A visual guide on troubleshooting Kubernetes deployments.

GitLab vs. GitHub: Comparison of Features.

Here’s the thing that’s always rubbed me the wrong way about Google. They’re insulting. Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates — I completely believe they’re all geniuses. But they never seem(ed) condescending. — A letter from Larry and Sergey

Inferring the mammal tree: Species-level sets of phylogenies for questions in ecology, evolution, and conservation.

Really nice work, by Anamaria Crisan: Adjutant: an R-based tool to support topic discovery for systematic and literature reviews. #rstats

While I’m tinkering to understand the internals of Django, I stumbled across this nice gem on HN: (via @thorstenball)

Hopefully, the next guy to join the company will clean up your shit. The other guys code may not look like shit, but it doesn’t solve any useful problems… so they never got the chance to hire that next guy.

Working from home today (because the strike). It’s been a while…

The choice of a first language is what sociologists call a wicked problem. The notion appeared in the context of social policy and identifies problems that cannot be definitely described. Solutions to wicked problems “cannot be meaningfully correct or false; and it makes no sense to talk about ‘optimal solutions’ to [wicked] problems unless severe qualifications are imposed first”. — What to teach as the first programming language and why

The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time is flawed!

Interestingly, rio relies on the data.table package to read/write plain text files, and always return a simple data frame (even when using Haven to import Stata files). #rstats