Timeline of the far future
22 days ago
One of the most interesting Wikipedia articles I've read. Puts a lot of things into perspective.
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astronomy
cosmology
geology
science
wikipedia
22 days ago
command center: The byte order fallacy
8 weeks ago
Rob Pike makes a compelling argument that you're doing it wrong.
byte-order
bits
endian
programming
8 weeks ago
Smoothsort Demystified
january 2012
Best article on Smoothsort I've seen. Sadly, even in the O(n) cases, smoothsort is slower than std::sort, likely due to cache behavior.
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smoothsort
dijkstra
algorithms
programming
january 2012
program verification: the very idea | Lambda the Ultimate
november 2010
One of the best discussions of program verification that I've found.
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verification
formal-methods
november 2010
A look back: Bram Cohen vs Linus Torvalds
august 2010
Simple tools > complex tools
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git
codeville
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tools
august 2010
Best In Class: Developer Productivity - The Red Pill
august 2010
Regarding emacs, tiling window managers, etc.
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xmonad
august 2010
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