information Society and feminism
- Doping at the Olympics
- Facebook does not control what news people see
- An interview with Emily Witt
- Why didn't Lindsey Graham ever marry?
- How Chris Claremont and artist John Byrne fell apart
- Larry Summers has a new attitude about the phrase "political correctness"
- The hate machine
- Japan has little inflation because women can't get a raise
- NLP with Clojure and OpenNLP
- When the government is weak, people turn to the Mafia
- The consent of the governed
- Lady Parts reacts to the election
- Poland's tragic rejection of the West
- Your headscarf isn’t allowed anymore
- Lady Chatterley’s Lover as a weapon against censorship in the USA
- The astonishing rise of graphic novels
- Money from self published romance books
- The best interview technique: pay people $200 to attempt some task over the weekend
- The performance aspects of men announcing they voted for Clinton
- Angela Merkel reacts to the election
- Harry Reid reacts to the election
- Jean Paul Sartre, Troubled Sleep, Donald Trump
- Alex Pareene reacts to the election
- Kelly Stout writes about the election
- Rich Juzwiak on the election
- Kelly Faircloth reacts to the election
- Clover Hope reacts to the election
- Krugman reacts to the election
- Please finish this paragraph
- Boring and failed attempts to produce a story about something strange and new
- The sacrifices of dancers
- Why we need more queer stories
- The perfect Javascript file uploader?
- A set of interconnected ideas that have become commonplace in much of our discourse
- Criticizing sexism in Hollywood
- Hiding gender politics in games
- The death of the crow
- When corporations try to use copyright law to silence their critics
- What progressives should say to people who want to vote for Jill Stein and the Green party
- The New York Times reacts to sessesion
- In the Alogos, the algotrons have an identity function
- Failures at adulting
December 2016 ( View complete archive page )
- Jia Tolentino talks to Rebecca Traister
- Madeleine Davies is angry
- We have learned something crucial about how humans learn
- The decline of USA investment since 1964
- Gatekeeper moms
- Zakiya Acey: We need to be able to get what we need in a way that we can actually consume it
- The weakness of the technocrats
- The last romantic battle
- Rising expectations versus Trump
- The lunacy of the Artificial Intelligence fanatics
- Scientists on gender versus objectivity
- No improvement in women in economics since 1986
- Intelligence is a trade-off
- The insanity of utopian thinking about Artificial Intelligence
- Charles Dickens reports on poverty in 1856
- Adam Smith on the division of labor
- But as writer qua writer
- Management theory is increasingly obsolete
- Paul Krugman: American democracy is very much on the edge
- One family's struggle with unemployment
- Tracy Chou on discrimination in tech
- Tim Duy: I don’t absolve the policy community from their role in this disaster
- More researchers? Less researchers?
- The legacy of Obama
- President Lyndon Johnson on race relations
- What happens if linkrot takes away John Rogers?
- Clojure / Java app dying while using XSSF and Sax parsers to import Excel files
- Noah Smith offers 1930s Spain as an example for the USA today
- What does astrology teach us about President Trump?
- Trump supporters who rely on Obamacare
- The odd language of economists
- The saddest thing in the world is realizing that some people won't ever change
- Ugly engineering
- Beautiful engineering
- Gender wage gap in tech versus other professional fields
- Sneering at the white working class
- Shelley Powers on gender and tech, and also some of my reflections on how the blogosphere operated at its peak
- Kathryn Jezer-Morton shares the national disaster with her kids
- People born in 1940 did much better than people born in 1980
- Hacking online dating
- What is politics?
- Hacker News commenters ranting about gender
- The average age of workers
- Matrix multiplication example
- Beautiful poses for those with ugly politics
- The crazy process of trying to release a Salesforce app
- Sampling versus Provenance
- There are no facts?
- Engage with users?
- Listen to the Gentiles
- Simon Wren-Lewis is angry
- Did the Stoics want us to be happy?
- How much should a President personalize the management of the economy
January 2017 ( View complete archive page )
- Bibi Bourelly - "Sally"
- What will happen to the USA?
- Imagine two countries
- The kind of testimonial that a social media site should dream of
- NLP as a simple four-step formula: embed, encode, attend, predict
- Children are scientists
- Actually understanding the problem you face is better than vague statistics about the problem
- Tribal indentity in politics is stronger than people realize
- Birtherism from Melania
- Is this appropriate for a psychologist?
- A bias that never fades is best thought of as a religious conviction
- Jason Brennan has no respect for ignorant voters
- Paul Phillips denounces Scala
- One team that gave up on Scala
- The sun is much bigger than the planets
- Scala programmers do not trust Martin Odersky
- Who supports a policy can sometimes tell you whether you should support it
- The failure of hierarchy based on category
- Where does reality come from?
- The decline of Delicious and the rise of Pinboard
- Logicians hate randomness
- Stanislav Datskovskiy: Employers much prefer that workers be fungible, rather than maximally productive
- God, computers, and complexity theory
- Security at the White House
- Six days with a new President
- 1962 was not 1955
- Constance Wu goes after Casey Affleck
- Hollywood gives a lot of second chances to certain stars
- Movio.co decides to switch from Scala to Go, and they reference my essay
- Safeguards against Chinese imports were never used
- Olympia Snowe speaks about the Senate
- Modern programming depends on DSLs, and Lisp is the best as DSLs
- President Tyler has grand-children who are still alive
- The advantage of centralized government
- How to solve the problem of gerrymandering
- The zeta function
- Publish only mode as the cure for burnout
- The collision of modern dating and traditional Islam
- An anti-natalist quote from Schopenhauer
- Crazy times in Western democracies
- Gender confusion and abuse
- Conflict between mother and daughter
- The new political religion
- Why was stagnation so normal?
- The big pivot at Medium
- An aggressive, unpopular government
- This year's goal: move away from WordPress
- Different people have different strengths
- The nostalgia of the Star Wars saga
- Where is there misogyny on Hacker News?
- The injustice of the market
- Can event logs, as a software architecture, really work?
- The One Book religions
- Flashback to 2006: Stefan Esser quits the PHP security team
- Things I worry about
February 2017 ( View complete archive page )
- American politics has gotten really weird
- How do we teach self-driving cars to avoid hitting people on bicycles?
- What we lose when economists ignore people's lived experience
- The dictatorship of the myths of intelligence
- Allocating robots to knowledge work only demotes humans to having to do more of the menial work
- Twitter's lack of context keeps me away
- Uber is unfair to its workers
- It’s not self-care if someone else is doing your hair
- Bad Wikipedia pages: French Romance Novels
- Sports writing shifts to the Left?
- Women without kids
- Polycystic ovarian syndrome. Anyone know how to say that in German?
- It's never too late to become a computer programmer
- The drift of the Republican party
- Reasons to have beer with smart people
- Insane work schedules and coffee
- What is this woman thinking?
- Different NLP approaches
- Tony Arcieri's very good defense of Rails
- Dan Nainan's passive aggressive act
- The end of sexual ambiguity
- The world would be a better place if Nicholas Sparks had never been born
- Immigration in the USA
- Is Snap doomed?
