Stories by davidw

"Scalable" programming languages

IBM, Sun and cloud computing

The power of Erlang bit syntax (yes, for real)

Delayed allocation and the zero-length file problem

Twenty years of the world wide web - What's the score?

Optimising strlen()

Greek To Me: Mapping Mutual Incomprehension

Redis

ASCIIcasts

Poll: Are you an Entrepreneur? Hacker? Both?

A missing feature in most dynamic languages: take a random key from an hash table.

Startup Company Culture

The Euro Invasion of France

Langpop.com - now with IRC

Reasons I prefer Tcl over Python

Davidw's wildly off topic guide to the Veneto region of Italy

Calling the death of Windows Mobile

Java has already done what Larry Wall was hoping for from Perl 6

Comment Thread: Current YC founder looking for co-founder

Ask YC: Radar Collision Detection Algorithm?

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