- kilimchoi/engineering-blogs · GitHub
Great list of engineering blogs.
(categories: blogs engineering programming software ) - The Keys to Employee Retention
Lots of good ideas on employee engagement and pointers to deeper stuff.
(categories: career management employee-engagement motivation business ) - A dad’s legacy: Warriors’ Kerr guided by father’s example – San Jose Mercury News
Wow, great story and a helluva childhood. Quote: "Oh, I had a horrible temper," Kerr said. "If I didn’t get a hit, or missed a shot, I’d throw these huge tantrums. But my dad would never grab me right away. He was patient. He’d wait until I calmed down to talk to me. My dad taught me a lot about emotions, controlling my temper and being even-keeled." Amongst other things it sounds like.
(categories: basketball steve-kerr management parenting patience education motivation emotional-intelligence eq ) - Charleston and public policy: Why gun control is doomed | The Economist
Quote: "In short, questions over guns are becoming *questions of identity*. When Mr Obama or the mayor of Charleston says that gun control would be a logical response to Wednesday’s killings, the message triggers a tribal response. The America that believes that guns make the country more dangerous—urban, educated, Democratic America—is proposing to disarm the America that is sure (indeed increasingly sure) that safety lies in keeping firearms close by. As a result, nobody is about to disarm anyone." Emphasis mine, reminds me of an article I read awhile back (can’t find it now) which pointed out that for conservatives, it’s not about climate change, it’s about a deeper belief system that’s being challenged by climate change. Anyway.
(categories: politics guns identity government )
Monthly Archives: June 2015
Links: 6-5-2015
- Walrus Cam – Round Island – Oceans – explore
Awesome, need more walrus in my life.
(categories: animals webcam fun ) - You Can’t Sacrifice Partition Tolerance | codahale.com
tl:dr is a great summary: "Of the CAP theorem’s Consistency, Availability, and Partition Tolerance, Partition Tolerance is mandatory in distributed systems. You cannot not choose it. Instead of CAP, you should think about your availability in terms of yield (percent of requests answered successfully) and harvest (percent of required data actually included in the responses) and which of these two your system will sacrifice when failures happen."
(categories: consistency database distributed nosql )
Links: 6-4-2015
- Using logs to build a solid data infrastructure (or: why dual writes are a bad idea) | Confluent
Great blog post, first I’ve heard of "change data capture" (have to read to the bottom).
(categories: architecture kafka logs wal change-data-capture consistency )
Links: 6-2-2015
- #1 Dad | Lucky Peach
Good stuff.
(categories: family life kids career priorities work )
What I did this weekend: 05/31/2015
- Saturday: last spring soccer game of the year for the oldest, then packed up the car with camping gear for a Scouting camping overnight at Beaver Campground in Washington, which doesn’t look like much but was a ton of fun for the ten or so boys who came. Dinner was baked ziti in the dutch oven
- Sunday: Bright and early start (little dude woke up at 5:50am), got the charcoal going in the dutch oven, Karen had all the ingredients prepared for banana walnut upside down french toast, minus the walnuts, which was epic. Boys did another couple hours by the river, lost a couple shoes but no major or minor injuries beyond the teeth chattering. We got packed up and on the way back stopped at Bridge of the Gods, where we had a nice little lunch at Char Burger and bought a 14 pound salmon from Northwest Fish Hogs which Karen then carved up last night. Great weekend!
(customized with kale and bok choy) followed by the same berry cobbler we made last weekend, again in the dutch oven. There’s a river within 100 yards of the campground which was super painful to navigate without shoes on but all the boys somehow made it to the other side and spent a good couple hours throwing rocks in the water and acting like they owned the place.