“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
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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)
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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 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 moreAnnals of unintentional irony
Come back after a trip to see Marc Andreessen’s team of twitter posters complaining wryly about how government is so gosh durn big and citing
Read moreIkea and RedHat
This is state of the art for systems software now – which is not all that impressive. Glantz explained that Ikea has more than 3,500
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How business works in the real world: Apple and GT and Beelzebub
GT Advanced declared bankruptcy and blamed Apple for its problems. Apple called GT Advanced’s story “defamatory”. I have no idea about the specifics in this
Read moreWhat happens when you do not use enterprise quality technology.
News from last year. Aug. 26, 2013 11:52 a.m. ET A glitch in time synchronization caused German exchange operator Deutsche BoerseAG DB1.XE -0.16% ‘s Eurex
Read morePatents considered harmful, by some.
@vyodaiken This makes no sense. You don’t foster competition by handing out monopolies. — Timothy B. Lee (@binarybits) September 16, 2014 That’s not how it
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