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- 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: January 2010
State machines and circuits
The cross coupled latch is one of the greatest inventions of the 20th century State machine models of timing and circuit design
Public spirit of programmers
It’s sad to note that while Doctors/engineers/journalists/even-lawyers without borders are all organizations of people who help less developed nations, “programmers/software/etc” without borders refers to outsourcing.
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Bias in academic reviewing
EURYI applications were first submitted to the relevant national research councils, who could nominate a specific number of candidates. This selection cut the proportion of women from one-quarter to one-fifth. Each national research council oversaw a drop in the number … Continue reading
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