You say "VP of Engineering", I hear, "hasn't coded in 5 years".

I am now aware of 4 major silicon valley companies building an internal distributed OLTP DBMS. Each story is almost the same: 1. They want a version of Spanner w/o TrueTime. 2. They evaluated CockroachDB + TiDB + @Comdb2 + @YugaByte + FoundationDB but decided to build their own

"Telling a programmer there's already a library to do X is like telling a songwriter there's already a song about love." - Pete Cordell

"Monads are far too complicated and academic. Meanwhile, here's a Spring AOP Proxy and some ThreadLocals"

Some days I believe that Erlang is the only language that has a good story on error handling, and everyone else is living in denial.

Amazing then that Erlang (a dynamically typed language) can give you better reliability than we have in most other systems. I like static typing but it obviously isn’t necessary for quality.

Recording of the big Rust Language futures stream is now up! We got through futures 0.1, executors, async I/O and tokio, futures 0.3, async/await, and Pin, and I think it should be approachable even for those with little async experience! youtube.com/watch?v=9_3krA…

What Einstein meant by ‘God does not play dice’. Last week’s most read Idea: ow.ly/3FvM50jOUnJ

pilfering memegen

Socrates, on why good coders get into management... - Plato, in Republic

YouTube will go down in history as a more important repository of knowledge than Wikipedia.

OH: “you can build anything in C” is true, like “you can count to any number”

"I bought my boss two copies of The Mythical Man Month so that he could read it twice as fast." - Randall Koutnik

Amazon's gonna try to be so efficient in the future, they're going to station delivery people outside your front door, holding random items from your Wishlist.

ecamacho Scott L. Fritchie To be honest we never claimed that Erlang implemented the actor model. 😀 We had never even heard of the actor model.

If you say "average" one more time I'm going to shoot you with 10000 blanks and one live round to prove to you that outliers are what really counts

Haven’t actually posted this yet, but I’m open to new opportunities! If you’re hiring remotely or in the north of Israel, ping me and let’s talk :-)

This joke is probably ancient but news to me: An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The first asks for a beer. The second asks for half a beer. The third, a quarter. Before the next one can order the barman pours two beers, looks over and says "know your limits."

3 years. 🗓️ 316 contributors. 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Endless type parameters and release candidates. 😂 ZIO 1.0 has finally arrived. 💪 Discover the joy and productivity of next-level concurrent programming in Scala. 🎉 ziverge.com/blog/zio-1.0/