Thread locals are an interesting idea: a way to give each thread its own storage, useful for global state that you don't want to share between threads.
The obvious caveat is that threadlocals are still effectively global (for the current thread), and like all global state, should be treated with …
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People sometimes ask me for career advice in software startups. For a long time I didn't know what to say. When I finally noticed a pattern in my career, it was like a blinding light.
Now I know the single most important thing to advise:
Make …
TL;DR When scheduling features for a quarter, it's very risky to plan on delivering multiple projects that are starting from scratch.
Let's call this the "Shiny New Quarter" approach to planning.
Is this self-evidently problematic? Maybe to you. But apparently not to everyone, because I've seen it done repeatedly …
I had cataract removal surgery this year. Twice: My left eye was done in May 2016, and my right eye in October.
Since most people I know have no experience of this and are curious about it, I wrote up a description of the experience as a Q&A.
It seems clean and safe 99% of the time.
And then you have that one accident...
As a birthday present to myself, and a fit of fiddling while Rome burns, I have junked the ooooooold website, thrown out a bunch of cruft, and finally started that blog I never got around to.
Most of it is geeky programming stuff, but with forays into music and other …