It is a common pattern to prefer non-semantic primary keys — auto-incremented integers or UUIDs — over semantic ones. It’s advisable to define unique indexes on the semantic identity fields, [...]
Once upon a time, I worked for a small company that had a tiny office. It was just a big room where all the developers, designers and creatives assembled, plus [...]
Rethinkdb recently published a cat challenge. Well, it’s not really a challenging challenge if you can solve it by looking up Vigenère encryption from Wikipedia and following instructions. I don’t [...]
While searching for a job, I met a proprietary trading company that uses functional languages for their own systems. Jane Street is a private equity firm, specializing in statistical arbitrage. [...]
Lesson learned: Being an effective project manager is not about doing the work yourself, it is about making sure the right resource is applied to the right problem. (from The [...]
I have found this little gem in PragPub, May 2011: A depressing theme with many of today’s software shops is the need to only make two kinds of hires. The [...]
