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Teacher Retirement System of Texas Takes it on the Chin on Mar 15, 2009According to the Austin American Statesman, in the past six months the Teacher Retirement System of Texas has lost $34 billion representing a decline in value of about one third. From the article:...

Onwards and Upwards: Goodbye Cisco, Hello TBD on Jan 1, 2009The time has come: yesterday, December 31 2008, was my last day at Cisco. In my mind, my tenure at Cisco was about completing what we started eight years ago with Metreos. Cisco purchased Metreos after we had be...

That's a Dilly of a Pickle on Sep 26, 2008We’ve all had that moment. You know the feeling, your stomach falls out from under you, your legs go a bit wobbly, or your gut climbs into your throat. It’s an “Oh Shit” moment. L...

The Root of All Meeting Pain: The Battle for Authority Points on Sep 25, 2008The most perplexing thing to me about working in a large company is this concept of Authority Points. I think it might be the root cause of why people always grumble about big companies, especially when they come...

How Tall is Your Ladder? Premature Optimization or Prudent Foundation? on Jul 14, 2008Premature optimization: it’s the hater-programmer’s1 trump card. These days it seems everywhere I look I see these folks yelling, “Stop, you’re optimizing prematurely! Thou shalt perish in...

Hello C, My Old Friend! on Jul 9, 2008Recently I needed to parse a large ASCII flat file. The files are generally about 230 MB large with about 1.1 million records each, but there are some that are as large as 1 GB. To do the heavy lifting I decided to...

Holy Q Batman! on Jul 1, 2008One of my hobbies is looking at financial markets. Market microstructure1 is fascinating, especially when you take a deep look at not only how the markets function (price discovery, information propagation, etc.),...