mhs

    • 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 […]

      Hew

      October 6, 2019
      quote
      Aesop’s Fables, demagogues
    • 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 […]

      Hew

      September 11, 2019
      development, quote
      concurrency, Joe Armstrong
    • 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 […]

      Hew

      August 4, 2019
      meander
    • 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 […]

      Hew

      March 17, 2019
      development, meander
      fail-fast, let it crash
    • It Matters

      Character matters. Integrity matters. Truth matters. Justice matters. Love matters.

      Hew

      November 9, 2018
      meander
    • 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 […]

      Hew

      October 24, 2018
      privacy, quote
      Apple, privacy, Tim Cook
    • 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 […]

      Hew

      May 4, 2018
      development, quote
      functional programming, JavaScript, Joel Salatin, programming
    • That’s Our Ride

      Hew

      February 24, 2018
      travel
      India, Mumbai, Uber
    • i heard about it

      Hew

      December 15, 2017
      music, snapshot
      Bon Iver
    • Noble Beast

      Hew

      November 2, 2017
      snapshot
      dog dog, GSD
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