Although I'm not sure I get most of them - Tim Chevalier's Quotations File : [Satanism and Wicca] are to world religions what JavaSc...

JSON will be the default format for new internet APIs. As more people use JSON, we'll see a XML renaissance , as we - for the first ...

From Dieter Rams, ten principles for good design . HXA just published A comment adding to Dijkstra on natural language programming : Softwar...

Giles Thomas commenting on A Guide to GIT using spatial analogies : A much simpler view IMO is to consider the Git repositories as narrati...

You can clearly see the handshake, slow-start ramp-up and full bandwidth phases. Packet Flight: HTTP request @ 40X from Carlos Bueno on Vi...

Here is our latest minicluster design. (Ron Minnich on 9fans (hat tip to Chris )) Plan 9 is in the works. This is a nice test and developme...

> Should this kind of thing be done in user space? Almost certainly not. First off, user-space is a fragmented mess. Just from a "le...

One of the most awesome collection of articles on software design is Neil Brown's Ghosts of Unix Past: a historical search for design p...

There is always a well-known solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong. — H. L. Mencken In software design, there often ...

A Turing Machine in the classic style : Here's the awesome video: ( via LtU )

I'm an incredibly slow programmer (in the hobby projects I do for the love of it, that is). My ratio of thinking to typing must be aroun...

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Julian Hyde graciously transcribed the following table from Jeff Dean's Stanford talk : L1 cache reference 0.5 ns Branch mispredict ...

Makes me wish I understood category theory: Foundations for Structured Programming with GADTs ( neelk's LtU post ) by Patricia Johann ...

To create complex random data objects and shapes like these, use Boltzmann sampling. From the paper Boltzmann Samplers for the Random Genera...

In the LtU permathread Why are objects so unintuitive? , Jonathan Shapiro adds another piece to the puzzle : All of the mappings we have so...

This dependent typing thing has me. For the first time in years I find I'm actually learning something about programming. There is life...

David Barbour's Concurrency as basis for Scalable Parallelism may change the way you think about programming: It has been observed th...

Since discovering Ωmega , I've been drawn into the fantastic world of dependent typing. Dependent types allow the expression of static i...

Just wanted to mention that for keeping up with GNU/Linux progress, the following two sources are very good: Michael Kerrisk's Linux man...

This could be big - in the October 2010 GNU Toolchain Update (subscribe!), Nick Clifton reports that split stacks have been added to GCC. ...

I think that's a great statue showing the act of algorithm design.

When programming, I often find myself striving for minimalism. Trying to make the program as succinct as possible, sweating over details lik...