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Great diagram of relative latencies and bandwidth
latency  cs  computers 
december 2010 by maciej
Analects of Confucius
Parallel text with commentary
cs  confucius  etext  lit 
august 2009 by maciej
How to Write a Spelling Corrector
Another lovely little programming exercise by Peter Norvig
lang  nlp  cs  google  norvig  python 
june 2009 by maciej
Mailinator(tm) Blog: A Beautiful Race Condition
Interesting example of the risks of using an unsynchronized data structure even when you think it's okay for data to get clobbered
cs  threading  data_structures 
june 2009 by maciej
Amazon Dynamo white paper
high-availability key/value store optimized for writability and SLAs at 99.9th percentile
amazon  cs  from delicious
august 2008 by maciej
PHYS771 Lecture 7: Randomness
whatever floats your boat. I'm not criticizing that. But in theoretical computer science, we've already got our hands full with 2n choices. We need 2 ^aleph0 choices like we need a hole in the head
cs 
september 2007 by maciej
Python vs. Perl vs. C -- Python is Better
silly python advocacy. Useful in showing what scares newcomers about perl
perl  python  advocacy  rant  c  cs 
august 2007 by maciej
Graph Partitioning
overview and useful references
cs  graph  partition  parallel  distributed  etext 
july 2007 by maciej
Predictive test for who can and cannot learn computer programming
apparently there is a large proportion of people who just can't wrap their minds around hacking/painting.
cs  programming  cognition  edu 
july 2007 by maciej
Minus Zero
amusing UNIVAC design quirk
math  cs  univac  hist 
june 2007 by maciej
Blizzard makes WoW wish virtual reality
a touching story about blizzard pulling out all stops for a sick kid. Dickens + the Onion, "Then, last fall, Micah Chatterton's house burned down, taking away all his son's toys."
wow  cs  game  philanthropy 
may 2007 by maciej
ChessBase.com - How could Kramnik overlook the mate?
discussion of the amazing Kramnik blunder in the context of cognitive psychology
cognition  psych  chess  cs 
may 2007 by maciej
Molecular Expressions: The Silicon Zoo - Steal The Best
taunting in broken russian etched onto a vax chip
ru  ha  computers  cs 
april 2007 by maciej
Joel on Software - why I don't follow my own advice
"Should you write your own compiler? Maybe" great piece of unintentional self-parody
wasabi  software  programming  idiot  spolsky  ha  cs  web  dev 
september 2006 by maciej
网络追逐流氓老外大行动--张结海 (The Internet Hunt For An Immoral Foreigner)
the chinese language blog post calling for people to track down the sex in shanghai guy
sex  china  blog  worlds_collide  cs  chinabounder 
august 2006 by maciej
Using the Rake Build Language
neat make-like build language built in to ruby
ruby  cs  software  tools  cool 
may 2006 by maciej
JavaScript: Playing the Numbers Game
intelligent article on the pitfalls of numeric computation in JavaScript (much applies to other languages)
javascript  cs  software  web2.0  numerical  algo  risk 
may 2006 by maciej
How to be a Programmer
all of this applies also, of course, to painting
howto  cs  cult 
october 2005 by maciej
Knuth: Diamond Signs
mad genius of computer science amuses himself and wife (?) by taking photos of road signs
obsess  knuth  cs  ha  photo  transport 
october 2005 by maciej
GTAForums.com -> The Official Girlfriend Guide
Dating HOWTO for GTA San Andreas. Press L1 to kiss, or give her a giant dildo to show you care
ha  games  geek  cs 
october 2005 by maciej
HierarchyVersusFacetsVersusTags
angry fruit salad demonstration of why facets are the new tags
chandler  drivel  blather  idiot  software  visualization  cs 
july 2005 by maciej
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