Jef Claes

15 Feb 2015

This week marked my first year at my current employer. While that event went by rather silently, one year in, a few of m...

18 Jan 2015

Let's (no pun intended) look at a set of response times of a web service. ```fsharp let responseTimes = [ 18.0; 21.0;...

11 Jan 2015

Starting 2014, I wanted to look more closely at everything I consume. So I started keeping a list of everything I read, ...

28 Dec 2014

> The psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi popularized the term "flow" > to describe states of absorption in which atten...

14 Dec 2014

The previous post showed a simple model casinos use to manipulate the odds. Instead of relying on the physical wheel for...

11 Dec 2014

The previous post defined a basic set of data structures and functions to spin a wheel of fortune in F\#. There was...

09 Dec 2014

In this post, I'll define a basic set of data structures and functions to spin a wheel of fortune. In the next post, I'l...

16 Nov 2014

Last week, I wrote about [splitting a hot aggregate](http://www.jefclaes.be/2014/11/splitting-hot-aggregates.html). Disc...

09 Nov 2014

When you visit a real casino, the constant busy-ness is overwhelming; players spamming buttons, pulling levers, spinning...

26 Oct 2014

I have spent the last week working in an integration test suite that seemed to be taking ages to run its first test. I r...