Lojic Technologies Blog » video http://lojic.com/blog Fri, 28 May 2010 16:11:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Precision Quadrotor Flying http://lojic.com/blog/2010/05/28/precision-quadrotor-flying/ http://lojic.com/blog/2010/05/28/precision-quadrotor-flying/#comments Fri, 28 May 2010 16:09:30 +0000 Brian Adkins http://lojic.com/blog/?p=812 Wow – pretty amazing! HT Michael Hale via RT :)

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]]> http://lojic.com/blog/2009/11/12/the-art-of-innovation/feed/ 0 Daniel Weinreb re: Lisp use at ITA http://lojic.com/blog/2009/08/29/daniel-weinreb-re-lisp-use-at-ita/ http://lojic.com/blog/2009/08/29/daniel-weinreb-re-lisp-use-at-ita/#comments Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:31:17 +0000 Brian Adkins http://lojic.com/blog/?p=770 less than 53 minutes downtime per year Latency agreement 90% of requests w/in 300 ms 5% of requests w/in 600 ms 5% of requests w/in 1,200 ms Java presentation layer, [...]]]> Some random notes:

  • 650 KLOC plus 150 KLOC of open source code
  • 100 people on the team, 70 programmers
  • SBCL for the QPX product
  • Clozure CL for the reservations product
  • Availability requirement: four 9’s => less than 53 minutes downtime per year
  • Latency agreement

    • 90% of requests w/in 300 ms
    • 5% of requests w/in 600 ms
    • 5% of requests w/in 1,200 ms
  • Java presentation layer, Common Lisp stateless business layer, Oracle data layer
  • Daniel is very positive about Clojure
  • Some links from the talk:



]]> http://lojic.com/blog/2009/08/29/daniel-weinreb-re-lisp-use-at-ita/feed/ 1 Andrew Wiles – Fermat’s Last Theorem http://lojic.com/blog/2009/07/27/andrew-wiles-fermats-last-theorem/ http://lojic.com/blog/2009/07/27/andrew-wiles-fermats-last-theorem/#comments Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:34:32 +0000 Brian Adkins http://lojic.com/blog/?p=661 The story of Andrew Wiles who solved Fermat’s Last Theorem in 1994.

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http://www.justin.tv/hackertv/97554/Startup_School

Peter Norvig, Paul Graham, Marc Andreessen, Mike Arrington, Jeff Bezos, David Heinemeier Hansson, etc.

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Part One
Part Two
Part Three

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]]> http://lojic.com/blog/2007/12/01/bug-labs/feed/ 0 Crayon Physics http://lojic.com/blog/2007/12/01/crayon-physics/ http://lojic.com/blog/2007/12/01/crayon-physics/#comments Sat, 01 Dec 2007 16:08:23 +0000 Brian Adkins http://lojic.com/blog/2007/12/01/crayon-physics/ I found this video of a “crayon physics” game on Robert Scoble’s site – very cool!

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