This is status-driven orchestration, and it is the most popular way in the industry to build a finite-state machine while loudly insisting you are doing nothing of the sort. The denial is the interesting part. Everyone agrees that explicit state machines are good in the abstract—the way everyone agrees that flossing is good—and then goes home and writes another cond/1 that branches on a string.

Меня просто нечеловечески бесит, когда разработчики оправдывают собственную некомпетентность мантрой «бизнесу надо». Если программист любой степени квалификации, от стажёра — до принципала — использует в качестве аргумента в любой дискуссии фразу «бизнесу надо» — знайте, перед вами тупой самозванец, гоните его в шею.

Most people’s financial decisions are driven by what the people around them decide — which, in this culture, typically ranges from thoughtless to completely backwards — and conscious thought about the getting the best deal on happiness doesn’t enter the picture. Would you rather have five all-expenses-paid years off to spend with your family, learn a language or build a business — or drive a big car instead of a small car? It’s shockingly normal for people to choose the latter, because they have no idea that they’re making that choice at all.

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I am way happier already. In the three months since I’ve been smarter about my spending, I’ve saved three months’ worth of living expenses, which has an immediate stress-reducing effect. I could get laid off or fired and have plenty of time to figure out what to do, so there’s much less day-to-day stress about my job performance, which has actually led to an effortless improvement in job performance. I have a sense of control over my life that I’ve never felt before. These intangible dividends are immediate, and they don’t cost a cent because the money is still mine.

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BRIN stands for Block Range Index. BRIN is designed for handling very large tables in which certain columns have some natural correlation with their physical location within the table.

Бирман общается с людьми. Как по мне, довольно трушный олдскульный формат подкаста.

Темы иногда мега странные, но мне нравится, что их обсуждают.

This idea is pretty simple, in principle: sometimes we miss a good-enough solution because a not-quite-good-enough solution is already out there and in use.

This belief is, for me, not some abstruse theoretical assertion, but a deeply felt belief that essentially any question I might care to ask (about computers) has a comprehensible answer which is accessible with determined exploration and learning.

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О том, почему важно занимать обе стороны на эскалаторе в метро.

Постоянно об этом задумывался, а тут мне скинули статью.

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Иллюстратор, художник из России Ольга Шевченко