A dose of “mark-to-market” relief December 24, 2008
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According to the WSJ, FASB has asked for public comment on a new proposal to loosen the rule regarding when financial firms must book losses on certain lower-rate, aka junky, mortgage-backed and commercial backed securities and structured securities.
World’s best hard drive space management tool December 23, 2008
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As a software developer, I deal with source code all day. While I am working on one new project, I still have to support several older ones. For each project I might have several versions of that project, each version containing different features or bug fixes in progress.
Everything is fine until I can’t compile my projects because I am out of disk space. What to do?
Welcome back function pointers December 8, 2008
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Back in the good ol’ days, it wasn’t uncommon to write C code littered with liberal amounts of void *’s and tons of casts. Fast forward 10 or more years, C++ with its fancy support for polymorphism has pretty much eliminated the need for doing such barbaric things. However, last week, I was working on fancy piece of multithreaded caching code. I noticed that I created multiple write methods for my cache class that looked exactly the same except the little “work” piece was different. Is there a way to have this code exist in only one place but call different compute different methods? What to do? Function pointers! (more…)
NVIDIA unleashes “affordable” supercomputer November 18, 2008
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A few months ago, Cray announced their CX1 desktop super computer starting at $25,000. Its a desk-side case with slots for mother boards containing Intel Xenon microprocessors and some NVIDIA Tesla GPU cards. Not to be out down, NVIDIA announced today their own personal supercomputer.
Europe on sale November 17, 2008
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If you live in New York City, you can’t help but to notice all the European tourists. The scurry down Broadway, like sewer rats, buying all sorts of stupid expensive crap. Well guess what? The tables are turned. The USD is absolutely soaring: compared to either the Euro or the British Pound, the USD is seriously rocking. Just look at the charts.