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Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.

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  The SSE4.2 string-comparison instructions on x86 are slow compared to alternatives.

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  NEON has nothing like it; on x64, the closest thing is the SSE4.2 string-comparison instructions (pcmpistrm), which are slow.

  Faster JSON parsing with SVE2 on ARM processorslemire.me

Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb; essayist at paulgraham.com.

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  Stoke's reusable launch vehicles will be shipping Starcloud's data centers into orbit within a few years

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  In a few years, Stoke's reusable launch vehicles are going to be shipping Starcloud's data centers into orbit.

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Founder of HumanLayer; wrote 12-Factor Agents, on how to build AI agents that hold up in production.

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  If you want loop engineering, build one loop at a time and keep them small: every part of the agentic-factory playbook is good advice except the part where you stop reading the code.

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  if you want to do loops engineering, you should build one loop at a time and you should keep them small and contained. Basically, I think everything except stop reading the code is really good advice.

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Programmer; wrote Extreme Programming Explained and Test-Driven Development, signed the Agile Manifesto, and writes Tidy First?.

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  The Agile Manifesto is only the intersection of the ideas of the people who happened to be in the room, and there is far more to software development than it contains.

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  The agile manifesto is the intersection of the ideas of the people in the room. I think there's a lot more to software development than is contained in the manifesto. And I've written books and books and books about what I think those things are.

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Programmer based in Vancouver who writes at scattered-thoughts.net about databases, programming language design and developer tools; author of the Imp, Dida and Zest language experiments.

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  It was naive to think a sufficiently powerful AI system could be safely contained in a 'box'.

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  In hindsight, it was childish to think that we'd put it in a box at all.

  I'm not a catscattered-thoughts.net

Danish software engineer and Microsoft technical fellow, creator of Turbo Pascal and Delphi and lead architect of C# and TypeScript.

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  A compiler that also serves an IDE has to be lazy and deferred throughout — a different way of building compilers from the one the textbooks teach.

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  And so everything is lazy and deferred and functional and reusable inside the compiler. And it's a very different way of writing compilers than than what the textbooks will traditionally teach you.

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Senior economist at the Foundation for American Innovation; writes Second Best, and was the Niskanen Center's director of social policy before that.

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  Oil-rich Gulf monarchies are effectively post-scarcity societies, with institutions adapted to match that condition.

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  oil-rich Gulf monarchies are the closest thing to post-scarcity societies on earth today, with the institutional adaptions to match

  Notes from the UAEsecondbest.ca

Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.

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  Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries

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  An eye-opening view on considerations going into building a widely used public API or reusable library. While the book focuses on the .NET framework, many of the conventions apply to maintainable and reusable components, in general. This book had an outsized impact on me as I read it when I was a mid-level .NET developer.

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Economist specialising in global income inequality; formerly lead economist in the World Bank research department, now at the CUNY Graduate Center and author of the Global Inequality and More newsletter.

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  The post-Cold War order, like the Versailles order before it, was badly structured at its inception and carried the seeds of its own destruction

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  Both systems were badly structured at their very inception (Versailles and the end of the Cold War). Both contained within themselves the seeds of destruction.

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American novelist and critic, author of Real Life, The Late Americans and Minor Black Figures; writes the newsletter sweater weather on literature and culture.

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  The Drama Bookshop

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  Recently though, I went to The Drama Bookshop, which was a delightful surprise. It is the closest I have come to the experience of a Manhattan bookshop as a third place in the kind of Prairie Lights mode.

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Pseudonymous essayist. Writes at gwern.net on AI scaling, statistics, genetics and long-running internet research, with heavy citation and a habit of revising old essays in place rather than leaving them wrong.

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  Stories of Your Life and Others

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  He is the closest thing to a modern Jorge Luis Borges in melding high concepts with literature to create something better than either

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Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.

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  Burnout comes from not caring and from not feeling needed, not from working the hardest.

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  The times I have come closest to burnout or flaming out have never been when I was working the hardest, but when I cared the least.

  The Hierarchy Is Bullshit (And Bad For Business)charity.wtf

Runs the mechanistic interpretability team at Google DeepMind; worked on interpretability at Anthropic under Chris Olah before that, and teaches the field to newcomers.

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  In prioritizing a list of tasks, the closest calls matter least while getting the very top item right matters most

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  In hindsight, the hardest comparisons are in fact the least useful - if I do the fourth most important task before the third most important, that's no big deal, but doing the tenth before the first is a screw-up!

  Post 48: Prioritise Tasks by Rating not Sortingneelnanda.io

Distributed-systems safety researcher; runs the Jepsen consistency-testing project and wrote the Riemann monitoring system.

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  Logitech G5

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  I use a Logitech G5 laser mouse, which may be the closest to the Platonic ideal pointing device as it is possible for late-stage capitalism to produce.

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Programmer and teacher; wrote Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby and 99 Bottles of OOP.

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  Duplication is cheaper than the wrong abstraction, so code should not be made reusable before there are real examples of what the reuse has to do.

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  duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction

  The Wrong Abstractionsandimetz.com

Mathemusician and video maker known for the Doodling in Math Class series; directed the eleVR virtual reality research group at the Communications Design Group.

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  Mac mini

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  I really like Mac Minis for installations, especially since once we've got the headsets running we can unplug all external keyboards and projectors and everything, and it'll run as a self-contained unit for days on end (or until Apple decides it must interrupt with a request to update).

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