The Software Ark: Issue 16
Mon 16 January 2023
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Quote of the week
We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
\— Marcus Aurelius
Links
- ChatGPT vs WolframAlpha
- Yaml sucks, and it's the best one we've got
- Workflows vs data-pipelines
- Pandas vs Polars: optimizing for readability
- Ancient Rome still taking us to school when it comes to concrete
- Expect tests from Jane street - I kinda wish we had them here TBH, they seem great!
- HTTP3 prioritization
- Writing will accelerate your influence
- A very innovate if unethical approach to data storage
- Setting a goal and aligning incentives - when Goodhart's law doesn't work
- Modules over Microservices
- Things they don't teach you in CS
- Erasure coding for tail latency
Your moment of Zen
Someone logged every slice of pizza they ate for 9 years... wtf.