- Top leaders who let their personal prospects bias their world outview
- The purity test
- The confidence, or overconfidence, of the rich
- Is Trump plotting a coup?
- How to message on Tinder
- Marginalized groups depend on comics
- Princess Deena Aljuhani Abdulaziz to head Vogue Arabia
- The strength of conservative grassroots
- Gayzing
- Gigster refuses to answer questions about its own contract
- Charles Erwin Wilson hated research?
- The end of reassuring stories
- India is run by criminals
- systemd is no longer interested in the grubby details of reality
- Syrian family deported
- End of the neoliberal consensus
March 2017 ( View complete archive page )
- A surprising NodeJS failure mode: deterministic code becomes probabilistic under load
- Svbtle was a final attempt to keep blogs alive
- Another blow to the indie Web: the Deck ad network closes down
- Skip Lists: A Probabilistic Alternative to Balanced Trees
- Novelty seeking multi agent systems
- Bushy join trees for snowstorm queries
- How to combine novelty search with fitness-based evolution
- Novelty search
- The rise of neo queerbaiting
- How long can sha-1 crypto survive?
- After 121 years of terrible journalism, the DailyMail is finding ways to be worse
- It's absolutely true because I read it in the Daily Mail
- What every object on a network needs
- Complexity emerges when a system has transitions that demand a different kind of math
- Use pseudo URIs for an id
- Did sleep paralysis start the Salem Witch Trials?
- Will we live in a society where everyone needs an advanced college degree?
- Do researchers have momentum?
- Kids make people hate each other
- The endless jargon wears me down
- Anti-human technology
- Is NewSQL the next big thing?
- Designing a neural net is really hard
- Facebook activated my dormant account and it won't let me deactivate it
- Training a neural net
- Transform real data into a tensor, that is, tensor flow
- What happens when there is no agreement on the sources of facts?
- Government says: Don’t Be Afraid to Racially Profile Your Friends, Neighbors and Coworkers
- Why does anyone bother?
- Maybe you should write fan fiction
- Telling your family that you've been laid off
- The age of religion never ended
- Life in the country
- MSNBC surges ahead of CNN, what does Keith Olbermann say now?
- What if we had computer bits that allowed more than two values?
- Authoritarianism: certain constellations of personality traits seem to travel together
- The quiet damage of gaming addiction
- An InputStream requires more memory as it has to buffer the whole file
- Computer programming is now treated as a career for the young
- Compare and despair
- Dealing with long-term illness
- How to discover one's voice as a writer
- Nobody ever gets everything they want
- Downvoted on Hacker News
- Creativity does not pay
- Business is dying out in the USA
- Having black children
- Google's Featured Snippets are often drawn from fringe sites peddling crazy ideas
- Truman was racist
- The economy has been a disaster since 1973
- The economy still sucks
- Joe Armstrong: computer programming is the alteration of values in a key value database
- Health care is complicated
- Academic romance
- The distance is commonly very great between actual performances and speculative possibility
- The economics of intentional communities
- This is the first time I’ve been willing to admit that I need leadership help
- Has there ever been so great a gulf in USA politics?
- Can you imagine having 2 duplexes in New York and not throwing a party every night?
- We never escape loneliness
- Uber is not doomed
- More dirt about Uber
- The increasingly forgotten class war of the 40s and 50s
- How to get Nginx to wait for your app
- Madeleine Davies talks to Jessa Crispin
- Dangerous extensions to copyright
- Kellyanne Conway puts her feet on the couch while she's wearing shoes
April 2017 ( View complete archive page )
- Part of the Great Stagnation is simply a lack of power
- Social purity in 1903
- More NLP for Clojure
- TCP can fail in many, many ways
- English is not Latin
- Dick Costolo destroyed Twitter
- The crisis in retail will outlast the next few booms
- See something, say something, watch the authorities overreact
- Jennifer Jason Leigh talks about Quentin Tarantino
- Thinking about Concurrency, Raymond Hettinger, Python core developer
- Workers reduce accidents when they point at things
- Report a security problem to a bank and get threatened with the FBI
- How to destroy a tech startup in three easy steps
- Sowmya Shriraghavan on discrimination in tech
- Gender ideals in sports in Germany before the Nazis
- Anti-gay human rights abuse in Chechnya
- Jack London was his own lawyer and he won
- Python has greenlets
- English adventurers in the Black Sea just before the First Crusade
- Sweden is a nation of introverts
- Doc Searls: ad tech is destructive to brands
- When were women active in politics
- Katharine Jarmul describes the bias in Google's Word2Vec software
- The alt-right has always been part of the USA political scene
- The decline of the public intellectual
- Why are people ignoring the problems with NodeJS?
- Manhood in the age of Trump
- Britain in south east Africa in 550 AD
- Octopus can kill dolphins even after the dolphin has swallowed them
- The Vikings raided Africa and then took slaves back to Ireland
- Korzybski on linguistic relativism
- Donovan Data Systems and the modernization of the ad business
- Maybe naked mole rats are simply very good at fighting off cancer?
- Mojica was overcome, and found himself with tears in his eyes
- The alternative media on the right
- Clean decimals are limited to primes of your base
- Andy Grove does not understand why cancer research is so hard
- Have I been shadowbanned from Hacker News?
- Sometimes consultants are cheaper and better than full time hires
- Language is the only homeland
May 2017 ( View complete archive page )
- Cost cutting at British Airways caused the catastrophic failure of its database service
- Get out if you don’t like free speech!
- The Book Of Joan sounds good
- Cop jails black woman for passing him while driving
- Angry man wears a Make America Great Again hat
- British humor in the face of tragedy
- Trump never thinks to export cars to Germany
- Is Clojure dying?
- There is rhetoric in my writing
- Also possibly interesting: the accumulation of so much potential and the absolute crushing of it
- A heartless book?
- Writing as the answer to life's problems
- The frailty of modern marriage
- Truckers have seen there wages shrink and automation can not be blamed
- Humans used a paint shop in Ethiopia for 4,500 years
- Jupiter is complicated
- A need for safety keeps the poor near poverty
- If Harvard University has information to sell, why don't other countries build more Harvard Universities?
- How to respond to people who lose wages because of interruptions in their career
- What forces exist to promote mutual respect and tolerance?
- Talking with my right-wing friends
- The strong Grandmother Hypothesis
- Very unpleasant people who want a racial or religious war
- Kennedy barely knew his Inaugural Address
- The context that controls the reading of the Gettysburg Address
- The rising appeal of religiously motivated punishments
- The trolls are more common than ever on Hacker News
- Don't use PM2 with NodeJS
- Very long GC pauses when NodeJS is about to die from memory exhaustion
- Pro-tip: it's not a great idea to be incredibly sensitive about how someone asks a question
- There’s a word that unites culture and the economy: politics
- Bad ideas end with a sudden cascade
June 2017 ( View complete archive page )
- Far right extremists show a surprising degree of international cooperation
- Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence have limits that few have yet appreciated
- The unwillingness to acknowledge the end of "learn a new skill" as a path to growth
- The politics of Bruce Springsteen
- Defending people whom you dislike
- Grace is the face of death
- Open Source is poorly funded
- What we think of as pirates is a reality that last maybe 20 years
- Letting women speak
- When a leader says "I hope you can do this"
- Punishments for Labour MPs who keep supporting the Remain cause
- The changing demographics of the USA
- Thought leaders are stupid
- The frailty of the British Conservative government
- The destructive nostalgia for a world without red tape
- Another dead Nobel Peace Prize winner
- The curse of too many dimensions
- Morphism is the starting point of category theory
- Police kill 17 year old when they try to shoot a dog
- Can the leadership simply order a group to be entrepreneurs, and then expect good results?
