Two-way string matching And an implementation in Musl. The C standard post C11 The Rube-Goldberg approach to fault tolerance in NTPd which is not worse than
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Wadler’s influential “monads” paper for Haskell. It seems like a classic case of making something simple sound profound and mysterious. And companion paper by Hughes
Read moreRelaxed memory order
Two interesting posts on the order in which reads and writes happen and are made visible on shared memory multi-processors. X86 has a strong memory
Read moreUpdate of UNIX filesystem paper
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Read moreJP Morgan Security Breach
“Faced with the rising threat of online crime, JPMorgan has said it plans to spend $250 million on digital security annually, but had been losing
Read morePaths versus Recursion
/* * Iterative DepthFirst file list (c) Victor Yodaiken 2013 * * “Not the way we do it in Brooklyn” – Dave “Kinch” Arnow. *
Read moreFrom Jersey to Wall Street – or the equivalent
A common configuration for FSMLabs TimeKeeper customers is to cross-couple time sources in New Jersey and New York City or London and Slough or Chicago and
Read moreBoeing security
So the court said Matthew Neumann and Nicholas Tides were properly fired in 2008 for violating company policy of disclosing company information to the media,
Read moreThe wizards of finance
“This latest incident and the previous Chuetsu-Oki earthquake indicate that the business risk of operating nuclear power plants in Japan is higher than previously contemplated,” Moody’s
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