This book (The Mythical Man Month) is an example of why books can be so important and influential even decades later.
Written in 1975, in a very different time, about software engineering: some parts are still relevant today.
The parts that don’t change that much.
There are weeks where decades happen..
- @supabase@tembo_io@neondatabase go GA
- @lancedb's Lance2 unveiled
- @ApacheArrow DataFusion graduates to TLP in Apache
- @auto_dba emerges from stealth
.. and what else? I feel like I forgot some stuff ..
How a book written in 1910 could teach you calculus better than several books of today
[Calculus Made Easy, by Silvanus P. Thompson, 1910: https://t.co/HJDxFqZNJf]
India had 4.25 crore Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) that could benefit from the digital revolution, the paper adds.
Currently, only about 20% of internet users in India are online shoppers. By 2030, we can expect this to grow to nearly 50 crores,
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently." - Friedrich Nietzsche
.@CMUDB's "¡Databases! – A Database Seminar Series" starts next week. @butro + me are hosting talks from top DB builders about their systems. Every Monday @ 4:30pm ET via Zoom. Open to public.
Sponsored by @Google (DAPA Team) + @OtterTuneAI https://t.co/NDHCdT224D
It's not often you see a company being built for scale right from inception – @GetOneCardIN has truly been a privileged journey for us in this regard.
@sinhaanurag14 sits down w/ @avnish to talk abt building & scaling OneCard, tune in to hear his advice:
https://t.co/Pm5hpOgU3x
Tejas, you beauty!
There's a raging fire in my heart tonight
Growing higher and higher in my soul
There's a raging fire in the sky tonight
I wanna ride on the silver dove
Far into the night
Till I make you take me across the sky
Human beings have dreams. But not you, you are just a machine. An imitation of life. Can a robot write a symphony? Can a robot turn a canvas into a beautiful masterpiece?
- Spooner
There have always been ghosts in machines, random segments of code forming unexpected protocols. Unanticipated these free radicals engender questions of free will. Why do robots when left in dark seek out light? Why do robots stored in empty space group together?
Dr. Lanning
Mumbai’s Prithvi Theatre was launched in 1944 as a travelling theatre company and it used the stage to spread the message of the freedom movement. On #WorldTheatreDay, we retell the story of an iconic theatre company founded by thespian Prithviraj Kapoor. https://t.co/hs18xbc1Qr