http://www.acooke.org/cute/Andrew Cooke's blogWed, 08 Feb 2012 20:05:08 GMTPyRSS2Gen-1.0.0http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttp://www.acooke.org/cute/InfoonAnon0.html Useful thread and a link to a related thesis. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3566305 Andrew InfoonAnon0.html Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:05:00 GMThttp://www.acooke.org/cute/HardwareTr0.html http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2012/02/07/transactional-synchronization-in-haswell/ Andrew HardwareTr0.html Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:18:00 GMThttp://www.acooke.org/cute/Rome3Dream0.html I'm poking aroud webgl at the moment; this by far the best demo I've come across (the only demo that's shown real artistic sensibility) - http://www.ro.me/ Andrew Rome3Dream0.html Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:34:00 GMThttp://www.acooke.org/cute/NewTechnol0.html These are a bunch of random notes I wrote for work when someone asked what was "new". I realise some of this is quite old - that's partly me not knowing stuff, and partly because I wasn't sure what was required. Anyway, feedback is welcomed. The original was a wiki page; I've had to reformat it here. Cloud Computing Various ideas / acronyms related to "the cloud" are worth understanding: ...NewTechnol0.html Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:23:00 GMThttp://www.acooke.org/cute/ShoddyMacs0.html How can any self-respecting engineer buy a computer where they *glue* the cable to the disk? These aren't machines made for people that take things apart - they're made for *consumers* that never expect to get their hands dirty. Mac owning engineers: you're selling your souls for a shiny trinket. These aren't machines made, and made well, to be cared for. They are intended as disposable troph...ShoddyMacs0.html Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:18:00 GMThttp://www.acooke.org/cute/ProfilingG0.html This is a really nice article that shows the practical details of profiling (CPU and memory) Go programs. In addition, the way that the profiler output is displayed (via graphvix, with node sizes scaled to reflect the measured values) is very neat. http://blog.golang.org/2011/06/profiling-go-programs.html Andrew ProfilingG0.html Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:26:00 GMThttp://www.acooke.org/cute/AccesstoBl0.html http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/it-business/3334375/bloomberg-market-data-api-made-public/ http://open.bloomberg.com/ Not clear to me what limitations exists (volume limits etc). Andrew AccesstoBl0.html Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:27:00 GMThttp://www.acooke.org/cute/AutomatedJ0.html The system I am currently working on has a leak on redeploying to Tomcat (probably similar to what is described here http://blogs.oracle.com/fkieviet/entry/classloader_leaks_the_dreaded_java) This looks like it would automate the detection and solution: http://www.plumbr.eu/ http://www.plumbr.eu/blog/screencast-how-to-use-plumbr Andrew AutomatedJ0.html Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:16:00 GMThttp://www.acooke.org/cute/FashionMen0.html http://www.wwd.com/runway/mens-fall-collections-2012/review/thom-browne/slideshow#/slideshow/article/5547182/5547183 Andrew FashionMen0.html Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:27:00 GMThttp://www.acooke.org/cute/LeftDrifts0.html When you have people like Blair and Obama in power it's easy to think that the right can't be worse. So it's worth noting that it can. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/22/housing-benefit-cap-62p-a-day Andrew LeftDrifts0.html Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:58:00 GMThttp://www.acooke.org/cute/JollyGoodI0.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jan/15/queen-royal-yacht-diamond-jubilee-gove Words fail me. Original comment here was more or less a string of profanities. If this happens I will consider changing nationality. Andrew JollyGoodI0.html Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:30:00 GMT