Posts with keyword: computers

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Seeing the Dynamic in the Static

Thu Jan 22 19:41:00 2009

Jeff Atwood opines on why many programmers are also musicians of some kind--or at least appreciate music. I've heard this said of mathematicians as well. I have long held that all of these disciplines hold in common the ability to relate the dynamic and the static. Good programmers can see how the program will operate by looking at a lexically scoped program listings. Musicians do the same thing with music (I'm not just talking about music notation, but that's part of it).
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Google's Hardware Initiatives

Tue Jan 8 14:05:00 2008

Here's a couple of very interesting articles about Google's home grown 10Gb Ethernet switches and how it builds it's own servers.
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