This paper (ICDE'18) introduces Anna, a CALM / CRDT implementation of a distributed key-value system both at the data structure level as w...

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A couple of years ago, I was back home in Brooklyn between college semesters and reading Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy for my experimental fiction class (yes, yes, eye roll away). I had …

On this page of Talmud we read of a very bizarre case: יבמות נד, א  אָמַר רַבָּה: נָפַל מִן הַגָּג וְנִתְקַע — חַיָּיב בְּאַרְבָּעָה דְּבָרִים, וּבִיבִמְתּוֹ לֹא קָנָה. בְּנֵזֶק, בְּצַעַר, בְּשֶׁבֶת, בְּרִפּוּי. אֲבָל בּוֹשֶׁת לָא מִיחַיַּיב, דְּאָמַר מָר:…

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Professional niches have – time immemorial – built their own special dialects and languages, sometimes using this as an…

This is my personal story of starting the SRE organization at Uber. If you want advice rather than reminiscence, take a look at Trunk and Branches Model and Productivity in the age of hypergrowth.
After I left SocialCode in 2014, I spent a month interviewing…

I’ve always been bothered by pseudohistory. After all, history itself is usually stranger and weirder and wilder than anything you can imagine. And the search for the story of mankind’s…

After recently receiving beta access to OpenAi's new Codex engine. I created Balloons! A fully functional clicker game generated with OpenAI's...

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