ferhat elmas
Daily Wandering

Daily Wandering

ferhat elmas

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I am a passionate developer, interested in scalability, distributed systems and databases and I love reading and running.

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What is the best gift?

Dec 18, 20212 min read

Time. That's it. Offer your time if you care giving the best gift. Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend. – Theophrastus Sounds like right. Time is an illusion. – Albert Einstein Yet, it's very personal. That's why beware that most of ...

What is the best gift?

The Secret To Happiness and Perfection

Dec 17, 20211 min read

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself. By Ausonios, not the Swedish murderer.

The Secret To Happiness and Perfection

Why to teach?

Dec 14, 20211 min read

it's the best way to learn. For example, Silvestar Bistrović gives a living example with his newsletter. ... I write it primarily for me. When I read the article, I try to summarize it in one sentence before sharing it. ... The summarized sentenc...

Why to teach?

The Properties of Dangerous Ideas

Dec 10, 20211 min read

What is a dangerous idea? Wrong but easily self-replicating. Hard to test or experience yourself in your daily life. Instructed to ignore facts against itself. Encouraged to share. Examples are left as an exercise. If one example is needed thoug...

The Properties of Dangerous Ideas

Why you should watch CSI: Vegas?

Dec 9, 20212 min read

The long-running series CSI (Crime Scene Investigation) is back with CSI: Vegas as the last settlement of the franchise. Why to care? Teaches a good mindset to question everything and only to trust the facts. As a result of this, beware that in dail...

Why you should watch CSI: Vegas?

Meta is more vulnerable than Google

Dec 9, 20213 min read

Black Swan events are very hard to predict because they are very rare by definition and generally, there is not enough historical information to learn from. COVID pandemic is clearly one according to above definition but it still was somehow foreseen...

Meta is more vulnerable than Google