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A popular theory is that the size of a horse’s butt in Ancient Rome determined the size of NASA’s shuttle rocket boosters.
There are holes in the story but it's an interesting way to think about path dependence and technological lock-in.
Here’s why (and 5 other examples)🧵
@GergelyOrosz Interesting.
Also its funny that I came from a different culture where ppl often take after lunch nap, so didnt find 1 hour long nap strange at all.
Blockchain, applied in the real world with a case study:
To handle the ‘staggering’ amount of data of 500K loads per year (~1,500/day), Walmart Canada contracted an innovative blockchain solution using a private cloud, running 600 VMs to handle thousands of transactions per day.
The more you learn, the more stupid your past self was.
But you don’t get any better staying silence.
Learn to observe and think deeply, but also speak out and take actions.
Bezos and Zuck understood the power of hiring the best people. Those of us who were lucky enough to make it through their gauntlet had the opportunity to work alongside some of the greats. I met three of them on one pivotal day in my career, and it's been a wild ride ever since.
We need to spread more, not only on Ukraine news, but on every single other wars (Afghanistan, Israel-Palestine...). It's already 2022 and we, human are still so stupid to destroy what we built.
https://t.co/i7yetTse7x
TIL this GitHub Actions trick
When a PR has multiple consecutive commits (ie fixing typos 😏)
➡️ these 3 lines save resources and cancel previous useless CI runs
via @bitandbang @targos89 in Node.js PR: https://t.co/EBxrhEJeuh
"Platform Engineering" is rapidly becoming the new DevOps or SRE. Almost every day we hear about another org building an internal developer platform or control plane.
Want to know what platform engineering is, where the trends are going, and why you should care?
Read on 🧵👇
I'm in the US for the first time in 2 1/2 years, and talking face to face with people is immensely more productive than talking over Zoom. If Zoom were the default and someone just invented face to face, it would seem like an amazing step forward.
Why so many books are so exhilarating to read the first half, but then so dull and verbose thereafter?
As if the authors have run out of things to say but still need to fill enough pages for publication.