Stories by Hen-Riches

Estimating the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow

Colliding galaxies (JPG)

PHP isn't going anywhere: LAMP increasing to 3e5 DLs/month

Ask: why are there are no file sharing startups?

Q: How is software created at Microsoft? A: Very slowly (from the horse's mouth)

"I'd just use an n-by-k array of closures to represent this."

Neat Javascript hack at reddit (with explanation of how they did it)

Italian businesses refusing to pay protection money to mafia, organizing online

Video: Seth Godin on being remarkable - "we're now in the fashion business, no matter what we do"

ISO 3103: an international standard for brewing tea

When Blub becomes functional: towards the Y Combinator in Visual Basic

Google celebrates the new year, and 25 years of TCP/IP

Dean Allen takes the piss out of usability people like Jakob Nielsen

The Ron Paul astroturfers in action (they have no sense of humor)

Worth reading or rereading: Guy Steele's Growing a Language (PDF)

Small software companies: you need developers, not programmers

Genetic programming-evolved technical trading rules can outperform buy-and-hold (PDF)

On the tendency of little girls to flush Barbie dolls down toilets

A coder's guide to coffee (cheap, easy, and delicious)

Article about redesigning Half-Life nearly from scratch, with tremendous results

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