Ben Cuan
@bencuan
trying to understand the internet
Ben Cuan
bencuan.me
“Once upon a time people were born into communities and had to find their individuality. Today people are born individuals and have to find their communities.”
Yancey Strickler • The Post-Individual
The End of the Extremely Online Era
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Programming is magic:
You speak in an arcane tongue, incomprehensible to outsiders.
You manipulate forces infinitely greater than you.
A daemon comes along and ruins everything.
You speak in an arcane tongue, incomprehensible to outsiders.
You manipulate forces infinitely greater than you.
A daemon comes along and ruins everything.
Publish your results. If you are interested in an experiment’s results, there’s a good chance that other people are as well. When you publish the results, those people do not have to design and run a similar experiment themselves. It’s tempting and common to avoid reporting negative results because it’s easy to perceive that the experiment... See more
Google - Site Reliability Engineering
How could an American getting paid six figures in Mountain View understand how to identify problems and design solutions for a homemaker in Tokyo, a street seller in Turkey, or a doctor in Tunisia?
For the most part, they don’t. Or if they try, they do it badly.
For the most part, they don’t. Or if they try, they do it badly.
Maggie Appleton • Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers
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