haruki zaemon

Here are some ugly truths about white masters and black servants in Australian history.

From a logical and grammatical standpoint, calling women “females” is stupid.

Every day I experience how language can bring people together and build power. But language can also be divisive, dangerous, and exclusionary.

It’s the idea that when employees aren’t properly trained, integrated, or managed, they are operating at less than optimal efficiency and “team debt” is accrued.

Women in tech are the canary in the coal mine.

The tech industry may have a problem with women, but women don’t have a problem with technology.

The One King Lear is an honest attempt to solve a long-standing problem concerning the text of what many people regard as Shakespeare’s masterpiece.

Yitang “Tom” Zhang, a popular math professor at the University of New Hampshire, stunned the world of pure mathematics when he announced that he had proven the “bounded gaps” conjecture about the distribution of prime numbers—a crucial milestone on the way to the even more elusive twin primes conjecture, and a major achievement in itself.

Thinking about work in terms of boxes tends to make us behave as if it’s boxes, which tends to lead us to treat something complex as if it’s complicated, which is disorder, which usually leads to an uncontrolled dive into chaos if it persists, and that’s not usually a good thing.

a general rule of thumb: design your logging such that you can determine the state of the system at the time an event is logged.

2Q is a good buffering algorithm (giving a 5-10% improvement in hit rate over LRU for a wide variety of applications and buffer sizes and never hurting), having constant time overhead, and requiring little or no tuning. It works well for the same intuitive reason that LRU/B works well: it bases buffer priority on sustained popularity rather than on a single access.