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Centralizing distributed version control, revisited

7 years ago, I wrote a blogpostabout how we at Jane Street were using our distributed version control system(hg, though the story would be the same for git) ...

04 Mar 2015

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Making making better

We spend a lot of time and effort on training new people, and it never stops forlong. Right now our winter-intern class is ending; in five months we’ll have ...

31 Jan 2015

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13 Virtues

Very early on in his life, while on lengthy voyage from London to Philadelphia,Ben Franklin created a system of thirteen virtues to live his life by. He spen...

02 Jan 2015

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Inspecting the Environment of a Running Process

Sometimes its useful to be able see the values of environment variables inrunning processes. We can use the following test program to see how well we canacco...

01 Dec 2014

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How to choose a teaching language

If you were teaching a programming course, what language would you teach it in?

17 Nov 2014

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What the interns have wrought: RPC_parallel and Core_profiler

We’re in the midst of intern hiring season, and so we get a lot of questionsabout what it’s like to be an intern at Jane Street. One of the things peoplemost...

16 Oct 2014

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What is gained and lost with 63-bit integers?

Almost every programming language uses 64-bit integers on typical modern Intelmachines. OCaml uses a special 63-bit representation. How does it affect OCaml?

29 Sep 2014

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The ML Workshop looks fantastic

I’m a little biased, by being on the steering committee, but this year’s MLworkshop looks really interesting. Here’s a link to the program:

31 Jul 2014

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