Stories by akkartik

On the Evolutionary Origin of Symbolic Communication

The Problems of Open Source (2009, 2014)

The Woman in the Red Dress

Waze Beacons: The World’s First Affordable Solution for Navigating in Tunnels

Software Development at 1 Hz

From “Habitability and Piecemeal Growth,” by Richard Gabriel

Crowds and Technology

The Role of Ethnographic Studies in Empirical Software Engineering [pdf]

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?

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