Tiark Rompf is an Associate Professor at Purdue University. Notes and blog posts on programming, research, CS, software systems.

Founder Jeffrey Katzenberg and Chief Executive Meg Whitman decided to shut down the company in an effort to return as much capital to investors as possible instead of trying to prolong the life of the company and risk losing more money.

We are very sad to say that James Randi passed away yesterday, due to age-related causes.   He had an Amazing life. We will miss him.    Please respect Deyvi Peña’s privacy during this...

A look at how LinkedIn exfiltrates extension data from their users.

"An engineering problem that, when solved, solves energy."

Same Minecraft, new and improved account!

The auctions pioneered by this year’s economics laureates have backfired badly in some emerging markets.

<a href="https://community.cadence.com/cadence_blogs_8/b/breakfast-bytes"></a>The noscript of this post, you are not expected to understand this, is one of the most famous comments ever. It is in the v6 version of Unix, the mother operating system of Linux,…

I don't see any significant technical novelty in the low-code movement. But I do not see this as being negative. More the opposite. Read why I think the low-code movement represents a great opportunity for the modeling community.

Do you think you're tone-deaf? Test your pitch perception.

Das Bundeskabinett hat den Weg für die umstrittene Reform des Verfassungsschutzrechts frei gemacht. Die Regierung billigte am Mittwoch den Gesetzentwurf von Bundesinnenminister Horst Seehofer (CSU), mit dem die sogenannte Quellen-Telekommunikationsüberwachung…

Developers over-optimise for the ergonomics of typing and not enough for the ergonomics of thinking.

My bout with colon cancer at age 34 in 2020

Scientific research today is afflicted by poor reliability and low utility, despite the best efforts of individual researchers.

In short, a financial model is an abstract mathematical representation of how a company works and how it will work going forward.

Learning YAML might be table stakes, but we still need to strive for a better solution. One that's more human friendly.

An important thing that explains a lot of things is that good news takes time but bad news happens instantly. Dwight Eisenhower ate a hamburger for dinner on September 24th, 1955. Later that evening he told his wife the onions gave him heartburn. Then he…

The reason is Russia

I once attended a talk by Yoky Matsuoka when I was young – so young, in fact, that I don’t remember when or where the talk was.  What I do remember is her telling the story of designing…

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