- WalMart bought Jet and then immediately went to war against the culture of Jet
- Mistakes are the currency of success
- What does it mean to have a President who engages in such open gender based stereotyping?
- All the weird characters in Clojure explained
- Marissa Mayer fails upwards, and wants her friends to fail upwards
- The difference between societies that collapse under the weight of stupid citizens versus those who transcend them are the makeup of the non-stupid
- The Atlas of Lie Groups
- In the USA, women in their 30s are having more kids than women in their 20s
- The sheer phoniness of Prime Minister May
- How does Facebook undermine the open web?
- The odd politics and self-inflicted injuries of Labour
- Australia is complacent
- The new kind of society writing is done by oneself, about oneself
- A suicide letter posted to Github
- There is no tax bill in Congress
July 2017 ( View complete archive page )
- NodeJS remains single threaded
- The ReThink post-mortem is among the best post-mortems ever
- No one should ever use NodeJS, part MMCVXII
- Do people love DigitalOne servers?
- When Nginx becomes the bottleneck
- Trying to explicitly enumerate everything that is true is hopeless
- More chaos in the world of Bitcoin
- An absolute regression for women in the public eye
- Venture Capitalist resigns after confessing to be creep and being accused of assault
- A joke versus physical assault
- Woman very hurt by her son's tattoo
- Word2Vec Evaluating Embeddings: Analogical Reasoning
- China is investing in the USA
- Meritocracy hasn't helped Britain
- Is a declining birth rate a bad thing?
- An honest novel about the fantasy life of a shy introvert
- Kara Brown is leaving Jezebel
- A novice can not be blamed for serious mistakes in your companies technology
- A simple intro to tokenizing with OpenNLP in Clojure
- Women in tech in the early days of tech
- President Trump is having a negative effect on children
- Neural Networks beat Support Vector Machine beat Random Forests
- The struggle to find meaning in words, via word counts in matrixes
- The problems with DynamoDB
- Tracy Chapman's website does not work for me in Google Chrome
- We ate at Khe Yo and we loved it
- The backlash against gay rights
August 2017 ( View complete archive page )
- An incredibly sad day
- Supervisord has spent 5 years discussing whether or not it should support a timing mechanism?
- Extremely engaged readers will make or break careers
- Parsely says no to $40 million, yes to $6 million, why not just get a bank loan?
- Another reason I like working at small startups
- The simplicity of Japanese grammar
- Modern dating problems
- How to find the worst people in your company
- Creativity, Psychopathology, and Emotion Processing: A Liberal Response Bias for Remembering Negative Information is Associated with Higher Creativity
- How to greet people? Handshakes versus hugs versus kisses
- USA feminists who went to the Soviet Union
- A pure GUI for IP/TCP, a technology with a single mandate, with no burden of also offering semantics or structure or hierarchy
- The end of the era of free-market rhetoric
- The initial act of founding a company is an expression of nonconformity
- First desire as a betrayal
- Peer review is strong
- PACZKI or PĄCZKI?
- StackOverflow retreats from its over-ambitious Documentation project
- Cultural differences between Clojure and NodeJS
September 2017 ( View complete archive page )
- Current math notation is the enemy of civilization
- France and Italy imitate the wrong things about Germany
- In contemporary romances, there’s still world building
- Google is demonetizing YouTube sites
- Shopkeepers normally refuse to say what she bought
- Games that can never be played
- Helping kids from poor neighborhoods understand the world of tech
- Thoughts about worker democracy
- In the third season of Gossip Girl, Chuck sells Blair to his uncle in exchange for ownership of a hotel
- Monopoly power in Germany in the 1500s
- Sexual selection and novelty
- Obviously pesticides are bad for the environment
- The illness warping politics in the English speaking countries
- The USA government is struggling to figure out how to regulate Facebook
- Where should a spec be defined relative to a function
- Is there over-investment in media simply because entrepreneurs lack knowledge of more interesting fields?
- How to use Zach Tellman's Clojure library Manifold
- 29 October 1613: the invention of white people
- Pixable, the life and death of a New York startup
- The true history of Eastern Europe does not get told
- Human misery in adulthood
- Companies have replaced individuals in the area of design
- Google bias about reporting bias
- Artificial Intelligence at the NYU incubator at Varick Street
- Niche facts that Google can't find
- Why can't modern tools match Smalltalk?
- If a programmer confuses the average for the 1% they deserve to be fired
- Escaping the cool girl stereotype
- The unrealism of shows about the media
- I was surprised at how slow much of Game Of Thrones is
- Not fair to the wife?
- The limitations of decision trees
- Passport control when a child's last name is different from a parent
- Gini Impurity is quick to measure and easy to adapt to
- The limit on open offices
- Danielle Morrill's fascinating growth of Mattermark
- Logs are the future of software
- FontForge was an evolution
- Peter Williams on Humane Interfaces
- I wish there was a company that allowed me to watch all the movies that I want to watch
- The failure of the X Window system paved the road for the rise of the Web
- The rich get richer
- The loneliness of advanced skills
- Blue or Not Blue decision trees
- If NodeJS is so great, why are the problems so common?
October 2017 ( View complete archive page )
- Matthew Vagnoni suggests the blockchain can resolve the issue of patient consent
- Amazon versus Apple: the complicated politics of ebooks
- Twitter struggles to find a consistent policy towards abusive posts
- Kelly Faircloth on the importance of romance
- Nicole Krauss on the struggle for authority for women
- XLSX2CSV in Java or Clojure
- Friendly, intelligent flash cards?
- Adam Johnson doesn't get statistics
- A developer asks for help, then gets angry at those who help them
- The fascist gays
- Fine tuning gradients and Random Forests
- The importance of text knowledge versus movie knowledge
- Why would anyone choose Docker over fat binaries?
- The Walking Dead only worked as a metaphor for the Great Recession
- You can set environment variables from the Supervisord config
- The revival of dead fantasy subcultures
- Does Bernie Sanders hate women?
- Infinite scroll is a terrible idea 99% of the time
- A tide of ideas had started a new cycle, flowing from academia to an industrial laboratory and back to academia
- We are all a bit slow to realize when we need therapy
- Brain chemistry is craziness
- Scathing review of the NYT review of romance
- How to create a new drink
- The resulting passive-aggression kills productivity faster than any methodology or technology decision
- What are the benefits of the fictions that guide software development?
- Fictions regarding software development
- NLP challenges: word ordering reverses meaning
- Mitchell Sunderland has been fired from Vice
- AWS does not protect you from devops
November 2017 ( View complete archive page )
- The many ways to undermine a previously healthy online community
- The overlap of anti-intellectualism and anti-credentialism
- That’s supposed to be an umlaut in the title
- Why we argue
- VisualBasic could have saved Microsoft Excel
- The sad slow dying of IBM
- At what point do accusations of sexual harassment become a witch hunt?
