Systems software technology and business
Abstraction’s a good thing? Abstraction is a good thing if you don’t care about the performance of the underlying entities. You know, so many schools teach freshmen programming in Java. So what’s a data structure? Who cares? My hero is Donald Knuth, who teaches data structures showing how data is stored in memory. Knuth [...]
Coming to Marshall Texas. 33 defendents, 128 claims .
Article in the New Yorker on Google contains a fascinating description of a product design meeting:
Page and Brin had wanted an upgrade of an existing product, and they were unhappy with what they were hearing from the engineers. At first, they were stonily silent, slid down in their chairs, and occasionally leaned over to [...]
(Update – great link in John Regehr’s comment)
Apparently, passenger, admin, and air control computers are all connected. Here’s a reassuring comment (emphasis added)
Boeing spokeswoman Lori Gunter said the wording of the FAA document is misleading, and that the plane’s networks don’t completely connect.
The FAA is concerned.
The proposed architecture of the 787 is different [...]
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From the stunning website of Huhcorp. The sister site is even better.
Does your PHP network have double back-end XHTML redundancy? Is your [...]
From comments below.
Just one more comment: I think we should make a distinction between a tool that can verify threaded code and a tool that can verify the code that implements threading. The latter is what you are looking for here and it is much more difficult. Furthermore it is arguably unnecessary — a reasonable [...]
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