Hamish Durkin

This site used to be durkode.com. I have now switched it to ha.mi.sh, with the sole reason being I got the domain and I'll be damned if I'm not going to use it. That is all.

Today I got my Dell XPS 9350 working with 2 external monitors via an Aorus 1080 gaming box EGPU. There are some caveats, but for the guide read below (and skip over the reasoning section if you are only interested in the technical components). Reasoning My desktop is old and

The 2016 US Presidential election so far has been a splendid spectator affair. What was quite interesting to observe was Hillary Clinton having a recent health scare [http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/hillary-clinton-s-health-scare-9-unanswered-questions-n646551] during a 9/11 memorial event. Now I am not one to be drawn into political

Recently I read this article [http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-08-11/why-not-insider-trade-on-every-company-] on how hackers obtained private press release and then sold this information to traders who then acted on them to make profitable trades. Seemingly the trading methodology was to buy out of money options that are assumed to

Many people have told me that you can gain everything you want in life, you just can't have it all at the same time. It is said that when you are young you have time and energy but no money, in middle age you have money and energy

I don't want this post to turn out with that soppy, transcendental tone that I read so often and slightly cringe at. I feel I just had an important experience that reinforces a recent change in attitude towards maths and its role in my work. I have always

My 6 month journey through to Sweden provided much food for thought. Honestly, while I was over there I wasn't thinking so much, but when I returned to Australia the holiday was over and I knew some of those dreaded 'life decisions' would need to be

I have caught a piece of World Cup Fever, and although Australia may not have the easiest route forward (understatement of the year) the tournament has been lively and enjoyable so far. I have been following the betting markets, mainly as I view it as the most accurate predictor of

I was recently looking for a way to download the latest version of spotify on my Ubuntu machine (hint: it's not release yet and probably won't be for a while), when I ran across the following thread on the spotify forum: Spotify P2P uploading and cache

Earlier this week we had a guest lecturer for our Software Engineering Workshop course (SENG3011 for those at UNSW). The guest was Andrew Maxwell from Optiver [http://www.optiver.com.au], a Dutch trading firm that has a strong Australian presence and invests heavily in IT solutions to facilitate their