Full Text Search with SphinxBy JurisTech| 2020-03-27T17:31:39+00:00 8th January, 2014|We had a look at Sphinx Search. This provides direct APIs to MySQL, and ODBC to other databases. Their most well-known user is Craiglist. Looks very scalable, especially if you can shard the indexes.
SELL ALL signal revisitedBy JurisTech| 2020-03-27T17:31:48+00:00 4th December, 2013|People started with using the 200 day moving average, then later found that the 250-day moving average (the 52-week moving average) was superior...
Common sense investing and being contrarianBy JurisTech| 2020-03-27T15:32:51+00:00 5th November, 2013|One of the weird things people say all the time is that to succeed in investment, you need to be a contrarian.
Detecting a major drop in the Stock Market: the SELL ALL signal!By JurisTech| 2020-03-27T17:31:59+00:00 17th October, 2013|I have noticed that there are times when the KLSE drops so badly that even if you are a value investor, it makes sense to sell everything and wait till the stock market recovers.
How do credit card companies make money?By JurisTech| 2020-03-27T17:33:34+00:00 16th October, 2013|Ever wondered how credit card companies make money? Checkout the infographics here.
US Debt Ceiling, QE Tapering and Malaysian ReformsBy JurisTech| 2020-03-27T15:33:37+00:00 14th October, 2013|The Republicans today still continue to refuse to honour their debt obligations to the world and there are consequences.
NUMA and database headachesBy JurisTech| 2020-03-27T17:33:46+00:00 14th October, 2013|NUMA stands for non-uniform memory access. It is a memory architecture for multiple CPU systems where some memory is local to specific CPUs, and accessing remote memory (which is local to another CPU) is slower.
Twitter BootstrapBy JurisTech| 2020-04-10T16:25:52+00:00 26th September, 2013|Twitter Bootstrap is a CSS and Javascript framework for creating light-weight web-sites.
Malaysia ties with S. Korea in Global Dynamism Index 2013By JurisTech| 2020-03-27T15:34:06+00:00 17th September, 2013|A pleasant surprise that Malaysia is on par with South Korea on the 2013 Global Dynamism Index.