Essay #1
The trouble is that essays always have to sound like God talking for eternity, and that isn’t the way it ever is. People should see that it’s never anything other [...]
sleepy in como
sleepy soul why trench yourself in such a burrow deeper than a pitting hollow the spirit of our day more than ever is a mighty infatuation with oneself a teenage [...]
I’m where I should be all the time
I’m staring at it and can’t believe how slowly it twitches. I always believed that the problem with time is of the opposite nature: that it passes too quickly, not too [...]
Degrees of hallucination
It turns out that humans are subject to different degrees – or depths – of hallucination. To me, the most intuitive way to describe hallucinations is the confounding of what is [...]
Five plus One Horsemen
Warren Zevon has this beautiful song called “Keep Me In Your Heart.” Whenever I hear the opening lyrics, they make me stop from whatever I’m doing and mellow into a [...]
The bare necessities (one of those dreams)
When I’ll be in my forties, a period when I’ll be settled financially-wise, I want to open a small business. A shop named “the bare necessities.” Briefly, a 40-square meters [...]
Come on up to Trento
Come on up to Trento and gaze unto the city from within: clumsiness, pristine clumsiness, you’ll see. That’s the beauty of it; reminds me of home. Leave yourself at the [...]
Gliding through languages
There is a certain skill which is common to most engineers, regardless of their exact occupation: the ability to change their environment, tools, conditions, and still be able to do [...]
Introducing Incremental Consistency Guarantees
This post gives an informal sneak peek at Incremental Consistency Guarantees (ICG). This represents our work on improving the way applications interact with replicated storage systems, which we’ll be presenting at [...]
From Evernote to git
Evernote recently changed their policy to restrict the number of devices they support for basic users; a basic user is somebody who is not paying. Simply put, if you’re not [...]