The eagle-eyed @patriciagorla somehow managed to spot me in an orange sea of top StackOverflow contributors!
Irony: couldn't post a screenshot of this morning's AWS S3 outage to our group chat, because Flowdock's images are hosted on S3.
Know your hotspots. Fifteen minutes spent improving one slow PG query did more heavy lifting than three days of work!
Minor UI mistakes that seem like no big deal are enormously expensive if their interface is widespread. Doors, locks, showers, etc.
All checked in at #VelocityConf. My O'Reilly spirit animal is a flying squirrel, I guess.
IAD ✈ HOU ✈ SJC for my #VelocityConf talk. See you tonight!
data: "4, 3, 3, 3, 7, 7, 6, 9"
statistics: "mean: 5.25"
information: "Most people choose 3 or 7 when asked to pick a number in [0,10]."
Collecting metrics without understanding why you're doing so is like opening a dumpster and hoping you find a winning lottery ticket.
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What makes tech take off (in #Cville)? ow.ly/KcGoT - new @CVilleWeekly article re: @Archemedx @RegattaTravel @uphexco @ibubuti
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Awesome! @jxxf CTO & Co-founder @uphexco presenting @ctosummit Boston - Code "speaker" for $200 off ti.to/startup-cto-summit/bos…
Tomorrow I'm speaking at @datahackers! Topic: Using "coresets" to improve the tractability of large datasets. meetup.com/RVA-Data-Hackers/…
Check out my #CascadiaRuby talk on bad developer assumptions here:
youtube.com/watch?v=8pzJq-jt…
Hit me up with feedback: [email protected]!
Thanks for having me (and for all the great questions!), @cascadiaruby!
My slides are available here: bit.ly/jxf-cascadia-ruby-nic…
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For you westerners, @cascadiaruby is coming up in August. Excellent talks, including one by @jxxf














