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Things that Schools should teach: 🧠
• Being wrong is not a bad thing.
• It's Okay to question what you have been taught.
• Grades aren't as valuable as skills.
• Understanding is more important than memorization.
• Making mistakes is Okay. Learn from your mistakes.
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Schrödinger's Plates: They are both broken and not broken until you open the door.
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Hello Munich! I have moved here from Cambridge and will be starting a new position at @TU_Muenchen in October. Excited!
ALT The Neues Rathaus (new town hall) in Munich
ALT Some German Brezels and bread
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interviewer: if you can explain what deadlocks are, I’ll hire you
me: hire me, and I’ll explain deadlocks
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Did the term "sharding" for databases come from Ultima Online?
raphkoster.com/2009/01/08/da…
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Amazing: A gecko trapped in amber, almost perfectly preserved after 54 million years. cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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As they grow in size, teams within megacorps and startups tend to implicitly bias more towards Project Thinking and not enough Product Thinking.
Product Thinking is a mindset and a process that, once you see, you cannot unsee it.
Product Thinking, Project Thinking, a thread:
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Everyone sensible in IT has been saying for years that if you buy COTS (commercial off-the-shelf software packages) you shouldn’t customize it - it’s wildly expensive and you end up with something hard to maintain and almost impossible to upgrade.
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A list of curated lists for:
CTO & eng mgmt
github.com/kuchin/awesome-ct…
by @kuchin
h/t @chaddickerson
Staff eng
staffeng.com/guides/learning…
by @Lethain
Notable memos in tech
sriramk.com/memos.html
by @sriramk
Top 100 PM resources
sachinrekhi.com/top-resource…
by @sachinrekhi
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This is mind-blowingly clever work by @jartine. A single binary that runs natively on Windows/Linux/Mac/*BSD without any VM, implementing a web server that serves the content of a zip archive stored in the binary itself! 🤯🤯👏👏 justine.lol/redbean/index.ht…
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Concise writing is hard.
Because *tactics* aren't enough.
Concise writing requires a *mindset change*
The average writer's mindset:
How can I express everything I know about this topic?
The concise writer's mindset:
How can I reveal the most important thing about this topic?
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Wisdom begins when you discover the difference between 'That makes no sense' and 'I don't understand'.
~Mary Doria Russell
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why do people say "keep up the good work" i already did the good work and now i would like to stop
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I’ve started indexing arrays out of bounds. All I can tell you is, so far I seem to be OK.
I think it’s good. I’ve heard a lot of good stories. And if it’s not good, I’ll tell you right. I’m not going to get hurt by it. Arrays have been around for 40 years.
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After a decade since its launch, Rust adoption appears to be at a tipping point.
Rust seems to be becoming the language of choice for data planes at AWS. Systems like Dropbox's new sync engine being written in Rust (leveraging the type system to good effect).
Fun times!
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Innovation isn’t just about running experiments.
It’s about thinking like a scientist: develop hypotheses, test them systematically, pivot as relevant, and don’t let early feedback lure you toward incremental improvements over breakthroughs.
@emollick: hbr.org/2019/10/what-the-lea…
