La République des mythos

On nous dit que l'Hôpital est surchargé en Martinique et que ça justifie le confinement, mesure inefficace. Mais avec 29 personnes en réa et une tension à 115%, cela signifie qu'il y a 25 lits pour toute l'île, pour les 370 000 habitants et tous les touristes de l'été ! 25 lits !

Apple app store fees are a de facto global tax on the Internet. Epic is right.

So many articles and tutorials about Amazon Web Services services are focused on describing what one service specifically does instead of describing how it fits in the global ecosystem. This one article from Lars Kamp does the opposite and it's awesome: intermix.io/blog/redshift-… Thx a lot Lars!

Remote work is so weird. I just wrapped up an 8-year run at Instagram; one of the most impactful chapters of my life so far... by closing my laptop, walking into my kitchen and standing there by myself eating a banana because it was starting to brown.

New from the guys who banned Fortnite: settings-screen ads for their own music service, which come before the actual settings, and which aren’t available to other advertisers like Spotify or Sound Cloud. “It’s all about the customers!”

Le boson de Higgs fut détecté pour la première fois en 2012, 48 ans après la prédiction de son existence par une poignée de théoriciens. Il me fut demandé il y a trois ans de raconter son histoire, au tableau noir et avec une simple craie... youtu.be/KJQl--wHQSM via YouTube

After every outage the illusion is that during the postmortem analysis, we gain some insight on how to prevent new outages. This happens only in the most trivial cases; otherwise different incidents are very different, and the only true lesson is to lower the infra complexity.

A problem that is endemic to the whole developer community is the urge to "rewrite everything". It is the one of the most harmful practices in software engineering. Why? (thread)

StackOverflow handles 6,000 reqs/s for all the StackExchange sites. 99.999% of web apps will not handle even a fraction of that. Stop thinking you need to handle millions of reqs/s. You're not Amazon, Google, Facebook, or Twitter.

A clip from Don’t Look Up, and then a real TV interview that just happened

Amazing: If you read "green needle," that's what you'll hear; if you read "brainstorm," you'll hear that instead. Also works if you just hold each phrase in mind. 😮

The most important video of the year was filmed in 1983.

The AI community expresses sympathy to the crypto community

The rise and fall of Corba queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=…