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CockroachDB happens to be somewhat compatible with PostgreSQL, meaning that software written to use PostgreSQL can sometimes (often!)

When I started contributing to CockroachDB, I was foremost excited to contribute to an open source project with a strong “free as in freedom” component, which makes CockroachDB agreeably FOSS in my eyes.

A few months ago, I was invited to present CockroachDB to a tech consulting office in Amsterdam.

I published an article on the Cockroach Labs Blog: Local and distributed query processing in CockroachDB.

I published an article on the Cockroach Labs Blog: On the Way to Better SQL Joins in CockroachDB.

I published an article on the Cockroach Labs Blog: Memory Usage in CockroachDB.

I published an article on the Cockroach Labs Blog: Squashing a Schrödinbug With Strong Typing.

I published an article on the Cockroach Labs Blog: Modesty in Simplicity: CockroachDB’s JOIN.

I published an article on the Cockroach Labs Blog: Critters in a Jar: Running CockroachDB in a FreeBSD Jail.

In any comparative discussion about programming languages, the probability that the conversation will mention Brainfuck or INTERCAL approaches 1 over time.

My friend Nathan and I published an article on the Cockroach Labs Blog: Revisiting SQL typing in CockroachDB.

I published an article on the Cockroach Labs Blog: DIY Jepsen Testing CockroachDB.

You are completing a MSc-level study and feel qualified to apply for a PhD.

Say you have invented “the next big thing”, e.g. the next C, the next operating system, the next processor, and hope your thing will shine, masses will come to it and you will be forever famous.

Every now and then a scientist should step back from his specialization and reflect in the entire research domain around him/her.

Prologue A famous researcher once said that a scientist should not work more than 5-6 years in the same research area.

For the last 4 years I have been growing dissatisfied with the quality and contents of the BSc programs in informatics in the Netherlands.

This post follows up on OCaml for Haskellers from Edward Z.

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This post mirrors OCaml for Haskellers from Edward Z.

Introductie Open een terminal, dan vor het volgende commando uit: mkdir opdracht-JOUWNAAM Vervang “JOUWNAAM” door je naam en/of die van je werkpartner.

Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet.

I need to pick a programming language to prototype some initial ideas for my next research project, an interactive shell to program and control lightweight process networks.

1 Lab notes Day 1. got a de0 nano. installed Lubuntu 13.04 in VirtualBox, 32-bit, 6GB space. tried to install the Altera Quartus II suite.

Here are some resources I found useful on the topics of teaching, writing and presenting.

1 Opdracht Tijdens deze introductie is van je het volgende verwacht: lees dit hele document door en doe de opdrachten erin.

Ivan Godard from Out-of-the-Box Computing is currently touring the US talking about his Mill CPU architecture, based on a new machine model called the “Belt”.

Ever since I defended my thesis in September 2012, a thought had been left lingering in the epilogue of my book: that computing systems architects and designers are currently incentivized by market effects to build mostly “closed” systems that are annoying

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

(Note: the following is a rework of the preface of my thesis [1]) When I joined the CSA group in September 2008, my supervisor Chris Jesshope tasked me thus: “We made this novel chip called a Microgrid, and we want a C compiler to program it.

Twelve years ago, at my first job at a University, my supervisor told my colleague and I: “I am writing a book about finite state automata.

Background Heat on chip Computer chips become hotter when they are used.

Two days ago I started to investigate whether C was Turing Complete.

On November 17th, 2012, a link to a Brainfuck interpreter written using the C preprocessor language was posted to Hacker News.