- Arianna Huffington allowed sexism to thrive at HuffingtonPost
- Has the Walking Dead always been a terrible show?
- Can the German focus on human dignity reign in Facebook?
- Twentysomethings say "I hate networking"
- Megan Fox's ordeal in Hollywood
- Voltaire was the first in the West to see Buddha as a historic figure
- A young woman lies about her gender and age so she can write about sports
- Things that mean a lot to me but I will never mention
- All governments are theocracies?
- If you’re going to have a life or a steady income, you know, you need to get out of here
- Manorialism gave us nuclear families and a push towards modern civic engagement
- The real meaning of disrespectful jokes about one's spouse
- Writers who make money from misogyny
- Denormalization to diverse apps is the correct path forward for media companies
December 2017 ( View complete archive page )
- Rules for company failure
- The New York University startup incubator at Varick Street is awesome
- How to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs
- How To Destroy A Tech Startup In Three Easy Steps (the intro)
- Richard Feynman believed in failing fast
- Why be political?
- Are things getting worse for women?
- The rising divorce rate in rural areas
- Discretion still matters -- don't ruin your career by sharing too much
- The only appropriate death tax is 100%
- Rick Webb: an apology for Utopian idealism regarding the Internet
- Anna North: sexual harassment is not sex, it is abuse of power at work
- The problem with dating apps
- The Baby Boomers are uniquely awful
- Jakub Holý on the awesome productivity of Clojurescript
- Men have been leaving the labor force for 100 years, never got past agriculture
- Do men become warlike if they do not have women?
- Jakub Holý: how to build a shopping cart
- Jakub Holý: don't add unnecessary checks to your code
- What is the P/E ratio of Bitcoin?
- This was the one and only time in the last 300 million years that the wood-rotting ability evolved
- Don't assume that your business idea will be easy
- 12 year old girl attempted murder, gets 25 year sentence
- Retail is suffering because the middle classes have lost $1,355 trillion in income since 1970
- One-on-one meetings are underrated, whereas group meetings waste time
- All our generation wants is a small apartment and a spouse that loves them back
- Commercially viable daydreams versus distracting fantasy
- The casting couch in Hollywood, as depicted by Hollywood
- Buy this book for just $1,400 and the shipping is free for students!
- People really love Tumblr
- The surprising lack of anger regarding gender relations
- Children playing with Barbie
- How to sell Clojure
- Caryn Vainio: my friend died, but I didn't know, because algorithms
- The penalty of saying something controversial on HackerNews
- What makes the Sims franchise so go
- Business productivity has been undermined by the hubris and power-grabbing of elite computer programmers
- When a job interview goes bad
- Globalization was oversold
- White women voted for Roy Moore
- The Krubner Law Of Ugly Code
- An invitation to play
- To what extent is "DLL Hell" a failure of interface contracts to work adequately in practice?
- Camille Fournier (Rent the Runway) - Consensus Systems for the Skeptical Architect
- Sam Newman's book Building Microservices
- My idea for a startup that standardizes the import of data through ML and NLP scripts
- Why I prefer dynamic-typing over static-typing: the speed of adapting to change
- Watching the AI bots on a game fight each other is like testing a data analysis model
- How do you wake up in the morning when you've got a project running late?
- Brad Delong: For some 400 years the Anglo-Saxon governance model offered liberty and prosperity, but no longer
- 50 percent of women who experience harassment leave their jobs within two years of experiencing that harassment
- What readers should feel when they read fiction
- Some photos of my trip to Lisbon
- Would there be an assumption of a global optimum if women had invented economics?
- Why is LinkedIn so broken that it can't do normal error messages?
- Some photos from the Web Summit
- How do white blood macrophages eat? Does it affect their ability to protect us?
- Among farmers, the suicide rate continues to go up
- Some surprising facts about the economic collapse in Oklahoma
- I was in Las Vegas and it was dead: some photos
- Police officer feels they are being accused of something when privilege is mentioned
- I know more than 12,000 people. So do you.
- We are suddenly told that Matt Lauers is an abusive psychopath
- Trump eats bad food
- Use viruses to treat bacterial infections
- The decline of the birth rate
- The way the genders misunderstand one another
January 2018 ( View complete archive page )
- Group meetings waste time -- my interview with Christian McCarrick
- The formal versus informal question -- how I answer email
- Some women waited their whole lives for the Wonder Woman movie
- Sarah Kessler attacks Steve Yegge over so-called privilege
- How software gets written
- Am I completely insane?
- The continued adaptation, modification and correction of errors in them, is essentially dependent on a certain kind of knowledge possessed by a group of programmers
- Who is responsible for increasing diversity in tech?
- Chris Zheng is angry at the Clojure community
- Sometimes The Onion is exactly correct, part XXXVII, Honey Boo Boo
- The continuing power of tradition, as it effects gender
- What is up with Narrative.io?
- A child struck by a car
- Psychological benefits of worker democracy
- Why do social media designers think we want to see posts out of chronological order?
- The best argument for mandatory education
- The current changes to the Labour Party are likely to be long lasting
- A few random thoughts about how a country gets to a constitutional crisis
- The influence of the MeToo movement
- Yegor Bugayenko: what motivates me as a programmer
- Yegor Bugayenko: 5 things to improve Java
- How should your company handle data safety and version control?
- The problem with HTML
- Why are women being pushed away from the tech industry?
- The importance of bridges
- Why is the USA press so relentless on the issue of Israel?
- God should have made girls lethal when he made monsters of men
- The total number of fatal knife stabbings in London in 2017 rises to 80
- Cosmetics as self care
- A Tory has no friends, and brags about it
- The company’s male administrators deleted her most virulent speech from the first production
- What I admire about the Daily Mail
- The case to end the British monarchy
- A reminder of the horrible abuse that was allowed at Catholic schools
- How you should talk about your team
- Education teaches us to argue better
- Why didn't Hypatia have a husband?
February 2018 ( View complete archive page )
- Is there a new openness regarding the use of racist language?
- What can people hope for from romance?
- If we give powerful people everything they want, maybe they will be nice to the rest of us?
- The notion that posting a policeman at a school makes the school safe has been proven wrong
- If favorable news coverage is bribery, what should we think of Fox News?
- It is time for companies to close down their websites
- The smart way for Russia to help Trump: manipulate votes to elect Democrats
- A quote about Nature that sounds smart but is wrong
- Alex Tabarrok hates children
- How to raise children the German way
- Eroding political norms is a good thing if the old norms violated fundamental rights
- The very sad decline of Barnes and Noble
- When companies make a fetish of being data driven they reward a passive aggressive style
- The paradox of freedom: Germans have more freedom driving because the government insists on more training
- France has no age-of-consent laws
- Why doesn't President Trump push for a huge infrastructure bill?
