You know, it’s crazy. I used to work for one of the big investment banks. In fact, I was actually in their Risk IT department - we built the systems they used to evaluate risk on their investments. These banks ploughed a lot of cash into building these kinds of systems, employed some very smart […]
Entries from September 2008
$700 billion handout for willful ignorance
September 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment
The JavaScript arms race continues
September 19th, 2008 · No Comments
It’s been a busy month for JavaScript engines. Google pushed out Chrome with its V8 engine at the start of the month, featuring efficient garbage collection and hidden classes that boosted performance dramatically. Mozilla nonchalantly responded that they would soon be releasing their own TraceMonkey engine, with claimed increases over V8.
Not to bad outdone, the […]
Tags: Web dev
Have Your Say: the LHC
September 10th, 2008 · No Comments
Some choice picks from the BBC Have Your Say on the Large Hadron Collider:
Why was this ‘built’ underground? Simple, it does not exist. It’s a big con.
It’s the same reason India/Pakistan allegedly conducted nuclear explosions underground simply because they never happened in the first place. Why? Because nuclear bombs don’t exist and they […]
Tags: Culture
