The Weekly Weird - 2014-12-12
- Oops: http://imgur.com/a/Hw7ny
- All of the names in this make me cringe (linux++? The Machine?) but removing the entire concept of volatile memory is a pretty big jump. Who's going to offer odds of memristors shipping in any way before 2025? http://www.technologyreview.com/news/533066/hp-will-release-a-revolutionary-new-operating-system-in-2015/
- A mathy yet fairly readable look at HFT, mostly based on Virtu's IPO docs: https://sniperinmahwah.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/virtuoverview.pdf
- A nice analysis of the RAFT consensus algorithm in ocaml: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-857.pdf and https://github.com/heidi-ann/ocaml-raft which led to a /really/ nice visualization of how it works: http://thesecretlivesofdata.com/raft/
- What could /possibly/ go wrong: http://www.ellusionist.com/pyro-handheld-fireshooter-by-adam-wilber.html
- Clarity is important: http://www.infoworld.com/article/2854353/it-jobs/for-major-outage-push-the-button.html
- That is not configured which can eternal lie: http://thedoomthatcametopuppet.tumblr.com/
- Today's sign that you're doing something terribly wrong with your life: http://www.vox.com/2014/12/8/7352997/grumpy-cat
- Fonts. In. Spaaaace: http://typesetinthefuture.com/alien/
- They're no Blue Angels but five airliners in close formation still made my inner 8-year old squee a bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI4jWYZLeHQ#t=3m15s(rewind
- We don't need no stinking keyboards:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SkdfdXWYaI#t=9m5s (rewind for more background)
- There's a pretty neat scifi story in here somewhere: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1412.1897v1.pdf
- I expect there are a lot of things like this that are totally obvious if we can just measure the right things: http://nautil.us/blog/mood-ringcell-phones-can-hear-depression-in-peoples-voices
- Ubuntu's new core update story: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1434
- Continuing the noble tradition of writing webservers in languages that have no business being webservers: http://coq-blog.clarus.me/pluto-a-first-concurrent-web-server-in-gallina.html
- Worse is better: http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/networks/osi-the-internet-that-wasnt