Super Cool, Super Divergent
Smart-phone platforms: iPhone, Android, WebOS, Maemo, etc. All are super-cool. But all are also astonishingly divergent in their approach to many of the details. So much so that one has to learn each...
View ArticleFantasecond response time
Here’s a fascinating in-depth study of one second of market data for a single stock: HFT [High Frequency Trading] Breaks Speed-of-Light Barrier, Sets Trading Speed World Record. Adds a new unit of time...
View Articlecppreference.com
A cool new (for me) site, cppreference.com. A super-navigable, super-clean C++ reference, including C++11. The only thing missing is a search box, but the search engines give you that.
View ArticleBerserk Algo: $440M
Knight Capital: Final Berserk Algo Bill To Knight – $440 Million; Stock Implodes Ten million dollars a minute. And it’s almost certainly the case that the software passed all its tests in the lab.
View ArticleSoftware Runs the World: How Scared Should We Be That So Much of It Is So Bad?
From The Atlantic: The underlying problem here is that most software is not very good. Writing good software is hard. There are thousands of opportunities to make mistakes. More importantly, it’s...
View ArticleData Scientists…
Harvard Business Review: Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century
View Article“I am a terrible programmer”
That provocative title from Dan Shipper: Part of me is thinking: in some ways, you were a terrible programmer Other part is, well … it’s worked perfectly for the last 20 months and I’ve never had to...
View ArticlePhone Virii
They’re smaller, simpler, probably more vulnerable, and the tools to see into them not as well developed. You Should Put Antivirus Software on Your Phone
View ArticleDownsides of Collaboration
Here’s an outstanding video on how collaboration can not only kill creativity, but dupe our very perceptions. Steve Wozniak: Most inventors and engineers I have met are like me: they’re shy and they...
View ArticleDownsides of SaaS
Software-as-a-Service has its downsides, as one commenter notes: We’re beginning to see the pitfalls of software-as-a-service in general: loss of control for for the user, increased security risks, and...
View ArticleBoost Inside
Snooping in the QuickBooks 2013 installation directory, I find a couple boost libraries: boost_regex-vc90-mt-p-1_33.dll boost_serialization-vc90-mt-1_35.dll boost_serialization-vc90-mt-1_33.dll Not a...
View ArticlePython is addictive
Been a while since I’ve felt this way, but Python brought it back out. Python programming is pretty addictive. I find myself pondering the next little Python ditty to whip up, and going through...
View ArticleMini flash crashes caused by humans
Mini flash crashes caused by sloppiness, not a broken market -SEC
View ArticleConfluence
Just hosted a Join.Me session directly into a VMWare virtual machine on my machine. Didn’t have to clean up (my desktop) for company. Love the confluence of technologies.
View ArticleDropbox? Python.
Love it. Dropbox uses python, scaling to 175 million users. Also interesting: The team also found it was easier to keep log data rather than delete old code – usually there would be a need for it...
View ArticleTo Know: Hamcrest
From the boost mailing list: Hamcrest is a declarative test-assertion definition style. The word is an anagram of matchers.
View ArticleWireshark is going Qt
Wireshark is moving their user interface away from GTK+ to Qt. Making such a large change wasn’t an easy decision. It means rewriting thousands of lines of code and requires a lot of careful design. We...
View Article11th-Hour Surprise
This morning, 10:01AM, our regional electric company sends: Introducing the newly redesigned [redacted] page — an even easier and faster way to refer your friends … This morning, 10:44AM: UPDATE: The...
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