Articles by jcartw
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S&P500 Priced in Gold (pricedingold.com)

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Value Investing Is Struggling to Remain Relevant (2020) (economist.com)

5

Why investors are increasingly fatalistic (economist.com)

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McMaster Carr – The Smartest Website You Haven't Heard Of (2022) (bedelstein.com)

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Gita Gopinath on the crash that could torch $35T of wealth (economist.com)

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How Nubank Built its in-house log platform (nubank.com)

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What if the AI stockmarket blows up? (economist.com)

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Fabulous Fortunes, Fewer Failures, and Faster Fixes from Functional Fundamentals [video] (youtube.com)

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Game theory at work: When to talk and when to shut up (2024) (swaits.com)

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America's housing market is shuddering (economist.com)

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You need to be able to run your system (catern.com)

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Why China is giving away its tech for free (economist.com)

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What employees think of their companies' values (economist.com)

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Designing the Ledgers API with Optimistic Locking (moderntreasury.com)

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US Employment for Prof., Scientific and Tech Svcs: Computer Sys. Design/Related (stlouisfed.org)

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Can IOPS Be Estimated from Fsync? (justincartwright.com)

9

Consistent Hash Ring (selfboot.cn)

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Transactional Outbox Pattern (2021) (ioannisioannou.me)

2

The Raft Consensus Algorithm (raft.github.io)

2

My Favorite Technical Blogs (eatonphil.com)

20

Dice and Queues (justincartwright.com)

1

Larry Fink says Bitcoin could replace the dollar as the reserve currency (fortune.com)

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Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant (economist.com)

42

Build an 8-bit computer from scratch (2016) (eater.net)

2

Let's Build a Simple Database (cstack.github.io)

2

One or Two? How Many Queues? (brooker.co.za)

2

MySQL Transactions per Second with 3000 IOPS (justincartwright.com)

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Testing Without Mocks: A Pattern Language (2023) (jamesshore.com)

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MySQL transactions per second vs. fsyncs per second (2020) (sirupsen.com)

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Why rents are still rising too fast (economist.com)

2

Can IOPS Be Estimated from Fsync? (justincartwright.com)

1

How the Fed "Went Broke" (2023) (lynalden.com)

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El Salvador's crypto experiment ends in failure (economist.com)

1

The Cathedral and the Bazaar (wikipedia.org)

83

You might not need Redis (viblo.se)

2

Dice and Queues (justincartwright.com)

3

Trimodal Nature of Tech Compensation in the US, UK and India (pragmaticengineer.com)

2

S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index (stlouisfed.org)

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Let’s code a TCP/IP stack, 1: Ethernet and ARP (2016) (saminiir.com)

4

Ask HN: Neutral Emoji for Acknowledgement

3

A from-scratch tour of Bitcoin in Python (2021) (karpathy.github.io)

2

Portfolio Visualizer – Monte Carlo Simulation (portfoliovisualizer.com)

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Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo (wikipedia.org)

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Why Amazon Hired a Car Mechanic to Run Its Cloud Empire (2013) (wired.com)

2

What to know about the stock market (2007) (betterexplained.com)

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An epic treatise on scheduling, bug tracking, and triage (2017) (apenwarr.ca)

2

Amazon S3 Stores 350T Objects with 11 Nines of Durability (bytebytego.com)

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NoSQL: The Baby and the Bathwater (brooker.co.za)

3

Robots are suddenly getting cleverer. What's changed? (economist.com)