- Containers like Docker will not fix the sick politics of your company
- Wasting 5 million dollars
- Neandertals made the first specialized bone tools in Europe
- Great creative partnerships are rare, and it is such a shock that people throw them away
- Born free, but still needing to be freed by courts in 1655
- When things go wrong on a software project
- Adam Smith summarized: everyone sucks
- A very long debate about when to use a library and when to write your own code
- Chatbots are dead?
- How to chase down a bug
March 2018 ( View complete archive page )
- Science is dying and it drags down those who make their careers with it
- Teen Bo$$
- I just lost a week of my life dealing with one bug in a Cordova/Ionic mobile app
- The Wing is a private club for women
- Apple takes two weeks to update a forgotten password?
- Even a basic iOS app generates a huge number of errors in Xcode
- Peer review is new
- Rapid hiring for a tech team is a warning sign
- CSS is terrible because it is global state
- Online education in the 1960s
- The video: NYU Varick Street incubator
- Fail at everything and get promoted
- Tribalism in USA politics
- Thoughts about school
- Responsibility for diversity in tech?
- NYU startup incubators: 3,200 jobs and $4 billion for New York
- The lack of volume in a high-dimensional cube
- How long can two people share a life before they are dating?
- In Apache you can setup a reverse proxy with either RewriteRule or ProxyPass
- Very early digital development
- The quiet censorship of PR firms managing interviews
- Why do entrepreneurs engage in self-sabotage?
- Remembering where politics was in early 2018
- Mistakes that lead to Brexit
April 2018 ( View complete archive page )
- Absentee leadership is the most common form of bad leadership
- Soliders who criticize children
- Age and entrepreneurship
- Confluence is very difficult to set up
- Aunt Coulter
- You're so irrational
- Six out of 10 Republicans are now whites without a college degree
- My father did not die peacefully in his sleep
- Generous narcissism
- The new revolution of gender
- Technology starts off promising freedom and later is used by dictators
- The reaction against Facebook
- The endless lies of depression
- The end of old-fashioned useful banking
- The corruption of Italy
- She was everywhere, then she was nowhere
- The epidemic of loneliness
- Poland was shockingly liberal during the 1400s
- Japanese humor in advertisements
- Excessive abstraction in PHP frameworks
- Our species evolved in Asia, not Africa
- Do the staff at Jezebel manually manage the trolls in the comments?
- The FBI raided the office of Trump's lawyer
- Can there be a history of slaves?
- PHP code for Apple Push Notification Service
- A pem tool to generate the pem file for Apple Push Notification Service
- Cuttlefish sex ratio
- Why don't any articles about Apple Push Notifications agree about what commands to use?
- Fire gave rise to babies
- Apple Push Notifications converting p12 to pem files
- The difficulties of starting a career in tech
May 2018 ( View complete archive page )
- Identity in the Alogos
- SELinux provides tools to more finely control the activities allowed to users, processes, and daemons
- Shelley Powers comments regarding Joy Reid
- The importance of blogs
- Does economics matter?
- Leimgruber reviews my book
- The failure of the ÜberSeeles
- The long-term decline of real interest rates
- Markov Decision Process versus Reinforcement Learning
- Sean Hull offers a great tutorial regarding Terraform and Amazon’s Elastic Container Service
- Impressive things about Terraform
- mountebank is the first open source tool to provide cross-platform, multi-protocol test doubles over the wire
- Docker is the dangerous gamble which we will regret
- Docker protects a programming paradigm that we should get rid of
- The Coral Reef Pattern of incremental improvement
- How much pain does it take before Kubernetes is not worth it?
- How to change complex network systems once you've made important decisions?
- Why programmers are biased to the stuff they already know
- Systems of process orchestration
- What are Linux cgroups
- After 1968 France and the USA went in different directions
- LinkedIn is so broken
- Dark Web Intellectuals
- Epigenetics was suggested decades before it was accepted
- So many things can go wrong with Docker
- Is there anyone who can keep up with everything AWS offers?
- We all die
June 2018 ( View complete archive page )
- Maybe there was no Neolithic Revolution? Maybe agriculture goes back 45,000 years?
- Web trolls take over Ukip?
- These are the kinds of practical arrangements working women make the world over – the novelty here is that it is a prime minister who is making them
- President Trump is very popular
- The guns keep blazing
- How does the tyrant rule? In a word, badly.
- The great mystery of bureaucracies
- My recipe for pasta with scallops and shrimp
- Everyone was amazing and you're awesome
- Everyone knew that slavery was evil
- Mobile operators appear to have increasingly turned to new techniques for tracking users -- HTTP header enrichment
- If a struggling company gets kicked off the Dow, then is the Dow meaningful?
- We must sin if we wish to grow
- Wealthy and bitter about divorce?
- Changing one's name after marriage
- Increasing work from 1650 to 1850
- Labor force participation remains at the same level as during the 1970s
- Deep Learning Needs Clojure - Carin Meier
- Jenkins pipelines must be built so they can run across multiple executors, even if you only run Jenkins with one executor
- How to Finally Beat Procrastination
- Now she misses the idiot from Texas
- Caitlin Moran embarrasses her daughters
- The most successful entrepreneurs start in their 40s
- Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs changed his views
- Joy Reid and why we need multiple Web archives
- Linkrot and Joy Reid
- Burnout is universal but the right kind of sleep, food, and exercise can help
- More bad behavior in the gaming world
July 2018 ( View complete archive page )
- The mistake of treating a culture as a static thing
- How did writing begin?
- College students have given up on the humanities
- Ghostery has killed my use of Google Chrome
- How to get perfect eyebrows
- How to make the economy grow faster
- Social media witch burning
- Why do women drop out of co-ed sports?
- Terrible wage growth for writers
- Terrible wage growth for computer programmers
- The cost of Test Driven Development
- Sports are the original reality TV
- How is an operability review different from monitoring?
- Overview of the TICK stack
- The "index" is where Riemann keeps all of its information
- What does 'cider-jack-in' do
- Edward Tufte should be furious
- Details on AWS private/public subnets
- Friends and enemies agree, Emily Weiss is a good storyteller
- Why not do a blog that is just cosmetics review?
- Use Packer to build AMIs that use ZFS for the file system
- Things that allow you to recover from having a bad tech team
- Yeats updated for 2018
- Elasticsearch Backup : Snapshot and Restore on AWS S3
- Nasty moments in Open Source development
- How to stop Brett Kavanaugh: threaten to expand the Supreme Court to 11 members
- You back up, you back up, you back up, eventually you’re against a wall
- A meta technology hype roadmap
- Why do so many salespeople forget the names of their customers?
August 2018 ( View complete archive page )
- Debugging a problem with an app running under Supervisord
- What's wrong with Hacker News
- How fasting helps the immune system
- Can a YouTube influencer keep their income if they apologize very well?
- If you think the economy is normal...
- Has the Internet destroyed our ability to read?
- LiveJournal and SomethingAwful helped shape the toxic culture of today's Internet
- Experienced technical leaders greatly reduce the risk your project otherwise faces
- How to pay your hires
- How to deal with a psychopath
- Why does anyone use Python?
