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24 February 2016

Link roundup #1

"You, me, every software developer out there, right now, is creating legacy software."
— All Software is Legacy

"... Einstein: an expansive human consciousness that could form a concept so far beyond the experimental capabilities of his day that inventing the tools to prove its validity took a hundred years."
— Letter regarding the first direct detection of gravitational waves

"Services should only log actionable information."
"Services should instrument every meaningful number available for capture."

— Logging v. instrumentation

"sketch-rnn was able to generate a variety of Kanji that do not exist, but resemble somewhat the way Kanji are supposed to be written."
— Recurrent Net Dreams Up Fake Chinese Characters in Vector Format with TensorFlow

"What makes Go successful?"
"My answer: Simplicity."
— Simplicity is Complicated

"I'm going to explain just why Swift's String API is ... the best string API out there in terms of its fundamental design."
— Why is Swift's String API So Hard?
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