Bill Caputo, through repeated conversations we've had, has convinced me of something very surprising. It was something that changed the way I think about the world, and how I do my job. There is no such thing as software productivity.
Extremist ProgrammingFunctions are awesome. What if we made a PL that only had functions? Objects are awesome. What if we made a PL where everything was an object?
Fun with numbers in T-SQL queries : Narayana Vyas Kondreddi's home pageRecently, someone asked, how to sort the characters, within a string? For example, a string contains 'CBA', and he wanted to sort the characters within the string and make it 'ABC'. Instead of going for a procedural solution, just for fun, I tried approaching it in a relational way (T-SQL specific).
Why should I consider using an auxiliary numbers table?In response to a recent newsgroup question, I suggested a solution that would make use of a numbers table. The user responded that it would be a huge waste of space, since they shouldn't have to store every possible integer for this one query. I disagree.
Adam MachanicLooking at my list of upcoming articles, I keep seeing the same theme repeated over and over. A sequence table of Numbers. Numbers tables are truly invaluable.
Gone Fishin': Tumblr Architecture - 15 Billion Page Views A Month And Harder To Scale Than TwitterWith over 15 billion page views a month Tumblr has become an insanely popular blogging platform. Users may like Tumblr for its simplicity, its beauty, its strong focus on user experience, or its friendly and engaged community, but like it they do.
JavaScript Devs: Be Careful With Comparison OperatorsThe results of type coercion in JavaScript can be difficult to predict, even when you know the rules. In this post, we will see how subtle differences in comparisons, can lead to significant changes in the results. Be careful when relying on 'truthyness' for logic.
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How Paul Graham went from self-apprenticed hacker to half-billion dollar manThe Web is bursting with new ways of reading and writing. Publishing is changing—from what people want to read, to how they want to read it. The rise of the e-book, new media tools, and new communities of readers and writers are transforming the very way we tell stories.
Your team should work like an open source projectEarlier this year I wrote about "management style" based on my experience as an early employee on GitHub's product team.
This Read-It-Later-list is just that, bookmarks of stuff I intend to read or have read. I do not necessarily agree with opinions or statements in the bookmarked articles.
This list is compiled from my Pocket list.