latencyAndThroughputFull.png 694×1287 pixels
december 2010 by maciej
Great diagram of relative latencies and bandwidth
latency
cs
computers
december 2010 by maciej
Mailinator(tm) Blog: A Beautiful Race Condition
june 2009 by maciej
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
august 2008 by maciej
high-availability key/value store optimized for writability and SLAs at 99.9th percentile
amazon
cs
from delicious
august 2008 by maciej
Do's and don't's of encouraging women in Linux
april 2008 by maciej
how to use linux to SCORE
women
cs
soc
debian
april 2008 by maciej
PHYS771 Lecture 7: Randomness
september 2007 by maciej
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
august 2007 by maciej
silly python advocacy. Useful in showing what scares newcomers about perl
perl
python
advocacy
rant
c
cs
august 2007 by maciej
The Treatment of Numbers in Polish by Graphs - SpringerLink
august 2007 by maciej
I told u we were hardcore
lang
pl
cs
ha
august 2007 by maciej
Java theory and practice: Urban performance legends, revisited
august 2007 by maciej
on malloc vs. object allocation in modern jvms
java
cs
rant
august 2007 by maciej
Graph Partitioning
july 2007 by maciej
overview and useful references
cs
graph
partition
parallel
distributed
etext
july 2007 by maciej
Predictive test for who can and cannot learn computer programming
july 2007 by maciej
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
Blizzard makes WoW wish virtual reality
may 2007 by maciej
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
U of T receives $2.5M for interface design
may 2007 by maciej
mellon strikes again, hee
mellon
ha
ui
cs
burningdollar
may 2007 by maciej
Molecular Expressions: The Silicon Zoo - Steal The Best
april 2007 by maciej
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
september 2006 by maciej
"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)
august 2006 by maciej
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
JavaScript: Playing the Numbers Game
may 2006 by maciej
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
Rant by a Lisp-er at JPL about the demise of his favorite language
january 2006 by maciej
Also worked at Google AdWords
lisp
cs
rant
language-wars
ha
january 2006 by maciej
How to be a Programmer
october 2005 by maciej
all of this applies also, of course, to painting
howto
cs
cult
october 2005 by maciej
Knuth: Diamond Signs
october 2005 by maciej
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
october 2005 by maciej
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
july 2005 by maciej
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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