Alex Clemmer

How bad is the Windows command line really?

Porting Mesos to Windows

FoundationDB proves your primary datastore is the worst place in your stack to bet on new tech

84% of a single-threaded 1KB write in Redis is spent in the kernel

Half of IBM's profits come from mainframes

MSFT open sources production serialization system written partially in Haskell

The time I found a bug in the .NET framework and fixed it by hand-altering the DLL.

Beginner's guide to OCaml beginner's guides.

Should I Machine Learn?

Recovering deleted files using only grep

I needed to use a regex on an airplane without Internet. So I reverse engineered the API.

How does Akamai's "secure heap" patch to OpenSSL work?

Day 266: The unfamiliar world of OS X syscalls

Day 265: Semaphores and mutexes. Mutices. Muticii.

Typo in Apple's SSL implementation causes uniform failure to validate key exchanges

Swisher's AOL.com, 15 years later

What "viable search engine competition" really looks like.

Ticket to ride: reflecting on the value of my CS degree

Day 212: More about counting things with fancy math.

Day 208: telnet, turning you into a human server

Day 207: How to count things.

Day 206: What is an IP address, anyway?

General lessons from scaling large systems at Microsoft

Twitter's IPO in simple terms

Adding Haskell's `where` keyword to OCaml

Turning the Apple //e into a lisp machine, part 1

The obvious Python parser

What exactly is the difference between machine learning and statistics?

Motivating the Bayesian prior with de Finetti's theorem

Why psuedorandomness is important in frequency moment estimation