- The best thing about Real Housewives is it shows older women doing stuff
September 2018 ( View complete archive page )
- Incel is a sickness like anorexia and bulimia, you can not cure it by feeding it
- The role of elite schools in maintaining elite power from one generation to the next
- The difference between women's tennis and men's tennis, and how it effects Serena Williams
- The stupidity of German policy toward Greece
- The distracting temptations of beautiful strongly-typed languages
October 2018 ( View complete archive page )
- Cognitive decline in ones 20s from the stress of running a startup?
- Depression can strike anyone, even the strong, even the healthy, even the young
- Trump praises a politician who beat up a journalist
- The beautiful work you will never see because it won't ever exist
- An authoritarian party that is waiting to take power
- Susan Kare invented the modern world
- Trevor Noah does not know how to handle Anna Kendrick being on someone's list
- Account suspended without any cause given?
- Sustainable large debts in Japan
- Lock her up?
- The old German middle class feels itself losing out to the hipsters
- The police in East Germany still don't know what their job is in a liberal state
- Teaching immigrants about sex in Germany
- Consider a birdcage
November 2018 ( View complete archive page )
- The people for Brexit are children who failed to grow up
- Shame is the opposite of art
- John Kenneth Galbraith set the tone for the next 60 years
- Hero stories about entrepreneurs are never true
- Jenna Marbles follows after a Bob Ross painting tutorial
- What would it look like if the economy was running hot?
- LGBQ loneliness
- Hillary Clinton keeps making the same mistakes
- Social media fights of the 1600s
- It’s crazy how far people will go to protect the status quo
- To start with, transient query surges are no longer a problem?
- Tim Bray, now at Amazon, is working on a universal language of software states
- Girls mature faster?
- Circumventing the issue of mixing Futures and Actors required extra head scratching time
- Is Scala necessary?
- The USA is falling behind other Western nations when it comes to women working
- Fast story telling: non-boring or plothole?
- What can we expect from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?
- Why did Basecamp crash?
- Sometimes I want information, not sexy photos
- Fired Up, the movie
- Another look at Lost In Translation
- Simon Wren Lewis: I began writing my blog mainlymacro because of my anger at austerity
- He also criticizes the use of execution to punish theft, saying thieves might as well murder whom they rob, to remove witnesses, if the punishment is going to be the same
- Sylvia Plath's tragedy
- Computers continue to degrade productivity instead of improving productivity
- Who paid for the Glorious Revolution?
- Jakub Holý: what I learned when I was fired
- danah boyd comments on the methods of modern media manipulators
- Even when Larry Summers claims to have an epiphany, he's just reconfirming what he already believed
- SmugMug understands why Flickr is important
- The contradictions between wellness and corporate profits
- CIA hacked because too many people were using an informal channel
- A story about forced marriage, of young women who grew up in the USA
- Guy rejected by girl, acts pathetic
- Don't say sorry
- Queer is the new gay
- When your little brother is alt-right
- Changing norms in USA political debates
- Zed Shaw is angry (abstraction and indirection)
- Unicode Egyptian Hieroglyphs are sometimes censored?
December 2018 ( View complete archive page )
- Everyone has a gender identity now
- The rom-coms lie
- Motivations of Trump
- Please do not simplify this code
- The Democrats should offer Trump a full pardon
- Text don't tweet
- The first task of the writer is to establish trust
- She or they?
- The end of the celebrity app?
- If you're not the customer, then you are the product
- A planet/exo-planet was discovered that is almost 5% of the way to Alpha Centauri
- The original Macintosh manual only had photos of white males
- But we’ve long since reached the point where coordinating our design vision by osmosis is not working well
- Yair Lapid: What does it say about us that Israel has become the only democracy in the world in which Jews don’t have freedom of religion?
- Cryptocurrencies are not money
- Why are there less and less articles about technology on Hacker News?
- Why are beds so poorly designed for sex?
- Will the tech industry ever have AI that can recognize porn?
- Why does Clojure continue to draw so much creativity?
- Netflix is difficult to reach
January 2019 ( View complete archive page )
- Why are young people interested in computer science?
- Actor autonomy when disagreeing with showrunner
- Why Tumblr survives
- Should children ever be considered transexual?
- Peter-Paul Koch asked for a moratorium on new Web features in 2015
- Hopepunk is Camus
- When will the era of CyberPunk end?
- To protect children, don't send report cards home on a Friday
- It will consume it
- Are hospitals allowed to sell my phone number to advertisers?
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb accidentally argues against 4 year school degrees
- What queers these heteros be
- Argument about attraction and sexuality and trans
- The opposite of grimdark is hopepunk
February 2019 ( View complete archive page )
- Gendered on-ramps are important to get women into software development
- What is the difference between talent and cultural similarity, especially in human relationship jobs?
- In Clojure, it is easy to extend the Function protocol
- She says, nobody had to teach me how to be kind
- Are you near New York City?
- Online conversations are undermined by anonymous communication
- The new Conservatism includes tax subsidies for big corporations
- When to use Tumblr instead of Twitter?
- Any comparison of a standard of living over time is blurry
- Women as the original software developers
- Ego driven software development is not good software development
- Don't waste your life on Twitter
- Seeing Romeo and Juliet for the very first time
- Always invest in real estate
- USA schools are child jails
- What should you do when your machine learning algorithm is broken?
March 2019 ( View complete archive page )
- For the generation born in the 1960s, the American dream has undeniably vanished
- It’s astonishing that a Democratic backbencher could get this much attention and get so famous at the beginning of her first term
- Groups is the thing that all social networks need
- No p-value can reveal the plausibility, presence, truth, or importance of an association or effect
- A new "fandom is broken" article and the ensuing avalanche of responses is only the latest iteration of a familiar cycle
- South Korea has gone crazy because 552 refugees
- Does reality exist?
- The ongoing Young Adult wars are about power—about who has traditionally wielded power in publishing, and how that balance is shifting
- Creating Personas for User Experience Research -- these need to be very specific
- These people are bent out of shape by their hidden selves
- Parents unthinking use of social media
- Almost readable Greek
- When will Apple get its act together regarding iPhone development?
- Misogynist morons misogynize Captain Marvel
- What is the biggest open problem in NLP?
- biLSTMs will solve all of your NLP problems
- ELMO representations are deep, contextual and character based NLP
- Senator Martha McSally talks about her sexual assault in the military
- While describing their “unruly” intellectual style, Israeli scientists often employed an emotional “language of fire" in contrast with German cold cognition
- The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible
- What makes for a heartthrob?
- Strict churches are strong?
- Why are large companies so difficult to rescue (regarding bad internal technology)
- An overview of different approaches to NLP word embeddings
- Matrix math in Clojure
- The second shift that women work
- A safe space is exclusive
- The decline of the USA standard of living
- Do MBAs help business?
April 2019 ( View complete archive page )
- High heels
- She has some lovers along the way
- Why explain dialogue?
