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12 Nov 08

Kernel panic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I remarked to Dennis [Ritchie] that easily half the code I was writing in Multics was error recovery code. He said, "We left all that stuff out. If there's an error, we have this routine called panic, and when it is called, the machine crashes, and you ho

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05 Nov 08

MySQL Sandbox in Launchpad

MySQL Sandbox is a tool for installing one or more MySQL servers in isolation, without affecting other servers. Can be used to test replication.

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02 Nov 08

Knock over a president

Their hypothesis, which seems completely plausible, is that government insiders were trading on their inside information, buying up stocks of companies like United Fruit before the 1954 coup in Guatemala, and Anaconda before the 1973 coup in Chile

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16 Sep 08

Edge: THE FOURTH QUADRANT: A MAP OF THE LIMITS OF STATISTICS By Nassim Nicholas Taleb

It appears that financial institutions earn money on transactions and lose everything taking risks they don't understand. I want this to stop, and stop now—

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