Asmiov's Profession
George said tensely, “Don’t think this is a joke. Tapes are actually bad. They teach too much; they’re too painless. A man who learns that way doesn’t know how to learn any other way. He’s frozen into whatever position he’s been taped.
Choose Boring Technology
“Let’s say every company gets about three innovation tokens. You can spend these however you want, but the supply is fixed for a long while.”
Madrid Metro
“Madrid tripled the length of its metro system in just 12 years — faster and cheaper than almost any other city in the world.”
GitHub ToLowercase Hack
“GitHub’s forgot password feature could be compromised because the system lowercased the provided email address…”
Marriage Equality and Databases
“Well, that started as a stream of consciousness about equal parts nuptial rights and Structured Query Language and finished up moving into graph theory, something I, for one, did not see coming.”
WHICH PILL DO YOU CHOOSE?
“People’s minds are heartbreaking. Not because people are so bad, but because they’re so good.”
Move fast and break nothing
“All of this gives you evidence to prove the safety of your code before you deploy it to your entire userbase.”