Working with the Chaos Monkey
Coding Horror: "the best way to avoid failure is to fail constantly"
[bookmark]Thursday, April 28, 2011
Coding Horror: "the best way to avoid failure is to fail constantly"
[bookmark]Monday, April 25, 2011
MarketWatch: "That’s a largely meaningless comparison in real terms. Exchange rates change quickly. And China’s exchange rates are phony." -- This is using the new definition of "bombshell" that includes "something so unsurprising that DeLong wrote a book about it two years ago."
[bookmark]LRB: "Across the world, postal services are being altered like this: optimised to deliver the maximum amount of unwanted mail at the minimum cost to businesses."
[bookmark]Sunday, April 24, 2011
James Fallows: "What I'd really like to know is who S&P likes in the Hornets-Lakers series, or this season of American Idol."
[bookmark]Discovery News: "and then, mind you, all those wonderful numerical coincidences people talk about are destroyed"
[bookmark]McSweeney's Internet Tendency: "And 'mid these dynamic calls-to-action / Came a Family Circus cartoon with relevant caption."
[bookmark]Thursday, April 21, 2011
Benjamin Black: "Outages that impact large sections of your customer base simultaneously are inevitable in large-scale, shared software infrastructure. If SLAs were insurance policies, vendors would quickly be out of business."
[bookmark]Saturday, April 02, 2011
Angry Bear: "Rather alarmingly the sum of median shares on the programs about which the pollster asked is 137%."
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