“The history of infrastructure at Zendesk — constant tradeoffs” by Jason Smale medium.com/zendesk-engine…

Today I learned: `/usr` stands for “universal system resources” not “user” `/dev` stands for “device” not “development” Had no idea.

Gli incentivi per il rientro del capitale umano dall'estero non si toccano! Le modifiche del Governo uccidono una norma che stava funzionando bene, e creano un danno reputazionale per il Paese. Invece di incentivare i rientri e il radicamento/natalità, si cancellano questi temi

Etsy CTO Q&A: We Need Software Engineers, Not Developers thenewstack.io/etsy-cto-qa-ne…

Let the machines do the learning: Introducing Satisfaction Prediction. zdsk.co/1S25dSg #cx #custserv

Win a copy of Programming Elixir by Dave Thomas contest.dailydrip.com/giveaways/win-… via Firestorm

Things native English speakers know, but don't know we know:

“How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016” by @jjperezaguinaga hackernoon.com/how-it-feels-t…

Zendesk looks different now. See how we’ve shaped up. zdsk.co/2eLBdgp

The Phenomenology of Donald Trump and Mike Bongiorno historytoday.com/alexander-lee/… via History Today

I'm going to #StrataData in London to see what's new in #bigdata & #machinelearning See you there? oreil.ly/2hLfjhi

"Good specifications will always improve programmer productivity far better than any programming tool or technique." - Milt Bryce

2 unit tests. 0 integration tests.

"Do it right and you won't have to do it over". Yeah, until "right" changes. And it always changes.

Just found this gem : "Calculus Made Easy" (1910). Oh why didn't my high-school book start with ch. 1?! Full pdf: djm.cc/library/Calcul…

Learning Tensorflow #StrataData #london #deeplearning

Nice, but I have some bad news about using this to defend against the robots... x.com/IdoNaor1/statu…

We (Zendesk Copenhagen) are hiring a software engineer to join a team working on our search infrastructure. Ping me…lnkd.in/eNjWfiF

The art of Neapolitan 'Pizzaiuolo' just inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Congratulations, #Italy! #IntangibleHeritage #12COM ich.unesco.org/en/RL/00722

Technological Stockholm Syndrome: Becoming attached to a bad technology because you worked so hard to learn it.