I Wanna Be Developer

I was reading yet another blog post titled “Why our team moved from <language X> to <language Y>” (I forgot which one) and I started wondering if you can generalize it a bit. Is it possible to generate a N * N contingency table of moving from language X to language Y?

From: Erik Bernhardsson

3/15/17, 12:00 AM Software Development

Why I went into the mortgage industry

I just realized last Thursday that I have spent two full years at Better, incidentally on the same day as we announced a $15M round led by Kleiner Perkins. So it was a good point to reflect a bit and think back – what the F led me to abandon my role managing the machine learning team at Spotify?

From: Erik Bernhardsson

2/17/17, 12:00 AM Software Development

Language pitch

Here's a fun analysis that I did of the pitch (aka.

From: Erik Bernhardsson

2/1/17, 12:00 AM Software Development

seancorfield/boot-new has moved to boot/new

I'm pleased to announce that the "Boot new" task formerly known as seancorfield/boot-new has moved to the Boot organization, as boot-clj/boot-new and that the group/artifact ID is now boot/new.You can use this to easily create a new Boot-based project:

From: Sean Corfield: An Architect's View

1/19/17, 12:00 AM Clojure

Functional programming is the libertarianism of software engineering

This is a pretty dumb post, in which I argue that functional programming has a lot of the bad parts of libertarianism and a lot of the good parts: Both ideologies strive to eliminate [the] state.

From: Erik Bernhardsson

1/10/17, 12:00 AM Software Development

The half-life of code & the ship of Theseus

As a project evolves, does the new code just add on top of the old code? Or does it replace the old code slowly over time? In order to understand this, I built a little thing to analyze Git projects, with help from the formidable GitPython project.

From: Erik Bernhardsson

12/5/16, 12:00 AM Software Development

Are data sets the new server rooms?

This blog post Data sets are the new server rooms makes the point that a bunch of companies raise a ton of money to go get really proprietary awesome data as a competitive moat. Because once you have the data, you can build a better product, and no one can copy it (at least not very cheaply).

From: Erik Bernhardsson

11/1/16, 12:00 AM Software Development

Pareto efficency

Pareto efficiency is a useful concept I like to think about. It often comes up when you compare items on multiple dimensions. Say you want to buy a new TV. To simplify it let's assume you only care about two factors: price and quality.

From: Erik Bernhardsson

10/25/16, 12:00 AM Software Development

How I Made $20,000 in my Sleep

In this article I hope to inspire you to take action now!

From: Dan Vega

10/5/16, 12:26 AM Java

Tech Elevator Meetup Summary

A summary of the panel I was asked to be on at Tech Elevator.

From: Dan Vega

9/20/16, 12:00 PM Java

State drift

I generally haven't written much about software architecture.

From: Erik Bernhardsson

9/8/16, 12:00 AM Software Development

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