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A promising development in the search for treatment for Alzheimer’s disease:
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Idly wondering whether there’s a decent single-player RTS for iPad.
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I love this innovative + creative move from @stripe:
tbh I’ve sort-of got a crush on stripe, if that makes sense 🤔
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I’m headed to San Francisco for @apachekafka summit! If anyone wants to hang out I’ve got some time on Wednesday and Sunday, ping me!
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Cogent “alternative” perspective on stream data processing
I just re-read this fantastic article: The world beyond batch: Streaming 101 by Tyler Akidau (August 2015) and realized that it provides a super-helpful “alternative” perspective on stream data processing, whereby “alternative” I mean my own perspective to date has been firmly aligned with the folks who created Kafka and Samza while they were at LinkedIn, in particular Martin Kleppmann and Jay Kreps.
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This explains **so much** of my experience in the world! Holy shit!
/via @samruby (thank you!)
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Apache Beam is really interesting! Seems sort-of like a high-level DSL for stream data processing plus multiple engines for interpreting it.
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This is cool!
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Deciding between The Witness and Life is Strange for my next console game — maybe they’re different enough that I can switch between them. 🤔
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A small investment to reduce the stress of our car battery dying. Turns out kids love to play with light switches! https://t.co/55WOOFtcRL
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.@TDBank_US this is such self-serving bullshit that I’m tempted to close all my accounts after 10+ years: https://t.co/EccFbCsIUx
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“The thing is, being connected doesn’t magically enable effective communication.”
blog.agilebits.com/2016/04/19/cur…
/via @codinghorror
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Just finished The Last of Us. Blown away. Such a powerful story. And everything — it works on so many levels.
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Tesla Roadster. Great color! @ Pleasantville, New York instagram.com/p/BEZitFEsCT2/
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Oh yeah, I have a new job; software architect at Park Assist: parkassist.com — it’s going really well!
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My AWS Wish List
As part of my new job at Park Assist I recently met with our AWS account representative (along with a few solutions architects). During the conversation I shared with them some enhancements I’d love to see from AWS:
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It’s 2016 and Mac OS still lets apps steal focus when I’m in the middle of typing 😡
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Current status: trying to adopt Continuous Delivery for even v0 of my current project… the only limit is myself
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“…more than 325K reservations… corresponds to ~$14 billion in… sales, making this the single biggest one-week launch of any product ever.” 😎
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This video of the Tesla Model S being created from raw materials to test track: youtu.be/VxL3GtDE22M
Super cool!
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I don’t know how to decide between these two nearly-identical health plan options — anyone have any suggestions? https://t.co/klcmBUljdv
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If you use Atom as your code editor and are wondering why the “split pane” commands no longer seem to be working 🤔:
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New York passed mandatory paid family leave! Amazing news!
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“Parents are very frustrated… so they’re going to use power. And power makes things worse.”
theatlantic.com/health/archive…
Applies elsewhere too.
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I can no longer find audio controls in Skype for iPhone. WTF.
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Thanks YouTube for adding split screen support on iPad! https://t.co/Oll4htHXZA
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Today is Shushan Purim so of course I just got an email about Passover. #toosoon
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$ defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop -bool false
$ killall Finder
😎
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Highlight of OS X 10.11.4:
Adds the ability for iBooks to store PDFs in iCloud, making them available across all your devices.
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Some good stuff in Safari 9.1:
developer.apple.com/library/mac/re…
Picture element in particular is compelling.
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Wrote this line of code in my side project a few days ago:
(remove recently-processed? events)
😍
Declarative programming FTW!
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.@Calendly just added support for Zapier and Webhooks! Great work. I love the momentum of this team lately.
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core.cache makes me feel stupid.
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Ruby’s global context seems really problematic to me.
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Started using a Dell P2715Q HiDPI monitor with my 2014 MBP today and so far it’s very nice (for software development on OS X).
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I just registered for the first @ServerlessConf this May — very exciting:
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Some US presidential candidates say they’ll end the “carried interest” tax break — but what about the more egregious capital gains rate?
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“All that is left for us to do is to keep on working as hard as we can and rebuild what is lost.” businessinsider.com/the-worlds-old…
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More thoughts on Kafka Streams and that mind-blowing new article from @jaykreps:
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Mind-blowing Article on Stream Processing in Software Applications
Confluent, the company behind Kafka, today released a preview of Kafka Streams, the simple stream processing framework “built in” to Kafka that some of us have discussed recently. This is exciting news, but even better is that to mark the release, Jay Kreps — CEO of Confluent, co-creator of Kafka and Samza, and author of the amazing monograph The Log… — has dropped another wisdom bomb on us: Introducing Kafka Streams: Stream Processing Made Simple. It’s a deep exploration of the why behind Kafka streams and why it’s about more than just being a lighter-weight alternative to Samza, Storm, or Spark Streaming. The vision that Kreps shares is exciting and cogent.
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I was excited for the @apachekafka Streams preview release; had no idea @jaykreps would drop another wisdom bomb! 😋
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Coda on this:
I take it back.
@Spotify declined, which is fine — but refused to give any feedback. Not cool. 😠
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What
if
the
Internet
was
so
slow
it
loaded
one
word
at
a
time?
Don’t
let
net
neutrality
die.
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Idea for an email client plugin: checks _every_ email for an “unsubscribe” link, follows it automatically.
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Geek friends! Use my code to attend @abstractionscon with me! You get 10% off & I go for free! code 6446bd28fbf showclix.com/event/abstract…
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Note to Self: Why You Feel More Productive But the Economy Isn’t overcast.fm/+P0dGISew
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OMG Ruby is so complicated!
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I drove a brand-new M5 tonight. Holy shit that was fun!
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Software folks: I have a very talented friend looking for a remote job in account management, product mngmnt, customer success, &c. DM me!
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The @SefariaProject just added Rashi’s Torah commentary in English:
blog.sefaria.org/2016/03/03/ras…
(Hebrew was already there.)
Wonderful!