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The GitHub Job Interview: You come up with a cool idea of an open-source project. This becomes your company’s development sandbox. Candidates are asked to then contribute to the project in some way

Languages, Verbosity, and Java: “A little redundancy in a language is a good thing. It’s important for readability.” Joshua Bloch

Amazon DynamoDB: A number of outages at the height of the 2004 holiday shopping season can be traced back to scaling commercial technologies beyond their boundaries

Average Is Over:  the reason we have such stubbornly high unemployment and sagging middle-class incomes today is largely because of the big drop in demand because of the Great Recession, but it is also because of the quantum advances in both globalization and the information technology revolution