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A great book that reminds us that there is a hero in anyone if we're willing to look: amazon.com/Deacon-King-Ko…

@JeffDean Luiz was so kind, open, honest, excited about technology, he would bring out the best in people. I remember meeting him the first time in the gym locker room. I asked him what he was working on, its a new system called stubby, this was literally the beginning of cloud computing

A good article about the tragic death of my dear friend & colleague, Luiz André Barroso. Luiz was incredible in so many ways. We collaborated on many things, made 20,000+ cappuccinos together & he was an amazing engineer, leader & friend. 😥 wired.com/story/google-m…

@satnam6502 Next up, when's the ETA for dinner?

My daughter has started saying “I will circle back” during family conversations. An unintended consequence of her summer internship.

Amazing concert, lucky to have Gustavo joining the ny philharmonic: youtu.be/hu5P_wn2egQ

@acoustik gorgeous logo!

💥 Announcing *The New Timescale*: A few major changes as we build the next great database company to power the future of computing. Read more here: tsdb.co/rebrandblogL 🧵

@thogge redundant passports?

I am reminded: redundancy is antifragile. -redundant income streams -redundant energy sources -redundant food storage -redundant bank accounts Attack and remove all single points of failure and remove life’s fragility.

@satnam6502 Can you please share this recipe

I cooked my spicy Indian turnip dish tonight. My UK friends will know why.

@vijayp @theblueground @internetofshit time to make that donation to the coalition of the homeless

My short-term apartment rental via @theblueground has only electronic key-card locks and no physical keys. There's a power failure and it is impossible to enter the building because fob readers are not on battery backup and doors remain locked /cc @internetofshit #TheFutureSucks

@justinjaffray You are at an advantage if they put prolog :-)

@bilal_akh well, it still has top notch seafood

Literally every Canadian city has top-notch Middle Eastern food. And then there's Vancouver.

@spenserskates @curtisbliu I'd like to read more about dbt. What do you use it for?

SQL ecosystem tutorial with @curtisbliu

@bipulsinha your moat is at the edge and crocodiles are swimming there :-)

The company’s stock price goes up or down based on what happens at the edge. The bet is high when you are on the edge. You ask for things at the edge, you fight for things at the edge. The edge is where development happens.

About living on the edge.🧵

@justinjaffray like the way this algorithm adjusts from the few distinct elements case to the more distinct elements case

Sorry to hear about this Jeremy

@ghatamudupa this is how the world ought to be.

The Most beautiful thing happened today!!!! 50 years of friendship! What a blessed moment to witness this! Video courtesy : Swaminathan Selvaganesh.

@bipulsinha Simply amazing!

Just 7 years of selling. Early days for Rubrik. The best is yet to come.

@sarahtavel Prospect theory: people told they have been given 1,000$ with a 50% chance to win 1,000$ or get 500$ for sure, they usually choose the second option. However, if told they are given 2,000$ and a 50% chance to lose 1,000$ or lose 500$ for sure, they usually choose the first option

this video and lesson never gets old to me youtube.com/watch?v=jwG_qR…

@asubiotto I think it's valuable to understand what you're optimizing for. LSM trees can be good if you are optimizing for writes, but perhaps you are optimizing for reads in which case you might want something else. Reads in LSM trees are awkward and hard to reason about.

Are fully in-memory LSMs a thing or is there a better option? We'd still like to compact levels to take advantage of com{paction,pression} & reduce memory size. Thinking of the storage engine as an LSM when doing lvled compaction seems intuitive regardless of the backing storage

@Dianasaur323 I think the hardest part is picturing V2, which is the long term projection of what the feature looks like, during the discussion around V0. Teams that are biased towards action gravitate towards V0 and often make the journey to V2 a lot longer.

My process for scoping down features on Startup Monologues startupmonologues.substack.com/p/my-process-f…

@thogge It's worth comparing Sweden to some of the most educated, healthy societies in the world: it's neighbors denmark: google.com/search?q=denma… norway: google.com/search?q=norwa… finland: google.com/search?q=finla… and lastly sweden: google.com/search?q=swede…

I remember thinking about 2 years ago: “I wonder how it’s going to turn out for Sweden”. Had no idea. They were all over the need. If this headline is correct, it seems the data is in.

Happy Diwali!

Rishi means, a Hindu sage or saint