unit tests are like the Senate: they start out a necessary fence against fickleness and passion but end up obstructing all progress

shipping software is like a three-legged race where you're tied to every other engineer in the company

rethinking the network API (<< syscalls, << memory management) to keep up with 10-gigabit NICs http://t.co/rn9HIYmR /via @stuhood

remembering why I hate Java. not just the lang but the pleonastic mindset, disregard for reader. pages of shit passing shit to other shit

nice overview of TCP flow control in this piece on buffer bloat http://t.co/SgRPz2El /via @nelson

companies should stay as small as possible (for the desired output); put more energy into increasing leverage/productivity as into hiring

today is a great day to try OCaml http://t.co/CxJMrCdK

"If I say something stupid, let it live, let it go." --@corybooker on writing his own tweets

make no small plans—unless you have small children, in which case make no plans at all

Alan Kay's idea of OOP is far more like Concurrent ML or Erlang than like Java or C++ (or, it must be said, Smalltalk)  http://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/ …

new blog post: Logic programming in Scala http://t.co/qPSjwM3

the Scala mailing lists are a hilarious culture clash between Java-heads and Haskell-heads. enterprise monads

Facebook uses Standard ML as a DSL for specifying anti-spam responses http://t.co/qHy4V03I /via @jorgeo

here is the problem with IDEs: they are a gigantic mess of state which 99% of the time is corrupted somehow

approach slowly, let them smell you. you have to earn their trust http://t.co/6xBex6Pb

the yak is always woolier than at first it appeared

new blog post! Logic programming in Scala, part 2: backtracking http://t.co/rctkk6X

if I wanted hot weather I would leave San Francisco and move to California

really happy to see the renewed energy in the OCaml community, exemplified by the new web site  http://ocaml.org 

what if eng interviews tested the actual job? e.g. candidate gets 10 pages of tangled code and is asked: wtf does this do?