Thought Stream — week of 9 Nov 2020
Work expands so as to fill the number of people available for its completion.
A play on Parkinson’s law.
Virtual machines enabled the “write once, deploy anywhere” paradigm for server-side development.
Graphics engines will do the same for mobile application development.
@FlutterDev is the trailblazer. Many more will emerge.
Slack is how we communicate internally at @sliceit_ . We developed a framework to make it easy for our developers to send notifications to Slack.
https://engineering.sliceit.com/2020/11/11/jarvis-slack-notification-framework/
The popularity of anonymous Twitter accounts boosts the idea of “Preference Falsification.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preference_falsification
If you are paranoid about security but at the same time believe in the democratization of access to infrastructure and resources, Cloud Custodian is a must-have in your tool belt.
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https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/D4hHASaZuLCW92gMy/is-success-the-enemy-of-freedom-full
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