Uncanny valley tech recruiting
As recruiter pitches show up in my inbox, it’s clear there’s a lot of “fake it til you make it” when it comes to tech terminology...
Yes, net neutrality is conservative. That’s the problem.
Fred Wilson makes the argument (here and here) that net neutrality is a conservative idea...
My security and privacy tools
A quick list of the things I use to improve my web experience:..
A type system in runtime’s clothing
Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp...
Hierarchy and orthogonality in C# and Go
Prompted by this question I got to thinking about methods in C# and Go...
Know your guarantees, Go edition
I was directed to a thread about a poor soul who started a project in Go, eventually had to hand it off to the community, and discovered that his original source no longer compiled, due to third-party dependencies having changed...
The two edges of “culture fit”
Here’s a smart and funny bit about culture fit. I think it’s brutal and by and large true...
How a savvy landlord would handle Airbnb
Megan McArdle describes the understandable discomfort that some tenants and property owners have about Airbnb’ers coming into their buildings...
De facto immutability
Another in a series of posts wherein I spitball about things that computer scientists already know, but have only just occurred to me...
What Netflix bought from Comcast is a CDN
With the hubbub about net neutrality, fast lanes and Netflix, I though I would illustrate what we are dealing with technologically...