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Idempotency is a concept that is important for programmers to understand, especially those working on building distributed systems. In simple terms, idempotency means that if you perform an operation multiple times, the end result should be the same as if you had only performed it once.

In other words, an idempotent operation is one that can be repe... See more

Every Programmer Should Know #1: Idempotency

New adaptations significantly displace, reregulate, and rearrange some old DNA.

Ronald A. Heifetz • The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World

Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you. – Anne Lamott

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Process

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more like living systems. For instance, many wild animals cannot breed or even be kept alive under laboratory conditions. The first radar systems were a bit like wild animals: They would work under combat conditions, but not in the sterile laboratory environment. Before World War II, no artificial system was sufficiently complex to display this dep

Gerald Weinberg • The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully (Consulting Secrets Book 1)

Writing code from scratch is gone. This was the most exciting part of the profession. Now what remains are debugging/fixing. The same concerns graphical design (original character design in games is gone), writing music (new melodies can be generated by clicking "refresh" and then improved), literature. You never start from scratch anymore. Which i

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The revolution will not be zoomed

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