Stories by downbad_

Table Oriented Programming (2002)

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (2009)

Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity (2011) [pdf]

You suck at technical interviews (2014)

My Two Years as an Anthropologist on the Photoshop Team (2015)

The Sad Story of Heisenberg's Doctoral Oral Exam (1998)

How Do Food Manufacturers Calculate the Calorie Count of Packaged Foods? (2003)

Browser as an Interactive Disassembly Exploration Tool (2015)

Keep Your Identity Small (2009)

The slow death of purposeless walking (2014)

Don't invert that matrix (2010)

A Brain Dump of What I Worked on for Uncharted 4 (2016)

My New York Misadventure (1932)

The Tyranny of Structurelessness (1972)

To become a good C programmer (2011)

The FBI faked a field of forensic science. (2015)

I run my business like an open source project (2013)

The Black Death: The Greatest Catastrophe Ever (2005)

Wealth doesn't trickle down – it just floods offshore, research reveals (2012)

Augmenting Human Intellect (1962)

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