Perezium

Lock-free Algorithms

Sat, 26 May 2012 16:18:58 -0700

Lock-free Algorithms:

These guys are doing amazing work in the field of computer science. LMAX team is raising the bar.

Learning about Google Go language, its pretty amazing.

Wed, 09 May 2012 10:09:01 -0700

Learning about Google Go language, its pretty amazing.

This is how the internet was supposed to be.

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:50:56 -0700

This is how the internet was supposed to be.

The Game of Distributed Systems

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:40:46 -0700

The Game of Distributed Systems:

a fantastic run down of the various levels of thinking that distributed systems engineers traverse on their path to enlightenment.

Good artists copy. Great artists remix.

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:20:05 -0800

Good artists copy. Great artists remix.

Icons, symbols.

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 08:53:27 -0800

Icons, symbols.

Lets use social media to actually do something life changing....

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 23:43:00 -0800

Lets use social media to actually do something life changing. Spread this.
KONY 2012.

feel it all around

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:54:00 -0800

feel it all around

Made by hand.

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:12:41 -0800

Made by hand.

Photo

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:00:06 -0800

Photo

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:51:48 -0800

1997 - The first keynote Steve Jobs gave, upon returning to the...

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:00:05 -0800

1997 - The first keynote Steve Jobs gave, upon returning to the Board of Directors, at Apple.

First-Class Citizens

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:41:00 -0800

The term “First-Class Citizens”, within the context of Computer Science, was coined by Christopher Strachey. This term represents the following principals:

The rights and privileges of first-class citizens

To be named by variables.
To be passed as arguments to procedures.
To be returned as values of procedures.
To be incorporated into data structures.

A common case, when a programming language refers to functions as “first-class citizens”, this equates the following principles to be true for them.

Noted, for historical reasons.

MIT 6.001 Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs...

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:00:05 -0800

MIT 6.001 Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Course, 1986.

An metaphor. (credit)

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:00:06 -0800

An metaphor. (credit)

"Being exceptional means knowing when to not do what you’re told to do."

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:57:03 -0800

“Being exceptional means knowing when to not do what you’re told to do.”

- Michael Lopp

Hello, Clojure.

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:15:00 -0800

I’ve recently finished reading my first book on Clojure, and I am pretty fascinated by this pure functional JVM programming language. I’ve been doing some FP in JavaScript over the past year, but Clojure is still quite eye opening.

So, what do I do with this new language? Fibonacci numbers of course.

My first (naive) approach to Fibonacci on Clojure was recursion (surprise, still sucks), then I tried my hand at a poorly implemented memoization version, and after speaking with some people in IRC, I landed on this approach:

Whats fascinating about this approach is that it utilizes one of the most interesting apsects of Clojure: lazy evaluation. This approach feels as close to linear as possible, even in large scale numbers (2000, 10000, 100000), and utilizes about 67 MB of constant memory, while distributing the computations across all available cores.

Yeah. Excited to be continuing my journey of FP, onward!

Also, excited to be attending the Clojure/West conference in March, I’ll see you there!

"If you’re going to devote the best years of your life to your work, have enough love for yourself..."

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:45:38 -0800

““If you’re going to devote the best years of your life to your work, have enough love for yourself and the world around you to work on something that matters to you deeply. Something that’s beating out of your chest and compels you to throw yourself at it completely. No one knows whether you and your teammates will realize your audacious visions, but in order to do great things, we must attempt great things.””

- Justin Rosenstein

Amon Tobin has a crazy stage presence.

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:16:59 -0800

Amon Tobin has a crazy stage presence.

Code Rush

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 20:01:49 -0800

60 min interview, recorded in 1998/99. Follows the engineers of Mozilla/Netscape fighting against Microsoft in the latest 90s.