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• Moxie Marlinspike >> Blog >> Career Advice
  To my great surprise, young people now somewhat frequently contact me in order to solicit career advice. They are usually in college or highschool, and want to know what the best next steps are for a…
• Putting Apache Kafka To Use: A Practical Guide to Building a Stream Data Platform (Part 2)
  This is the second part of our guide on streaming data and Apache Kafka. In part one I talked about the uses for real-time data streams and explained our idea of a stream data platform. The…
• Simplicity is Key
  Focus ruthlessly on simplicity. Complexity is the devil. Complexity will multiply your costs, bugs, downtime, development time, security holes, and pretty much everything bad you want to avoid. Great…
• 6 Month Progress: 45/M, 207lbs to 165lbs : Fitness
• Functional Programming for Everyone Else
  Functional programming has become a hot topic in the last few years for programmers, but non-programmers might not understand what we’re talking about. I can imagine them wondering,…
• Invented here syndrome
  Are you afraid to write code? Does the thought linger in your brain that somewhere out there somebody has already done this? Do you find yourself trapped in an analysis cycle where nothing is getting…
• gRPC
  Today Google launched gRPC, a new HTTP/2 and Protocol Buffer based system for building APIs. This is Google's third system for web APIs. The first system was Google Data, which was based on the Atom…
• ASF JIRA
  @avi4now you can run them in local mode. We are doing work to make this the normal mode of operation
• Introducing gRPC, a new open source HTTP/2 RPC Framework
  Today, we are open sourcing gRPC, a brand new framework for handling remote procedure calls. It’s BSD licensed, based on the recently finalized HTTP/2 standard, and enables easy creation of…
• Daydreaming improves efficiency, Israeli study finds
  Teachers may now need to reconsider reprimanding daydreaming students in class, as a new Israeli study found that mind-wandering actually enhances brain performance and prepares the mind for complex…

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