April Picks

Wed, May 24, 2017

“Random picks from all over the Internet”.

Bram Cohen (@bramcohen) - Computer programmer and inventor of BitTorrent. pic.twitter.com/jjBfF1benW

— Programming Wisdom (@CodeWisdom) May 5, 2017

Articles

• Computer architecture for network engineers Side by side comparison of TCP and CPU.

• CPU Utilization is Wrong “The metric we all use for CPU utilization is deeply misleading, and getting worse every year.”

• Tout est Terrible (RU) Everything is terrible.

• 10 Tips on How to be a Great Programmer Some of those you already know. Still, worth reading.

Videos

• “Engineering You” - Keynote by Martin Thompson

Quick learn

“Go programs can have data races, resulting in unspecified behavior. Go’s race detector provides a way to find and fix such issues; but other languages prevent races altogether, either by disallowing shared memory between Actors (Erlang) or by requiring the programmer to indicate data ownership with types, so the compiler can prevent races statically (Rust).”

https://www.quora.com/Where-does-Gos-concurrency-CSP-fall-short/answer/Sameer-Ajmani