- Men gawking at the gym
- The rise of sincerity as a progressive answer to the alt-right
- When you accidentally put your database on a public subnet in AWS
- Anna Kucirkova: the history of computer programming languages
- The cult of complexity
- Serverless architecture uses servers, requires work, and is a stupid name
- The rising importance of fanfiction
- The irony of Tumblr banning porn
- Another fanfic doing well
- Women are tough
- There was this logo on a red bus, saying our money should remain in the UK -- that’s why I voted for Remain
- The recurring cycle of online communities now catches up to Facebook
- Brienne and Daenerys
- The difference between conspiracy theories and conspiracism is the first tries to explain an event, whereas the second simply invents events
- What if we kiss in your Paris apartment after I stab you in the stomach?
- The cat named Brexit
- Why can’t all books be like this, I started thinking midway through, just 280 pages of pure human relationship?
- Bad writing in Game of Thrones
- Curse words in Scientific American?
- Abuse on Wikipedia
- Abusive people know they are abusive
- Can anarchism be commodified?
- The sexualization of Brexit
- Stream remote file via Aleph to AWS S3?
- The big shift in USA politics
May 2019 ( View complete archive page )
- The collision of capital and idealism over a technology
- Drama inside a fandom
- Billions were wasted on Hadoop startups, and the same will eventually be true of Docker
- Is it bad to be a serial killer?
- Could client side Java make a comeback?
- Why are video game companies so awful?
- Moby did not apologize
- The winners of globalization will now fight it out in the political sphere
- Computer says automobile is stolen, innocent people arrested
- Single women are happier
- Anna Barnev, examples for the book cover, design by Leah McCloskey
- If a company is serious about security, then who in the company is serious about security?
- Whatever happened to This Chick Digs Chicks?
- YouTube is the ultimate reality TV
- Nicholas Sparks helps oversee a homophobic school
- No longer the best and the brightest
- Jeff Franklin accussed of misogyny and creating a toxic work environment
- Peaceful and safe
- What does it mean for a young person to become an adult in 2019?
- Why doesn't lasciviousness hurt Trump?
- The lust to blame on Tumblr
- they aren’t your fictional ships and they aren’t you representation quota
- Why is Meghan McCain famous?
- Trump is bad at golf
- Battle Of Winterfell
June 2019 ( View complete archive page )
- An ugly claim by Fram that he would not be misracing a black person by calling them the n-word, only being racist
- When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez met Greta Thunberg: 'Hope is contagious'
- Um, err, uh, I guess this isn't a terrible review?
- The accelerating decline of the USA
- Reasons to learn Arabic
- British politics was ruined by the democratic election of party leadership
- Blurred lines. Ambiguous commands. Awkward social engineering.
- How I recovered from Lyme Disease: I fasted for two weeks, no food, just water
- The rightward shift in left parties since the 1960s
- Ambiguity is the mood coming from California, especially Silicon Valley
- Technology is the new inescapable geography
- We should emphasize the obvious: Boris Johnson will be the worst Prime Minister in history
- British politics has gotten itself into an unusually bad spot
- Climate change has been under discussion for a century
- The Grace Hopper division of Fullstack Academy helps create some amazing programmers
- A real life problem with our Docker use that cost us 3 days of lost work
- I was completely wrong about the continuance of innovation in the tech sector
- An interview with Kelly O'Donnel, theater director
- How does your frontend know the id of a document if you're using an async architecture? Rely on UUIDs.
- Caches are cheap, build a lot of them for the frontend
- Life in San Francisco in 2019
- Why are software developers confused by Kafka and immutable logs?
- A mother regrets her career choices
- Will Machine Learning and AI improve advertising's ability to target people?
- In a bad situation, where do young people find advice?
- Is television harmful to us?
- Social norms and cell phones
- The new authoritarians: a blend of Orwell and Huxley, cruelty and entertainment
- Bringing up your own pain endlessly is emotionally fraught work
- Why are women still pleading for their humanity?
- The idealism that defined the early Silicon Valley is now dead
- Facebook versus Tumblr
- The end of the union of conservatives and libertarians
- USA journalism failed to describe the rise in violence in Central America
- Taking care of one's parents
- Queer advice that works for straights too
- Nils Meyer: there are advantages to containers, but fairly easy to get wrong
- Rainbow Rowell didn't set out to write YA
- Why not have more non-white female security guards?
- Socrates says that Trump is unhappy
- Pretty Much Screwed, by Jenna McCarthy
- I Take You, by Eliza Kennedy
- Blanche Krubner resigns from the Jackson Township Environmental Commission
July 2019 ( View complete archive page )
- Malmab, the Defense Ministry’s secretive security department, is destroying or hiding documents about the Nakba
- None of my neighbors watch porn
- The decline of the middle class during the 1960s and 1970s
- Many of my Stackoverflow questions have been marked as duplicates even though they were not
- The Trump administration is racist
- Inflation in the USA has been low, the increase in asset prices is not a form of inflation because you don't lose the money you spend
- The subjectivity of Margaret Mead's love life surely gave her objectivity when examining the foreign
- Many of the great prehistoric monuments were built at the same time, including in Greece
- Americans increasingly hate each other
- Some natural predator must have died out because the ticks in New Jersey are out of control
- Robert McNamara tracked every statistic he could, except the happiness of the Vietnamese people
- Your life will be enriched in countless ways if you host parties
- You can't nice your way out of getting trolled
- Predators typically cannot put into words what their real motivation is, as they do not know it
- Lisa Taddeo, sexual desire, three women
- Do you get Coldplay? Like, really get Coldplay?
- This woman murdered her husband, and she got away with it
- The great, unwritten poems that took a backseat to polished floors
- David Sifry failed
- Appreciating the wisdom of Clay Shirky's comments regarding the early Web and how it would end
- If you are going to talk to a group, you need to rehearse your speech many times
- When talking to a group, move them to some goal, nothing else matters
- People in business often use the word passion when anger would be better advice
- This miserable way is taken by sorry souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise
- Censorship in Iran
- Book review: His Majesty's Dragon
- There must be a universe where we made it work right
- Anaxagoras realized that the moon was a rock, not a God, and the public banished him
- Ethereum is dangerous and Pact offers a much better blockchain smart contract language
- You know you're getting older when...
- An unusually stupid political metaphor
- DNA tests prove his father was not his father, and his grandfather was not his grandfather
- The worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world
- The centrists versus the progressives
- This is what a confident woman looks like
- The prisons we chose to live inside are based on fantasies we promote even when they hurt us
- How does an author know when they are done with a series?
- Learn another language
- The worst project manager ever
- The right way to do Agile
- Moderation on Hacker News
- Neanderthals were smart, used glue to build good tools
- Watching Euphoria
- Kelly O'Donnel: flat, non-hierarchical organizations do not work
August 2019 ( View complete archive page )
- Straight pride event full of alt-right neo fascists
- Laws meant to protect children are now used against them
- Dominic Cummings is scum
- I finally saw a liar, a manipulator, and a coward
- Success is one of the most dangerous things that can happen to you early in your career
- Lisp is so powerful that problems which are technical issues in other programming languages are social issues in Lisp
- Fragile men are an epidemic
- Leaderless groups have a natural tendency to elect self-centered, overconfident and narcissistic individuals as leaders
- Bad behavior at Google
- Bret Stephens shows himself to be fragile to an extreme degree
- Don't waste $1 million on devops infrastructure that you'll never need
- Do we need AI? Can we use old technologies?
