2020-06-01 · linuxize.com

How to Create Bash Aliases | Linuxize

Bash aliases are essentially shortcuts that can save you from having to remember long commands and eliminate a great deal of typing when you are working on the command line.

2020-06-01 · robertovitillo.com

Back of the envelope estimation hacks

There are two types of engineers, the ones that can quickly do estimates and the ones that can’t. Are these people just smarter, or is there more to it? Enrico Fermi was a master at estimation Back of the envelope estimation is a skill that can be learned with practice. It…

2020-06-01 · almanac.httparchive.org

The 2019 Web Almanac

The Web Almanac is an annual state of the web report combining the expertise of the web community with the data and trends of the HTTP Archive.

2020-06-01 · r-bloggers.com

What is isotonic regression?

Isotonic regression is a method for obtaining a monotonic fit for 1-dimensional data. Let’s say we have data such that . (We assume no ties among the ‘s for simplicity.) Informally, isotonic regression looks for such that the ‘s approximate … Continue reading →

2020-06-01 · deniseyu.io

Habits of High-Functioning Teams

I often struggle to explain what it means to be part of a high-functioning software team. Sure, there are mountains of literature, and an entire genre of LinkedIn thought leadership that professes all kinds of guidelines and heuristics about what makes teams work, but in my…

2020-06-01 · integralist.co.uk

Guide to Concurrency in Python with Asyncio

This is a quick guide to Python’s asyncio module and is based on Python version 3.8. Introduction Why focus on asyncio? A quick asyncio summary A quick concurrent.futures summary Green Threads? Event Loop Awaitables Coroutines Tasks Futures Running an asyncio program Running…

2020-06-01 · spectrum.ieee.org

Full Page Reload

Or, how we learned to stop worrying and embrace the abstraction

2020-06-01 · blog.samaltman.com

Idea Generation

The most common question prospective startup founders ask is how to get ideas for startups. The second most common question is if you have any ideas for their startup. But giving founders an idea...

2020-06-01 · a16z.com

Moats Before (Gross) Margins

In 2019, long before the outbreak of COVID-19, many lower gross margin tech companies were not being well-received by the public markets, and an excessive spotlight was cast by many on company gross margins. In the present moment, that attention has only grown for both public…

2020-06-01 · bartoszmilewski.com

Guitar Decomposed: 5. Mutating the Third

So far we’ve been discussing chord transformations that didn’t change the chord’s function. We’ve been essentially dealing with just one major chord and its transpositions. …