December 2011
3 posts
blog.ChrisRicca.com: My New Siri Headphone Setup →
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If you have an iPhone 4S you know that while Siri isn’t perfect yet, the spoken interface can be amazingly useful, and it’s definitely the future. While Apple works out the kinks on Siri from the software side, I’ve been searching for the best accessory setup for talking with her on the go or when…
The Hard Part, the Fun Part, and The Details
I’m not a big fan of estimation. It’s hard to get right, and in software, today’s “easy” is tomorrow’s “more complicated than I thought.” But we still have to estimate from time to time, and I’ve started to notice a pattern to one form of estimation error:
When a software engineer is looking at a project, she immediately grasps The Hard...
The Rules of Eventual Consistency
At GameChanger we take in tons and tons of data, and have to serve it up really fast in different kinds of formats. Our core tools are Python, MongoDB, and Redis. Our big focus for the Spring baseball/softball season right now is “scaling”. I’ve been talking a bunch about scaling recently (at CTO School and the NYC Python Meetup, specifically), and I’ve started using...