- The CEOs who sabotage their own companies, and keep their workers from being successful
- The most New Zealand story ever
- I wonder about Amazon's algorithm
- A bisexual does not change sexuality when they go from a man to a woman, or vice versa
- The goal of an oligarch is to rival the power of the state
- Why does Google always fail at social networks?
- The fall of Tumblr
- If you want to go dancing in New York City, consider Silvana
- Good government means expert have the power to put their expertise to use
- Woman looking at horizon, a new cliche for book covers?
- How Homakov hacked Github
- The struggle to moderate Hacker News
- Please don't touch the keyboard
- The classical HN analysis: axiomatically derived from premises that seem intuitively true but are empirically false
- Why does he want to throw his reputation away?
- Your shame will destroy this planet
September 2019 ( View complete archive page )
- My final post regarding the flaws of Docker / Kubernetes and their eco-system
- Microservices in the cloud demand testing in production and therefore maximizing observability
- Environmentalism can be a gateway to convert some to the far-right
- Adam Neumann of WeWork is a monster
- What the hell happened to Britain?
- Amazon Mechanical Turk workers demonstrated racial bias
- Every deploy, after all, is a unique and never-to-be-replicated combination of artifact, environment, infra, and time of day
- Hanna Thomas says Agile is feminist, but is the essay critical enough?
- New managers often experience a vacuum of purpose
- Software developers often fail when they try to become managers
- The subversive movements that fed modern agile business ideas
- The problems of stateful data in Kubernetes
- Making a snapshot of etcd to backup Kubernetes
- How much longer can the Fed use QE to keep the economy going?
- Fun is what I do to you
- Can anyone defend Pewdiepie at this point?
- Caroline Calloway as the unreliable business partner
- Roulhac Toledano and my mom
- Caroline Calloway understood marketing
- There is a lot of discrimination happening at Google
- Zack Beauchamp on this illiberal moment
- We all test in production
- Some relationships mean more to us than to them
- Lonely people everywhere
- Taylor Swift understands how to handle an angry public
- Why put this much energy into trying to save one member of a community?
- Any consensual activity allowed, even at a professional event?
- tangled_girl asks the best question
- What if the operating system was a database?
- Tumblr is literally a social experiment
- Friends with benefits
- Everything about British politics is amazing right now
- Are there really 100s of thousands of unfilled positions in tech or is that an urban legend
- A supportive community brings Clojure to the world
October 2019 ( View complete archive page )
- Über jars vs thin wars, pros and cons
- Wondrously, the archaeologists did not find indicators of wealth inequality, social stratification, or hierarchies in prehistoric Trypillian societies
- We found that driving true business impact is amazingly hard, plus it is difficult to isolate and understand the connection between efforts on modeling and the observed impact
- A society that had a complex governmental and economic system that executed monumental engineering projects but did not leave behind any other archaeological evidence
- A query can only have one outer join that produces more than one match
- From now on, everyone should obey the law
- The conventional wisdom among social media companies is that you can’t put too much of the onus on users to personalize their own feeds
- Over the years, Pinterest had to redesign its systems and retrain its algorithms to better identify and target different types of users
- Over 6,000 years ago, huge settlements featuring enigmatic mega-structures of obscure function arose between the Carpathian foothills and the Dnieper River
- Alt-right rhetoric: they now compare themselves to Galileo to Jesus Christ
- Foucault: In direct response to biopolitical attempts to control our sexual lives, struggles have been waged
- Relativistic particles are heavier, and this actually shrinks the atomic radius of the heavier elements
- Studying ancient slag, archaeologists were able to uncover a complex geopolitical situation in the year 10,000 BCE
- How does anyone murder 93 women and not get caught 92 times?
- Netflix shows are the great hope for Poland?
- Other members of the audience said they could help me change my sexuality if I was willing to try
- The huge level of state spending appears to have boosted rather than damaged Poland’s finances
- Every good Pole should know what the role of the church is … because beyond the church there is only nihilism
- Lordship Democracy
- Used his wife and sister as collateral
- The moon god Sin
- The Jewish Exile was real, but it wasn't in Babylon
- If elites are bad why doesn't Johnson complain about Russian oligarchs buying London real estate?
- The identity politics of Brexit
- Magazines are gone, editors struggle to continue to uphold the culture
- The low-level and constant harassment of assuming people want to talk to you
- 26 year olds no longer live with their spouse
- Paul Graham has become a disappointment
- The modern day reinvention of monarchy
- How the young Frida Lopez established her career as a fashion photographer
- 400 metres from the end of the eight-mile annual fitness test
- Odd place to work: Snap has bought up condos because it can not find enough office space
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- Fire more people, fire them sooner, don't wait, fire them as soon as you know
- Software development theories are collective fictions
- Algebra skeptics, climate skeptics
- How to give governments incentives to act for the long term rather than the short term
- Loneliness as a social illness
- An unstudied problem: query optimization for streaming data
- The Lisp Curse by Rudolf Winestock
- Are workers doing well this year?
- The ethics of being a high level tech consultant (a Fractional CTO)
- When A Quick Comment Is Worth $100 Million
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- Everyone will continue working right up to the next Hague tribunal
- Why Tumblr is great
- Why do some companies use a database that is not a relational RDBMS?
- What work can be done from home? What work needs to be done at an office?
- http://www.smashcompany.com/technology/13383
- Does Twitter make people more extreme?
- How aggressively does a manager need to manage an employee if another employee has a problem with them?
- Should a company hire fast and fire fast?
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- Clojure played a role in reviving Emacs
- Our model of cancer keeps evolving and the history of the model itself might be important
- The number of women working as software developers peaked in 1990
- Katerina Dimitratos: Hire remote talent (but I ask: what should the workers do?)
- Philip Cooper: why I love Clojure
- Jon Pither on bi-temporality
- My cat doesn't get me
- Ghadi Shayban: using a well-tuned hash strategy to get constant time look up
- Why do managers want workers to go back to the office?
- Why remote work makes it difficult to run a high performing team
- How to migrate Postgres schemas as your project evolves
- The Andy Lopata podcast, interview me about One-On-One Meetings Are Underrated
- Janet Carr: building Clojure apps for CI/CD
- Janet Carr: quadtrees for games
- Jack Lindamood: devops decisions I regret
- Sherry Ning: how to be happy
March 2024 ( View complete archive page )
- AI LLMs can accidentally stumble through a text-adventure game
- The word position embedding is the context window of GPT
- The orthogonal properties of each word are captured in multidimensional embeddings
- The tokenization process that feeds into ChatGPT
- Automate the setup of your infrastructure
- Shipping software often is the best predictor of your success
- Run less software: Keeping your system is simple is better than seeking some supposedly best tool for the task
- What is the hidden state in a recurrent neural network?
- You no longer need a Finite State Machine to track the whole history of an agents state
- What database should you use?
- Feature flags are better than branches for development and production
- How they sent photos over the telephone wires in the 1930s
- Most corporate websites are worse than ever
- Text adventures with ChatGPT
- Cybernetics and ghosts, by Italo Calvino, 1967
- Airline found liable for AI chat
- Contract testing scales better than end-to-end testing
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