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LOVE UNIX. fascinated by & interested in distributed systems & machine learning. programming lang design enthusiast. enjoy Haskell. cyber security dilettante.

San Francisco, CA
Joined March 2011
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Uber Marketplace: Using distributed locking to build reliable systems ubere.ng/2qhXprP
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Twitter is both a place where you can discover smart people and insightful ideas and a place to be bombarded with pointless nitpicking and endless outrage. It's like having coffee with the world's brightest thinkers while the most annoying person in your life sits one table over.
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Uber #OpenSource has released #H3, a hexagonal geospatial indexing system for geographic data: ubere.ng/2DpsXid @github
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In 1939, Nazi sympathizers held a big rally in Madison Square Garden. This is the rally.
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15 years ago today Tor was launched by MIT students for anonymous communications: bit.ly/2fg7dhb #cshistory
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70 years ago today Grace Hopper found the first actual computer “bug”: a moth stuck in the Harvard Mark II: read.bi/2vIwV56
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I don't know anything, but I do know that everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough.
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We meet again...
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To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of shit.
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Yesterday I added a second bool for a new state instead of properly refactoring it into a three value enum, and it bugged me all night.
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you: "what if we built custom streaming ETL with Spark, Kafka, and Terrraform?" me: what if you had 256 gigs of RAM and a for loop
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10 Things You’ll Find Shocking About Asynchronous Operations: 3. 2. 7. 4. 6. 1. 9. 10. 5. 8.
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eee i love this tiny example 'webserver' tweet from @emilyst xitter.cf/emilyst/status/7896075…
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Unexpected learnings from 2016: the average GOP leader is less principled than a bag of mass-market candy: xitter.cf/Walldo/status/78484019…
Please note that this is the second time a candy has distanced itself from the Trump campaign in three weeks
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Fundamental engineering asymmetry: you can be bad enough to fail but you can't be good enough to succeed
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Code as a first-year student: @Reddit #mondaymotivation
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There are twelve black dots at the intersections in this image. Your brain won’t let you see them all at once.
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EOUS (pronounced ewws ˈiːuː) - 'Excel Files of Unusual Size'. Usage: Core database of more Fortune 500 companies than you can imagine.
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The Programmers’ Credo: we do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they were going to be easy
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