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Re: Lessons from 14 years at Google
I first learned about the "innovation tokens" idea in "Novelty is a loan you repay in outages, hiring, and cognitive overhead" from this, still one of my favorite essays on software architecture: https://boringtechnology.club/
Likewise, "Abstractions don’t remove complexity. They move it to the day you’re on call." made me think of this 23 year old classic from Joel Spolsky, the Law of Leaky Abstractions: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-a...
simonw, 1 day ago
I first learned about the "innovation tokens" idea in "Novelty is a loan you repay in outages, hiring, and cognitive overhead" from this, still one of my favorite essays on software architecture: https://boringtechnology.club/
Likewise, "Abstractions don’t remove complexity. They move it to the day you’re on call." made me think of this 23 year old classic from Joel Spolsky, the Law of Leaky Abstractions: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-a...
simonw, 1 day ago
boringtechnology.club
Choose Boring Technology
How to be old, for young people.
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Forwarded from психе, плоть і воля
The Cathedral of St Andrew (a ruined cathedral built in 1158)
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Forwarded from Місце народження світу | украрт (prof. Entropy)
півгодинний「#скетч」як умовне продовження минулого посту, поки чекаю розгляду своєї справи по питанню того, що мене без попередження виселили з житла✌️
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