Stories by akkartik

Free as in Health Care

Principles for Programming Languages for Learners

Parsing: An Expanded Timeline

History and Spirit of C and C++

Serializability, Linearizability, and Locality

Where the Printf Rubber Meets the Road (2010)

Fear and Loathing in Linux, or Who Needs /etc/motd (2010)

A Generation Lost in the Bazaar (2012)

Ask HN: How does a computer read the OS from disk when booting up?

Cities Are Recklessly Unprepared for Self-Driving Cars

Longest Lines of Sight Photographed (2009)

Ask HN: Have you been scanning the archives for favorites to add?

The Tcl War (1994)

The Crazy History of Nominating Conventions

The Tcl War (1994)

Was Marcel Duchamp's 'Fountain' really created by a pioneering feminist?

Retro posters from NASA for various planets

An Analysis of 155 Postmortems from Game Development [pdf]

Programming Languages as Constraints

The curious case of test-driven development

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