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by codahale 13y ago
I'm happy to hear you're donating to charity, but you're missing out on a great opportunity to reduce your taxable income and save for retirement. The 2013 contribution limit is $17,500, and most financial planners would be a
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by codahale 13y ago
Watching you clutch your pearls is fucking hilarious, so I've set up a weekly donation of a fair chunk of change to Shanley's Gittip account. Keep up the good work.
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by codahale 13y ago
When someone publishes your name in a blog post concerning sexual assault, scores of people harass you in comments, emails and sometimes phone calls. You mean like what happens to women when they talk about sexism in our industry? You mea
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by codahale 13y ago
Pointing out that the noun "guys" is gendered is "accosting" someone, whereas saying "boobs or gtfo" is a "poorly chosen attempt at ironic humor by rhetorically employing a couple common internet memes&quo
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by codahale 13y ago
Structurally, it's denying the antecedent: If Vitalism is true, Soylent is a bad idea. Vitalism is false, therefore Soylent is a good idea. Vitalism and Soylent can both be crap ideas.
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by codahale 13y ago
Chemistry is a much better example. Spill a little dimethylmercury? Welp, you're dead. Sign something with your DSA key using a dodgy PRNG? Welp, you're dead.
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by codahale 13y ago
relatively healthy [citation needed]
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by codahale 14y ago
Just call me an asshole already and have done with it.
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by codahale 14y ago
Mu.
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by codahale 14y ago
Some smart people like Coda Hale also work there. I wonder if they'll leave or not. Oh heeeeell no.
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by codahale 15y ago
To give you an example of the sort of stuff we do behind the scenes at Yammer, here's what my team has shipped: * a realtime message delivery service which handles hundreds of thousands of concurrent clients * an activity stream data store
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by codahale 15y ago
Actually, I like bcrypt because tptacek yelled about it.
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by codahale 15y ago
I'm curious as to where you got that link, considering that I didn't share my personal correspondance with Typesafe with you.
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by codahale 15y ago
https://github.com/emerose/pbkdf2-ruby
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Metrics, Metrics Everywhere [video](pivotallabs.com)
43 points by codahale 15y ago|6 comments
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by codahale 15y ago
Perhaps you should write that, then.
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by codahale 15y ago
Sadly, it wasn't recorded.
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by codahale 16y ago
You'd overflow your stack after inserting 600-700 records: https://gist.github.com/845874
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by codahale 16y ago
I work at Yammer. It's awesome.
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by codahale 16y ago
Does BankSimple have it embedded anywhere past the login? Hint: you don't know.
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by codahale 16y ago
Weird, because my local bank ( https://www.mechbank.com ) has Google Analytics embedded on their main page. And I'm pretty sure they would consider themselves to work at a fucking bank (an FDIC one).
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by codahale 16y ago
sudo apt-get install ganglia-monitor
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by codahale 16y ago
You appear to be confusing my article with a comprehensive document of all incidents of sexism in the Ruby community. Perhaps this will be more to your liking: http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline_of_incidents
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You Can't Sacrifice Partition Tolerance(codahale.com)
136 points by codahale 16y ago|50 comments
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by codahale 16y ago
I'm sorry, this is complete and total gibberish. * The CAP theorem is a logical proof of the impossibility of providing both consistency and availability on a network which can lose messages (or using machines which can fail). You can't imp
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by codahale 16y ago
"It's a typical SF startup" vs. "you're spreading [the team] out across 3 offices" "You are staffing up so quickly?" vs. "such a small team" I can't tell if you're trolling or just really inconsistent regarding the reasons for your dislike
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by codahale 16y ago
Seriously. Not a single one of these people is qualified to operate a locomotive.
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by codahale 16y ago
Would that I had more upvotes for this. The actual cutting edge of event-driven server architecture[1] looks something like this: server = do { sys_call_1; fork client; server; } client = do { sys_call
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by codahale 16y ago
Awesome. A journal article authored by people who don't know how to fight, summarized by a person who doesn't know how to fight or do basic science.
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by codahale 16y ago
At this point, neither Cassandra nor Redis are in the critical path of their timeline service.

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