Archive for January, 2009

Monoculture crosses my desk

January 15, 2009
By lispian

It’s been a while since I read Dan et al’s original paper CyberInSecurity: The Cost of Monopoly. For whatever reason it’s crossed my desk again, but mostly because of Dan’s followup Monoculture on the Back of the Envelope. To me the original paper was crucial for people to comprehend the issues that arise when...
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Shepherding Code

January 12, 2009
By lispian

I don’t understand why we’re still shepherding our software through the CPU. Machines are so fast we should be focusing on the software, the experience. Instead, I watch as software gets bigger and bigger, more and more cumbersome. More difficult to understand. When I started coding 30 years ago we had to write tight...
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A blog of my musings. Some folks find it interesting and so I continue. Hopefully it will remain fairly interesting. At worst, it'll keep me writing orthogonally to my day job.

 

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