Author Archives: admin

Manufacturing and devices

The answer is obvious but few people stop for a second to wonder about this. After all, it is not like Apple has control over all aluminum in the world. Apple were just the first to see the potential of … Continue reading

Posted in software business | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Julia programming language and hadoop

While we’re being demanding, we want something that provides the distributed power of Hadoop — without the kilobytes of boilerplate Java and XML; without being forced to sift through gigabytes of log files on hundreds of machines to find our … Continue reading

Posted in data center, software engineering | Tagged , | Leave a comment

The UNIX file system as a recursive function

Ignoring “write” operations, for the moment, a file system is just an implementation, a concrete manifestation, of a map from file names to file contents. A UNIX style file system complicates the story because file names are “paths” through a … Continue reading

Posted in software engineering | Leave a comment