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Recent
- Timestamp based reconciliation
- Murdoch strikes against copyrights
- Loose cables at CERN and Time synchronization is hard
- Manufacturing and devices
- Julia programming language and hadoop
- The UNIX file system as a recursive function
- Apple’s A5 chip made in Austin
- Richard Stallman speaks
- Dennis Ritchie
- Droning on about computer security
- The multics file system
- Fukushima Robot Blog
- Sinking in too many layers
- Computer architecture, power, and PHP
- VCs bailing on signed term sheets
Monthly Archives: November 2008
Supercomputing and mathematica
The last time I went to a “Supercomputing” conference, Jim Gray came by to talk to me and Cort about PowerPC Linux. That must have been in 2000 or 1999. We had gone by the AIX booth and been roundly … Continue reading
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Dijkstra versus Perlis (updated)
Here’s Dijkstra He [Perlis] published a very obnoxious paper arguing against a mathematical approach to programming cite Here’s the paper by De Millo, Lipton and Perlis. It starts as follows: Many people have argued that computer programming should strive to … Continue reading
Most influential software company in America – and maybe the world
Voter Activation Network.
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