Tell HN: Google seems to have changed ncr (no country redirect) | Hacker News
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Having a working mother works for daughters | World news | The Guardian
BDR 0.9.3 Documentation
Tool that apparently enables online cross-version upgrades to postgresql
Baruco 2013: Rules, by Sandi Metz - YouTube
interesting talk by Sandi on rule followers and rules breakers, and the importance of hiring rule followers
UDR Online Upgrade - PostgreSQL wiki
instructions for an online-upgrade from 9.4 to 9.5
Online-upgrade-paris.pdf
more details on using BDR/UDR for cross-version postgresql upgrades
PostgreSQL: the good, the bad, and the ugly [LWN.net]
Lots of interesting discussions on postgres 9.5 and the process leading up to it. Covers cross-version upgrades, reviewing of patches and UPSERT
Learn to stop using shiny new things and love MySQL | Hacker News
Entering Unicode Characters
solnic.eu - Invalid Object Is An Anti-Pattern
A Short History of the BTree | Perforce
You can make a reasonable argument that the BTree is the most important data structure and algorithm that has yet been invented in computer science
Scaling Agile @ Spotify with Tribes, Squads, Chapters and Guilds
Crisp's Blog » Scaling Agile @ Spotify with Tribes, Squads, Chapters & Guilds
The role of leadership in software development (Mary Poppendieck) - YouTube
Poppendieck.LLC
Leading Lean Software Development - Results are not the point
2010 slide deck by Mary Poppendieck
WebSockets, caution required!
SamSaffron/message_bus
Invoca/magic_frozen_string_literal
rack-mini-profiler - the Secret Weapon of Ruby and Rails Speed
Extensive guide to profiling rails apps using rack-mini-profiler
The Website Obesity Crisis
In praise of being alone on our smartphones, together | Emma Brockes | Opinion | The Guardian
“Being with someone and on a phone is the modern iteration of a key pleasure of family life: to be sufficiently comfortable to drift in and out of communication”
Ruby 3x3: Ruby 3 will be 3 times faster — Appfolio Engineering
PNG Optimization
Interesting article on various options for lossless optimization of PNGs
Zopfli Optimization: Literally Free Bandwidth
A Short Rant About Hosting (Pinboard Blog)
The Five Stages of Hosting (Pinboard Blog)
BabelStone: What's new in Unicode 9.0 ?
BabelStone: What's new in Unicode 8.0 ?
includes an interesting discussion on the challenge of emoji explosion
How to Hire — Startups, Wanderlust, and Life Hacking — Medium
Interesting article on hiring approaches. The first half I'm so-so on, but the "Hiring Heuristics" section is worth re-reading a few times