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 PTP fault tolerance but a lot worse than what is done in TimeKeeper. Interesting but
Current reading
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 on “why functional programming matters” . See also some comments above. McCarthy’s original LISP paper. Just
MiFID II Clock Sync – talk at Bank of England April 12 2016
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Relaxed 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 model in which if X=Y=0 and then processor core 1 writes 1 to X and
Update of UNIX filesystem paper
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JP 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 many of its security staff to other banks over the last year, with others expected
Paths versus Recursion
/* * Iterative DepthFirst file list (c) Victor Yodaiken 2013 * * “Not the way we do it in Brooklyn” – Dave “Kinch” Arnow. * * * Data structure is P – the current path, with some aux data *
From 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 Aurora or Singapore and Sidney- any two trading locations that are connected with high quality
Boeing 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, in this case the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, without company authorization. In 2007, the PI wrote: “Boeing and
The 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 analysts including Kenji Okamoto said in a note, putting the company [TEPCO] on a review