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Monthly Archives: January 2009
#firstmac
Because it is the 25th anniversary of the Macintosh, there is twitter meme going on where you talk about your first mac.
Reading the headlines on Microsoft, Sony, and Nokia, I’m struck with just how impressive Apple’s quarterly’s are. Yesterday, I … Continue reading
Posted in about me, business and economics, Macintosh
Tagged 25th anniversary, china white, firstmac, heroin, iPhone, iPod, Macintosh, Microsoft, Nokia, Sony, twitter
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Servant leadership
Lunch and dinner are brought in every day at work. It is a wasteful affair in both cost and utility that, because of its quotidian nature, breeds laziness to a high order at the price of spontaneity and camaraderie that … Continue reading
Posted in about me, business and economics
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Ode to Quality Assurance
Quality Assurance has been delaying a release for a month and a half. As a consumer facing website, we normally have two code pushes a week. It’s a major rewrite, sure, but at this point we’re at about 20x the … Continue reading
Posted in quotes, web development, wordplay
Tagged QA, Quality Assurance, release, web development
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Seven things: Basura and Bathrooms
This is part one of a seven part Seven Things post. (I’ll explain later.) This first one was inspired by Andrei’s affinity for languages.
#1. I once peed in the women’s bathroom.
At work, a blue trash can reads “SAVE. Recycleable cans … Continue reading
Posted in about me, wordplay
Tagged basura, bathrooms, engrish, Korean jokes, languages, learning to read, linguistics, reading, recycling
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Confusion
First I have to go back to the Gold Standard because of runaway inflation. Now I have to go back to the Gold Standard because the dangers of deflation.
Seems to me if the volatility in the value of fiat currency … Continue reading
Posted in business and economics
Tagged currency, deflation, fiat currency, gold standard, inflation, libertarianism, volatility
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Mr. Hansson doesn’t get to shart on sharding
(A draft of this article appeared on Wednesday because I hit the wrong button on WordPress. I apologize for the confusion it may have caused. What can I say except, “Freedom is messy.”)
This morning Andrei sent me an article from … Continue reading
Posted in PHP, web development
Tagged Andrei Zmeivski, database, database scaling, David Allen, David Heinemeier Hansson, DHH, Don MacAskill, Donald Knuth, Gene Amdahl, Gordon Moore, horizontal partitioning, Jeremy Zawodny, John Searle, map-reduce, Martin Fowler, memcached, Moore’s Law, optimization, partitioning, PHP, premature optimization, Rails, relational database, RoR, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, scaling, shard, sharding, vertical partitioning
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That’s TERRYist to you, sir.
Sometimes I think that people write this stuff because they know I have a vanity feed:
Found here. If someone can explain this thread, I’d appreciate it. IIRC, Mac Hall hasn’t been publishing for years.
Happy 2009!
Posted in about me
Tagged Mac Hall, me, of me, PHP Terrorist, terry chay, vanity, XKCD
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San Diego at Pittsburgh (and the coin-flip)
On the flight from my old home (San Diego) to my new one (San Francisco), the captain announced that the San Diego Chargers had beaten the Indianapolis Colts in overtime to set up a playoff game against the Pittsburgh Steelers. … Continue reading
Posted in Science, society and culture
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