My initial thought was that this was yet another post about serverless!
I would recommend checking out Faktory (https://github.com/contribsys/faktory), by the author of Sidekiq. It's fairly new but looks interesting. For something production-tested already, I've found RabbitMQ to be very…
American Citizens Abroad (https://www.americansabroad.org/) is another non-profit organization working on behalf of US persons abroad. They are doing some great (but probably ultimately quixotic) lobbying work in favor…
While reading this, I couldn't help but think of Black Mirror S03E01 Nosedive. I understand the dynamics of all of the players involved in this, but I can't help but feel a little sad about the co-opted "authenticity"…
(list co-moderator with jetsnoc here) Well, it is currently a fully moderated list, and we will do our best to maintain the guidelines so hopefully you won't get any spam at all! Right now we are checking sign ups…
It's not that PHP (or virtually any other non-purposefully-arcane/obscene language) is inherently "terrible", it's just that the syntax, organization, standard library, and most of all mainstream community do not…
The primary thing that determines overall group performance (assuming no interpersonal biases like peer pressure or coercion, etc) would be the probability that any individual chooses the "right" answer. If this is…
Except that going from 9 atmospheres to 1 is way more dramatic than from ~1 to ~0.
One of the most unintuitive concepts in thinking about Cold War strategy is the assertion that explicitly targeting the opponent's civilian instead of military targets was morally superior: targeting military first…
For you German speakers, this is a hilarious article (on the German answer to The Onion) about having to create a new verb tense in order to discuss the airport:…
Hyperion by Dan Simmons would make an /amazing/ miniseries. The narrative structure is apparently based on the Canterbury Tales and so each chapter is fairly self contained with an overarching plot tying the characters…
Studio Calico | Junior backend/Rails developer (FT) | Remote (KY or TN, USA) Founded as a scrapbooking kit club, we have grown into a force in the specialty papercrafting and memorykeeping world by consistently…
If you liked Maciej's talk, you should definitely check out his blog: http://idlewords.com Warning: kiss the next several hours goodbye because he's simply an outstandingly interesting and funny writer - imagine…
My initial thought was that this was yet another post about serverless!
I would recommend checking out Faktory (https://github.com/contribsys/faktory), by the author of Sidekiq. It's fairly new but looks interesting. For something production-tested already, I've found RabbitMQ to be very…
American Citizens Abroad (https://www.americansabroad.org/) is another non-profit organization working on behalf of US persons abroad. They are doing some great (but probably ultimately quixotic) lobbying work in favor…
While reading this, I couldn't help but think of Black Mirror S03E01 Nosedive. I understand the dynamics of all of the players involved in this, but I can't help but feel a little sad about the co-opted "authenticity"…
(list co-moderator with jetsnoc here) Well, it is currently a fully moderated list, and we will do our best to maintain the guidelines so hopefully you won't get any spam at all! Right now we are checking sign ups…
It's not that PHP (or virtually any other non-purposefully-arcane/obscene language) is inherently "terrible", it's just that the syntax, organization, standard library, and most of all mainstream community do not…
The primary thing that determines overall group performance (assuming no interpersonal biases like peer pressure or coercion, etc) would be the probability that any individual chooses the "right" answer. If this is…
Except that going from 9 atmospheres to 1 is way more dramatic than from ~1 to ~0.
One of the most unintuitive concepts in thinking about Cold War strategy is the assertion that explicitly targeting the opponent's civilian instead of military targets was morally superior: targeting military first…
For you German speakers, this is a hilarious article (on the German answer to The Onion) about having to create a new verb tense in order to discuss the airport:…
Hyperion by Dan Simmons would make an /amazing/ miniseries. The narrative structure is apparently based on the Canterbury Tales and so each chapter is fairly self contained with an overarching plot tying the characters…
Studio Calico | Junior backend/Rails developer (FT) | Remote (KY or TN, USA) Founded as a scrapbooking kit club, we have grown into a force in the specialty papercrafting and memorykeeping world by consistently…
If you liked Maciej's talk, you should definitely check out his blog: http://idlewords.com Warning: kiss the next several hours goodbye because he's simply an outstandingly interesting and funny writer - imagine…