Stories by ColinWright

The collaborative mind

Sure Signs That a Good Startup is Going Bad

When is a good time to submit a story to Hacker News?

What is a transit of Venus?

Hacker News Rankings - interactive graphs of an item's fate

Leadership Lessons From Jean-Luc Picard

Valgrind - a tool for memory debugging, memory leak detection, and profiling.

A Boggling Return to C

To Go Where No Math Has Gone Before

The Mechanics and Meaning of That Ol' Dial-Up Modem Sound

Quantum Teleportation Leaps Forward

Generating B2B and B2C leads systematically

Virgin Galactic gets powered flight FAA permit

The Paxos algorithm for consensus in a distributed system

Dragon de-orbit burn in progress ...

Kernels: Making linear data algorithms less linear

3-D Printing's Legal Morass

Writing software for someone else

What have you done wrong?

The beauty of data visualization - David McCandless