“A day is coming, when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be as sacred as whisky, or any other of the necessaries
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Spanner in the works
The developers of Google’s Spanner database built an interesting system but chose to build their own clock synchronization technology instead of getting a more precise
Read moreClock Sync in Finance and Beyond.
A FSMLabs whitepaper. [gview file=”https://www.yodaiken.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/financeandbeyond.pdf”]
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James Damore’s defenders (updated)
(recently saw a post claiming that Damore’s firing was an indication of closed minds at Google, so it seemed important to repost this – vy)
Read moreGoogle Manifesto shows that many programmers are bad at logic
Everyone can recognize some kinds of spurious reasoning – like the following: (A) Most programmers are not great. (B) Google tries to hire only excellent
Read moreCurrent reading: July 8 2017
Principal type-schemes for functional programs∗ Luis Damas† and Robin Milner First published in POPL ’82: Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of
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The replicated state machine method of fault tolerance from 1980s
The first time I saw this method was when I went to work for Parallel Computer Systems, , later called Auragen, in the famous tech startup
Read moreCutting and pasting about Kodak’s demise
This graph from Peter Diamandis about how Kodak entered the sinkhole is kind of amazing. Diamandis explains Kodak’s failure to swerve in what is I think
Read moreThe Auragen file system.
This article on the interesting Wave Transactional File System inspired me to look up an earlier file system that also used copy on write semantics.
Read moreMiFID II, GPS and UTC time
I have a post up on FSMLabs web site about the use of GPS and other satellite time for MiFID II timestamp compliance. It’s fascinating
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