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23rd November 2011

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giant robots smashing into other giant robots: The vim learning curve is a myth →

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I’ve been speaking about and teaching people vim for several years now, and I’ve noticed a surprising pattern: people are literally afraid of learning the editor.

Over the years, the popular mythology around vim has become that it’s insanely difficult to learn; a task to be attempted by only…

17th November 2011

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Handmade Portraits: The Sword Maker →

A really well put together film on one of the few remaining Japanese swordsmiths, Korehira Watanabe. His desire to preserve tradition & pass along the passion he has for his craft come through beautifully.

12th November 2011

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Instagram Engineering: Instagram Engineering Challenge: The Unshredder →

instagram-engineering:

In our office, we have a pretty amazing paper shredder. Seriously, the thing shreds just about anything. It even has a special slot for credit cards (why anyone would want to regularly shred credit cards is beyond me, but I digress…).

One day, after shredding some paper, I thought to myself:…

1st November 2011

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Instagram Engineering: Storing hundreds of millions of simple key-value pairs in Redis →

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When transitioning systems, sometimes you have to build a little scaffolding. At Instagram, we recently had to do just that: for legacy reasons, we need to keep around a mapping of about 300 million photos back to the user ID that created them, in order to know which shard to query (see more info…

28th October 2011

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Lost in Paris →

In a city so well known and loved, where does discovery lie? In the thrill of the new, yes, but also in the surprise of memories waiting at every corner.