Stories by Hen-Riches

WordPress 2.5: more than 500k downloads in less than 1 month

Is eager (strict) evaluation with optional laziness better than pure laziness (e.g., Haskell)?

Mac enthusiasts starting younger and younger all the time (pic)

A List Apart, Issue 257: the tragicomedy of teaching Rails to non-programmers

Obfuscated Arc: a function that changes itself everytime it's called

Agile Web Development with Rails, 3rd Ed released as beta; Sam Ruby added as co-author

Video: Stephen Hawking on the Big Bang and why we should colonize space

AutoBayes: a DSL for Bayesian networks; generating data analysis programs from statistical models

Still evil: Microsoft gives customers who bought DRM'd music on MSN servers the shaft

Ask: Why do people need Twitter, anyway?

Microsoft's insane 386 promo video (skip ahead to 7:00 if desired)

What does a 6.4E9 N-body particle simulation look like? This. (large JPG)

Data management for Internet-scale identity management (MySQL ain't gonna cut it)

Ask: Is WordPress really as slow as simple benchmarking suggests?

Ignore the alpha geeks: Slashdot thought the iPod was "lame"

Nokia punished by markets for only posting 25% profit in Q1 (wtf?)

Cubans queue for hours to sign up for mobile phone service -- costs half a year's wages

Leo Laporte did a show for 10 years and it got cancelled - here's how he blogged it

This is what happens when you let programmers design interfaces (PNG)

Building a multi-gigapixel digital camera

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