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Don’t underestimate the power of survival of the fittest. And don’t EVER make the mistake that you can design something better than what you get from ruthless massively parallel trial-and-error with a feedback cycle. That’s giving your intelligence much too much credit. Linus Torvalds You have to choose, you’re not going to get it all so you better decide what you want the most and aim at that. [Read More]

Melting Pot was recorded in New York City, between MG’s gigs, as Jones refused to record in Memphis and wanted the band to create a different sound for the new album.

(wikipedia)

Apps have become nearly irrelevant on desktops because the web experience is close to perfect, while apps are vitally important on phones because the web experience is dismal.

The Verge

Rick Hudson, Go GC: Solving the Latency Problem, GopherCon 2015, Denver, Colorado

(slides)

Zooming in, there is still a slight positive correlation between heap size and GC pauses. But they know what the issue is and it will be fixed in Go 1.6.

Sourcegraph

“GC” isn’t a feature, some little bullet point you can tack in a point release. It’s a fundamental property of the entire system. It is a can of worms recursively full of cans of worms.

Bob Nystrom

many uses of HTTP are in kiosks, public schools, libraries, and other areas for which your concern as a user is less important than the organization’s responsibility to prevent misuse.

Roy Fielding