Chamila Chulatunga

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So NASA uses Node.js in their space-suits. The logical follow up question: Do NASA space-suits depend on left-pad?

Satya Nadella makes bold final attempt to stop LinkedIn emailing him.

Ansible is like democracy: the worst, except for all the alternatives.

Why do people find DNS so difficult? It’s just cache invalidation and naming things.

Things are mostly fine

Loosely coupled code is like democracy: it sucks, but the alternatives are worse.

- "What do we want?" - "Now!" - "When do we want it?" - "Fewer race conditions!"

In software, all abstractions leak at the boundaries of performance; all dependencies are unreliable at the boundaries of security.

When you fix a bug in production.

Stockholm Syndrome?: [new initiate to Node.js says] "to be honest, now that I've got my head around callbacks, it's not that bad"

"I have an app idea, know any programmers?" "I have an idea for a song, know any musicians?" "I have an book idea, know any writers?"

Frustrated by method signatures that tell me nothing about what (if anything!) gets returned. <Stern look towards Ruby, JavaScript... >

One day you'll tell your kids about when the Internet was unencrypted…or when encryption was legal. I'm not sure which way it's going yet.

I'm sure it's fine... Of _course_ she's not keeping a ledger of which password she sent to whom, right....? arstechnica.com/business/2015/…

MySQL is a Better NoSQL engineering.wix.com/2015/12/10/sca…

This is kind of awful looking.

A little-known trivia about .NET's gc.cpp. It was written in LISP and transpiled to C using a program. Hence its weirdness.