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A very nice discussion of the advanced work Yahoo Engineering is doing on @stormprocessor: http://yahoohadoop.tumblr.com/post/98751512631/the-evolution-of-storm-at-yahoo-and-apache …
deleting code, but not 'shredding'
"one should aim high, but make sure you shoot" (from Worse is Better is Worse, http://dreamsongs.com/Files/worse-is-worse.pdf …)
Cleaning up issues & PR's for streamparse, our Python library for working with @stormprocessor. v1.1 coming soon. https://github.com/Parsely/streamparse …
Initial support for Spark Streaming in PySpark was merged into master: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/2538 …
"People come to my writing with strongly held beliefs, and are looking for either confirmation or conflict."
"If I'd known that it would be my most famous accomplishment in life, I might have worked on it another day or two." http://ftp.arl.mil/mike/ping.html
Reddit runs on 16 #postgres 15 #cassandra boxes. http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2ibb9t/i_am_a_reddit_employee_ama/cl0mghc …
"If somebody stays away from typed languages, it doesn't mean they're stupid, or lack education, or afraid of math." http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~srk31/blog/2014/10/07/ …
@CompSciFact "Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it." - Alan Perlis
Engineering leads at Yahoo discuss Spark vs Storm, and the relative trade-offs: http://yahoohadoop.tumblr.com/post/98213421641/storm-and-spark-at-yahoo-why-chose-one-over-the-other …
One to save for later: @Parsely's 19-page guide to help explain the importance of being reader-first http://blog.parsely.com/post/1452/reader-first-for-editors-reporters-digital-publishing/ …
On poor academic writing: "Fog comes easily to writers; it’s clarity that requires practice." http://m.chronicle.com/article/Why-Academics-Writing-Stinks/148989 … (by Stephen Pinker)
"Free software cannot guarantee your security, [but the solution is not] the very deep insecurity created by proprietary software." -GNU
Cafe in Arlington, VA has a big sign that says, "There is no X in espresso." Warms my coffee snob heart.
The Source of Bad Writing, an essay on "the curse of knowledge" by Stephen Pinker http://online.wsj.com/articles/the-cause-of-bad-writing-1411660188 …
The Startup CTO Summit Series. Fall '14 events in SF, DC, NYC, Boston, Melbourne and Sydney
Debian Developer, Apache Cassandra committer, and architect at The OpenNMS Group
#ONA14 dinosaur t-shirts sponsored by @parsely. Nice touch, @amontalenti! pic.twitter.com/Iugx6suZDX
A handy listicle describes how to minimize employee retention, & you don't even need an HBR subscription to read it! http://rustyrazorblade.com/2014/09/21-ways-to-minimize-employee-retention/ …
Thanks to @kemper for our fancy new logo for streamparse! https://github.com/Parsely/streamparse … pic.twitter.com/IqexYh1R8h
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