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The Horse, the Stag, and the Hunter
A quarrel had arisen between the Horse and the Stag, so the Horse came to a Hunter to ask his help to take revenge on the Stag. The Hunter agreed, but said: “If you desire to conquer the Stag, you must permit me to place this piece of iron between your jaws, so that I…
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The structure of the program should exactly follow the structure of the problem. Each real world concurrent activity should be mapped onto exactly one concurrent process in our programming language. If there is a 1:1 mapping of the problem onto the program we say that the program is isomorphic to the problem. It is extremely…
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America 2019
A culture successfully terrorized on a dark day in September of 2001; initially, in anger but, over the long run (to this day), in fear, throwing off the high ground of nominal “truth, justice, and the American way” for Jack Bauer ends-justify-the-means. A culture particularly prone to disengaging into its own individual, typically violent, often…
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Fail, fast
Adapted from an internal p2 post. Fail-fast is a systems design approach that intentionally fails early and visibly. The gist is that it is better for users as well as better for developers to halt a system if it finds itself in a “critical enough” situation. Wait, What, Why? There are worse things than a…
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Thank You, Tim
We believe that privacy is a fundamental human right. No matter what country you live in, that right should be protected in keeping with four essential principles: First, companies should challenge themselves to de-identify customer data or not collect that data in the first place. Second, users should always know what data is being…
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Joel Salatin Programming
…we respect and honor the pigness of the pig and the chickenness of the chicken. Joel Salatin Joel Salatin is an innovative farmer / agricultural philosopher(!) who has inspired me personally for quite some time. One of his farming tenets is respecting the inherent nature of the animals and the environment under his care. That…
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