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{ :hacker [clojure web hbase], :engineer [data platforms scale], :author [HBaseIA], :athlete [soccer running yoga] }

Seattle
Joined September 2008
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Each day that ends in "I finally worked out the proper incantation to satisfy Hibernate." is quickly followed by "Why the fuck did they choose hibernate?!?"
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I'm looking for a developer to work on this exact project! The data needs you. Check it out: linkedin.com/jobs/cap/view/4… xitter.cf/Allen_Institute/status…
“Thirty minutes ago that was part of someone’s brain” -- Our Christof Koch via @WIRED on our new human brain data. ow.ly/pVYd30g9OGy
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Speaking of foreign aid. "Effective democracy is the antidote to the tyranny of foreign good intentions." The Great Escape, Angus Deaton
This isn't super fair though. That Carl fellow is in Portland, I should go down with laptop and beer in hand.
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"Asynchronous Rust", or, a decent explanation of why I gave up on my Tokio HBase client. Mostly the type salad. pro.theta.eu.org/2017/08/04/…
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That's not quite fair. The borrow checker is pleasant compared to the self-recursive pit of despair that are nontrivial tokio generics.
This is an apt description of my learning @rustlang and @tokio_rs. xitter.cf/michaeldrogalis/status…
Anything worth doing is worth being terrible at for the first 3 months.
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Fear overwhelms me as I type "java mutually recursive generics" into the search box. A maelstrom of pain and anguish is my reply.
Paranoid PM or Product/Market fit? Seems like inspiration for @jessicahagy xitter.cf/evacide/status/8670986…
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I like to imagine @nvll writes release notes like this. xitter.cf/beachepisode/status/86…
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Is this a good moment to ask myself why my lightbulb started talking to a TOR exit node on UDP port 123 this morning?
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"Oh cool, this project's code has great comments!"
"Oh cool, this project has great docs!" /me reads, impatience grows... "Screw it, where's the code?"
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StratCom is now citing Breitbart. On nuclear weapons, at that.
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Just pushed an experimental branch with Java 8 Streams for concisely reading result data. seeking API improvements: github.com/cwensel/cascading…
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Result: there is a *fixed*, human-invisible map you can add to *any* image, and it renders it unclassifiable by multiple DL systems
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