Compound interest is a financial term that refers to the exponential nature of interest that compounds over time. But if you gain an intuitive understanding of the concept you can fruitfully apply it to many domains. Compound interest: Your money makes you money. Exponential growth: Your new customers get you new customers. Viral spread: Infected people infect people. Are you seeing the pattern? These all share the same exponential dynamics. The outcome of the growth becomes an agent of growth itself....
What Go Teaches Us About Compromise
The Go programming language’s design demonstrates that compromise means nobody gets everything they want. Most of my favorite (and in my view most elegant) programming language features are missing from Go, such as immutable data structures. But I don’t really need any one of those features. I just want them. And my teammates probably all have different favorite language features. One person’s perfect language can be extremely difficult for another person to work with....
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