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  • I wish I could begin an essay with a saxophone solo, wistful and bold, the way Carly Rae Jepsen begins “Run Away With Me,” the first track on her 2015 album EMOTION. These opening notes end on the “re” of a do-re-mi scale, giving an unresolved tension. It’s thematic of the album - unresolved tension is kind of Carly’s thing. “Jepsen’s concern is with celebrating desire in all of its forms, especially desire that lacks an endpoint,” writes Michael Waters for Electric Lit. In an interview with SPIN, Carly describes that sax solo as “a bit of a punch in the face, a really happy punch in the face.…
    All That We Could Do With This E•MO•TION | I Have That on Vinyl
  • Rows live on pages, the pages live in B-Trees and we use cursors to walk the tree to find the rows... So above, (in the simplest possible terms) when we say that we need to fetch rows from the underlying table, what we mean is we create a new BTree Cursor, and our pager will know from the root page, which page (and the page can just be an offset into a database file) to fetch from the pager, and then we follow pointers from there to possibly fetch other pages and then eventually read the tuples on those pages.
    pthorpe92.dev
  • I asked my friend to think back to the interview process. What were the tells? What do they wish they had known to watch out for? They thought for a moment, then said: “Maybe the fact that the entire leadership team had been grown or promoted from within. SOME amount of that is terrific, but ALL of it might be a yellow flag. The result seems to be that everyone else thinks and feels the same way…and I think differently.”
    On How Long it Takes to Know if a Job is Right for You or Not – charity.wtf
  • As a manager, you literally represent the company to your team and those around you. You don’t have to agree with every single decision the company makes, but if you find yourself constantly having to explain and justify things the company has done that deeply violate your personal beliefs or ethics, it does you harm
    On How Long it Takes to Know if a Job is Right for You or Not – charity.wtf