Archive for April, 2008
Explaining the rise in gasoline prices
A Globe and Mail Article with Michael Ervin explaining the rise in gasoline prices
Several things I learned from the article:
Worldwide demand has risen steadily for the past few years, and is projected to increase at a rate of 2% per year by International Energy Agency’s top economist Fatih Birol. Meanwhile, worldwide oil production has [...]
Very basic concepts on options
What is Call/Put option?
Call option is the right to buy an asset at an agreed exercised price. Put option is the right to sell an asset at a given exercised price. European options allow exercise only at the expiry date. American options allow exercise at or before the expiry date.
What is Black-Scholes [...]
Returning to wordpress
Sadly the incoming traffic of my new blog at http://programmerinterview.blogspot.com/is much lower than this blog, so I’ve decided to return.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Unix Sockets and Signals
The 2 books Unix Network Programming, Volume 1: The Sockets Networking and UNIX Network Programming, Volume 2: Interprocess Communications by W. Richard Stevens provides in-depth information on Unix sockets, signals and IPCs. Here’s a summarized version of some important concepts in Unix sockets and signals.
Sockets
A socket can be considered as a file descriptor [...]
